The strange death of the I.A.S

I.A.S stands for International Association of Scientologists and is the home of the real crazies in Scientology. These guys follow their own particular gospel which consists of 'late' LRH documents dating from the days he lived in hiding and his only conduit with the world was DM.

These are loopy documents indeed- possibly all the more so because they may have been written by DM and not LRH at all. They consist of fairly standard borderline anti Semitic conspiracy stuff.

According to the I.A.S the world is not run by psychiatrists but bankers. As usual within Scientology, a number of distinct things are run together so that no distinction is made between central and commercial bankers. The bankers themselves always seem to be Jewish- in any case we are given this impression because the only names given are Jewish sounding ones.

These bankers (Jews) are alleged to have stolen most of the worlds gold and they are also working on a fiendish plan to reduce the global population too.

The I.A.S was promoting this world view fairly vigorously during my time in the cult- but they were being hampered by others in the cult who knew this would play very badly.

I remember reading an issue of Impact magazine which showed a long distance cyclist with rather intense and cultic eyes who was cycling around Germany to raise money for the I.A.S. This was billed as a cycle ride for peace or something similar. They had managed to trick some minor local politician to be photographed with the cyclist but it was clear the politician was looking for a way out and wanted to escape. The cyclist was bending over the politician and fixing him with a hypnotic stare while he told him the 'true' cause of the war in the former Yugoslavia.

So.. what was the 'true' cause of the war?

Impact Magazine was not saying! The whole thing was totally ludicrous. The I.A.S was trying to publicise an alleged conspiracy and keep it secret at the same time!

In fact the I.A.S believed the Jews/bankers or (possibly) psychiatrists were behind the war in order to depopulate the world. I believe that forces within the cult prevented the I.A.S from running this campaign effectively because they knew it would backfire.

Shortly after this the I.A.S was effectively destroyed as an organization by the following means.

1) The I.A.S was used as a personal holiday fund by DM and therefore denied the funds to continue with their embarrassing campaigns (see the Truth Rundown).

2) The I.A.S was transformed into a sort of mortgage bank to fund the 'idle org' programme. The London org was purchased with I.A.S money on the proviso that the org repay the original sum by signing people up for I.A.S memberships.

3) The I.A.S website is not being updated although it continues to collect funds.

It seems that DM no longer needs the I.A.S and may have dispersed the management.