"Joel J. Hanes" wrote:
Greece:
August 1968
Over the next seven months, the Greek authorities are deluged
with complaints that the Scientologists ignore the Corfu Security
Harbor Police; that they and don't or won't show passports; and
that they are suspiciously secretive about their activities.
The Ministry of Education complains that that they operate schools
outside its regulations. The Ministry of Religious is concerned
that it can obtain no information about the Scientology "Church".
Departing disillusioned ex-members tell stories of imprisonment
on bread and water, below decks. Privately, the US and UK governments
urge the Greece junta to expel Hubbard and the Sea Org fleet.
November 1968
6 March 1969
18 March 1969
The ships leave Corfu on the 19th, over four hours after the deadline.
March 1980
1995
Also among the seized documents is a large amount of correspondence
between the KEFE Director of Special Affairs and OSA Intelligence Europe.
The KEFE papers show that OSA is involved in many of the same
activities as the infamous GO - including infiltration operations
reminiscent of Operation Snow White. Most notably, the papers record
a 1995 attempt to obtain confidential information on Scientology's
Greek opponents from the files of the Greek Secret Service (KYP).
DSA Greece has apparently bribed a former Greece Secret Service
(KYP) member to provide information from KYP files on a prominent
Greek opponent of Scientology.
Jan 1997
The verdict characterizes KEPHE as "... an organization with
totalitarian structures and trends, which essentially despises man,
acts freely "in phenomenon" in order to attract members, who are then
subjected (with all the above mentioned processes and theories)
into a brain wash, aiming at the creation of directable way of thinking
and minimizing objections (basic positions of the Scientology founder's
theories), so that we are standing in front of beings with no personal
will, who have lost the capacity of making decisions as products of
their free will, since they have passed through the propaganda
filters of Scientology and the suitable processing, become susceptible
to the "truths" it applies, without having motives to examine and evaluate".
January 1999
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Hubbard's "Sea Org" fleet, comprising Royal Scot Man, Avon River,
and Enchanter, all under Panamanian registry, berth in Corfu.
Scientologists from other countries converge on this new center.
The Sea Org holds uniformed parades, and begins to punish
members, even children by "overboarding": tossing them, blindfolded,
over the ship's rail into the water many feet below.
The Sea Org rechristens its vessels with names from the
ancient Greek pantheon, as Apollo, Athena, and Diana.
A US Navy squadron sails into Corfu; guards are set to prevent
contact between Scientologists and Navy personnel.
The Nomarch of Corfu declares the entire Sea Org fleet to be
persona non grata, including the four ships Apollo, Athena, Diana,
and the catamaran Nekambi, and approximately two hundred crew.
Despite Hubbard's plea that the Apollo is halfway through a refit
and unseaworthy, the Scientologists are given 24 hours to to leave
Greek waters
Scientology brings suit in Athens against the officials that
they claim are responsible for the 1969 expulsion.
Heard before Court of the First Instance on 16 Mar.
Scientology's organization in Greece, KEFE,
("Center of Applied Philosophy Greece") is raided by the office of
the Athens Public Prosecutor several times in 1995. Among the
documents seized was a top secret classified Greek government
map of the Hellikon military airport. Posession of this
document, among others, is evidence that Scientology operatives
had penetrated the Greek Intelligence Agency in 1993.
Courts make public an October 1996 verdict.
In the first Greek court ruling against Scientology,
Judge Contantia Angelaki orders the dissolution
of KEFE Athens and orders it to pay all legal fees.
In a 23-page court ruling, she rules that KEFE is a profit-making
commercial enterprise, fraudulently registered
as a non-profit public-interest organization.
and that its practices pose social and health risks.
KEPHE appeals, and the center is allowed to reopen pending appeal.
KEFE is ordered by the Court of Appeals to shut down and liquidate.
In its judgment, the court describes KEFE as "an organization
with totalitarian structures and trends, which despises man,
aims at power and money, teaches the survival of the powerful
and ruthless, applies dangerous methods without preventing the
possibility of suicide of its members, brainwashing them and
corroding its opponents' reputation."
[Note: The
Scientology®
organization has at best estimate approximately
45,000 to 50,000 followers world wide -- contrary to the 8 million figure
that the organization has been claiming for the past few years or so.
While that number continues to drop (thanks in part to the Internet) few
of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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