Over at The Daily Beast today (and at Yahoo news) we have a fun and startling update about why Isaac Hayes ditched South Park in 2006 after his successful run as Chef, and it’s based on a secret Scientology memo.
Exciting!
We were especially excited that the memo included some nasty swipes at Mark Ebner, who Scientology has never forgiven for briefly joining the organization so he could write his killer 1996 expose for Spy magazine, “Do You Want to Buy a Bridge?”
That piece had one of the all-time great openings, as Ebner dared Scientology to go after him the way it is known for doing…
I am an ex-drug addict who has solicited prostitutes in my day. I’ve also masturbated and inhaled at the same time, and I have been arrested more than once in my life. I dropped out of high school, and I’ve been under psychiatric care. Oh yeah, and I owe the IRS roughly six thousand dollars that they are well aware of.
In the language of Scientologists, the above information reflects what they include in their “Dead Agent Packs” — dossiers of all the dirt they dig up on people critical of their “religion.” Often they disseminate damaging information like this to the friends, family, landlords, and employers of anyone who dares speak of — or worse, publish anything derogatory about the “church.” So what I’m doing here is Dead Agenting myself before we begin, beating them to the punch.
What a classic.
And Mark reminded us that later, he did get to see evidence of the Fair Game investigation Scientology targeted him with, when Marty Rathbun released it on his blog back in 2011.
CONFIDENTIAL
ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGEDMarch 27, 2006
RE: MARK EBNER
Mark Ebner does not show up in any of the PI databases or on Nexis with a current residence. The last place that we knew he had been was with a woman by the name [REDACTED], however, checks of her apartment showed that he has not been living there.
Through a media source we learned that Ebner is currently living at [REDACTED]'s house - which is located on North New Hampshire about five or six blocks north of the complex, near Los Feliz. Ebner's van was not at [REDACTED]'s house late last night but was found there this morning. He was there all day, in and out of the house either letting his dogs outside or talking with [REDACTED]. Ebner also received a delivery of a large envelope and was seen carrying around various documents when he came outside the house.
[REDACTED] is a friend of Ebner's who picketed with him around the time period of 1997/1998 (but has not done anything since). She used to work at New Times – which is not in business anymore. As of 2002, [REDACTED] was married to [REDACTED], a character actor, and the house on New Hampshire is in his name. Per Nexis search, he appears to also still be living there at the house – so [REDACTED] appears to still be married and Ebner is just a friend who is living at the house. This will be verified.
The special collections at this location will be done, which will give us further information on Ebner and [REDACTED] and what he is currently doing [Note: "special collections" is a euphemism for searching through trash]. He is still driving the old 1972 VW van which he used to have plastered with anti-Scientology posters and bumper stickers but these have now been stripped off.
In putting together the data on his connections and a time track, Ebner is part of a clique of low class writers/bloggers who hang out in the LA area. For example, he is friends with Peter Collum, a writer for the LA Weekly and Hollywood Reporter with whom he co-authored a book. Ebner and Collum went to "Porndance 99" about six years ago to cover / review porn movies. He is friends with Luke Ford (a writer / blogger) who also covers porn. Both Ebner and Ford have written attack pieces on the "velvet mafia" the powerful gays (like Geffen) in Hollywood.
While we are getting the current scene on Ebner, his files are being gone through for his past connections that he may still be associated with. He listed some of these out when he had the Drastic Media website ([REDACTED], Peter Collum and [REDACTED] are all listed on this site as part of Drastic Media).
A media source who knows Ebner is checking into what Ebner is working on and for whom and another resource he knows is being lined up to contact him to pull strings on his relation with South Park.
Ebner usually does freelance jobs for different media outlets, one of which is currently Star Magazine, any others will be found out. Ebner has been very protective of his writing jobs and this is a key point of vulnerability that we need to work on - as he does not appear to value much else. (When we have used his own postings and actions against him to show that he is totally biased against us, this has caused him problems with the outlets that he has been writing for i.e. he got let go at Rolling Stone and he was caused problems at Radar and made threats of suing Karin for "black PRing" him).
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And of course, Ebner has been entertaining us here at the Bunker with his ongoing adventures. The last time he was on our podcast, he told us a wild story about Tom Cruise’s director buddy, Chris McQuarrie!
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Isaac was considered for my target list when I went after celebs in 1977-1978. He was quickly marked off the list because of his bankruptcy. I was surprised to hear they had later drawn him in. In my opinion, opinion only, Hayes was pushed to quit. Comedy Central did him good. He needed them. Scientology bullied him into quitting.
Those internal OSA reports are so full of acceptable truths to be made palatable to Davey Boy as were the GO reports for Hubbard. Scientology assumes they can control studio heads and they can direct talent to control studio heads. They flat out lie about personal relationships.
Hayes’ final years were diminished greatly by his relationship to Scientology. Scientology is always worse than you think.
Scientology: Happy to dish it out, but not take it.