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[4]: 180 Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a commission of 10%–15% of the amount their recruit pays for a service. [5] [6] [4]: 181 The lists below contain names of public Scientologists.
The Church of Scientology has recruited celebrities for their endorsement of Scientology as a public relations strategy. The organization has had a written program governing celebrity recruitment since at least 1955, when L. Ron Hubbard created "Project Celebrity", offering rewards to Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities.
Recently, Alex Gibney, the filmmaker behind the documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, expressed shock that Tom Cruise, a famed Scientologist, has not been called out for ...
In 1978, a number of Scientologists, including L. Ron Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard (who was second in command in the organization at the time), were convicted of perpetrating what was at the time the largest incident of domestic espionage in the history of the United States, called "Operation Snow White".
Despite a relatively small membership base, Scientology is one of the most widely discussed fringe religious groups in the world, thanks in part to its more famous adherents. And while some ...
Laura Prepon has been one of Scientology's most famous faces, but it turns out the actress left the church several years ago. "I'm no longer practicing Scientology," the Orange Is the New Black ...
Joined the Sea Org in 1994, [80] In 2005, MSNBC characterized Feshbach as a "Senior Scientologist", [81] and Fox News Channel called her "a high-level Scientologist" within the organization. [82] In 2006, MSNBC described Feshbach as, "a high-level Scientology practitioner and member of the church's influential Feshbach family". [83]
In the 2006 New Zealand census, 357 people identified themselves as Scientologists, although a spokesperson for the organization said there were between 5,000 and 6,000 Scientologists in the country. [118] Earlier census figures were 207 in the 1991 census, 219 in 1996, and 282 in 2001. [114]