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Dec 8, 1991
Letters and the law — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Nov 11, 1991
Church of Spiritual Technology vs. United States: Declaration of Sherman D. Lenske
Nov 10, 1991
Church of Spiritual Technology vs. United States: Declaration of Lyman Spurlock
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 ...
Aug 13, 1991
Scientologists sue 17 IRS officials — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Henry Weinstein Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Church: The lawsuit accuses them of waging a 33-year campaign against the organization and a large number of its members. It seeks $120 million. The Church of Scientology International filed a $120-million federal lawsuit against 17 Washington- and Los Angeles-based Internal Revenue Service officials Monday, accusing them of waging a 33-year campaign of illegal acts against Scientology and a large number of its members. According to the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, documents obtained under the Freedom ...
Jul 25, 1991
Vault to get Hubbard's writings — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Henderson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology does make for interesting reading, whether it's a St. Petersburg Times story about plans to replace the Gray Moss Inn in downtown Clearwater with a six-story, $42-million religious training center, a Time magazine cover story about "The Cult of Greed" or an intriguing tale in a California monthly news magazine, North Coast Journal, about construction of "a massive subterranean vault" to hold the writings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. A Clearwater area resident dropped off a copy of the ...
Jul 21, 1991
The two sides of Scientology — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
Jun 18, 1991
[Advertising] The vital statistics of Scientology — USA TodayMore: link
Jun 17, 1991
[Advertisement] The true story of Scientology — USA Today
Jun 5, 1991
[Letter to USA Today from Lyle Stuart] More: link
Type: Opinion
Author(s):
Lyle Stuart USA TODAY 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22229 5 June 1991 I was one of your charter subscribers and have followed your growth both in circulation and influence from the beginning. In fact, I liked USA TODAY so much that I directed my company to place a full page back cover ad in the national edition for our Dr. Who book series. During the past fortnight I have read with dismay, the clumsy sereies of attacks against Time magazine by the ...
Jun 1, 1991
Petrolia's new neighbors – L. Ron Hubbard's followers, the Church of Spiritual Technology — North Coast JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Cempa Source:
North Coast Journal Petrolia — A few miles outside of this coastal community, a massive 400-foot subterranean vault constructed of steel and concrete lies beneath a peaceful knoll overlooking the Pacific. The breadth and dimension of the vault stagger the imagination: 100 feet longer than a football field and 20 feet in diameter, the two-story sarcophagus is almost complete. It is designed to withstand the ravages of nature as well as man-made destruction. Humboldt County is now home to one of the most impregnable ...
Jun 1, 1991
Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression — Psychiatric TimesMore: link , lermanet.com
Type: Press
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Psychiatric Times A personal aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for eight of her nearly 20 years with the group says that
fluoxetine (Prozac) and therapy have finally stopped the depression and suicidal ideation she had suffered since 1976. "I have to speak out."
Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield told
The Psychiatric Times . "The Scientologists choose the most prominent psychiatrists and the most successful drugs to attack. That's why they attacked
Ritalin , and that's why they are now attacking Prozac." Although ...
May 24, 1991
The Scientology of selling // The Hubbard is bare — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ralph Rugoff Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) I ARRIVED FOR MY APPOINTMENT AT THE L. RON Hubbard Life Exhibition Hall a few minutes early. Unlike in other commemorative mausoleums, such as the Nixon Library and Birthplace, you're not allowed to walk around the Hubbard by yourself. Instead, you must sign up for an hour-and-a-half guided tour. Possibly they don't trust the unassisted viewer to fully reap the museum's rewards, though it might also be a matter of security. The presence of a young guard dressed in the Church ...
May 15, 1991
Ex-superintendent of brokers Ross still L. Ron Hubbard fan // Former watchdog calls Hubbard a 'multi-faceted genius' — Vancouver Sun
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Baines Source:
Vancouver Sun ANOTHER interesting connection between the Church of Scientology and the Vancouver Stock Exchange has surfaced on Howe Street, this time involving former B.C. superintendent of brokers Michael C. Ross. Two weeks ago, Time magazine alleged that two Scientologists, Michael Baybak and Kenneth Gerbino of Beverly Hills, Calif., have been raising money for church activities through the Vancouver Stock Exchange. The magazine said Bayback has promoted several controversial VSE issues, including Neti Technologies and Wall Street Ventures, and that both Baybak and ...
May 11, 1991
Cult busters — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jacqui MacDonald Source:
The Age (Australia) Two American cult-busters recently flew to Australia to try to reclaim a young man from Scientology. JACQUI MACDONALD watched as they tried to unlock his mind, hour by hour, inch by inch. The names of the family and the cult-busters have been changed. FOR TWO days Peter Nolan has rehearsed how to greet his son. Peter and his wife Mary have planned how they will open the flywire front door and smile at the son they have not seen for several ...
May 6, 1991
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Behar Source:
TIME Magazine By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in ...
May 1, 1991
Scientology church builds Humboldt vault — Lumberjack (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jack Durham Source:
Lumberjack (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California) On a 3,000-acre ranch in rural Humboldt County, devotees of Church of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard are building a 375-foot-long underground vault. The vault is being built on the Sunset View Ranch in Petrolia, a small town located about 20 miles south of Ferndale, by the Church of Spiritual Technology (COST). COST is linked to the controversial Church of Scientology, whose operations, according to court documents, include a lack of financial records, public policy violations, deceptive practices and the maintenance of ...
Apr 22, 1991
Church out to even the score — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jo Chandler ,
Jacqui MacDonald Source:
The Age (Australia) A telex sent in April 1987 to Scientology's Melbourne Office of Special Affairs from its Australian-New Zealand headquarters tracks the church's defensive strategy in response to an investigation by the former television program 'Willesee'. The program was looking at a woman's claim that her trip into the Russell Street headquarters had almost cost her $43,000. The telex spelt out a seven-step program for defusing the story. One course of action was to loudly brand the investigation a "set up". "(The) Church ...
Apr 22, 1991
Scientology's 'degraded beings'; Hubbard's Manual of Justice, or how to avoid dogged reporters — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)More: link
Apr 14, 1991
More hokum from guru Hubbard — Daily Yomiuri (Japan)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Wilkinson Source:
Daily Yomiuri (Japan) CLEAR BODY, CLEAR MIND: The Effective Purification Program, by L. Ron Hubbard; Bridge Publications; 306 pages. After years of polluting your body, there's hope: L. Ron Hubbard's Clear Body Clear Mind . It gives insights into the horrible toxins in all of us and provides home remedies for flushing our bodies. And if you're an utter rube, you may find comfort in the evangelical, condescending tone of this astounding example of self-promotion. Claiming to have discovered the presence of impurities in our ...
Feb 4, 1991
Earth, steel vaults keep Scientology papers for posterity — San Bernardino Sun (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michel Nolan Source:
San Bernardino Sun (California) CRESTLINE — When the Church of Spiritual Technology needed a safe place to store its religious documents and materials, staff members looked high and low. The church, which serves as archivist for the documents of the Church of Scientology, founded by the late L. Ron Hubbard, decided to build underground vaults at the 5,200-foot elevation la the San Bernardino Mountains. The organization, which has a staff but do congregation, purchased 33 acres in the Arrowhead Highlands portion of Crestline. The vaults ...
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