Scientology officials
The "Scientology officials" who conducted the raid were not officials of the Church of Scientology. Many media have mistakenly said the raid on FACTNet was conducted by the Church of Scientology. It was not. It was conducted by the Religous Technology Center (RTC) which is not part of the "church" but in fact controls it through licensing agreements. Above that is the "Church of Spiritual Technology." Also in the official Scientology hierarchy are various organizations to direct Scientology businesses. Thus "Scientology" is a wide empire. To learn how Scientology officials use it to intentionally confuse the outsider, see the account by former Scientology executive Robert Vaughn Young in "Quill," the magazine of the Society for Professional Journalists at young-quill. For a complex but thorough examination of how the "secular" areas are intertwined with the "religious" and how Scientology uses this to its advantage, see Church of Spiritual Technology v. United States (Court of Claims 1992) at <http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mgarde/ct_cl.92>.
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