Scientology contribute a proportion of their income and comply with the Religious Technology Center (RTC) and its standards. Operating Thetan levels are offered only at Scientology's Advanced Organizations (Los Angeles, Sydney, East Grinstead and Copenhagen). The Flag Service Organization in Clearwater, Florida offers OT levels VI and VII. The Scientology ship "Freewinds" offers OT VIII. In 1955, Hubbard created a list of 63 celebrities targeted for conversion to Scientology. In a church policy letter in 1973, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, "The purpose of [the] Celebrity Centre is, to forward the expansion and popularization of Scientology through the arts." Scientology operates eight
Scientology in Belgium Scientology in Belgium Scientology has operated in Belgium since 1972, but the organization has encountered difficulties there in recent years. Belgium only officially recognizes six religions: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, the Orthodox Church, Judaism and Islam (recently also Buddhism) and has denied Scientology's request to be included. Scientology opened an international office in 2003 near the European Union headquarters to lobby for recognition as an official religious group. The Belgian government denied Scientology the status of religion in 1997, and began investigating its practices and finances after ex-Scientologists said they had been subjected to intimidation and extortion. Concluding the ten-year