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At a protest against Scientology cult members get violent.
"We've just been attacked by Scientologists!"
"That's what they understand under 'freedom of expression'."
All around the world the cult fights critics, authorities and the media with an intelligence agency.
The "Office of Special Affairs" - OSA.
I would submit, that the OSA department of Scientology is one of the oldest secret services of the world.
They've been running continuously for over 50 years.
The secret service OSA is to Scientology like the Stasi to the GDR.
We want to know more about this special department of the cult and investigated for over a year.
What for does a faith group need an intelligence agency, and what are its duties?
Scientologists claim OSA was its press and legal department.
In actual fact, this special department is to enforce a Scientology world.
[OSA - The Scientology Intelligence Agency]
[A film by Frank Nordhausen and Markus Thöß]
A village in Brandenburg.
The former cult commissioner of the Lutheran church Thomas Gandow, on the left in this picture,...
...is regularly being visited by Gerry Armstrong, an American ex-Scientologist.
In the 70s, Gerry Armstrong was a close co-worker of cult founder L. Ron Hubbard.
The Scientology chief even was his best man.
At that time, Armstrong worked on a biography of the cult founder.
In the course of doing that research, I documented that the man had lied about his whole life.
He lied about his family, his education, his certificates.
And he was no nuclear physicist.
He lied about so many things that all of Scientology - all that I believed in - collapsed for me.
This was no ethical organisation at all.
It was a highly unethical organisation.
Since his exit in the early 80s,...
... Gerry Armstrong has been acting as an international advisor on problems with Scientology.
The intelligence agency has been following him for 30 years.
Observers are appearing even in Buckautal after his arrival.
OSA expends considerable time and effort to surveil the American.
In spring 2003, Gandow and Armstrong plan to participate in a church service.
Suddenly, pursuers appear.
And then we saw, that he made photos.
My companions thought that he had a gun.
It was terrifying.
The chase causes lots of media attention.
The perpetrator, a known real estate surveyor from Berlin, was later convicted for coercion.
Scientology admits, that its member was responsible for the operation.
I experienced from no cult what I experienced from Scientology,...
... that I've been attacked physically.
Armstrong has long been collecting reports about events like these.
For him, the car chase is no singular case.
I believe there's nothing they wouldn't do for Scientology.
We know that they will commit any felony for Scientology.
And if pressure on Scientology and its leader continues to mount,...
...it's getting more and more likely that it will come to a catastrophe, to *** attempts.
Even dead people?
And a Brandenburg village as target for Scientology?
Scientology is a global corporation.
Almost everywhere there are branches and thus the intelligence agency.
On the internet, the organisation presents itself as a complex structure of countless associations and companies.
The American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard founded the cult in 1954.
Their goal is their so called liberation of planet earth - named "clear planet".
And the construction of a new civilization,...
... without mental illnesses, without criminals and without war.
Hubbard claims Scientology has the only technology, to ensure the survival of humanity.
The psycho-technique "auditing".
A kind of lie detector test, with regression into past lives.
Critics describe this method as classic brain washing.
In the Second World War, Ron Hubbard was in the US naval secret service and later lived on a ship for a long time.
He wrote that transgressions against the law were necessary to reach the goals of Scientology.
Lying, stealing, bribing and a number of other offenses were permissible as means for saving humanity.
For that, Hubbard founds his own secret service in the 60s.
He first calls it "Guardian's Office".
Soon after, over 1000 agents and informants work for the service.
Hubbard sets up targets.
For example, how to eradicate enemies, and how to gain control over politicians and the media.
He writes up pages over pages of orders for eavesdropping operations,...
... covert investigations or disinformation campaigns.
This is David Miscavige, Hubbard's successor.
He's been ruling over Scientologists for 30 years, and implements Hubbard's directives.
He recruited Hollywood stars like John Travolta.
Scientology can also count on contributions from other stars,...
...like Kirstie Alley or Tom Cruise, here with Miscavige.
In the book from Scientology defector Marc Headley, we read a breathtaking account from the cult's headquarters.
Headley also tells, the Scientology secret service harrassed him after his exit in 2005.
We want to get into contact with him.
We're travelling to Washington D.C. to meet him.
Marc Headley used to produce Scientology propaganda movies.
Today, he's a successful entrepreneur in the business of multimedia.
Most of the people who work for OSA have been in Scientology for 20, 30 or 40 years.
They're Scientologists 100% who work 24 hours a day and 365 days a year for the cult.
That's all they do.
The OSA people are convinced, that the future of humanity is depending on them.
If they don't succeed in what David Miscavige orders them to do...
...then the survival of humanity could be jeopardised.
Washington. In the 70s, cult founder Hubbard and Scientology have a run-in with US authorities.
Back then, the cult was responsible for one of the largest internal espionage affairs in US history:
Named "Operation Snowwhite".
Target: To fend off an official government investigation into Scientology.
Scientology agents infiltrated authorities and administrations.
They stole thousands of files, eavesdrop on politicians...
...and thus learned of secret information about measures of the government against the cult.
A dark affair, that shocks the USA.
The FBI uncovered the affair in 1977.
Eleven leading Scientologists were convicted to prison sentences back then.
Scientology had a severe crisis.
In the 80s and late 70s, when Scientology was attacked by the US government...
...they forced the strategy of turning Scientology into a religion.
They knew some of their problems would go away, if they hid behind a religious cloak.
In the US, it worked like a charm.
They then tried to repeat this in other countries, to convince those countries that they are a religion.
If something illegal or inappropriate happened,...
...the government cannot interfere due to their status of a religious community.
Back then, pressure in Washington mostly came from the tax office.
Hundreds of millions in tax debts were impending.
If it had to pay them, would it have been bankrupt then?
Scientology goes on the counter-offensive.
It sues thousands of staff of the office for abuse of authority and thus paralyses it.
The office surrenders in 1993.
Scientology is being recognized as charitable and receives complete tax exemption.
It actually doesn't make sense why it is the US tax office, that determines which religion is charitable.
But Scientologists saw this as an important way to being recognized as a religion in other countries.
The victory over the tax office was caused by OSA.
We learn about the vast commitment of personnel and money expended by the intelligence agency.
Its chief was Mike Rinder at that time.
We look at old recordings from Mike Rinder in action.
He's the child of Scientologists.
He rose under Miscavige and led the intelligence agency since the 80s.
He made many enemies in that time.
On the internet we read that Rinder quit in 2007.
However, he still advocates the ideology.
He's now speaker of a group named "Independent Scientologists".
We want to contact him.
High-ranking former members help us arrange a meeting.
We travel to Florida.
This is where the former secret service chief is said to stay.
An American colleague collects us.
He kept contact with Rinder over a middleman.
An interview seems possible.
However, the former OSA chief does not want to commit to a fixed time and place yet.
We must wait.
The next day our intermediary tells us the meeting place and the time.
However, Mike Rinder made conditions:
Skeptical questions about cult founder Hubbard are taboo.
Just like in secret service manner the meeting takes place in a hotel near the city Tampa/St. Petersburg.
Mike Rinder is wary.
He's totally estranged from cult leader Miscavige.
The former hunter has become the hunted.
Mike Rinder shows us what this means.
Almost daily harrassment from men that he calls OSA agents.
He shows us a video, filmed in his office.
Okay, if you still don't think it's enough: Beat it!
The police is on its way.
You're a retard.
You've got problems understanding things.
You don't want to be a shill of the Church of Scientology, Jim?
Go, leave the premises.
Mike Rinder is obviously being fought with his own methods.
Why does the church need an office of special affairs?
Because a church exists in a secular society.
Whether the Office of Special Affairs is the way it should be is another question.
But since you have to deal with the media, legal questions and authorities...
...that's why I suppose the Catholic church has people for this as well.
The actual question is:
Is OSA, as it is structured in Scientology, really needed?
And the answer is: No!
I believe that OSA as department in the Church of Scientology is doing much more damage than good, at the moment.
I believe that OSA is causing very bad PR.
And that it is raising legal questions that are probably still going to be a huge problem for Scientology.
And most of all I believe that OSA is the mirror image of Miscavige's manic psychosis.
Please welcome Mr. Mike Rinder!
Miscavige used to have his secret service chief be cheered at.
Because OSA did much to achieve the great victory of tax exemption.
Miscavige knows very well that in the US you are well protected against criminal prosecution.
Even against civil lawsuits, against any kind of external intrusions into church matters.
Because American courts are prohibited from intervening due to the right to freedom of religion.
The tax exemption created a giant protective shield against any external oversight into...
and any external influence on the church.
The charitable status also protects the Office of Special Affairs.
It's three most important departments are:
Investigations,...
...Public Affairs,...
...and Legal Section.
The way Scientology is organised, everywhere there are exactly the same operations,...
...in every country where they are active.
There's a list of Hubbard directives that Miscavige revised for OSA.
Written in it are exactly the same strategies and operations.
And exactly the same departments do exactly the same thing in every single country.
We're flying back to Europe and want to investigate one of the first big OSA operations in Germany.
Our destination is Remagen on the river Rhine.
It is here where the lawyer Ingo Heinemann is living.
Already early in the 70s, as lawyer of a consumer protection association, he took action against Scientology.
His clients felt deceived by Scientology.
In order to allegedly be freed spiritually, they had paid exorbitant course fees.
This is how Heinemann became a target for OSA.
Today, he runs one of the most extensive websites about the cult.
I consider them to be dangerous in every respect.
First for the consumer.
Consumers are being damaged massively, those that go in.
Not only money, but in their complete conduct of life.
Secondly, the public as well.
This is one of the reasons, why the Office for the Protection of the Consitution is dealing with them.
Would you say that Scientology is anticonstitutional? - Yes.
It is unambiguous: Scientology is anticonstitutional.
Anticonstitutional can be who keeps violating penal law,...
and I'm of the opinion this is the case with Scientology.
And then there's the human and basic rights aspect, and there I am of the same opinion.
Is this provable?
Ingo Heinemann was spied upon and tailed by him: Norman Suchanek.
The trained book keeper went to Scientology...
...because he hoped for more success in his private and work life through the attendance in Scientology courses.
Suchanek talks to us because today he regrets his actions during his days as OSA agent.
OSA looked for personnel because they wanted to increasingly take action against opponents...
...and I was recruited.
And I didn't even know what the target subject did exactly.
It was just said: "This is an evil guy, we have to do something against him, this is an enemy...
...and we need someone to spy on him."
Suchanek is supposed to apply an old intelligence technique on him:
Steal the garbage of the subject and sift through it.
In the early 90s Suchanek drives with a friend to Ingo Heinemann's house and steals the rubbish.
Time and again, for months.
Afterwards, he takes back the bin.
The stolen documents he sends back to a leased POB in Hamburg.
Suchanek relies on secret OSA directives.
What he's supposed to do is written in a so called "plan for secret investigations in Germany"
What could you find in the rubbish of Mr. Heinemann that would have been revealing about him?
Well, one was asked for all that would be informative in some respect.
That would include correspondence of any kind of course,...
that would include medicine and whether alcohol was consumed.
Everything was of interest, which newspapers were being read...
It's just as important to spy on the habits of the target subject.
Even at night Suchanek stands in front of Ingo Heinemann's house.
Scientology wants to know everything about its opponents.
In another case I know about they knew exactly what illnesses he had etc.
They want to know everything to get a picture, or for additional measures.
Back then, Suchanek had the OSA rules of cult founder Hubbard in his head.
Intelligence methods modelled after the example of CIA and KGB.
There were instructions for all kinds of things, for example:
How to lie fluently, but just as well directions on how to do stalking.
There are mandatory rules on how hardly to be caught...
...while still inflicting damage on the stalking victim, and many other things.
There's the directive to ruin people financially if possible.
And if you read something like that, weren't you shocked?
It should have, but as a Scientologist you tend very much to look up at Hubbard.
And you tell yourself: "He'll know what he wrote about...
...I can't wholly grasp it, but he'll have had his reasons."
And in this manner you accept all of it.
Endebted due to his attendance of the expensive courses, Suchanek eventually quits Scientology.
Contrary to his expecations, his problems did not improve, they got worse.
Ingo Heinemann believes to this day to be surveilled by OSA,...
...because he runs the anti-Scientology webpage.
I still consider Scientology to be a criminal organisation,...
...I don't want to say that every Scientologist is a criminal, not at all.
But the organisation, as it is, is based on felonies...
...and it has kept this up over all these years after all.
Through a police raid it was discovered, that Ingo Heinemann was being spied upon by the secret service of a cult.
The trace leads us to Munich.
The Scientology centre in Munich.
In 1984, the public prosecution searches several Scientology objects in the city,...
...in connection with Ingo Heinemann's criminal complaint.
The investigators come across explosive documents, that we got hold of.
Among them, the so-called "Hat Write Up".
Detailed directives for OSA secret agents. Never has something like this been found in Germany.
We have a meeting at the Local Court in Munich,...
...with the man who used to lead the investigations in the case of Heinemann.
When we arrived, the now retired official suddenly does not want to talk to us on-camera.
To protect his family, says he.
Still, we did not come in vain to Munich.
The established Scientology critic confirms to us...
...that the investigations revealed planned OSA operations in Germany.
And we learned about the pressure, that Scientology can build up against its critics.
Scientology collects all data.
That of its members, and that of its external enemies.
These informations are routed from the local OSA offices to Los Angeles.
Thus Miscavige and his intelligence agency own a huge archive that they can access at any time.
There's a dossier about Scientology breakaway Marc Headley as well, that we have a copy of.
It's a mix of investigation record and eavesdropping protocols.
Telephone calls are recorded, private and bussiness relationships.
Even the course of a birthday party is written down in minute detail.
OSA also hires hordes of lawyers and private investigators.
And OSA uses normal Scientology members from all over the world as agents.
These people are then being asked by OSA to get to know someone...
...or to find out whether someone talks with others about Scientology...
...or about something OSA is interested in, because it is about Scientology.
Scientology fights especially the Bavarian state government.
OSA has its German headquarters in Munich.
And the state government has been taking harsh action against the secret service since the eighties.
The secret service OSA is to Scientology like the Stasi to the GDR.
Its system to collect information...
...but then to systematically develop activities from this information.
So for example to use information against people...
...if they want to quit then the potential breakaways are being blackmailed...
...that this information is being deliberately disclosed to the public.
Or enemies of Scientology are being investigated systematically,...
...through quasi secret-service measures, so as to tackle the so-called enemies of Scientology.
This means that this really is a system of oppression...
...which in the end worked and works after the system of the Stasi.
The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes,...
...that OSA expends immense personnel-wise and financial effort to gather information.
The money is supposed to come from the so-called "war chest" of the International Association of Scientologists,...
...into which not only well-heeled Scientologists donate larger sums.
Insiders speak of circa 1 billion Dollars that are supposed to be in the war chest at this time.
The reason why Scientology and OSA are getting away with their actions unchallenged is their financial power.
In fact it is that all that is happening that could be considered illegal...
...is sailing close to the wind.
The infiltration, the spying, the private investigators.
All that works only because of the money.
When I was still a member in 2000...
...OSA was being afforded 100.000 US$ a week.
That's what they got a week.
We summarise:
High-ranking ex-Scientologists confirm the existence of a cult internal intelligence agency named OSA,...
...which spies upon and harrasses critics and breakaways.
They say that OSA commands almost unlimited funds.
We'll see that the cult does not only use money to achieve its goals,...
...but also its celebrities with influence, first and foremost famous Hollywood actors.
In the 90s, OSA chief Rinder uses John Travolta in a propaganda campaign in the USA,...
when in Germany a Scientology ban is being discussed.
Persecuted like the jews in the Third Reich, that's how Scientologists display themselves.
German politicians had declared, the Scientology ideology was inhumane.
Political parties did not allow Scientologists among their ranks.
A perfect springboard for the cult to win US politicians as allies in their fight against Germany.
It's very easy to convince people that this kind of discrimination should not exist in a modern society.
You just have to show it.
That's why some of what has been done in Germany very dumb.
It gave the church a lot of ammunition to declare: "We're being discriminated against!"
If you then can show forms from authorities and people that were excluded from political parties because they're Scientologists...
...then this seems like a bad joke in the USA.
So, it wasn't that hard.
We learn that even after Rinder's exit, OSA still manages to instrumentalise US politicians for their own purposes.
To follow this trace, we drive to Hamburg.
In 1992, the senate establishes the Task Force Scientology.
Their assignment: Education about the cult.
We want to know how Scientology reacted to it.
Because the office with its government funding is being seen as a danger in the US headquarters of the cult.
OSA is being activated and takes over the observation of the chief of this office: Ursula Caberta.
Even today she is an active critic of the psycho-cult.
For OSA, she becomes enemy No. 1,...
...because she supplies the German government with reasons for a ban of Scientology.
With surveillance around the clock, OSA attempts to intimidate her.
You must have no fear, or you wouldn't even need to start.
Because fear is an instrument, that helps Scientology to power.
They want to scare people.
Scaring her is mostly the task of a special OSA agent, who's also a private investigator.
This Scientologist has been snooping into Ursula Caberta for years.
Cloaked as a reporter, he's questioning companies on details about her anti-Scientology stance.
He also appears as a private investigator in service to an American lawyer's office.
He makes inquiries to neighbours, friends and colleagues.
He's looking for the Achilles' heel in Caberta's past, to discredit her publicly.
We're driving to a little town near Hamburg, where the private investigator runs a company.
He declines to speak to us.
A little while later, he surprises us at the local gas station.
There's a scuffle, when he tries to take the camera from us.
[Memory protocol] "Watch it! You leave this thing here or I'm going to beat you in your face"
"If you run now, I'll floor you." - "Then you'll get a criminal complaint"
"You'll see a different side of me!" - "Just a second"
"Then you'll drive home with the ambulance." - "I'll have to allow for that possibility."
"Remove this!"
Hours later, when we film in front of the Scientology centre, the private detective is there as well, already.
Latest by now does Scientology know we're working on a movie about them.
But when we ask for an interview, we're being stalled. We shall first submit our questions.
Private investigators, lawyers and cult members, that want to enforce a Scientology society through aggressive means...
...have been under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution for years.
This task is responsibility of the states.
Hamburg, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg most consistently proceed against the cult secret service...
...and regularly post reports about OSA.
In Hamburg we want to learn, why the office concerns itself with OSA.
Scientology said very clearly, and never distanced itself from it,...
...that they want a new civilisation, and that it is supposed to be a scientological civilisation.
And they said very clearly, and they do not distance themselves from it as well,...
...that only with Scientologists is there a true democracy.
And indeed it is a totalitarian psycho cult, with definite political ambitions in a Scientology system.
And there the Higher Administrative Court of Münster confirmed the view of the OPC,...
...Scientology grandiosely lost the suit, they wanted to free themselves from the surveillance,...
...there the court confirmed it really is this way:
In a Scientology system, basic rights that we value, would be absent or at least severely stinted.
During this conversation we also learn, that time and again OSA agents are being decloaked...
...that are being placed into associations, companies and government offices for the purpose of information gathering.
There are professionals involved, as you notice when OSA agents come here from the USA.
They're carrying out observations from the USA continuously until Hamburg,...
...sitting in the row behind critics on airplanes, maybe listening in on what they are talking about.
They transfer to German Scientologists that engage as observers,...
...and then you notice that they're coming from the USA because often they're a bit more professional.
Observations in Germany. Even today?
In the summer of 2011, we indeed witness this kind of observation, at the Hamburg airport.
Ursula Caberta expects, as she often does, a high ranking Scientology defector from the USA.
We notice that conspicuously unconspicuous people are taking photos.
This woman takes photos from behind a sign.
Another one observes.
We notice at least six persons, that document and transmit the arrival via mobile phone.
Ursula Caberta greets her guest Marty Rathbun, formerly number 2 in Scientology behind David Miscavige.
We spot more observers.
Top defectors like Rathbun are suppressives according to Hubbard,...
...which means arch enemies of the cult.
All over the world, their secret service hunts dozens of these suppressives with their private investigators.
They want to silence them.
We talk to one of the people that photographed Rathbun and who caught our eye in particular.
"Good day! We're from ARTE."
"Who are you from?"
"From ARTE. Did you want to greet Marty Rathbun as well?"
"Who did we want to what?" - "Greet Marty Rathbun" - "Who is that?"
"That's the guy you just photographed."
"And, you got anything against it?" - "Do you know him?" - "Nope."
"Why are you taking photos of him then?"
"Because I take photos of many people, just as I'm taking a photo of you now."
"Problem?"
Once again, some people are very curious about who Caberta receives.
The resolute Hamburg woman is not unknown to our American colloquist, as well.
We knew that she was through and through the most evil person to ever have lived on earth.
All of us knew this.
We knew this as a fact.
Because of the information that was given to us, and the pictures we were shown.
Because of the stories that we were told about what she did.
We knew without the slightest doubt, that she was the most evil woman of the world.
Mike Rinder protested against Caberta in Germany as well,...
...put her on so-called "hate sites" on the internet where she is being vilified.
I think you called her the "new Goebbels", do you remember?
Probably. No... I mean it doesn't surprise me.
I think I tried to portray her like this, especially in the USA.
I don't doubt that I said that. What was she for Scientology?
She annoyed us tremendously.
The American consulate general in Hamburg.
She has been summoned several times to explain herself for her measures against Scientology.
Like here in Hamburg, authorities of the US government regularly and massively support the cult.
The annual human rights report of the state department reprimands Germany time and again for their supposed discrimination of Scientologists.
Since the German government classified Scientology as a totalitarian organisation,...
...there's considerable pressure from the USA.
Most of the time from the foreign ministry, which the consulates worldwide are subject to.
In the course of the Wikileaks affair in 2010 it turns out, that the consulate is very interested in Caberta.
A cable from the consulate proves, that a Hamburg council of state had forwarded government internals about Caberta.
Events took place in the consulate with advertisements for the Scientology Organisation Narconon.
The US-American General Consulate invites, and they have a certain guest list...
...from businessmen to politicians,...
...police president, politicians, MPs, everything.
If, as an extremist organisation,...
I want to approach the decision makers in politics, economy and culture,...
...then there's no better platform than an American general consulate.
And exactly that's what they're doing, and this shows their influence.
Of course, when at least ten people, if not more, leave again...
...thinking: "The Americans don't see this as bad, too. Why the Germans again?"
This exactly fits the strategy as worked out by Hubbard:
"We must create a climate where Scientology can grow and thrive without hindrance."
And this purpose is being served by an American general consulate.
I think this is a massive influence.
However, the consulate does not confirm this and refuses an interview on this topic.
We asked former secret service chief Rinder for an assessment.
How do you get this forwarded to the American consul in Hamburg?
I don't know. You motivate the state department.
You're briefing the state department and get them to instruct the local consuls.
And who gets the state department to do this?
The people who go and talk with them.
Anne Archer went to them. OSA vice chief Kurt Weiland went to them.
John Travolta went. A bunch of lobbyists went. Lawyers did.
I myself went to the state department.
It was about briefing someone on the discrimination of Scientologists in Germany.
Berlin's mayor with Scientology advertising vehicle Tom Cruise.
Travelling the world... meeting the people I met.
You know, talking with these leaders on diverse fields,...
...they need help. And they all depend on people who know.
And that can be effective, and who are.
And that's us.
Tom Cruise fervently praises his organisation, that is deemed anticonstitutional in Germany.
And the US government supports this cult corporation.
The US government understands itself in a sense as a protective power over an organisation that is at home in the USA.
That is understandable.
However we have a very different assessment about the perilousness of this organisation.
The danger is being underestimated in the USA,...
...or it's even that Scientology has too much influence on parts of the US leadership.
And this is one of the reasons for these reactions.
We're being swayed by noone, I have my clear opinion about Scientology,...
...and noone will dissuade me from it.
Meanwhile, Hamburg turned out differently than Bavaria.
In 2010, the Hamburg state government suddenly disestablishes Ursula Caberta's Task Force Scientology.
Reason: Too expensive.
We want to know whether the US consulate had its fingers in this.
We're visiting the Hamburg city parliament, which approved the disestablishment.
Here sits also the man, who nattered about Caberta in the US consulate, according to the diplomatic cable.
The erstwhile privy council and primary mayor of Hamburg, Christoph Ahlhaus.
He refused all of our interview requests. We try our luck in a session break.
"We're from the SWR." - "We've to go in there now."
"We've got a question from Scientology. - "No, later, later!"
But even later, he does not want to talk to us.
Scientologists protest in front of Caberta's office.
OSA spokespersons Frank Busch and Jürg Stettler are there as well.
Events like these are the responsibility of the PR department of OSA.
Even though we've been inquiring for months at the "Büro für spezielle Angelegenheiten", which is the German title,...
...we did not get an appointment for an interview.
But here, the OSA chief for Germany, Jürg Stettler, suddenly comes to us on his own volition.
"And my offer stands, you can record this,..."
"...let's set together, and you don't want to."
"And you told me you were not interested in doing research." - "And you're not willing to answer tangible questions"
"Yes I am, but only after some preliminary talks, this is the point."
"We already had six preliminary talks. Telephone, email..."
"It's always: 'No we don't want preliminary talks', that were the preliminary talks."
"That's not true. We phoned six times, I wrote you everything and you're not ready to do a TV interview."
"Not true!"
"You have about 15 mails that you didn't answer."
"Where you did not answer my questions."
"It's that the TV asks you questions, not you the TV, that's the second point."
"But we may challenge your questions, do we not?"
Stettler's camera people film us.
We ask the OSA Germany chief why Scientology has a secret service at all.
"I have here the OSA instructions for the agents that surveilled Mr. Heinemann."
"In my hands are original telephone protocols from original OSA documents that were made about Mr. Headley."
"What do you need these for?"
"You got this from Mr. Heinemann's website, right?"
"These documents I have from Mr. Headley." - "That's the question..."
"What do you need these informations for, Mr. Stettler?"
"You first have to show this to me."
"Look Mr. Thöß..."
Why do you need to know who Mr. Headley is calling at what time?
I have no idea where you got this information from.
Look, we're in contact.
Stettler is a media professional and knows how to evade journalist questions.
Indeed we've been asking Scientology for an interview date for months.
We answered long lists of counter questions.
Still we got no appointment. They preferred to make an appearance in a live show.
Per email, Stettler at least confirms a judgement from Münster,...
...according to which several passages in the writings of Hubbard are deemed unconstitutional.
We can not learn anything about international networking of Scientology in this manner.
Scientology is very active in France as well.
It's the only country in western Europe, that has seriously tried to dissolve Scientology.
We're driving to Paris.
Nowhere else did the cult secret service get so far.
It gathered information from ministries and even from the bureau of the president of state.
For over two decades, there have been spectacular lawsuits against Scientology in France,...
...that could have led to the dissolution of the cult.
Almost always it's about extortionate prices and racketeering, like in the last lawsuit in 2009.
This time, public prosecution and joint plaintiffs believe to have sufficient material against Scientology.
In the end, the cult is being convicted to a fine of over 600.000€.
The lawyer of the plaintiffs proclaims a big victory.
Listen, this is a remarkable judgement the judges of the Parisian Upper Court have found.
They have examined the methods of the Scientologists in great detail,...
...and for the first time convicted Scientology as an organisation, for organized fraud.
The judges argumented mostly by their applied methods,...
...which uncovered the organized fraud.
And still this is not enough for the dissolution of the cult.
In the long process history of France vs. Scientology there are many riddles.
We take a closer look at three of them.
Firstly, the changed paragraph.
Secondly, the vanished files.
And third, the agent with Mitterrand.
Riddle number one: The changed paragraph.
Shortly before the court process in 2009, old law texts were revised as ordered by the national assembly.
In the process, a referral to the paragraph was changed, that would have made the dissolution of Scientology possible.
Suddenly, this paragraph is not applicable anymore.
The journalist and book author Serge Faubert was in OSA's spotlight.
He had followed all major Scientology lawsuits and wrote a book about the cult secret service.
We first ask why no MP noticed the changed paragraph at first.
It was about a general context with dozens of directives.
It was impossible for each and every MP to notice, that this changed paragraph would thwart the dissolution of Scientology.
Of course the public asked...
...why does the French legislator turn to a private office so as to change a French law?
This is really something that makes your hair stand on end.
No MP notices the change but only the lawyer Morice.
The originators could not be determined.
I believe there's a fault in the system, on parliamentary level and in the justice department.
But they noticed the mistake and reenacted the law as it was.
But the mistake was to the benefit of the Scientologists.
Riddle number two, the vanished files.
During a lawsuit against Scientology in 1998, files vanish from the Parisian palace of justice.
Invoices, witness testimonies.
Scientologists profit.
One year later in Marseille, justice loses Scientology files once again.
A janitor supposedly removes them by mistake.
One does not know the circumstances under which the files were lost.
There was an internal investigation in the Ministry of Justice.
But one did not find the reason for why the files vanished in thin air.
Not all files vanished, only certain parts.
Remarkably, there were no copies.
And furthermore it's hard to understand, why the magistrate judge does not simply leave all of the file in his bureau.
Locked up.
Those are the peculiarities in the court history against Scientology.
After the file loss in Marseille in 1999, then Prime-Minister Lionel Jospin declares:
"Once again the pressing question comes up, whether certain government agencies are infiltrated by cults.
We continue on our way to the celebrity centre, the star centre of Scientologists in Paris,...
...which was at the centre of attention at the last lawsuit.
Here, the plaintiffs attended the expensive courses.
Scientology claims to have 7000 members in France, the authorities set the number at only 1000.
The celebrity centers hold parties for prominent and rich Scientologists.
At the door, we're being asked whether we want to know anything about Scientology.
The french OSA chief, Eric Roux on the left, is at least willing to answer a few questions about Scientology, but of course not about OSA.
The business with personal development seems to work great here as well.
We first ask why Scientology is so much interested in artists and actors.
Scientology is of the opinion that artists are very important people.
Because it is them that bring culture either to full bloom, or to its demise.
And if you help artists to develop, to live a better live and grow spiritually,...
...then you actually help culture as a whole.
This is the real task of the celebrity centres in the Scientology churches.
And what about the riddle of the vanished files, we want to know?
I can tell you more about this story. This story was actually fabricated.
That was in 1999 or so.
In 2005 there was a court investigation, and in 2005 we were exhonerated,...
...and the court recognized we had nothing to do with it.
But in the process of 2009 there were evidence and witnesses.
The Scientologists are nervous, with good reason.
In January of 2012, a Parisian appellate court confirms the conviction of Scientology to a fine of 600.000€ for organized fraud.
A devastating result for Scientology and its cult leader Miscavige.
Scientology appeals once again.
I think that the international operations were very important to David Miscavige.
For instance, when something happened to Scientology in any country of the European Union,...
...this could have a domino effect on other EU countries, or countries in the region.
When this story in France happened, it was thus important to them that under no circumstances be they convicted for fraud.
Because any case where they're being convicted in court, or where they're being investigated,...
...acts as precedent for other incidents in that country.
The danger of a dissolution of Scientology in France has been existing for a long time.
That's why OSA has been active since the 80s.
Since then there were spectacular lawsuits against the cult.
Riddle number three. The agent with Mitterrand.
Serge Faubert uncovered that OSA had penetrated highest governmental councils in the early 90s.
He was fed internal telexes from OSA France.
Recipient: The international headquarters in Los Angeles.
Scientology had succeeded in placing agents at the top of ministeries.
OSA even planted a spy in direct proximity to president François Mitterrand.
His code name: F10.
Faubert shows us the original documents.
OSA wanted to get information on planned anti-Scientology actions of the government.
And three top Scientologists should be freed from jail.
The agent F10 is a former elite police officer.
He worked so successfully, that the internal OSA report says:
F10 also takes action on the matter of the imprisoned Scientologists.
Soon later, OSA sends a telex to Los Angeles:
Indeed the three top Scientologists are released.
Faubert tells us, before there were investigations back then...
...the OSA agent F10 absconded to Africa.
He was last seen in Uganda.
And with that, the Church of Scientology and OSA has done a great deal of lobbyism with the French president.
Because also the court process was strongly hindered due to poor support from the government.
Serge Faubert makes clear OSA's capabilities.
An agent directly next to the president, this was a success.
How is the current lawsuit in Paris going to end eventually?
Will the biggest private intelligence agency of the world once again be able to exert influence?
Well OSA quite obviously is the intelligence agency of Scientology.
And they're dangerous for sure, because they're ready to use methods that are totalitarian.
One of the people responsible, Mark Rinder,...
...said that you had to eradicate the adversaries of Scientology.
This means Scientology is willing...
...to use all means possible, to resist the opponents of Scientology.
On the internet, we find similar quotes from Mike Rinder.
He repeats word for word what cult founder Hubbard and his successor Miscavige preached.
Recordings from Mike Rinder in action as OSA chief.
Abroad, almost all efforts are connected to his name, in France as well.
I always believed, that the problems in France, Germany, Russia or wherever...
...one of the many problems that Miscavige has is...
...that actually he is not interested in the future except for his own personal well-being.
I always thought it very problematic to let things slide in some countries.
Because im convinced that ultimately there are consequences to what is happening somewhere else in the world...
...and there is alot of precedent for this.
In actual fact, the events from the time of Mitterrand continue to have an effect even today.
This is another reason, why Faubert is sceptical, that it will ever come to a dissolution of Scientology in France.
There is a decisive change in the stance towards Scientology,...
...since Nicolas Sarkozy is president.
There's this notion that this is rather a denomination, just like others.
That it is a spiritual minority.
And that one does not need to take another attitude here towards Scientology than for example the Americans.
The influence from America is well covered in the French media.
Pressure from America mounts, when the government is considering measures against Scientology.
For example in 2001.
Members of the powerful committee for foreign relations in the US senate...
...threaten with visa requirements for Frenchmen in case the hostilities persist.
Yes there were political interventions. Considerable political interventions.
Madeleine Albright officially intervened by name as foreign minister, directly with the then prime minister,...
...so as to support the Scientologists.
There's a considerable number of American politicians, that defend Scientology.
How is it possible that even US politicians are campaigning for Scientology in France?
A climate of good will for the allegedly persecuted religious community...
...is to be created in the backrooms of governments.
Successes are celebrated in Scientology internal journals.
But how did Mike Rinder achieve this?
It was done by hiring the right people.
Just like everything is done in Washington.
You can hire a former official from the Foreign Office, who is now a civilian.
You can hire a lobbyist who knows Mr. Important.
You can hire this man.
Everything in Washington runs over lobbyism...
...and about finding those people that know the people that eat lunch with those people, that can talk to the people.
During the Scientology lawsuits there are repeated demonstrations of Scientology opponents.
The cult avoids open violence against external critics in Europe.
But in March of 2011 Scientology adherents get rough.
"We've just been attacked by Scientologists!"
"That's what they understand under 'freedom of expression'."
"Bravo, look, my material is broken."
The victim: The Parisian alternative artist and clown Nono, aka Jeff Dréa.
As a critic, he's been observed for years by OSA.
He's injured during the protest in March 2011.
The suspected perpetrators, two Scientologists, are being investigated.
The case causes a stir.
Ah, the intelligency agency OSA.
Personally I wondered why it was always the same people that were coming after me.
In the metro, when I went to work, always the same person that would follow me and that stayed in the same neighbourhood.
And they even talked to me once.
We saw you at 5 o'clock in this shop, you did this and that.
Or we saw you eat ice or in that café.
They did this to show me they were watching me.
Back then I also filed a criminal complaint...
...because mail from my employer had vanished.
I don't know who stole it.
Jeff Dréa is very popular in his neighbourhood.
He's tending to the integration of immigrants, and has long been a member of the anti-Scientology scene.
Even though he already got a bloody nose, he tirelessly attempts to talk to Scientologists and to talk them into exiting Scientology.
He is counted among the so-called suppressives, the enemies, too.
And that includes all that criticise Scientology, and that want to educate members.
This is why Scientologists are forbidden to talk to him.
For me, this is a violent cult.
And if they feel attacked, as we've seen in the last years,...
...they don't hesitate to flail at their peer.
Like many Frenchmen, Jeff Dréa hopes that Scientology will be dissolved some time in the future in France.
He wants to continue his fight against the cult, in spite of OSA.
But the Office of Special Affairs will keep it rolling.
Its agents will not deviate from Hubbard's directives and employ the most persuasive tool that they have:
Money. A lot of money.
It was always said, the OSA legal unit doesn't lose any cases.
After my defection, I found out that there had been 9 cases, that Scientology ended with a settlement,...
...with former members.
I learned that people had sued Scientology, and they were paid to keep silent and to withdraw their complaint.
And I guarantee you, that most Scientologists don't know that one of these people got 9 million dollars...
...so that he withdraws his complaint against Scientology.
Others got hundreds of thousands of dollars so that they would not speak out against Scientology.
I also guarantee you, that most Scientologists who pay money to Scientology...
...don't know that their money is being spent to silence ex-members and ex-employees.
We leave Paris.
Earlier we tried to conduct an official interview with Scientology.
But we only received a written refusal.
We would have liked to ask about OSA agents at the top of the government.
About strange loss of documents in the justice department, about benefactors in high positions.
We're not getting any further with inquiries to OSA Germany.
Jürg Stettler, head of the German press and legal office of the cult, continues to refuse an official interview for this film.
Sabine Weber, the president of Scientology Berlin, doesn't want to talk to us, too.
She refers us to Stettler.
Because we also haven't had any replies to our numerous inquiries to the international spokesperson, Tommy Davis,...
...we decide to travel to the USA,...
...to the headquarters of Scientology and its intelligence agency.
To Los Angeles, to Hollywood.
Also here we try to reach Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis time and again.
Each time without success.
This is why we directly drive to the Scientology centre in Hollywood.
The centre, called "Big Blue".
About 1000 Scientologists are supposed to work here.
Tommy Davis should be here somewhere, too.
The streets are completely deserted. Cameras everywhere.
Even in the trees.
All Scientologists immediately are prohibited from talking to us, via a little receiver they carry on their belt.
Because for them journalists are so-called suppressives.
We're still trying.
"Hello, can we ask you something? We're from German television."
"I fear not." - "We'd like to know why noone wants to talk to us."
"What's the reason? Do Scientologists not talk to everyone?"
"I'm sorry, I have to leave."
"German television, can we ask you something? Why are you all hiding?"
There is security personnel everywhere.
They report us to the press office.
Finally an employee comes out. She obviously is the only one allowed to talk to us.
We already asked your public relations office and Mr. Tommy Davis for an interview.
I hope very much that we would manage to get him in front of the camera.
You know what, he will approach you as soon as it's possible.
But you know, if you walk around here, and disturb our parishioners, it will make matters alot more difficult.
We don't want to disturb the parishioners.
Of course we wouldn't just walk into a Scientology church if there was one.
What do you mean by "if there was one"?
Right here, these are the churches.
It doesn't exactly look like a church to us.
It all rather reminds you of a busy company.
We drive on. A couple of hundred meters further down the Hollywood Boulevard...
...is the international OSA headquarters.
In a former bank building. Maybe Tommy Davis can be found here.
Cameras everywhere here, too.
We hardly get to see anyone.
From here, David Miscavige controls descreetly, with about 100 leading employees,...
...a network of informers, lobbyists, lawyers, agents, and private investigators.
This is how Scientology and OSA run this:
They hire lawyers that in turn hire other lawyers or private investigators...
...that hire private investigators that pursue ex-Scientologists or Scientology critics.
That's why there are many organisational levels between the individual and OSA.
This makes it difficult to prove that a certain private investigator works for a detective agency...
...which works for a lawyer who works for OSA.
They're very good at it.
They've been doing this for 50 years after all.
We're looking for information about Tommy Davis on the internet.
Scientology seals itself off, so to be its spokesperson is not easy.
Ex-Scientologists get hold of his mobile number.
We only keep reaching the mailbox.
On the internet, we find a film about Scientology from American colleagues.
They also interview Tommy Davis.
The cult spokesperson doesn't answer sceptical questions like on the science fiction background to Hubbard's ideology.
Suddenly, Tommy Davis aborts the interview.
To represent Scientology to the outside is an ejection seat.
Davis hasn't been seen in public for months.
Over the internet, we ask ex-Scientologists where he could be.
The answers are unequivocal.
Images from the cult leader David Miscavige's isolated compound in the Californian desert.
In the middle of it, the so-called "SP hall"...
...that defectors call a reeducation camp for unpopular top Scientologists. Is Davis here?
There were people, me included...
...that had to roll up their trouser legs and had to crawl on hands and knees on the synthetic turf carpet in that building.
This sounds harmless at first, but what's happening is not harmless.
You bruise and burn your knees and palms.
And you finally have those bleeding and burnt knees and hands...
...and this is really painful.
But people had to crawl on their hands and knees as a punishment...
...for not confessing to what they were supposed to confess...
...whatever that was at that time.
Even though there have been reports about human rights abuses for years...
...there's never been a police raid.
If the police asks politely, it's declared that all persons are there on their own volition.
There are no complaints.
Time and again we asked why US politics would tolerate all this.
We made 35 interview requests about the subject of Scientology...
...to mayors, members of congress and senate, and former ministers.
All of them were refused.
We make a last attempt during public question time in the city parliament of Los Angeles.
Here seated is the responsible politician for the district in which the Scientology centre "Big Blue" is located.
Every US citizen is allowed to ask questions here.
David, our American in the team, fills in the form.
A little while later, the spokesman reports our wish to the representative Eric Garcetti.
The reaction: we're unmistakably being asked to leave the hall.
That local politicians shield Scientology is not an unknown fact in Los Angeles.
Critics uncovered amazing information.
These documents show donations that a local politician called "Jeff Stone" received.
A lot of money in small instalments, paid by Scientologists.
This is how the cult cloaks its political landscape maintenance.
We also look at a video by the critics.
It shows how they want to confront the politician Jeff Stone.
He's in charge at David Miscavige's place of residence.
Why are you running away? This is serious stuff, sir.
Jeff Stone flees the scene.
Immediately afterwards, one of the critics is being arrested without reason.
"Why are you arresting him?" - "Why are you arresting me?"
"Doesn't he have the right to know?"
"Jeff stone ordered to arrest me."
Do it again and I'll use the taser.
As an officer, you need to tell me why you're arresting me.
Why?
I injure your face.
We're finding further connections into politics.
They reach into the White House.
During the Clinton administration Scientology achieved tax exemption.
Hillary Clinton campaigns for Scientology organisations time and again, like for example for Narconon.
Bill Clinton as US president writes guest articles for the Scientology publication "Freedom" on numerous occasions.
How can this be explained?
There's a lot of money to be got in Hollywood, even for election campaigns.
According to our research, this is one of the reasons why the strings run together here between Scientology, actors and politicians.
On gala events like these prominent and well-off Scientologists are often asked to donate to the war chest.
Most of them don't know what OSA does with their money, but some come to their senses.
It was Scientology stars like jazz musician Chick Corea,...
...and film actress Kirstie Alley that this young man grew up with: Tiziano Lugli.
Today, Tiziano Lugli is a star in the Italo-American community.
As a child of prominent Scientologists, he was indoctrinated from childhood.
He didn't suspect anything of the schemes and encroachments, says he.
Then, in the year of 2010, he quit.
The musician lives above the roofs of Hollywood.
We accept his offer to interview him at his dwelling place.
He once used to be fawned over like all Scientology stars.
Today he's being shadowed around the clock since he left the organisation.
I quit because I had just seen too much.
Scientology wasn't as I once knew it.
I tried to understand what was happening.
The blatant-fundraising, the obvious lack of compassion,...
...it was more like some kind of Nazi environment.
And I somehow always hated it, you know.
And while you're at Scientology, you try to justify it.
Because there's always the carrot of freedom, that they hold in front of your nose.
You must do it like this and this, because we do it like this.
Nothing ever made sense, but you justify it because of the promise of ultimate freedom at the end of the way,...
...with which you become superman, which is how they sell it to you.
Tiziano Lugli films the OSA detectives.
He recorded and identified over 70 different sleuths already.
You see this fat guy? That's the same one who was in front of my house.
To become a kind of superman, in the Scientology sense...
...Lugli has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over time, as well.
He lost most of his friends from those days through his defection.
But in spite of all harrassment, he does not regret his decision.
Even though he is now named a suppressive by Scientology,...
...he's not letting himself be intimidated by OSA.
He wants to reveal the schemings of the intelligence agency to the public.
He turns the tables and surveils the surveillants.
We accompany him.
You know, they're always at the same place.
Right now it's pretty interesting, because they're probably in escape mode, in hiding mode.
Some of them are really shy and don't like it at all if you get too near at them.
One guy wears a scarf in front of his face to make sure you don't get his face.
Because I guess they lose their job when they are being recognized.
There's no privacy for them anymore, when you record them, and put them on Youtube.
Tiziano Lugli quickly makes his find.
One of them sits in the car and takes a break.
He's locking himself in. What movie is he watching?
Hey, how are you, what are you doing in there?
Open on the passenger seat we discover his notes.
Public investigation, this tactic is called, it is supposed to intimidate the victim.
You have a problem me watching you now?
You have no problem watching me, so why should it be a problem if I'm watching you?
You're being paid by a corrupt organisation. How can you sleep at night?
They're running human traficking, slavery, forced abortions and beat their members.
Have a good day. What a nice day you will have.
Lugli has expensively secured his picturesquely situated house with burglar alarm and surveillance cameras by now.
The camera images are transmitted to his mobile phone 24 hours a day.
It's good to always and everywhere know who is in your house.
And besides I have the recordings, at any time.
The neighbours are afraid of the detectives, and often call the police.
But Lugli wants to carry on and not be silenced by OSA.
But by now they should know that the money they're getting was directly extorted from brainwashed people.
They believe they're saving the planet while in reality they're spending 50.000$ a day,...
...just to pursue me, Jason Beghe, Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun.
Vast sums of money for the secret service to pursue critics, this is the dark side of the colourful façade.
As long as they're playing their part, the celebrities are very well received guests, like here at the thetan meeting in 2007.
They're the hinge of the cult to politics.
Apropos of nothing, politicians are convinced in private conversations, to do the "right thing"...
...when they're championing Scientology. A deal beneficial to both sides, says Mike Rinder.
There's always a reward for these things.
It's always like: "You want Tom Cruise as a helper for your next election?" etc...
He shall come to your next fund raiser? You want John Travolta?
And nothing is laid down clearly. But this is the manner everything is done in Washington.
We're on our way to our last station: The city of Clearwater in Florida.
The Mecca of Scientologists.
Here Scientology and OSA has almost reached its goal.
A world only with Scientologists.
Clearwater was once a popular beach resort in Florida.
Today, the city is firmly in Scientology's hands, say its inhabitants.
Thousands of Scientologists from all over the world come to Flag,...
...this is the name of their centre, to step on the bridge to total spiritual freedom.
They attend extremely expensive courses and have themselves audited.
The heart of the cult corporation beats in Clearwater.
Scientology is said to turn over two million dollars here, every week.
The work is done by the abysmally paid Scientology soldiers, that coin the appearance of the city.
From this paramilitary so-called "Sea Org", OSA also recruits its employees.
One guard wants to drive us away and calls the police.
Indeed a little while later the police stops us.
After we've been checked thoroughly, and after we promised not to step on Scientology ground, we're allowed to continue.
We're passing one of the huge housing complexes, where the uniformed Scientologists are living like in barracks.
Everything is secured like a maximum security prison.
The lawyer Luke Lirot, here on the left, is known in Clearwater.
He has time and again successfully represented people against the cult corporation.
I'm deeply saddened. Clearwater was a beautiful little town.
It had a lot of little stores and shops.
It was known as a little nice town and was probably the jewel on Florida's west coast.
We have one of the most beautiful beaches of the world.
But to drive through here and look at the damage, which was not only caused by the economy crisis...
...but also the reputation of being the headquarters of this uniquely aggressive organisation...
...that hides so many thinks from the public and in my opinion strives so hard...
...to conquer all of the universe and to turn all people into Scientologists...
...that's disturbing to me.
We stop at the city centre.
Until the middle of the eighties the citizens of Clearwater struggle against the invasion of Scientologists.
But they can hardly accomplish anything against Scientology's massive financial power.
The public life is mostly determined by Scientology.
Policy, economy, justice, culture.
If there's resistance, OSA takes care of it, say former members.
With pressure, money, lobbyism.
There's a perfect example.
In Clearwater there was a judge, who was very opposed to Scientology.
And Scientology hosted a dance gala back then, and they invited this judge.
The only purpose of this whole event was, that John Travolta should dance with the judge's wife.
All should only lead to the one moment when John Travolta would approach this woman and say:
"Hello? May I ask you for a dance?"
Since then the judge could only tell everyone, that his wife had once danced with John Travolta.
Never mind saying that this judge never again constituted a threat to Scientology in Clearwater.
The municipality pays a high price.
Because Scientology pays no taxes, the city is bankrupt.
Shops close by the dozen. Almost noone wants to live in the Orwellian ambience.
If we leave the car, we have security or OSA personnel on our heels, and are being filmed.
We ask an employee for his boss:
Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis.
"Where's your boss?"
"You can direct all of your questions to Freedom Magazine." - "Are you a Scientologist?"
"You can direct all of your questions to Freedom Magazine."
"Are you a robot?" - "You can direct all of your questions to Freedom Magazine."
In Clearwater it's getting clear:
Scientology commands nearly unlimited resources to do everything...
...for what cult founder L. Ron Hubbard called the safeguarding of Scientology's survival.
Unlimited resources, tax exempt, also and especially for the intelligence agency.
Scientology is a corporation.
They're a multi-million, maybe even a multi-billion corporation.
And in the end the one with most chips on the table wins.
I believe, this is what Scientology perfected.
In the evening we leave the Mecca of the Scientologists.
The light is burning in their offices late after midnight.
OSA, they say, never sleeps.