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Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of multiple books including "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief", and "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11". His newest book "The Human Scale" tells a story of an Israeli cop and a Palestinian-American FBI agent who join forces to solve the murder of an Israeli police chief in the West Bank.
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Scientology's Sea Org
19:04 - L. Ron Hubbard's deathbed confession
30:16 - How has Scientology survived?
34:26 - Jim Jones & the Jonestown Cult
43:36 - The Sisters of Mary Morning Star
52:39 - Fighting the death penalty
01:01:38 - Satanic ritual abuse
01:17:26 - Whitley Streiber's childhood experiments
01:22:58 - Jack parsons
01:26:34 - Why Lawrence gave up religion
01:36:40 - The new Silicon Valley ideology
01:44:37 - The Looming Tower
01:54:13 - Did the FBI allow 9/11?
02:06:32 - Where Bin Laden got his money
02:16:52 - 9/11 alternate theories
02:25:02 - The Human Scale
02:37:30 - American CIA vs. Israel's Mossad
02:44:58 - Israel's troubled history
03:03:47 - How Lawrence chooses projects
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