The worldwide network of Church of Scientology organizations consists of numerous entities and corporations, located in the United States as well as in other countries. All these organizations are interrelated and connected through an internal hierarchy called the "Command Channels of Scientology".[1] At the top are Religious Technology Center, Church of Spiritual Technology, and Church of Scientology International, who own and license the Scientology trademarks and service marks to the other organizations within the network. These management organizations are staffed solely by Sea Org personnel.

Within the upper Church management echelon are several corporations with specific functions of publication, distribution, administration, and finances. Examples are the Scientology-owned publishing house Bridge Publications, and World Institute of Scientology Enterprises which promotes and sells Scientology "secular" services to businesses and entrepreneurs.

Below the Scientology management levels are Scientology service organizations ("Churches"), which deliver Scientology services to its members, and so-called secular organizations which seek to introduce L. Ron Hubbard's "Scientology Technology" into various sectors of society such as Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organization that seeks to abolish any form of psychiatry. Below these levels are volunteer organizations run by Scientologists such as local chapters of The Way to Happiness campaign, and Clear Expansion Committees which have as their goal the clearing of their local communities and helping to establish a Scientology world.

In a response to questions by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with regards to its application for tax exempt status, the Church of Scientology International provided to the IRS a list of Scientology corporations and entities, categorized by their functions and activities.[2]

Management organizations

Principal organizations
Trademark service organizations
  • Inspector General Network (IGN)
  • IGN International AB
  • Dianetics Centers International (DCI)
  • Dianetics Foundation International (DFI)
  • Hubbard Dianetics Foundation (HDF)
  • WISE, Inc.
Financial trusts
  • Author's Family Trust
  • Church of Scientology Religious Trust (CSRT)
  • Scientology International Reserves Trust (SIRT)
  • Trust for Scientologists
  • United States Parishioners Trust
  • Flag Ship Trust (FST)
  • International Publications Trust
  • Scientology Defense Trust
Financial service organizations
  • SOR Services Ltd.
  • Nesta Investments Ltd.
  • FSO Oklahoma Investments Corporation
  • Theta Management Ltd. (TML)
Publishing houses and media
Secular and social management entities
Other management organizations

The Sea Org is an unincorporated managerial and fraternal organization, with membership extending across a range of other branches and entities.

Service organizations

Membership organizations

Unincorporated associations
Membership service organizations
  • International Association of Scientologists Administrations, N.V. (IASA)
  • Membership Services Administrations (UK) Ltd. (MSA)
  • Cohn International Association (CIA)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Excerpt from The Command Channels of Scientology" (PDF). Church of Scientology. Retrieved March 25, 2023 – via David S. Touretzky.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Atack, Jon (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed. Lyle Stuart Books. ISBN 081840499X. OL 9429654M.
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