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37 matching items found between Jan 1965 and Dec 1969. Furthermore, there are 876 matching items for all time not shown.
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Nov 27, 1969
Police point to Scientology sect as key in 3 murders — Valley News
Nov 26, 1969
Police seek to link 3rd slaying to murder of two cult members — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 15, 1969
British court rejects Scientologists' chapel — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
LONDON (AP) — The High Court rejected Friday an application by Scientologists in Britain to set up a legally recognized chapel for their cult. Justice John Percy Ashworth said in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court: "While Scientology may be wholly admirable I find it difficult to reach the conclusion that it is a religion." "The idea presented to my mind is of an organization serving as a meeting point or clearing house for persons of all religious beliefs through which people ...
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National Enquirer
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Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: National Enquirer
How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Sep 29, 1969
Scientology: Total freedom and beyond — The Nation
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Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: The Nation
DONOVAN BESS Mr. Bess is on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco This is the year of Apollo 11. It is also the year in which that psychological sophisticate, Richard Alpert, came back from his guru in India to reap a big following of inner-space explorers with his story of spiritual conversion. It is a lime of burgeoning meditation societies on the college campuses, and of passionate rebellion against the amorality of our technology. Thus it ...
Aug 25, 1969
Scientology boom // A disputed religion growth — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)
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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 ...
Jul 28, 1969
Bolte home to protest — The Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): IAN HAMILTON
Source: The Herald (Australia)
A group of 20 scientologists demonstrated against the Premier, Sir Henry Bolte, at Essendon Airport today. Sir Henry and Lady Bolte arrived back in Melbourne after a 96-day world trip. The demonstrators held placards. Some said: "What's the next religion to be banned, Sir Henry?" The State Government has banned scientology. One of the demonstrators, Mr I. K. Tampion, wearing a clerical collar and a metal cross around his neck, said the demonstration was by the Church of Scientology of California ...
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Mar 16, 1969
Ex-science fiction writer typed out Scientology plan — Detroit Free Press
Dec 1, 1968
SCIENTOLOGY – Menace to Mental health — Today's Health
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Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: Today's Health
Couched in pseudoscientific terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons—for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health. [Picture / Caption: L. Ronald Hubbard, Scientology's founder.] [Picture / Caption: Bust of Hubbard flanks "altar" in Scientology "church" near London. Among his accomplishments, Hubbard claims to have been dead and recovered, to have visited Venus and heaven.] LAST SUMMER in New York City, ...
Nov 20, 1968
Scientology denied business permit by Arcadia council — Los Angeles Times (California)
Oct 8, 1968
Skeleton in the Hubbard — Herald (Australia)
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Source: Herald (Australia)
A meeting of six people in a Noble Park house is hardly a dramatic resurgence. But the cult gained one objective — publicity. The cult invited police and State Cabinet Ministers to the meeting. None attended. Scientology is banned in Victoria, and the State Government has made it clear it will act to prevent any revival of the cult. The practice of Scientology is banned under the Psychological Practices Act, and the Crown Law Department, following Sunday's meeting, is considering whether ...
Sep 17, 1968
Customs seize 50 Scientology books — Herald (Australia)
Aug 11, 1968
Dollar cult // Scientology 'sets an income record' — Sunday Mirror (UK)
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Source: Sunday Mirror (UK)
A former "recruiting director" for the Church of Scientology in Britain claimed yesterday that their income had reached £30,000 a week. Art student Nick Robinson of Reading Berks, added: "The organisation has a graph showing weekly income at their headquarters, St Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex. Millionaire Mr. Robinson, 21, said he was the cult's recruiting director until April, when he was declared a "suppressive person." He added that the cult had more than 8,000 salesmen in Britain —- about 2,000 ...
Aug 7, 1968
Costs order against scientologists — The Times (UK)
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Source: The Times (UK)
The Church of Scientology of California was ordered in the High Court yesterday to pay the costs of the publishers of three national newspapers whom they had brought to court to face injunction proceedings. Mr. Justice Fisher also ordered that the church could not proceed with libel actions against the News of the World Ltd., Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd., and Daily Mirror Newspapers Ltd. until the costs are paid. At the start of yesterday's hearing, Mr. Leon Brittan, counsel for the church, ...
Aug 7, 1968
High court costs order against Scientologists — The Guardian (UK)
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Source: The Guardian (UK)
The Church of Scientology of California was ordered in the High Court yesterday to pay the costs of the publishers of three national newspapers whom they had brought to court to face injunction proceedings. Mr Justice Fisher also ordered that the Church would not proceed with libel actions against the News of the World, Ltd., Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd., and Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd., until the costs are paid. At the start of yesterday's hearing, counsel for the Church, Mr Leon Britton, ...
Aug 7, 1968
High court orders costs against Scientologists — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
The Church of Scientology of California were ordered in the High Court in London yesterday to pay the costs of the publishers of three national newspapers they had brought to court to face injunction proceedings. Mr Justice Fisher also ordered that the Church could not proceed with libel actions against the News of the World, Ltd., Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd., and Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd., until the costs are paid. At the start of the hearing, counsel for the Church, Mr Leon ...
Aug 7, 1968
Mind cult must pay costs – judge — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
THE Church of Scientology of California yesterday abandoned its applications for interim libel injunctions against the Daily Express, News of the World and Sunday Mirror. Mr. Justice Fisher, in the Vacation Court, ordered the church — a foreign corporation registered in London under the Companies Act — to pay the newspapers' costs forthwith. He stayed further proceedings in the three libel actions until the costs have been paid. The writs were issued last Wednesday. In a judgment delivered for publication yesterday ...
Aug 2, 1968
'Finished my work,' says Scientology founder — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
Mr Ron Hubbard (57), American founder of the Scientology movement, sent a Telex message to the cult's world headquarters in East Grinstead, Sussex, yesterday saying: "I finished my work. Now it is up to others." This was stated by Mrs David Gaiman, wife of the movement's chief spokesman. She said the message — which did not mention the current controversy over the cult — gave no clue to Mr Hubbard's whereabouts. It read: "I retired from Scientology directorships over two years ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientologists issue writs for libel — The Times (UK)
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Source: The Times (UK)
The Church of of California has issued writs claiming damages for libel against four newspapers. The writs also seek injunctions restraining publication of the "said or any similar libels". The newspapers concerned are the News of the World, the Sunday Express, the Sunday Mirror, and the Daily Express. The church, stated in the writs to be a non-profit-making corporation incorporated under the laws of California and with a registered office at Fitzroy Street, W., is suing the publishers — the News ...
Jul 26, 1968
State acts to curb scientology // Growing concern at spread — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Rita Marshall
Source: The Times (UK)
The Government yesterday announced steps to curb the growth of scientology, the cult which has its world headquarters in 30 acres of Sussex countryside near East Grinstead. Mr. Robinson, Minister of Health, said in a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Conservative M.P. for East Grinstead, yesterday that the Government had been increasingly concerned at its spread in this country during the past two years. He announced six steps to stop foreign students, teachers and administrative staff coming to study ...
Jul 26, 1968
[Placeholder for an article which was cited in a lawsuit in England by the Church of Scientogy of California] — Daily Express (UK)
Type: Press
Source: Daily Express (UK)
[This is a placeholder for an article yet to be found. This article was the subject of a lawsuit by Church of Scientology of California in England, as cited in Scientologists issue writs for libel | The Times (UK) | 2 August 1968.]
Jul 25, 1968
Public inquiry made history // Scientology development appeal heard — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
THE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE PLANNING APPEAL BY SClENTOLOGISTS CONCLUDED AT EAST GRINSTEAD ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AFTER LASTING THREE-AND-A-HALF DAYS — THE LONGEST INQUIRY EVER TO BE HELD IN THE TOWN. The appeal by the Church of Scientology, California, was into the refusal by East Grinstead Urban Council to allow development extending to 23,500 square feet at the Scientology headquarters at Saint Hill Manor on the outskirts of the town. The Urban Council had booked East Grinstead Parish Hall for the ...
Jul 18, 1968
Many objectors to Saint Hill development / Appeals by Scientologists — East Grinstead Observer
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology 'brainwash' // JP's comment as ex-student is cleared of theft — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
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Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Hearing how Scientologists "audited" members who knew or mentioned people "disconnected" from the organisation, chairman of East Grinstead magistrates, Mr Antony Evans said: "It sounds like brainwashing to me." And the defendant and a witness in the case being heard by the court on Tuesday asked for their addresses to be kept secret to avoid persecution by members of the organisation. After a five-hour hearing the magistrates dismissed a case brought against former Scientologist Mr Maurice Johnson of South Shields, by ...
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology is slammed in court as 'evil cult' — East Grinstead Observer
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Author(s): Debbie Winsor
Source: East Grinstead Observer
A former Scientologist who left the movement 'in disgust,' described it at East Grinstead court on Monday as an 'evil cult.' Maurice William Johnson of South Shields County Durham, told the court that since he resigned from the movement in June 1966, he had been persecuted by the Scientology organization and had received over 100 letters of abuse from Scientologists. A man who wrote one of the letters to Mr. Johnson while he was a member of the Scientology movement himself ...
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Apr 18, 1968
Scientology appeal may last two days — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
THE APPEAL BY THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY AGAINST EAST GRINSTEAD URBAN COUNCIL'S REFUSAL TO GRANT PLANNING PERMISSION FOR LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT AT THEIR HEADQUARTERS AT SAINT HILL MAY LAST TWO DAYS. A petition signed by over 460 people objecting to the development, in addition to individual objections, was sent to the Urban Council at the time they discussed the application and notices of the local inquiry have been sent to them. The inquiry, which will be conducted by an Inspector of the ...
Feb 8, 1968
Major Scientology plans opposed — East Grinstead Observer
Dec 7, 1967
Scientology -- Town's biggest business — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Aug 1, 1967
L. Ron Hubbard's Clearing Result Congress — New Cosmic Star (Lawndale, California)
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