The Panorama special shown yesterday on BBC1, The Secrets of Scientology, was a long-awaited grudge match. Three years ago, reporter John Sweeney filmed an investigation into the cult for the flagship programme. Entitled Scientology and Me, it was an in-depth exposé into the cult and its practises.
It didn’t go too well. Or it succeeded spectactularly.
As Sweeney recounts, the two handlers ‘assigned’ to him by the Co$ – Tommy Davis and Mike Rinder – used aggressive psychological tactics to provoke Sweeney, famously, into an explosive outburst. This regrettable and frankly embarrassing incident was gleefully plastered all over YouTube by brainwashed cult members – aka Clams, Ronbots or Hubbardites – and gullible supporters.
That was 2007.
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