 <unk> by events such as the <unk> Siege in 1993 , the murders and suicides associated with the Order of the Solar Temple , and the 1995 <unk> <unk> incidents in Japan , German fears and concerns about new religious movements gained in intensity in the 1990s , with Scientology attracting particular attention . <unk> that Scientology had a totalitarian character were reinforced when Robert <unk> Young , an American ex @-@ Scientologist and former PR official in the Church of Scientology , visited German officials in late 1995 and wrote an article in Der <unk> , a widely @-@ read weekly magazine , describing Scientology as a totalitarian system operating a <unk> – the <unk> Project Force – for members of Scientology 's Sea Org found guilty of <unk> . From the mid @-@ 1990s onward , press articles , reports and essays on Scientology appeared on an almost daily basis , accompanied by books and television programmes that reached a mass audience . 
