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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 07 > Scientology’s defectors

Scientology’s defectors

56 years after its founding, church fights former members’ calls for a reformation

By Laurie Goodstein / The Bulletin
March 7, 2010

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running, known as the Sea Organization, or Sea Org.

They signed a contract for a billion years —....

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