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Changing strategy: Scientology now steps right up to controversy

Title: Changing strategy: Scientology now steps right up to controversy
Date: Friday, 23 December 1988
Publisher: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Author: Stephen Koff
Main source: scientology-lies.com
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After years of sparring with the townsfolk and veiling itself in secrecy, the Church of Scientology has succeeded in turning Clearwater into its spiritual mecca. Scientologists quietly run teen nightclubs, schools, day-care centers, management consulting firms and other businesses, records and interviews show. Now the strategy of the organization, longtime observers say, is to confront controversy, gain converts and make money - lots of it. Scientology's Clearwater operation brings in $1.5-million to $2-million a week, say church watchers who include Clearwater ... [Read the rest at scientology-lies.com]