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- [L. Ron Hubbard] is governing director of Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, the operative company of the HASI, over which he exercises complete and autocratic control. (en)
- Soon after the birth of HASI and the Church of Scientology, Hubbard began "franchising" new churches through the United States and the United Kingdom. As one former member put it, Scientology had become the "McDonald's hamburger chain of religion," increasingly adopting the mass-production and marketing aspects of American Commerce. (en)
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