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canada • church of scientology of toronto • death • e-meter • extortion • fair game • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • france • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • heber c. jentzsch • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • john travolta • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • medical claims • membership • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • ontario provincial police (opp) • operation snow white • protest, picket • tax matter • threat of legal action, lawsuit • united kingdom (uk)
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Mar 24, 1978
Disparate events in capital underline issue of F.B.I. curbs — New York Times
Mar 21, 1978
Court refuses to act in Church of Scientology appeal — New York Times
Feb 22, 1978
Scientology boss gets jail term [scan] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Feb 22, 1978
Scientology boss gets jail term [transcript] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
RON L. Hubbard, the American born founder of the Church of Scientology, who turned Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, into the world headquarters of the movement, was sentenced in his absence to four years in prison and fined 35,000 Francs for fraud by the Paris Criminal Court last week.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 16, 1978
Names & faces [L. Ron Hubbard sentenced in Paris] — Detroit Free Press
Dec 17, 1977
Church moves against file use — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 20, 1977
FBI infiltrated by church, government attorneys say — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 20, 1977
National church group argues to free Scientology minister — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 19, 1977
Church accused of infiltration of FBI // U.S. claims Scientology members were put in agency to leak data — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The controversial Church of Scientology has planted an unspecified number of its members within the FBI in an effort to leak information to the church, Justice Department attorneys charged in Los Angeles federal court Thursday. Asst. U.S. Atty. Richard Stilz said the FBI learned of the alleged infiltration by church members while reviewing some of the more than 23,000 documents seized in raids on two church locations in Los Angeles July 8. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that a ...
Jul 31, 1977
Judge rules in FBI favor in dispute with church [exact date unknown] — Associated Press
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The federal government won a major victory in its battle with the Church of Scientology when a judge ruled the FBI's seizure of thousands of church documents was legal. U.S. District Judge Malcolm M. Lucas rejected claims by church attorneys that the FBI exceeded the scope of a search warrant during the seizures last July 8. Federal attorneys said Wednesday's ruling, unless appealed, cleared the way for the documents to be presented to a federal grand jury ...
Jul 30, 1977
Scientologists protest ruling [exact date unknown]
More: link
Type: Press
Ruled against by the Supreme Court, thousands of local members of the Church of Scientology took to the streets in protest and confronted agents of the federal government in an attempt to "educate the public" about alleged harassment of the church. Last week's events were triggered by the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a Washington, D.C. appellate court decision that the search warrant used by the FBI in last July's raids on Washington and Hollywood church offices was valid. The court's ...
Jul 28, 1977
FBI's church raid in capital ruled illegal — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology won a major victory Wednesday when a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled that an FBI raid July 8 on the church's headquarters there was based on an illegally broad search warrant. U.S. Dist. Judge William B. Bryant ordered the FBI to return all those documents seized in the Washington raid, but then stayed his order for 10 days to give the Justice Department an opportunity to appeal his ruling. In previous hearings and again Wednesday, Bryant expressed ...
Jul 8, 1977
Church of Scientology is accused of spy plot — Austin Daily Herald
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Austin Daily Herald
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Meisner, disillusioned and frightened by the religion he once embraced, holds the key to FBI allegations that the Church of Scientology carried out a secret spy plot against the government. Meisner, who remains in protective custody under an assumed name, is being guarded around the clock because he and federal officials fear for his safety. Based largely on Meisner's statements to federal investigators, the FBI obtained a search warrant and raided Scientology church offices in Washington and ...
Sep 28, 1976
Scientologist's seized machine pistol may be illegal — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 4, 1976
Scientology's Pinellas tax battle isn't the first — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, news.google.com
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 ...
Mar 26, 1976
Scientology called 'anti-God' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 12, 1976
Clearwater lends Cazares legal support — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Jan 29, 1976
Church's history marked with legal battles — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 1, 1974
Intellectual Freedom // Anti-Scientology books targets of lawsuits — The Library Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Library Journal
Having won out of court settlements and apologies from publishers of four recent books exposing the "inside story" on the "religion" of Scientology and its founder, Ron Hubbard, defenders of Scientology have vowed to take to court any Canadian library or bookstore that refuses to get rid of these "libelous" books. The Scientologists have conducted similar suits in England, Australia, and the U.S. The books in question are The Mind Benders by Cyril Vosper (reportedly once a high official at ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 27, 1974
Libraries Face Libel Threat — Winnipeg Free Press
Type: Press
Source: Winnipeg Free Press
The Church of Scientology of Canada has advised some libraries that they may be cited as party defendants in a libel suit unless they remove certain books from their shelves, Steven Horn, council member of the Canadian Library Association said Wednesday. But, in an advisory memorandum signed by the association's incoming president, Belly Henderson, association members were told, "... the threat is potential rather than actual." The memo said, "In view of the objectives of the ... association, it may be ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 7, 1974
Metropolitan Toronto Police // Intra-departmental correspondence [Sergeant John B. Fallis' report re. break-in]
Feb 15, 1973
PROCLAMATION — Commonwealth Gazette (Australia)
Nov 15, 1972
Bill to legalise scientology — West Australian
Type: Press
Source: West Australian
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Aug 25, 1972
Scientology makes a comeback // Labor leaders pledge action to give the cult legal recognition — The Australian
Type: Press
Source: The Australian
TWO A.L.P. leaders yesterday came out in support of the Scientology Church of the New Faith. The party's Senate Leader, Senator Lionel Murphy, committed a Labor Government would recognise the church and South Australia announced it would repeal its ban on the church. Senator Murphy said a Labor Government would recognise he church in exactly the same way as any other religion. Under the Constitution, all religions were entitled to equal treatment. The Australian vice-president of the church, the Reverend T. ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Mar 1, 1972
Scientology wins in court — Fate Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard E. Saunders
Source: Fate Magazine
AFTER ALMOST 10 years of what only can be called harassment by the Food and Drug Administration the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, D. C., has emerged from the courts victorious.
Feb 20, 1972
Church of Scientology Sues at Drop of Its Name — Yuma Daily Sun
Type: Press
Author(s): Lester Kinsolving
Source: Yuma Daily Sun
Churches have been generally reluctant to engage in the expense and acrimony of lawsuits ever since St. Paul counseled the Corinthian church to avoid property litigation between members before pagan magistrates. (1 Cor. 6: 1-9) But an organization called "the church of Scientology" appears to have taken just the opposite course, in what seems to be a means of acquiring extensive publicity and at the same time frightening anyone inclined to expose their operations.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 1, 1971
Suit-happy scientologists [exact date unknown] — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, transcript from another publication
Type: Press
Author(s): Lester Kinsolving
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Churches have been generally reluctant to engage in the expense and acrimony of lawsuits ever since St. Paul counseled the Corinthian church to avoid property litigation between members before pagan magistrates. (1 Cor. 6: 1-9) But an organization called "the church of Scientology" appears to have taken just the opposite course, in what seems to be a means of acquiring extensive publicity and at the same time frightening anyone inclined to expose their operations. Scientology, which focuses upon intimate interviews using ...
Jul 31, 1971
FDA seizure of e-meters is reversed — Washington Post
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas W. Lippman
Source: Washington Post
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that since the Scientology organization had made a case—uncontested by the Government—that it was a religion, a 1963 raid on its headquarters was illegal because it violated its constitutional rights. In a much-publicized raid on Jan. 4, 1963, agents from the Food and Drug Administration seized so-called "E-meters" and stacks of literature from the headquarters of the Founding Church of Scientology here. The FDA charged at the time that the Scientologists made false claims ...
Jul 31, 1971
[Re. FDA v. Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C.] — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Source: New York Times
Fed Dist Judge G A Gesell condemns use at 'E-meter' but permits Ch of Scientology to continue using instrument in its religious practices; rules that L R Hubbard's claims for meter are 'quackery' but says that Scientology does meet qualifications of being religion and is entitled to protection under 1st Amendment of Const; orders FDA to return 100 'E-meters' and 2 tons of printed material seized in '63; rules that only Scientology mins will be permitted to use 'E-meters' and that ...
Jun 26, 1971
New religion takes on U.S. government, psychiatry — Monterey Peninsula Herald
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Type: Press
Source: Monterey Peninsula Herald
An aggressive modern religion that has taken on the U.S. government and the psychiatric profession has come to the Peninsula. The Church of Scientology, which established a study group here last August, has now opened a counseling center at 604 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey. Still a mission of the San Francisco church, the local congregation is training a minister and conducting lectures and personal counseling sessions. Court Fight The church, founded only 16 years ago, has been engaged in a court fight ...
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