Guest post: 20 reasons the Church of Scientology is a cult and a fraud - 2015-05-07

One of the many things the Church of Scientology has done as a reaction to Alex Gibney's documentary, Going Clear, is to post numerous letters it wrote to Gibney and HBO in the lead-up to the film's release, as well as in its aftermath.
Collected at the website of its propaganda magazine, Freedom, the letters vary in their interest for us. But one of them is really something to behold. It's a long exegesis by one of Scientology's longest-serving and most notable attorneys, Eric M. Lieberman (pictured).
Lieberman's letter is addressed to two of HBO's attorneys, and was sent on March 19, six days after Going Clear debuted in theaters for its short run in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco to qualify it for Oscar consideration. (A little birdie tells us that the movie is going to get another theater run in the Fall, so Scientology has that to look forward to — and you heard it here first.)
- 2014
- 2015
- Alex Gibney
- Australia
- CCHR
- Cult
- David Miscavige
- Dianetics
- Disconnection
- Elena Cardone
- Eric Lieberman
- Fair Game
- Fraud
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
- HBO
- Ideal Org
- International Association of Scientologists
- IRS
- Jeffrey Augustine
- Kodak Center
- Lawrence Wright
- Lisa McPherson
- Los Angeles
- New York
- News article
- Office of Special Affairs
- Quicky
- San Francisco
- Sara Goldberg
- Sea Org
- Sec Check
- Sylvia DeWall
- Tony Ortega
- Underground Bunker
- Wallace Jefferson