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Scientology and Litigation — the Real Truth

October 13, 2021 By Mike Rinder 23 Comments

  Among the many falsehoods perpetrated on the STAND League website are a series of FAQs where they try to present the image of scientology as victims of predatory, greedy litigants ... It's a typical fable that gets off to a rollicking start: During the history of the Church, some individuals sought to make money from unfounded allegations, but the Church successfully defended against those claims. It's a false premise for a number of reasons. There have been successful litigants -- notably Lawrence Wollersheim and Julie Christoffersen who were awarded multi-million dollar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: STAND League Tagged With: Christofferson, Debbie Cook, L. Ron Hubbard, litigation, Ninth Circuit, Religious Technology Center, RTC, Scientology, Sentencing Memorandum, STAND League, Wollersheim

Episode 17: Former Sea Org Executive Claire Headley

November 16, 2020 By Mike Rinder 95 Comments

Leah and I were extremely happy to welcome our old friend Claire Headley to the Fair Game podcast. Claire of course appeared in 2 episodes of The Aftermath -- and she was recently featured on the Netflix home page: I have known Claire and her husband Marc since I first went to the Gold Base -- way back in the 80's. Claire worked closely with Miscavige as an executive in Religious Technology Center. She was the Deputy Inspector General Internal. Claire helped me many times, she is one of the few people I know -- especially at the international level, and even more specifically in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: A&E, Allen Cartwright, Angie Blankenship, Claire Headley, David Miscavige, Fair Game Podcast, FBI, Freeloader bill, Greg Wilhere, JB, John Brousseau, Kendrick Moxon, Kevin Caetano, Kirsten Caetano, Leah Remini, Lynn Farny, Marc Headley, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, Religious Technology Center, SP Declare, The Aftermath, Warren McShane

The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks

August 1, 2020 By Mike Rinder 49 Comments

I have been nosing around the STAND League site of late, just to document what they are doing and have a record of it before it all disappears in a puff of smoke when that becomes necessary for whatever reason. I came across an article from a couple of months ago, newly tweeted out, smearing my friend of many years, Mariette Lindstein. I have written about Mariette before and her enormous success as an author of fictional novels that are drawn from her experience in scientology, including working at the Gold Base in Religious Technology Center and other very senior executive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Tagged With: confessional, Cult on Fog Island, David Miscavige, Gold Base, Laurie Bartilson, mariette lindstein, Office of Special Affairs, OSA, Religious Technology Center, RTC, STAND League, violence

Another OT VIII Has Seen The Truth Revealed

May 22, 2012 By Mike Rinder Leave a Comment

This is the story of how Halina Cirillo fell in and out of love with the Church of Scientology. A bit of background about myself.  I was in Scientology for 40 years, on staff in Toronto through most of the 70s.   My original post was Director of Processing which I held for 3 years and was then recruited into the Guardian’s Office and held the post of  DG PR CAN.  As D of P I had 18 auditors in the HGC and our well done auditing hours at that time have never been matched since.  I left the GO in disgust in the late 70s after being shown confidential session data about my brother.  Then I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Independent Scientologists Tagged With: Freewinds, Halina Cirillo, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder, OT VIII, Religious Technology Center, Scientology

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