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Scientology's crushing defeat [What Scientology paid $8 Million to hide]

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Title: Scientology's crushing defeat [What Scientology paid $8 Million to hide]
Date: Monday, 30 June 2008
Publisher: Village Voice
Author: Tony Ortega
Main source: villagevoice.com
Tags: Blackmail • Body thetans (BTs) • Celebrity Centre • Church of Scientology International (CSI) • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Confidential preclear (PC) folder • Cost • Daniel A. Leipold • David Miscavige • Destroying/hiding/falsifying evidences • Disconnection • Earle C. Cooley • Fair game • Ford Greene • Frank Oliver • Fred T. Goldberg Jr. • Freeloader's debt • Front groups • Heber C. Jentzsch • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Joseph A. Yanny • Judge Robert Hess • Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim • Lawsuit • Leta Schlosser • Linda Simmons Hight • Medical claims • Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) • Operation Snow White • Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") • Religious Technology Center (RTC) • Robert Vaughn Young • Salary • Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) • Stephen A. Kent • Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) • Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) • Suppressive person (SP) • Tax matter • Tony Ortega • Tory "Magoo" Christman • Village Voice • Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)

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Six years ago, when I was a reporter at New Times LA, ''I’d written several stories about Scientology (Los Angeles is one of its headquarters), and I was about to uncork the longest one yet—a 7,000 word piece about an embarrassing, $8 million defeat Scientology had just suffered, when the weekly paper suddenly folded. That unpublished story has been sitting in storage ever since. Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part ... [Read the rest at villagevoice.com]