The Tip of the Spear - 2012-12-18

The Tip of the Spear December 18, 2012, Joel Sappell, Los Angeles Magazine

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In the mid-1980s, journalist Joel Sappell and a colleague began a five-year examination of the Church of Scientology that would ultimately produce a 24-article series. It would also change Sappell's life in ways both mystifying  and unnerving. Decades later the onetime investigative reporter investigates what happened to him.

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