Scientology: Actor Says It's A Rip-Off, WikiLeaks Reveals OT Secrets, And Cruise Book Is Suppressed

Jason Beghe has made a YouTube video in which he slams the Church of Scientology. The actor, who played Demi Moore's love interest in G.I.Jane, and has appeared in numerous TV shows including Melrose Place, Chicago Hope, American Dreams, and Cane, calls the church "destructive" and a "rip off."

Beghe, who became a Scientologist in 1994, says the church, which targets celebrities, is "very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution." The three-minute video is a teaser for a longer interview, which has yet to be released. "If Scientology is real, then something's f*** up, 'cause it ain't delivering what it promised," says a clearly angry Beghe, who uses expletives throughout.

The actor is billed as the "first celebrity Scientologist to sit down and publicly talk about his experiences after leaving the group." The video was uploaded by Emmy Award-winning journalist Mark Bunker, who has had several run-ins with the controversial church, which he documents on his XenuTV1 profile page. Bunker says he hopes to use his YouTube channel to expose Scientology's "fraud and abuse through streaming video."

Meanwhile help is at hand for those who'd like more bedtime reading featuring the adventures of Xenu, but don't have the estimated $ 380,000 it takes to get to the full text through official Scientology channels. Anonymous exposé site WikiLeaks has obtained an unedited copy of the Operating Thetan manual, which features tales of Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederacy. The documents, which contain instructions for novice OTs right through to Level 8's, can be downloaded from the site in PDF format.

Though the Church of Scientology has failed in its attempts to have the documents on WikiLeaks removed, it has succeeded in having Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise shelved in the UK. "We will not now be publishing the book," said a spokesman for the publishers, Macmillian, who had been in negotiations with Cruise's lawyers after the Mission Impossible star made legal threats. "We have explored every possible option but have concluded that once the potentially defamatory sections are taken out, there is not enough left to make a good enough read."

That's one point to Scientology, and two to the champions of freedom the Church like to call "suppressives." Let the game of cat and mouse continue.