Scientology more aggressive
Ursula Caberta:
Hamburg, Germany
According to the assessment by the Interior Agency's work
group, the Scientology Organization has been making a more
aggressive showing in Hamburg. "The millions in aid for the
Hamburg Scientologists was a declaration of hostility from the
USA," said the Director of the Work Group, Ursula Caberta.
"Scientology units are regarded as having been successful when
they bring as much money and people into the center as
possible," Caberta believes. Until the early '90s, she said,
Hamburg had been the "most successful group worldwide."
But after a large number of people, including those well-to-do,
left Scientology in the Hanseatic City, it was "economically at
the end of its rope." The headquarters in Los Angeles made
about 20 million marks available for a new building for the
organization in downtown Hamburg. "Up to that point, a
bankrupt unit had never been re-financed from the USA," said
Caberta, "the money flowed only in one direction". At the
moment, she said, Scientology was not doing well in Germany,
but that did not mean that the fight against this new form of
political extremism was going to cease.
According to Caberta, the Interior Agency's Work Group on
Scientology, in existence since 1992, is the only agency to
provide this service nationwide. Scientology opponents in other
localities have received advice from Hamburg and information
collected over the years about the organization has been made
available to the Interior Ministers Conference.
Results from the information collected in Hamburg include
Scientology being under surveillance by Constitutional Security
and its being regarded in Germany not as a religious
congregation, but as a profit-oriented commercial business.
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