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Ex-Scientology Officer Alledges Kidnapping & Torture

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 6:28 PM EST
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Former Scientology executive Debbie Cook disclosed in court papers today that the church's worldwide leader David Miscavige ordered a staffer to smack her to the floor and another to break her finger in the weeks before she left the church's religious order in 2007.

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Cook made that allegation and others in an e-mail to church officials last month. The e-mail was submitted to a Texas court today, where the church is suing Cook for violating a confidentiality agreement she signed upon her resignation.

The church did not immediately respond to Cook's charges.

In the e-mail, Cook insisted that a letter she wrote to fellow Scientologists on New Year's Eve had not violated the agreement or harmed the church. Cook told church leaders to stop harassing her.

"Think about what I could have done if my actual intentions were to cause real damage" to the church's reputation, she wrote.

She listed some of what she had seen:...........

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Reply#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 6:30 PM EST
Al-316

There is so much negative publicity about the Church of Scientology in connection with members wanting to leave. It seems odd there is so little favorable publicity.

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Reply#2 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:03 PM EST
neenie1991

They're going to sue her? Pffft. Signing a contract or agreement under duress. Null.

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Reply#3 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:21 PM EST
Pat from Montana

Speechless.....

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Reply#4 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:26 PM EST
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