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Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon

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Title: Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 1998
Publisher: Boston Herald
Author: Joseph Mallia
Main source: cs.cmu.edu
Alternate and/or complementary: scientology-lies.com, rickross.com, apologeticsindex.org
Tags: Boston Herald • Clear Body, Clear Mind (book) • Cost • Dennis Erlich • Detox • Field Staff Member (FSM) • HealthMed • Heber C. Jentzsch • Jeanne Mack • Joseph Mallia • Kirstie Alley • Narconon (aka Scientology drug rehab) • Narconon Inc. • Purification Rundown ("Purif") • Religious Technology Center (RTC) • Robert "Bobby" Wiggins • Robert Vaughn Young • Secondary copy • Steven Hassan • Susan Birkenshaw • Tax matter • Warren L. McShane

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An organization with ties to the Church of Scientology is recruiting New England schoolchildren for what critics say is an unproven — and possibly dangerous — anti-drug program. And the group — Narconon Inc. of Everett — is being paid with taxpayer dollars without disclosing its Scientology connections. Narconon was paid at least $942,853 over an eight-year period for delivering anti-drug lectures at public and parochial schools throughout the region, according to federal income tax documents. The money came from fees ... [Read the rest at cs.cmu.edu]