PODCAST: Paulette Cooper has been exposing Scientology’s abuses for more than 50 years

[Paulette Cooper in 1967, before all the trouble started]

This week at the podcast, we’re coming back around to why we created the Underground Bunker to begin with. In 2012, we began working on a book that eventually gained the title The Unbreakable Miss Lovely, and we created our website in order to make sure the book had an audience when it came out in 2015.

That book, of course, was about Paulette Cooper and the incredible lengths Scientology’s “Guardian’s Office” went to in its attempts to try to destroy her career and ruin her life. Why? Well, because Paulette was a journalist who had dared to write one of the first books exposing L. Ron Hubbard and his dangerous organization (1971’s The Scandal of Scientology). She endured years of harassment and dirty tricks operations that became legendary in the field, and at one point Scientology’s spy wing had her facing 15 years in federal prison for a crime she didn’t commit.

All of that you can read about not only in our book about Paulette, but now she has published a memoir of her own that you should read, and we wanted to talk to her about it here at the podcast.

Today, we’re releasing the twelfth episode of The Underground Bunker Podcast to our paid subscribers at Substack. You should receive it presently at your email inbox if you’re on the list.

Not a paid subscriber? Well, we have something for you, too. Last week’s episode was with Michelle “Emma” Ryan, who for more than a decade provided a landing place online for people fleeing Scientology. In the weeks before, we talked to Jefferson Hawkins, Marc Headley, Patty Moher, Geoff Levin, Pete Griffiths, Sunny Pereira, Jeffrey Augustine, and Claire Headley.

Those first eleven episodes are now free to all of our subscribers, paid and unpaid. All of our podcast episodes can be found here.

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