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Scientology's Holy War

Title: Scientology's Holy War
Date: Monday, 23 June 2008
Publisher: Maisonneuve
Author: Bruce Livesey
Main source: maisonneuve.org

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Bruce Livesey investigates how former inner-sanctum member Gerry Armstrong became the Salman Rushdie of Scientology. The first time I met Gerry Armstrong, I thought he was paranoid. I’d driven down from Vancouver, summer 2007, into the verdant Fraser Valley to Chilliwack, BC, a somnolent, wind-blown town surrounded by jagged mountain ranges. A place as far removed from Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Scientology’s loopiness as one can possibly get. Armstrong and his third wife Caroline live in a walk-up, one-bedroom apartment ... [Read the rest at maisonneuve.org]