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Anonymous asked this question on 5/9/2000:

Does anyone know what the difference between the book "Scientology: A new slant on life," written by L. Ron Hubbard, and the book "Scientology": A new slant on life by L. Ron Hubbard" written by the IRS?

barb131 gave this response on 5/10/2000:

I hadn't heard that the book had been squirrelled by the IRS. Do you have any other information about it?

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Anonymous rated this answer a 5.

I found the court document. It is apparently that an ex-IRS agent worked with Author Services or CST and they took Hubbard's book off the shelf and created their own altered version with a title that deliberately made it look lke it was written by L. Ron Hubbard. In fact it was written by ASI/CST and the ex-IRS agent. The court document caled this thing "squirreling" which I needed to ask about. The court documents didn't disclose why the church altered L. Ron Hubbard's works.

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