Scientology commanders are boasting that the leaked Tom Cruise propaganda video that spread throughout the internet last week was - actually GOOD publicity for the crazy cult.
"Having presented these selective and out-of-context excerpts with the intent of creating both controversy and ridicule resulted in people searching for Church of Scientology Web sites," a rep told Page Six.
Scientology turned up on the "most searched for" lists of various search engines after Master Thelan Tom was seen boasting that Scientology believers are the "authorities of the mind".
Still, the secretive cult is hunting down the dastardly culprit - likely sent by Xenu the evil intergalactic overlord who imprisoned countless thetans on Earth 75 million years ago - who leaked the video.
An insider told us, "The clip on the Internet was nine minutes long - but the original was way longer. It was edited to make Tom look really crazy."
