All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
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Former scientologist.
FACTnet (1998): "Jesse Prince Tape Seven"
J: Don Larson.
L: Don Larson. What type of?
J: Financial.
L: Financial, like moving money to foreign countries?
J: Moving money, extorting money, blackmailing [...]
Jon Atack (1990): "A Piece of Blue Sky"
Declaration of Don Larson (29 September 1988)
3. During the period I was head of the International Finance Police, the top executives of Scientology were enraged at the Mission holders for embarrassing them by airing their grievances. In response, IFP was directed to extort money from the Missions by threatening them with the fair game policy if they failed to satisfy the demands for money. I participated in making the threats, as did my deputies.
Don Larson in BBC Panorama (1987): "The Road to Total Freedom" @ XenuTV
Forbes (1986): "The prophet and profits of Scientology" by Richard Behar
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The other move was to step up the flow of money dramatically. Among Larson's duties were levying fines on wealthy auditing subjects, whose intimate auditing sessions had been transcribed in writing, and forcibly dunning mission holders (franchisees) for millions of additional dollars for Hubbard agents. "In 1983," says Larson, "I manipulated a half-million-dollar inheritance out of Bob B... He was naive as hell. D.M. (David Miscavige) called me up in the middle of the night [about Bob B...] He wanted the money.