From Tallulah's site (what a gal!!) http://www.wwwaif.net/loose-ends/cst/index.htm The Church of Spiritual Technology - Jewel in the Corporate Crown Even for the Church of Scientology, notorious for its labyrinthine corporate structure and administ rative shell games, the Church of Spiritual Technology stands out.

To call the CST 'mysterious' is rather like calling Mount Everest 'quite a hill.' Its very existence unknown to most low-level scientologists, even critics who have spent untold hours trying to unravel the web of confusion that lies at the heart of the CoS can find themselves at sea without a compass when trying to navigate the shoals of the CST.

If this were a mere shell corporation, it would be forgiveable to leave CST wrapped in the obscurity its founders craved. But for some, it represents a body of unanswered questions, any one of which could prove to be the Rosetta Stone for comprehending the true power structure within the cult.

The Church of Spiritual Technology - An Overview Officially, CST's corporate raison d'etre is to act as copyright holder of L. Ron Hubbard's vast collection of published and unpublished works, findings, random ruminations and "research"

known within scientology as "the Tech."

Beyond this seemingly straightforward mandate, however, is another, more mysterious responsibility. It is the CST that is charged with ensuring the "survival of the tech," into the millennium and beyond, through a painstaking archiving project that will see Hubbard's every written utterance immortalized on titanium plates, and stored in underground vaults that -- according to CoS legend -- will withstand even a nuclear blast.

This preservation project, virtually unknown to all but the upper ranks of COS officials, operates in strict secrecy, in remote locations throughout the Southwestern United States.

Although it is the Religious Technology Centre that takes on the day-to-day job of enforcing copyright, and policing the use of the tech, when it comes down to it, even RTC - widely considered to be the most powerful organization in the CoS hierarchy - derives the bulk of its powers from its agreements with CST.

On paper, at least, the CST may be the ultimate authority - the power behind the throne from which current RTC Chairman of the Board David Miscavige rules the corporate, spiritual and fiscal roost. .

With assets that totalled more than $500 million (US) at the time of the IRS settlement agreement in 1993, it is clear that the CST is, at the very least, more than just a paper tiger.

Conspiracy theories abound as to its real purpose, from the prosaic suggestion that it acts as a slush fund and money launderomat for illicit funds collected by the CoS that go straight into the pockets of the top executives, to the radical claim that it is not scientologists, but the U.S.

government, in the body of the Internal Revenue Service, that really controls the 'tech', and thus, the church.

Whatever the answer may be, the questions, then, are worth asking, if only to separate the facts from fiction.

ARC for everly little bit helps, Beverly From: Beverly Rice <dbj1120@ao.net>
Subject: C$T Brief Data - With Three More Names To Add
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 18:19:46 -0400
Organization: Access Orlando (407) 895-1200
Message-ID: <39B2CE82.6886@ao.net>
Good points were brought up about the C$T, and if there have been any changes of personnel since its incorporation.

Anybody know?

Or is it still the same handful?

http://www.wwwaif.net/loose-ends/cst/today.html Profile of the CST Today - 1998 Corporate information ( from trace of public records circa 1995):

NAME: CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY TYPE OF CORPORATION: ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION (DOMESTIC) CORPORATE CLASSIFICATION: RELIGIOUS CORPORATE STATUS: ACTIVE DATE OF INCORPORATION/QUALIFICATION: 05/28/1982 MAILING ADDRESS: 419 N. LARCHMONT, #86 LOS ANGELES,, CA 90004 REGISTERED AGENT: SHERMAN D. LENSKE REGISTERED OFFICE: 6400 CANOGA AVENUE, #315 WOODLAND HILLS,, CA 91367 PRESIDENT: RUSSELL BELLIN 419 N. LARCHMONT, #86 LOS ANGELES,, CA 90004 From other sources (confirmed), :

President and Chief Executive: Russell Bellin Chief Financial Officer: Arthur Bolstad Secretary: Jane McNairn Almost nothing is known about the current management of the CST.

Its executive and present board of directors are a secret so well-kept that even the most extensive research of the vast array of online information turns up virtually empty.

The only name that is known is that of the president, otherwise undocumented scientologist named Russell Bellin.

Its trustees, special directors and other officials may be unchanged from when it was originally founded, or may be entirely different - there are no available records from later than 1992, when the corporation last ventured out of the shadows during the landmark case CST vs. IRS.

To understand the current organization, then, it is necessary to go back to its roots, and study the evolution of its mandate, as well as the personalities that played a role in its foundation, growth and current status.

ARC for noting some new names (at least to me), each to be given their own separate thread title, Beverly

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