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May 4, 1984
Lawyer blasts Hubbard for 'lies' — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) LOS ANGELES (AP)—Stacks of papers show that reclusive Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard packed lie after lie into his books, a lawyer contended in court Thursday. Boston attorney Michael Flynn is representing the man who acquired the papers before they were sealed by the court. Flynn told Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge that defendant Gerald Armstrong received the papers legally from a British writer who was preparing a biography on Hubbard. The plaintiffs, the church and Hubbard's wife, ...
May 4, 1984
Salvos open Scientology trial — Las Vegas Review JournalMore: link
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Las Vegas Review Journal LOS ANGELES — Stacks of papers show reclusive Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard packed lie after lie into his books, a lawyer claimed in court Thursday. Boston attorney Michael Flynn is representing the man who acquired the papers before they were sealed by the court. Flynn told Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge defendant Gerald Armstrong received the papers legally from a British writer who was preparing a biography on Hubbard. The plaintiffs, the church and Hubbard's wife, Mary ...
May 3, 1984
Court battle over church's files begins — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
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Henry Unger Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) The trial of a Church of Scientology lawsuit against a former member and archivist over custody of 10,000 pages of sensitive documents, most of which belong to church founder L. Ron Hubbard, is scheduled to begin today in Los Angeles Superior Court. The church's attorney says he is trying to protect Hubbard's right to privacy by keeping the documents, which are currently under court seal, secret. But the defendant, Gerald Armstrong, contends the public 2has a right to see the documents ...
Apr 24, 1984
The cash cults move from beyond the fringe — The Bulletin (Australia)
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Bruce Stannard Source:
The Bulletin (Australia) As the Christian world celebrates Easter more off-beat religions are enjoying a boom. In Sydney BRUCE STANNARD studies the now-legal Scientologists and in the US LAURENCE GRAFSTEIN profiles Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and other odd-balls. MOST minds are the slaves of external circumstances and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. - Samuel Johnson ''IN ALL the broad universe, there is no other hope for Man than ourselves. This is a tremendous responsibility. I have borne it myself too long ...
Apr 20, 1984
Scientology founder's papers ruled OK for trial — Daily NewsMore: link
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Daily News A judge Thursday denied a motion to bar voluminous personal papers of reclusive Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard from being introduced as evidence at the Los Angeles trial of a suit against the sect's former archivist. But Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge Jr. left open the possibility he will ban some of the papers from the trial of one-time church archivist Gerald Armstrong, accused by the sect of stealing the documents. Breckenridge said he will rule on the admissibility ...
Apr 13, 1984
Ex-Manassas resident popular sci-fi writer — The Journal Messenger (Manassas, VA)More: link
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Randi Deiotte Source:
The Journal Messenger (Manassas, VA) A science fiction book by a man who attended school In Manassas 54 years ago made the New York Times Best Sellers List the first week it was released and has now climbed into the top ten, his publicist says. And two movies derived from the book are due to start production later this year.from L. Ron Hubbard's 1100-page science fiction epic, Battlefield Earth , is also at the top of B. Dalton's national scene fiction list, topping Asimov's 2010 and George ...
Apr 13, 1984
Scientology suit against ex-archivist waits for courtroom — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
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Henry Unger Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) The church aims to show that Armstrong invaded the privacy of the Hubbards and breached a trust when he allegedly kept documents and then released them to attorneys representing former church members and others who had filed suits against the Scientologists. The trial of a Church of Scientology suit against a former member and archivist needs a judge and a courtroom to get the battle under way over custody of 10,000 pages of sensitive documents, most of which belong to church ...
Apr 12, 1984
City won't proclaim 'Dianetics Month' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Clearwater City Manager Anthony Shoemaker has said thanks, but no thanks to a Church of Scientology request to declare May "Dianetics Month" in honor of sect founder L. Ron Hubbard. "I am most appreciative of your letter concerning Mr. L. Ron Hubbard and your request that the city honor Mr. Hubbard with Dianetics Month," Shoemaker wrote this week to Pamela Schwartz of the Los Angeles-based "L. Ron Hubbard Office of Public Relations." "I must, however, respectfully decline on behalf of the ...
Apr 12, 1984
Polonsky will adapth Hubbard's 'Earth' filming — Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)More: link
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Ray Loynd Source:
Daily Variety (Hollywood, California) Abe Polonsky, who's spent the last few years in the groves of academe, has been signed by producer Bill Immerman to adapt L. Ron Hubbard's current best-selling "Battlefield Earth," which Ken Annakin will direct. Polonsky, 73, whose career stretches back to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Body And Soul" (1947) and whose most recent writing credit was "Monsignor," is working daily with Annakin in breaking down a workable screen design from Hubbard's voluminous intergalactic sci-fi adventure (No. 9 on the New York ...
Mar 19, 1984
Lawyer seeks to force Scientology 'leaders' to testify in lawsuit — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: link
Mar 11, 1984
Scientology theorist spent youth in Helena, now a recluse — Tribune Metro (MT)
Feb 9, 1984
Sect president denies wrongdoing in probe — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Recent reports about the Church of Scientology hiring de-? pose as businessmen to elicit views about the sect from Clearwater civic leaders are "much ado about nothing," sect President Heber Jentzsch said Wednesday. "The issues all will come out in court," the 48-year-old Jentzsch told reporters during an "open house" at the sect-owned Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater. Jentzsch would not discuss specifics, but hinted the Scientology inquiry was tied into concerns about real estate speculation downtown and its potential ...
Jan 29, 1984
Sect keeps high profile in Boston — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Jan 28, 1984
2 million check, puzzling clues, tangled trails — New York TimesMore: groups.google.com
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Author(s):
Glenn Fowler Source:
New York Times Byline: FOWLER, GLENN
ISSN: 03624331
Publication Date: 01-28-1984
Page: 1.25
Edition: Late Edition (East Coast)
Section: 1
Type: Newspaper
Language: English
One morning in the spring of 1982, two young men walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank and presented a check for $2 million.
The check was signed by L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the Church of Scientology, who has not been seen in public for many years. It was made out to one ...
Jan 20, 1984
Scientology gets high marks for restoration — Washington Times
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