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MP denies knowledge of endorsed organization’s ties to Scientology

Globally, the Narconon network has run into problems in several countries in the past. In 1988 in Madrid, Spain, 11 members of the Church of Scientology were arrested, according to the St. Petersburg Times, and a local judge decried how Narconon swindled its clients and lured them toward Scientology. In 2003, the state of Oklahoma in the United States narrowly voted down a resolution honouring the work of Narconon Arrowhead, reported the Tulsa World. Last year, the United Kingdom’s prison systems ombudsman recommended Narconon not to be allowed in jails due to its connection to Scientology, reported the Sunday Times.


The March of the ‘Orgs’

Scientology is mounting an offensive on Europe’s capitals and major cities. “National offices” already exist in Madrid, London and Brussels, and the opening of new branches was discussed at an “expansion summit” last year. “If we are to implement our planetary campaigns for salvation, then we have to reach the top levels of the German government in Berlin,” a Scientology document states, adding that the Berlin headquarters is responsible for “building the necessary in-roads to the German parliament, in order to ensure that our solutions are genuinely introduced to the whole of German society.”