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Aug 10, 1984
Treasury agents said probing sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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 24, 1984
The cult of evil [incomplete] — Daily Mail (UK)More: link
Jul 20, 1984
Insights // Did Scientology defraud members? — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) Is it the beginning of the end for the Church of Scientology? In the past senior church officials have refused to discuss the inner workings of L. Ron Hubbard's empire, but according to a recent story in the New York Times , disillusionment with Hubbard and a power struggle within the organization have prompted several church officials to meet with police investigators and testify against Scientology in a number of court cases. At a trial that just ended in Los Angeles County ...
Jul 14, 1984
Editorial of the Sun // How much does it take to justify an inquiry? — Clearwater CitizenMore: link
Type: Press
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Clearwater Citizen How much evidence do area law enforcement agencies need before launching a full-scale investigation of the Church of Scientology? Apparently the agencies hereabouts are a lot less responsive than they are in Ontario, Canada. The same sworn statements alleging criminal activity on the part of the locally-headquartered sect given to authorities in the Tampa Bay area have prompted action by the Ontario Provincial Police and resulted in the dismissal in California of a civil suit against former Scientology archivist Gerald Armstrong. ...
Jul 14, 1984
Sect info gathered here spurs probes — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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, ...
Jul 13, 1984
How profits the prophet? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) L. Ron Hubbard, the controversial and elusive founder of the Church of Scientology, is nothing if not a prophet. In 1949, while still known principally as an author of science fiction, he was reported to have told a lecture audience, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." Conventional clerics may dispute Hubbard's theology but they can't refute his economics. By ...
Jul 12, 1984
Charges Hubbard diverted funds called "garbage" — Daily NewsMore: link
Type: Press
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Daily News Charges by church defectors that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard diverted more than $100 million in church funds to foreign bank accounts was described Wednesday as "garbage" by the sect's president. "I call it hyperspace junk writing," said Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International. The former senior church officials, who have testified about the church's inner workings in Los Angeles court, told the New York Times that Hubbard directed them to establish shell corporations to channel much of ...
Jul 11, 1984
Scientology chief got millions, ex-aides say — New York TimesMore: link , nytimes.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Lindsey Source:
New York Times Former officials of the Church of Scientology say they helped L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the cult-like organization, to secretly divert more than $100 million from the church into foreign bank accounts he controlled. The organization, long a subject of investigations in this country, Britain, France, Australia, South Africa, Spain and elsewhere, has maintained that Mr. Hubbard cut his ties to it in the mid-1970's, that he has received only a token consulting fee of $35,000 annually since then ...
Jun 2, 1984
Sect will ask court to quash warrant — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The Church of Scientology of Toronto will petition the Supreme Court of Ontario Monday asking that a search warrant executed last year be quashed, although the Ontario Provincial Police have already used it to raid the sect's headquarters and seize 14 million documents. Investigators armed with the warrant raided the sect's Toronto headquarters in March 1983 and seized 904 boxes of papers and documents believed to substantiate suspected sect fraud, conspiracy, breaking and entering and theft, according to the warrant and ...
May 22, 1984
Sect tries the 'unusual' in document trial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) LOS ANGELES—In an extraordinary move, lawyers for the Church of Scientology have asked that parts of the official court transcript of a civil case be destroyed upon the completion of the trial. The motion was railed "unusual" by Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr., who denied the request. Breckenridge is ruling over the non-jury trial brought by the sect and Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of its founder. They are asking for the return of 10,000 documents a former Scientologist ...
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 12, 1984
Hubbard siphoned Scientology funds, ex-member testifies — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) LOS ANGELES — Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard put more than $200-million in church funds into Swiss bank accounts while keeping secret control of the church, an attorney for a former church member said Friday. Attorney Michael Flynn said at the trial of Gerald Armstrong, a former member and archivist accused by Scientology officials of stealing documents from the church, that the documents will show Hubbard received more than $200-million from various Scientology corporations while claiming he was receiving ...
Sep 27, 1983
Former Scientologists charge church harassed them for money — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jun 13, 1983
[The founder and spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology diverted millions of dollars in church funds] — UPI
Type: Press
Source:
UPI The founder and spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology diverted millions of dollars in church funds into his own personal accounts, it was reported Sunday. L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive leader of the Clearwater-based church, used a "dummy" foreign corporation as a funnel for the funds, the St. Petersburg Times said in a copyright story. Church officials denied the charges. But the newspaper said court files in the United States and Canada show Hubbard collected money worldwide through the Religious ...
Jun 12, 1983
Scientology funds made Hubbard rich, files show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 31, 1983
Mystery of the Vanished Ruler — TIME MagazineMore: gerryarmstrong.org
Type: Press
Source:
TIME Magazine Tag(s):
Alan Walters •
Annie M. Tidman (aka Annie Broeker aka Annie Logan aka Lisa Mitchell) •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Assets •
Auditing •
Bent Corydon •
Blackmail •
Brainwashing •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Copyright, trademark, patent •
Cost •
David Miscavige •
Detox •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Income •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Inurement •
Jocelyn Armstrong •
John Brodie •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawsuit •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Medical claims •
Michael J. Flynn •
Mission Holders Conference •
Operation Snow White •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Purification Rundown ("Purif") •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Ronald "Nibs" Edward DeWolf (L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Tax matter •
TIME Magazine •
Tonja C. Burden •
William W. "Bill" Franks
Sep 29, 1980
5-C MCCS Tapes [partial transcript, with commentaries]
Sep 12, 1980
Churches join Scientology fight // Challenge IRS denial of group's tax-exempt status — Los Angeles Times (California)
Apr 1, 1980
Hubbard: malevolent or maligned? — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
Clearwater Times (Florida) ''On Dec. 13, former Scientologist LaVenda Van Schaick filed a $200-million class-action lawsuit against the Church of Scientology in Federal Court in Boston, contending that the church falsely promises to improve the lives of its members. Since then, 10 other ex-Scientologists have filed affidavits in support of the suit, giving a glimpse of life within Scientology. The church has files motion to dismiss that case. It also sued Mrs. Van Schaick and others, contending that she is "motivated by malice." Last ...
Mar 7, 1980
Affidavit of Silvana Garritano More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF SILVANA GARRITANO I was introduced to Scientology in October, 1977, when I went to the New York Church to take a "Communications Course". The "registrar" (a euphemism for salesman) was Jerry Indursky. He told me that my problem was a lack of assertiveness, that I did not speak up for myself. Indursky promised me Scientology would remedy that problem and I would emerge from the Communications Course a happier, more successful person because I could stand up for myself. ...
Tag(s):
Auditing •
Bart Dobin •
Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) •
Blackmail •
Children, youth •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Communications Course •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
Estates Project Force (EPF) •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Gradation chart •
Hacienda Serena @ 49875 Avenida Obregon La Quinta CA United States •
Hard sell •
Income •
Inurement •
Jerry Indursky •
Max Goodman •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Recruitment •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Religious cloaking •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silvana Garritano •
Slave labor •
Statistics (Stats) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)
Jan 15, 1980
Woman suing Church of Scientology says she was “brainwashed” — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Langer Source:
Boston Globe A woman who was a member of the Church of Scientology for seven years and who has now filed a $200 million class action suit against the church, said of her experience that “it was a whole menagerie of lies.”
Lavenda Van Schaick, a 29-year-old native of Texas who joined the church in Las Vegas, recited a list of experiences that her attorney, Michael Flynn, said, can only be described as “Orweilian,” referring to George Orwell’s depiction of a future society ...
Jan 9, 1980
Dispute over tax status goes to court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , antisectes.net
Nov 24, 1979
Church's covert activity told — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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 1, 1979
How cults bilk all of us — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carson Williams Source:
Reader's Digest Because they don't have to file annual financial reports with the IRS, unscrupulous sects can — and do — ignore the law with impunity. Let's close this tax loophole HOW CULTS BILK ALL OF US
SOME THREE MILLION AMERICANS have joined cult churches in the last decade, a phenomenon attributed to everything from the breakdown of the family to loss of faith in traditional institutions. One thing is certain: these cults could not have experienced their spectacular rise to wealth and ...
Aug 29, 1978
Church claims U.S. campaign of harassment // Scientologists advance charge as rationale for aggressive policies — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette ,
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Church of Scientology contends that for more than 20 years it has been the target of a systematic campaign by the United States government, together with "vested-interest pressure groups" such as the medical professions, to "suppress the church's spiritual practice and expansion." The church advances this accusation as the fundamental rationale for its aggressive policies of defense-by-attack against individual critics, private groups and government agencies perceived as "harassing" Scientology. Church spokesmen, moreover, expand upon the allegation of systematic persecution to ...
Jul 19, 1976
Scientology's funds in trust: Who controls the purse strings? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Oct 1, 1973
The Awful Truth About Scientology — The RealistMore: ep.tc
Type: Press
Source:
The Realist [Reproduced here with express permission of Paul Krassner — Publisher of The Realist. Thank you! Transcribed from scanned pages at The Realist Project Archive .] Although many people have had some brief acquaintance with Scientology, very few have gotten into the subject far enough to find out what it is really all about. It is a subject which doesn't easily lend itself to study. The courses are many and tend to become quite expensive, not only in terms of money, ...
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 14 Scientology -- Business or Religion? — Tower Publications, Inc.
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
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