Left-Extremist Endeavours

"Scientology Organization" (SO)
Founded: 1954 in the U.S.; first branch office in
Germany in 1970
Headquarters: Los Angeles
("Church of Scientology International" -
CSI)
Members: in Germany, estimated at:
approx. 5,000 to 6,000 (1998: 5,000 to
6,000) *)
Publications: inter alia, "FREIHEIT" (Freedom), "IM-
PACT", "SOURCE", "INTERNATIONAL
SCIENTOLOGY NEWS" 178)
Subsidiary organizations:
(selection) in Germany, eight "churches" and ten
"missions" 179)
1. General Data
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SO regularly reports higher figures (30,000)
At its meeting in Bonn on June 5-6, 1997, the Standing Conference
of the Land Ministers and Senators of the Interior (IMK)
noted - on the basis of a report written by a study group of the
Offices for the Protection of the Constitution - that in the case of
the "Scientology Organization" (SO), there was substantial evidence
of endeavours directed against the free democratic fundamental
order, and that therefore the legal prerequisites for
having the organization monitored by the Offices for the Protection
of the Constitution were met. 180) The monitoring results were
to be reported to the IMK after one year.
To this end, another working group of the Offices for the Protection
of the Constitution prepared a report in which the WG - in
view of the information obtained since June 1997 on the aims and
activities of SO - advocated continuation of the surveillance of
this Organization by intelligence agencies 181) .
At their meeting on November 19-20, 1998, the IMK and the
Federal Minister of the Interior agreed to take account of that
Report in the further work of the Offices for the Protection of the
Constitution. This has not resulted in any changes to the assessment
made in 1997.