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ardith hilliard • arthur j. maren • bette orsini • charles stafford • church of scientology of california (csc) • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • fair game • fort harrison hotel (also, flag land base) @ 210 south fort harrison avenue clearwater fl united states • freedom of information act (foia) • front groups • gabriel "gabe" cazares • henning heldt • internal revenue service (irs) • lawsuit • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • nancy mclean • nancy reitze • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • paulette cooper • real estate • sorrel (sorel?) allen • southern land development and leasing corporation (sldlc) • tax matter • united churches of florida
17 matching items found between Jan 1975 and Dec 1979. Furthermore, there are 88 matching items for all time not shown.
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Nov 28, 1979
Scientologists sought sex smear of Cazares, their documents show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 27, 1979
Cult sought to shield $8 million from IRS — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON—The project was so top secret and top priority that L. Ron Hubbard himself christened it. He called it "Goldmine." At stake was more than $8 million in Scientology money that the Internal Revenue Service might get if top-level sect "guardians" didn't work quickly and vigorously to protect Scientology from unfavorable IRS audits. The scheme was based in Clearwater, where in November 1975 the sect had just established its phony United Churches group. But top Scientologists around the country were prepared ...
Nov 10, 1979
Scientologists got secret files of Times, lawyers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Stafford
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Secret letters and memos from the personal files of St. Petersburg Times editors and its attorneys were obtained and analyzed by members of the Church of Scientology shortly after the church moved to Clearwater four years ago. The letters and memos were used by the church in calculating its response to news media reports revealing its purchase through a front organization of the Fort Harrison Hotel. How the Church of Scientology or its agents got access to the locked filing cabinets ...
Nov 8, 1979
Scientology's survival plan is revealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — United Churches of Florida, the Scientology front group established in Clearwater in November 1975, was designed to be a tax shelter that could launder sect revenue nationwide, top-secret Scientology documents show. Sect founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in September 1975 that United Churches was being created "to preserve the assets of Scientology . . . in case of a total wipeout of the Church of Scientology by IRS." The secret correspondence between Hubbard and highest-level Scientology "Guardians" show that ...
Nov 4, 1979
Years with sect span tax battles, infiltrations and acquisitions [incomplete] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The following is a chronology of local events from the Scientologists 1975 purchase of the former Fort Harrison hotel to last week's release of church documents by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. 1975 Oct. 27 — Fort Harrison officials acknowledge sale of the hotel, saying the Jack Tar chain will cease operations on Nov. 30. The buyer is Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. Nov. 5 — Citizens learn Southern Land has agreed to buy another downtown landmark, the old ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists' targets in Pinellas listed in files — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Stafford
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
WASHINGTON — Six boxes of documents make it clear: People in Pinellas County — a newspaper editor, a reporter, a mayor, a state attorney — were targets three years ago of the "fair game" policy of members of the Church of Scientology. The documents were among thousands seized by the FBI in 1977 raids on church headquarters in Washington and Los Angeles. They were the basis for indictments against nine church leaders on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and ...
Aug 28, 1978
'Fair Game' policy // Scientology critics assail belligerence — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch, Robert Gillette
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
"If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate (sic) or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who . . . seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists." — L. Ron Hubbard, Aug. 15, 1967 It was not the first time that private investigator Eual R. Harrow had interviewed jurors following a verdict, but ...
Jul 31, 1976
Scientology plea for tax exemption is rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Mar 25, 1976
Same-day resale of Fort Harrison hotel disclosed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 16, 1976
U.S. Postal Service probes Scientology mail activity — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 12, 1976
Times sues Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology says it is real buyer of Fort Harrison / Controversial sect founder helped set up the financing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology surfaces as Fort Harrison Hotel owner — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Editorial: Why so secretive? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
NEWS RELEASE / Church of Scientology behind United Churches — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
What is this Church of Scientology? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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