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Scientology: Follow the Money

By nobody@tower.techwood.org (Name Withheld)
Tue, 30 May 95 07:22:26 PDT

The following is a breakdown of the Church of Scientology International and some of it's various front organizations. All of this information is from the WWW pages at http://www.theta.com/goodman/. I think this is an excellent starting point for 'net freedom fighters to track the money through the web of front companies in the Scientology empire. Through the resources available to each of us, we can research and track the flow of money in and out of the various organizations. What- ever information we can gather, we can use to build the "big picture" that the Church of Scientology and it's organizations what to hide from us and the authorities. Coporate data, legal records, financial records, annual reports for the organizations can be used to put it all together. Let's use the truth to win the war against the cult of Scientology.

P.S. The Internet freedom fighters would like to give special thanks to Leisa Goodman with the CoS OSA office. We welcome her to our ranks and hope that she continues to provide the Internet with the vital information needed to win the war against Scientology.

Church of Scientology International (CSI) - The Mother Church - headquartered in Los Angeles, CA - Heber C. Jentzsch served as President since 1982. He's also the official spokesperson - Guillaume Lesevre is the Executive Director International (most senior management position, formerly held by LRH). Has served in position since 1982. He also serves on the CSI Board of Directors. - CSI Board of directors: 12 Scientology executives. The board forms the International Management Executive Committee, chaired by Guillaume Lesevre. - Mark Yager - Member of CSI Board of Directors. He also chairs the Watchdog Committee. Senior management since 1989. - Watchdog Committee: responsible for organizations that manage the sectors of Scientology. Examples of the sectors: International Hubbard Ecclesiastical League of Pastors, Scientology Missions International. - Michael Rinder - Member of CSI Board of Directors, head of Office of Special Affairs. He has been a senior church executive since 1976. - Office of Special Affairs (OSA): division of Church of Scientology International responsible for interfacing with society at large. Responsibilities include community outreach activities, public relations, and legal affairs. OSA formulates and coordinates international community betterment campaigns for the church with emphasis on drug education and drug-abuse prevention programs. Example programs: "Lead the Way to a Drug-Free USA", "Say No to Drugs" in Canada and Europe, and "Drug-Free Marshalls" and "Drug-Free Ambassadors" internationally. - head honcho of Golden Era Productions unknown. - Golden Era Productions: A division of CSI. Located on a 500-acre property in Southern California. The property contains film and sound studios, editing facilities, film laboratory. Golden Era provides "audio-visual dissemination material on the Scientology religion" to all Scientology orgs throughout the world. One of Golden Era's vital functions is the restoration of LRH's tape-recorded lectures. Golden Era Productions also supports the religion worldwide with dissemination brochures, posters, fliers and magazines. Golden Era Productions compiles, designs, and translates new books and religious material based on LRH's researches and writings. - head honcho of Bridge Publications unknown. - Bridge Publications: located in Los Angeles, CA and publishes LRH works for the Western Hemisphere in book and audio forms. - head honcho of New Era Publications unknown. - New Era Publications: located in Denmark and distributes LRH's works to Europe, Austrailia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, and Asia.

Religious Technology Center (RTC) - holder of the trademarks. - headquartered in Los Angeles, CA? - David Miscavige is RTC's Chairman of the Board since 1987. He worked closely with LRH. He authored the early 1980s reorganization of church corporate and management structures. He is an active Scientologist for most of his life. - Warren McShane president? - LRH registered as marks many of the religions words and symbols. Examples "Dianetics" and "Scientology". The registered marks provided a legal mechanism for ensuring that Scientology religious technoligies were orthodox and ministered according to scriptures. - LRH donated the marks to the Religious Technology Center (RTC) in 1982. - RTC serves as protector of the religion. - RTC is the "final arbiter of orthodoxy" - RTC is not part of the management structure of the church and not involved in the churches day-to-day affairs. - RTC has an ongoing program to register its religious marks in many countries around the world. - RTC supervised a recently completed five year project to republish all of LRH's writings on Dianetics and Scientology. Verified the works by comparing them word by word with LRH's original manuscripts. Also, LRH's original tape recorded lectures were restored and transcribed. - Other tasks of RTC: ensuring that what is represented as Dianetics or Scientology is genuinely so; protecting the general public by not allowing any organization or individual to deviate while using the religious marks; and not allowing anyone to deliver Dianetics or Scientology while calling it something else. - "Any misuse or unauthorized use of the Scientology religious marks is rapidly corrected by RTC... International Hubbard Ecclesiastical League of Pastors (IHELP) - based in Los Angeles, CA - Field auditors and their groups are assisted by IHELP. - IHELP was created to provide auditors outside of the organized churches with the guidance they need. - IHELP provides religous materials, publications, and assistance to the ministers. - Volunteer Ministers Corps are Scientologists who use the technology to help others in their communities resolve the basic problems of daily life. - Volunteer Ministers use _The Sceintology Handbook_.

Scientology Missions International - based in Los Angeles, CA - Missions minister beginning Dianetics and Scientology religous services. - Missions do not have full church status or the authority to train or ordain Scientology ministers. - Scientology Missions International serves as the mother church for missions and provides guidance and support to missions, coordinates the network of missions, and helps Scientologists start new missions. - Any qualified Scientologist may open a mission. - 10 years ago there were 126 missions in 58 countries, today there are 221 missions in 107 countries. - When a mission and its congragation are large enough, the mission can qualify to become a full-fledged Church of Scientology.

Class V Churches of Scientology - in 1965, 13 churches, 143 today - Class V organizations reflect the level of auditor training they deliver. - Class V orgs provide parishioners a large body of beginning and intermediate Dianetics and Scientology training and auditing. - Class V orgs have authority to train and ordain Scientology ministers. - Class V orgs perform christenings, weddings, funerals, Sunday services and congregational gatherings. - Class V staff members typicall serve on local community service boards and interfaith councils, coordinating church and partitioner outreach activities with the needs of the community.

Celebrity Centre Churches - Celebrity Centres are Class V orgs specifically geared to provide Scientology services to "artistic" parishioners. - Celebrity Centres primarily minister to artists and other professionals. - Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood, CA is the largest, and provides ecclesiastical management assistance to the other Celebrity Centre churches. - Other Celebrity Centre locations: New York, Nashville, Las Vegas, London, Paris, Vienna.

Advanced Organizations - Churches of Scientology that minister higher levels of training and auditing. - Saint Hills are for training. Saint Hills are the religous colleges of Scientology. Original location was at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Briefing course still given at location in England, and addtionally in Los Angeles, Sydney, and in Copenhagen. - Advanced Organizations are for auditing - Scientologists travel to them when the have reached a particular level of the Bridge and spend an extended period of time at the church while receiving the services on an intensive basis.

Flag Service Organization - Highest church organizations, orginally located aboard ships. - Apollo LRH's 350-foot ship, and became the most senior church and the flag ship of the flotilla. - Specail advanced auditing and auditor training was only available abord the ship in Flag Service Organization. - Flag Service Organization moved to the 11 story Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida in 1975. - Flag Service Organization occupies more than 20 buildings and has more than 1000 staff, and is the world's largest Scientology church. - Flag Service Organization ministers advanced auditing and the highest levels of auditor training. - Flag Service Org maintains a religious retreat with food and accomadations for parishioners.

Flag Ship Service Organization - a Church of Scientology based aboard the motor vessel Freewinds, a 440-foot ship based in the Caribbean. - The ship was acquired in the mid-1980s before the release of the highest advanced auditing level now available. - Scientologists at any point on the bridge may visit the Freewinds and receive a series of specialized courses. - Freewinds is an international meeting place which holds religious conventions and seminars for Scientology staff and parishoners.

Sea Organization (or Sea Org) - Religious order disctinct from the various Scientology church organizations. - Sea Org members are responsible to the particular Church corporation for which they work for. - Sea Org members sign a pledge of eternal service to Scientology. - Sea Org started in 1967 when LRG left the position of Executive Director International and set to sea with a handful of veteran Scientolgists to continue research into the upper levels. - Sea Org members sign a one-billion-year contract. - Sea Org members are mostly located on land, but still wear maritime uniforms and have ranks and ratings. - Sea Org members are the only Scientologist entrusted with the ministry of the advanced levels of Scientology training and auditing. - All advanced churches and management echelon church orgs employ only members of the Sea Org. - More than 5000 members of Sea Org occupy staff positions in Scientology church orgs worldwide. - There is no formalized structure for the Sea Org and its lines of senority are in accordance with the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the churches. - Sea Org members work long hours and live communally

"Lead the Way to a Drug-Free USA" - anti-drug campaign sponsored by the Church of Scientology International - works with community anti-drug organizations - sponsored a national conference in Wash, DC

"Say No to Drugs" - anti-drug campaign sponsored by the Church of Scientology International - Canada and European countries including Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Italy, United Kingdom, and Mexico. - has conducted broad, public drug-abuse awareness and prevention campaigns.

"Drug-Free Marshals" - created and launched in 1993 by the Church of Scientology International - is a youth drug-education and prevention program - purpose is to educate children as young as 6 on the dangers of drugs, and to challenge them to remain drug-free - children are "sworn in" as Drug-Free Marshals and pledge to remain drug free and to encourage their peers to do the same.

Community Service Guild - formed "six years ago" ('89?) in Washington DC by Church of Scientology volunteers - it is a tutoring project to assist the DC public school system's Saturday Learning Extension Program - they train tutors to train the school system's students - Similar programs have been established by church volunteers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Memphis, Orlando, New Haven and in Austrailia and Canada.

Various Children's Services: - for eight years, members and staff of Scientology churces in Los Angeles have worked with the LA county Dept of Children's Services. - The Los Angeles Church of Scientology's Community Outreach Program and Visual Artists Association sponsored 57 murals painted by church volunteer artists in the county's facilities for abused and abandoned children - Church members conduct city-wide toy drives each holiday season and organize christmas parties and festiviites ofr 6000 needy children. - Church volunteers in Los Angeles have donated over 100,000 volunteer hours to the facilities of the Department of Childrens Services - Annual Winter Wonderland in Hollywood, CA one of the church's most renowned holiday programs. Has expanded to churches in Clearwater, Florida and East Grinstead, England.

Various Disaster Relief Functions: - Scientology Volunteer Ministers play active roles when natural distasters or civil disturbances strike their community. - 300 Scientologists protected an entire city block in 1992 Los Angeles riots. - Church staff members and the Volunteer Ministers Corps provided volunteer work and fundraising after 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles

Various Environmental Responsibility Functions: - community clean-up and improvement efforts, Church members and staff participate. - Scientology Environmental Task Force active in Seattle with efforts such as Plant Seattle Green and sponsoring murals by volunteer artists. - Blood drives are organized by Scientology churches. - Church's participate in walk-a-thons for charities and fundraisn on behalf of infants with AIDS.

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) - headquartered in California - 118 chapters in 27 nations - all Scientologists subscribe to the religion's Aims and Creed and find themselves opposed to those who abuse their power or who harm the innocent and the week. - Early as 1950's LRH brought to light savage abuse taking place in field of mental healing. - CCHR recognized as a relentless and effective foe of psychiatric barbarism in many countries. - CCHR will continue to ensure that justice takes place wherever violations of basic human rights occur

National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice (NCLE) - Established by the church in 1974 to guard against and correct abuses resulting from corruption in law enforcement and other governmental agencies that violate the US Constitution or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - has worked with many individuals and grass roots groups to educate public on importance of open and honest government and necessity for protection of civil rights.

Freedom Magazine - published by Church of Scientology International - established in 1968 - human rights journal with international and national editions, special editions produced by local churches - pioneered use of Freedom of Information Act - presents Human Rights Leadership Awards annually to recognize individual achievement in field.

World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) - non-profit religious membership organization for Scientology comprised of business leaders and professionals in many fields - helps assure Scientology churches remain distraction-free - instills religious ethical principles in business - liscenses marks associated with the religion and LRH to appropriate individuals - furnishes arbitration services to members to help quickly and equitably settle business disputes. - ensures that high ethical standards are maintained by its members, contributing to the overall creation of a more ethical business environment. - provides a way for businesspeople to network by publishing a directory of members and giving them opportunities (conventions) to meet. - establshed the Hubbard College of Administration in 1991 to provide instruction in the theories and application of the administrative technology to the general public. - currently 9 Hubbard Colleges of Administration in the United States and abroad, including Russia

Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) - established in Los Angeles, CA in 1988 - provides direction and programs for the related charitable organizations and lends support through fundraising activities. - The church and its parishioners financially support ABLE and its social betterment groups. - ABLE raises funds through donations and grants from non-Scientology related entities - ABLE and related organizations do not contribute to the financial support of any Church of Scietology

Applied Scholastics International - began in 1960s - programs delivered today by 156 groups in 31 countries - responsible for broad-based application in society of LRH's Study Technology - manages hundreds of programs around the world through which students, parents, teachers, educational organizations and businesses work to eradicate illiteracy and improve education. - sponsors literacy projects in the inner cities of Compton, California, Washington, DC; Harlem, New York; Memphis, Tennessee; and other cities in the US and elsewhere. - Education Alive program in South Africa brought benefits of literacy to millions of disadvantaged black students and teachers. Originated in the mid-1970s.

NARCONON - Church of Scientology and members have provided major financial support since inception in the 1970s - "New Life Detoxification Procedure" developed by LRH to rid the body of drug residues. - operates largest training and rehabilitaion facility of its kind in the world, the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center near Newkirk, Oklahoma. has been accredited by the Commission for Accredation of Rehabilitation Facilites, foremost authority on drug rehabilitation in the US - government funding for Narconon provided in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

CRIMINON - meaning "no crime" - a criminal rehabilitation program participated in by inmates in more than 200 US correctional facilities. - grew out of Narconon prison programs in the 1980s The Way to Happiness Foundation - raises funds to support the publication and distribution of _The Way to Happiness_ booklet and its use in social betterment programs (like Criminon) around the world - _The Way to Happiness_ is a common sense moral code written by LRH, containing 21 precepts. - booklet is used by law enforcement agencies and prisons, and in thousands of schools, where contests on the application of selected precepts are held.

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