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Jun 7, 1997
Germany will place Scientology under nationwide surveillance — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Cowell Source:
New York Times BONN, June 6 — The German authorities decided today to place the Scientology movement under nationwide surveillance for one year, their sharpest action yet in a long battle against a group they say is bent on undermining their democratic society. The decision, which critics called authoritarian and impractical, means that Scientologists' mail may be intercepted, their phones tapped and their offices infiltrated by undercover agents posing as adherents. The organization said it would contest the decision in court. By making public ...
Jun 1, 1997
Did Scientology strike back? — The American Lawyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Hansen Source:
The American Lawyer When the end finally came for the old Cult Awareness Network, it happened fast. Cynthia Kisser, CAN's executive director, struggled to stay calm as she sat in federal bankruptcy court in Chicago late last October waiting for the auction to begin. Kisser, who had spent the past nine years leading CAN's efforts to inform the public about dangerous cults, had hoped that she wouldn't have to pay much for her group's assets that day. Nor did she want much, she claims ...
May 15, 1997
Scientology documents sealed in wrongful death case — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: xenu-directory.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeffrey Stidham ,
Cheryl Waldrip Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) TAMPA — A judge in a wrongful death case accusing the Church of Scientology of negligence has temporarily sealed three documents that for three years have been posted on the Internet. The documents — reportedly church instructions on handling members' illnesses — were included among papers filed in a lawsuit that claims a 36-year-old woman died after Scientologists ignored her medical needs. An autopsy found Lisa McPherson died in December 1995 of a blood clot brought on by "severe dehydration and ...
May 11, 1997
Battlefield Tilden — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Wilson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TILDEN, NEB. — In a no-stoplight town on the American plain, in a house where the King James Version lies open in the entryway, a woman unfolds her newspaper and begins to read. The headline in the Tilden Citizen announces, "New Park Groundbreaking Ceremony Held." A picture shows 13 people posed shoulder to shoulder, their grins as frozen as the February soil. The mayor, a construction foreman on his afternoon break, has the familiar job of holding the shovel. A banner ...
May 9, 1997
When did she die? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Was it an honest mistake, a slip of the tongue? Or was it the naked truth, carelessly uttered on camera A top official for the Church of Scientology told a German television crew recently that church member Lisa McPherson died in a room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater. On its face, the statement marks a major change in Scientology's version of events surrounding McPherson's unexplained death at age 36. It came in the presence of one of ...
May 8, 1997
Flag order 3434RE / The RPF series flag orders — Church of Scientology International (CSI)
Apr 14, 1997
Internet firm Luckman surfs rough waters — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Karen Kaplan Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A visitor to the Internet World trade show in Los Angeles last month would have come away with the impression that Luckman Interactive was an industry powerhouse. The 3-year-old firm, which makes software and Internet directories, hung a giant banner on the side of the Los Angeles Convention Center—the only company to spring for the expense. Its booth was among the biggest at the show, rivaling those of Netscape, Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems. The company has raised more than $20 ...
Apr 10, 1997
Making your own decision about Scientology — Woroni (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lara Meney Source:
Woroni (Australia) The Church of Scientology responds to the article
"Cult of Personality" which appeared in the last issue of Woroni The anonymous author of the article on Scientology in the last Woroni of March 20, 1997, at least got a few things right: the description and definition of Scientology, the aims of Scientology, that it is a religion and a Church. However, journalistic accountability having been thrown to the wind, there followed a mixture of opinion and fiction. Objectivity died with ...
Apr 10, 1997
Mother warns on cult groups — South Western Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Patti-Ann Keegan Source:
South Western Times (Australia) A local mother warned parents last week that young people who travel to Perth in search of education, work or adventure could be influenced by cult groups. Young people often gravitated to Perth in search of excitement and some cults have been accused of preying on the lonely, offering friendship to young people feeling lost in an unfamiliar place, the mother said. Matilda, not her real name, said she wanted to warn others because her life had been turned upside down ...
Apr 1, 1997
Advertisement / The Church of Scientology: Recognition and discrimination — Wall Street Journal
Mar 25, 1997
The Scientology problem — Wall Street JournalMore: holysmoke.org , link
Type: Press
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Wall Street Journal As no doubt befits a society founded by Pilgrims, America has a long tradition of controversial movements maturing to success, whether Mormons or Christian Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, the latest cult forcing itself to our attention is the Church of Scientology. Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer. He fashioned a creation myth around Xenu, who froze and transported thetan souls to volcanoes in Teegeeack, now earth. The creed holds that humans ...
Mar 20, 1997
Cult of Personality — Woroni (Australia)
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Woroni (Australia) Having spent the morning on the Net, surfing any number of hideous accounts by ex-scientologists, I climbed the stairs of the Civic Scientology office with some trepidation. I felt armed with my newly enhanced awareness of cult recruiting tactics and brainwashing techniques, and had the specific aim of grabbing any printed material I could see and getting out fast. I was greeted warmly by a young woman and told that someone would be 'with me shortly.' A few minutes later she ...
Mar 19, 1997
Advertisement: The Church of Scientology's hard-won tax-exempt recognition — New York Times
Mar 19, 1997
Letters / Re: Five doctors agree with examiner in Scientology death, March 9. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Elliot Abelson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The truth in the McPherson case Re: Five doctors agree with examiner in Scientology death, March 9. A great deal of false information has been circulated by the media concerning the Lisa McPherson case, the most recent of which appeared in the Times with quotes from medical experts purportedly in support of the allegations made by the Pinellas/Pasco medical examiner, Dr. Joan Wood. But as with much else in this case, the truth was not made known, and a false picture ...
Mar 19, 1997
Scientology denies an account of an impromptu I.R.S. meeting — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times The Church of Scientology has denied that its leader and another official had an unscheduled meeting in October 1991 with Fred T. Goldberg Jr., then the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. A statement released by the church, which was sharply critical of an article on March 9 in The New York Times, said that its leader, David Miscavige, had not had an impromptu meeting with Mr. Goldberg and that all meetings between church representatives and I.R.S. officials had been attended ...
Mar 18, 1997
Letter to the Editor: Scientology won tax exemption on the merits — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monique E. Yingling Source:
New York Times To the Editor: Contrary to Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt (front page, March 9), the Internal Revenue Service made its decision to issue exemption rulings to the Church of Scientology in 1993 on the merits following the most in-depth examination in the history of the I.R.S. The role of the I.R.S. committee that was formed to address issues involving the church was not to negotiate a deal but independently and objectively to review the church's qualification for ...
Mar 16, 1997
Who can stand up? — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Frank Rich Source:
New York Times Can anyone stand up to the Church of Scientology? Such was the plaintive question asked by The St. Petersburg Times in an editorial last week, and with good reason. The great American religious saga of the 1990's may be the rise to power of a church that has successfully brought the Internal Revenue Service, the State Department and much of the American press to heel even as it did an end-run around the courts. As Douglas Frantz reported in The New ...
Mar 12, 1997
Scientology says it isn't moving into Dunedin — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
G.G. Rigsby Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) DUNEDIN - It has been brought up at gatherings for weeks - at Mardi Gras, at a chamber mixer, at the morning coffee klatch, at a Kiwanis Club breakfast. Then there have been phone calls to City Hall and the newspaper. People want to know: Is the three-story building in the heart of downtown being bought by Scientologists? Will the building one day be given to the church and come off the taxrolls? Will Dunedin wind up looking like downtown Clearwater, ...
Mar 11, 1997
Intimidating the IRS — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Most taxpayers would not be rewarded if they tried to intimidate the Internal Revenue Service into giving them a break. They also would be kicked out the door if they barged into the office of the head of the IRS and demanded to be seen without an appointment. But most taxpayers are not the Church of Scientology, which succeeded in doing both. The decision by the IRS in 1993 to give the Church of Scientology the tax exemption granted to churches ...
Mar 9, 1997
An ultra-aggressive use of investigators and the courts — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times For years, Scientology has gone to great lengths to defend itself from critics. Often its defense has involved private investigators working for its lawyers. While the use of private investigators is common in the legal profession, some instances involving the church have been unusual. Scientology officials said that the investigators operated within the law and that the tactics were necessary to counter attacks made over the years by Internal Revenue Service agents and the press. "When people stop spreading lies about ...
Mar 9, 1997
Five doctors agree with examiner in Scientology death — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Five pathologists say it is clear from key lab results that Lisa McPherson was severely dehydrated when she died after a 17-day stay at a Church of Scientology retreat. The Times interviewed the doctors after the much-publicized disagreement between the church and Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Joan Wood over how McPherson died. None of the doctors were previously familiar with the case. While many of their conclusions echo what Wood has said about McPherson's death, most of the doctors said ...
Mar 9, 1997
Scientology's puzzling journey from tax rebel to tax exempt // Taxes and tactics behind an I.R.S. reversal — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church's recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. For 25 years, I.R.S. agents had branded Scientology a commercial enterprise and refused to give it the tax exemption granted to churches. The refusals had been upheld in every court. But that night the crowd learned of an astonishing turnaround. The I.R.S. had granted tax exemptions to ...
Mar 8, 1997
Bomb defused at Church of Scientology in France — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Source:
Orlando Sentinel NANTES, FRANCE — A member of the Church of Scientology found and defused a powerful bomb Friday in a church in the western town of Angers, police said. Police said the device, concealed in a sports bag, was found in the entry hall shortly after the Scientology church opened for the day. The church member who found the bomb carried it to a nearby park and defused it. An invesigator described the device as "made to kill and very powerful." There ...
Mar 6, 1997
Nightmare on the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Prendergast Source:
Denver Westword News A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. Strange things happen around Lawrence Wollersheim. His businesses collapse. His Boulder apartment gets raided by federal marshals, his computers seized. When college students offer to help him rebuild his computer bulletin-board system, they receive threatening phone calls–anonymous voices urging them to stay away from Larry. A California judge who presided over a lawsuit in which Wollersheim was the plaintiff told reporters he'd encountered a lot ...
Mar 1, 1997
Examiner lied, Scientology lawyer says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 26, 1997
Scientology reporters target police on race — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 25, 1997
Scientology's "Holocaust" // Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor? — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Hudson Source:
Salon BERLIN — “Historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." Strong words from Madeleine Albright, who had good reason to apply them. America's new secretary of State was referring to the widely publicized statement by Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood celebrities equating Germany's current treatment of the Church of Scientology with the Holocaust. When she met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week, Albright was committed to bringing up U.S. "concerns" about Germany's treatment of Scientologists. At the same time, she clearly ...
Feb 24, 1997
Letters / Re: Scientology disagreement downplayed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 21, 1997
Scientology had woman in isolation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: groups.google.ca , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 20, 1997
Family sues Scientology in '95 death of woman — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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