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THOSE WHO OPPOSE SCIENTOLOGY
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On October 1, 1993 the United States Internal Revenue Service issued letters which recognized the tax exempt status of more than 150 Scientology churches, missions and social reform organizations. (CLICK HERE TO READ THIS DOCUMENT)
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SKIRMISHES
The IRS recognition of Scientology was a stunning blow to those who had kept the attacks on the Church going for so many decades. Yet despite this, and despite the end to the international campaign of disinformation which had also been waged for so many years, the psychiatrists who had fueled this campaign from behind the scenes continued sniping on other fronts.
One vector of attack was through so-called “anti-cult” groups. For many years, psychiatry had used a variety of antireligious front groups to assault Scientology and other churches, both in the United States and Europe. One of the most notorious of these was the “Cult Awareness Network,” known as CAN.
CAN had been a clearinghouse in the US for false and biased information which was used to incite prejudice, hatred and fear about Scientology and many other religions, both old and new. It was an organization that preyed on the gullible and violated the civil rights of the innocent for financial reward. Its members were continually linked to kidnappings, assaults and rapes.
 
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