CoS Book-Buying

It finally dawned on me. I'm a bit slow, I admit, but now I think I understand the beauty of the scam.

Orgs give their staff money to go out and buy copies of Scientology[tm] books from retail bookstores. This inflates the book sales figures and puts these titles on bestseller lists. That's the scam, right?

Wrong. Okay, the orgs collect up these books, send them back to Bridge Pubs, who resell them to bookstores. That's the scam, right?

Wrong. The real scam is that money is being laundered right before our very eyes. The money given out by the orgs to buy these books is CoS money, fees paid for services rendered. That money is then "donated" to the "Church" <spit> of Spiritual Technology, that interesting church that has no parishioners but which does have a frozen head and the LRH copyrights.

This is a sneaky way of skimming profits from the orgs without having it show up on the books. Financially, it makes the orgs look as if they're using their income for the purchase of "religious" materials when, in fact, they're sending the profits off to the Poodleboy and his crew.

Pretty slick.

Diane Richardson ao579@yfn.ysu.edu