Tony Ortega's book The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, Paulette Cooper

Leah Remini and Paulette Cooper? Scientology can start worrying now

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, May 21, 2015



We have some more scenes for you from our book tour in California. Previously, we posted a photograph of your proprietor with the lovely Leah Remini. The King of Queens actress had come by a party hosted by Spanky Taylor in order to pick up a copy of our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.

Leah also posed with Paulette Cooper, the subject of our book, and her husband Paul Noble. We sure love that photograph.

Also, from Sunday morning, video of our talk at the Steve Allen Theater on Hollywood. We’re introduced by CFI-West director James Underdown, and we got great questions from a capacity crowd.



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That 63 page manuscript that Paulette Cooper and L.Ron Hubbard Junior wrote together in 1972 (before his flip-flopping craze began) really needs to be wikileaked!
Also, can't wait for the reports of Friday night where Jamie DeWolf's show will include a naked performance by a Tom Cruise lookalike

yes and oh YES!!!
For da lulz. Not because I am hot for Tommy boy by any means (in case that needed explaining )

Might be interesting but I tend to be skeptical of a lot of claims Nibs made. He does provide compelling evidence that Hubbard was a terrible father, though.

Here's a related thread:

Jamie DeWolf's Holy Shit Show circus game show lampoons Scientology

In addition to the zaniness, the show will begin with special guests Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper, who will lead a no holds barred discussion and Q&A. Two of the most knowledgeable journalists on the subject of Scientology, Ortega was featured in HBO’s "Going Clear", and Paulette Cooper wrote one of the first exposes about the cult in the 1970s, which resulted in her being ruthlessly targeted by the infamous cult.

 Tickets are $20.

The Holy Shit Show, Friday, May 22, 7-11 p.m., at the San Francisco Institute of Possibility.

https://whyweprotest.net/threads/ja...circus-game-show-lampoons-scientology.126938/

Jamie sold out!
Congrats!

Scientology Scandals, Cover-ups and Threats with Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper



Published by TheLipTV on May 21, 2015

Scientology documentary Going Clear source Tony Ortega and journalist Paula Cooper expose the harassment and spying campaign that the Church of Scientology waged on Cooper following the publication of her 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology. Ortega, whose recent book about Cooper and Scientology,The Unbreakable Miss Lovely details the frame up and years-long persecution of her by L. Ron Hubbard and members of the church, lays out more of the mountain of dirt on the organization in this uncensored Media Mayhem interview, hosted by Allison Hope Weiner.

Paulette is such a stunning woman.

Show Leah some love on twitter, if you don't have twitter:
Leah Remini Fan Club
(Official Fan Club)
P.O. Box 15669
North Hollywood, CA 91615

Tony is interviewed 30 minutes into the Topless Robot Podcast.

Humanist Society Talk: Scientology | Santa Barbara Edhat

By Robert Bernstein, May 22, 2015

Scientology was the topic of the May Humanist Society talk. Back in the 1960s the writer Paulette Cooper had researched and written about Scientology. And suffered greatly for doing so.

Journalist Tony Ortega has just written a book "The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper". Both Paulette and Tony spoke to a packed event. Many Tony Ortega fans came from out of town.

Continued with open comments here:
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=153280

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=969&v=ejGv31abeZU

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Paulette Cooper has a surprise for Scientology and the residents of a certain Florida town

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, May 24, 2015



Your proprietor spent Saturday recovering from the twisted Friday night put on by L. Ron Hubbard’s great-grandson, Jamie DeWolf, which included a three-hour circus at Chez Poulet in San Francisco.

Just before the trouble started, we snapped this photo backstage of DeWolf, “LRH,” and Paulette Cooper. It only got weirder from there.

Our book tour’s leg in California is finished, and we’re pretty exhausted and not really capable of doing much reporting right now. But we did want to fill you in on one small piece of news.

Finally, we can give you some details about next month’s appearance in Florida. We wanted to wait until the venue and time was securely nailed down before saying anything, for reasons you can appreciate. Now, we can reveal that on Sunday June 28, at 2 pm, your proprietor and Paulette Cooper will be making an appearance in none other than Clearwater.

Yes, just a few blocks away from Scientology’s spiritual headquarters in downtown Clearwater, Florida, we’ll be appearing with Paulette at the Clearwater Public Library, courtesy of the folks at Center for Inquiry-Tampa Bay, who have been so welcoming and have worked hard to make this happen.

See you there on June 28!

http://tonyortega.org/2015/05/24/pa...-and-the-residents-of-a-certain-florida-town/

Congratulations, Paulette and Tony, all the best with your amazing book. It shows the true dangers and viciousness of L. Ron Hubbard in contrast to the strength and courage of this incredible lady.

Oh I do hope that the cult sets up a protest outside.

Can we haz homo novii in Nazi uniforms again?

Leah's sister Nicole has also tweeted.

https://twitter.com/nicoleremini/status/601874520190812160



This is "The Hole Exists" tweet quoted by IndieScientologyNews and loved by Nicole:

https://twitter.com/TheHoleExists/status/600695617157988352

Book Notes

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, May 26, 2015

NEW: Check out the interactive map to our ongoing tour.

We didn’t get a chance to include photos in our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, so we’re posting them at the Underground Bunker. We’ve created a dedicated page for them, and we hope you go through them all, then come back here and tell us your thoughts!

Copies of the paperback version of ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely’ are on sale at Amazon. The Kindle edition is also available, and shipping instantly. Isn’t technology cool.

Our appearances:

June 11: New York City (with Paulette Cooper) We’re keeping the venue on the down-low at this point. If you’re interested in coming to this unique event — Paulette in New York talking about Scientology where her story began — drop us a line so we get an idea how many are coming.

June 20: Chicago (with Christian Stolte) The Annoyance Theater, 5pm: This event is SOLD OUT.

June 22: Toronto (with Paulette Cooper) Toronto Public Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd, 7:30 pm, sponsored by the Centre for Inquiry-Canada

June 23: Toronto (with Paulette Cooper) The “Getting Clear” conference

June 28: Clearwater, Florida (with Paulette Cooper) Clearwater Public Library, 2 pm

July 12: Washington DC, Center for Inquiry (with Paulette Cooper!)

Source:
http://tonyortega.org/2015/05/26/sc...-a-takedown-attempt-on-videos-at-her-channel/

Gossip Extra: Palm Beach Socialite Paulette Cooper: Scientologists Tried to Kill Me, And It’s All In a New Book!

http://www.gossipextra.com/2015/05/27/paulette-cooper-palm-beach-scientology-tried-to-kill-her-4845/

Miss Lovely in Hollywood

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, May 31, 2015

Tory Christman and Missionary Kid decided that The Unbreakable Miss Lovely ought to see the sights in Scientologyland. We’ll post a few here, and we have a feeling Tory will post the rest later today.





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Scientology, SPs and Miss Lovely in Hollywood



Published by ToryMagoo44 on May 31, 2015

The Unbreakable Miss Lovely is an amazing book, written by Tony Ortega about the famous Paulette Cooper and her experiences with the insanities of Scientology, and much, much more. Tony (from "The Underground Bunker" see TonyOrtega.org) has a game of the best locations "Miss Lovely" can be seen at. These are some highlights of our very funny (and suppressive) day with Miss Lovely in Hollywood. Enjoy!

Listen to Jim Jones root for Scientology against Paulette Cooper in a 1978 Jonestown address

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker

Now that we’re into a new month and our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, is taking us on tours around the country (and soon across the pond), we’re going to begin posting material here that supplements our story about Paulette Cooper.

Miss Lovely is a book that looks at Paulette’s entire life, from her survival of the Holocaust as a small child to her more recent years as an author in Florida. But she’s most well known, of course, for her 1971 book, The Scandal of Scientology, which resulted in the most legendary campaign of retaliation and ruination in the history of Scientology’s spy wing, the Guardian’s Office. That campaign even included a plot to frame Paulette for a felony which resulted in her being indicted in 1973 and facing 15 years in federal prison.

In 1977 the FBI raided Scientology looking for evidence of the church’s infiltration and burglarizing of federal agencies, but the FBI also discovered evidence of the many plots against Paulette. Initially, the FBI had to remain quiet about what it found in the raid. But then, news that Paulette Cooper had been framed on orders from top Scientology officials finally became public after a pair of Washington Post stories by Ron Shaffer appeared on April 28 and 29, 1978, followed by many other reports in the press.

One person who took notice of those stories was an unlikely observer in South America.

Late in our book project, one of our researcher friends discovered that in a large collection of materials at San Diego State University, a really unique and disturbing audio recording exists. Collected by the Jonestown Institute at SDSU, it’s a recording of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones, one of 971 tapes recovered by the FBI which preserve the cult leader giving his frequent addresses to his followers at the Jonestown compound in Guyana.

And on June 10, 1978, Jim Jones talked about Paulette Cooper.

Jones included it in his “mid-afternoon news” address, and he can be heard reading from a version of Shaffer’s April 29 story. Descriptions of Paulette’s harassment are provided to Shaffer by attorneys Paul Rheingold — who represented her in a 1972 harassment suit against the New York org — and Virgil Roberts — who had wrapped up a settlement in 1976 to end several of Scientology’s lawsuits against The Scandal of Scientology (see Chapter 13 in Miss Lovely).

What’s really interesting though is the way Jones interrupts his reading of the press account to provide his own running commentary — he’s sure that Scientology is getting the raw deal, and that Paulette was being unjustifiably exonerated.

At the beginning of the recording, you’ll hear Jones place the Peoples Temple in context to other groups — Synanon, the Black Panthers, and Scientology — that he apparently felt some kinship to, at least in the sense of a persecuted and misunderstood group. And why was Scientology being persecuted, according to Jim Jones?

“The reason for this, according to US UPI source that prefers to remain anonymous, is because Scientology has revealed how high the Nazi influence goes in the police work of USA, USA Customs, Treasury Department, and the police of the entire world. So the new attack. I’ll give you some detail of it,” he says.

So the revelations of the framing of Paulette Cooper are “the new attack” on Scientology, which Jones seems to feel is akin to an attack on the Peoples Temple, which is fascinating.

You’ll then hear him read from the newspaper article, making sarcastic asides about how he doubts the government’s “sources” — which were actually based on Scientology documents that would be released to the public a couple of years later.

It’s also fascinating to hear Jones express admiration for Scientology’s litigious attacks against Paulette and others.

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Jim Jones discusses Scientology and Paulette Cooper, 1978:



The Ex Scientologist Message Board thread on this, which, in turn, links to Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker:

http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...-Jim-Jones-on-Scientology-amp-Paulette-Cooper

Scientology, six degrees of separation, and Miss Lovely — author Paulette Cooper

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker

We are continuing to make use of material we learned as we researched the amazing life of author Paulette Cooper, but which, for one reason or another, we were not able to use in our book about her, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, which was published last month. In this case, we have a parable of time and space.

http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/02/sc...ation-and-miss-lovely-author-paulette-cooper/

BOOK NOTES

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker

NEW: Reader Sookie put together an index for The Unbreakable Miss Lovely and we’re hosting it here on the website.

We didn’t get a chance to include photos in our book, so we’ve posted them at a dedicated page.

Copies of the paperback version of ‘The Unbreakable Miss Lovely’ are on sale at Amazon. The Kindle edition is also available, and shipping instantly.

Our upcoming appearances (and check out the interactive map to our ongoing tour):

June 11: New York City (with Paulette Cooper) 5:30 to 7 pm. Private book party. If you’ve contacted us already, you’ll get venue information soon.

June 20: Chicago (with Christian Stolte) The Annoyance Theater, 5pm: This event is SOLD OUT.

June 22: Toronto (with Paulette Cooper) Toronto Public Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd, 7:30 pm, sponsored by the Centre for Inquiry-Canada

June 23: Toronto (with Paulette Cooper) The “Getting Clear” conference

June 28: Clearwater, Florida (with Paulette Cooper) Clearwater Public Library, 2 pm, sponsored by Center for Inquiry-Tampa Bay

July 12: Washington DC, Center for Inquiry (with Paulette Cooper)

July 14: Hartford, MARK TWAIN HOUSE (with Tom Tomorrow)

August 4: London (with John Sweeney)

September 16: Arizona State University

http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/06/jo...rence-and-l-ron-hubbards-lies-about-his-life/

Westward, Ho! Hey, Bunkerites, we need your help, and fast

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker

Hey, we need your help, Bunkerites. We had an opportunity suddenly come up, and decided to take it. Although it’s a bit last-minute, we realized that we had an open window for travel to some of the cities we want to visit on our book tour. So we grabbed it. Here are the dates and locations:

July 17: Denver

July 20: Dallas

July 22: Houston

July 24: San Antonio

July 25: Austin

Now, the hard part. We need to find venues and connect with sponsoring groups who might help us put on these events. In our California trip, we had great success with the Center for Inquiry and other skeptics groups. We’re big fans of skeptics groups, and our book and its subject matter makes a natural fit with them. Also, we’re published by Silvertail Books in London, a small publisher, so we don’t have the kind of resources to plug into bookstores.

So, this being the age we live in, we decided to turn to the crowd for some help. We have some connections in each of these cities, but we need links to groups that would be interested in having us come to talk about Scientology and Paulette Cooper, groups that could book a venue quickly. We can take care of the rest — the reach of this website is such that we packed each of the places in California where we held events. (Paulette has other travel plans and won’t be accompanying us on this trip.)

Another request: New York Bunkerites, our venue Thursday night is the big back room at a restaurant, and we’ll need a microphone and speaker for Paulette and your proprietor. The restaurant doesn’t have a PA system for us to plug into, so we need some small mobile unit. Any suggestions? Is there an easy way to rent such a thing?

http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/08/westward-ho-hey-bunkerites-we-need-your-help-and-fast/

I can help if he schedules in Butt Hole, Montana.

Scientology’s first big detractor recounts years in their crosshairs | WPIX-TV New York

Back in 1971, Paulette Cooper wrote “Scandal of Scientology,” a book she says made her the focus of the organization’s vengeful retribution.

Cooper says she was targeted by a rogue Scientology unit that launched “Operation Freakout” in an attempt to destroy the young woman they codenamed “Miss Lovely.”

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Good morning, New York! Paulette Cooper is dishing on Scientology in the Big Apple today

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, June 14, 2015

On Wednesday, Paulette Cooper and your proprietor sat down with local New York TV legend Marvin Scott to record a show about our book that will be running this morning on WPIX 11.

The station posted the interview, in its three parts, last night on its website.

Let us know how you think we did, and please help us spread this interview far and wide.

Source:
http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/14/go...ishing-on-scientology-in-the-big-apple-today/

The Scientology spy who came in from the cold: Len Zinberg, who apologized to Paulette Cooper

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, June 15, 2015

One of the things that made The Unbreakable Miss Lovely more than the telling of Paulette Cooper’s account of her years being harassed by Scientology were some of the other people who provided their own narratives of those events. And none of them provided quite so much impact as Len Zinberg.

While we were researching and writing the book, Zinberg suddenly showed up, emailing Paulette with an apology he said was a long time coming. He explained that in the early 1970s, he had been a Guardian’s Office volunteer, a young Scientologist who helped the church with its spy missions. And some of his assignments involved following or otherwise targeting Paulette.

Since leaving Scientology, he had begun to come to grips with what he’d done and then, in 2013, he had spotted an interview of Paulette by Mark Bunker. At that point, he could no longer remain silent, and he reached out to her. He then became a willing participant in our book project, and he’s been keeping quiet for almost two years now, looking forward to telling his story to you once the book was out.

So here, now, is the story of Len Zinberg. One of the very few Scientologists who has ever reached out to Paulette Cooper to apologize for what she endured.

http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/15/th...en-zinberg-who-apologized-to-paulette-cooper/

Facing the truth about Scientology works and it helps people.

Your proprietor on the airwaves

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, June 17, 2015

We had a couple of interesting interviews show up last night. In both cases, they were long-format with great interviewers, and we had a lot of fun. We’ll try to embed both of them later, but for now go to Mandy Stadtmiller’s website and listen to her most recent “News Whore” podcast. We’ve been looking forward to being on her show a long time, and we want to thank Mark Ebner, who made it happen.

Also, we returned to Chris T.’s show at WFMU, “Aerial View” yesterday and spent a rollicking hour talking about The Unbreakable Miss Lovely and other Scientology matters. This was really a good one.

http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/17/an...oubled-son-nibs-the-scientology-flip-flopper/

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There goes the gravy train

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker

We spotted this gentleman taking long-lens photographs of us in the park Friday. Anyone seen him before?





Source, and comments:
http://tonyortega.org/2015/06/20/rf...ver-with-scientology-and-the-nation-of-islam/

looks like this guy has TWO Nikon cameras with giant ass telephoto lenses.
Maybe new pics for Freedmnb mag? LOL
Hey Davey! you stupid twerp, you never learn!

WGN radio interview: Tony Ortega talks about Scientology and his book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely
http://wgnradio.com/2015/06/19/tony...ogy-and-his-book-the-unbreakable-miss-lovely/

IN ONE WEEK: Paulette Cooper invades Scientology’s Florida ‘mecca’!

By Tony Ortega, The Underground Bunker, June 21, 2015

One week from today, on Sunday, June 28, Paulette Cooper and your proprietor will be making our most controversial stop so far on the tour to support our book about Paulette, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.

We’ll be appearing at 2 pm at the main public library in Clearwater, right smack in the middle of Scientology’s vaunted spiritual “mecca,” the Flag Land Base.

We hope to see you there.

BOOK NOTES

Hey, we had a blast last night in Chicago at The Annoyance, a really perfect theater venue that was made available to us by Bunkerites Jennifer Estlin and Susan Messing. Joining us on stage was Chicago Fire actor Christian Stolte, who really helped us put on a good show.

Stolte completely shocked us by opening things up with an account of his own brief experience in Scientology. We didn’t know he was going to do that! But it turned out to be a great start to the program. The photo you see above was taken by Christian’s daughter, Greta. What a charmer.

Stolte also revealed that his Bunker handle is “Miles Biondo,” and he and the audience asked us great questions about the book and about Scientology in general.

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Hmm. Interesting coincidence.

http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/clearwater-library-fighting-bedbug-infestation-20150621/

Made it to the book event last night in Toronto. Seemed like quite a few people there because it was a CFI event who previously didn't know very much about Scientology.

They have now been inoculated / given pneumonia via exposure to the OT III story (with OT IV as a special bonus).