Scientology Critical Information Directory

This site is best viewed using a highly standards-compliant browser

Scientology library

Between and 
Keyword(s)
Items per page 
Tips: A blank year in one or both fields will result in an open-ended search. Keywords are matched against tags, titles, authors, publishers, types. Use uppercase 'OR' to search for items that match either expressions on each side of the 'OR' keyword.

Alternatively, you can browse all the tags directly.
arnaldo p. "arnie" lerma • auditing • copyright, trademark, patent • cult awareness network (can) (earlier form, citizen's freedom foundation) • dennis erlich • electronic frontier foundation (eff) • factnet • harassment • heber c. jentzsch • helena k. kobrin • judge leonie m. brinkema • lawrence "larry" wollersheim • lawsuit • netcom on-line communication services, inc. • oxford capacity analysis (aka, "free scientology personality test" aka "u-test" aka "pape test") • religious technology center (rtc) • sea organization (sea org, so) • seattle times • silencing criticism, censorship • tom klemesrud • united kingdom (uk) • washington post • xenu (operating thetan level 3, ot 3, wall of fire) • alt.religion.scientology • alt.scientology.war
83 items found between Jan 1995 and Dec 1995.
Dateless  1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
All time 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
Page of 3: ⇑ Latest    ↑ Later      
Dec 13, 1995
Netcom ruling now viewed as defense victory — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Dec 9, 1995
Congress vs. Internet — New York Times
Dec 1, 1995
alt.scientology.war — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy M. Grossman
Source: Wired
When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, and police pierce the security anonymous remailers,the days of the Net as a cozy, cocktail party are over. Welcome to a flame war with real bullets. When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, or the security of anonymous remailers is pierced by police, alt.scientology.war the days of the Internet as a cozy, private, intellectual cocktail party are over. Welcome to mortal combat between two alien cultures ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 30, 1995
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlatans — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Tony Ortega
Source: Phoenix New Times
Clients of deprogrammer Rick Ross call him a savior. Perhaps that's why people he's branded cult leaders want to crucify him. Rick Ross is describing how Arizona's cults use mind control to exploit their members. He warns about 70 people gathered at Arizona State University's Memorial Union that they are prime targets for groups that tend to prey on university students. The Moonies have a house on North Central. Scientology has a church in Mesa. There's Scottsdale's CBJ, whose members believe ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 28, 1995
Scientologists claim victory in Internet copyright lawsuit — CNN
Nov 28, 1995
U.S. judge rules Internet services may be liable for postings — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Oct 28, 1995
News in brief — Washington Post
Type: Press
Source: Washington Post
The Founding Church of Scientology dedicated its new center last weekend in the renovated Fraser Mansion at 20th and R streets NW, near Dupont Circle. The mansion, built in 1890 for former representative George S. Fraser, will serve as a spiritual center for local members and as the East Coast center for ministerial training, spokeswoman Sylvia Stanard said. The church, with about 3,000 members in the area, will continue to operate its "celebrity center" on 16th Street NW for counseling purposes, ...
Oct 24, 1995
Only police may search your home, right? Guess again — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Adam S. Bauman
Source: Seattle Times
[Shorter version of Are searches in civil cases also violating rights? | Los Angeles Times (California) | 23 October 1995.] IT'S AN issue of copyright against constitutional rights. Some copyright holders, particularly software makers, are using a special court order to send their employees legally into one's home. At 6:30 a.m. on July 26, off-duty U.S. marshals and officials from software maker Novell Inc. rang the doorbell at Joseph and Miki Casalino's home outside Salt Lake City. They were there, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 23, 1995
Are searches in civil cases also violating rights? — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: scientology-lies.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Adam S. Bauman
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
At 6:30 on the morning of July 26, a contingent of off-duty U.S. marshals and officials from software maker Novell Inc. rang the doorbell at Joseph and Miki Casalino's home outside Salt Lake City. Thinking her husband had forgotten something when he left for work, Miki padded to the door in her robe and was shocked to find a marshal flashing his badge. They were there, they told her, to search and seize any and all computer bulletin board (bbs) equipment ...
Oct 20, 1995
Woman accuses Scientology guard of threat — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Jane Meinhardt
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — A Mexican woman has alleged that the Church of Scientology's security chief chased her and threatened to kill her for leaving the church. The case has been referred to the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office; no charge has been filed. A statement from a Scientology spokesman said the security guard has been suspended during a church investigation. The police investigation began Sept. 28 after Naxilly Sofia Perez-Morales, 22, called 911 about 7 p.m. from the Post Office on Cleveland Street. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 13, 1995
Judge dismisses suit over firing — The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Type: Press
Source: The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday. The action came after Polozola adopted a report on the matter by U.S. Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger. [...]
Oct 7, 1995
Inside the cult — Advertiser (Australia)
Oct 4, 1995
Hunting rabbits, serving spam: The net under siege — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
The growing popularity of the Internet has spawned discussion groups that offer something for just about everyone, from lovers of Jean-Luc Picard (try alt.sexy.bald.captains) to haters of a certain children's television program (alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die) to obsessives consumed by politics, computer lore, comic books or the hidden messages embedded in a single rock song (alt.meter-maid.lovely.rita). Few newsgroups, though, have drawn the kind of following now evident on alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.), an international debating circle concerning the Church of Scientology. Always controversial, in recent months ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 4, 1995
Stalking the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
IN THE ONLINE BRAWL OVER SCIENTOLOGY, INTERNET USERS DISCOVER THAT VIRTUAL REALITY BITES BACK.SHOWDOWN IN CYBERSPACE THE BATTLE OVER SCIENTOLOGY'S SECRETS IGNITES A HOLY WAR ON THE INTERNET. Lawrence Wollersheim's hands shake as he reads his notes, ticking off the damage done to his computers. Surrounding the 46-year-old Boulder resident is a cluster of reporters and, beyond that, a ring of glowering, dark-suited men (and one woman wearing a clerical collar), all packed into a hallway of the federal courthouse in ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 3, 1995
Straight, no chaser / Chick Corea prefers to focus on creative simplicity of jazz instead of mechanics and styles of playing — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Oct 1, 1995
Cyberspace Is Still On Planet Earth — NoName (Australia)
Oct 1, 1995
Revolt In The Stars (No News Is Xenu's) — Victorian Inter-Campus Edition (Australia)
Sep 30, 1995
Man wins $5 million in deprogramming suit // Mother had tried to wrest son away from Bellevue church — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Jennifer Bjorhus
Source: Seattle Times
A 23-year-old Seattle-area man was awarded nearly $5 million yesterday for civil-rights violations that occurred when religious "deprogrammers" took him from his home and tried to persuade him to leave the United Pentecostal Church. Federal-court jurors delivered their verdict yesterday after deliberating eight hours, ending a trial that began when Jason Scott sued deprogrammer Rick Ross, Ross' associates and Cult Awareness Network (CAN), a Chicago-based group that monitors cults. Scott's mother, Kathy Tonkin, contacted CAN in 1991 when she became worried ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 30, 1995
Sect member awarded $5 million in kidnap case — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s): Steven Goldsmith
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Section: News, Page: A1 A federal jury yesterday awarded nearly $5 million to a young Bellevue man who had been kidnapped at his mother's behest to get him to leave his church. The verdict was seen as a stunning blow to cult critics and ``deprogrammers" who seek to go up against unconventional but often well-funded religious groups. Jason Scott, now 23, smiled broadly after the six-member U.S. District Court jury gave him a near-total victory in his civil rights lawsuit against ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 30, 1995
Talk show [Heber Jentzsch going nuts] — KFI-AM (Los Angeles)
More: Transcript
Type: Radio
Author(s): Jane Norris
Source: KFI-AM (Los Angeles)
[A classic: Heber Jentzsch going nuts to prevent Dennis Erlich from disclosing information about Scientology's secret levels]
Sep 22, 1995
Journalist wins in spy v. spy case — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
AN Adelaide journalist was yesterday cleared of theft charges in a London court case billed as the battle of the hidden cameras. The Church of Scientology in London used hidden cameras to try to entrap Alison Braund while she was using a hidden camera in the church while working undercover, the City of London Magistrates' Court heard. Ms Braund was preparing an investigative report for a British television company. Chairman of the bench, Hinda Style, said there had been an abuse ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Sep 22, 1995
Sect member testifies in 'cult' lawsuit — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s): Steven Goldsmith
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In a lawsuit to stop deprogrammers from trampling on religious sect members' rights, a Bellevue man yesterday told a federal jury that four men "ambushed" him to get him to quit his fundamentalist church. Jason Scott is suing the Cult Awareness Network and the four deprogrammers hired by Scott's mother for unspecified damages. The mother was trying to get Scott — then 18 — to leave the New Life Tabernacle Church, a member of the United Pentecostal Churches. The attempt failed, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 21, 1995
'Deprogrammer' Taken To Court -- Bellevue Man Claims Kidnap, Coercion — Seattle Times
Sep 18, 1995
Hubbard and the occult — FACTnet
Sep 16, 1995
Scientology reined in / Church may have to return computer files — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles W. Hall
Source: Washington Post
Arnaldo Lerma, the Arlington man who took on the Church of Scientology by putting its texts on the Internet, won a partial victory yesterday when a federal judge in Alexandria ordered that the church return 58 computer disks that it seized from him. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema also verbally slapped Scientology lawyers, saying their handling of Lerma's files went far beyond what she had authorized as part of a suit alleging copyright and trade secrecy violations. "This case is ...
Sep 14, 1995
Scientologists Lose a Battle on the Internet — New York Times
Sep 13, 1995
Church of Scientology loses fight against former member — CNN
Type: Press
Source: CNN
DENVER, Colorado (CNN) – A former member and critic of the Church of Scientology should be getting his research on Scientology back from the church. A federal judge Tuesday ordered the church to return the files that another judge had ordered seized. Larry Wollersheim operates a computer bulletin board that distributes information critical of the Church of Scientology. The church claimed Wollersheim violated copyright and trademark laws and demanded the board's materials. But the new ruling says "the public interest is ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 12, 1995
DEFINITION SHEET FOR THE NARCONON STATISTICS CABLE
Aug 31, 1995
Court lets newspaper keep Scientology texts — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles W. Hall
Source: Seattle Times
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., yesterday permitted The Washington Post to retain a copy of Church of Scientology texts and to use the texts in its news reporting, saying the paper's news-gathering rights far outweigh claims that the documents are protected by copyright and trade secrecy laws. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema refused to issue a preliminary injunction against The Post, saying its excerpts of the church's texts in an Aug. 19 Style section article were brief and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 28, 1995
Firm consults businesses in fraud prevention — Glendale News-Press (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Annette Chavez
Source: Glendale News-Press (California)
With white-collar crimes on the rise nationwide, more and more businesses are looking into ways of preventing internal theft and fraud before it costs them or their clients billions of dollars. The Glendale-based financial firm of Wiseman and Burke, Inc. is an example of a business that takes the threat of white-collar crime very seriously. "White-collar crime costs more than street crime does," said Robert LaRose, vice president of the Business Fraud Division. Last year the company, at 206 S. Brand ...
Page 1 of 3: ⇑ Latest    ↑ Later      
Other web sites with precious media archives. There is also a downloadable SQL dump of this library (use it as you wish, no need to ask permission.)   In May 2008, Ron Sharp's hard work consisting of over 1260 FrontCite tagged articles were integrated with this library. There are more contributors to this library. This library currently contains over 6000 articles, and more added everyday from historical archives.