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canada • casey hill • church of scientology of toronto • clayton ruby • confidential preclear (pc) folder • criminal wrongdoings • e-meter • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • gabriel "gabe" cazares • george-wayne shelor • gerald "gerry" armstrong • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • inurement • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • ontario • ontario provincial police (opp) • operation snow white • purification rundown ("purif") • religious research foundation (rrf) • tax matter • u.s. department of justice
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Jul 5, 2002
Face/Off — Critic (University of Otago)
Type: Interview
Source: Critic (University of Otago)
Critic: Are you guys a cult? Mike Ferris, Public Relations Spokesperson, Church of Scientology of NZ: Depends on what you mean by a cult. Every religion in its forming stage was considered to be a cult, pretty much. Critic: You guys aren't in your forming stages though, you've been around for fifty years. You claim to be the only major religion that's emerged out of the twentieth century. So, are you a cult? Ferris: Not in the derogatory sense, no, we ...
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Dec 28, 1984
Scientology probe took over 2 years — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Dec 20, 1984
19 people charged in Scientology case (Police, provincial employees included) / Police, provincial employees included — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Murray Campbell
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
The 19 people charged in connection with an investigation of the Church of Scientology of Toronto include employees of the Ontario Provincial Police, Metro Toronto Police, the RCMP and the Ministry of the Attorney-General, according to information the OPP has sworn before a justice of the peace. And the alleged stolen documents the church is charged with possessing include photocopies of files belonging to legal firms, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the College of Physicians and Surgeons ...
Dec 20, 1984
Canadian authorities charge Scientologists — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Aug 10, 1984
Treasury agents said probing sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The United States Treasury Department's Criminal Investigations Division has mounted an in-depth investigation into the activities of the Clearwater-based Church of Scientology, the Clearwater Sun has learned. In the past several weeks, Treasury agents have traveled across the United States interviewing a number of former Scientologists—including some who held positions of immense power and influence in the worldwide sect prior to their defection, sources said. Spokesmen for the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service in Tampa and Los Angeles, citing Department ...
Jul 14, 1984
Sect info gathered here spurs probes — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Several former high-ranking Church of Scientology officials have provided state, federal and municipal law enforcement investigators with detailed information regarding the Clearwater-based sect's alleged criminal activities in the Tampa Bay area, the Clearwater Sun has learned. Although the same testimony provided to investigators in Clearwater has furthered large-scale criminal investigations in Canada and resulted in court rulings against the sect in California, no similar action has been implemented in the Clearwater area, a seven-month Sun inquiry has determined. And Gerald Armstrong, ...
Jun 7, 1984
Scientology compared to Catholicism — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
TORONTO—A lawyer representing the Church Scientology likened the 34-year-old sect to the Roman Catholic Church during hearing Wednesday in Ontario Supreme Court. Arguing that the Ontario Provincial Police had no right to seize Scientology files during a raid on the sect's Toronto mission last year, Clayton Ruby told the court that Scientology should be given the same respect and protection afforded established religions. "Should a new church be (treated differently) because its doctrines are not as well-known?" Ruby asked Justice John ...
Jun 5, 1984
Sect's religious status just one part of trial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
TORONTO—Is Scientology a religion? Since the inception of Scientology in 1950, the question of the sect's religious status has been argued in courts worldwide. And various courts' have offered different opinions. The Canadian Province of Ontario may rule on the religious status of Scientology during a hearing here that began Monday. But "religion" is only one of a myriad of questions before the Ontario Supreme Court. Monday's proceedings stemmed from a March 4, 1983, police raid involving 100 Ontario Provincial policemen ...
Dec 15, 1979
Federal officials in Tampa renew Scientology probe — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 27, 1979
Memo tells of plan to safeguard 'Red Box' documents — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Feb 19, 1979
The FBI's campaign against Scientology [incomplete] — Inquiry Magazine
Aug 29, 1978
Church of Scientology members plead innocent to charges — Palo Alto Times
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Type: Press
Source: Palo Alto Times
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Nine members of the Church of Scientology, including the wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard, pleaded innocent today to charges they infiltrated federal agencies and stole government documents. U.S. District Judge George Hart made it clear during the hour-long arraignment that he would reject church attempts to turn their trial into a forum for alledging 28 years of government harassment. "The Church of Scientology is not on trial here and it's not going to be on trial," Hart ...
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