When I was on the Scientology prison-thought-reform program with the abbreviation "RPF" (Rehabilitation Project Force--the L. Ron Hubbard behavior modification and reeducation program for lifer "Sea Org" elite staff who've lost their way as the elite squad running Scientology's "upper level" organizations where the Scientology secret Xenu "body thetan" exorcism and management is housed), I was for a couple years housed in the big blue complex building, called the "complex" and specifically in "main building", and I often dreamed of journalists who I knew existed, like Tony Ortega, author of this book honoring another journalist's life.
I as an RPF member, who wanted to expose Scientology's continued disgraceful bad sides, KNEW that investigative journalists like Tony Ortega, and like Mark Ebner, were right at those moments, out living in the LA region, on duty, as writers for the more down to earth and more detailed investigative journalism that the weekly newspapers can write.
I often thought of escaping, getting to a phone book, and phoning up the "LA Weekly" or similar newspaper, since I knew their journalists were MORE the type to really listen to the gritty detailed insider details.
Well, Tony Ortega is that type of journalist.
From his earliest Scientology articles, he's just grasped Scientologists inner predicaments just devastatingly accurately.
He wrote of the success of Larry Wollersheim, a former Sea Org member who won millions of dollars damage against Scientology.
Tony wrote of Tory Christman's flight from her job as Scientology Office of Special Affairs operative duty, duty done traditionally, and per L. Ron Hubbard's script for how top Scientologists do duty countering Scientology's perceived enemies, Tory was one of the most effective street protestor agents of Scientology's, at defusing confrontational demonstrators against Scientology. Tory switched sides, and she's done tens of thousands of hours of internet chatting, media and videos ever since.
Tony just ate up the important details of Scientology, and today Tony's got the best summary grasp of Scientology history of any journalist alive.
My job in Scientology, starting in 1977 was being a course supervisor, I helped train staffers learn their jobs in the beehive organizations of Scientology, all following L. Ron Hubbard's massively prolific body of detailed writings, I trained thousands of staff trainees for about 6 years.
I thus was really into the details.
The details, on "The Unbreakable Miss Lovely" by Tony Ortega are just so excellently laid out, it's a hugely detailed story, and the chapters on the Scientology L. Ron Hubbard "Guardian's Office" I hope stirs MORE discussion and coming out of ex Guardian's Office members.
The story line of this book is of triumph, thankfully, that Paulette Cooper did survive Scientology's massively detailed intelligence operations against her.
Tony details that story admirably.
I was outraged at what we did to Paulette, and how murderous we factually were, driving her to the depths of depression and near suicide, and how only Paulette's old friends and existing friend, saved her when Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard is the man responsible) intelligence tactics wished her dead.
I hope this is turned into a TV series, and that other of the journalists in US history who were each, one by one, given the same L. Ron Hubbard intelligence methodical dastardly treatment, are each and every one depicted.
I'm so happy that the detailed coverage that journalists like Tony Ortega have led up to this book.
How Scientology could still attract people, sadly, is a sociological tragedy of the subject of dupes. I was a long term dupe, it takes decades to unwind from all the Hubbard teachings, and even appreciate journalism and books like this one and like the other recent must read books: "Going Clear...." by Lawrence Wright, "Inside Scientology" by Janet Reitman, "The Church of Scientology.." by Hugh Urban.
It's maybe way too much to expect average citizens to be interested enough to read those detailed books, which come to basically the same conclusions as Paulette Cooper's "Scandal of Scientology" 1971 book.
Lawrence Wright repeats the basic question. Why? Why do people still keep joining this stigmatized "new religion."
Probably something human in us.
Just like Paulette strove to find out something she didn't understand, and she dove into the Scientology story, just like Tony Ortega has dove into the Scientology story, just like dupes like me dove into Scientology.
The question that the Guardian's Office gatekeeper staff asked me my first day in Scientology, (John Matoon the Asst Gaurdian at the Phoenix Scientology Org), he asked me: "Are you a reporter?"
I answered: "Should I be?"
Thankyou reporters Tony Ortega and Paulette Cooper.
Hats off to you both massively!
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Hollywood get ready! The Unbreakable Miss Lovely is absolute must reading for anyone who loves stories of true crime, inspiration, and heart-racing dramatic action. Author Tony Ortega takes us far beyond Going Clear in a rocket-propelled DC 8 to a mysterious world and drops us into an exploding volcano of new revelations.This fast-paced David and Goliath story taps into our deepest longings and turns up the suspense until the startling end. When Paulette Cooper, a smart and beautiful young Holocaust survivor struggles to make it as a writer in New York, she is bullied, threatened, and terrorized by a rapacious criminal enterprise seeking her total ruination. How did she survive the onslaughts of insidious deception and callous brutality cloaked in the guise of a religion?The Unbreakable Miss Lovely is the shocking true-account of journalist Paulette Cooper who shined a spotlight on the Church of Scientology back in the 1970s with a bestselling paperback called "The Scandal of Scientology." For telling the truth she nearly paid with her life.. I'll be very surprised if a Hollywood bidding war for the film and television rights to this story is not already taking place.
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