According to Hubbard, 75 million years ago, a certain Xenu, ruler of 76 planets, gathered most of the population of his empire - an average of 178 billion on each planet - and moved them to Earth. There he blew up everyone in the volcanoes with hydrogen bombs, as a result of which the spirits of the "thetans" (emphasis - on the first syllable - ed.) were connected by "electronic tapes". Completely disoriented as a result of the carnage, stripped of their bodies, the "thetans" were subjected to 36 days of hypnotic "implantation" and tied together. These "implants" 75 million years before Christ allegedly contained plans for the development of all future civilizations, and even Christian teaching. Hubbard ordered that this "secret" contained in the OT-3 course be kept in the strictest confidence, since an unprepared person who accidentally learned its contents would die within two days. Since then, this story has been published in many newspapers and magazines, but no epidemics or plagues have followed.

Is the "Church of Scientology" a screen for spies?

There is a well-known report by the Federal Security Service of Russia (then FSK) on the activities of foreign intelligence services in Russia, where the activities of Hubbard College, a subsidiary of the Church of Scientology, are not ignored: "By collecting open information, research centers try to obtain information that constitutes a state and commercial secret. For example, representatives of Hubbard College in Obninsk conducted testing of Russian specialists, including those who were aware of state secrets, during which they obtained information about the personalities and the state of affairs at enterprises, including high-security facilities" [41].

However, for some reason, Russian counterintelligence officers did not go beyond the publication of these materials. With the ostentatious filling of official positions in the leadership of the Church of Scientology by Russians (Ryazantsev, Kochiashvili, Kuropyatnik, Shlopak), it is foreigners who hold all the reins of control of this rigidly structured organization built on the military model [44]. What they really do - no one knows.

The most interesting person from this point of view is the Dane Birta Heldt, one of the top leaders of the Church of Scientology in Russia, who managed to work for several years in Scientology organizations in Africa, Japan and some other countries. Heldt is a member of the Sea Organization, named in memory of the years Scientologists spent in the seas, the core of the entire Scientology empire [43,44].

There is every reason to suspect that after the scandalous case of 1977 about the uncovered massive theft of government documents of the Army, Navy, Customs Department, the Department of Justice and the Trial Chamber in the United States by Scientology agents, the US intelligence services entered into a number of secret agreements with the leadership of the "Church of Scientology" (including all its subsidiaries) on cooperation. Hubbard was not imprisoned, the Scientologists were given a limited field of activity in the United States, they received state support in the person of a number of congressmen and some human rights organizations regarding the activities of Scientologists in other countries, for example, in the event of attempts to ban and suppress the activities of the "Church of Scientology" in any country. For their part, the U.S. intelligence services have at their disposal a powerful system for collecting intelligence information and an additional effective tool for conducting subversive operations in Western Europe and around the world. Later, Scientologists were oriented to work in the Russian Federation. This assumption is confirmed by the following facts [42,44,45]:

* against the background of a fierce struggle against restrictions on the activities of Scientologists in other countries (the most striking examples are Germany and Russia) - numerous facts of refusal to register subsidiaries of the "Church of Scientology" in the United States itself, for example, in the state of Oklahoma in 1991, numerous decisions of the judicial bodies of this country on the fairness of most of the accusations made against the "Church of Scientology" in the media (US Court of Appeals - April 1996, The Supreme Court of the State of California - May 1996, the trial in Virginia in 1996 and a number of others), that is, those facts when the judicial authorities are more concerned with the observance of the laws of their country, and not with freedom of conscience in relation to Scientologists at any cost; thus, the US authorities impose a number of serious restrictions on the activities of Scientologists in their country, in every possible way contributing to the development and strengthening of their activities abroad;

• The fact that in response to the barriers to the uncontrolled spread of Scientologists in Germany and other countries, protest campaigns are regularly inspired by American cultural figures, famous artists, etc., who, however, are little concerned about similar measures taken in some states of the United States;

• the recent discovery of serious procedural irregularities in the United States by Tax Analysts Inc. before the Internal Revenue Service granted tax exemption to the cult in November 1993; Internal Revenue officials admitted under oath that the files and materials on the cult had not been examined, and the exemption had been granted on a directive from above;

• The object of close attention of Scientology organizations in Russia has been and remains strategic enterprises of the defense industry, facilities of military departments, including the Military Space Forces of the Russian Federation and facilities of the nuclear fuel cycle (Dubna, Obninsk, Korolev, Yubileyny); The increased interest of "just a religious organization" in such objects is strange to say the least, and given the notoriety of Scientologists around the world, it is extremely clear.

A former high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology, John Atak, who later became its main whistleblower, in his book "Scientology: Hubbard's Intelligence Agency" directly pointed to the existence of active ties of this religious organization with the US CIA. Moreover, he wrote about joint projects between the two organizations, suggesting that the CIA was somewhat involved in the formation of the Church of Scientology as it is today.