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Feb 2, 1984
Scientologists' inquiry draws angry reaction — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: Page 14, link
Feb 1, 1984
Sect reveals undercover probe of civil leaders — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 29, 1984
Lawyer sees smear campaign, slams sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 29, 1984
Sect keeps high profile in Boston — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 28, 1984
2 million check, puzzling clues, tangled trails — New York Times
More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Glenn Fowler
Source: New York Times
Byline: FOWLER, GLENN ISSN: 03624331 Publication Date: 01-28-1984 Page: 1.25 Edition: Late Edition (East Coast) Section: 1 Type: Newspaper Language: English One morning in the spring of 1982, two young men walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank and presented a check for $2 million. The check was signed by L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the Church of Scientology, who has not been seen in public for many years. It was made out to one ...
Jan 24, 1984
Prior sect try at judge reported — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Jan 24, 1984
Scientologists sue Clearwater over ordinance — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, link
Jan 23, 1984
How do Scientologists continue to evade law? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 23, 1984
Officials 'not surprised' by investigation into sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 23, 1984
U.S. reportedly probing alleged extortion plot by Scientology sect — Santa Ana Register
Jan 22, 1984
Feds eye alleged sect plot to corrupt U.S. judge — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa is investigating a suspected 1982 extortion plot by the Church of Scientology to entrap and compromise a Tampa federal judge who presided over a suit against the Clearwater-based sect, a Clearwater Sun investigation has revealed. The purported plot, which involved an attempt to lure U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman aboard a boat off the Pinellas Suncoast where prostitutes and drugs were to be used to put the judge in a compromising position, was authorized personally ...
Jan 20, 1984
Scientology gets high marks for restoration — Washington Times
Jan 7, 1984
Sect holds conference to debunk kidnap story — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 5, 1984
Ex-Scientologist goes on hunger strike — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 5, 1984
Scientologists owe the public an explanation — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 5, 1984
Scientologists try to prevent man's leaving — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: link
Jan 4, 1984
Sect member 'ordered' to block taxi — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
A 69-year-old Texas man trying to leave the Church of Scientology in a taxicab was kept from doing so by sect members until Clearwater police intervened, according to police records. Sect member William B. Wilson of Midland, Texas, was trying to leave the sect's headquarters at 210 S. Fort Harrison Ave., at 4 p.m. Monday when a car and a pickup truck blocked the cab's path, reports state. Police said the driver of one of the cars — Henry C. Billings, ...
Dec 10, 1983
Scientology a religion in Australia — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 30, 1983
Church of Scientology buys into Oklahoma oil company — Las Vegas Review Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jack Taylor
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
DENVER — The Church of Scientology, one of the nation’s wealthiest and most controversial religious organizations, has moved into the oil business with the purchase of a significant interest in an Oklahoma City oil and gas exploration company, The Denver Post has learned. The church also has provided $3.3 million to finance drilling for the company, HG&G Inc. The investment was made through a Florida-based, non-profit unit of the church, and is the religious group’s first venture into active participation in ...
Nov 27, 1983
Scientology church enters oil business — Denver Post
Nov 24, 1983
The true Austalian story — West Australian
Nov 23, 1983
Religion: When fervour leads a faithful flock astray — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Gill
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
If Moses did not receive the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, but only said he did, Judaism would still constitute a valid religion. This hypothetical argument was put to the High Court in the recently concluded Scientology case. Mr D. Bennett, QC, representing the Church of Scientology, said that a movement's claim to be accepted as a religion did not depend on the sincerity or honesty of its founder or leaders - what counted was the attitude of the members. The ...
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Nov 5, 1983
Custody battle // Woman struggles to regain grandchildren — Evening Independent (Florida)
Nov 1, 1983
City rejects complaint against church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 1, 1983
Scientologists reveal plan for renovation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Jill Hancock
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology plans a $3-million restoration of the former Fort Harrison Hotel and the church-owned Sandcastle Motor Inn. Speaking before television cameras at a press conference called in the ornate hotel lobby, church spokesman Richard Haworth said the project indicates that "we are obviously in Clearwater to stay." But the church's upbeat affirmation of its downtown presence brought chuckles of skepticism and moans of disapproval from some local officials and civic leaders. The controversial sect's reasons for ...
Oct 30, 1983
Tide turning // Scientologists may be losing battle with Clearwater — Miami Herald
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Anders Gyllenhaal
Source: Miami Herald
CLEARWATER — A poker-faced doorman bows slightly at the entrance of the Fort Harrison and motions visitors to the lobby, where a crowd waits at the front desk and dozens of guests rush up and down the marble staircases beneath the crystal chandeliers. A larger-than-life portrait of L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of Scientology, stares down upon his followers from high on the wall. Many of them wear the sea merchant uniform that is part of their code. Most criss-cross ...
Oct 29, 1983
Sects welcome court decision on Scientology — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 28, 1983
Judges define a religion — The Age (Australia)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Garry Sturgess
Source: The Age (Australia)
The High Court yesterday gave a broad meaning to what in law constitutes a religion, with all five judges holding that a belief in God was not an essential criterion. The Full Victorian Supreme Court, upholding the decision of a single judge of that court, had earlier found that a belief in God was essential and that Scientology did not qualify as a religion. But this finding was yesterday unanimously overruled by the High Court. Acting Chief Justice Mason and Mr ...
Oct 28, 1983
Judges: Scientology is a religion — West Australian
Oct 28, 1983
Scientologists celebrate good news -- now to bring it to the people — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Louise Carbines
Source: The Age (Australia)
Hours after hearing the good news, Melbourne scientologists were deciding how they were going to spread it. "We're going to have TV ads, and we'll promote the book 'Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health', the young scientologist said. David Griffiths, 28, son of a Uniting Church minister, was sitting on a pile of books in the foyer of the church's Russell Street headquarter. He was delighted by the victory, and by the knowledge that finances were going to improve with ...
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