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Hubbard a malingerer, not hero, Armstrong says — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—According to a former high-ranking Scientologist, L. Ron Hubbard was never a war hero; never commanded a squadron of Navy ships; never saw combat and was not crippled and blinded, later healing himself with his theory of Dianetics. Instead, Gerald Armstrong testified Monday that documents sealed by the California Superior Court will prove Hubbard's career was one of "a recurring pattern of malingering, feigning illnesses and false reporting to his superiors." Armstrong said the documents will prove that widely held ...
May 13, 1984
Trial reveals Scientology's darker side — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: gerryarmstrong.org , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES — It's 1984, and Big Brother — under the guise of L. Ron Hubbard — is being slowly exposed. Now 34 years after Hubbard created the Church of Scientology, the documents he wrote, the laws he created, the orders he issued, and the people who lied and cheated to protect him are surfacing in a court of law. They all offer evidence of a chilling tale. Since the sect orchestrated its surreptitious "takeover" of Clearwater in 1975, newspapers and ...
May 12, 1984
Flynn says millions funneled from sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—Court-sealed tapes reveal that Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard used a myriad of corporations to funnel millions of dollars from the sect into his personal bank account in Liechtenstein, a lawyer representing a man accused of taking thousands of documents and tapes from the church charged in Superior Court here Friday. Michael Flynn, who represents former Scientologist Gerald Armstrong, said the tape recordings of a Sept. 29, 1980, meeting between Hubbard's personal lawyer and legal officials of the ...
May 11, 1984
Former Scientologist recalls degradation — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—The horror, the degradation, the humiliation and the pain all caught up with Gerald Armstrong Thursday when he broke down in tears while testifying in Superior Court here about his 11 years within the Church of Scientology. The former sect archivist and subject of a suit Charging him with taking personal papers of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Armstrong shook with sob while recalling his 17-month term in the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), a form of Scientology punishment where he ...
May 10, 1984
Writer tells of Hubbard's 'faked past' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—An author hired to write a biography of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard testified Wednesday that he is not "an image maker" and he refused to write a "puff piece" on the reclusive 72-year-old. Omar Garrison described himself as "an honest reporter (and) biographer (to whom) anything about the subject is grist for the mill" during the trial of a former Scientology archivist accused of stealing 10,000 documents the Clearwater-based sect contends it owns. "The Church (of Scientology) has provided ...
May 9, 1984
Flynn says archivist entitled to documents — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—The lawyer representing a former Scientologist who took thousands of sect documents began chipping away at the prosecutions's case Tuesday by trying to show the documents were not personal or private. Rather, Michael Flynn claims the secret documents contain damning evidence of an elabortate scheme to defraud Scientology members through the misrepresention of the background of sect found L. Ron Hubbard. Flynn, who represents former Scientology archivist Gerald Armstrong in the non-jury Los Angeles County Superior Court case, used the ...
May 8, 1984
L. Ron Hubbard's wife testifies to 'mental rape' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—The wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard testified in Superior Court here Monday that a 37-year-old California man stole thousands of sensitive documents which belong to her and the Clearwater-based sect. Mary Sue Hubbard also testified she has been "mentally raped" knowing that others have seen the papers. Mrs. Hubbard, wife of the reclusive Scientology founder and science-fiction author, said Gerald Armstrong, a former Scientologist and sect archivist, has no right to the documents. She also testified Armstrong's attorney, ...
May 3, 1984
Sect member lectured after sidewalk incident — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Phil Colangelo Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) A bicycling security guard with the Church of Scientology may have overstepped his bounds Wednesday morning when he confronted a pedestrian in downtown Clearwater who "looked suspicious," according to police. The guard, Curtis Lee Nelson, later told police he confronted the man "to see what he was all about." What it turned out to be about, according to police, was essentially a sidewalk shakedown on the part of a Scientologist, who got a short lecture from the investigating officer about civil ...
Apr 13, 1984
Editorial of the Sun // Cotrino case demands continued investigation — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) On Wednesday, Clearwater police released the transcript of a tape-recorded statement made on March 5 by a Scientologist, Daniel Cotrino, who claimed he was being held against his will by fellow members of the sect. The transcript reveals that on March 5 Cotrino was angry and scared. He told police that he had paid $7,000 for certain Scientology courses, which upon his arrival in Clearwater the sect refused to give him. What's more, according to Cotrino's taped words, the Scientologists poured ...
Apr 12, 1984
City won't proclaim 'Dianetics Month' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Clearwater City Manager Anthony Shoemaker has said thanks, but no thanks to a Church of Scientology request to declare May "Dianetics Month" in honor of sect founder L. Ron Hubbard. "I am most appreciative of your letter concerning Mr. L. Ron Hubbard and your request that the city honor Mr. Hubbard with Dianetics Month," Shoemaker wrote this week to Pamela Schwartz of the Los Angeles-based "L. Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations." "I must, however, respectfully decline on behalf of the ...
Apr 12, 1984
Police release transcript of Scientologist's statement — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Clearwater police Monday released a transcript of a tape-recorded statement made last month by Daniel Cotrino, a New York Scientologist who be had been held against his will at the sect's 210 S. Fort Harrison Ave. headquarters. The transcript indicates the 30-year-old Cotrino, a Scientologist for 11 years, was frightened and angry at the time he made the statement. It is also clear that Cotrino did make the statements he later accused police of fabricating. The transcript of the tape was ...
Apr 4, 1984
Speaker to analyze the cult philosophy — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 31, 1984
Development group reject sect's offer — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 30, 1984
Use 'cured' anti-sect law, city told — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 29, 1984
City to appeal solicitation law ruling — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 29, 1984
Court reject anti-sect law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 24, 1984
Ruling due this week on solicitation law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 21, 1984
Ex-members file complaints against sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 20, 1984
A taxi arrives at Mother Hubbard's Cupboard — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 16, 1984
City dilutes solicitation ordinance — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 14, 1984
Scientologist's tape to get review — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 13, 1984
Letters to the Editor / New York man objects to [Sun?] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 13, 1984
Sect similarity sinks float idea — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Mar 10, 1984
Scientology suit ruling expected this month — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) TAMPA — The Church of Scientology and the City of Clearwater traded legal jabs Friday in a hearing over the city's charitable solicitation ordinance, with U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich promising to rule on the measure constitutionality by March 31. "The very evils this ordinance seeks to prevent are rampant within the city limits of Clearwater," Chief Assistant City Attorney Frank Kowalski declared, citing reports of fraud alleged against the sect during May 1982 City Commission hearings. Those hearings and ...
Mar 9, 1984
Scientologist says sect detained him — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) For the second time since January, a Scientologist trying to leave the sect's international headquarters at the former Fort Harrison Hotel was physically detained until police intervened, according to police. Daniel Codrino, who traveled from New York to Clearwater to take $7,000 in Scientology courses, was told he would have to pay an additional $1,165 for another course, according to a Clearwater police report. Codrino refused to pay and when he tried to leave, two sect members tried to push him ...
Feb 17, 1984
Sect threatens suit over lodging law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 10, 1984
Editorial: Stay Vigilant — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 10, 1984
Widow donated workers' comp benefits to sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 9, 1984
Sect president denies wrongdoing in probe — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Recent reports about the Church of Scientology hiring de-? pose as businessmen to elicit views about the sect from Clearwater civic leaders are "much ado about nothing," sect President Heber Jentzsch said Wednesday. "The issues all will come out in court," the 48-year-old Jentzsch told reporters during an "open house" at the sect-owned Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater. Jentzsch would not discuss specifics, but hinted the Scientology inquiry was tied into concerns about real estate speculation downtown and its potential ...
Feb 4, 1984
FBI expands probe of alleged sect plot — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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