Coming Sunday: Valerie Haney talks to Aussie 60 Minutes in first TV sit-down since 'Aftermath'

In 2019, we had a happy accident: We just happened to be in Los Angeles visiting family when Tara Brown and a 60 Minutes Australia crew were in the area, and asked if we could go with them up to the Twin Peaks compound in the San Bernardino mountains where Scientology has stashed Shelly Miscavige since 2005.

The result was an episode that was one of the program’s biggest on YouTube for international viewers, and a segment that was more substantive than anything a major US network has done about Shelly’s disappearance.

Well, the 60 Minutes Australia folks rang us up again, telling us that they were interviewing Valerie Haney in her first TV sitdown since her 2019 Scientology and the Aftermath episode.

They were interested in the things Valerie has been telling us here at the Bunker and at Rolling Stone, and would we want to take part? We were happy to.

Yesterday, we were sent a sneak peek of this Sunday’s episode, and we’re pretty excited to see what Tara has put together.

She’s talking to some familiar faces, including Marc and Claire Headley, who are always great about the conditions at Int Base, where Valerie escaped from in 2016.

And it looks like your proprietor also made the final cut.

We’re told that after the episode airs in Australia, a version of it will be uploaded to YouTube for the rest of us to see. We can’t wait to see Valerie on camera again.

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Scientology’s ‘Volunteer Ministers’ keep the faith: Feel my finger!

[A guest post by Phil Jones]

I thought I’d see if I could find anything that Scientologists are doing in my neck of the woods, here in Ontario Canada. Seems like at least some of them have their front groups out there forwarding the cause and Clearing the planet in great strides.

The ribbon cutting is from 2019 in the city of Brampton, Ontario at the Multicultural Festival.

The webinar flyer is one of an ongoing series, this one being about the spirit’s influence on the body. This likely comes out of Hubbard’s quote from the Creed of a Scientologist, “And we of the Church believe that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.” How is that one working out for you Scientology?

The VMs (Volunteer Ministers) slides from a recent set-up in Kitchener, Ontario show some VMs with their various posters introducing a few of the locals to Scientology’s good deeds. Notice the ‘sit right here and watch this video’ photo, which is how all Orgs deal with new public now. I guess they’re exporting such workable ‘tech’ to their VM tents now.

I’m not sure why there’s a VM from Sri Lanka at the Kitchener event. I suspect it was a VM who went to Sri Lanka to “help” and kept the t-shirt for bragging rights.

On the one slide with the Sri Lanka t-shirt there’s a poster about “Improving Family Relations”. The guy who set up this particular VM event has disconnected his daughter and hasn’t seen her for years. You go Scientology.

And then, a few months ago, there was a VM showing in Markham, Ontario which is really just a suburb of Toronto. We see some VMs doing their inappropriate touching, er, I mean Nerve Assists on hapless public.

And of course, someone was so happy they baked a cake.

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