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New Linkin Park Singer’s Secret Life as ‘Hardcore’ Scientologist Revealed

The Daily Beast obtained internal records from Scientology, the FBI and former Scientologists that shed light on Armstrong and her family’s ties to the controversial organization.

Gail Armstrong also wrote speeches for Scientology leaders and edited an in-house publication that claimed Osama bin Laden was duped into committing the 9/11 attacks by “unknown” psychiatric methods, and which blamed the Columbine High School massacre on anti-depressants. Office of Special Affairs International It was there that she helped spread some of the organization’s most brazen assertions about psychiatry, which it has long attacked because medical experts dismissed Hubbard’s 1950 work Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health for its lack of empirical basis. Chrissie Carnell Bixler, the former church member whose case ended in the hung jury, alleged, on the day after Armstrong was unveiled as the Linkin Park singer, that she came to the trial as a “hardcore Scientologist” and was part of a group intended to intimidate one of the two unnamed victims.

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