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TONY ORTEGA
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[Jeffrey and Karen de la Carriere, and with their borzoi]
We first met Jeffrey Augustine on the roof of Marty Rathbun’s house in Ingleside-by-the-bay, Texas.
It was November 2012, and we had ridden down to the seaside town near Corpus Christi in a car from San Antonio with two former Scientology spies and their attorney, Ray Jeffrey. The interviews we did with those former operatives, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold, resulted in one of our favorite stories of all time, “Scientology’s Master Spies.”
It was also a fateful trip because when we got there, Marty, the former top Scientology enforcer who had turned bitter enemy of the church, was being filmed by a Channel 4 UK crew for what became the interesting documentary Scientologists At War.
It was quite a gathering. And in the south Texas sun on Rathbun’s roof deck, we were considering how fortunate we were to be there and to be witnessing history in the making, when a long-haired, grinning man walked up with his hand extended and introduced himself.
Of course we knew who Jeffrey Augustine was. He had a very brief interaction with Scientology before becoming one of its most dedicated online critics. As “J. Swift,” he had been digging up critical information about Scientology for years. And he almost immediately became a fixture at the Underground Bunker, particularly with his biting satire, written under the moniker “OTVIIIisgrrr8!”
He felt like an old friend even before we met him in that totally unlikely spot. (Like us, he had been drawn to Rathbun’s house as the place, in 2012, where everything important seemed to be happening.)
Earlier that year, we had received a phone call from Jeffrey’s wife, Karen de la Carriere, that we will never forget. On July 5, she had called, sounding completely distraught, as she told us that her son Alexander had died, and Scientology was keeping her from seeing him.
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[/td]We first met Jeffrey Augustine on the roof of Marty Rathbun’s house in Ingleside-by-the-bay, Texas.
It was November 2012, and we had ridden down to the seaside town near Corpus Christi in a car from San Antonio with two former Scientology spies and their attorney, Ray Jeffrey. The interviews we did with those former operatives, Paul Marrick and Greg Arnold, resulted in one of our favorite stories of all time, “Scientology’s Master Spies.”
It was also a fateful trip because when we got there, Marty, the former top Scientology enforcer who had turned bitter enemy of the church, was being filmed by a Channel 4 UK crew for what became the interesting documentary Scientologists At War.
It was quite a gathering. And in the south Texas sun on Rathbun’s roof deck, we were considering how fortunate we were to be there and to be witnessing history in the making, when a long-haired, grinning man walked up with his hand extended and introduced himself.
Of course we knew who Jeffrey Augustine was. He had a very brief interaction with Scientology before becoming one of its most dedicated online critics. As “J. Swift,” he had been digging up critical information about Scientology for years. And he almost immediately became a fixture at the Underground Bunker, particularly with his biting satire, written under the moniker “OTVIIIisgrrr8!”
He felt like an old friend even before we met him in that totally unlikely spot. (Like us, he had been drawn to Rathbun’s house as the place, in 2012, where everything important seemed to be happening.)
Earlier that year, we had received a phone call from Jeffrey’s wife, Karen de la Carriere, that we will never forget. On July 5, she had called, sounding completely distraught, as she told us that her son Alexander had died, and Scientology was keeping her from seeing him.
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Scientology critic Jeffrey Augustine is facing the fight of his life
We first met Jeffrey Augustine on the roof of Marty Rathbun’s house in Ingleside-by-the-bay, Texas.
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