How I trained to be a Scientology spy in order to save L. Ron Hubbard from SMERSH

The minute you start Scientology’s very first course, the Communications Course, you are told they are going to teach you to be a master communicator.

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PODCAST: She infiltrated Scientology in Austin, and returned for its ‘Ideal Org’

We waited a long time for the four-year drought to end and for Scientology leader David Miscavige to start putting on his Ideal Org dog-and-pony shows again.

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Priscilla Presley hangs out with Scientology celeb and longtime friend Gottfried Helnwein

Lisa Marie Presley was very adamant about it: She told us that after her disastrous trip to the Flag Land Base in October 2014, not only did she no longer consider herself a Scientologist, but she told her mother Priscilla and her daughter Riley Keough that they were coming out of the church with her.

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Scientology finally to open Chicago ‘Ideal Org’ — but it’s been soaking locals for a generation

[Dave is opening Ideal Orgs again]

Now that the confetti has settled in Austin, we’re wondering if Scientology is going to hold to its announced schedule and open Ideal Orgs in Mexico City on Friday and Chicago on Sunday.

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Heber Jentzsch is 88, but Scientology still makes this surprising claim about him

[Heber Jentzsch at Maiden Voyage in 2006]

Yesterday, Valerie Ross provided another of her fascinating glimpses into the life of a Scientologist, someone so dedicated to the cause that she had, at one time, infiltrated and spied on the FBI for Scientology’s espionage wing, the Guardian’s Office.

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Scientology in the ‘good’ old days: Prison of belief just as confining as today

[Heber Jentzsch at a protest over the 1977 FBI raid of Scientology]

People talk about how the old timers say it was fun in the “good old days,” back when L. Ron Hubbard ran Scientology. And it did seem like it was more fun than it would be these days.

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Scientology gushes about David Miscavige’s ‘Ideal’ appearance in Austin

Before Scientology’s Austin “Ideal Org” becomes, like the other 64 Ideal Orgs that came before it, an afterthought, we’re giving one more look at its Saturday grand opening, this time with a glance at Scientology’s own version of what transpired.

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David Miscavige went to ‘Crazy Town’ at Scientology’s Austin Ideal Org opening!

Yesterday, Scientology leader David Miscavige made his triumphant return to the “Ideal Org” program by showing up to open the new org in Austin, Texas. And what did he talk about? He talked about crazy town.

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Lawrence Wright weighs in on Scientology opening Austin ‘Ideal Org’ in his town

This afternoon, in the fair city of Austin, Texas, Scientology leader David Miscavige is scheduled to resume his “Ideal Org” project with the first grand opening of a new facility in four years.

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Shelly Miscavige: More about the place where she registered to vote, but is she still there?

[Shelly and the vault at Petrolia]

Last month, those of us interested in the whereabouts of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife Shelly Miscavige — who has not been seen at Scientology events since 2005 — were surprised to learn from an anonymous tip at Reddit that she had been registered to vote in 2017 at an address in Petrolia, California.

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