In 1998, the UK's newspaper "The Mirror" reported:

"CHURCH TARGETS RAPISTS; COURSES FOR INMATES; CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY TARGETS MURDERERS AND RAPISTS A CONTROVERSIAL cult is backing an Irish religious sect's bid to sign up dangerous criminals.

The infamous Church of Scientology is helping to target murderers and rapists in top security jails, including Arbour Hill and the Currugh, which hold dangerous sex offenders. Criminon Ireland - run by self-confessed German-born Scientologist Katrin Ruckert - is offering inmates courses based on the teachings of the late L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientologists.

The group claims to be a charity but is not registered as one. It sifts through newspaper reports of rapes and murders to find names of prisoners to contact.

The letters to prisoners invite them to join courses based on the L. Ron Hubbard book The Way To Happiness. A copy of the booklet is enclosed and freepost envelopes are provided for prisoners to send their lessons back.

A jail insider in one of the tightest security prisons in the country said prisoners are receiving the letters only a week after they are put behind bars.

He said: "This is a very trying time for anyone in prison even if they have served time before.

"They are grasping at anything and the Scientologists are aware of this. They know it is a good time to approach a person who would be very vulnerable to what they are offering."

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Note: The constant push to get the Criminon Front group into the prison system. I can't help but wonder what a prisoner would gain from learning Hubbard TECH. Would he do better at what he did while on the outside after his release? Scarey isn't it?

Ida Camburn

"You must have crossed the river to tell the crocodile he has bad breath" Chinese Proverb

Subject: 1997 /article on Criminon in Scotland

In 1997, The Scottland newspaper the "Sunday Mail" reported:

CULT TARGETS SCOTS PRISONS; Bid to snare danger men; Church of Scientology targets Scottish prisons A sinister cult is trying to recruit some of Scotland's most dangerous prisoners.

The controversial Church of Scientology has contacted high-profile cons, including murderers and robbers, behind bars.

And yesterday prisons minister Henry McLeish promised a full investigation into the "very worrying" situation.

A jail insider said: "They seem to think our prisons are fertile recruiting grounds."

Prisoners are being sent packages offering them correspondence courses in Scientology.

One of their first targets was double hostage taker and armed robber James Holland. ...

Critics say Scientology is a dangerous movement which uses brainwashing techniques on its followers.

It's thought Criminon UK, a branch of the Scientologists, have found the violent cons' names in newspaper reports. ...

Criminon UK, run by Dutch lawyer Nico van den Berg, uses a post office box number in East Grinstead in West Sussex, where the Scientologists have their UK headquarters."

Note: The Front group of Scientology Criminon has made an effort to infiltrate prisons all over the world. Has there ever been an honest track record of this group?

Ida Camburn

The goal of the department [of governmental affairs] is to bring the government and hostile philosophies or societies into a state of complete compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is done by a high level ability to control and in its absence by a low level ability to overwhelm. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies.<

--L. Ron Hubbard, evidence in Church of Spiritual Technology v. U.S., November 22, 1989

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