Speaking of Cults

This week, I am joined by Dr. Jeff Wasel and John P Capitalist to take a deep look into L. Ron Hubbard’s disastrous brainchild, the Snow White Program, an effort on the part of Scientology to get false reports removed from government files but which ended up leading to eleven Scientologists going to jail, including Hubbard’s wife, Mary Sue.

Link to the full Snow White Program is here. It’s a bit hard to read but is the only complete issue of the program I’ve been able to find on the net.

Dr. Jeff Wasel Ph.D holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from the London School of Economics. He is an expert in anti-money laundering, terrorism finance and trans-national criminal organizations. His current work involves the investigation of finance irregularities in New Religious Movements. His interest in terrorist financing and financial crimes stems from his service as an intelligence analyst in the Marine Corps, where he specialized in order of battle, technical intelligence and threat analysis.

John P Capitalist (pseudonym) spent most of the last twenty years managing money on Wall Street.  He says “That’s been great training in research and analysis, trying to figure out why things are happening and to figure out what might happen next.  When you understand the past and present, you can sometimes predict the future in a way that delivers the results you want. On Wall Street, that’s about making more money for your customers than the competition; in Scientology, it’s about figuring out the best course of action to excise the cancer of this cult on society.”

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