MEDIA

Scientology Leader Wants Censorship

From onetime Cruise mentor.

Speak no evil, pleads Scientology leader Daniele Lattanzi. In an email to Ray McKay, a “well-known OSA operative,” Lattanzi offers a step-by-step guide to censoring the image of Scientology on the Internet when covering the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce, claiming the media are skewing the truth of Scientology. “Well, I am not somebody that I am going to simply stand and watch a bunch of uninformed people putting my religion under the carpet,” he wrote. Marty Rathbun, who released the email and was once Tom Cruise’s spiritual mentor, calls this email attempt “like showing up to a nuclear war with a squirt gun.” The church claims it had nothing to do with the email and issued a response: “An email from a Scientologist is no more from the Church of Scientology than an email from a Catholic is from the Vatican.”