Inside Scientologists’ Bizarre Plot to Sell Bogus Meat to the Poor

Aug 19 2018 by The Daily Beast

 
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In the summer of 1973, Conrad Romo, a 19-year-old boy from L.A. whose Catholic upbringing had been derailed by books like Hermann Hesse’s Siddartha and John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks, anything that “spoke of more than just this world,” turned on the TV and watched an advertisement for a new religion called “Scientology.”

The ad was catchy–a tight one-minute clip with a jingle from ‘70s radiostar Edward Bear and the vague promise of...

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