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Scientology Takes Aim at 'Going Clear' Documentary

• BY ANNA SCHECTER AND TRACY CONNOR

Very closely.

"Two of our participants were surveilled when they arrived at Salt Lake City Airport," Lawrence Wright told NBC News.

Wright is the author of "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief," a 2013 best-seller that dug deep into the religion founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and championed by celebrities like Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

The book was the basis of the documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney that airs on HBO on March 29 — marking Hollywood's first major effort to unravel the mysteries of an organization that has thousands of outposts around the world.

By Wright's account, the scrutiny the film's sources experienced at the airport in Utah was nothing new — just part of what he says is ongoing monitoring and harassment by the church against those who have left its star-studded ranks.


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