Missionaries Make Perfect Spies

Posted by Bankster Slayer

“Certain aspects of these groups’ financial activities raise poignant questions about ‘whether such organizations could serve as a cover for intelligence activity conducted by unfriendly states.'” — Sputnik News quoting from Roman Silantyev, June 12, 2017
Earlier this month on June 6th, the Church of Scientology in Russia suffered yet another bout of harassment from the Federal Security Service (FSB), successor of the KGB. I say “another” because this “church,” or what I would better describe as a “psychology clinic,” has endured scrutiny by Russian officials off and on for many years. In spite of the ongoing investigations, the organization has always come out unscathed. No accusation ever seems to stick to them for reasons about which I will speculate further along in this blog.

The Sputnik version of this latest incident added some keen insight that indicates that the Russian government sees much more than the usual tax-revenue infractions being committed by the Church. In the statement offered by Roman Silantyev, a religious studies expert, he sees the recent moves being taken by Russia against various foreign-based religious groups as “an adequate reaction by the state to the changing foreign political situation.” Silantyev went on to say:

“When the US openly declares Russia its main enemy, making such statements on a regular basis, the attitude towards religious groups based on potential (or, to be honest, real) adversary’s territory tends to change,” Silantyev said.

Certain aspects of these groups’ financial activities raise poignant questions about ‘whether such organizations could serve as a cover for intelligence activity conducted by unfriendly states.’
Whoa! And thus with one stroke of the pen we have one of the greatest insights I have yet seen offered by any observer of organized religion: Missionaries make the best spies.

Where Do All Those Confessions Go?

I sat here pondering Silantyev’s give-away in the light of what is known about how Scientology works. It was L. Ron Hubbard who, after studying mental health patients, devised the system of Dianetics which was a way of helping a person cleanse their mind from the debilitating effects of recreational drugs. Keep that on the back burner for a moment: agencies like the CIA are engaged in massive drug-trafficking and even more nefarious chemical-induced mind control protocols to gain control where needed or to impose blackmail where needed on various targeted subjects. Scientology, on the other hand, seems to be the antithesis to the CIA’s game-board. Through Dianetics, an adherent of the course lets go of recreational druggery and begins training his mental will [my Antarctica readers will remember that wording in the myth about the “Vril”] to identify and purge the negative aspects of your inner spirituality.

The Scientology program revolves around something like a therapy session where the client, or, “pre-clear,” holds an E-Meter device while engaged in an interview directed by the “auditor.” (Photo: Wikipedia)

The student, or “pre-clear” as they are called, sits down with a trainer, or “auditor,” who will engage the student in a structured question-and-answer session to help the student self-identify those areas that are causing him trouble. The auditor will use the device pictured here, called an E-meter, and place it into the hands of the student. The device is something like a biofeedback machine that helps the auditor and student measure electric impulses as they proceed through the conversation. Some have said that the E-meter functions like a polygraph machine though this is denied by the Church. However, the analogy of this device to a polygraph machine is not without merit.

Now step back from a moment and consider what that implies. The “pre-clear”, or student, pours out his heart in this recorded interview while being led along by a trained auditor and the electrical feedback from the E-meter. Can you imagine how such a voluntary truth-serum system would be cherished by priests as they sit behind a confessional curtain? Imagine the details that could be drawn out by an interrogation system that flags particular areas of a person’s life as worthy of more discussion.

One of the older models of the E-meter device, something like a biofeedback device that will “ping” topics in your interview that indicated areas of your mental state that are most in need of healing. (Photo: Wikipedia)

The Church invokes its status as an official religion to keep those recorded interviews confidential. The Auditors cannot be compelled to reveal what they’ve heard from these audit sessions just as courts tend to recognize the confidentiality of a typical confessional.

The “pre-clear” certainly knows that the interview is being recorded and filed away for use as part of his own self-analytical therapy. But what if he was unaware that secret microphones were also being hidden away in that same room so that there was the “official” recording being made of the interview but also an “unofficial” recording of the interview?

And what if a government intel agency became aware of the existence of those “unofficial” recordings? Would they consider such files to be a useful asset to the State? My Sixth Sense feels that it most certainly would. Here is where my own high-octane speculation kicked in. If you were an FSB official seeking to get a leg up on any intel on Russian oligarchs, but wanted to obtain that information through, shall we say, “unofficial” channels, where would you go?

How about taking advantage of an institution where oligarchs go to spill their mental guts, an institution that primarily attracts oligarchs due to the steep cost of the fees? And wouldn’t you know it, but, the cost of advancing through all 16 levels of the full Scientology program happens to cost about one million rubles. That figure can be found if you use the Google Translate function to read the video description under this Youtube video. This, by the way, is what a raid of your business by the FSB feels like in St. Petersburg.