Church of Scientology has announced that the next two levels of Scientology teaching, "OT 9" and "OT 10", will be released and made available to church members when all the major organizations in the world have reached Saint Hill size. The "worldwide spiritual headquarters" of the Church of Scientology is known as "Flag Land Base," located in Clearwater, Florida. It is operated by the Floridian corporation Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc.. The organization was founded in 1975 when a Scientology-founded group called "Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp" purchased the Fort Harrison Hotel for $2.3 million. Because the reported tenant was
Scientology in Germany by a large number of independent associations or "Vereine" in Germany; their umbrella organisation is the "Scientology Kirche Deutschland e.V." Germany's domestic intelligence service, the "Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz" ("BfV", or Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution), estimates that there are 4,000 Scientologists in Germany, down from earlier estimates of 5,000 to 6,000. The Church of Scientology reported around 30,000 members from the mid-1990s onwards; this number remained stable for many years. However more recently Scientology has said it has only 12,000 members. Discrepancies in Scientology membership numbers arise because the Church of Scientology applies more inclusive criteria in