I’m posting three email exchanges I had with Steve Cannane prior to the publication of his book Fair Game, which was in September 2016. These demonstrate certain relevant facts: he had my contact information; we were communicating; I had provided detailed, accurate data; he knew this to be true because he sought my data and […]
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posted on August 29, 2018 by Clerk1
Aiding and Abetting Fair Game — 2015
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: fair game, Jon Atack, Steve Cannane
posted on August 29, 2018 by Clerk1
Aiding and Abetting Fair Game — 2014
I’m posting three email exchanges I had with Steve Cannane prior to the publication of his book Fair Game. These demonstrate certain relevant facts: he had my contact information; we were communicating; I had provided detailed, accurate, useful data; and he knew this to be true because he sought my data and credited it in […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: fact checkers, Jon Atack, Katia Bachko, L. Ron Hubbard, Lawrence Wright, New Yorker, pinks and greys, Steve Cannane
posted on November 21, 2016 by Clerk1
Goodbugger
Jon Atack asked if I would write down something about the name “Jonnie Goodbugger” that Omar Garrison came up with for L. Ron Hubbard. Atack spelled it Johnny Goodbugger, but I believe it should be Jonnie, after Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. In October 1980, right after Garrison signed his contract to write the LRH biography, I […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Jon Atack, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, Jonnie Goodbugger, Jonnie Goodbugger Tyler, L. Ron Hubbard, Russell Miller
posted on September 12, 2016 by Clerk1
Sounding the Sheep Dip for Bubbles
I cannot find where anyone at Tony Ortega’s blog has spoken up to correct inaccuracies in Jon Atack’s September 10, 2016 article about Scientology cult collaborator L. Fletcher Prouty, so I am doing my best now. The article and the inaccuracies I’m correcting also concern testimony in the 1984 trial in the case the Scientologists […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Armstrong 1, Captain Thomas Moulton, Coronado Islands, Jon Atack, L. Ron Hubbard, Michael Flynn, Tony Ortega
posted on January 2, 2016 by Clerk1
Exscientologists’ terrible humility: An open letter to Jon Atack
I am writing concerning some statements you made about Exscientologists in your foreword in Chris Shelton’s just-published book Scientology: A to Xenu. I am assuming you wrote what was published. There is considerable disinformation in the book, and, while presenting as critical of L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Scientologists and their collaborators, it actually serves […]
Filed Under: Talks Tagged With: Chris Shelton, Jon Atack, Scientology: A to Xenu
posted on July 2, 2015 by Clerk1
Hubbard, Scientology, death and memes
Jon Atack wrote on Ex Scientologist Message Board: After the Armstrong case, attorney (and legend) Mike Flynn turned to Gerry and told him he’d killed Hubbard. We killed Scientology at Toronto. All we have to do now is dig a big enough hole to bury it in. 1 Jon also emailed me about the “death” […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Getting Clear Conference, Jim Beverley, Jon Atack, L. Ron Hubbard, Toronto
posted on March 16, 2014 by Clerk1
Russell Miller and me
DamOTclese2 commented on Tony O’s blog: Of primary importance — for me, any way — is what Gerry thinks about all this. We all have opinions about wrongs that Scientology people have committed against others, and I would love to hear Gerry comment on the re-release of BFM as well as what he thinks about […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Bare-Faced Messiah, BFM, David Miscavige, Jon Atack, Ken Long, Lawrence Wright, Mark Rathbun, Michael Flynn, New Yorker, Paul Haggis, Russell Miller, Sheila Chaleff, Silvertail Books, Tony Ortega
posted on September 28, 2013 by Clerk1
Memories of memories of farmers and fools
In an article http://tonyortega.org/2013/09/28/10468/ about Hubbard and Scientology’s occult incidents and connections Jon Atack writes: When I first met Gerry, he told me about a scale he’d found in Hubbard’s papers, which belonged to the period between Parsons and Dianetics — around 1947. I asked Gerry about this, recently, but he couldn’t remember it, so […]
Filed Under: Writings Tagged With: Beast to Fooldom scale, Jon Atack, L. Ron Hubbard, Tony Ortega