{"id":137999,"date":"2026-06-12T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=137999"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:55:42","slug":"articles-by-mark-rathbun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=137999","title":{"rendered":"Articles by Mark Rathbun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-138011\" src=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-1076x1536.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443-1435x2048.jpg 1435w, https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_8443.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/page\/Mark_Rathbun\">Mark C. &#8220;Marty&#8221; Rathbun<\/a> is an American former senior executive of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/page\/Church_of_Scientology\">Church of Scientology<\/a>\u00a0who rose through its ranks over 27 years to become\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/page\/Inspector_general\">Inspector General<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grokipedia.com\/page\/Religious_Technology_Center\">Religious Technology Center<\/a>, the entity overseeing the organization&#8217;s copyrights, trademarks, and ethical application of its technologies, before departing in 2004. He has written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=mark+rathbun&amp;crid=9YCLK88GNZDE&amp;sprefix=mark+rathbun%2Caps%2C178&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2\">numerous works<\/a> about the group in the intervening years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Rathbun can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:rathbunmark57@gmail.com\">rathbunmark57@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The CIA, Rep. Leo Ryan, and Jonestown<\/strong> (2026) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/images\/new2.jpg\" alt=\"NEW\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=137983\">Light vs. Dark, Republic vs. Empire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=137988\">The Jonestown Massacre and the Assassination of Leo J. Ryan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=137996\">Jonestown Aftermath \u2013 The\u00a0Cover-Up<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark C. &#8220;Marty&#8221; Rathbun is an American former senior executive of the\u00a0Church of Scientology\u00a0who rose through its ranks over 27 years to become\u00a0Inspector General\u00a0of the\u00a0Religious Technology Center, the entity overseeing the organization&#8217;s copyrights, trademarks, and ethical application of its technologies, before departing in 2004. He has written numerous works about the group in the intervening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":16576,"menu_order":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137999","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137999"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138014,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137999\/revisions\/138014"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}