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Scientology værste fjende [Danish, no translation so far] — Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark)
Jun 5, 1994
My girl's cult hell — Sunday Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stewart Kirkpatrick ,
Marion Scott Source:
Sunday Mail (UK) A heartbroken father begged the world's biggest cult yesterday: "Let my daughter go." And Eddie Forsyth wept when he learned that daughter Christine had been subjected to a nightmare ordeal at the hands of the Scientologists. A Mail investigation has discovered that the cult's "thought police" branded her a traitor for talking to an outsider. Blond Christine was hauled before a kangaroo court and convicted of "treason". Beans Experts believe she would have been sentenced to hard labour, ordered to wear ...
Apr 12, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Victims who are 'fair game' — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) [Transcribed by Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> 21 May 1995 07:35:27 +0100] The Church of Scientology may call itself a religion, but it does not have a reputation for turning the other cheek. For a week last month Jon Atack and his family were subjected to scenes like this outside their home in Cranston Road, East Grinstead. Why? The placard-carrying demonstrators are Scientologists, and they do not like Mr. Atack because he is an outspoken critic of the cult. The police were twice called ...
Apr 3, 1994
Cult accused of intimidation — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) Police are investigating complaints that private investigators employed by the Church of Scientology, the cult created by L. Ron Hubbard, have intimidated witnesses and plaintiffs in forthcoming court cases. The cult, which claims to have 300,000 members in Britain and 8m worldwide, has attempted to undermine its critics after coming under severe financial pressure in this country. It is anxious to protect its funds which are set to be drained further by a series of expensive civil actions brought by former ...
Mar 23, 1994
Cult picket man's home — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer FOLLOWERS of the cult Church of Scientology have been picketing the house of a former member, who claims the church practices "mind control". Scientologists bearing placards accusing John [should be Jon] Atack of breaking up families and owing the cult money, have demonstrated outside his Cranston Road home six times. "They came on Saturday and the police told them that if they returned they would be arrested," Mr Atack told the Observer. Mr Atack left the cult in 1983, after being ...
Mar 18, 1994
Scientologists picket house — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Thompson Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) POLICE were twice called to disperse pickets from outside the East Grinstead home of an anti-Church of Scientology campaigner. On Sunday, three Scientology members stood outside Jon Atack's house in Cranston Road. Mr Atack said they carried placards proclaiming: Stop destroying families. Get a proper job like the rest of us and Support your own family and stop destroying ours. "They were an absolute nuisance. I was incensed," he said. "They had no answer when I asked them which families I ...
Jan 23, 1994
Cults danger to families — Sunday Mail (Australia)
Jan 16, 1994
Father's letter pleads for a week's dialogue — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)More: link
Jan 16, 1994
It's a lie says sect — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)
Aug 13, 1993
Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Pinning our hopes on Old Doll Body I READ with interest Denise Harrison's statement of incredulity that a new religion could be the work of a science fiction writer. According to the saying, truth is stranger than fiction, so what about this one? In his early lectures, Ron Hubbard mentioned "Old Doll Body", a mythical figure from the past, who travelled freely in the universe in his flying saucer. In 1964, I was driving up the Turners Hill Road one night ...
May 14, 1993
Cult brands vicar a 'nazi' in new row — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A FELBRIDGE clergyman was this week branded "a Nazi" and accused of "religious persecution" after an incident at the Saint Hill Manor headquarters of the Scientologists as the row between cult members and established churches deepened. The Rev Stephen Bowen, vicar of St John's, says angry cult members ordered him from the grounds and then filmed him and companions accompanying a Zimbabwean Scientologist trying to get his passport back from cult officials. "I was accompanying the man in case he needed ...
Dec 31, 1992
Letters: Hostile picture — Chichester Observer (UK)
Dec 17, 1992
Letters: Reply to attacks — Chichester Observer (UK)
Dec 10, 1992
Letters: Questions to answer — Chichester Observer (UK)
Dec 3, 1992
Letters: Article a gross distortion — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
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Chichester Observer (UK) Sir, – In your issue of November 26, Brian Warren gives rein to Mr Atack's fantasy in an article about the Church of Scientology. The publication is a gross distortion of the truth deliberately designed to whip up antagonism against the Church. Why is Atack attacking a religious group which has freed over 100,000 people from the ravages of drugs and which puts more people on the road to total freedom than all other groups combined? Mr Atack fails to mention ...
Nov 26, 1992
'Best way to make money is to found a religion' — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
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Chichester Observer (UK) Jesus is a fantasy Implanted in our minds millions of years ago, according to the Scientology cult. And L Ron Hubbard, who founded Dianetics and Scientology, dabbled in anti-Christian rituals with a disciple of black magician Aleister Crowley. Former Scientologists Jon Atack and Bonnie Woods spoke to a Chichester audience of head teachers and representatives from churches, Scouts, local councils and the police. Mr Atack, who thought the city was the cult's latest target, said Scientology has "200 front groups" including ...
Nov 26, 1992
Cult girl 'frightened to talk' — Chichester Observer (UK)
Oct 20, 1991
The religion that sells the sky — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kevin Shinkle Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) A PIECE OF BLUE SKY. By Jon Atack. Lyle Stuart. 428 Pages. $21.95. It has been 17 years since the Church of Scientology secretly bought the historic Fort Harrison Hotel and established a base for an important arm of the church in the city of Clearwater. And it has been nearly 10 years since critical public hearings — which detailed allegations of a slew of Scientology wrongs — captivated city residents for more than a week. The church professes to have ...
Jul 29, 1991
The rock drummer out to beat the cults — Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)More: link
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Exmouth Express & Echo (UK) Last week cult expert Jon Caven-Atack set up a meeting in Exmouth and persuaded a member of the Church of Scientology to return to her family. The Echo's Peter Hardy now talks to the man who has dedicated his life to exposing cults which he says brainwash their members. FOR NINE years, former rock drummer Jon Caven-Atack was under the spell of a "religious" sect known as the Church of Scientology. Now, outside the cult, Jon has pledged his life and ...
Jul 24, 1991
Girl rescued from cult — Exmouth Express & Echo (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Hardy Source:
Exmouth Express & Echo (UK) A RELIGIOUS cult member was persuaded to rejoin her family during a dramatic secret meeting in Exmouth, the Express & Echo can reveal. The daring rescue bid was set up after the family consulted experts opponents of the Church of Scientology, which has been accused of employing brainwashing techniques to win over some of its followers. Now the girl, a science graduate, is safe at a secret address, thought to be in the north of the country, after the successful reunion ...
Jul 21, 1991
Parents snatch cult girl to safety — Sunday Express (UK)
Oct 16, 1990
Court won't revive Scientology suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 15, 1990
Scientologists in dirty tricks campaign — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer ,
Richard Caseby Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE Church of Scientology, a religious cult accused of
brainwashing its devotees, has paid private detectives more than £100,000 to organise a worldwide "dirty tricks" campaign against a Sunday Times journalist. Documents seen by The Sunday Times detail how
Russell Miller , journalist and author of a book on scientology's founder,
L. Ron Hubbard , has been secretly pursued around the world by investigators and members of the sect for the past three years. A former employee of the church, ...
May 27, 1990
Court clears Hubbard book for publishing — Mesa TribuneMore: link
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Mesa Tribune NEW YORK — An upcoming critical biography of L. Ron Hubbard, author and founder of the Church of Scientology, may be published in its original form, a federal appeals court ruled. The 2nd us. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling in February for New Era Publications International, exclusive licensee of Hubbard's works, which had filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. Hubbard died in 1986. The appeals court held Thursday the book's quotations from Hubbard's published works, which amount to ...
May 27, 1990
Publisher victorious on Hubbard biography — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times A Federal appeals court has ruled that a publisher is not required to delete material from a coming biography of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. The ruling, issued Thursday, overturned a lower court's decision, and barring the unlikely chance of a rehearing or a quick reversal by the Supreme Court, the biography will be published in its original form next month. Michael Lee Hertzberg, who argued the case against the publisher, said the plaintiff had not decided ...
Feb 21, 1990
Justices permit strict curbs on use of unpublished writing — Washington Post
Jan 31, 1990
Copyright dispute blocks biography of Scientology founder — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Jan 31, 1990
Hubbard biography — Associated Press
Jan 31, 1990
Judge bars Hubbard biography; cites use of copyrighted works — New York Law Journal
Jan 30, 1990
Judge bars unauthorized biography L. Ron Hubbard — UPI
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