Re: Buildings
I do not know exactly what did actually happen or occur--but, there are a few things tied to buildings that I was briefed on that I wondered about later after being out when the real estate push went into overdrive (still in for some of it). Sometime in the 80s, there was a briefing (now that I think about it, there were more than one) where they were making a move to transfer as much as possible to something in connection with IAS, although I do not know if the $ was being put into something that bore that label. Part of this WAS in relation to IAS, in that the money was to be regged at IAS event, under the mantle of ensuring Scientology will be there forever (blahblahblahwhatever) and so to somehow bury the money in a place where the laws and regulations pertaining to any body were not enforceable, and so that if a government shut a church down anywhere in the word, it could be reopened within 24 hours with these funds. Some of this fit and some of it appeared to be one of Scio's SOP of half-truths. What I had pulled from some of this back at the time, was the status of where money went and how it was designated was a matter of sheer expediency. It was explained away as 'greatest good', in that if we needed to have organizations and monies that were considered secular when that was more advantageous, then that was what happened. This seemed to fit in line with all the BS stuff I saw around the various ABLE groups and such. Real estate, to me, seemed like it might be part of the equation.
When the whole Ideal Org started happening, I was not on the right lines that I was in on everything, but I figured that something similar was going on. My doubts felt confirmed when I was attending events where public were being briefed about helping orgs to buy their buildings, when talking to EC and others, the org did not own the building at all--it was owned by uplines or whoever, and the org paid had to pay insane rent to whomever. I was not directly on those lines, but I had assumed that these properties were being held by some entity that would, on paper, be the most beneficial to those who get the actual benefits and $ from the income that the cult procures. If these buildings were not deeded in a way to protect that, I can only assume it was a colossal error or misstep. There is at least one WISE company, that in the past, that was familiar enough with real estate matters that I had been told by employees that owners were consulted by cult management. As, this was reported to me, and not witnessed first-hand, I am telling it like that. I am familiar enough with the one company and its workings at the time, that this did make sense and I felt it was probably happening. When this was happening, I was already pretty jaded and starting to look at the financial weirdnesses and thinking that IAS had to be funneling money places that were under certain "project names" that were for whothefuckknowswhat. How many folks donated to a "War Chest"? Yeah... that's specific. Or to campaigns, that literally cost a fraction of the money I could see was being squeezed out of folks.
