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Jun 29, 1992
Suit against Cazares rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Curtis Krueger
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Scientologists who claimed former Pinellas Democratic Chairman Gabe Cazares violated Florida's hate crimes law by ejecting them from a meeting. Cazares said the outcome showed that "their tactic of trying to silence their critics and enemies by threats of suits under the hate crimes law is a tactic that will not work." However, Paul Johnson, the attorney who represented the two Scientologists, intends to file an amended version of the lawsuit next week, ...
Jun 27, 1992
Church of Scientology found guilty — Globe and Mail (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas Claridge
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
An Ontario prosecution sparked by police raids in California during the 1970s has led to the conviction of the Church of Scientology of Toronto and three of its members on breach-of-trust charges. A jury that deliberated for two days after a two-month trial also acquitted the Toronto organization of three charges and found two other members not guilty. Despite the verdicts, which will lead to a sentencing hearing Aug. 12 and 13, the legal battle over espionage activities by Scientologists for ...
Jun 26, 1992
Scientology chapter, 3 members convicted — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
The Toronto chapter of the Church of Scientology and three of its members were found guilty last night of breach of trust. Earlier yesterday, the church and five members were acquitted on charges of theft. Both charges stem from a series of alleged dirty tricks conducted by the church's covert intelligence-gathering body, the Guardian Office Worldwide, between 1974 and 1976. The verdicts were delivered last night by a 12-member jury which had deliberated for two days. The trial began April 23. ...
Jun 26, 1992
Scientology church convicted on 2 counts — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas Claridge
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
An Ontario Court jury last night found the Church of Scientology of Toronto and three of its members guilty of breach-of-trust charges stemming from infiltration of the Ontario government and three police forces in the 1970s. The jury found the organization guilty on two counts and not guilty on three others, and acquitted two individuals. Mr. Justice James Southey of the court's General Division, set aside Aug. 12 and 13 for sentencing. The criminal charges followed a raid on the Toronto ...
Jun 22, 1992
[Letter] Scientology school plan — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Your article April 14 regarding the Church of Scientology boarding school gave a slightly false picture. The Church has owned the property on Bouquet Canyon Road, which is at least six miles southeast of Green Valley, for almost two years. Church representatives approached the Green Valley Town Council about 10 times since August of 1991 to present the plans for the school as a matter of courtesy to the community. However . . . we are not located in Green ...
Jun 20, 1992
Defence lawyers attack witnesses in Scientology trial — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
The credibility of witnesses and whether a corporation is responsible for illegal actions carried out by its employees were the subjects of summations by attorneys yesterday in the breach-of-trust trial of the Toronto chapter of the Church of Scientology. Lawyers Mel Green and Frank Addario, who are representing five church members charged with breach of trust, both attacked the credibility of crown witnesses. "These (crown) witnesses are unreliable and cannot be believed," Addario told the jury yesterday. "Their testimony is the ...
Jun 19, 1992
Toronto's Scientologists unaware of dirty tricks, defence lawyer says — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Referring to the Church of Scientology as "this little church," defence lawyer Clayton Ruby yesterday said its Toronto members were "regular parishioners" unaware of any crimes that were committed. In his closing address in the breach-of-trust trial of Scientology's Toronto branch, Ruby urged the 12-person jury to judge Scientology as they would their own church. Citing recent cases of sexual abuse involving priests in the Catholic church, Ruby said: "The (Catholic) church wasn't prosecuted, only individuals. Never has a jury been ...
Jun 15, 1992
Scientologist suit KO'd — The National Law Journal
Type: Press
Source: The National Law Journal
The Church of Scientology says it will appeal a federal judge's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against an executive at the Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co., the maker of Prozac. The suit claimed Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. maligned the church in comments published in USA Today's. The Arlington, Va.-based newspaper was not named in the suit.
Jun 14, 1992
Suit charges UCLA funding hate campaign — The Ethnic NewsWatch
Type: Press
Source: The Ethnic NewsWatch
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been sued for supporting and funding a campaign of bigotry and prejudice against minority religions, spearheaded by one of its own faculty members, psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyn West. UCLA's Board of Regents, UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young and West are named in the suit as information in documents obtained from the University through the Freedom of Information Act showed West has been using UCLA's authority and funding to help run a hate campaign ...
Jun 13, 1992
Scientologists don't like professor's anti-cult work — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Two members of the Church of Scientology have charged that a professor at UCLA has wrongly used his position and state funds to take part in anti-religious activities. They refer specifically to the professor's participation in two anti-cult organizations, the Cult Awareness Network and the American Family Foundation. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by UCLA extension students Mario Magorski and John Van Dyke, members of the Church of Scientology. They allege that the professor, Louis ...
Jun 10, 1992
Judge dismisses suit against PR exec — Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter
Type: Press
Author(s): Jack O'Dwyer
Source: Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter
A libel lawsuit filed by the Church of Scientology against Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., VP of corporate affairs for Eli Lilly & Co., was dismissed May 29 by a federal judge in Virginia. Daniels was sued for calling the Church a "commercial enterprise" in a question-and-answer article that ran in USA Today last June 11. The church had criticized Lilly for its Prozac anti-depressant drug.
Jun 10, 1992
The do drop inn — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Heavy machinery is used Tuesday to demolish the Gray Moss Inn in downtown Clearwater. The Church of Scientology Religious Trust will use the land to build a counseling and training center.
Jun 9, 1992
Scientology trial awaits final addresses — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Defence lawyers have rested their cases in the trial of the Church of Scientology of Toronto and five members on criminal breach of trust charges. Prosecution lawyers also said yesterday they would not call more witnesses. The trial continues without the jury and under publication ban, as lawyers from both sides argue points concerning what they and the judge will say in their summations. The jury returns June 17 to Ontario Court, general division, to begin hearing final addresses by counsel. ...
Jun 3, 1992
Group not part of church trial told — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
An organization of Scientologists allegedly responsible for illegal spying and dirty tricks was not a part of the church when those crimes were committed, a top church executive says. "I feel that by their actions they had removed themselves from the church," Michael Rinder of Los Angeles said yesterday. The Guardian's Office violated the teachings of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and thereby became "something different and distinct," Rinder told Mr. Justice James Southey, of Ontario Court, general division. Rinder, 37, ...
Jun 2, 1992
Group unethical church trial told — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A Scientologist sent to investigate the head office of the church branch allegedly responsible for dirty tricks and spying says he was sickened by what he saw. "I was disgusted. I was sickened to my bones," Norman Starkey, 48, of Los Angeles testified yesterday. Starkey was a defence witness at the jury trial of the Toronto branch of the Church of Scientology and five of its members on breach of trust charges. The charges are in connection with agents infiltrating the ...
May 30, 1992
Spies 'upset' Scientology executive, trial told — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Small
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A top Church of Scientology executive once married to founder L. Ron Hubbard's daughter says he had no idea about an espionage and dirty tricks campaign conducted by the church. At the trial of the Church of Scientology of Toronto and five of its members yesterday, Jonathan Horwich, 47, of Los Angeles testified he was "very upset" and "shocked" when first informed of the church's campaign. The Toronto defendants face criminal breach of trust charges in connection with agents infiltrating the ...
May 30, 1992
Suit filed by Scientology church is dismissed — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge in Arlington, Va., on Friday dismissed a $20-million libel lawsuit that the Church of Scientology had filed against an executive with Eli Lilly & Co., the maker of Prozac. The lawsuit accused Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., a vice president of the Indianapolis-based pharmaceuticals company, of maligning the church in comments published in USA Today. The newspaper was not named as a defendant. The church believes that Prozac, an antidepressant, is unsafe and can lead to suicidal ...
May 29, 1992
Crimes outraged church trial told — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Small
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
The worldwide head of the Church of Scientology says he and other top officials were "absolutely outraged" when they concluded that fellow members were committing crimes. "We don't do illegal things," David Miscavige, the 32-year-old church leader from Los Angeles, testified yesterday. When a document outlining a dirty tricks and harassment project called "Operation Freakout" was first seen by his associates in 1981, "I was shocked" and thought it was a fake, Miscavige said. He was not head of the church ...
May 28, 1992
Scientology unaware of spies, trial told — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy Darroch
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A scientologist who spent two years in a California prison for helping to steal government documents says her church knew nothing about the crimes. Jane Kender, 55, was deputy guardian of the Church of Scientology in Sussex, England, in 1968 when the British government put a ban on Scientologists coming into the country, she told court yesterday. She was testifying at the trial of the Church of Scientology and five of its members charged with criminal breach of trust in connection ...
May 28, 1992
Tom Cruise // Pushing thirty, the star of 'Far and Away' gets his life together with the help of Scientology and wife Nicole Kidman — Rolling Stone
Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick Goldstein
Source: Rolling Stone
Tom Cruise hits the accelerator and slides onto a deserted stretch of Sunset Boulevard behind the wheel of a car so hot, so space-age sleek, that you can't find one anywhere — not in a Porsche showroom, not in the Malibu Colony, not in the hippest Hollywood parking lot. [...] If anyone has a good theory about the source of Cruise's steely determination, it's Kidman. They're a yin-yang couple, with her playful, relaxed manner contrasting with her husband's earnest intensity. "I ...
May 20, 1992
Scientologists had files on police — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
An Ontario Provincial Police officer testified yesterday she spent almost three years undercover as a Scientologist and wound up on the staff of the Church of Scientology's Guardian's Office. Acting Sergeant Barbara Taylor told an Ontario Court jury that while she was working between 1981 and 1983 for the Guardian's Office — an office set up by the Scientologists to handle the church's legal affairs — she had access to intelligence files denied regular Scientology staff and followers. Among them were ...
May 16, 1992
Scientology trial hears of intrigue and 'plants' — Toronto Star (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy Darroch
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A tale of intrigue, international espionage and blind dedication has been painted over the past month by a group of senior members with the Church of Scientology of Toronto during the 1970s. All those testifying had been expelled by the church. They were given immunity from prosecution for testifying at the trial of five members and the church on charges of criminal breach of trust. The charges concern "plants" infiltrating the RCMP, OPP, Metro police and the provincial attorney-general's office between ...
May 15, 1992
Scientologist taught crime OK — Toronto Sun (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Dunphy
Source: Toronto Sun (Canada)
One of Scientology's former top spy-masters testified she'd been trained to believe criminal actions which protected the church weren't violations of Scientology's moral code. Marion Evoy, a former Canadian head of Scientology's Guardian Office, made the comment yesterday at the end of four days of testimony in the trial of the Church of Scientology of Toronto Inc. and five members on charges of criminal breach of trust. The charges arise out of a Scientology spy network that in the mid-1970s infiltrated ...
May 13, 1992
Ex-cult member: Mounties targetted as enemy — Toronto Sun (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Dunphy
Source: Toronto Sun (Canada)
Scientologists targeted the RCMP for infiltration because their founder believed Mounties were part of a worldwide conspiracy against his church, an ex-member testified yesterday. The Toronto court heard Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard believed the international conspiracy was run by a band of former Nazis who'd taken over Interpol — the European-based international police organization. The testimony yesterday from Marion Evoy, formerly Canada's top Scientology official, came at the opening of the fourth week of the trial of the Church of ...
May 13, 1992
Tax report // A special summary and forecast of federal and state tax developments — Wall Street Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Wall Street Journal
ADVANCED SCIENTOLOGY, a solitary study, should be deductible, they argued. The Scientology Church has long fought the IRS over charitable deduction of fees members pay to the sect. In 1989, the Supreme Court said fixed fees for so-called auditing were paid for services — and weren't deductible as disinterested gifts. Still, Brian G. and Margaret A. Szabo of Palo Alto. Calif., felt $10,854 of the $14,977 they paid the church in 1976 should be deductible above the $471 the IRS allowed. ...
May 6, 1992
Scientology trial told: 'Spies' stole key files — Toronto Sun (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Dunphy
Source: Toronto Sun (Canada)
A former top Scientologist testified yesterday she was put in a closet with a set of picks and told to unlock the door as part of her spy training. Marion Evoy told court she failed to get out. But the 42-year-old tutor testified to a string of successes with the Scientology spy network, which is alleged to have penetrated three police forces and three levels of government in the mid-1970s. The Church of Scientology of Toronto and five members pleaded not ...
May 5, 1992
Church spied on Revenue Canada — Toronto Sun (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Dunphy
Source: Toronto Sun (Canada)
The scope of Scientology's alleged spy network widened again yesterday with testimony the group had succeeded in planting a spy in Revenue Canada's Ottawa taxation offices. "She obtained a confidential manual," former Scientologist Diane Fairfield said of a Scientologist she had recruited to spy on Revenue Canada. No further details were elicited from Fairfield, who is testifying at the trial of the Church of Scientology and five members on charges of criminal breach of trust. The charges relate to a wide-ranging ...
May 5, 1992
Eli Lilly sued for $14.7M by Church of Scientology — Reporter Dispatch (White Plains, New York)
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Type: Press
Source: Reporter Dispatch (White Plains, New York)
LOS ANGELES — The Church of Scientology International sued Eli Lilly & Co. for $14.7 million, alleging the pharmaceutical maker pressured a public relations firm to drop the church as a client. The church and Eli Lilly have long been at odds over the drug maker's sale of Prozac. The scientologists say the antidepressant can be harmful, even fatal. The suit, filed Friday in federal court, names as defendants Lilly, the British advertising conglomerate WPP Group, its chief executive officer, Martin ...
May 2, 1992
Church lifted OPP files // Spy tells of smuggling — Toronto Sun (Canada)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Dunphy
Source: Toronto Sun (Canada)
A Scientology spy testified yesterday she smuggled out enough files from the OPP to make a stack about 15 feet high. The Church of Scientology of Toronto Inc. and five Scientologists face charges of criminal breach of trust in connection with a spy network that infiltrated the RCMP, Metro Police, the attorney general's department and the OPP. Kathy Smith told court that during her 2½ years as an OPP employee she smuggled out "hundreds and hundreds" of files. She was testifying ...
May 1, 1992
Ex-Scientologist tells of pilfering OPP files — Toronto Star (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy Darroch
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
A former Scientologist says she lied to get a job with Ontario Provincial Police so she could steal secret documents for her church. Kathy Smith said she joined the Church of Scientology in 1972 and spent nine months in southern England learning church policy. Later, she was recruited by the Guardian's Office, an inner council of the church, to infiltrate the police force, court was told yesterday. Smith was testifying at the trial of five Scientologists and their church on charges ...
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