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Jun 29, 1974
Inside religion: Profitable cult in Scientology — Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMore: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lester Kinsolving Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The "Church of Scientology," a highly profitable form of pseudo-psychoanalysis, has been investigated and exposed by numerous governmental agencies from Australia to England and the U. S. In California, however, this cult, founded by former science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, began last year to acquire a measure of respectabiilty. Somehow, famed San Francisco Forty-niner Quarterback John Brodie was converted. Then the Rev. Vaughn Young, the San Francisco Scientology franchise holder, managed quietly to obtain membership in the Communications Commission of ...
Jun 27, 1974
Libraries Face Libel Threat — Winnipeg Free Press
Type: Press
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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 ...
Jun 10, 1974
Scientology wedding in Caulfield — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Source:
The Age (Australia) A Perth couple, Mr. Vernon Cornelius, a 54-year-old communications inspector in the WA Railways, and Miss Daphne Smith, a 48-year-old secretary, married at the Church of Scientology chapel in Inkerman Road, North Caulfield, on Saturday. It was the first Scientology wedding in Victoria - where Scientology was banned in 1965. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Michael Graham, the 31-year-old Australian president of the church, which was recognised under the Commonwealth Marriage Act in February last year. The Victorian president of ...
Jun 6, 1974
The costly search for 'Total Freedom' — North Hill News (Calgary, Alberta)More: link
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North Hill News (Calgary, Alberta) The rev. Lorna Levett, Australian born counsellor, who has faced the wrath of the Church of Scientology by her defection in Calgary, says the resigned because she did not think some students were getting their money's worth. She told the News this week that she had persuaded people to spend over $200,000 in Scientology since she opened her Calgary franchise (later called a mission) in 1968. "Well over $100,000 they sent to the Los Angeles organization," Levett said in a prepared ...
Jun 1, 1974
Fear and Loathing in Sutton: The McLean family's fight to escape Scientology — MacleansMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Saunders Source:
Macleans The
McLean family first became involved in Scientology in 1969, when Nan, an energetic grandmother, joined the cult. Her husband, Eric, their two sons and their daughter-in-law followed. Eric McLean is a soft-spoken, 52-year-old teacher of auto mechanics now on leave to work for the Ontario high-school teachers' federation. He and Nan live in an old farmhouse outside the village of Sutton, north of Toronto. By 1972, the five McLeans were pillars of the Church of Scientology. Nan drove 100 ...
Jun 1, 1974
Scientology group moves as controversy continues — Calgary Herald (Canada)More: link
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Calgary Herald (Canada) Charges and counter-charges continued to fly as Calgary Scientologists moved out of their premises at 529 17th Ave. S.W. late Friday night. Landlord Franz Dopf told The Herald the group had been served with a notice to leave because other tenants complained of excessive noise, but Rev. Harvey Schmiedeke, a Scientology spokesman, said the move was caused by a need for more space. "We simply agreed to move." He did not say where the group intends to relocate. Mr. Schmiedeke charged ...
Jun 1, 1974
Sect ordered to pay $300,000 to victim — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) A Superior Court jury Friday awarded $300,000 to L. Gene Allard, 33, a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., artist, who claimed the Church of Scientology made him a victim of its "
fair game " policy. Allard, the church's former bookkeeper in Los Angeles, sued for malicious prosecution after the Scientologists had him arrested in 1969 for allegedly stealing $27,713.90 in Swiss franc notes and its records. The criminal charges against Allard were dismissed Dec. 29, 1969, for lack of evidence. He denied ever ...
May 31, 1974
Ex-Scientologist charges rip-off — Calgary Herald (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barry Nelson Source:
Calgary Herald (Canada) The former head of the Church of Scientology in Calgary said Thursday she has been used by the organization to talk Calgarians out of more than $200,000 — perhaps as much as $350,000. Rev. Lorna Levitt, who resigned from the church April 19, said: "I was being used by the organization to exploit people by promising then in tangibles that I had been indoctrinated into believing Scientology could and would deliver for a price." The price currently varies from $50 per ...
May 31, 1974
Scientology has ways of dealing with those who go against church — Albertan (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eric Denhoff Source:
Albertan (Canada) The former head of Calgary's Scientology mission, by attacking that organization, has left herself open to the feeding of "lurid, blood sex crime actual evidence" to the press. That's the way Scientology officially deals with those who attack the organization, such as Lorna Levitt, who resigned April 19. Levitt began attacking the organization in newspaper advertisements more than a month and a half ago, but as yet the church has has not responded according to its policy. Levitt says that, so ...
May 30, 1974
'They didn't get their money's worth' — Albertan (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eric Denhoff Source:
Albertan (Canada) The former head of a Calgary franchise of the Church of Scientology, who collected more than $300,000 in fees since 1968 says local people "didn't get their money's worth." Lorna Levitt, who resigned from the church April 19, said Wednesday Calgarians paid up to $5,000 apiece for spiritual counselling, "seeking absolute and total freedom" at her urging but said "it didn't do for everyone what it was supposed to." The local mission — a franchise — was incorporated in January, 1970, ...
May 7, 1974
Metropolitan Toronto Police // Intra-departmental correspondence [Sergeant John B. Fallis' report re. break-in]
Apr 27, 1974
Scientology's new face // A query in the street to start you talking — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ian Hicks Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) "Scientology is a religion which deals with the increase of awareness of the spirit and the achievement of higher spiritual standards." The Reverend Mrs Helen Pickett, of the Church of Scientology, April, 1974. "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." The Victorian Anderson Report on scientology, October, 1965. "How many shoes do you have on your feet?" '''Scientology worker at George ...
Apr 7, 1974
Narconon programs help addicts in prisons, community centers — Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania)
Mar 27, 1974
Times slapped with huge libel suit — Silver City Daily PressMore: link
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Silver City Daily Press EL PASO, Tex. (AP) — Narconon Inc. filed a $25 million libel suit Tuesday against El Paso Times reporter Steve Hallock, Times Editor William I. Latham, Gannett Corp., owner of the Times, and El Paso County Atty. George Rodriguez Jr. The suit, filed in the El Paso district clerk's office, alleges that two articles written by Hallock about Narconon Oct. 28, 1973, were damaging to the organization, which is self-described as a rehabilitator of drug addicts. The suit states the articles ...
Mar 23, 1974
Church creates study commission — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 22, 1974
Scientology renews the spirit — Today's Post (Pennsylvania)
Mar 7, 1974
Counterattack: The response to criticism [last of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) "We are not a law enforcement agency. BUT we will become interested in the crimes of people who seek to stop us ... If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Said Emily Watson, the church's national public affairs representative: "We tried doing that for years, but the attacks kept growing ...." Two attacks to which she referred were ...
Mar 6, 1974
Hard sell to build the faith [fourth of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Growth and expansion come close to being an obsession of the Church of Scientology. From street pamphleting to sophisticated media exposure of such Scientology converts as professional football player John Brodie and singer Amanda Ambrose, Scientologists solicit new recruits in a promotional whirlwind more often associated with used car salesmanship than with religion. Local Scientology centers promote services and plan their expansion with the help of high-level directives outlining a variety of methods to bring in "the raw public by the ...
Mar 6, 1974
The reclusive founder of Scientology [second of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology Lafayette Ronald Hubbard tossed off this remark at a lecture in Newark N.J., in 1949. At the time Hubbard was 38 years old, a prolific science fiction writer advising science fiction buffs on the tricks of his trade. The audience ...
Tag(s):
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Arthur Hubbard •
Athena (formerly, Avonriver) •
Bolivar •
Church of Scientology of Toronto •
Diana Hubbard Horwich •
Dianetics •
E-Meter •
Elaine Viets •
Excalibur (ship) •
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) •
Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C. •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Income •
James E. Adams •
John McLean •
Jonathan "Jon" Horwich •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Lawsuit •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Nancy McLean •
Operation and Transport Corporation, Ltd. (OTC) •
Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard •
Ronald "Nibs" Edward DeWolf (L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.) •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) •
Suzette Hubbard
Mar 5, 1974
A system of engrams and thetans [third of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) From 10 a.m. to midnight almost any day of the week, there is constant activity at 4225 Lindell Boulevard, the headquarters of the Missouri church of SCientology. The St. Louis office is one of about 300 branches of what has become one of the most controversial of all contemporary religious movements. The center resembles a vocational training school more than a traditional church. There are books, charts, diagrams, desks with headphone sets for listening to tape recordings, small instructional cubicles and ...
Mar 3, 1974
Expensive trip to spirituality [first of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) The Church of Scientology of Missouri, a branch of a controversial organization promising total spiritual freedom for all followers, opened in 1969 with a six member staff at a small Brentwood office. Today, the church has a staff of 150 and is in the process of moving from rented, two-story quarters at 4225 Lindell Boulevard to an even larger building of its own at 3730 Lindell. For fees that can total $5700, the staff conducts personal enlightenment and improvement courses for ...
Feb 27, 1974
[Advertisement] An open letter to Messrs. Heath, Thorpe and Wilson — The Times (UK)
Feb 25, 1974
The survivor — The Australian
Feb 21, 1974
A star remembers, and shares her gift
Feb 1, 1974
Far out / Scientology visited — Human Behavior (magazine)
Jan 23, 1974
The technical breakthrough of 1973! The Introspection RD
Jan 15, 1974
Church has its first wedding — The Australian
Jan 7, 1974
Flag order 3434RB / The Rehabilitation Project Force More: link , wikileaks.org
Jan 4, 1974
Two Scientology ministers named — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Jan 1, 1974
Helter Skelter — Vincent Bugliosi
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