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Inside Scientology

Transcript part two - 14 December 1998

RealVideo files of the program

Description of video is in [brackets].  VO=VOICEOVER

(CONTINUED FROM PART 1)

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BILL KURTIS:  Since its emergence in the1950s, the Church of
Scientology has been a source of great fascination. It has spent many
of those years at war with the U.S. government, the press, and
portions of the public. But behind the headlines are real people who
have experienced Scientology firsthand. In this second hour of a
special A&E presentation of "Investigative Reports," we hear directly
from those who remain members of the church, and from those who have
now left it. As you will see, their stories vary dramatically.

ISAAC HAYES:  Remember, whatever you do, you do it to yourself.

[black-and-white footage of Dennis Erlich walking down sidewalk; chart
of "The Bridge to Total Freedom"]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  Well, it was a--it was a
period in my life when I was having all kinds of different marital and
adjustment problems. I went to visit a friend of mine, and he had
changed remarkably since I had seen him the last time, and he was
raving about Scientology and pointing at this chart on the wall, how
you can... At this point you'll have this ability, and up here you
have the ability to, you know, exteriorize, and it's this whole
progression thing that kind of interested me.

[Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles]

KELLY MORAN (caption--"Kelly Moran, Scientologist") (voice of and on
camera):  Well, actually I had a boyfriend who was a Scientologist,
and he brought me down to Celebrity Centre, and I had a tour. And I
looked around, and I said, "oh, this is nice," you know. And I signed
up and I did a basic course.

JON ATACK;  I went through nine years of Scientology.  As a client of
the organization, I paid them a lot of money, and they, in turn, gave
me something back.

TAMMY TERRENZI (caption--"Tammy Terrenzi, Scientologist"):  I remember
there was a time when I couldn't look at people. I couldn't look
people in the eye. I was very sort of withdrawn, you know. And you
sort of get the skill, and you--and you drill it, and you become
better and better at it.

[close-up of course description chart--"Success Through Communication
Course"]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera): And you were taught to sit and
have eye contact with another individual for hours on end; I'm talking
not move, not blink, not twitch, not sweat, not anything, for two
hours at a stretch. And that's to pass one of these drills.

ERIC SHERMAN (caption--"Eric Sherman, Scientologist"):  When I have
received the Scientology or Dianetics auditing, I experience a similar
thing: A freedom and a getting back in touch with myself and my actual
views and opinions, with which I can go back into life and do better.

ISAAC HAYES:  I felt great and I got rid of some stuff that I didn't
realize that I was dragging around. And I said, "Whoa, I think I've
become a Scientologist."

[close-up of e-meter; close-up of course description chart--"The Way
to Happiness Route"; black-and-white footage of apparently a pre-clear
in an auditing session]

SCOTT MAYER (voice of and on camera):  You get a lot of things out of
Scientology that are workable up to a certain point, and that's when
it sets the hook. And you find yourself on a series of upper-level OT
levels wherein you're not able to discuss your case with anybody else,
you know. You're supposed to be acquiring superhuman powers; you're
really not. It's emotional blackmail.

DENNIS ERLICH:  The idea is that this is a whole spectrum of ability
that goes all the way up to telekinesis, that you could move things,
people, with your mind. But in the beginning, you have to just drag
them. (laughs)

ISAAC HAYES:  I hadn't seen my band in about three months, and we went
to Zurich, Switzerland. And I came in and they looked at me real
weird. Said, "Man, something's—something's different about you. You
look younger. Uh, this look in your eye." And, of course, I was eager
to tell somebody.

[sign outside Scn church--"Free Personality and IQ testing--Film
showings, bookstore--Come Inside"]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  If you had a problem,
you came and talked to me, I could--I could what we call "reg" you.
Sign you up for something. Hubbard's techniques are, "It doesn't
matter, just tell them you can solve it."

JON ATACK:  I was becoming increasingly worried about the high cost of
Scientology. You know, we were up paying $200 per hour for counseling.
Which seemed excessive to me. You know, as professional therapists
probably charge $50 to $100.

KELLY MORAN:  What I would do is I would just say, "What do I want to
do next?" You know, and I would say, "Well, I want to do that next.
That sounds like something I would be interested in." And then I would
just, you know, gradually pay on it, and before you know it, you've
got it paid.


[flag with emblem and the words "Sea Organization"; Sea Org members
walking down street; sign outside Flag organization; close-up of Scn
memo about RPF with close-up on "2.  Has no Liberties."]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  I became a Sea Org member,
and from there on, I was a 24-hour a day Scientologist. I had no
personal life. I--I lived in Scientology buildings, I was fed by
Scientology, I was paid my $17.50 a week, when I got paid at all. In
1979, I was put in the Rehabilitation Project Force because I made a
joke about, about one of Hubbard's policies.

[picture of Sea Org members; footage of RPF'er wheeling what looks
like a copy machine down the sidewalk]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  RPF stands for Rehabilitation
Project Force. It is a program that is exclusively for the benefit of
Sea Organization Members. If they are stressed out, if they're not
doing well on their job, if they're having problems, have them do
menial type work, and five hours a day of auditing and Scientology
training. It's a fabulous program.

[footage outside the Fort Harrison Hotel--apparently filmed during the
December 1997 Lisa McPherson picket as there was sign outside the Fort
Harrison saying "We're not here right now.  We're out doing good for
the community.  See you at the Pinellas Trail opening."]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  I was locked in a chicken
wire cage that was in the basement of the Fort Harrison Hotel where
there's just huge boilers and dripping pipes--real gothic, you know,
(laughs) kind of scene.

[footage outside Scn building apparently where the RPF'ers are held,
with young man dressed in black walking outside]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  They came banging on
the door one night, early morning, at 4:00 AM. once, and they took my
wife. It really lets you know what it's like to live with the Gestapo.
When, when you can be so controlled and so afraid that they can just
say your wife's leaving, grab a couple of things, you're coming with
us, and tell me to just go back to bed, and I'd go back to bed.

[headline from "Clearwater Sun" newspaper titled "Defectors Paint
Unnerving Picture of Scientology"]

JON ATACK (voice of and on camera):  The stories I began to hear were
incredible. My membership was relatively soft. I was never on the
staff of Scientology. Nobody had told me that people were thrown off
the ships into the water, put into the chain lockers. I didn't know.
In nine years. That's how secretive Scientology is. And it's the
mentality that it creates in members.

[illustration of monk kneeling; photograph of Middle Eastern family]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  If a monk that was in a
Catholic order left the monastery, and he went out and he went to the
media, and he said, "You know, when I was in that monastery, I was not
able to talk to anybody; I was never able to see my family; I had to
sleep on a bed of straw, or on concrete; I got woken up seven times a
night to say prayers," do you think that if someone went out with
those sort of allegations to the media that anybody would give them
even the time of day?

[family photographs of Dennis Erlich when he was a child]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  If you're connected with
somebody who is against Scientology principles, you are required to
disconnect from them. If you want to continue in Scientology, you have
to disconnect from them. Disconnect means exactly what it sounds like:
You can have no contact with the person, they can't--you don't let
them call you, you don't let them write you, you don't answer their
letters. They are out of your life.

[family photograph of Dennis Erlich when he was a child, apparently
with his brother]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  If you have someone who is
antagonistic to you and your objectives in life, and you are unable to
get that person to stop being antagonistic towards doing that, then
you have two choices. You either stop doing what you're doing that
they are complaining about, or you don't pay any attention to what
they're saying any more, and you (makes "swish" sound like he's
cutting something) cut off the line.

[family photograph of Dennis Erlich when he was a child, apparently
with his brother]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  I was required to disconnect
from my brother. And I nearly disconnected from my parents.

[photograph of Scott Mayer when he was younger]

SCOTT MAYER (voice of and on camera):  You know, people were living in
misery. They weren't getting what they were supposed to be getting,
which was spiritual enlightenment. I never heard the word "God" used
once in all of that time. I never saw a church service. All I ever did
was see people worked into the ground to make money for Hubbard, and
after a while, I just couldn't stomach it anymore. I had to leave.

[footage of Dennis Erlich walking down sidewalk]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  That's all you have to do in
a cult is say, "Uh-uh, I'm not going to go along with it." And they
got no use for you any more. So 15 years later, I was shown the door.

[picture of Stacy Young; apparently footage of where RPF'ers are
housed; footage of Scn security guard]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  They came after me and
I could hear the motorcycles. 'Cause they had the motorcycles, they
start out. And they came looking for me. I went to, uh... a home of
somebody on the reservation, I just knocked on the door and said,
"Excuse me, but I--my car broke down over here. Do you mind if I just
use your phone? I'll pay you." And I just had some money, and I have
to call, so I called my wife. And I called her, and I was crushed
because she said, "They're here with me." 'Cause by the time I had
gotten to the phone, they had gone up there and they had grabbed a
hold of her, and they had her under guard. And I knew I was trapped.
They let me call a cab, and I, and as I got out of the cab, there was
one of the guards in one of the trucks behind me and he says, "Hi,
Vaughn." And I said, "Just get away from me," and I made it into the
motel. I knew they wouldn't try to physically threaten me; they don't
do that, it's all just coercion. They smile--"Everything's going to be
fine, come on back," et cetera, and so I was talked back in. That's
why I make this comparison to the drug addict and the alcoholic, you
know, "oh, yeah, we'll talk about your alcohol problem. Here, have a
drink, let's talk about it."

[pictures of two of Dennis Erlich's daughters]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  I had, I had two children, my
oldest and my youngest children were living with me. The oldest had
signed a Sea Org contract, at--at age nine. I said, you know, "Do you
want to stay or do you want to come with me? I'm leaving Scientology."
She decided she wanted to stay, and it took her another year to get
out of there. And she almost didn't.

JON ATACK:  It gets inside people, it saturates people. In a study of
cults done by Conway and Siegelman in the U.S., they studied 1,000
ex-cult members, and at the end, they said Scientology has the most
debilitating set of rituals of any cult in America. They reckon that
recovery time, unassisted, for somebody who left Scientology would
average 12½ years.

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG:  It's like getting on a boat, pushing off from
shore, and not even knowing what's out there, and not even knowing if
there's an edge of the world you might fall off, but all you know is I
would rather die on the open seas and die a free man than die inside
that organization, with what I've come to see is, is just complete
totalitarian mind control.

SCOTT MAYER:  You know, I mean, I made it through Vietnam, I've made
it through more... I should have been dead years ago. If I go now, I
go now, you know. But if I can do something to keep someone else from
getting hurt or someone else from being conned, someone else's life
from being messed up by these creeps, I'm more than willing to do it.
It's a small price to pay. That's the way I feel about it.

[video effect with bright ray of light on dark screen]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  Sometimes when you veer off the
road to total freedom, you can get back on. If you get off, you might
get chewed up. If you stay on, you will get through it. You got to
trust it. But if you freak out-- "Oh, I don't want to do this no
more"-- things can happen.

[aerial shot of Big Blue building; newspaper article titled,
"Ex-Member Cites Abuse By Church"]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  If, if one-tenth of what these
people say goes on in Scientology really did go on, there would be no
Church of Scientology. This same small group of people, the ones that
manage to get themselves into the media, the ones that go
around--probably the ones that have contacted you and told you
stories, those exact people are the people that have demanded tens,
hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars from the church to shut
up. Now if it really was true, what they were saying, why would they
be demanding money to stop?

[GIF with alternating message saying "The Church of
Scientology--afraid of the real world" and "CENSORS the Net for
members!"]

VO:  When "Investigative Reports" returns, the Church in cyberspace!

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

["Operation Clambake" web page]

VO: The '90s brought with it a new challenge for the Church of
Scientology in the form of the Internet.

[newspaper article titled "Showdown in Cyberspace"; (I think) David
Gerard's web page; web page that says "Why I hate Scientology"]

GRAHAM BERRY (voice of and on camera):  The Internet has been a
disaster for Scientology. Netizens, or people who spend a lot of time
on the net, have a particular wild west attitude towards the First
Amendment. They believe in freedom of speech, and any attempt to
circumvent their freedom of speech is resisted.

[http://www.scientology-kills.net web page; GIF with message saying
"The Church of Scientology--afraid of the real world"]

VO:  Anti-Scientology web sites have sprouted up, giving a louder
voice to Scientology's dissident community.

[Scientology's official web site]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of):  I just called them liars. I just called
them liars from every different angle.

[Dennis Erlich at his computer]

VO:  Erlich and others began denouncing Scientology and its founder.
 
[web page saying "Racist quotes by the King of Con, L. Ron Hubbard;]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  They were on the newsgroup
making false representations, lying, and I just... I just pointed it
out in very graphic terms that they were lying. And when proof was
required, I quoted to give them the proof. 

[Scn course description chart with close-up of "OT III"; what looks
like the back of a "Scientology Kills" shirt with first page of OT III
in white print on black background; space shot of Earth; outer space
video]

VO:  Ex-Scientologists also began disseminating the mysterious OT III,
an advanced level in Scientology that is said to trace the source of
man's pain to over 70 million years ago.

[Scn course description chart with someone's finger pointing toward
the phrase "The materials of OT III (Confidential)"]

TAMMY TERRENZI (voice of and on camera):  I think it's really
irresponsible. It happens to be confidential material. And people,
when they get to that level, they read and see that material. And it's
placed at that level for a reason.

[cover of "Freedom" magazine with story "Freedom of speech at risk in
cyberspace"]

MARK EBNER (voice of and on camera):  Whenever something goes wrong in
terms of public relations, it's called, in Hubbard-speak, it's called
a PR flap. This is the granddaddy of PR flaps.

[magazine article titled "alt.scientology.war"]

VO:  The church wasted no time in getting their attorneys on the case.


EARL COOLEY (caption--"Earl Cooley, Scientologist lawyer"):  This is
simply a matter of property rights being protected. It is not a
freedom of the press issue; it is not a news gathering issue; it is
not a freedom of speech issue.

ALEXANDER COCKBURN:  Everybody has documents and things they don't
want to be seen.  And, you know, which is proprietary information.
Everybody wants that. Why do the Scientologists go after people who
attack them? I think they do feel, they have acquired over the years,
a siege mentality. And they have been under a certain amount of siege.


[video of raid on Arnie Lerma's house in 1995; picture of Arnie Lerma
by computer which had a yellow "Police Line--Do Not Cross" banner
across it]

VO:  In 1995, the Church of Scientology, assisted by U.S. Marshals,
raided the homes of three of its harshest detractors. Arnaldo Lerma
caught the raid of his home on video. Church officials confiscated
materials relating to Scientology on the grounds that the copywritten
works were being exploited on the net.

MAN (from video): You have a court order permitting you to be the
substitute custodian for this search and seizure?

WOMAN (from video):  If you want to see the court order, you can...

[more of the video of raid on Arnie Lerma's house]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  They went through my house,
cupboard by cupboard. They went through my computer, file by file.
They copied whatever they wanted off of my...They copied my hard disk,
they deleted whatever they wanted off my hard disk. They packed up
books that belonged to me and to other people. Seven hours later,
after going through and photographing everything in my house, looking
in every, you know, closet, cupboard, drawer, they packed up and left.


UNIDENTIFIED PERSON (from video):  Are you here with the Church of
Scientology?

MAN (from video):  No comment.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON (from video):  No comment? What authority do you
have to be taking these records?

WOMAN (from video):  Do you think it's okay for him to steal property?


[newspaper article titled "Scientology Snags a Dissident" with picture
of Dennis Erlich]

VO:  Erlich and others claim their rights have been violated.

[Scientology official web page (I think www.lronhubbard.org)

FORD GREENE (voice of and on camera):  Scientology has insured
protection of its market share by suppressing speech. Because the more
speech there is, the less successful Scientology is going to be.

["Freedom" magazine web page]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  They are really their
own worst enemy. They are the ones that make the critics; then they
force the critics to become enemies, and then these people become
lifelong warriors. And they fulfill their own conspiracy theories by
creating enemies by their treatment of people.

[close-up of somebody at a computer; front page of "Glendale
News-Press" with headline "Scientologists raid house, seize files"
with picture of Dennis Erlich; apparently picture of raid at Dennis
Erlich's house (?); newspaper article titled, "A Posting On Internet
Is Ruled To Be Illegal"]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  I believe that on the
Internet, freedom of speech is a primary. And the more that we let
fascistic, totalistic groups like Scientology erode our rights, the
less of this fantastic new medium, the less it's gonna mean.

[picture of Ex-Mudder's Lisa McPherson page--"WARNING! - this page is
not of the faint of heart, or for the young of age" with links to Lisa
McPherson autopsy photos; www.scientology-kills.net page;
www.entheta.net page]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  The cry that these people give
in justification is "The Internet is an anarchy, we are anarchists,
you can't stop us," so therefore by trying to enforce the law, somehow
that gets translated into "You're trying to stamp out free speech!"

[newspaper article titled "Church of Scientology plotted to quiet
critic"]

MONIQUE YINGLING (caption--"Monique Yingling, tax attorney, Church of
Scientology") (voice of and on camera):  I think it's curious the way
the Church of Scientology is attacked for harassing its critics or
trying to silence its critics, but the Church of Scientology also has
a right to freedom of speech. They want to make the record straight
and say what their position is, and they have the same right to do
that as their critics do.

[www.lronhubbard.org page]

JEREMIAH GUTMAN (caption--"Jeremiah Gutman, religious rights
attorney") (voice of and on camera):  A religion has no more and no
less right than anyone else to copyright material and to protect it
from infringement. I think it's a kind of strange position for a
religion to take, saying we have a message that will save your soul
and, and make you better, but you may not read it unless you pay me.

[newspaper article titled "Marshals Seize Computer Files of Man Sued
by Scientologists"; footage of Bob Minton at his computer; close-up of
screen where he's reading ARS]

VO:  Such incidents got the attention of those outside the Scientology
debate.

[Electronic Freedom Foundation web page; picture of D.C. org with big
group of Scienos outside it]

BOB MINTON (caption--"Bob Minton, funds litigation against Church of
Scientology") (voice of and on camera):   I first became aware of the
Church of Scientology when I read an Electronic Freedom Foundation
newsletter in January of '95 which indicated that the Church of
Scientology had tried to close an Internet newsgroup which was a haven
for critics of Scientology.

[footage of Bob Minton walking down street; newspaper article titled
"Boston Man in Costly Fight With Scientology" and picture of Bob
Minton]

VO:  Minton quickly became involved in the anti-Scientology movement,
spending almost $2 million to fund ex-members litigating against the
church.

[GIF with alternating messages saying "The Church of
Scientology--afraid of the real world" and "CENSORS the Net for
members!"; web page with words "Censored by Scientology" inside a red
circle with diagonal line across; web page from www.xenu.net which
tells about the Scieno Sitter]

BOB MINTON (voice of and on camera):  Scientologists are given
filtering software to allow them to go on the Internet, because they
do not want Scientologists to be subjected to critical information.

[Ron Newman's page, "The Church of Scientology vs. The Net"]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  You're dissuaded from contact
with the outside world, reading papers, watching television, whatever
it is. You might see something that is upsetting. If it's upsetting,
you might need to get a session, or go to ethics.

[footage of Bob Minton walking down street and going into building]

VO:  Minton has recently come under investigation by Scientology for
his activities.

GRAHAM BERRY:  He was attacked. And the more he was attacked, the more
he got involved.

[footage of Bob Minton outside door, laughing; footage of woman going
into Scn church]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  He's a freak. He's a, a media
freak. He is an animal of the media. He knows nothing about
Scientology. (sniffs) He doesn't have a clue. He's never been in a
Church of Scientology until I invited him in to sit down and talk to
him, to see if I could find out what his beef was.

BOB MINTON:  They have hate, basically, at the, at the core of this
cult, masquerading in the form of love.

[footage of Mark Ebner; Dennis Erlich at his computer with his
"Scientology Kills" shirt hanging up on door; Bob Minton at his
computer with close-up of his computer screen--"Agent
(alt.religion.scientology)"]

VO:  Scientology detractors hope that leaking secret materials on the
web will discourage church membership.

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG:  The Internet will be to Scientology what Vietnam
was to the United States. It's gonna be a battle that they can't win.

[close-up of person's hands typing on keyboard]

MARK EBNER (voice of and on camera):  The trade secrets that they're
trying to protect, all that science fiction space opera stuff at the
end of the road, it's already on the hard load--hard drives of
millions of people. In other words, the cat's out of the bag. So
anybody that cares to investigate this organization are just a few
keystrokes away from finding the truth-- and it's out there.

BILL KURTIS:  While those opposed to Scientology are busy recounting
their stories on the Internet, the church continues the intense effort
to tell its story. When we return, a mission the Scientologists say
will save the world.

[COMMERCIAL BREAK].

[Clearwater picket 1997--Xenu picketing with sign saying "L. Ron
Hubbard:  Psychotic CON MAN", other picketers with signs saying
"www.scientology-kills.net" "Xenu Crossing (inside a yellow sign on
picket sign)"; Deana Holmes with sign saying "Did Standard Tech kill
Lisa?"; lecture at Scientology church]

VO:  While church administration is busy dealing with a steady stream
of conflict, individual Scientologists are out among the people,
spreading Hubbard's word at every opportunity.

MIKE RINDER:  Well, you know, the aims of Scientology are a
civilization without war, without criminals, without insanity, where
the able can prosper, where honest beings have rights and man is free
to rise to greater heights.

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set, in Army camouflage uniform):  I get
relief every time I hear those words, because that's the world I want,
you know, for my son and for my family, and for myself. And for
everybody, you know, it's a, it's a, it's an ideal scene.

[Scientology church "service"; Scn classroom; newsreel footage of
soldiers]

VO:  At the heart of this missionary zeal is the Scientologist's
belief that his religion is the best, perhaps only, way to rescue a
planet in danger.

[space shot of Earth; footage of person shooting up drugs; footage of
someone breaking into a car; footage of police carrying body out of a
house on a stretcher; picture of person in jail]

ERIC SHERMAN (voice of and on camera):  Life on planet Earth is not a
real happy place, and yet we're all immortal spiritual beings. If
something is not done to improve the quality of life, I think there
will be more drugs, I think there will be more sad and upset and
messed-up people. And more criminals, and more inequities in the
society. We've got to turn the situation around, if life means
anything to you.

[sign in window of HELP (Hollywood Education and Literacy Project)]

VO:  Scientology-supported drug and literacy programs are multiplying
around the country.

[outside entrance to French Scn church; picture of people holding up
banner saying "Hollywood Education and Literacy Project"; footage of
students in reading class]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  I'd like people to know that
the activities of the church are helping millions of people around the
world, every day. There are a lot of people who have found something
that helps them. And that that help is available to anybody who would
like to have it.

[footage of young child in reading class; picture of LRH book
"Communicating Is Fun Course"; footage of student in reading class;
sign outside door saying "WORLD Literacy Crusade Genesys Academy";
newspaper article titled "Cult's Cover-up Is Blown"]

VO:  Scientology says the programs, which use books written by
Hubbard, are secular. Skeptics call them recruitment fronts that hide
their ties to the church.

[front page of Boston Herald, "School Ties--L. Ron Hubbard's
Scientology teachings find way into Bay State schools" with picture of
LRH]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  We can become a drug
rehabilitation program, we've got nothing to do with religion. We
become pious priests. "You are threatening my freedom of religion." We
can become educational programs-- "Oh, we're just here to help your
son learn to read." We can become all those things, but really all it
is is it's just one master plan to infiltrate all of these areas
according to Hubbard's doctrine, and you become whatever it needs to
become to protect it, and you infiltrate it and take it over.

[footage outside a Narconon building; front page of Boston Herald,
"Scientology unmasked"]

VO:  Narconon, a drug rehab program with ties to Scientology, has
recently come under scrutiny.

[Scn promotional video footage of Purification Center]

JOSEPH MALLIA (voice of and on camera):  Scientology was collecting
money from local school boards, and also collecting money from
corporations and businesses, and using that money to finance their
lectures in the schools, which promoted the Purification Rundown,
which is a religious practice in the Church of Scientology.

TAMMY TERRENZI (caption--"Tammy Terrenzi, executive director, Criminon
International"):  It's not a religious program, it's not a religious
organization, it's not run by the church. It's very supported by the
church.

[footage outside and inside Ensenada State Prison; footage of Joe
Domingo; man holding "Narconon" booklet; footage of Narconon classes;
prisoners inside sauna]

VO:  Narconon recently set up shop inside the Ensenada State Prison, a
Mexican penitentiary where inmates have easy access to heroin. The
program, run by Joe Domingo, son of famed tenor Placido Domingo,
utilizes Hubbard's drug "technology" to help prisoners kick drugs.
Inmates helped build saunas at the prison in order to utilize
Narconon's Purification Rundown.

JEANNIE TRAHANT (caption--"Jeannie Trahant, executive director,
Narconon Newport"):  I was a heroin addict, and, uh, I had a long-term
heroin addiction and, problem with substance abuse, and, uh, went to
jail three times, uh, tried other programs, almost died, basically.
And, uh, the Narconon program saved my life.

[more footage from Ensenada prison of prisoners in courses]

VO:  Despite the church's involvement in these social programs,
critics still say the motives are sinister.

[black-and-white footage of prisoners walking through gates past
guard]

TAMMY TERRENZI (voice of and on camera):  I don't know of any church,
anywhere, who would want to get its base of members, cri--murderers
and rapists and criminals; I don't--that doesn't make any sense. And
me being a Scientologist, I have a very strong desire to help these
people and to help the problem, because there's such a problem. But I
don't know that I want to fill my church up with, um--you know.

[footage of students in reading classes]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  If you go out and voluntarily
help a thousand people in the inner city to learn how to read, there
are some people in the world that have to find something wrong with
that. They have to figure out how there's something wrong. So you know
what they say? "Ha! That's just all a trick. It's all a front group.
It's all just to get these people into the Church of Scientology."
Well, you know what? It isn't.

[footage of reading classes; picture of box set of LRH's "The Key to
Life" Course books]

VO:  The church's learning programs have often been scrutinized by
outsiders. Practicing Scientologists swear by Hubbard's technology.

[footage of Travolta walking around on the set in his Army camouflage
outfit; footage of Travolta giving an interview]

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit)(voice of and on
camera):  I have used the study technology for 23 years. Uh, prior to
that, I was, uh... I think I was your, your average guy as far as what
one knows from what they learned in school. It gives you a kind of
confidence, and a braveness. Almost no subject matter seems
unstudyable. I'm a jet pilot seven times over, I--meaning I have seven
separate licenses to fly, just because I'm not afraid to ask the right
questions to understand fully what I'm, um, I'm studying.

[Isaac Hayes talking with young boy]

VO:  Isaac Hayes is the spokesperson for the World Literacy Crusade.

ISAAC HAYES (to young boy):  --Do whatever you want to do.

[footage of Isaac Hayes with young children at literacy class]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  If a building is on fire and my
child is on the second or third floor, do you care, do you think I
care about who comes to save my child? We're just simply talking about
saving lives, and some people try to confuse the issues. "Oh, don't
take that stuff 'cause they're going to try to make you become a
Scientologist." No, no, no, no, no.

[footage of students in reading class]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  What if the people down there
really got something out of what they learned, in learning how to
read, and they wanted to find out more, they wanted to find out if
there was something else that was written by L. Ron Hubbard that might
help them.

[picture of Pope John Paul II; Scn ad for LRH books--"Find out the
truth."]

JEREMIAH GUTMAN (voice of and on camera):  The Pope has an agenda to
spread Catholicism to all the people that he can reach. I think
Scientology, like any other religious group, believes that it has a
mission to spread their truth as they perceive it.

[Church of Scientology commercial for "A New Slant on Life" book]

CRAZED SCIENTIST (in commercial):  Your emotions, your personality:
They're just chemical reactions. Man is nothing more than a brain. A
B-R-A-A-I-I-N!!!!

[caption--"Great Lie #38 Exposed]

VOICE OF MAN IN COMMERCIAL:  Forget the phony brain theories. Find out
who you really are.

[studio where another commercial is being edited, man at control
board]

VOICE ON ANOTHER COMMERCIAL:  Dianetics--it's the most popular and
effective book on the human mind ever published.

[clip from another commercial where explorer is looking through
telescope; picture of LRH book "Fundamentals of Thought"; footage
inside and outside of Golden Era Productions]

VO:  Scientology continues to exercise its freedom to spread Hubbard's
message to the world. The church recently built a multimillion-dollar
facility on its desert compound to house Golden Era Productions, its
film and video studios. There, hundreds of Sea Organization members
live and produce every aspect of Scientology technical films.

[inside studio, people working on commercial]

MAN IN COMMERCIAL:  Dianetics and Scientology are, in fact, the very
successful study of life itself.

[more footage of people working at Golden Era Productions; picture of
video "Confessional TRs; footage of people building e-meters; footage
of person reading LRH work in Spanish]

VO:  Members work round the clock shooting, processing and scoring
music for massive worldwide distribution. The films are purchased by
Scientologists who want assistance with their course work. The studio
also mass produces e-meters, and translates Hubbard's lectures into
over 50 languages.

[Clearwater picket 1997--sign saying "Scientology Hates Free Speech",
Dave Touretzky with sign "Hubbard Was a Fraud"; Xenu carrying sign
saying "www.xenu.net"]

VO:  But as Scientology attempts to spread its message, there are
those who work equally hard to stop it.

[footage of hippies apparently meditating]

PRISCILLA COATES (caption--"Priscilla Coates, former president, Cult
Awareness Network")(voice of and on camera):  The Cult Awareness
Network, founded in 1974 as Citizens Freedom Foundation, their purpose
was to educate the public about what they called at that time
spiritual fraud. It was never meant to be an adversarial organization,
we never intended, um, to put anyone out of business.

[newspaper article titled "Cult girl 'frightened' to talk"; young girl
with sign pinned to her shirt saying "I am on power processes, please
do not ask me questions, audit me, or discuss my case with me."]

VO:  CAN had for years criticized Scientology and provided so-called
deprogrammers to parents desperate to bring their children out of
cults.

[Scienos picketing CAN with signs saying "Stop hate mongering in Los
Angeles, don't support CAN", "Get kidnappers out of L.A.", "CAN is a
hate group"]

MARK EBNER (voice of and on camera):  They did referrals, offered exit
counseling, and in the old days I guess they used to call it
deprogramming.  Of course, like psychiatry, CAN became a mortal enemy
of Scientology.

["Freedom" magazine issue about the Cult Awareness Network; "Freedom"
magazine article "What to Do About the Cult Awareness Network"]

VO:  After several bloody lawsuits, the Cult Awareness Network went
bankrupt, but Scientology did not stop there.

[picture outside U.S. court house; letter on CAN stationery from April
17, 1997 announcing new ownership of CAN]

PRISCILLA COATES (voice of and on camera):  In bankruptcy court, a man
presented himself, Steven Hayes, who is a Scientologist and an
attorney, and he offered to buy the name Cult Awareness Network, the
telephone number, and the, the furnishings. Immediately, or almost
immediately, scientology began an organization called Cult Awareness
Network.

[picture of someone on phone at CAN office]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  What they did with the
Cult Awareness Network, of finally becoming your critic, and now
carrying your critic's name--I mean, you talk about body snatchers.
Now you call up the Cult Awareness Network and guess what you're
talking to?

MARK EBNER:  You have a Scientologist answering the phone there, and
that's how they operate. It doesn't get any darker than that.

[outside Scn church at night with lighted-up "Church of Scientology"
sign on top of building]

VO:  Such aggressive moves point to Scientology's determination to
spread its word at any cost.

[footage of grimy smokestacks, buildings being demolished; atomic bomb
detonating; prisoners walking out of prison cells]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  In another life, in the next
life, do I want to come back to something that's charred, in cinders,
because of a nuclear holocaust? Or do you think I want to come back to
a world where crime and violence had been escalated enormously? No. So
we need--if we want to save it, we need to work now. We're racing
against the clock.

BILL KURTIS:  Next--why celebrities are so important to the
Scientology movement. When we come back, how fame and stardom are used
to promote a religion worldwide.

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[Crowd of people outside Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles; picture of
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman]

VO:  The high profile role of Scientology's celebrities-- which
include America's most popular actor, Tom Cruise-- adds to
Scientology's mystique.

[footage of Travolta being presented with a "1998 Celebrity with
glamour of the year" (?) award from somebody (glass trophy with red
and blue hand prints painted on it)]

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and
on camera):  I'm part of a, of a frontier in a way, you know, that
very few people ever get to be part of. Like a pioneer in many, in
many ways, and I've, I've seen my efforts come to fruition.

[picture of LRH; picture of Walt Disney]

JOHN RICHARDSON (caption--"John Richardson, journalist")(voice of and
on camera):  There is a famous letter written by L. Ron Hubbard saying
go out and get celebrities, uh, that appears to be authentic, and it
seems, yeah, he's... Walt Disney and a number of other names were
listed on it.

[outside Celebrity Centre; Anne Archer; Nancy Cartwright; musicians on
stage at Celebrity Centre underneath picture of LRH]

VO:  The Hollywood Celebrity Centre has long been a haven for
entertainers who take specialized Scientology courses.

SCIENO MAN (on stage at Scieno function, presenting an award to a
woman):  Certificate of special congressional recognition...

JENNA ELFMAN (caption--"Jenna Elfman, Scientologist actress"):  The
Celebrity Centre is just like, you know, the stable datum of like,
growth and sanity, and growing as an artist, and, um, it's just like
I'm always safe when I come here.

DANNY MASTERSON (caption--"Danny Masterson, Scientologist actor"):
It's the place to be. Like, everybody here is jamming, you know.
Everybody's doing what they want to do, and if they're not, they're
finding out why they're not, and they're getting to what they want to
do.

ANNE ARCHER (caption--"Anne Archer, Scientologist actress"):  There
are organizations on this planet where artists can go and find support
and find the true measure of their creativity.

[footage of Kirstie Alley and James Wilder]

VO:  Why do fame and Scientology intersect?

JOHN RICHARDSON:  They're spiritual freelancers. They're really out on
the line with their emotions as their, as their... medium. And it's an
insecure profession for both practical reasons and emotional reasons.

[footage of Hollywood Boulevard]

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and
on camera):  We're one of the--the few groups, let's say, that really
cares about the survival of Hollywood and the way it should be. Not
only from the cleanliness of the streets of Hollywood, but to the, the
kind of profile that one imagines Hollywood could be or should be.

["Celebrity" magazine with Jenna Elfman on the cover; Scn
International Association of Scientologists ad with John Travolta,
Kelly Preston and their son Jett with caption "Lifetime Members"]

MARK EBNER (voice of and on camera):  Well, it's like--it's like a
cult within a cult, you know. You have the cult of celebrity, and you
have the cult of Scientology, and you've got a perfect match. What's
sad, what's, what's really sad about this is that when, you know, the
public at large sees John Travolta on national television, you know,
you know, thanking L. Ron Hubbard at a Golden Globe Awards ceremony,
or attributing his success to Scientology, and then they see that this
guy's got planes, he's got, um, you know, sports cars-- he's got it
all-- people automatically think, "Hey, maybe I can, too."

ISAAC HAYES:  Those who...go against the status quo and stand up for
their beliefs usually comes under scrutiny. We as entertainers, I
feel-- and this is a personal belief here-- I feel I have a
responsibility as to how I live my life because people of note, they
influence people.

[footage of Isaac Hayes and his wife]

VO:  Celebrity members are offended by the insinuation that they are
pawns of the church.

[more footage of Isaac Hayes at a party]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  My fans respect me, and if I
thought that I was giving them something that was detrimental to their
survival, I wouldn't do it. I would not do it. And it would be remiss
if I didn't share this.

[Scieno rally in Berlin, Scienos chanting "Freedom now! Freedom now!";
cover of "George" magazine with article about Scientology, "The battle
between Germany and Scientology"]

VO:  Celebrity parishioners recently came out in defense of the
church, which is currently at odds with the German government

[first page of "George" magazine article about Scientology, "Clash of
the Titans"]

BILL WALSH (tax attorney, Church of Scientology) (voice of and on
camera):  Right now in Germany, we've had over 19 human rights reports
issued by some of the most prestigious organizations in the world
condemning Germany's targeting Scientologists. They're ostracized,
they're alienated, they're disenfranchised. If you're identified as a
Scientologist in Germany, you're going to be boycotted, blacklisted,
your children will be kicked out of private school. Your life will be
ruined.

GRAHAM BERRY:  Germany believes that it is, at best, a commercial
organization, uh, a political organization, uh, bent upon creating a
totalitarian state, and under their constitution, uh, because of their
recent history, they are constitutionally prohibited from permitting
totalitarian organizations to exist there.

[picture of woman at Berlin Scieno rally dressed up as the Statue of
Liberty holding a copy of "What Is Scientology?"; picture of Isaac
Hayes giving speech at Berlin rally; more footage of Scieno rally in
Berlin]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  Germany, they're attacking the
church. They're violating the very thing that they swore to uphold.
That is, to protect and respect religions.

[picture of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman]

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and
on camera):  The first time I heard about Germany, and there was a
problem with not only, um, Scientology but other minority religions,
was right around the "Mission Impossible" time when they were
boycotting Tom's film, and then shortly after, there was an attempt to
boycott one of mine, and I guess the idea was if we were having
trouble at a distance, then what about the people that actually were
living there?

[newspaper article titled "U.S. Celebrities Defend Scientology in
Germany"]

VO:  Celebrity Scientologists took their concerns to congress.

JOHN TRAVOLTA (footage from C-Span2 broadcast of congressional
hearings about religions persecution in Europe):  No one has died, no
one has been put in camps, uh, but if, if you observe that these facts
are comparable to early '30s, uh, treatment, then that's, you know,
that's for you to observe.

[more footage from Berlin Scieno rally]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  By standing up, you are doing
the other religions a favor, actually. Because religious suppression
is suppression no matter where it's from. Or whenever it happens.

[footage of celebration of the opening of L. Ron Hubbard Way in Los
Angeles; short footage of John Travolta at ceremony]

VO:  Celebrity members recently appeared at the opening of L. Ron
Hubbard way. The street, found in the heart of Hollywood, is dedicated
to the man to whom many stars attribute their success.

JOHN TRAVOLTA (inside Scn church--caption, "John Travolta,
Scientologist"):  I do simply live a better life, and a happier life,
and a more, um, successful life because of Mr. Hubbard.

[more footage of opening of L. Ron Hubbard Way]

VO:  The enthusiastic words of glamorous Scientologists help the
church into the mainstream.

KIRSTIE ALLEY (outside AOLA building on L. Ron Hubbard Way--caption,
"Kirstie Alley, Scientologist"):  The one thing that was really cool
about L. Ron Hubbard was that he really got the concept that if people
united, and not in some airy-fairy way, but if they united and they
put their, you know, muscle and brawn together and they worked really
hard, you could create a better civilization.

[Scieno event in auditorium; David Miscavige walking down stairs on to
stage]

VO:  In October 1993, the church called thousands of parishioners
together for an announcement by Scientology's top official, David
Miscavige.

DAVID MISCAVIGE (on stage, giving speech):  On October 1, 1993, the
IRS issued letters recognizing Scientology and every one of its
organizations as fully tax exempt! The war is over! (cheering and
applause)

[more footage of Scieno event with fireworks and laser lights,
audience giving ovation; pictures of David Miscavige; footage of David
Miscavige walking down hall, sitting at desk talking on telephone]

VO:  Many attribute the breakthrough with the IRS to David Miscavige.
A lifelong Scientologist, Miscavige took the reigns of the church at
the age of 22. Miscavige, who has not granted a TV interview in seven
years, sat down with :Investigative Reports" to discuss his church

[Scieno rally in Berlin]

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview; caption--"David Miscavige, ecclesiastical
leader of the Church of Scientology") (voice of and on camera):  All
great religions have been attacked during their formative years.
Scientology is no different. And the fact that we have emerged through
this and come through says a great deal about our tenacity and our
ability to persevere.

DAVID MISCAVIGE (on stage, giving speech):  Scientologists are, if
nothing else, the anti-matter of quitters. There's an old saying: When
the going gets tough, pit bulls call a Scientologist. (cheering and
applause)

[more footage of Scieno event with laser lights; Scientology logo]

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview) (voice of and on camera):  In any war,
there's casualties on both sides. Okay, we've overcome the obstacles,
but certainly on our side throughout that time period, we've made our
mistakes. And in answer to that, all I can say is that a testament to
the validity of Scientology is that we've also cleaned house,
corrected our mistakes. You've just seen a religion emerge in the 20th
century.

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[outside Celebrity Centre; newspaper article titled "Scientology--A
Long Trail of Controversy"; another shot of Celebrity Centre; part of
newspaper article title "struggle for credibility"]

VO:  Over its rocky 45- year history, Scientology has driven for
mainstream acceptance.

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview):  People have been searching for thousands
of years for spiritual release and freedom, and what we have in
Scientology is the answer. How to achieve that.

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit):  Ultimately,
the whole purpose is to help everybody else, and that's all it is.

[world map montage with footage of people walking down street; footage
outside different Scn churches]

VO:  The church claims eight million members, while outsiders say the
number is around 300,000. Regardless, the Church of Scientology
continues to expand, especially in eastern Europe and Asia.

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit):  Well, it's
truly the, the religious philosophy that we need to get through at the
turn of the century.

[picture of LRH, bust of LRH; footage of California desert area;
another bronze bust of Hubbard; footage of atomic bomb detonating]

VO:  L. Ron Hubbard continues to be revered by Scientology. The church
has purchased land in New Mexico and California to store the Hubbard
gospel. There, it will be protected from natural disasters or a
nuclear holocaust.

L. RON HUBBARD (from video):  Whatever else man was trying to do,
whether he was cultured or primitive, and so on, he was attempting to
survive.

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview):  We're unique amongst other great
religions of Earth in that all of our "source" materials, the original
teachings of our religion, have been recorded. So, as a result, we
expect that our religion will be taught and practiced the same way 50
years from now, 100 years from now, a thousand years from now.

[Scieno rally in Berlin; footage of Washington Monument; outside Eli
Lilly building; outside Time-Life building; footage of clouds and
sunset; Bridge course description chart; clips of other religious
churches]

VO:  Scientology's startling battles with world governments and
multimillion dollar companies represent more than a cheap play for
money or power. By insisting that it has discovered the key to human
happiness, Scientology has thrown itself into the ring with other
religions in a fight for the hearts and minds of the people.

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview):  Where does it say that God helps those
who help themselves. Well, in Scientology we're engaged in helping
people help themselves so they can fully comprehend and understand
God.

[photo of "Religious Freedom Crusade"]

NADINE STROSSEN (caption, "Nadine Strossen, president,
A.C.L.U.")(voice of and on camera):  Freedom of religion means that
every individual has the right to believe whatever it is that he or
she wants and to engage in any kind of religious practice, so long as
that practice does not actually harm another human being or cause a
great danger to society as a whole.

[outside courthouse; statue of Jesus; outside a church; aerial shot of
Fort Harrison; Scieno photographing somebody; U.S. flag flying]

FORD GREENE (voice of and on camera):  In this country, the government
is terrified of religion. They are terrified of taking a hard look and
a hard stand, and saying "This kind of activity is religious, this
kind of activity is not." When you have an organization that has a tax
exemption and a staff that will say or do anything in order to get
their point of view across, I consider that to be an intrinsic threat
to what I love about America.

[U.S. flag with Sea Organization flag flying underneath it; aerial
footage of White House]

GRAHAM BERRY (voice of and on camera):  The only ethics in the world
are Scientology ethics, for the purpose of expanding Scientology,
taking over the heads of government and ruling the world according to
Scientology, uh, technology.

["Dianetics" sign or billboard]

ERIC SHERMAN (voice of and on camera0:  We're here, we're doing our
thing, we're not trying to aggrandize or take over anybody. At the
same time, we want to be left alone. Nobody's got to do it, nobody's
forced to do it. I've never been forced to do it. It's always been my
choice, always been my choice. If somebody tampers with that choice,
it's un-American.

[more footage from Clearwater 1997 picket (Dave Touretzky with
"Hubbard Was a Fraud", Xenu with sign "www.xenu.net"; "Scientology
Hates Free Speech" sign; Scieno taking pictures of somebody; somebody
putting their hand in front of camera lens]

JON ATACK (voice of and on camera):  I don't think that Scientology
should be banned, and I'm not seeking to stop Scientology from
existing. I do want people to know the facts, I want them to know the
truth about it so that they can make their own decision.

[Scn promotional video of somebody holding the cans of the e-meter]

ARON MASON (voice of and on camera):  The way to understand
Scientology is to see it for yourself. We in Scientology don't tell
you what you should conclude concerning any part of the religion, but
when you've seen it in action, well, then you can make some
conclusions.

TAMMY TERRENZI:  It's all about you. It's not about what anyone else
says or thinks; it's about just an individual becoming a better,
stronger, more powerful individual.

[web page saying "Why I hate Scientology"]

DENNIS ERLICH (voice of and on camera):  The only thing that I can see
really occurring is that more and more people find out more and more
about what Scientology is really about, and they'll sort of be
ridiculed into history.

ISAAC HAYES:  People don't want to accept new ideas, a new and better
way to look at something. They don't want to do that. It's just a
natural, uh... A habit of man.

[footage of Scienos marching at Berlin rally]

ROBERT VAUGHN YOUNG (voice of and on camera):  Reality is just
agreement, nothing else. All this is held together only because we
agree it's held together. And that's all Scientology is. It's a bunch
of people saying and agreeing and chanting: "This is the truth, this
is the truth, this is the truth." And when you stop chanting it,
there's nothing left. There ain't no truth. There ain't no truth, and
suddenly you find out that the only way you can be a Scientologist is
to not be a Scientologist.

[outside Scn church]

MIKE RINDER (voice of and on camera):  You don't have to come into
Scientology. You don't have to participate in it. You don't have to do
anything you don't want to. But if you're looking for answers, there
are a lot of answers in Scientology.

[picture of LRH]

L. RON HUBBARD (from video)(voice of and on video):  The aim and goal
of Scientology is to take an individual and put them in a position
where they can confront their own problems and solve their own
problems, and so bring themselves up by their own bootstraps.

[picture of LRH holding copy of "Dianetics" book]

JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and
on camera):  Probably my favorite concept of L. Ron Hubbard's is a
world without criminality, a world without war, and a world without
insanity. And I know of no other group, uh, that their goals are that
clear.

[video of solar system]

ISAAC HAYES (voice of and on camera):  We want a clear planet. And
what do I mean by clear? To totally eradicate the reactive mind. And
that brings you to a state of clear.

[footage of rocket launch; neon "Scientology" sign]

DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview) (voice of and on camera):  When you truly
understand or have, have found the answers to life itself, and you
truly understand the nature of the spirit, what flows from that are
all the answers. The advances in the sciences are monumental, they're
mind-boggling. What about a similar advance in the field of
spiritualism or religion? Why not? Scientology, we believe, is the
point where science and religion have truly met.

L. RON HUBBARD (from video):  Scientology is for an able guy like you
or like me, able to function in life, able to make his own way, does
his work, and so forth-- all right, that's the man that should be
helped.

[space photo of Earth]

VO:  With Hubbard's word as their guide, Scientologists fan across the
globe, resolved to "clear the planet" for everyone.

BILL KURTIS:  While the U.S. now views Scientology as a religion, that
is not the case in other countries where the church has attempted to
establish itself. Germany, as we briefly reported, is one. It has
taken the official view that Scientology is not only not a religion,
but an enterprise out to bilk its members of money. The German
government has also said the Scientologists are a threat to democracy.
The Scientologists have charged the Germans of using Nazi tactics and
of practicing religious persecution. While some members of Congress
have protested, the American government has taken no official action
in the dispute.

[snip promo for upcoming show]

I'm Bill Kurtis. Thanks for watching this special edition of
"Investigative Reports" here on A&E.

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with the combination of evil and incompetence
you see in Scientology."--Keith Henson