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american citizens for honesty in government (achg) • australia • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • front groups • henning heldt • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • jeffrey a. dubron • john travolta • kenneth j. whitman • l. ron hubbard • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • medical claims • membership • michael james meisner • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation freakout • operation snow white • paulette cooper • raymond banoun • robert gillette • robert rawitch • silencing criticism, censorship
48 items found between Jul 1978 and Dec 1978.
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Dec 22, 1978
Scientology suit hits a major snag — Saint John's Edmonton Report (Canada)
Dec 21, 1978
2 clerics back Scientology — The West Australian
Dec 19, 1978
Daughter denies knowing where Hubbard is — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Toronto ON — Diana Hubbard Horwich, 26, the daughter of the founder of the Church of Scientology, Ron Hubbard, was in Toronto yesterday to speak to Scientologists about her father. However, in a press conference she denied all knowledge of her father's whereabouts and refused to say where she had last met him. She said Mr. Hubbard has been filming instructional films to train counsellors. He is in some mountainous place . . . Where? Gosh, I don't know.
Dec 11, 1978
Piano maker plies his art at Sheridan — The Oregon Stateman
Dec 6, 1978
Bureaucratic burglary — Call-Leader (Indiana)
Dec 6, 1978
Ex-agent alleges fraud in F.B.I.; says many informers are bogus — New York Times
Dec 5, 1978
Scientologists' appeal of FBI search heard — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took under submission Monday arguments by the Church of Scientology of California that a July, 1977, search by 130 FBI agents of Scientology headquarters here was illegally conducted. An estimated 90,000 pages of documents were seized by the agents operating under a court-approved search warrant and much of the data was used to obtain criminal indictments against Scientology's top leaders in the United States and Great Britain earlier this year. ...
Dec 5, 1978
Shelly's recovery from drugs ended with arsonist's fire — Miami News
Dec 1, 1978
Playboy interview: John Travolta // A candid conversation with the hottest young star in America — Playboy
Type: Press
Source: Playboy
Nov 27, 1978
Rewards offered to halt corruption — Southfield Eccentric (Michigan)
Nov 22, 1978
Bounty hunting is back — Dearborn Press & Guide (Michigan)
Nov 20, 1978
Cartoon — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Nov 18, 1978
Ex-Scientologist charges harassment, sues church — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A former follower of the controversial Church of Scientology has filed suit claiming she was harassed and shamed into contributing more than $7,000 to the church. Saundra Haynes, in a fraud suit filed Thursday by attorney Hiram M. Martin, claimed that she went along with the urgings because she hoped the church's "auditing" procedures would enable her to "go clear," as the church calls it, and "rid her of her deep depressions and suicidal attempts." At one point, she claimed in ...
Nov 16, 1978
'Honesty group' claims reward offer yields 'corruption data' — The State Journal (Lansing, Michigan)
Nov 3, 1978
Scientology news curbed by court — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The U.S. Justice Department, at least for the next month, cannot disseminate to the public or other governmental agencies documents seized by the FBI from the Church of Scientology July 8, 1977, the U.S. 9th Circuit Circuit of Appeals has ruled. The appellate court said materials seized from the Scientology headquarters here can be presented to federal grand juries, but to no one else pending appeal of the court's order. A hearing on the merits of the Scientology suit seeking to ...
Oct 23, 1978
Church of Scientology of California v. James E. Adams, Elaine Viets
Type: Document
[...] 1 The Church of Scientology of California (California Church), a California corporation, appeals from a judgment dismissing its action for libel. The suit is against the Pulitzer Publishing Co., publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, and James E. Adams and Elaine Viets, principal authors of the newspaper articles in question.1 The district court dismissed the action against appellees for lack of personal jurisdiction and ruled, alternatively, that the complaint fails to state a claim upon which ...
Oct 22, 1978
E-meters, personality tests form Scientology trappings — Chronicle-Telegram
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Cynthia Roberts
Source: Chronicle-Telegram
Like any other religion, Scientology has its trappings. Not crisp, rich-colored vestments. Not silver chalices, nor flasks of holy water. No, there are other things. Like personality tests and E-meters. E-meters? Scientologists rely heavily on counseling methods to cure psychosomatic ills and mental blocks. They believe in the powers of the "reactive mind" — a portion of the mind which records unpleasant experiences which may later be triggered by outside influences. TO CLEAR the mind of "engrams" (the unsavory experiences), Scientologists ...
Oct 22, 1978
Scientology: Another pop psychology? — Chronicle-Telegram
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Cynthia Roberts
Source: Chronicle-Telegram
Forgive the digression, but as a child, I had a fool-proof method for falling asleep. If I were lying wide-awake in bed, I would categorize my thoughts, imagining my mind was a room full of filing cabinets. Into each of these files (not unlike the ones where the Mouseketeers kept their cartoons) went one worry or problem. By the time the data was transferred, I would be asleep. The point being that I viewed my mind as something akin to a ...
Oct 18, 1978
Churches and Churchmen: Derided church now accepted — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Oct 18, 1978
Customs agents upheld in seizing Scientology papers — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
U.S. Customs Service officials did not violate constitutional guarantees against prior restraint of speech when they detained and reviewed thousands of documents sent to Los Angeles by the Church of Scientology in England two years ago, a three-judge federal panel has ruled. The unanimous opinion written by U.S. Dist. Judge William P. Gray held that a federal statute prohibiting importation into the United States of written material advocating treason, forcible resistance to any federal law or threats to harm or kill ...
Oct 17, 1978
Religious 'cults' [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Cabinet members are deliberating on a possible government inquiry into minority religious groups - or cults, as they have been sneeringly designated. I am a minister in the Church of Scientology. I wish to point out that like my church the Christian church began as a cult and has survived thus far on the basis of its own merits and demerits. I claim the right for my church and others to do the same Carolyn Lois Wightman Assistant Professor Department of ...
Oct 1, 1978
Everything you always wanted to know about study — Today's Professionals
Sep 22, 1978
Scientology seeks rise of mankind — Anderson Daily Bulletin
Sep 19, 1978
Making his own pace — Chadstone Progress (Australia)
Sep 8, 1978
Scientology in court — Christianity Today
Sep 7, 1978
Your turn / A Scientology defense — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
More: link
Type: Opinion
Source: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
"Who would have dreamed that U.S. inteligence agencies would attempt to destroy a religious movement born in America?" By Jeff Dubron In 1950, the book "Dianetics: The Modem Science of Mental Health" by L Ron Hubbard was first published. It was an immediate bestseller. It was also the target of an intelligence campaign covertly carried out by many federal agencies such as the State Department, FBI, CIA, Air Force Intelligence and others. Perhaps we will never know the original reason for ...
Sep 4, 1978
Mail // Scientology — People magazine
More: link
Type: Press
Source: People magazine
As a former member of this specious cult myself, I can well appreciate the laughable attempts of Henning Heldt to affect the role of persecuted martyr as he posed wistfully in his clerical collar and ersatz crucifix. (It's not a symbol of Christianity, folks, but an eight-pointed cross that Scientologists use in hopes of appearing legitimate.) Robert S. Napier Bremerton, Wash. —– I have been a Scientologist for five years now. I'm not a crook, I'm not crazy, and I'm ...
Aug 31, 1978
Scientologists sue Times, 2 reporters for $1 million — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology Wednesday filed a $1 million lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against Times Mirror and two Times reporters, alleging conspiracy to interfere with civil rights. The lawsuit stems from a series of articles dealing with the Church of Scientology written by reporters Robert Rawitch and Robert Gillette and published earlier this week in The Times. The lawsuit charged that the reporters acted in concert with representatives of the FBI and the Department of Justice to publish ...
Aug 29, 1978
Church claims U.S. campaign of harassment // Scientologists advance charge as rationale for aggressive policies — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Gillette, Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology contends that for more than 20 years it has been the target of a systematic campaign by the United States government, together with "vested-interest pressure groups" such as the medical professions, to "suppress the church's spiritual practice and expansion." The church advances this accusation as the fundamental rationale for its aggressive policies of defense-by-attack against individual critics, private groups and government agencies perceived as "harassing" Scientology. Church spokesmen, moreover, expand upon the allegation of systematic persecution to ...
Aug 29, 1978
Church of Scientology members plead innocent to charges — Palo Alto Times
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Palo Alto Times
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Nine members of the Church of Scientology, including the wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard, pleaded innocent today to charges they infiltrated federal agencies and stole government documents. U.S. District Judge George Hart made it clear during the hour-long arraignment that he would reject church attempts to turn their trial into a forum for alledging 28 years of government harassment. "The Church of Scientology is not on trial here and it's not going to be on trial," Hart ...
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