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Sep 15, 1981
Shake-up of Scientology agency told — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Sep 14, 1981
Preliminary report to the Clearwater city commission re: The power of a municipality to regulate organizations claiming tax exempt or non-profit status
Sep 14, 1981
Top Scientology officials removed from Church — New York Times
Sep 12, 1981
Curb Scientology with ordinances, lawyer suggests — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Sep 10, 1981
Church of Scientology wins U.S. settlement — New York Times
Sep 2, 1981
Author wants Scientology subpoena quashed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): David E. Anderson
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
WASHINGTON — A Reader's Digest senior editor, author of an article critical of the Church of Scientology, asked a federal court Tuesday to quash a church-sought subpoena aimed at compelling his testimony in a lawsuit. "This Scientology action seeks to harass and vilify journalists who have published criticism of this criminal enterprise," said lawyers for Eugene Methvin, a senior editor at the Digest, and Jane Denis Smith, a former researcher at the magazine, in their petition to the U.S. District Court ...
Sep 1, 1981
Scientology: The sickness spreads — Reader's Digest
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Eugene H. Methvin
Source: Reader's Digest
Eighteen months ago, the U.S.-based Church of Scientology launched a global—and unsuccessful—campaign to prevent publication of a Reader's Digest report called "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult." The church engaged a detective agency to investigate the author, Digest Senior Editor Eugene H. Methvin. Digest offices in a half-dozen nations were picketed or bombarded with nuisance phone calls. In Denmark, South Africa and Australia, the church sued unsuccessfully to prevent publication. In the months since the article appeared, in May 1980, a ...
Aug 30, 1981
Sect courses resemble science fiction — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
At the Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater, Scientologists are learning to leave their bodies, control other people's thoughts and communicate with plant life. They learn this by reliving a galactic holocaust carried out by space creatures millions of years ago. So say top-secret Scientology documents spelling out the highest level of training available to church members. It is training that costs thousands of dollars and, according to church defectors who provided the documents, amounts to nothing but a swindle dreamed ...
Aug 25, 1981
Psychiatrist: Sect drove man insane — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
A downtown Clearwater businessman who last year joined the Church of Scientology was committed to a Mental hospital Monday after a psychiatrist testified that Scientology apparently contributed to the man's insanity. Francis G. Diamond, 45, a successful antique dealer before his breakdown, told Circuit Judge William Walker that other Scientologists' "thetans," or spirits, had invaded his body during counseling sessions and now control him. "It's not something out of Star Trek-it happens," insisted Diamond, who brought a book by Scientology founder ...
Aug 6, 1981
Opinion: Scientology church supports proposed hotel as vital to downtown rebirth — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 4, 1981
Scientologists accuse city of collusion — Clearwater Times (Florida)
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Jul 29, 1981
Church releases 'financial report' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Gary McElroy
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is a visible, viable Clearwater institution, church spokesman Milt Wolfe said Tuesday morning: "We're here. We're going to stay here." And in an attempt to make that fact more palatable, the church released a "financial report" during a Tuesday press conference, contending that the controversial organization spent exactly $10,028,000 in the Tampa Bay area in 1980. Reading from a prepared press release in a chapel inside the church's Fort Harrison Hotel headquarters, Wolfe said the ...
Jul 29, 1981
Development of downtown called too slow — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Gary McElroy
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Even as proposed plans were being unveiled Tuesday afternoon for a new hotel-retail complex along Clearwater's bayfront, a Church of Scientology group was saying hotel development here has been too slow. They say they have plans of their own. The group, New Clearwater for the 80s, has compiled a voluminous "Clearwater Downtown Development Data Pack" that they say will bring developers and investors, "especially hotel developers, into downtown Clearwater." The packet consists of maps, copies of a City of ...
Jul 29, 1981
Lawyers says he doesn't know where Scientology leader is — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Tim Smart
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
TAMPA — A former lawyer for Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard said in a sworn statement Tuesday that he never spoke directly with his client during five years of serving as his legal counsel. Sarasota attorney Clyde Wilson Jr. was asked whether he had ever communicated with the elusive Hubbard or his wife Mary Sue, both of whom are defendants in a $16-million damage suit filed by Tonja Burden, a disgruntled ex-member of the church. MISS BURDEN'S St. Petersburg ...
Jul 29, 1981
Zoning could bar educational parish — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): David Henry
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — It appears that the Church of Scientology cannot legally open an educational parish on Highland Avenue, the chief planner for the City of Clearwater said Tuesday. "The evidence, that I have would indicate that that is a zoning violation," said Chief Planner Jon Richter. "I would expect our zoning enforcement officers to follow up on it." The Scientologists plan to use a remodeled house at 511 S Highland Ave. as a "Clearwater Parish" where local residents can take beginning ...
Jul 18, 1981
Digest / [re. Douglas Sadwick in jail for contempt of court] — Evening Independent (Florida)
Jun 20, 1981
Jailed scientologist seeks freedom pending appeal — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientologist Mitchell Hermann, who was jailed Wednesday for refusing to testify before federal grand jury, has appealed to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Hermann, who was still in the Hillsborough County Jail as of Friday evening, also asked the appeals court to order him released on bail pending the outcome of his appeal. Deputy court clerk Kembra Smith said late Friday afternoon that the court had taken no action on Hermann's motion to set bail which she said ...
Jun 11, 1981
Grand jury once more probes alleged Scientology plots — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Craig Roberton
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
TAMPA — A federal grand jury in Tampa is once again investigating alleged plots by the Church of Scientology to discredit former Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares. Three members of the Church of Scientology testified for an hour and a half at the secret grand jury session in the federal courthouse in Tampa Wednesday afternoon. Cazares himself testified before the grand jury for more than an hour on Tuesday. Asked about his testimony, Cazares said he told the grand jurors about the ...
Jun 4, 1981
Scientologists get okay on programs — Clearwater Times (Florida)
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May 26, 1981
Scientologists to open parochial school — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Craig Roberton
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Citing "social problems" in the public schools, the Church of Scientology has decided to open its own parochial school for children of its staff members. Church spokesman Milt Wolfe said Monday the school will open by this fall in the former Quality Inn in the 2000 block of U.S. 19S, just north of Tri-City Plaza at U.S. 19 and E Bay Drive. The church bought the former motel in 1979 and uses it for staff quarters. The school will ...
May 5, 1981
Wrong role for Scientologists — Toronto Star (Canada)
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Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Sectarian propaganda, however diluted and well-disguised, has no place in the classrooms of Ontario's public schools. With that basic principle firmly in mind, Metro school boards should say, "Thanks, but no thanks," to members of the Church of Scientology who want to present a drug-education program to students starting in Grade 3. According to a report by Ellie Tesher in The Saturday Star, Scientologists for Social Action are mounting an intensive campaign to introduce their Drug-Free Schools program of lectures and ...
May 2, 1981
Psychiatrist says churches should challenge cults — Dispatch Columbus
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Gill
Source: Dispatch Columbus
Protestant and Catholic churches are partly responsible for the increase in cults across the country, a Harvard psychiatrist said. John G. Clark, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School who opposes cults, said churches have melted into the background, allowing cults to increase in strength and authority. CULTS HE considers dangerous include the Church of Scientology, the Unification Church and The Way International. Clark said the Way's membership has increased to more than 100,000 followers, and members ...
Apr 24, 1981
Appeals court upholds contempt conviction of Scientology official — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Apr 21, 1981
Bizarre brainwashing cult cons top stars into backing its drug program — National Enquirer
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Type: Press
Author(s): David McCrindell
Source: National Enquirer
Some of Hollywood's biggest stars have been duped into endorsing a controversial drug rehabilitation program called Narconon, which is actually operated by the bizarre brainwashing cult, the Church of Scientology. More than 170 celebrities' names have been used as "Friends of Narconon." I Although a few are Scientologists — such as Cathy Lee Crosby, Priscilla Presley and Karen Black — others were shocked to learn Narconon was an offshoot of the weird cult. [Picture / Caption: "NARCONON ALL STARS" Gregory Harrison ...
Apr 21, 1981
LAPD officer indicted on sex charges [exact date unknown] — Daily News
Type: Press
Source: Daily News
Apr 21, 1981
The Southland ["Sgt. Eugene M. Ingram, 35, was found guilty..."] — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A 13-year veteran Los Angeles police officer was fired from the force for protecting drug dealers and helping run a house of prostitution. Sgt. Eugene M. Ingram, 35, was found guilty of seven of 15 misconduct charges by a departmental board of rights which recommended [...]
Apr 18, 1981
Churchmen urge an end to bans on scientology — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Louise Carbines
Source: The Age (Australia)
Officials of three churches have signed a petition calling on the State Government to lift bans on the Church of Scientology. The petition asks the Government to "review the Victorian Psychological Practices Act and remove all prohibitive sections aimed at members of the Church of Scientology purely on religious grounds. It further asks "that in future no legislation be passed which discriminates against any minority because of its beliefs". The petition concludes: "We are, we believe qualified to express opinion on ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Apr 1, 1981
F.A.I.R. Report on cult activities — The Advisor
Apr 1, 1981
Germany: Scientology sues Govt. — The Advisor
Apr 1, 1981
Moon's sect loses libel suit in London — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): William Borders
Source: New York Times
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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