The International Association of Scientologists; the "Ideal Org" buildings - how scientologists are kept in the dark
SME
interrelated:
1) facts behind the IAS which too few know;
2) some things about "Ideal Org" buildings that have similarities to
what has been done with the IAS; and
3) why scientologists are kept in the dark about all this.
The first part here is about the IAS (International Association of
Scientologists). This is a very little bit of what will be a bigger
chapter in an upcoming book about the lies behind organized
scientology's "corporate sortout".
The information listed here is a small part of the available
information that will eventually be published and, IMHO, will be
covered by several witnesses in future criminal and/or civil
litigation.
To understand the IAS and what is really behind it one has to go back
to the years prior to the IAS.
For years Hubbard took money from organized scientology (millions of
dollars) while preaching to scientologists that he never got such
money.
It would be too lengthy to go into a full history of this but suffice
to say there were often pools of funds that were used to funnel money
to Hubbard whether it be in the days the guardians office worked with
"LRH Accounts" on same or later days where Miscavige just took the
money and sent it to Hubbard.
One of the big legal problems that initially the GO had and later the
CMO (Commodores Messenger Organization) had was Hubbard really was
running all this and money really was inureing to his personal benefit
and there was the ever present danger that the likes of the IRS would
find out, thus destroying any chance of tax exempt status for
organized scientology's corporations in the USA.
One "solution" earlier on was to have a phony corporation called
"Religious Research Foundation" ("RRF") that would hold all the funds
paid for flag services from people and organizations outside of the
USA. It seemed relatively easy to hide this money when Flag was on a
ship so RRF's funds were often used for sending money to Hubbard
secretly that he never really earned legally. (RRF was hardly the only
example but I just use it here to give some background behind what led
to the IAS). At the very least it was felt that this information could
be kept from the likes of the IRS and civil litigants.
Well, when flag moved to Florida and it was later decided that it
would have to now officially become part of the corporation known as
the church of scientology of California, suddenly for the first time
those flag services were being performed within the USA and clearly
under the jurisdiction of the IRS. Now the fact that millions of that
money had inured to Hubbard's benefit was a big issue and an
additional cover-up was needed.
Although organized scientology feels that they have addressed issues
like this and all was "made whole" with the 1993 tax agreement with
the IRS and their paying the IRS $12.5 million, really they got away
with a lot of lies.
The point in this posting is not to discuss the legal and tax aspects
of RRF but rather to point out how organized scientology felt that
they needed and wanted funds they could control that were outside the
jurisdiction of the IRS or any other government entities.
Wrestling with such issues as this have constantly been problems with
organized scientology in part due to the fact that they were hiding
the fact that Hubbard really controlled things and actually got
millions of dollars for same. It's still a huge problem now as they
try to hide the fact that Miscavige controls everything of substance.
Back in the mid 70s before flag came to shore in Florida and while
"international funds" like those held in RRF accounts were used for
Hubbard's benefit, there were other attempts lead by Hubbard to hide
all this and on the other hand deal with anything the IRS might do.
For example, in the mid 70s Hubbard had the GO set up back-up
corporations for all scientology "churches" in the USA in the event
the IRS seized the then current churches' bank accounts and other
physical assets through what was known as "jeopardy
assessment" (basically a fast seizure of assets without having to go
through years of litigation).
We set up what was then secretly known as the "Greater Churches of
Scientology" where, for example, we had the church of scientology of
Boston, we also had a secret "Greater Church of Scientology of Boston"
that could be used to take over if the IRS seized the assets of the
existing Boston corporation. The new "Greater" corporations would be
funded with money outside of the USA and outside of the reach of the
IRS.
So again, we see organized scientology needing to have funds outside
the reach of US governmental agencies yet still under the control of
the powers that be (Hubbard and those running things under him and
later Miscavige).
To accomplish this organized scientology would need a "corporate
sortout" that could hide the real controls of things and that would
make it prohibitively costly for ANYONE, government or private, to try
to pierce all the corporate veils.
With the biggest money making parts of organized scientology now being
in the USA (Flag, the major orgs in Los Angeles and international
management that controlled almost all the funds of scientology around
the world) something was needed to get funds going back out of the USA
and outside the jurisdiction of the IRS.
This is PART of what was behind the IAS. (I will not here attempt to
cover other ways of doing this here such as through various trusts
then created, etc., etc.)
(An interesting sideline note here is that per its filings with the
IRS, organized scientology has again set it up so that at least some
of the funds paid for flag services from those outside of the US again
go to an entity outside of the USA for holding until services are
delivered. While this is in and of itself not illegal, it's
interesting. Could it be that history is repeating itself here and
part of the money is misused? I don't know but given their track
record it should be looked into).
The other part of what was behind the "need" for the IAS had to do
with so many millions of dollars of the funds of organized scientology
being subject to refund claims. This was mostly the unused portions of
advanced payments made for services at orgs.
Even in 1982 and 1983, although the total of potentially refundable
advanced payments then were far less than they apparently are now, it
was still a major issue and we were wrestling with this subject during
the entire corporate evolution and its many changes.
One of the very attorneys who was working on this with myself and my
crew, later just came up with the basic IAS plan legally as a way to
deal with all the above.
In short, it would result in the bulk of the monies being able to be
outside of the USA, it could potentially build millions of non
refundable money and, it was hoped by them, it would all be out of the
jurisdiction of the IRS and other federal US governmental agencies
(even safe from damages claimants) so DM and his folks could pretty
much do whatever they wanted with it.
The trick now was how to sell it to scientologists using PR and lies.
Public scientologists were already paying fortunes for auditing and
training. How could organized scientology get them to ALSO pay to the
IAS (memberships and straightforward donations)?
Missions were sent to research membership organizations and other such
things. Also missions were sent to pull off one of the greatest scams
on public scientologists in the history or organized scientology. It
was made to look like somehow all these concerned scientologists from
around the world somehow joined together for freedom or whatever,
wrote the founding document for the IAS and somehow voted it into
existence.
Organized scientology actually pulled it off to make it look like this
was somehow like the signing of the declaration of independence in the
USA, some great, spontaneous, altruistic and brave deed towards
freedom
The truth was very different. Missions actually vetted what public
scientologists would go to the key events to pull this all off, the
founding document was drafted by attorneys and PR people not "the
public" and in short it was a well timed operation pulled off by DM
and his folks to trick the public into thinking they were behind all
this and somehow the IAS was put into existence for altruistic
purposes.
Just like was done in so many other areas of the "corporate evolution"
of organized scientology, the public was fooled with the set-up of the
IAS.
There are three people who can give evidence to prove all aspects of
this and more are willing to speak out as well.
(Wait until the truth is published about such things as WISE, for
example, where you will see the Hubbard telexes and the like to show
it was initially a covert way to fund the GO criminal defenses (for
MarySue, Jane Kember, etc.) and then evolved to be a way to control
all public scientologists in business and get more money from them.
The GO was getting funded by missions back then but it was not enough
to also cover the criminal defenses).
I can tell you with zero doubt that there were tremendous lies behind
the formation of organized scientology's corporate structure and that
it was built around total central control reflecting both Hubbard's
and DM's paranoia.. It was to hide assets from others and to "protect"
and hide those that covertly ran organized scientology.
Understanding the above being behind the formation of the IAS, leads
me to form my own opinions behind what is behind the "ideal org"
buildings. I have seen many things about the funds being raised for
these buildings including events, newsletters, mass emails, etc.
For example, there was that Vancouver Ideal Org newsletter that I
talked about on one of the radio programs I was on with Bruce Hines.
They raised a million or so in money and pledges using celebrities at
events and creating award levels to "recognize" donors like they did
with the IAS.
Another example is that in the past four months or so I have seen at
least a dozen emails from the head of the San Diego "church" pleading
for others to donate funds for buying their ideal org building. One
email even begged them to sell their jewelry and other valuables to
donate for purchasing the building. Again, like the IAS, it pushed
levels of recognition for donors, the greater recognition for the
greater amounts of money donated.
But look at something here. It is well documented that orgs getting
these new buildings are actually contracting and not expanding. Their
PR that they are expanding and thus need new buildings is total bull.
Once again organized scientology lives off lies and false perceptions.
And once again as it did with some of the IAS funds, organized
scientology is deceiving its own public to give it non refundable
funds that it can control from a central source and hopefully (in its
view) keep away from government bodies and/or damages claimants.
If the local churches needed bigger premises as they were expanding so
quickly, why can they not pay for same? The reasons are: 1) they are
NOT expanding and 2) international management rips off all the money
they can from local orgs leaving them without even enough to take care
of their own staff. Then the public are deceived into paying more.
Scientology is not just built on lies to the broad "wog" public at
large. It is also built by deceiving its own public and staff.
The thing is when you confront most scientologists with things like
this, they will argue with you as they truly have no idea they have
been deceived by their own "church" top management. They are in the
main not bad people at all. They have been duped and truly have no
clue of the real facts.
So there you have it, IMHO.
Much more to come.
Larry Brennan - SME
Tom N
> This posting touches on three subjects that in my opinion are
> interrelated:
>
> 1) facts behind the IAS which too few know;
You don't know the facts behind the IAS.
> 2) some things about "Ideal Org" buildings that have similarities to
> what has been done with the IAS; and
You don't that either.
> 3) why scientologists are kept in the dark about all this.
Another troll pretending that he knows things about the Church
of Scientology that no one else does.
Boring.
If this person was for real, he sure as hell wouldn't post his
article on this bigot-infested cesspool.
These people obviously have no interest in accurate information
about Scientology or the CoS.
<snip>
Tom Newton
SME
Thanks for the bump.
Ed
Ed
Out_Of_The_Dark
Very informative post. I remember when the both the IAS and WISE were
started, no one knew of these things until the sales pitches began.
Here's some media substantiating some of what you have written here.
EX-MEMBERS ASK REFUNDS FROM CHURCH PROPOSAL BATTLED BY SCIENTOLOGISTS
$2.95 - Miami Herald - NewsBank - Sep 28, 1983
... of Scientology say church officials refused to repay them more
than $100000 for ... Church representatives wanted to know why
Klingman wanted a refund, ...
Article 1 of 1; 545 words
EX-MEMBERS ASK REFUNDS FROM CHURCH PROPOSAL BATTLED BY SCIENTOLOGISTS
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three former members of the embattled Church of Scientology say church
officials refused to repay them more than $100,000 for courses they
never took. The sworn statements submitted to Clearwater City Attorney
Tom Bustin are among several documents city commissioners will review
as they decide whether to impose a new law that could bring the
controversial church under local government scrutiny. The City
Commission is scheduled to render a final vote Oct. 6 on a local
ordinance
Published on September 28, 1983, Page 2D, Miami Herald, The (FL)
http://tinyurl.com/3ewb8s
REPORT: SCIENTOLOGY FUNDS WENT TO HUBBARD
$2.95 - Miami Herald - NewsBank - Jun 13, 1983
But the newspaper said court files in the United States and Canada
show Hubbard collected money worldwide through the Religious Research
Foundation. ...
Article 1 of 1; 248 words
REPORT: SCIENTOLOGY FUNDS WENT TO HUBBARD
Source: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The founder and spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology diverted
millions of dollars in church funds into his own personal accounts, it
was reported Sunday. L. Ron Hubbard, reclusive leader of the
Clearwater-based church, used a "dummy" foreign corporation as a
funnel for the funds, the St. Petersburg Times said in a copyrighted
story. Church officials denied the charges. But the newspaper said
court files in the United States and Canada show
Published on June 13, 1983, Page 10D, Miami Herald, The (FL)
http://tinyurl.com/4whvvd
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For those not aware of the earlier corporate background of the
'church', here's a n article with information & links:
Scientology's battle for tax exemption, 1952-80
The Church of Scientology has had a long and complicated history of
conflict with the taxation authorities. The most recent articles on
the subject (see the New York Times piece, "The Shadowy Story Behind
Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status") have focused on the events of the
1980s and 1990s. But it's necessary to go considerably further back to
appreciate the extraordinary nature of the Scientology-IRS conflict.
Scientology was between 1952 and 1966 administered by an apparently
secular organization, originally called the Hubbard Association of
Scientologists (HAS). This was established in Arizona on 10 September
1952 with an authorized capital stock of $200,000. On 1 September
1954, the HAS became the HASI (HAS International) "to establish a
religious fellowship and association for research into the spirit and
the human soul and the use and dissemination [of Scientology
materials]. " The first Church of Scientology was founded in December
1953 in Camden, New Jersey, along with the Church of American Science
and the Church of Spiritual Engineering. All three were rapidly
abandoned, with the first incorporated Church of Scientology being
founded in California on 18 February 1954. It changed its name to "The
Church of Scientology of California" - a name it has retained ever
since - on 19th June 1956. However, the organization as a whole was
run by the HASI, "a religious fellowship" rather than a church. A
bewildering variety of other bodies has existed, both in the US and
abroad, making the job of tax investigators extremely difficult: for
instance, one of Scientology's UK entities, Hubbard Communications
Office Limited, traded as "Hickstead Garage" [sic] apparently in the
vain hope of it being overlooked by the tax authorities. {..]
Alert
http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?highlight=ideal&t=23873
Jens Tingleff
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SME wrote:
Fascinating :-)
That book will be wort waiting for - not that I wouldn't like to see it
REALLY SOON, PLEASE!!
;-) ;-)
Best Regards
Jens
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Piltdown Man
SME <larrybr...@aol.com> wrote...
<snip>
> And once again as it did with some of the IAS funds, organized
> scientology is deceiving its own public to give it non refundable
> funds that it can control from a central source and hopefully (in its
> view) keep away from government bodies and/or damages claimants.
This is the point I keep on not understanding. If the aim is to keep as
much money as possible out of reach of government bodies or damages
claimants (a reasonable assumption), why are they spending so much of it on
buying big, unnecessary, conspicuous buildings? They're the easiest assets
of all to seize. It makes no sense to me at all. (It doesn't have to make
sense, of course, since we're dealing with decisions taken by DM here.)
<snip>
> The thing is when you confront most scientologists with things like
> this, they will argue with you as they truly have no idea they have
> been deceived by their own "church" top management. They are in the
> main not bad people at all. They have been duped and truly have no
> clue of the real facts.
There is an alternative explanation. People with enough critical thinking
skills to think about these glaringly obvious issues will likely not get
into Scientology in the first place, or if they do won't stay
Scientologists for any length of time. The loyal membership are the ones
who refuse, or are unable, to think at all about how they might possibly be
being duped.
banchukita
Larry, this is excellent - this kind of information we've been waiting
for for years! I can't wait for your book!
-maggie, human being
> ...
>
> read more »
Android Cat
> Scientology was between 1952 and 1966 administered by an apparently
> secular organization, originally called the Hubbard Association of
> Scientologists (HAS). This was established in Arizona on 10 September
> 1952 with an authorized capital stock of $200,000. On 1 September
> 1954, the HAS became the HASI (HAS International) "to establish a
> religious fellowship and association for research into the spirit and
> the human soul and the use and dissemination [of Scientology
> materials]. " The first Church of Scientology was founded in December
> 1953 in Camden, New Jersey, along with the Church of American Science
> and the Church of Spiritual Engineering. All three were rapidly
> abandoned, with the first incorporated Church of Scientology being
> founded in California on 18 February 1954.
Since Chris wrote that, there's been more digging going on. The New Jersey
Church was incorporated (first!) as well, and the Church of American Science
wasn't *rapidly* abandoned--it was the first "mother church" corporation,
and survived some time.
http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/amscience1.htm
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/scans/church_of_scientology_incorp_1953.pdf
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/scans/church_of_spiritual_engineering_incorp_1953.pdf
The Church of Scientology (California)'s incorporation papers:
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/scans/cos_articles_of_incorpt_1954.pdf
"That the specific and primary purposes for which this corporation is formed
are:
(a) To accept and adopt the aims purposes, principals and creed of The
Mother Church, "THE CHURCH OF AMERICAN SCIENCE," of Camden, New Jersey with
the power objectives and duties as herein defined and enumerated.
(b) To train and indoctrinate ministers and brothers and sisters in the
principals and teachings of the Church of American Science."
Shortly afterwards, the Church of Scientology (Arizona) was organized the
same way, and perhaps some other states. At some point the Church of
American Science was folded and the mothership-ness was transfered to Church
of Scientology of California, but I don't know if an exact year has been
found yet. (I'd guess 1956 as part of a name change and reorganization.)
> It changed its name to "The
> Church of Scientology of California" - a name it has retained ever
> since - on 19th June 1956. However, the organization as a whole was
> run by the HASI, "a religious fellowship" rather than a church. A
> bewildering variety of other bodies has existed, both in the US and
> abroad, making the job of tax investigators extremely difficult: for
> instance, one of Scientology's UK entities, Hubbard Communications
> Office Limited, traded as "Hickstead Garage" [sic] apparently in the
> vain hope of it being overlooked by the tax authorities. {..]
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/battle.html
--
Ron of that ilk.
Out_Of_The_Dark
> Out_Of_The_Dark wrote:
> > Scientology was between 1952 and 1966 administered by an apparently
> > secular organization, originally called the Hubbard Association of
> > Scientologists (HAS). This was established in Arizona on 10 September
> > 1952 with an authorized capital stock of $200,000. On 1 September
> > 1954, the HAS became the HASI (HAS International) "to establish a
> > religious fellowship and association for research into the spirit and
> > the human soul and the use and dissemination [of Scientology
> > materials]. " The first Church of Scientology was founded in December
> > 1953 in Camden, New Jersey, along with the Church of American Science
> > and the Church of Spiritual Engineering. All three were rapidly
> > abandoned, with the first incorporated Church of Scientology being
> > founded in California on 18 February 1954.
>
> Since Chris wrote that, there's been more digging going on. The New Jersey
> Church was incorporated (first!) as well, and the Church of American Science
> wasn't *rapidly* abandoned--it was the first "mother church" corporation,
> and survived some time.
>
Thanks you! Once again you are a wealth of information. :)
Mary
SME
> > > It changed its name to "The
> > > Church of Scientology of California" - a name it has retained ever
> > > since - on 19th June 1956. However, the organization as a whole was
> > > run by the HASI, "a religious fellowship" rather than a church. A
> > > bewildering variety of other bodies has existed, both in the US and
> > > abroad, making the job of tax investigators extremely difficult: for
> > > instance, one of Scientology's UK entities, Hubbard Communications
> > > Office Limited, traded as "Hickstead Garage" [sic] apparently in the
> > > vain hope of it being overlooked by the tax authorities. {..]
>
> > >http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/battle.html
>
> > --
> > Ron of that ilk.
>
> Thanks you! Once again you are a wealth of information. :)
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
It's good that things like the above are pointed out. It really helps.
However, the bottom line is that no one will ever figure out the
historical controls in organized scientology by following the maze of
confusing and some times conflicting "corporate structures" and the
various ways it all "evolved" over the years.
The legal structures of organized scientology have constantly over the
years been designed to mask the real controls. Some times Hubbard
dreamed up some legal solution or the GO dreamed one up but they never
seemed to be quite right as they were always to one degree or another
masking the real truth.
The following post goes into this subject in detail:
For example, in the late summer/fall of 1981, just before going on the
"corporate sortout" missions, I and another did an "evaluation"
covering this area that went up to Hubbard for approval. It showed the
insanity of the various "corporate evolutions" and how even at that
time in 1981 there were actually two "mother churches" used legally.
One being the c of s California to justify monies sent there and the
other being abroad to justify monies sent abroad from sources outside
of the USA.
It was always crazy as it never really reflected the truth.
This all led to a far more sophisticated setup with one "mother
church", CofS International and the whole RTC/CST "evolution" that
followed. However, as usual, even that setup was nothing more than a
"clever" way to hide assets and the truth behind the real controls of
organized scientology.
Moral of the story - by all means research the ever evolving and
interesting history of the main legal fictions of organized
scientology. Just don't expect to find truths there of how it was
really run and controlled.
Larry Brennan - SME
Android Cat
Oh sure, all those corporations and names are just to keep outside world
(and a lot of the insiders) guessing, to hide the control and profit, and in
the early days, to hide the debt (after a string of Hubbard Dianetics
Foundations went down like dominos with Hubbard usually just a step ahead of
creditors). Davie ran everything from Author Services Inc until he moved
his throne to RTC, which makes no sense on paper. (And not even by Sea Org
ranking, heh. A kleptocracy.)
The only reason that I keep track of the founding corporations is to slap in
the face of Scientology's continuing shore story that the first church was
incorporated in California in 1954 by people other than Hubbard. Er, no.
Spending time worrying about the _paper_ control structure is like debating
if Fair Game was cancelled: *Obviously* they still do it, so it wasn't, and
spending too much time on HCOBs and wording is a trap. It's like Hubbard's
little weasel phrases on the GO orders like "use only legal means" which
were only there for CYA decoration. (CHA or Cover Hubbard's Ass, I guess.)
Out_Of_The_Dark
>
> - Show quoted text -
Larry is correct but It's important to document these corporate things
as you are doing, Ron, because it serves as evidence that can be
compared with previous information to help give facts against
intentionally confusing disinformation. This info may well be needed
in the future when the CoS House of Cards start to fold and the
subpoenas start flying. We are all diverse in our history and
locations within the church. I know how helpful it was to me to put
some facts against names of entities I'd read or heard of while in.
SME
>
> - Show quoted text -
Agreed Ron and Mary.
I'm really very glad you are doing what you are doing!
Thanks:) SME
Jens Tingleff
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SME wrote:
> This posting touches on three subjects that in my opinion are
> interrelated:
>
> 1) facts behind the IAS which too few know;
> 2) some things about "Ideal Org" buildings that have similarities to
> what has been done with the IAS; and
> 3) why scientologists are kept in the dark about all this.
[.....]
> But look at something here. It is well documented that orgs getting
> these new buildings are actually contracting and not expanding. Their
> PR that they are expanding and thus need new buildings is total bull.
> Once again organized scientology lives off lies and false perceptions.
>
> And once again as it did with some of the IAS funds, organized
> scientology is deceiving its own public to give it non refundable
> funds that it can control from a central source and hopefully (in its
> view) keep away from government bodies and/or damages claimants.
>
[......]
So, does anyone have - and are willing to share - hard information about the
new "ideal orgs" buildings? Like, to which shell companies do they belong?
are the bOrgs renting them? In other words, is there at least something
which can be used to demonstrate the complete lack of transparency which
chracterises the dealings of the criminal organisation known as
the "church" <spit> of $cientology? Also, does the Co$ (say, in inernal
publications) state that all auditing rooms are wired for video and the
video being piped directy to Florida?
Since the new ideal org buildings are such a striking piece of nonsense I
would like to be able to do more than speculate, personally :-)
> Much more to come.
>
Is the book done yet?!!??
;-) ;-) ;-)
Best Regards
Jens
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