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Nov 15, 1968
Scientology: A growing cult reaches dangerously into the mind — Life MagazineMore: blog.modernmechanix.com , lermanet.com
Sep 14, 1968
Hubbard dream ship — Herald (Australia)
Sep 5, 1968
Suicide verdict on South African — The Times (UK)More: link
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The Times (UK) A verdict of suicide was recorded at an East Grinstead inquest today on a South African, Johannes Hermanus Scheepers, aged 29, described on his alien registration card as a student of scientology. Mr. Scheepers was said to have been staying at the home of Mr. David Gaiman, Harwood House South, Harwoods Lane, a mile from the scientologists' international headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. Mr. Gaiman, aged 35, a senior executive of the cult, denied on oath that the dead ...
Aug 1, 1968
Britain curbs activities of cult of Scientologists // Refuses to admit Americans known to be followers of the semireligious group — New York TimesMore: link , select.nytimes.com
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Anthony Lewis Source:
New York Times LONDON, July 31—On successive days this week groups of Americans arriving in Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as scientology. The ban on scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British Government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, said in the House of Commons that he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
British bar Scientology 'students' // 'Socially harmful,' authorities claim — New York TimesMore: link
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Anthony Lewis Source:
New York Times LONDON — On successive days this weeks groups of Americans headed for Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as "Scientology." The Bar on Scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, told the House of Commons he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." He said: "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
Government curb the growth of Scientology // Council call special meeting — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer East Grinstead Urban Council were due to hold a special meeting last night (Wednesday) to discuss the statement made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Health, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, of government plans to curb the growth of Scientology, which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. In a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, East Grinstead's M.P., the Minister said the Government had become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientologists stopped at airport — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer IMMIGRATION officers at Heathrow Airport stopped six Americans who said they had come to study scientology, and ordered them to be sent home again. The Americans, a woman with two children, two other men and a young woman, were stopped as they were passing through the controls. They told Immigration Officials that they had come to attend a School of Scientology at East Grinstead. Later a Home Office spokesman said the party was refused entry because the six were coming to ...
Jul 30, 1968
Scientology man banned to family — The Times (UK)
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The Times (UK) From Our Correspondant East Grinstead, July 29 John McIlvenny, aged 21, a former scientologist, told the magistrates at East Grinstead, Sussex, today, that his fiancee, parents and other relatives could no longer have anything to do with him because he had been declared a
"suppressive" by the organization which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor. He was charged with stealing two diamond rings, together worth £650, from another scientologist, Mrs. Helen McKee of Forest Row, Sussex. Mr. McIlvenny, ...
Jul 28, 1968
A town they took over — Sunday Mirror (UK)More: link
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Bruce Maxwell Source:
Sunday Mirror (UK) SCIENTOLOGY chiefs are staging an all-out drive to get new British recruits—despite Government action to curb the "harmful" cult. So far the chief effect of the Government clampdown is to restrict foreign students going to the "mind-training" cult's world HQ at St. Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex. Under existing law no action can be taken to ban British Scientologists, although Health minister Kenneth Robinson has promised to "consider other measures should they prove necessary." This is small comfort to the residents ...
Jul 28, 1968
Scientology leader may be banned — Sunday Express (UK)More: link
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Sunday Express (UK) MR. JAMES CALLAGHAN, the Home Secretary, is urgently considering whether to ban from Britain Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, American leader of the controversial scientology cult. This would be a sharp follow-up to the curbs, announced in the Commons on Thursday, on foreigners who belong to the cult entering or remaining in Britain either as staff or students. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health, told M.P.s: "The Government are satisfied, having reviewed all the available evidence, that scientology is socially harmful. "It ...
Jul 28, 1968
Scientology: Sex, hypnotism and security checks — Sunday Mirror (UK)More: link
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George Martin Source:
Sunday Mirror (UK) "SCIENTOLOGY is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially; and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill. "It's founder is Lafayette Ron Hubbard, an American . . . who falsely claims academic and other distinctions, and whose sanity is to be gravely doubted." While the British authorities hummed and hawed, an official inquiry in Victoria, Australia, in 1965 condemned Hubbard and his organisation in these unmistakable terms. Intimate It branded Hubbard ...
Jul 27, 1968
Scientology prophet silent as 'orgs' dig in — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) The main Edinburgh practitioner, it seems, is a Mr Ernest Saren, and at the appointments he produces a personality "graph" showing the questionnaire results on ten "personality dimensions" such as happy-depressed and capable-inhibited. The final column on the capacity analysis chart gives an I.Q. figure. Saren's qualifications for discussing people's problems on the basis of this questionnaire, according to a H.A.P.I. spokesman, are scientology qualifications only. One of those tested in the H.A.P.I. building this week, a 19-year-old apprentice who had ...
Jul 26, 1968
Government clamp down on cult of Scientology — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) The Government, in the Commons yesterday, announced plans to curb the growth of what Mr Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, called the "objectionable " growth of Scientology. In a written answer to Mr Geoffrey Johnson Smith (C., East Grinstead), Mr Robinson said: "During the past two years the Government have become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United Kingdom. Scientology is a pseudo-philosophical cult introduced into this country some years ago from the United States and has ...
Jul 25, 1968
House of Commons // Official report // Parliamentary debates (Hansard) More: link
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MINISTRY OF HEALTH Scientology Mr. G. John Smith asked the Minister of Health, in view of the representations he has received concerning the potentially harmful activities of scientologists in this country, what action he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement. Mr. K. Robinson: During the past two years, Her Majesty's government have become increasingly concerned at the spread of scientology in the United Kingdom. Scientology is a pseudo-philosophical cult introduced into this country some years ago from ...
Jul 25, 1968
Public inquiry made history // Scientology development appeal heard — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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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 25, 1968
Talking points... // We are growing tired of their antics — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer WHEN we want the Scientologists to run East Grinstead we will let them know . . . They seem blissfully Ignorant of the fact that the residents of the town are growing a little tired of their antics such at issuing a list of places which they have decided to put out of bounds to their members. They include cafes, shops, public houses, and even a professional man, a solicitor, is named. Just who do the Scientologists think they are to ...
Jul 18, 1968
Estate agent hits back at the Scientologists — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 18, 1968
Many objectors to Saint Hill development / Appeals by Scientologists — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 18, 1968
Regarded after theft as 'a suppressive person' — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 17, 1968
Planning inquiry hears Scientology views on opponents' 'crimes' — The Times (UK)
Jul 11, 1968
Scientologist youths told to leave the country — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer TWO long-haired Swedish youths who for the past month had been studying at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, the headquarters of the Scientology Foundation, appeared before a special East Grinstead Court on Wednesday last week. Mats Bengtson (18) and Yngue Mokvist (22), both of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully in the U.K. contrary to the Aliens Order of 1953. They were granted an absolute discharge and bound over in the sum of £5 each, on their own recognisance, ...
Jul 11, 1968
Scientologists place 22 businesses out of bound — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer TWENTY-TWO businesses have been put 'Out of Bounds' to Scientologists by their Saint Hill headquarters at East Grinstead. A letter to the members headed 'Executive Directive,' lists the businesses as 'out of bounds,' and says: 'The shops have indicated that they do not wish Scientology to expand in East Grinstead, and we are, therefore, relieving them of the painful experience of taking our money.' The Press officer at Saint Hill, Mr. H. Dunston, said that the list had come about following ...
Jun 15, 1968
[Report on Scientology] [exact date unknown] — CBC News
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CBC News ["Here's an amazing clip from the late 1960's addressing the growing concern around scientology."]
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology 'brainwash' // JP's comment as ex-student is cleared of theft — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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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 ObserverMore: link
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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 ...
May 23, 1968
Why council had to send 500 letters — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer EAST GRINSTEAD Urban Council Planning Committee heard that well over 500 letters had had to be sent out to say that the inquiry into the appeal by the Church of Scientology, East Grinstead, against the Council's refusal to allow large-scale development at Saint Hill, had been postponed. The inquiry has been postponed by the Ministry because of the indisposition of Mr. Howard Sharp, who is representing the appellants. The new date for the inquiry is July 16. Labour councillor Mrs. C. ...
May 16, 1968
Scientology appeal date postponed — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer DESPITE a protest from East Crinstead Urban Council to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, an appeal concerning the Church of Scientology has been postponed from May 29, and arrangements are being made to try and hold the hearing in July. When the Planning Committee of East Grinstead Urban Council met on Tuesday, Mr. H. C. Jones, clerk, reported that he had made representations opposing the postponement on the grounds that the December 1966 inquiry had been cancelled at short ...
Apr 18, 1968
Scientology appeal may last two days — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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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
Jan 1, 1968
The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard (TV) — Granada Television (UK)More: transcript
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