Secret Scientology Spy
Today was the official opening of Scientology’s new £24 million London propaganda hub. The news channels have been thick with it, partly because of the official big bash being held tonight with the likes of Tom Cruise in attendance. The coverage has been far too gentle on them with only one tepid academic daring to hint at the ‘Operating Thetan’ situation on BBC Breakfast.
Anyone who has read Secrets & Lies, (for those in the USA - Secrets & Lies), knows how much I fear Scientology and why I am probably not one of their favourite people. Therefore it was a quite fun surprise to be able to have my own secret Scientology spy at their unpublicised, secret Saturday night grand dinner down at their East Grinstead estate. Cruise and the other usual celebrity suspects were in attendance alongside the higher echelons of the organisation.
Amongst conversations with the guests it became clear that the reason some of them are putting forward for my work and for the work of other writers and journalists writing about them, is because we are: ‘In the pay of pharmaceutical companies.’
I wish.
If any pharmaceutical company wishes to pay me any money for my entry concerning Scientology in Secrets & Lies, I will happily take it. Unfortunately, no one in that sector has ever offered me a bribe, inducement or reward for anything I have written. This is probably down to the fact there is a whole section in S&L entitled Medicine detailing drug company dumping practices in the developing world, the hidden ingredients in vaccines and the fallibility of tests for HIV. I have also never been offered a cent from those in psychotherapy or medical research due to my reporting of various elements of malpractice in both professions.
In fact, no one except my publisher has ever offered me a penny for the views I expressed in S&L. For those of a conspiratorial bent who might think my publisher is in the pay of such power interests, you are wrong. I had to fight their lawyers tooth and nail to get any mention of Scientology into the book because post Bare-Faced Messiah, every publisher’s legal team shits themselves when an author is mad enough to mention L. Ron Hubbard.
Anyone who has read Secrets & Lies, (for those in the USA - Secrets & Lies), knows how much I fear Scientology and why I am probably not one of their favourite people. Therefore it was a quite fun surprise to be able to have my own secret Scientology spy at their unpublicised, secret Saturday night grand dinner down at their East Grinstead estate. Cruise and the other usual celebrity suspects were in attendance alongside the higher echelons of the organisation.
Amongst conversations with the guests it became clear that the reason some of them are putting forward for my work and for the work of other writers and journalists writing about them, is because we are: ‘In the pay of pharmaceutical companies.’
I wish.
If any pharmaceutical company wishes to pay me any money for my entry concerning Scientology in Secrets & Lies, I will happily take it. Unfortunately, no one in that sector has ever offered me a bribe, inducement or reward for anything I have written. This is probably down to the fact there is a whole section in S&L entitled Medicine detailing drug company dumping practices in the developing world, the hidden ingredients in vaccines and the fallibility of tests for HIV. I have also never been offered a cent from those in psychotherapy or medical research due to my reporting of various elements of malpractice in both professions.
In fact, no one except my publisher has ever offered me a penny for the views I expressed in S&L. For those of a conspiratorial bent who might think my publisher is in the pay of such power interests, you are wrong. I had to fight their lawyers tooth and nail to get any mention of Scientology into the book because post Bare-Faced Messiah, every publisher’s legal team shits themselves when an author is mad enough to mention L. Ron Hubbard.
5 Comments:
Somehow i don't think the group who reads your blog needs convincing that you don't take cash from drug companies or the psychiatric profession....
I see a blog niche opportunity here. Something like a clearing house operation to connect people who wish to take bribes with people who want to pay them. A name for the blog, that’s the hard part. I would comment on Scientology but I have a feeling it would be worse than getting on the wrong side of the tax man.
My poverty could be taken as proof of honesty, but you would be surprised how many of the Green Crayon Brigade accuses me of being in the pay of ‘dark forces’.
As for what Scientologists are capable of … here is what a federal prosecutor wrote about nine of them after a campaign of burglaries, forgeries, infiltration, obstruction of justice, and other crimes against more than 100 US agencies including the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense: ‘The crime committed by these defendants is of a breadth and scope previously unheard of. No individual or organization was free from their despicable conspiratorial minds.’
I could be totally of the mark here but was Scientology not connected with the Son Of Sam Murders and David (not you ) Barkawitz in NY years ago??
That connection alone makes that organisation sus in my view.
No Mirk, you are not off the mark, there are sound reasons why Scientology and Son of Sam killings are often appear in the same sentence, not least because of the whole The Process Church thing.
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