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auditing • church of scientology flag service organization (csfso) • church of scientology international (csi) • church of scientology of california (csc) • cost • david miscavige • florida • fort harrison hotel (also, flag land base) @ 210 south fort harrison avenue clearwater fl united states • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • gabriel "gabe" cazares • heber c. jentzsch • internal revenue service (irs) • lawsuit • legal • lisa mcpherson • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • real estate • richard a. haworth • sea organization (sea org, so) • tax matter • the truth rundown (st. petersburg times' special report) • thomas c. tobin • united churches of florida
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Dec 20, 1979
Scientology president is sorry his church harassed reporters — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1979
Scientologists sought sex smear of Cazares, their documents show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 27, 1979
Cult sought to shield $8 million from IRS — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON—The project was so top secret and top priority that L. Ron Hubbard himself christened it. He called it "Goldmine." At stake was more than $8 million in Scientology money that the Internal Revenue Service might get if top-level sect "guardians" didn't work quickly and vigorously to protect Scientology from unfavorable IRS audits. The scheme was based in Clearwater, where in November 1975 the sect had just established its phony United Churches group. But top Scientologists around the country were prepared ...
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Church got access to grand jury testimony — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 10, 1979
Scientologists got secret files of Times, lawyers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Stafford
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Secret letters and memos from the personal files of St. Petersburg Times editors and its attorneys were obtained and analyzed by members of the Church of Scientology shortly after the church moved to Clearwater four years ago. The letters and memos were used by the church in calculating its response to news media reports revealing its purchase through a front organization of the Fort Harrison Hotel. How the Church of Scientology or its agents got access to the locked filing cabinets ...
Nov 8, 1979
Scientology's survival plan is revealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — United Churches of Florida, the Scientology front group established in Clearwater in November 1975, was designed to be a tax shelter that could launder sect revenue nationwide, top-secret Scientology documents show. Sect founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in September 1975 that United Churches was being created "to preserve the assets of Scientology . . . in case of a total wipeout of the Church of Scientology by IRS." The secret correspondence between Hubbard and highest-level Scientology "Guardians" show that ...
Nov 4, 1979
Years with sect span tax battles, infiltrations and acquisitions [incomplete] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The following is a chronology of local events from the Scientologists 1975 purchase of the former Fort Harrison hotel to last week's release of church documents by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. 1975 Oct. 27 — Fort Harrison officials acknowledge sale of the hotel, saying the Jack Tar chain will cease operations on Nov. 30. The buyer is Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. Nov. 5 — Citizens learn Southern Land has agreed to buy another downtown landmark, the old ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists plot city takeover — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — The Church of Scientology of California had big plans for the unsuspecting community of Clearwater when it arrived there in November 1975. In essence, the sect wanted to control the city's politicians, media and religious groups. To that end, the Scientologists have evidently failed. Hardly any Clearwater resident is not skeptical of the sect’s proclaimed goals and "reforrn" activities. Nevertheless, the church has purchased $8 million in Clearwater buildings and land and continues to work for the potential to ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists' targets in Pinellas listed in files — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Stafford
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
WASHINGTON — Six boxes of documents make it clear: People in Pinellas County — a newspaper editor, a reporter, a mayor, a state attorney — were targets three years ago of the "fair game" policy of members of the Church of Scientology. The documents were among thousands seized by the FBI in 1977 raids on church headquarters in Washington and Los Angeles. They were the basis for indictments against nine church leaders on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and ...
Aug 28, 1978
'Fair Game' policy // Scientology critics assail belligerence — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch, Robert Gillette
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
"If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate (sic) or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who . . . seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists." — L. Ron Hubbard, Aug. 15, 1967 It was not the first time that private investigator Eual R. Harrow had interviewed jurors following a verdict, but ...
Aug 16, 1978
Church of Scientology attacks investigators and critics — Washington Post
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Type: Press
Author(s): Ron Shaffer
Source: Washington Post
The Church of Scientology is an organization that fervidly shuns investigations. When probed, it attacks the investigators. When criticized, it makes the critics pay. Church attempts to stifle investigations and criticism include lawsuits, harassment, frameups and attempts to have critics jailed, or at least enjoined from talking about Scientology. If there is "a long-term threat" to Scientology, founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a confidential memorandum to his staff, "you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black PR campaign to ...
Apr 27, 1978
Scientology church gives county spending records — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Denley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology has given Pinellas County their records showing how the church spends its money, but those records are being kept confidential under a court protective order. The records were turned over to county attorneys Monday in preparation for a civil trial that begins today to determine whether the church's Clearwater property should be tax-exempt. he property in question in the lawsuit — which deals specifically with 1976 taxes — is the former Fort Harrison Hotel and ...
Dec 28, 1977
Scientology Church again files suit seeking tax-exempt status — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 20, 1977
National church group argues to free Scientology minister — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 25, 1977
They hope to see clear days forever — Flint Journal (Michigan)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Betty Brenner
Source: Flint Journal (Michigan)
The two-story brick building at N. Ballenger Hwy. and Sloan St. looks as if it should house an insurance agency or doctor's office. It is a well-built, well-kept structure. Inside, quality furniture and a quiet, professional greeting welcome the visitor. But this building houses a center related to a church that is under fire from federal agencies. Early this month, the FBI used crowbars and sledgehammers to enter offices of the Church of Scientology in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Agents were ...
May 25, 1977
Man given refund by Scientologists — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen "Steve" Advokat
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
LARGO—An 80-year-old Largo man who did not find the solution to his memory lapses in Scientology courses got his money back Tuesday. Hours after the Clearwater Sun contacted the Church of Scientology of Florida in Miami to ask about Erich Abraham's refund, a Scientologist called the retired machinist from Milwaukee to say his money—$3,691.73 for 60½ hours of training—would be refunded immediately. A Scientologist brought a check to his door Tuesday afternoon, Abraham said. Abraham, a 17-year resident of Largo, had ...
Aug 4, 1976
Scientology's Pinellas tax battle isn't the first — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bette Orsini
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The controversial Church of Scientology's failure to gain tax-exempt status for $3-million worth of Pinellas County properties is only the latest chapter in a stormy history of legal battles over taxes. And the latest battle, which opened in the county courthouse last week, appears far from over. Scientology spokesmen vow to take their Pinellas tax case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Pinellas officials, for their part, are just as determined to defend their denial of tax-exempt status for the ...
Jul 31, 1976
Scientology plea for tax exemption is rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jul 19, 1976
Scientology's funds in trust: Who controls the purse strings? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jun 15, 1976
Scientologists pressed for answers by Cazares — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen "Steve" Advokat
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Attorneys representing Mayor Gabriel Cazares in his $8-million libel suit against the Church of Scientology have served the other side with a series of questions that, if answered, would resolve many of the doubts still lingering about the group. Perhaps the most bizarre question sent to the Scientologists' counselor, Sarasota attorney Clyde H. Wilson, involves Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Clearwater attorney Patrick D. Doherty has asked that representatives from the organization that owns the former Fort Harrison hotel and the ...
Mar 25, 1976
Same-day resale of Fort Harrison hotel disclosed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 25, 1976
Scientologists name Sun, employe in suit — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen "Steve" Advokat, Mark Sableman
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Charging a reporter's enrollment in one of its courses caused members "extreme mental anguish, suffering and humiliation," the Tampa mission of the Church of Scientology sued the Clearwater Sun and a Sun employe Wednesday for $250,000. Bruce Harrell, direector of the mission, charged that Sun Assistant City Editor Tom Coat enrolled in the Tampa mission for the purpose of writing articles about the controversial group that has purchased the former Fort Harrison hotel. "Coat's unwarranted and surreptitious intrusion and invasion of ...
Mar 20, 1976
Church says reporter infiltrated its mission — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Mar 16, 1976
U.S. Postal Service probes Scientology mail activity — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 12, 1976
Scientology critic fired from radio job — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Feb 12, 1976
Times sues Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology says it is real buyer of Fort Harrison / Controversial sect founder helped set up the financing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology surfaces as Fort Harrison Hotel owner — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church's history marked with legal battles — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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