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Inside Scientology’s Elaborate Plot to Convert Criminals

SPREADING THE GOSPEL

Eyebrows were raised in Washington when the Church of Scientology backed Trump’s criminal justice reform bill. But ex-Scientologists say it’s all part of a strange recruiting plot.

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