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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,665 ratings — published 2013
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.07 — 78,460 ratings — published 2015
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,485 ratings — published 2013
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,612 ratings — published 2011
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,960 ratings — published 2016
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,538 ratings — published 2022
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,044 ratings — published 1987
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,671 ratings — published 2013
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,608 ratings — published 2015
Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,573 ratings — published 2009
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.98 — 529 ratings — published 1990
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as scientology)
avg rating 2.77 — 4,116 ratings — published 1982
Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.03 — 487 ratings — published 2016
The Scandal of Scientology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.89 — 120 ratings — published 1971
Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.82 — 617 ratings — published 2018
SCIENTOLOGY Abuse At the Top (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.75 — 499 ratings — published 2010
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,664 ratings — published 2012
Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.56 — 653 ratings — published 2018
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as scientology)
avg rating 2.60 — 1,091 ratings — published 1956
Scientology: A to Xenu: An Insider's Guide to What Scientology is Really All About (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.02 — 250 ratings — published 2015
L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.70 — 125 ratings — published 1987
Scientology: A History of Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.52 — 184 ratings — published 1952
Introduction to Scientology Ethics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.44 — 293 ratings — published 1970
My Billion Year Contract (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.71 — 242 ratings — published 2009
Self Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.88 — 378 ratings — published 1951
Escaping Scientology: An Insider's True Story: My Journey With the Cult of Celebrity Spirituality, Greed and Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.97 — 149 ratings — published 2007
Counterfeit Dreams (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.12 — 242 ratings — published 2010
Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.53 — 140 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Xenu: Life Inside Scientology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.90 — 30 ratings — published 1991
Scientology: A New Slant on Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.71 — 391 ratings — published 1976
The Scientology Reformation: What Every Scientologist Should Know (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.73 — 52 ratings — published 2012
The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.63 — 153 ratings — published 2011
Handbook for Preclears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.98 — 124 ratings — published 1976
Clear Body Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.76 — 228 ratings — published
Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.26 — 264 ratings — published
The Problems of Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.08 — 383 ratings — published 1956
What Is Scientology? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.01 — 189 ratings — published 1978
The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.99 — 111 ratings — published 2008
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.33 — 1,879 ratings — published 2008
The Defector: After 20 years in Scientology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.64 — 221 ratings — published 2011
Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L. Ron Hubbard's Dangerous "Religion" (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.19 — 84 ratings — published
Commodore's Messenger: A Child Adrift in the Scientology Sea Organization (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.11 — 76 ratings — published
Closing Minds: How Scientology's "Ethics Technology" is Used to Control Their Members (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.76 — 34 ratings — published 2015
Scientology: the Cult of Greed (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.63 — 90 ratings — published 2014
Scientology 8-8008: How to Increase Your Spiritual Ability from Zero to Infinity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.18 — 201 ratings — published 1953
The Expert Witness: My Life at the Top of Scientology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.28 — 95 ratings — published
The Truth Rundown: Stories of violence, intimidation and control in the world of Scientology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.92 — 150 ratings — published 2015
Inside Scientology; How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.46 — 26 ratings — published 1972
Leaving Scientology: A Practical Guide to Escape and Recovery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as scientology)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 2012
The Way to Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scientology)
avg rating 3.73 — 550 ratings — published
“Of course, the tricky thing about these little questions was that, once I started asking them, it was hard to stop.”
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“VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, carried out raids on Scientology offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, carting off nearly fifty thousand documents. One of the files was titled “Operation Freakout.” It concerned the treatment of Paulette Cooper, the journalist who had published an exposé of Scientology, The Scandal of Scientology, six years earlier. After having been indicted for perjury and making bomb threats against Scientology, Cooper had gone into a deep depression. She stopped eating. At one point, she weighed just eighty-three pounds. She considered suicide. Finally, she persuaded a doctor to give her sodium pentothal, or “truth serum,” and question her under the anesthesia. The government was sufficiently impressed that the prosecutor dropped the case against her, but her reputation was ruined, she was broke, and her health was uncertain. The day after the FBI raid on the Scientology headquarters, Cooper was flying back from Africa, on assignment for a travel magazine, when she read a story in the International Herald Tribune about the raid. One of the files the federal agents discovered was titled “Operation Freakout.” The goal of the operation was to get Cooper “incarcerated in a mental institution or jail.”
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
― Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
