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174 items found between Jan 1985 and Dec 1985.
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Dec 27, 1985
Letters to the Editor: Driver disappoints — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 26, 1985
Instrument of trust creating the Flag Ship Trust
Dec 24, 1985
Scientologists mail $9,500 in 'presents' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 22, 1985
60 Minutes: Scientology / Update [16m 51s] — CBS News
Dec 17, 1985
Lawsuit creates quandary — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 14, 1985
OPP Scientology raid finally nets guilty plea — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Murray Campbell
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Nearly three years after the largest police raid in Ontario history, the provincial Government has finally won a guilty plea from a member of the Church of Scientology of Toronto. Nanna Anderson, 39, a former church member, pleaded guilty in Provincial Court yesterday to possession of stolen goods, photocopies of material from the files of the Ontario Medical Association. Judge Lorenzo DiCecco granted Miss Anderson an absolute discharge, which means she will not have a criminal record. The charge carries a ...
Dec 11, 1985
Sect gets tree for Christmas — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Dec 5, 1985
A fast answer to 'Can We Ever Be Friends?' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Driver
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Scientologists use various means of indoctrinating their members. I have long suspected that boredom and confusion are two of their tools. That belief got a boost Tuesday night as I drove to Tampa. As I traveled east on Ulmerton Road and across the Frankenstein Bridge, I listened to a tape cassette recently mailed to me (and several hundred other people in Upper Pinellas County) by the Scientologists. In a Wednesday story, Sun staff writer Lesley Collins ably described the tape's contents. ...
Dec 4, 1985
Sect mails taped message — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Lesley Collins
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The "favorable" reaction from a Church of Scientology goodwill message via a cassette tape may spark additional tape mailings. The Clearwater-based group mailed about 300 cassette tapes titled "Can We Ever Be Friends?" this week to local city officials, newspapers and randomly selected residents. "We've gotten calls as to why people haven't received them," Scientology spokesman Ludwig Alpers said Tuesday. Because of the positive response, "there might be more going out," he said. A small group of Scientologists recently ...
Dec 3, 1985
Scientology tries to mend fences with taped message — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com, news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Wilma Norton
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is sending a present to more than 200 Clearwater residents — a cassette tape that asks, "Can We Ever Be Friends?" The cassette comes with a letter from church spokesman Ludwig Alpers. The tape, he wrote, "is a gift to you so that you can judge for yourself what Scientology really is." Also enclosed is a postage-paid postcard with which to send for more information about Scientology, which has an international headquarters in Clearwater and ...
Nov 24, 1985
Judge rules in Scientology case — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 23, 1985
Scientologists win major court victory over defectors, documents — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert W. Welkos, Joel Sappell
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
In a major victory for the Church of Scientology, a federal judge said Friday she will bar breakaway Scientology groups from using confidential church teachings that appear to have been stolen. U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer said she will issue a preliminary injunction until a trial can be held on a lawsuit brought by the Church of Scientology against defectors who have established rival churches and counseling centers. The Church of Scientology contends the teachings are protected by federal trade ...
Nov 23, 1985
[HCO Policy Letter] Computer Series 6 / INCOMM
Nov 22, 1985
Personals — Reader (Los Angeles)
Nov 20, 1985
Letters to the Editor: Reader appreciated referendum editorial — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 20, 1985
Letters to The Times // Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link, articles.latimes.com
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Congratulations to The Times (Nov. 5) for revealing the absurdity of the core beliefs of Scientology. I hope that everyone will now laugh this so-called "religion" off the face of the Earth. "A tyrannical ruler 75 million years ago, overpopulation on Earth and other planets, H-bombs exploded way back then, the tan spirits captured in chemical compounds and contaminated with evil"—Leapin' Lizards, it must be a job for Superman! It is obvious why Scientology doesn't want this nonsense made public: the ...
Nov 19, 1985
$12,000 spent on Scientology course: suit — Montreal Gazette
Type: Press
Author(s): Rod MacDonell
Source: Montreal Gazette
A Montreal stockbroker who claims he was brainwashed last year by members of the Church of Scientology testified yesterday that he paid $12,000 to the sect for personality courses. Gilles Lanthier, 28, told Sessions Court Judge Benjamin Schecter that he began having doubts about the sect when he was told to abandon his wife and seek further Scientology instruction in Toronto. He said that his personality courses were to cost $22,000, but a church member told him he had been ...
Nov 15, 1985
Appeals court skirts decision on city's sect law — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Lesley Collins
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — A federal appeals court ruling doesn't say a word about the constitutionality of a city ordinance regulating charitable solicitations, basically sending it back to a lower court. The opinion issued Wednesday by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals states there hasn't been enough legal record developed by the U.S. District Court in Tampa to warrant a decision on the law's constitutional merits. "It's an interesting opinion because it doesn't decide anything," Scientology attorney Eric Lieberman said Thursday. "Basically ...
Nov 15, 1985
Personals — Reader (Los Angeles)
Nov 9, 1985
Hubbard series off to bad start — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Nov 9, 1985
Wedding party of Scientologists winds up in Queen's Park office — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Delacourt
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Earl Smith, president of the Toronto Church of Scientology, was married yesterday in a ceremony that is not considered legal in Ontario, and he used the occasion to push for having his church licenced to conduct marriages. Immediately after their wedding, Mr. Smith and his bride, Elena Kristiansen, 27, headed for the offices of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations to plead that the Scientology ceremony be considered legal. But the ministry is waiting for the outcome of a Supreme ...
Nov 7, 1985
Editorials of the Sun // Scientologists deserve credit for anti-IRS forum — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The recent anti-Internal Revenue Service forum sponsored by the Church of Scientology may turn out to be a boon to the taxpaying public. While we hold no brief for the Scientologists or their doctrines, we feel it is only fair to spotlight their contributions to the public good. And, although their motives are questionable (the Scientologists have suffered at the hands of the IRS and have a policy of getting even with attackers), they have certainly done the American public a ...
Nov 7, 1985
Xemu may sound wild, but so do other beliefs — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Driver
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The Church of Scientology in Los Angeles is angry because a judge allowed outsiders to read about some of the remarkable lore that the Scientologists supposedly believe in. An Associated Press report says the church teaches that 75 million years ago Earth was called Teegeeach. It was one of 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who was not a nice guy. He set off thermonuclear bombs to reduce the population, and implanted the seeds of aberrant behavior in the spirits of certain ...
Nov 6, 1985
Court documents revealed despite Scientology protest — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Benke
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology secretly teaches that 75 million years ago Earth was called Teegeeach and was among 90 planets ruled by Xemu, who spread his evil by thermonuclear bombs, according to court documents that sect members tried to prevent the public from seeing. Xemu, attempting to solve overpopulation problems, destroyed selected inhabitants of the planets and implanted the seeds of aberrant behavior in their spirits to affect future generations of mankind, according to the documents briefly placed ...
Nov 6, 1985
Scientology documents tell of ruler of 90 planets — Montreal Gazette
Nov 6, 1985
Secret Teachings: Papers Show Scientologists Blame Ancient Ruler for Many Human Ills — Post-Standard
Nov 6, 1985
[A Los Angeles federal judge barred further public disclosures of sacred scriptures...] — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A Los Angeles federal judge barred further public disclosures of sacred scriptures that the Church of Scientology claims were stolen two years ago from a Denmark church. Ruling in a suit filed by the church against former member Larry Wollersheim and a rival church in Santa Barbara, U.S. District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer ordered the material sealed until a hearing Friday. The material is evidence in the Superior Court suit filed by Wollersheim, who claims he wasted thousands of dollars on ...
Nov 5, 1985
Scientologists block access to secret documents // 1,500 crowd into courthouse to protect materials on fundamental beliefs — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
In one of the largest court demonstrations in Los Angeles in years, about 1,500 Church of Scientology members crammed three floors of the County Courthouse on Monday, effectively blocking public access to documents that the church considers secret and sacred. For hours, Scientologists swamped workers in the clerk's office with hundreds of requests to photocopy the documents, which reveal some of the organization's most fundamental beliefs. Scientology attorneys have argued that disclosure of the materials is a violation of the group's ...
Nov 5, 1985
Sect forum blasts IRS tactics — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Snyder
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — In its ongoing battle against the Internal Revenue Service, the Church of Scientology Monday hosted a public forum featuring a presentation from the National Coalition of IRS Whistleblowers and former U.S. Congressman George Hansen. In January, Hansen, an Idaho Republican and a longtime critic of the IRS, joined the sect in charging that the IRS routinely singles out people for investigation because of their religious and political affiliations. At that time, Hansen said, "It is shocking to any thinking ...
Nov 4, 1985
Family save son who paid cult £100,000 — Daily Mail (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Sean Ryan
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
THE son of a wealthy landowner has been rescued by his family from a cult with whom he spent more than £100,000. Andrew Dobie, 22, was held a virtual prisoner by his family in a remote cottage where the windows had been nailed shut and the keys hidden. There he was rigorously deprogrammed to reverse the teachings of the cult, the Church of Scientology — an organisation branded immoral in a High Court judgment last year. 'It wasn't the money they ...
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