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How Scientologists pressurise publishers // Over and over again, critical publications have been blocked

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Title: How Scientologists pressurise publishers // Over and over again, critical publications have been blocked
Date: Thursday, 4 December 2008
Publisher: The Guardian (UK)
Author: David V. Barrett
Main source: guardian.co.uk

Tags: Amazon • Bankruptcy • David V. Barrett • Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) • Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong • Heber C. Jentzsch • John Duignan • Lawsuit • Membership • Operation Freakout • Paulette Cooper • Silencing criticism, censorship • Suppressive person (SP) • The Complex: An Insider Exposes The Covert World Of Scientology (book) • The Guardian (UK) • United Kingdom (UK) • Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)

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Last week we learned that Amazon.co.uk has bowed to pressure to stop selling a book by a former senior Irish Scientologist. The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (Merlin Publishing, Dublin) describes John Duignan's 21 years in the religion, not all of it a happy tale. According to Amazon, "Unfortunately, we have had to withdraw The Complex by John Duignan in the UK because we received a specific allegation that a passage in the book ... [Read the rest at guardian.co.uk]