Valeska’s Story

Valeska’s Story

Valeska, with Declan   This article originally appears on “The Village Voice” Scientology Blog written by Tony Ortega   “They’re cowards. They always threaten, but they never follow it up,” she says Valeska left the Freewinds in 2007, and later left Scientology itself. In 2010 she first went public with her defection at the blog of former high-ranking Scientology executive Marty Rathbun. Then,...

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Letter to ESK from Joe Van Staden

During a wonderful e-mail exchange with Joe Van Staden, Captain of the Apollo, I (Kendra) mentioned to him that a lot of ex-Scientology kids are curious about what LRH was actually like. Unlike their parents, who may have had the chance to meet L. Ron Hubbard in person, we second- and third-generation Scientologists never did. I asked Joe’s permission to re-print this very interesting letter here, which sheds some fascinating and...

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