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Heldal-Lund was also a contributor to the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup. On 14 July 2000, he sent an email to a user calling themselves "Magoo" with advice for making their posts more readable. This started a conversation between the two. Of the experience, Magoo would later say to Heldal-Lund,
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which can only be accessed in higher levels of the church. Scientologists are required to sign a confidentiality agreement that contains a clause stating they understand they will be fined each time they speak about the materials with anyone else. According to Remini, this fine can go as high as $
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in 1996 when he read about Magne Berge, an ex-member in Norway, who sued the organization in court and won. Heldal-Lund started gathering information about
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Scientologist. Bunker published a two-hour portion of the three-hour interview to
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Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all".
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