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american medical association (ama) • bomb threat • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • fair game • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • gabriel "gabe" cazares • harassment • henning heldt • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • michael james meisner • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation freakout • operation snow white • paulette cooper • raymond banoun • robert "bob" snyder • silencing criticism, censorship • the scandal of scientology (book) • threat • threat of legal action, lawsuit • threat of physical harm
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18 matching items found between Jan 1975 and Dec 1979. Furthermore, there are 180 matching items for all time not shown.
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Nov 28, 1979
Scientologists vowed to 'crush' man, files show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Frame reporter — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Nov 25, 1979
Scientology 'dirty tricks' bared — Detroit Free Press
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Detroit Free Press
Washington: Court documents show the Church of Scientology put together a scheme to blackmail the Internal Revenue Service into doing a favorable tax audit on the church. According to documents released Friday, the church stole secret IRS files on famous Americans and.planned to threaten to release them unless the audit was favorable. There was no indication any blackmail threat against any individual was made. The documents were among thousands of files seized from the church in 1977, and ordered released Friday ...
Nov 24, 1979
Cult tried to control newspaper — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The Church of Scientology plotted to purchase or otherwise "control" the Clearwater Sun by attempting to cut the paper's advertising revenue, discredit reporters and editors and rally readers against it, according to sect documents released Friday.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 24, 1979
Documents: Scientologists plotted to frame writer — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: link
Nov 24, 1979
Scientology documents reveal plot to frame author — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 8, 1979
Tampa jury may get sect documents — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — Thousands of top-secret Church of Scientology documents now in the hands of the federal government will be used in widespread probes of the sect by the Internal Revenue Service, prosecutors in several states and grand juries In Tampa and New York, a top U.S. prosecutor said Wednesday. Scientology attorneys have filed four separate appeals requesting the return of the documents, which were the basis of recent conspiracy convictions of nine high-ranking church officials. Today, government attorneys are expected to ...
Jan 22, 1979
Author of book on Scientology tells of her 8 years of torment — New York Times
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Aug 29, 1978
Scientology Flagship shrouded in mystery // Vessel was focus of mutual suspicion between church, government — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Gillette
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
On June 25, 1971, a young Colorado woman named Susan Meister died in an apparent suicide aboard the Apollo, the 3,280-ton flagship of the Church of Scientology and for nearly a decade the personal yacht of the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. In mid-July that year, according to State Department correspondence obtained by The Times, Miss Meister's father traveled from Colorado to the Moroccan port of Safi, 125 miles south of Casablanca, where the Apollo was then moored, to inquire into ...
Aug 28, 1978
Scientology in the dock — Newsweek
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Type: Press
Author(s): Arthur Lubow, Diane Camper
Source: Newsweek
It started a little like Watergate. Late one night two years ago, two men made their way to the third floor of the U.S. courthouse in Washington. With stolen keys, they opened the office of assistant U.S. attorney Nathan Dodell and photocopied sheaves of government documents rifled from his files. They repeated the caper a few nights later, but when they showed up at the building again, a suspicious guard called the FBI. The two men, Gerald Wolfe and Michael Meisner, ...
Aug 21, 1978
The Week // Author files $20-million suit against Scientologists — Publisher's Weekly
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Type: Press
Author(s): Madalynne Reuter
Source: Publisher's Weekly
The author of a book critical of Scientologists has filed a $20-million damage suit against the Church of Scientology of New York, Inc., charging it with calculated and reckless plan of harassment during the past five and [?] years. The suit was filed August [?] State Supreme Court in New York by Paulette Cooper, author of "The Scandal of Scientology," published [?] Tower in 1971. According to published reports, Scientologists caused the publisher [?] withdraw the book from circulation. While ...
Aug 14, 1978
Up Front: Federal prosecutors unveil the astonishing intrigues of the Scientology church — People magazine
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Type: Press
Author(s): Cheryl McCall
Source: People magazine
Since its founding by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, Scientology has been among the growth stocks on the self-help market: a quasireligious, quasiscientific cult that has attracted three million U.S. followers (some highly touted celebrities among them) and estimated annual revenues in the hundreds of millions, much of it tax-exempt. Until recently Scientology's only certifiable vice was eccentricity, but within a week a federal grand jury in Washington is expected to hand down a bulging sheaf ...
May 16, 1978
Scientologists kept files on 'enemies' — Washington Post
More: 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 ...
May 1, 1978
An author vs. Scientology church — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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Type: Press
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
In the fall of 1971, author Paulette Cooper came out with a book called "The Scandal of Scientology" and, then, according to her lawyers, friends, family and lawyers, the following things happened to her: She received repeated telephone calls from anonymous people who threatened to kill her. Letters were posted on her neighbors' doors telling them she had venereal disease and should be evicted from her apartment. Her publisher was sued and harassed to the point that he withdrew the ...
Jul 13, 1977
Russell says he investigated plot to kill Clearwater mayor — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): David Smith
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Pinellas Pasco State Atty. James T. Russell disclosed Tuesday that last month his office investigated an alleged plot to murder Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares. Russell said his office received a report on June 10 of an alleged death threat against Cazares. Rut Russell refused to reveal details because he said the case has not been closed. "YOU'RE NOW talking about an investigation that my office is or was doing," Russell said. "It's an open file in our office . ...
Jun 22, 1977
Scientology's tactics for dissenters / Hubbard: "Law can be used to harass. If possible of course, to utterly ruin" — Albertan (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bob McKee
Source: Albertan (Canada)
The Church of Scientology has an effective way of dealing with those who "seek to destroy" it. In this, the third of a series Bob McKee examines some of its methods. There have been dissensions in every church that ever existed but few, if any, have resorted to as drastic a method in dealing with its heretics, as has the Church of Scientology. Not since the Inquisition has a church pursued so severe and uncompromising a stand in rooting out all ...
Apr 1, 1977
Interpol's threat to privacy — The Progressive
Mar 26, 1976
Scientology called 'anti-God' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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