June 14 in Scientology history

Today in part 5 of our ongoing series on Hubbard's dismal naval career, we examine the "Battle of Cape Lookout", wherein he claims to have damaged and/or sunk two Japanese subs off the Oregon coast. It builds on the work of Chris Owen and Jeffrey Augustine and also draws on additional official US Navy records, and refutes some of the arguments of Hubbard's apologists that attempt to shore up his Navy record. In doing so, we may have uncovered new evidence of Hubbard falsifying events beyond those previously exposed as fiction. The events here cross the line from normal incompetence to a Walter Mitty-like delusional fantasy, where, in the space of 55 hours at the helm of the USS PC-815 , Hubbard attacked two Japanese submarines that existed only in his imagination. The narratives that emerge from this event provide a powerful foreshadowing of Hubbard's pattern of lies, self aggrandizing fantasy and fraudulent conduct that would define so much of his later life, especially in regards to his military service. In many ways, the events that occur over the roughly 80 days of Hubbard's command of the USS PC-815 , a PC-461 class patrol vessel and his subsequent spin on these events, provides more fodder in perpetuating all the myths, lies, half-truths and fraudulent misrepresentations Hubbard repeats ad nauseum about his previous 3 years in the Pacific. In our usual fashion, we'll be providing additional analysis and historical context to the existing record in deconstructing and exposing the fantasy that was his fight off the Oregon coast over the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of May, 1943. We'll also expose what we believe is an attempt to cover up specific incidents of Hubbard's incompetence and his crew's negligence that could have proved fatal. It makes for a rather interesting wartime tale, a tale rife with incompetence and as his after-action report demonstrates, a level of histrionics that reflects typical Hubbardian shirking and unconscionable scapegoating and badmouthing of his fellow officers. The USS PC-815 Goes Forth

Tags: 1928, 1930, 1934, 1935, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1957, 1984, 1998, 9/11, Alaska, Auditing, Australia, Boston, Bremerton, Brisbane, California, Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition, Chris Owen, Clear, Conditions, Dutch, Europe, Germany, Hawaii, Helena, Jack Fletcher, Japan, Jeffrey Augustine, John F. Kennedy, L. Ron Hubbard, Maine, Miami, Montana, New York, Oregon, OT, Panama, PC-815, Portland, Quicky, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Shooting, Submarine, Sunday Herald, Thomas Moulton, US Coast Guard, US Navy, Wake Island, Washington

Scientology makes new friends with the help of Jamie DeWolf. Live at Tourettes Without Regrets, Oakland CA

Tags: Jamie DeWolf, Oakland, Quicky

You may have seen a story hit the wires yesterday out of Canada. It reported that some documents obtained by CBC showed that a worker at Scientology's Quebec org had been paid only $70 for 39 hours of work. We had a couple of reactions to that story — first, although that might seem like low pay to the uninitiated, most former Scientologists we know would be lucky to get that much money in an entire month of work, let alone a short week of only 39 hours. But in Canada, it was apparently pretty shocking that Scientology was paying less than $2 an hour, and was trying to get away with it by saying that its workers were not employees but "religious workers" who were exempt from the law.

Tags: 2003, 2015, Alec Nevala-Lee, Canada, CBC, Chris Shelton, Church of Scientology International, Class V, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Flag Land Base, Flag Service Organization, HowdyCon, Isaac Asimov, Jamie DeWolf, John W. Campbell, Mat Pesch, Phoenix, Quebec, Quicky, Religious worker, Sea Org, USA

A collection of 26 letters from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to his California (and Kansas) pulp-fiction writer friend Russell Hays sold in New York City at Christie's auction June 14, 2018, for $38,000 to a buyer not immediately identified. For story, see Times of San Diego:

Tags: California, Kansas, L. Ron Hubbard, New York City, Quicky, Russell Hays

Marc and Aaron discuss why some people have to escape the Sea Org while others are able to just leave. Marc & Claire Headley were featured in Season 1 Episode 5 of "Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath".

Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Aftermath Foundation, blownforgood, Claire Headley, Facebook, Leah Remini, Marc Headley, Scientology and the Aftermath, Sea Org, Twitter

Quebec's labour standards board has opened an investigation into working conditions at a branch of the Church of Scientology in Quebec City. The investigation follows a report by Radio-Canada's investigative news program, Enquête, which revealed some of the organization's staff in Quebec City were being paid salaries well below minimum wage. Geneviève Trudel, a spokesperson for the Commission des normes du travail (CNESST), said the board is looking into the situation.

Tags: 2017, Agnès Maltais, Dominique Vien, Geneviève Trudel, Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec City Org, Radio Canada, Religious worker

I was honored to be invited to speak at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix this past weekend on the topic of why smart people fall for stupid things. In this talk and the Q&A that follows, I use my own experiences in Scientology to demonstrate the principles that apply to everyone which allow con men and hucksters to fool otherwise intelligent people and make them do stupid things.

Tags: Phoenix, Quicky

I was honored to be invited to speak at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix this past weekend on the topic of why smart people fall for stupid things. In this talk and the Q&A that follows, I use my own experiences in Scientology to demonstrate the principles that apply to everyone which allow con men and hucksters to fool otherwise intelligent people and make them do stupid things.

Tags: Phoenix, Quicky

Only $25... ...to find out how an episode on the CSN came about. Half price status...

Tags: Canada, CCHR Florida, Chicago, Colombia, Detroit, Edinburgh, Maiden Voyage, Pat Parodi, Quicky, Thursday Funnies

CLEARWATER — The City Council blocked another land deal involving the Church of Scientology on Wednesday night, adding uncertainty to its already tense relationship with downtown's largest landowner. Discussions began late last year over the city trading three properties it owns to the church for a lot east of downtown to be used for retail parking. The church wants two of the city's parcels for part of its proposed L. Ron Hubbard Hall downtown. But the City Council voted 4-1 to postpone a decision indefinitely, with member Bob Cundiff in opposition.

Tags: Ben Shaw, Bill Horne, Bob Cundiff, Clearwater, Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Cleveland Street, Community Redevelopment Agency, Hoyt Hamilton, Katie Cole, L. Ron Hubbard Hall, Michael Quillen, Oak Cove, Pam Akin, Quicky, Seth Taylor

We truly did not want to pay any more attention to Marty Rathbun's lame swipes at Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear, but in his latest video ("Going Clear, Part 9") he is making some claims that are staggeringly dishonest. We felt we had to respond. Let us tell you about Gary "Jackson" Morehead. He is a gentle giant, and one of the most pleasant and forthright former Scientologists we have ever met. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gary had a remarkable job — head of security at Int Base, Scientology's secretive 500-acre compound near Hemet, California. Gary has a lot of very fun stories about those days — including a great one that we not only got from Gary but confirmed in all its details with several other former church members. What we found from that experience is that Gary Morehead is a solid source, even if his stories about Scientology are mindblowing. One of the things Gary was in charge of was the "blow drill." When a Sea Org member "blew" — escaped — from the base, it was his job to use whatever means at his disposal to bring that person back.

Tags: 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993, 2005, Al Bei, Ben Shaw, Bill Swearinger, Blow Drill, California, Canada, Charles O'Reilly, Church of Scientology of California, Claire Headley, Clear, Clearwater, Dani Lemberger, FBI, Gary Morehead, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, Google, Guatemala, Hemet, Hollywood, Int Base, Jan Simms, Joseph Yanny, Lawrence Wollersheim, Lawrence Wright, Linda Hamel, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles Times, Marty Rathbun, Mission, Mission Find The Crimes, Office of Special Affairs, Palm Springs, Private investigator, Purification Rundown, Robert Welkos, Scientology executive, Scientology operation, Sea Org, Tallahassee, Timothy Bowles, Vicki Aznaran, Xenu

Well, here is a new promo piece about Ideal Orgs and there is no mention of anything related to scientology. No mention of auditors made. Releases. Clears. No mention of helping people off drugs. Or doing anything.

Tags: Austin, Clear, David Miscavige, Ideal Org, OT, Quicky

The Church of Scientology is primed to open the doors to its enormous new Australasian headquarters after investing $57 million in its development. The religious organisation spent $37 million purchasing three adjoining properties in Chatswood, a suburb in Sydney's north, in 2014 and have outlaid a further $20 million to renovate the site. The church will become the largest Scientology facility in Australia when it opens in September and is expected to attract 'Scientologists from Tasmania to Tokyo' who are hoping to 'traverse the upper realms of the Bridge to Total Freedom'.

Tags: 2014, Advanced Org, Australia, Bridge to Total Freedom, Celebrity Centre, Chatswood, Daily Telegraph, David Miscavige, John Travolta, Kate Ceberano, Los Angeles, Quicky, Sydney, Tokyo, Tom Cruise, Vicki Dunstan

Dan Koon responds to the letter his ex-wife sent to ABC 20/20. A copy of her letter is below with Dan's commentary in red. Because of my familiarity with some of the matters raised in her letter, I have added my own comments which are in blue italics. Knowing Sue for more than 30 years, I am positive that she cringed the first time she saw this letterhead April 27, 2016

Tags: 1970, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 20/20, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2015, Abortion, AVC, Becky Miscavige, Carrie Cook, Claire Headley, Class IV, Dan Koon, David Mayo, David Miscavige, Disconnection, E-meter, Golden Age of Knowledge, Golden Age of Tech, Golden Era Productions, Hemet, Int Base, International Association of Scientologists, Jefferson Hawkins, John Bentley, L. Ron Hubbard, London, Mariette Lindstein, Marty Rathbun, New Year's Eve, New York, New York Times, North Korea, Orientation, OT, Potential Trouble Source, Quicky, Reg Sharpe, Rehabilitation Project Force, Riverside County, Ron Miscavige Sr, Sea Org, Steve Hall, Survival Rundown, Susan Goodban, Tampa, The Hole, West Virginia

(Scientology attorney Eric Lieberman) Contributor Jeffrey Augustine has taken another close look at Scientology's over-the-top attacks on Ron Miscavige for this piece today. Once again, he's found some really interesting stuff! The website that smears Ron Miscavige — presumably hosted by the Church of Scientology to distract from Ron's book, Ruthless — is a gift that just keeps on giving. Previously, we pointed out that in an attempt to defend Scientology leader David Miscavige against allegations in the book, the website includes statements by church officials about David that directly contradict what he swore to the IRS when it gave Scientology tax exempt status in 1993.

Tags: 1961, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 2011, Advanced Org, Annie Broeker, Australia, Author Services Inc, Battlefield Earth, California, Call Me, Carisa Marion, Chairman of the Board, Church of Scientology International, Church of Spiritual Technology, Clearwater, Commodore's Messenger Organization, Daily Telegraph, Dan Koon, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Emily Jones, Eric Lieberman, Florida, GoFundMe, Guardian's Office, Hollywood Boulevard, IRS, Jeffrey Augustine, Los Angeles, Mary Sue Hubbard, Mike Rinder, Pat Broeker, Phil Jones, Private investigator, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Robert Vaughn Young, Ron Miscavige, Ron Miscavige Sr, Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, St. Petersburg Times, Sydney, Tax exempt, Willie Jones

On Wednesday, Paulette Cooper and your proprietor sat down with local New York TV legend Marvin Scott to record a show about our book that will be running this morning on WPIX 11. The station posted the interview, in its three parts, last night on its website. Let us know how you think we did, and please help us spread this interview far and wide.

Tags: Los Angeles, Marvin Scott, Muhammad, New York, New York City, Paulette Cooper, Pittsburgh, Quicky, Rinku Singh, Super Power, Ukraine, WISE

Perhaps the greatest appeal of religion is its affected ecstasy activities. Those can provide exhilarating peak experiences. Religion's greatest benefit might be the order that it brings to its adherents' lives. Oftentimes however that order and ecstasy only maintain longevity with forfeiture of one's intellect and sometimes even conscience. How seriously one regards his religion is a good indicator of how far down that road he has travelled. When this apparent cycle goes unchecked religion can begin to dictate and even stifle lives.

Tags: Quicky

The allegations here about the movement's focus on amassing money, its abuse and intimidation of its adherents and record of personally harassing its critics, are deeply ­shocking. Based on the book by Lawrence Wright, the film features the on-camera testimonies of several prominent former Scientologists, including film director Paul Haggis (whose film Crash won the Oscar for Best Picture of 2005).

Tags: Alex Gibney, Australia, David Miscavige, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, John Travolta, Lawrence Wright, Tom Cruise

Decades before the HBO documentary Going Clear revealed the inner workings of Scientology, a 29-year-old freelance magazine writer wrote the first ever expose on the secretive religion. Back in 1971, Paulette Cooper wrote "Scandal of Scientology," a book she says made her the focus of the organization's vengeful retribution. Cooper says she was targeted by a rogue Scientology unit that launched "Operation Freakout" in an attempt to destroy the young woman they codenamed "Miss Lovely."

Tags: 1971, Fair Game, Operation Freakout, Paulette Cooper, The Scandal of Scientology, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Tony Ortega

Even the people that put the promo together apparently are unaware of the fact that the movement of the Amazing Warehouse 8 was installed in the Quantum cases at the FSO for nearly a decade before the Warehouse 8 was finally released generally. So, those audited at the FSO through most of the 2000's were in fact audited on a Warehouse 8. Read this with that in mind.... Vacation Time:

Tags: 2000, Colorado, Flag Service Organization, Quicky

The Church of Scientology does not guarantee or promise any results — and it even says so in writing! A specific Scientology Policy Directive (scroll down) is yet more evidence that Scientology is overseen by armies of lawyers whose strategic purpose is to ensure that the Church is never held legally responsible for any of its own actions or claims. Embodied in this Scientology Policy Directive is an outright lie which states, "At no time did L. Ron Hubbard promise people anything or claim anything for Dianetics and Scientology."

Tags: 1952, 1953, Bridge Publications, Dianetics, Journal of Scientology, Phoenix, Quicky, Universe Processes Congress

Gary "Jackson" Morehead is the former Security Chief of the Church of Scientology's secretive headquarters called Int Base (International Base). In this interview, Jackson clarifies certain misconceptions related to Int Base having to do with guns, a big wildfire, the razor fences, and even the urban legend that a Sea Org member once had David Miscavige locked in the cross-hairs of the scope of a high-powered sniper rifle. Located in San Jacinto, California, the Int Base is notorious for being the site of the beatings committed by Scientology leader David Miscavige. Radio Podcasts http://www.survivingscientologyradio....

Tags: California, David Miscavige, Facebook, Google, Int Base, Quicky, San Jacinto, Sea Org, Twitter

Our video source came through again with another short film you normally can only see in a Scientology "org." It's another "quote video" that features a short segment of an L. Ron Hubbard lecture that's meant to entice you to purchase the full set of lectures. In this case, Bridge Publications is asking $175.00 for the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress, given in Washington DC in 1955. Here's how Bridge describes this monumental product...

Tags: 1940, 1955, 1995, Abortion, Appeal, Bodhi Elfman, Bridge Publications, Church of Scientology International, Comal County, Congress, David Lubow, David Miscavige, DC, FDA, Founding Church, Gary Morehead, Int Base, Jeffrey Augustine, Judge Dib Waldrip, Kevin McEnery, Leslie Hyman, Los Angeles, Marc Headley, Mark Bunker, Mexico, Mike Gilchrist, Monique Rathbun, Monty Drake, Potential Trouble Source, Private investigator, Quicky, Rathbun v. Scientology, Sea Org, SLAPP, Texas, Texas Third Court of Appeals, Washington

Here are some new "stats" from Flag proving once again, the great boom is a big bust. Flag, like the rest of the scientology orgs, is on a kamikaze death dive. The big push at Flag is now on Purif and "Survival Rundown" completions. 4 times as many of them as Clears. Double the number of Super Power completions. The volume is pitiful for a $150 million dollar building and 1500 claimed SO staff... They claimed to have 200 Super Power Auditors. If they are completing 20 per week, this means the vast majority of these auditors are sitting idle — which is confirmed by the latest Flag OTC Minutes where an announcement was made that Super Power auditors are available in the FSM area to help with call-in and recoveries in the big push to get people onto Purif and SRD!

Tags: Class IV, Clear, Field Staff Member, Golden Age of Tech, Jeff Mintz, Kathy True, Kendrick Moxon, Legal, Maiden Voyage, Office of Special Affairs, OT, OT VII, OTC, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Sarah Heller, Super Power, Survival Rundown

There are many indicators that David Miscavige's sandcastle is sliding into the oncoming tide. One of them is a new line is being used by MAA's and OSA to try to handle those who raise questions concerning the state of affairs in Scientology: "Yes, some things are wrong within the Church, but that's no reason to tear it down"

Tags: Basics, David Miscavige, Grade Chart, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Master at Arms, Office of Special Affairs, OT VIII, Quicky, Sec Check, Student Hat, Suppressive Person

The following is an excerpt from the book Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior. I am interested to know whether anyone else ever had an encounter with a nut job bestowed with Scientology high priest status. If so, did you ever wonder how that could be given the representations made in policy letter Keeping Scientology Working? You think John and his like were not handled ruthlessly enough in their training? You think ruthlessness was given such a positive emphasis that thugs like him were encouraged? From Chapter Nine: I was also to be on training courses five hour a day, in the staff course room. There I met the head of staff training and auditing, John Colleto.

Tags: Class VIII, Clear, Keep Scientology Working, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Quicky, Scientology organization

Karen de la Carriere has a new video, and this one is about the woman behind the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, Melbourne's Michelle Sterling. Otherwise known by her nom de guerre, "Emma," Michelle started up ESMB in 2007, and it's still a hive of activity for people who have left the church. But in November 2010, Sterling found herself being put into handcuffs after five police detectives interrupted her while taking her daughter to school.

Tags: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, Anonymous, Karen de la Carriere, Melbourne, Michelle Sterling, Quicky, Victoria

SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://www.youtube.com/cracked The birth of every single asshole in America in a single conversation. Make sure you watch the end of the video for a special message from Dan.

Tags: Ayn Rand, L. Ron Hubbard, Video

The Church of Scientology sued the city over the church's application to open at 5395 Roswell Road. The city approved the application in 2009, but did not allow the church to expand space at the building because of limited parking, sparking a lawsuit that alleged the city violated the church's religious freedom.

Tags: Sandy Springs

Upon Wilders's arrival in New York, a little-known think tank called the Gatestone Institute rolled out the red carpet for him. On April 30, before a select crowd that according to Gatestone's website had paid $10,000 a head, he held forth on the persecution he had endured during his recent trial for incitement to hatred and discrimination. "This charade that happened in the Netherlands for the last few years could not have happened in your great country," Wilders said in his speech. Then he cut to the heart of his appeal: "Islam is primarily a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. This is the truth. This violent ideology wants to impose Islamic Sharia law on the whole world, including us—the Kafirs, the non-Muslims…. Islam is the largest threat to freedom which the world is currently facing." Some Dutch liberals have branded him a demagogue who summons the ghosts of Europe's dark past, but Wilders counters the accusation by assiduously cultivating Jewish support. He quotes Zionist forefather Theodor Herzl and boasts of his more than forty trips to Israel, where he once toiled on a rural kibbutz. Wilders, in fact, has made a special friend of right-wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. In Wilders's world, the Jewish state represents Fort Apache on the frontiers of the war against the barbarians threatening Western civilization. "Mothers in the West can sleep safely because Israeli mothers at night worry about their sons in the army," he told the Gatestone Institute. "Their fight is our fight. We should support it." At the April event, Wilders's seamless fusion of anti-Muslim bombast and pro-Israel cant was gratefully received by the Gatestone Institute's founder and director, Nina Rosenwald, whom he acknowledged at the top of his jeremiad as another of his good friends. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Rosenwald spreads her millions through the William Rosenwald Family Fund, a nonprofit foundation named for her father, a famed Jewish philanthropist who created the United Jewish Appeal in 1939. His daughter's focus is more explicitly political. According to a report by the Center for American Progress titled "Fear Inc.," Rosenwald and her sister Elizabeth Varet, who also directs the family foundation, have donated more than $2.8 million since 2000 to "organizations that fan the flames of Islamophobia."

Tags: Alt-Right, Center for Security Policy, David Horowitz, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Dutch, Elizabeth Varet, Frank Gaffney, Gatestone Institute, Geert Wilders, Glenn Beck, Iran, Israel, Netherlands, New York City, Nina Rosenwald

He would arrive flanked by his wife and Lou Stuckenbrock, a retinue of aides, and, often, his beagles. He had five dogs, two of which, Jelly and Safi, wore tiny blue sweaters with commander's bars. Miscavige was known to make his staffers salute the dogs, who held ranks higher than those of many people on the base.

Tags: California, Chairman of the Board, David Miscavige, Janet Reitman, Laurisse Stuckenbrock, Shelly Miscavige

The list Rathbun is making public is more than just a list of names. Each person is identified by which part of the country they are in, which Scientology "org" they are affiliated with, how far along they are in their Scientology training, what area of expertise they might be useful to OSA, other talents they might have, and finally, whether they are "trusted." There's a well-known actress on the list, for example, who I have heard is particularly gung-ho in her dedication to Scientology. Her usefulness to OSA is listed as "political actions and Criminon," referring to a program that Scientology claims helps prison inmates. Her other identifier: "Is a celebrity."

Tags: 2004, Celebrity, Criminon, David Miscavige, Goons, Janet Reitman, Lawrence Wright, Los Angeles, Marty Rathbun, Michael Fairman, Mike Rinder, Office of Special Affairs, Private investigator, Spies, Squirrel Busters, Tory Christman

The pdf version of a Church of Scientology International document linked below gives the names, ranks and serial numbers of dozens of OSA (Office of Special Affairs - Corporate Scientology's dirty tricks network) operatives for the Western United States (west of the Mississippi). You may need to use the zoom function under the view tab of your computer to make the names and information legible. Please feel free to share information you may have on these folk so that dots may be connected. Also share any dot connecting you can do from your own experience and data so that others may understand, and thus be protected from, Corporate Scientology's dirty ops arm. Realize many deep cover intelligence operatives are not named here - but your recognizing connections to some of these official OSA resources may lead to the exposure of such moles. Note that this document is a work in progress (see instructions on top for DSA's to update it) and though relatively recent is not up to date. Some names you will recognize as folk who have already declared independence. In fact, Bert Schippers who has declared independence from the church - and has previously publicly acknowledged and taken responsibility for his OSA volunteer work - on this blog confirmed the accuracy of the entries on him and his wife Lynne Hoverson. May many more on this list follow the ethical, principled path blazed by Bert and Lynne. "Sunshine is the best disinfectant" - Louis Brandeis

Tags: Bert Schippers, Church of Scientology International, Lynne Hoverson, Mississippi, Office of Special Affairs, Quicky

I wrote an earlier post about "things Scientologists are supposed to forget." We should add to that "people that Scientologists are supposed to forget." One of those people we are supposed to forget is Heber Jentzsch. Heber got into Scientology the same year I got in, 1967. So as of this year, he has been in Scientology for 43 years. He is now 76 years old. For many years he was the main spokesperson for Scientology, and while he often argued and fought with reporters, he also earned their respect. In 1982, he was appointed President of the Church of Scientology International, and became, for many, the public face of Scientology. He was a frequent speaker at events, and with his humor and charm, became a popular figure in Scientology. Every Scientologist knew who Heber was. And now, he's disappeared from the world of Scientology. He's just gone.

Tags: 1967, 1970, 1980, 1982, 1984, 2007, Alexander Jentzsch, AOSHUK, Church of Scientology International, CMO Int, David Miscavige, George Orwell, Google, Guillaume Lesevre, Heber Jentzsch, International Association of Scientologists, Mike Rinder, Mormon, Quicky, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Manor, Sea Org, Squirrel, The Hole, UK

Full story available from the St. Petersburg Times: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2009... No Kids Allowed -- Intro to the St. Petersburg Times report June 2010:

Tags: 2009, Claire Headley, Laura Dieckman, Natalie Hagemo, Quicky, St. Petersburg Times, Sunny Pereira

After Hagemo reported her pregnancy to a supervisor, two girls who looked 14 or 15 came to her office. They were "messengers" from upper management, senior officers held in high esteem. They told her that by getting pregnant she was letting down L. Ron Hubbard, the Sea Org and all mankind. The "greatest good" would be to keep working for Scientology. Hagemo said they told her it was "just a fetus ... just cells" growing inside her. "I don't recall them saying, 'You need to get an abortion.' It was just: Abortion is very much an option ... You'd be proving your loyalty to the Sea Org."

Tags: 1970, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, Aaradona Walker, Abortion, Brad Hagemo, Catholic Church, Christian, Clearwater, Disconnection, E-meter, Estates Project Force, Ethics Officer, Facebook, Glendale, Honolulu, Joe Childs, Los Angeles, Mexico, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Natalie Hagemo, Operating Thetan, Paris, Sea Org, Seattle, St. Petersburg Times, Suppressive Person, Tampa, The Problems of Work, The Truth Rundown, Tommy Davis, Twin Cities

The St. Petersburg Times reports that two former members of the Church of Scientology???s elite Sea Organization leadership group have filed lawsuits in federal court, alleging that the church violated labor laws and forced them to abort two children. Claire and Marc Headley filed separate actions in January 2009. In addition to the abortions, the Headleys allege that the Church created a working environment that constituted forced labor and violated human trafficking laws.

Tags: Abortion, Claire Headley, Marc Headley, Tommy Davis

Day 4 (June 2): Scientology's Purification Rundown - combining exercise, sauna sessions and massive doses of vitamins - is not just a religious ritual but can also cure radiation, one defendant told the court. Before calling the next defendant, Judge Sophie-Hélène Château summarised the investigation to date into Scientology's Purification Rundown. The programme, devised by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, involves large doses of vitamins, periods of running and hours in the sauna.

Tags: 1957, 1993, 1999, 9/11, A Piece of Blue Sky, Aline Fabre, All About Radiation, Aude-Claire Malton, Celebrity Centre, Clear Body, Clear Mind, Dianazene, Dutch, East Grinstead, Europe, France, Jon Atack, Judge Sophie-Hélène Château, Netherlands, New York, Olivier Morice, Paris, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Radiation, Saint Hill, Sheila Gaiman

Friedman, who now writes for The Hollywood Reporter, charges that the blowup over his Wolverine review was just a cover (admittedly, it did seem strange at the time, since his offending column would have had to be approved by an editor prior to publication). The real cause for his termination may have been Tom Cruise, who, "a source" alleges, demanded that Friedman be fired as a condition of the actor signing on to star in Fox's Wichita, a movie with Cameron Diaz. The evidence? Friedman claims that at Isaac Hayes's funeral last year, Kelly Preston pulled him aside and called him a "religious bigot" for attacking Scientology in a number of his columns, and she later complained about him to Fox News's Roger Ailes and John Moody. "When she couldn't get Moody to fire Friedman, she called him a [obscenity]," says the source. Later, Ailes and Moody allegedly agreed to meet with a Church of Scientology spokesman and subsequently forbade Friedman from writing about the death of Jett Travolta. Also, Friedman was supposedly asked to go easy on Cruise's Valkyrie by 20th Century Fox chairman Jim Gianopoulos, since Fox was distributing the movie internationally (a fat lot of good that did!).

Tags: Fox News, Isaac Hayes, Jett Travolta, Jim Gianopoulos, John Moody, Kelly Preston, Roger Ailes, Roger Friedman, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Cruise

Rantings of a MADMAN Named Hubbard Episode 15 "L Ron Hubbard on His Degraded Thetan" Self-Determinism and the Creation of Universes, 16th November 1952:

Tags: 1952, L. Ron Hubbard, Quicky

While employees of Hockley Highlands Inn and Conference Centre have received their back wages, they are still having difficulties with benefits and have yet to receive compensation for being terminated without notice. Employees received their final pay on June 5 and benefit coverage was to continue for the month of June, but they say that has not been the case. Their union, the Power Workers' Union, has been working on that, along with trying to obtain a severance and termination package.

Tags: Hockley Highlands Inn

Thinking it was the Worcester of old, Renna says the Worcester visit was not what he expected. After a few days in town, he asked his ministers how it was going. "You must have hundreds of people." he enthused. "They said, 'No, it's quiet.' I said, 'What about the mall?' They said, 'It's not here any more.'"

Tags: Boston, Gerard Renna, John Franczak, Nanette Ciano, Pobporn Leurchakittikul, Tent, Volunteer Ministers, Worcester

Pseudoscience and misinformation plague many efforts to keep young people off drugs. These errors destroy our credibility with teens and sabotage drug-abuse prevention immensely. As Nanette Asimov documented in The Chronicle ("What Narconon tells students," June 9) our children hear outrageous ideas as early as the third grade.

Tags: California, Narconon

Keith Henson, the scientology foe arrested at gunpoint in an Oakville parking lot a couple weeks ago, has been released from jail by the same adjudicator who only last week determined that he posed a flight risk.Henson, who says he's been receiving threats and is afraid to return to the U.S., has also been deemed eligible to apply for refugee status here.

Tags: Keith Henson, Toronto

The Church of Scientology now has two distinctions at the hands of Bernie McCabe. The first is that he chose to prosecute the church (I mean, one of its corporations) in the first place. The second distinction is that McCabe has dropped the case. There are not many former defendants walking around who get to say, "On second thought, Bernie McCabe let me go." McCabe's office puts the blame for this turn of events on Medical Examiner Joan Wood. Wood changed her cause of McPherson's death from "undetermined" to "accidental" after the church provided her new evidence. Not only did Wood change her mind, but according to the state, she was not especially convincing about when, how and why. McCabe's office says she would have been a lousy witness, and so the case was dropped.

Tags: 1995, Bernie McCabe, Joan Wood, Lisa McPherson criminal case

"There are a number of things that trouble us about the move of Narconon to Arrowhead Lodge," trustees Bud Shaw and Lois Hartman wrote, citing a petition that was signed by more than 100 residents. The 75-bed Narconon Chilocco New Life Center in Newkirk plans to move and expand to as many as 300 beds at Arrowhead Lodge, near Canadian in Pittsburg County.

Tags: Bud Shaw, Jerry Regier, Lois Hartman, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon Chilocco

Alarmed at the "massive impact" of two criminal charges, the Church of Scientology's worldwide leader quickly offered Pinellas County's top prosecutor a deal. Drop the charges, David Miscavige told State Attorney Bernie McCabe in November 1998, and the church would make a $500,000 donation to the county's EMS system. It also would pay the nearly $200,000 in expenses incurred in what then was a three-year investigation into Lisa McPherson's 1995 death while in the care of her fellow Scientologists. In addition, Miscavige offered to pay the $15,000 the church would have been fined if convicted of the charges.

Tags: 1954, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998, 9-1-1, Bernie McCabe, Clearwater, David Miscavige, Fort Harrison, IRS, Joan Wood, Lisa McPherson, Los Angeles, Pinellas County, Washington

Vol. 7, No. 1 1999 Regular readers of SKEPTIC scanning the article by Steven A. Kent and Theresa Krebs, "When Scholars Know Sin" (Vol. 6, No. 3, 1998), may have felt as if they were stepping into the middle of a debate without being aware of the stakes behind the arguments placed before them. In fact the paper, in a slightly more sanitized version, previously appeared as part of a set of papers concerning the problems faced by scholars of New Religions who must work in such a highly charged arena and whose every word is scrutinized by both members and critics of the more controversial groups. In that more professional context, one can assume that the readers were up on the issues. But here I begin my response with a little bit of history.

Tags: American Psychological Association, Apologetic, CESNUR, Gordon Melton, Margaret Singer, Richard Ofshe, Secondary copy, Stephen Kent, Theresa Krebs

Narconon staff members pay the Church of Scientology for training in how to deliver the Purification Rundown - called "Purif" by those in the know - and Narconon receives a commission from the church if its clients go on to buy courses, training or seminars from the church after their treatments.

Tags: 1979, Field Staff Member, Narconon, Paul Jaconello, Purification Rundown