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Part II: Scientology defined / Individual life is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 29, 1979
FBI file questions mental state of L. Ron Hubbard — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Memo tells of plan to safeguard 'Red Box' documents — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 7, 1979
Letter indicates Hubbard came to city to 'save the operation' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was so concerned with the success of his newly formed Clearwater headquarters that he visited there in late November 1975 to "save the operation." A letter Hubbard sent one of his top-level "Guardians" shows the founder wanted to make sure "this scene stays cool" while his United Churches of Florida front group established itself in the old Fort Harrison hotel and Bank of Clearwater buildings. The letter is included in ...
Sep 19, 1979
Scientology secrets revealed in 2 million dollar consumer fraud case // Scientology on trial — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard H. Meeker Source:
Bay Guardian (San Francisco) How a Portland jury got a crash course in one of the oddest "religions" ever created and awarded the plaintiff more than $2. million Note: This summer, a jury in Portland spent a month listening to testimony in a $4 million lawsuit over the practices of the Church of Scientology there. The plaintiff: Julie Christofferson, a young Portland woman who was a follower of Scientology in 1975 and 1976. The defendants: three local Scientology organizations and one of their leaders. ''Richard ...
Sep 1, 1979
L. Ron Hubbard, a living legend — Xenophile
Oct 18, 1978
Churches and Churchmen: Derided church now accepted — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 1, 1978
Everything you always wanted to know about study — Today's Professionals
Sep 19, 1978
Making his own pace — Chadstone Progress (Australia)
Aug 27, 1978
Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard . . . official biographies seem larger than life — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) [Picture / Caption: FOUNDER — L. Ron Hubbard bust in lobby of Scientology administrative building.] Like the Romanesque bronze busts of L. Ron Hubbard displayed in churches of Scientology, the official biographies of Scientology's founder seem larger than life. Born in Tilden, Neb., on March 13, 1911, to Navy Comdr. Harry Ross Hubbard and his wife, Dora May, he is said to have spent his early childhood on the Montana cattle ranch of his maternal grandfather, "where long days were spent ...
Aug 27, 1978
Scientology: A long trail of controversy — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette ,
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) On May 14, 1951,
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard wrote to the U.S. attorney general to plead for help in fending off a Communist conspiracy, dedicated, he averred, to destroying him. "When, when, when," he wrote, "will we have a roundup?" Rambling through
seven single-spaced typewritten pages , the letter was, to all appearances, the heartfelt cry of a troubled man. A successful science fiction writer in the 1940s, L. Ron Hubbard, as he signed himself, had gone on to bigger things. ...
Aug 19, 1978
Scientologists to have first ACT service — Canberra Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Quiddington Source:
Canberra Times (Australia) The Church of Scientology, the invention of science fiction writer Ron Hubbard which has caused an unholy uproar around the world in the past, will hold a Canberra inaugural service at Red Hill tomorrow. The Church, established in 1953 by Mr Hubbard after his book 'Dienetics', published in 1950, attracted world-wide interest in the principles of Scientology. More than five million people in 54 countries are understood to have gone through the Scientology processing, a full course of which can cost ...
Jul 28, 1978
Scientologists take public offensive // Public offensive tack taken by Scientologists // Church says indictments near — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Shaffer ,
Timothy S. Robinson Source:
Washington Post The church of Scientology held an unusual press reception yesterday to introduce two of its top officials who the church says will be indicted for alleged crimes against the government. Standing around fruit punch, soft drinks, cookies and open-faced sandwiches, church lawyer Philip J. Hirschkop told assembled reporters that the predicted indictments are part of a government effort "to break the back" of the church. Hirschkop said that a total of 12 church members - including Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of ...
May 16, 1978
Scientologists kept files on 'enemies' — Washington PostMore: xenutv.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Shaffer Source:
Washington Post The Church of Scientology, in its efforts to investigate and attack its "enemies," kept files on five Washington federal judges, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, other congressmen, Jacqueline Onassis, the Better Business Bureau and the American Medical Association, according to Scientology documents in the possession of federal investigators. The Scientologists' files, summarized in a 525-page inventory filed in court by the federal government, were in many cases marked "Eyes Only," "Top Secret," "Enemy Names" and "Battle Plans." Their contents were coded with ...
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)
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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.
Feb 16, 1978
Names & faces [L. Ron Hubbard sentenced in Paris] — Detroit Free Press
Jan 1, 1978
Chases' Calendar of Annual Events — Apple Tree Press
Aug 28, 1977
The Church of Scientology - Religion or traveling medicine show? — Valley NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Alexander Source:
Valley News The Church of Scientology offers a free personality evaluation to persons interested in its counseling services. Valley News staff writer Brian Alexander took the test at the Sherman Oaks Scientology center, posing as a college student and using an assumed name. As the second segment of a four-part series on the church, he tells what happened. —– The Church of Scientology's free
personality test is like a warm handshake, but the grip is too tight. The counselor who evaluates ...
Jun 25, 1977
Scientology: Target world government // Hubbard: "We'll make a new society so skip approval for a lot of wogs" — Albertan (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob McKee Source:
Albertan (Canada) In the last of a series on the Church of Scientology Bob McKee examines the aims and future [?] of the Church. "Gungho groups are the first Scientology attempts to build a world government. They are a foothold in the community by which to get eventually to govern. What is done in the Gungho Group is going to influence what the community thinks about Scientology." These were the opening remarks made by a former Scientologist called Ron McCann in a talk ...
Jun 25, 1977
Sounding out Scientology — The Advertiser (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Foley Source:
The Advertiser (Australia) Thirteen years after the Victorian Government banned Scientology - branding its founder Lafayette Ron Hubbard a "fraud" - the Church of Scientology is planning a special "commemoration." Melbourne has been chosen for the 1978 international conference on Scientology - the first held in Australia. Mr. David Gaiman, world spokesman for the movement, said the choice was "fitting." He said: "There's a certain dramatic licence in holding the conference in Melbourne. It would mark the end of a cycle." Scientologists, whose annual ...
Jun 23, 1977
Scientology founder heavenly visits — Albertan (Canada)
May 20, 1977
The return of the scientologists — The Age (Australia)
May 19, 1977
Scientology big: Claim — The Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Geoff Easdown Source:
The Herald (Australia) By Herald reporter Geoff Easdown who was tested today by Mrs Elaine Allen, Victoria's first registered minister of the Church of Scientology. Scientology is operating in a bigger way than before it was banned in 1965, its first officially recognised minister in Victoria claimed today. Controversial files are still kept on those who seek counselling from its ministers. The controversial E-meter is again in use. At the Church of Scientology, 724 Inkerman Rd., Caulfield, I was given an E-meter test today ...
Nov 23, 1976
Death of church founder's son still a mystery — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mystery continued to shroud the death of Geoffrey Hubbard, the son of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, as officials here asked Tuesday for a delay in the release of the cause of death. Dr. G. Sheldon Green, chief Clark County medical examiner, asked for the delay so he could consult with outside pathologists. Young Hubbard, 22, of Clearwater, Fla., was found unconscious in his car near McCarran International Airport on Oct. 28. Because he carried ...
Nov 23, 1976
Scientology student death probe — Las Vegas SunMore: link , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sharon Spigelmyer Source:
Las Vegas Sun Police and private investigators are probing the mysterious death of the Church of Scientology founder's son, found unidentified three weeks ago near McCarran International Airport in a coma, Coroner Dick Mayne said Monday. Cause of death is still unknown for
Geoffrey Quentin McCally Hubbard , 22, of Clearwater, Fla. He was a student and counselor in scientology. The homicide division of the Metropolitan Police Department Monday combed the scene where Hubbard was found, and discovered identification, license plate, car registration and ...
Nov 23, 1976
[Re. Quentin Hubbard's death, exact date unknown] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) The 22-year-old son of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was cremated in Las Vegas at the request of his family. Nevada officials said the remains would be brought to Los Angeles, where the church has its main headquarters. Geoffrey Hubbard of Clearwater, Fla., died Nov. 12 at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas. The cause of his death is still a mystery; he was found in a semicomatose condition in Las Vegas Oct. 28 and died before being ...
Sep 12, 1976
Despite suspicions, Scientology flourishes / 'We are the wave of the future,' Church's lifetime Guardian tells convention — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Sep 1, 1976
"Poor Man's Psychoanalysis?": Observation on Dianetics — The ZeteticMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roy Wallis Source:
The Zetetic The sociology of marginal medicine is a neglected field of endeavor. There exist only a mere handful of brief accounts of unorthodox therapeutic practices and their development in Western societies. I shall seek, therefore, to provide a contribution to this scant literature, in the belief that such studies are not only of intrinsic interest but also provide insight into a number of strains and tensions generated by advanced industrial societies and into some of the less orthodox methods of coping with ...
Jul 21, 1976
A Questionable Religion — Catalyst (Australia)
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