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TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: We received a startling email from a longtime reader who from time to time sends us suggestions and ideas. This former Scientologist had made a recent trip to a part of the country where he had done auditor training years ago when he was still in the church. And...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Scientology’s rendering of L. Ron Hubbard Hall (right), L. Ron Hubbard Park in the foreground, and on the left the existing Flag Building] Back in 2012, we were leaked plans for Scientology’s “Super Power Building” — which later became known as the “Flag Building”...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: At its website, Scientology posted a slide show of images depicting church leader David Miscavige presiding over a ground-breaking in downtown Clearwater, Florida, for its future 3,130-seat auditorium, L. Ron Hubbard Hall. (Scientology says it’s going to be a...

My hell on board the Scientologist slave ship: British woman describes how she was 'given' to religious group aged 11 and suffered years of rape and abuse Wrenched from her mother, denied an education and sent alone to perform hard labour aboard a ship in squalid conditions...that, Danielle...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: The new batch of OT Phenomena has arrived! Our regular readers know that we have been highly critical of what was once one of the most popular things Scientology published, its monthly stories about what its “OT” members were able to accomplish with their hard-won...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Penny on board during APL’s successful run in 2022] U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s Florida 13th congressional district includes Clearwater, home to the Church of Scientology’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land Base, where just this past weekend church leader...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Justin Aamir Adkins and the Flag Building, where his Scientology career was upended] We had a remarkable conversation yesterday with a 48-year-old Stone Mountain, Georgia man named Justin Aamir Adkins. On Monday, Adkins filed a 45-page complaint — with exhibits included...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: [Ron and Sara’s 1951 court fight attracted attention from his first wife] We continue our dive into the early history of Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, a history that the church hides from its members. In a series of posts, we’ve been describing how things...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Scientology’s slide show of its Saturday night ground breaking for its future L. Ron Hubbard Hall in Clearwater, Florida showed a large crowd, many wealthy donors with golden shovels, and an exuberant church leader, David Miscavige, 66. It was 51 years ago, in 1975...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Ever since we posted a photo of Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the front row at Scientology’s celebration of L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday in March, giving David Miscavige a standing ovation as the church leader unveiled a new initiative aimed at kids, the “Golden Age for...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: Saturday night in Clearwater, Scientology leader David Miscavige held a ground-breaking ceremony for the church’s future auditorium, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, and put the exclamation point on the city’s utter capitulation to him. The Hall is a long-planned component of...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: In January and in May we brought you the latest graduating classes of New OT 8s as they appeared in Scientology’s Freewinds magazine. And now in August, they’ve got a new collection of 91 more super beings! Here they are, the new class of graduates, the Scientologists...

TONY ORTEGA Excerpt: For the dog days of summer, things are really busy here at the Underground Bunker! Welcome to August, everyone. We had a historic appellate ruling in Leah Remini’s lawsuit yesterday, which we posted in full. We spoke with Chris Shelton about it for his channel, and we...

In the litigation game, Scientology Inc plays the Law of Attrition Winning on the ultimate merits may be secondary to making resistance financially and emotionally unbearable. The pattern is familiar: File every available motion. Appeal every appealable ruling. Challenge discovery requests...

The most powerful passage is: For years, Scientology has portrayed every attack on a critic as an isolated response, an exercise of religious freedom, or a spontaneous “war of words.” Here, a California appellate court recognized evidence of something organized and institutional: a pattern...