List of scientology Front Groups and Companies

[CornPie]

I wish there was a convenient list of scientology front groups and companies -- making it easier to avoid them. The names of these 26 groups appear in the UK video documentary below:

All-Party Freedom of Information Committee
Author Services Incorporated
Brudge Publications
Campaign Against Psychiatric Atrocities
Citizens' Commission on Human Rights
Concerned Businessmen's Association of the UK
Criminon
Dianetics Information Centre
Dignity for the Aged
Dr Pillpusher Campaign
Effective Education Association
Foundation of Advanced Abilities
Institute of applied Philosophy
International Biographical Centre
Narconon
New Era Publications
Rehab
Religious Research Foundation
Religious Technology Center
Saint Hill Foundation
Set a Good Example Campaign
Society for Safety in Mental Healing
Task Force on Mental Retardation
UK National Conference of Social Betterment and Reform
UK Police Reform Group
Way to Happiness Campaign

The group names start at 15 seconds into the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YrptlTRZY

[Dulloldfart]

Originally Posted by CornPie

I wish there was a convenient list of scientology front groups and companies -- making it easier to avoid them.

Tried Google? I searched for >>>scientology front groups<<< and found several sites with lists.

Paul

[CornPie]

Originally Posted by Dulloldfart

...I searched [Google] for >>>scientology front groups<<< and found several sites with lists [of scientology front groups and people].

Google is good, but a lot of work.

My dream would be for something like TruthAboutScientology.com's "completion list", which is in a row-and-column format, that's queryable -- where I enter a name and the results are returned -- even better if I can continue clicking forward to browse the database -- which is continually being improved. I wish a web site could authoritatively index published sources, such as newsletters they mail out. Then the site would have to deal with trolls trying to compromise it, and scientology lawsuits, as mentioned on the TruthAboutScientology.com homepage.

[CornPie]

I have wanted to know who the scientology "front groups" are in a city.
So I'd know who "not" to deal with. For example, suppose I wanted an
attorney to challenge the church of scientology -- well now I wouldn't
want a scientologist, would I? And I wouldn't expect an attorney to tell
me he was a scientologist, either. And I prefer not to have to ask them.
This method I'm going to present is not clear cut, but it's better than
simple googles.

I know I can google it. But this puts me to a lot of work, and there's
no way to know with any authority.

1. Visit -- MAPS.Google.com (be sure to preceed Google with MAPS).
2. I searched for the KNOWN nearby scientology addresses, such as;
... "1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN, 37203". (address of their ideal org).
... It turns out that a lot of businesses forward their mail to this org.
... I would expect that to only rarely be true.
3. At the bottom click on, "All businesses at this address".
4. It returned 37 listings. Are these front groups? Maybe.

Here are the 37 results for Nashville. Try some other addresses
around the world, and see what you come up with. And if you have
another method to determine scientology front groups, please
suggest them on this thread.

I guess the point is, if you have a business that accepts mail for
other businesses, do a MAPS.google.com on the address.

Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7224
Unverified listing

Church of Scientology
1130 8th Ave, Nashville, TN - (615) 687-4562

Circle Source
1130 Eighth Ave South, Nashville, TN - (615) 862-0440
Unverified listing

Dream Row
1130 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN - (615) 866-0560

Accurate Court Reporting
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 244-3376
Place closed

Immigration Naturalization Attorneys Inc
1130 8th Avenue South, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7060
Unverified listing

Solo Nashville
1130 8th Ave, Nashville, TN - (615) 986-9555
Removal requested

Dan Stephen & Associates
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 340-8013
Unverified listing

Business Michael J. Mills
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7069
Unverified listing

Glover Benefit Group
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-9095
Place closed

TLW Custom IT Services, LLC
1130 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7276

Loan Corporation
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 584-7339

Immigration Naturalization Attorney Inc
631 2nd Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 324-7757

Sentimental Journeys
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 248-2525
Unverified listing

Scretchen Derrick
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 250-8131
Place closed

Real Estate Commercial and Industrial Fall School Business Center
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 226-6424
Unverified listing

Michael J Mills Law Office
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 986-3535
Place closed

Fisher Beverly
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 320-4353

Eason Dalton & Associates
1130 8th Ave S # 101, Nashville, TN - (615) 256-7600

Ericson Marketing Communications
1130 8th Ave, Nashville, TN - (615) 242-1050

Thomson Rhode Design
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 321-5920

Rate & Review
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7085
Unverified listing

Bruce & Weathers: Lyle Mary F
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 244-5432

First Source Marketing Group
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7024
Unverified listing

Monica Edwards Law Office
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7022
Place closed

Jody Eason & Associates
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7030

Who's Who In Nashville Magazines
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7062

Custom Rags
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7038

Fallsco Business Center
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7264

Foresight Consulting
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7032

Diversified Cleaning Systems
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7209
Place closed

Artist Club of America
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7015
Place closed

Holcomb Health Services
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 986-3458

Fashionpop Entertainment Inc
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7007

Dan Stephan & Associates
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7093

Theodora Law Office
1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN - (615) 312-7052

[ARC]

Those addresses are outdated. There used to be offices in that building before, I think.

For example the immigration law firm now has moved to:
631 2nd Avenue South
Suite 20

In some places, Scientologists are running businesses and private scams out of their orgs, contrary to CoS policy; each org also has a number of front groups like CCHR, Say no to drugs yes to life etc in accordance with policy; but to be so blatant as to register the address at the org is not something they usually do.

The funniest front group address I've seen was the Norwegian CCHR, which had a candy store as the registered address.

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

Originally Posted by ARC

Those addresses are outdated. There used to be offices in that building before, I think.

For example the immigration law firm now has moved to:
631 2nd Avenue South
Suite 20

Yeah I can't see many businesses wanting to remain as a tenant in a building that was purchased by the cult. You'll end up spending most of your time telling them "No I don't want to take a personality test", or what ever it is they happen to call it these days.

[Dulloldfart]

Originally Posted by ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn

Yeah I can't see many businesses wanting to remain as a tenant in a building that was purchased by the cult. You'll end up spending most of your time telling them "No I don't want to take a personality test", or what ever it is they happen to call it these days.

Good point. Plus any clients that visited would get accosted also.

Paul

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

Originally Posted by Dulloldfart

Good point. Plus any clients that visited would get accosted also.

Paul

Yeah has to go over real well, asking a client if you can meet at their facility because your landlord will keep harassing them until they take a Personality Test and purchase a book, if they visit your facility.

[Dulloldfart]

Originally Posted by ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn

Yeah has to go over real well, asking a client if you can meet at their facility because your landlord will keep harassing them until they take a Personality Test and purchase a book, if they visit your facility.

I guess one could dream up the office location from hell, where one shared a building with The Inquisition, Jehovah's Witnesses, CofS, drug dealers, Ebola victims, and so forth. Great positioning example, CofS.

Paul

[CornPie]

There are TWO (count 'em) TWO buildings on that parking lot. Click on this URL to see the NE corner of this satellite map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...6&z=19&iwloc=A

You cannot use the Google "Orange Walking Man" to travel East on Chestnut ST, from 8TH AVE -- because Google has not filmed that street yet. Ergo you cannot see the building on the East.

The best "street level" view you can get of the Eastern building, is when you are headed Northbound on 8TH AVE, using Google's "orange walking man" view. Look East, but even then there's a big tree on the South side of the building. Here is the view I just described, you can just see a part of the 2-story Eastern building:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...45.01,,0,-0.87

I do not know the official street address per the US Post Office of these buildings, or even if the USPS treats them as two different delivery addresses. And I don't know how to find these addresses out. We do not know when one/theother/both of these buildings were purchased by the CoS.

Note that there is a US Post Office just across Chestnut ST from the CoS. You can see the post office, and a bunch of white delivery trucks in the top satellite photo above. I'm sure if somebody in Nashville paid the USPS a visit, they could find out the whole story; who's owned and occupied which businesses, and for how long, what the addresses are, etc. We'd love to hear it.

These buildings may have been "in the scientology family" for a long time, maybe not. There may have been office spaces leased out to businesses in one, or the other, building before. If so, and if they were owned by a scientology front business, it would be a safe guess that these are scientology businesses. Also note that none of the addresses in Maps.Google.com have unit numbers. It could also be that these businesses were using the address as a convenient place to receive mail, regardless of whether it conformed to scientology policy.

All we know is that, per Google Maps, 31 businesses (as of today, May 22, 2009) are listed there, it used be 37 addresses (on May 8, 2009) at which point I copied and pasted them into them in post #4 above, of this thread.

There are a lot of things we don't know. What we do know is, scientology fronts go to great lengths, in order to conceal their association with scientology. And if these 37 businesses are scientology, it's got to make them feel very uneasy.

I can only wonder why 6 addresses disappeared in the last 14 days. See the next post in this thread, it contains the 31 entries, frozen in time.

I wonder if anybody's checked the other addresses worldwide. Once again here's how:
1. Visit -- MAPS.Google.com (be sure to preceed Google with MAPS).
2. I searched for the KNOWN nearby scientology addresses, such as;
... "1130 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN, 37203". (address of their ideal org).
... It turns out that a lot of businesses forward their mail to this org.
... I would expect that to only rarely be true.
3. At the bottom click on, "All businesses at this address".
4. It returned 37 listings. Are these scientology front groups? Maybe.