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Dec 22, 1978
Scientology suit hits a major snag — Saint John's Edmonton Report (Canada)
Dec 1, 1978
Playboy interview: John Travolta // A candid conversation with the hottest young star in America — Playboy
Oct 23, 1978
Church of Scientology of California v. James E. Adams, Elaine Viets
Type: Document
[...] 1 The Church of Scientology of California (California Church), a California corporation, appeals from a judgment dismissing its action for libel. The suit is against the Pulitzer Publishing Co., publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, and
James E. Adams and
Elaine Viets , principal authors of the
newspaper articles in question .1 The district court dismissed the action against appellees for lack of personal jurisdiction and ruled, alternatively, that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which ...
Oct 22, 1978
E-meters, personality tests form Scientology trappings — Chronicle-TelegramMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cynthia Roberts Source:
Chronicle-Telegram Like any other religion, Scientology has its trappings. Not crisp, rich-colored vestments. Not silver chalices, nor flasks of holy water. No, there are other things. Like personality tests and E-meters. E-meters? Scientologists rely heavily on counseling methods to cure psychosomatic ills and mental blocks. They believe in the powers of the "reactive mind" — a portion of the mind which records unpleasant experiences which may later be triggered by outside influences. TO CLEAR the mind of "engrams" (the unsavory experiences), Scientologists ...
Oct 22, 1978
Scientology: Another pop psychology? — Chronicle-TelegramMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cynthia Roberts Source:
Chronicle-Telegram Forgive the digression, but as a child, I had a fool-proof method for falling asleep. If I were lying wide-awake in bed, I would categorize my thoughts, imagining my mind was a room full of filing cabinets. Into each of these files (not unlike the ones where the Mouseketeers kept their cartoons) went one worry or problem. By the time the data was transferred, I would be asleep. The point being that I viewed my mind as something akin to a ...
Oct 18, 1978
Churches and Churchmen: Derided church now accepted — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Aug 29, 1978
Church claims U.S. campaign of harassment // Scientologists advance charge as rationale for aggressive policies — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette ,
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The Church of Scientology contends that for more than 20 years it has been the target of a systematic campaign by the United States government, together with "vested-interest pressure groups" such as the medical professions, to "suppress the church's spiritual practice and expansion." The church advances this accusation as the fundamental rationale for its aggressive policies of defense-by-attack against individual critics, private groups and government agencies perceived as "harassing" Scientology. Church spokesmen, moreover, expand upon the allegation of systematic persecution to ...
Aug 28, 1978
'Fair Game' policy // Scientology critics assail belligerence — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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 ...
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 14, 1978
Up Front: Federal prosecutors unveil the astonishing intrigues of the Scientology church — People magazineMore: link
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 ...
Jul 1, 1978
John Travolta: His mother's story — McCall's
Jun 15, 1978
Struttin' his stuff // Make no mistake, John Travolta is beholden to no one — Rolling Stone
May 17, 1978
Church kept 'enemies list' // Raid on Scientologists netted CIA documents — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Picton Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Washington DC — Secret documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were discovered when offices of the Church of Scientology in the United States were raided by federal agents last year, according to reports published here yesterday. The reports said that apparently original Internal Revenue Service documents were found during the raids, as well as confidential letters between members of the U.S. Cabinet. Also, it was discovered the church kept an enemies list, which included files on Senator
Edward Kennedy , ...
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 ...
Apr 3, 1978
High steppin' to stardom // John Travolta own the street, and his Fever seems contagious — TIME Magazine
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)
Type: Press
Source:
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.
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