The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church – the church’s ruling body – has issued a warning to Greeks about Scientology infiltrating public institutions, such as schools, under the guise of drug awareness activities. In a statement released on 5 September, it said:
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, with a sense of responsibility, informs the Christ-filled multitude that the “Church of Scientology” which was operating in Greece in the form of an association under the name “Centre of Applied Philosophy of Greece” (K.E.F.E.) by two decisions of the Greek Justice (7380/1996 of the Athens Court of First Instance and 10.493/1997 of the Athens Court of Appeal) as “an organization with practices that are medically, socially and morally dangerous and harmful.”
In recent years it has been active under other names and under the front of seemingly innocuous actions, such as self-improvement seminars or sales seminars for businesses. Today, following a similar project in the past, known as “Narconon,” it is attempting to intervene in the public sphere, seeking partnerships with public and social bodies and schools, under the pretext of a new programme to tackle the major social problem of drugs under the name “The Truth about Drugs.”
The promoter of this action appears to be the Scientology “Foundation” entitled “A World without Drugs” (headquarters 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 710, Los Angeles, CA 90028 United States) and with a domestic implementing body, coming from the same area of this organization, the “Citizens’ Initiative for a Drug-Free Greece (Drug-Free World GR) (see websites www.notodrugs.gr, facebook.com/drugfreeworld.gr/, instagram.com/drugfreeworld.gr).
The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece stands with great respect, responsibility and prayer and recognizes the diligent and brave efforts of our fellow human beings who are struggling to break free from the tragic world of various addictions. It acknowledges and commends the valuable assistance and the diligent actions of the various scientific institutions and communities that assist in the rehabilitation of our fellow human beings.
At the same time, it calls on the public, social and private bodies active in the sensitive area of drug rehabilitation not to become unwitting sponsors or promoters of a religious organisation with socially dangerous activities. Its polemic and aversion to the medical branch of psychiatric science is, after all, well known.
It goes without saying that no method and no mask of social contribution can distort the reality, as reflected in the judgment of the Greek Justice, which is not the only one, that Scientology is: “an organization with medically, socially and morally dangerous and harmful practices.”
The church’s intervention is the latest episode in a long-running clash between Scientology and the Greek Orthodox Church. Scientology has had a long history in Greece, dating from as early as the 1950s, and hosted L. Ron Hubbard’s Sea Org fleet in the late 1960s before Hubbard was expelled from the country. From 1983 to 1999, Scientology operated under the guise of the “Center of Applied Philosophy of Greece”. Notably, it didn’t call itself a church, and even claimed in a 1995 letter that Scientology was not a religion and that its members identified religiously as Greek Orthodox Christians.
Nonetheless, KEFE was very much part of the wider Church of Scientology and followed the same aggressive strategy of seeking influence and attacking opponents as any other Scientology organization. It faced pressure from the Pan-Hellenic Parents Union of Parents for the Protection of Greek-Orthodox Culture, the Family and the Individual (PEG), which was supported by the Greek Orthodox Church and its Synodic Commission on Cults and Para-religions, headed by Father Antonios Alevizopoulos.
Scientology’s intelligence and public relations organisation, the Office of Special Affairs, systematically targeted PEG and the Greek Orthodox Church’s leadership. It carried out surveillance against them and compiled extensive files on those it considered enemies. OSA listed the Greek Orthodox Church’s revered head, Archbishop Seraphim of Athens, another archbishop, two other Greek Orthodox bishops and Alevizopoulos as among Scientology’s top twelve enemies in Greece.
Documents later seized by Greek law enforcement officers revealed that in April 1994, OSA Int in Los Angeles had ordered a “Greece Handling Program” targeting Alevizopoulos and Seraphim for their role in the (supposed) “Greek Orthodox ARM [Anti-Religious Movement]”. It instructed that intelligence was to be developed and used to “expose the criminal activities of Alevizopoulos and Seraphim.”
Not surprisingly, things did not go well for KEFE when this activity was exposed by three police raids carried out between June and November 1995. Thousands of pages of documents were seized, including highly incriminating OSA reports and orders. The courts ordered the KEFE to be dissolved for misrepresenting its status. They were unsparing about Scientology, stating that it “pursues aims that are alien to the nature and the concept of man as a free being” and that it is “an organisation with totalitarian structures and tendencies which in essence despises man, while acting freely and only in a superficial way in order and exclusively to attract members who are then brainwashed…, with the ultimate aim of creating a directed way of thinking… and which has for years been turned into a prohibited profit-making activity.”
However, the organization simply reincorporated itself as the Dianetics and Scientology Center of Greece (which renamed itself as the Greek Church of Scientology in 1999) and transferred its assets to the new organization.
Even after the court cases against KEFE, Scientology continued to feud with the Greek Orthodox Church. In 2002, it sent churches across Greece a letter on “Freedom of Expression” which attacked the Orthodox Church for its stance on Scientology. This did not go down well either; the Holy Synod responded by issuing a memo to all of its dioceses condemning “the para-religious organization of the self-proclaimed “Greek Church of Scientology” for sending an “extremely hostile, slanderous and abusive [document] against our Church and especially against its pastoral work in the field of dealing with heresy, aiming to disorient and confuse public opinion, due to the condemnatory decisions against it in Greece and abroad.”
Scientology has remained active in Greece since then, although with a lower profile. There is only one Scientology org in Greece, at 9 Asclepiou Street in Athens.
The church claims to have 20,000 Greek members, though this is certainly a gross exaggeration. According to Greek journalist Thodoris Chondrogiannos, the real figure is estimated to be more like 500.
Despite its small numbers, the Greek Church of Scientology is evidently well-funded; it is reported to have bought a building in the central Athens district of Ampelokipi for €2,260,000 (about $2.4 million). This is intended to serve as one of the church’s ‘Ideal Orgs,’ a pet project of Scientology leader David Miscavige. Greek Scientologists have been bombarded with demands to donate money to the project, leading to at least one lawsuit accusing it of bilking members.
A Greek Scientology magazine (Spiritual Horizons, issue 57), invokes the ancient Greek goddess Athena “Giv[ing] Her Power to Fundraising for the Ideal Organization”:
“The first part of the [resource-gathering] event was to find Athena. The OT Ambassadors searched everywhere for her and finally found her sitting sadly under an olive tree. She was sad because her own “Ideal Organization,” the Parthenon, had been destroyed. The OT Ambassadors comforted her by telling her that a new Ideal Organization would be erected in Athens and that would be the place from which the Scientologists would broadcast the technology that would save the world.”
Although the Ideal Org is being advertised as the way towards a new golden era for Scientology, in reality it’s likely to be much like the other Ideal Orgs around the world – a polished but empty white elephant.
The Holy Synod’s more immediate concern, as its statement highlights, is the activities of a Scientology front group – the Citizens’ Initiative for a Drug-Free Greece. This is the local branch of the Los Angeles-based Foundation for a Drug-Free World (FDFW), established in 2006.
Probably not coincidentally, FDFW was created a year after the California Department of Education (CDE) told schools in the state to stop hosting anti-drug talks given by Narconon, an older and better-known Scientology front group. The CDE carried out a review of Narconon’s educational materials which found that they did not “reflect accurate, widely accepted medical and scientific evidence. Some information is misleading because it is overstated or does not distinguish between drug use and abuse.” The reviewers criticised it for using scare tactics, such as telling students that too much caffeine could kill them.
Narconon’s main line of business is providing drug ‘rehabilitation’ services to addicts – an activity which has been highly controversial and has been linked to a series of deaths (see the Bunker’s extensive past coverage of Narconon). As its internal documents have made clear, its goal is explicitly to channel people into Scientology.
FDFW is now the main promoter for Scientology’s “Truth about Drugs” campaign. Its members have given out literally millions of booklets (a claimed 600,000 in Ireland alone) and lecturing in schools. It’s likely that FDFW was established to provide a more acceptable face for the campaign than the increasingly controversial and beleaguered Narconon, which has focused instead on its ‘rehabilitation’ services.
FDFW is a lot less open about its links to Scientology than Narconon. As Thodoris Chondrogiannos notes of the Citizens’ Initiative for a Drug-Free Greece, “Ostensibly, the pamphlet and the group distributing it had nothing to do with Scientology, since there is no mention of it. Even on the page of the “Citizens’ Initiative for a Drug-Free Greece” Facebook page. of the group on Facebook there is no mention of ‘Scientology’ or the ‘Greek Church of Scientology’.”
However, as Chondrogiannos points out, FDFW’s activities have been promoted in internal Scientology magazines.
Its headquarters is in the same building as the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition on Hollywood Boulevard. Similarly, the Greek group is co-located with the offices of the Greek Church of Scientology in Athens. The Church of Scientology International has also publicised FDFW’s activities in Greece, specifically attributing them to “volunteers from the Church of Scientology Athens.”
While FDFW’s materials don’t mention Scientology and the organisation doesn’t make obvious recruitment pitches, in the end everything that Scientology does is about promoting the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard and smoothing the way for what the church calls “broad public acceptance.” It’s one of a large number of so-called ‘social betterment’ groups operated by the church, often without publicising its ties to Scientology.
Carnegie Mellon University professor Dave Touretzky, who has been tracking Scientology’s anti-drug groups for years, says FDFW has “the same interest” as any other Scientology front group. “The Scientology term for it is ‘safepointing.’ In civilian terminology that means two things: building a good working relationship with the locals that can be exploited later, and establishing L. Ron Hubbard as a benevolent authority figure in the mind of the public.”
FDFW members have given anti-drug presentations and distributed “Truth about Drugs” booklets in schools in the US and Europe, resulting in several controversies. It carried out an anti-drug tour in Ireland in 2016, seeking endorsements and photo opportunities with unsuspecting mayors who had no idea about its links with Scientology.
In 2017, the Irish government stepped in to prevent FDFW delivering talks and booklets in Irish schools, while in Scotland the charity Mentor UK issued an alert to Scottish teachers advising them to avoid FDFW because of its inaccurate and alarmist approach. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District cancelled a planned series of school talks by FDFW in 2017 after parents complained.
Other FDFW campaigns have gone ahead unhindered, as the Bunker reported from Pulaski County, Missouri in September 2017. It spread its message in dozens of New York City schools and has sought to partner with police departments in Florida, New York and elsewhere.
This is also not the first time that Scientology front groups have attracted criticism from the Orthodox Church in the Greek-speaking world. In November 2012, the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod issued a statement deploring the use of a photo of an Orthodox church, implying the Church of Greece’s endorsement, on the front cover of a Greek version of L. Ron Hubbard’s ‘humanitarian’ brochure “The Way to Happiness.” This publication is distributed by another Scientology front group, The Way to Happiness Foundation International. The Greek Orthodox Church commented that “Scientology concepts, in whatever way they are promoted, cannot be considered a ‘common sense guide for a better life,’ much less as ‘educational tools to smooth out tensions,’ as the organization in question claims.”
In 2019, the Synodal Committee on Cults of the Church of Cyprus issued a statement linking FDFW to Scientology, which it said “operates under various guises and with a variety of parent organizations whose names people do not recognize [as being linked]. Under pseudonymous titles and names it tries to erode all areas of life, even the political and economic spheres.”
Similar sneaky tactics and possibly complaints from parishioners are likely to have triggered the Greek Orthodox Church’s warning about FDFW. As Thodoris Chondrogiannos notes, its members claim on Facebook to have given presentations in Greek schools, though it is unclear whether the Ministry of Education and Religion knew anything about it or gave permission (it seems unlikely).
The Greek Orthodox Church’s warning is probably meant to galvanise the ministry into acting against the activities of FDFW and the Citizens’ Initiative for a Drug-Free Greece. The church is less powerful than it used to be, but with 90% of Greece’s inhabitants adhering to Orthodoxy, it still has considerable moral authority.
As for Scientology, it’s a safe bet that David Miscavige is unhappy about this. The OSA representative in Athens has likely had a few bad days. However, after the outcome of its confrontation with the Greek Orthodox Church in the 1990s, it’s to be hoped that Scientology will have learned to be more cautious about how it responds to this challenge.
— Chris Owen
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Technology Cocktail
“Why all these Joburgs? As a case gains it gains in responsibility. As it gains in responsibility, the pc remembers more withholds and considers the things he has done more in the light of having been overts. If the case isn’t given a chance to get rid of these, it stalls. Or the pc is half killed by realizations that he has been bad when the targets of his overts unlessen from pigs to people. Therefore it is brutally unkind to improve a case without then removing the withholds now realized. This is also an excellent therapeutic mechanism. It is also an excellent test of a pc’s progress, i.e: if he has no more withholds on a new Joburg that weren’t found on his last, the pc isn’t progressing. On successive Joburgs if no new overts and withholds show up that weren’t there before, the pc is not progressing. Yes, I’ve found why cases stalled and gained only so far and then blew. Your thanks are in order.” — L. Ron Hubbard, 1961
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THE PROSECUTION OF DANNY MASTERSON
We first broke the news of the LAPD’s investigation of Scientology celebrity Danny Masterson on rape allegations in 2017, and we’ve been covering the story every step of the way since then. At this page we’ve collected our most important links as Danny faces a potential sentence of 45 years to life in prison. NOW WITH TRIAL INDEX.
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THE PODCAST: How many have you heard?
[1] Marc Headley [2] Claire Headley [3] Jeffrey Augustine [4] Bruce Hines [5] Sunny Pereira [6] Pete Griffiths [7] Geoff Levin [8] Patty Moher [9] Marc Headley [10] Jefferson Hawkins [11] Michelle ‘Emma’ Ryan [12] Paulette Cooper [13] Jesse Prince [14] Mark Bunker [15] Jon Atack [16] Mirriam Francis [17] Bruce Hines on MSH
— SPECIAL: The best TV show on Scientology you never got to see
[1] Phil Jones [2] Derek Bloch [3] Carol Nyburg [4] Katrina Reyes [5] Jamie DeWolf
— The first Danny Masterson trial and beyond
[18] Trial special with Chris Shelton [19] Trial week one [20] Marc Headley on the spy in the hallway [21] Trial week two [22] Trial week three [23] Trial week four [24] Leah Remini on LAPD Corruption [25] Mike Rinder 2022 Thanksgiving Special [26] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part One [27] Jane Doe 4 (Tricia Vessey), Part Two [28] Claire Headley on the trial [29] Tory Christman [30] Bruce Hines on spying [31] Karen de la Carriere [32] Ron Miscavige on Shelly Miscavige [33] Karen de la Carriere on the L’s [34] Mark Bunker on Miscavige hiding [35] Mark Plummer [36] Mark Ebner [37] Karen Pressley [38] Steve Cannane [39] Fredrick Brennan [40] Clarissa Adams [41] Louise Shekter [42] John Sweeney [43] Tory Christman [44] Kate Bornstein [45] Christian Stolte [46] Mark Bunker [47] Jon Atack [48] Luke Y. Thompson [49] Mark Ebner [50] Bruce Hines [51] Spanky Taylor and Karen Pressley [51] Geoff and Robbie Levin [52] Sands Hall [53] Jonny Jacobsen [54] Sandy Holeman
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“All right now, let’s look at an engram. An engram isn’t very serious if somebody walks up and steps on your toes and says, ‘You skunk.’ That’s not very serious because there’s not very much chaos there into which to put a stable datum. But if this individual walked up to you from behind, slugged you over the head, kicked you in the ribs, wound you up in the hospital, but somewhere in the midst of all of this he said, ‘You’re a skunk,’ you’d probably start to smell like one.” — L. Ron Hubbard, September 14, 1955
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“There’s a need for the FEBC like the Sahara needs water. Public demand is high. The contemporary staffs don’t really know how to give service or handle. Well, we’ll make it anyway. A lot of good guys out there. At least we know exactly where we’re going and exactly what to do to get there. Maybe we’re the only ones on Earth who do.” — The Commodore, September 14, 1970
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“All of Ayn Rand’s books are awesome.”
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1998: Lawrence Wollersheim posted to a.r.s this week to report continuing harassment by Scientology’s private investigators. “I just got a call from my bank that someone was again trying to impersonate me to obtain my confidential bank records. Scientology was so dumb this time they had a woman trying to disguise her voice. The bank even had to laugh at the mickey mouse operation. Then a PI stakes out my house in such an obvious way as to tell all our neighbors that something very weird is going on in a neighborhood. He got lucky and left before the Security patrol arrived.”
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“A question that has crossed my mind in the past is, if someone cynically creates a religion/spiritual movement for their own personal gain, but its followers truly believe in it, does one negate the other?”
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Full Court Press: What we’re watching at the Underground Bunker
Criminal prosecutions:
— Danny Masterson charged for raping three women: Found guilty on two counts on May 31, remanded to custody. Sentencing on Sep 7.
— ‘Lafayette Ronald Hubbard’ (a/k/a Justin Craig), aggravated assault, plus drug charges: Grand jury indictments include charges from an assault while in custody. Trial scheduled for August 15.
— David Gentile, GPB Capital, fraud.
Civil litigation:
— Leah Remini v. Scientology, alleging ‘Fair Game’ harassment and defamation: Complaint filed August 2, first hearing set for Dec 4.
— Baxter, Baxter, and Paris v. Scientology, alleging labor trafficking: Forced to arbitration. Plaintiffs allowed interlocutory appeal to Eleventh Circuit.
— Valerie Haney v. Scientology: Forced to ‘religious arbitration.’
— Chrissie Bixler et al. v. Scientology and Danny Masterson: Appellate court removes requirement of arbitration on January 19, case remanded back to Superior Court. Stay in place at least through sentencing of Masterson on Sep 7. Next hearing set for Sept 26.
— Jane Doe 1 v. Scientology, David Miscavige, and Gavin Potter: Case unsealed and second amended complaint filed. Next hearing Nov 6.
— Chiropractors Steve Peyroux and Brent Detelich, stem cell fraud: Ordered to mediation.
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After the success of their double-Emmy-winning, three-season A&E series ‘Scientology and the Aftermath,’ Leah Remini and Mike Rinder continue the conversation on their podcast, ‘Scientology: Fair Game.’ We’ve created a landing page where you can hear all of the episodes so far.
LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
An episode-by-episode guide to Leah Remini’s three-season, double-Emmy winning series that changed everything for Scientology watching. Originally aired from 2016 to 2019 on the A&E network, and now on Netflix.
SCIENTOLOGY’S CELEBRITIES, from A to Z
Find your favorite Hubbardite celeb at this index page — or suggest someone to add to the list!
Other links: SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS: Tom Cruise and dirty tricks. Scientology’s Ideal Orgs, from one end of the planet to the other. Scientology’s sneaky front groups, spreading the good news about L. Ron Hubbard while pretending to benefit society. Scientology Lit: Books reviewed or excerpted in a weekly series. How many have you read?
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THE WHOLE TRACK
[ONE year ago] Now with no restrictions: Our podcast series on the Scientology docuseries that never aired
[TWO years ago] Danny Masterson’s civil attorney adds Prince Andrew as a client and Twitter loses its mind
[THREE years ago] SCIENTOLOGY BLACK OPS, Episode 4: Tom Cruise’s dirty plot against publicist Pat Kingsley
[FOUR years ago] Mark ‘Wise Beard Man’ Bunker: His Scientology-protesting past and political future
[FIVE years ago] Jesse Prince, witness to Scientology’s ugliest behavior, spills it all in new book
[SIX years ago] Is Ohio’s newest legislator a Scientologist? ‘I had him on the cans,’ says our man in Cincy
[SEVEN years ago] DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s secret base where David Miscavige keeps wife out of sight
[EIGHT years ago] Another rare Scientology video leaks, and this time we see its long vanished president
[NINE years ago] Scientology Sunday Funnies: Smile while you write that check, pardner!
[TEN years ago] THE TEXAS POST-GAME REPORT: Scientology, Monique Rathbun, and Judge Dib Waldrip
[TWELVE years ago] The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 8: Mike Rinder
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Bernie Headley (1952-2019) did not see his daughter Stephanie in his final 5,667 days.
Valerie Haney has not seen her mother Lynne in 3,152 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 3,667 days
Sylvia Wagner DeWall has not seen her brother Randy in 3,217 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 2,207 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 2,088 days.
Christie Collbran has not seen her mother Liz King in 5,392 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 3,263 days.
Doug Kramer has not seen his parents Linda and Norm in 2,368 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 4,815 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 4,157 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 12,723 days.
Melissa Paris has not seen her father Jean-Francois in 8,642 days.
Valeska Paris has not seen her brother Raphael in 4,809 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 4,391 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 4,652 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 3,688 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 3,404 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 2,968 days.
Julian Wain has not seen his brother Joseph or mother Susan in 1,283 days.
Charley Updegrove has not seen his son Toby in 2,458 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 7,009 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 4,140 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 4,478 days.
Roger Weller has not seen his daughter Alyssa in 9,333 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 4,452 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 2,808 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 7,111 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 3,217 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 3,615 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 3,491 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 3,056 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 3,569 days.
Mary Jane Barry has not seen her daughter Samantha in 3,823 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 14,932 days.
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Posted by Tony Ortega on September 14, 2023 at 07:00
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