![]() He was followed, hacked, spied on, and tracked. Overnight, he became one of the organization’s biggest public enemies. He helped negotiate Scientology’s pivotal tax exemption from the IRS and engaged with the organization’s prominent celebrity members, including Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley, and John Travolta. Yet Rinder couldn’t shake a nagging feeling that something was amiss-Hubbard’s promises remained unfulfilled at his death, and his successor, David Miscavige, was a ruthless and vindictive man who did not hesitate to confine many top Scientologists, Mike among them, to a makeshift prison. In 2007, at the age of fifty-two, Rinder finally escaped Scientology. Ron Hubbard. In the 1980s, Rinder became Scientology’s international spokesperson and the head of its powerful Office of Special Affairs. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization working directly with founder L. ![]() Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. Emmy Award-winner Mike Rinder, one of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology and co-host of Scientology: The Aftermath with Leah Remini, discusses the secret inner workings of the powerful organization with journalist and Scientology critic Tony Ortega ( The Village Voice, The Underground Bunker) ![]()
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