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Dec 24, 1988
Tax suits involve land sold by judge / Rives says he'll step aside in Scientologists' case — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 23, 1988
Changing strategy: Scientology now steps right up to controversy — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link , link
Type: Press
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) After years of sparring with the townsfolk and veiling itself in secrecy, the Church of Scientology has succeeded in turning Clearwater into its spiritual mecca. Scientologists quietly run teen nightclubs, schools, day-care centers, management consulting firms and other businesses, records and interviews show. Now the strategy of the organization, longtime observers say, is to confront controversy, gain converts and make money - lots of it. Scientology's Clearwater operation brings in $1.5-million to $2-million a week, say church watchers who include Clearwater ...
Dec 23, 1988
Common ground for religions: money — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Dec 23, 1988
Xemu's cruel response to overpopulated world — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Dec 22, 1988
Dozens of groups operate under auspices of Church of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Operating under auspices of the Church of Scientology are dozens of groups, many of them separate legal entities. Untangling Scientology's lines of organizations can be difficult; even the sect's own charts that have been used in court cases are complex. Here are some of Scientology's organizations. Flag Service Organization — The legal name of Scientology's Clearwater operation, which serves as the sect's spiritual headquarters. Before 1981 the organization was part of the Church of Scientology of California, and Pinellas County officials ...
Dec 22, 1988
Scientology church faces new claims of harassment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: scientology-lies.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The year was 1976, one year after the Church of Scientology had secretly moved its spiritual headquarters to Clearwater, and Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too loudly for the church's comfort. So, as documents seized by the FBI would later show, the church's Clearwater office devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel Cazares' political career by spreading scandal about his sex life." Church officials came up with ways to get Cazares' school records, birth records, anything — from checking with the ...
Dec 12, 1988
Scientology leader still jailed in Spain; church charges 'persecution' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The president of the Church of Scientology and 10 other members arrested in an investigation of alleged fraud and tax evasion have been released on more than $1 million bail, their lawyer said Sunday.
A judge's order releasing church President Heber Jentzsch, an American, and the others came Saturday after facts were presented that "corrected" some allegations against the group, said the lawyer, Jose Luis Chamorro.
Jentzsch, 53, a native of Salt Lake City, lives in Los Angeles.
Judge Jose Maria ...
Dec 10, 1988
Church of Scientology sues property appraiser — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 27, 1988
Andretti orders 'Dianetics' logo taken off his car — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 26, 1988
Dianetics logo emblazons race cars — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) "Dianetics," it says, splashed seven times in bold logos on each of the two yellow race cars - one to be driven by veteran racer Mario Andretti. Dianetics is the name of a best-selling self-help book by the late L. Ron Hubbard and published by Bridge Publications of Los Angeles. Dianetics is also the "science" of freeing deep-seated psychological problems that is the basis of the Church of Scientology, a group founded by Hubbard. And Dianetics - the logo, the book ...
Nov 24, 1988
Judge orders Scientology leader jailed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Nov 22, 1988
Top Scientologist arrested in Spain — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 25, 1988
Paper wants Scientology documents unsealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — The St. Petersburg Times has asked a federal judge to unseal four court files pertaining to the Church of Scientology. The files, which otherwise would be available to the public, were sealed in 1986 by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich at the Scientologists' request. At the time the church was settling four lawsuits against it by former Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares, among others, for undisclosed sums of money. The suits alleged that Scientologists invaded the plaintiffs' privacy and ...
Sep 20, 1988
Judge accused by former lawyer for Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 31, 1988
Measles outbreak traced to Clearwater private school — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Paul L. McGorrian Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The outbreak of measles reported by county health officials this week has been traced to the True School, a private school in Clearwater that uses the teachings of L. Run Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. A Health Department official said Tuesday that 40 of the 100 students at the school had not been immunized. But Sherry Payson, a spokeswoman for the school, said she thinks the figure is lower. She said neither the school nor Scientology discourages ...
Aug 13, 1988
Letters // To promote understanding — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 12, 1988
Harbor drowning victim may have been Swiss — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) DUNEDIN — Authorities believe a man who drowned in Clearwater Harbor on June 30 was a Swiss man taking classes at the Church of Scientology in Clearwater. Dunedin police found the man's body along the shore off Victoria Drive. Clearwater police Lt. Jack Dowling said Peter Ernst Frei, a Swiss citizen, was reported missing to Clearwater police on June 29 by a church acquaintance. The description of Frei and his clothing matches that of the drowning victim, Dowling said. Dowling said ...
Jul 2, 1988
Police seek identity of man who drowned — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) DUNEDIN — Police have released a sketch of an unidentified man who apparently drowned in Clearwater Harbor. The body was discovered about 10 a.m. Thursday along the shore off Victoria Drive near Main Street and may have been in the water about eight hours, police said. Officials believe the man drowned, based on a medical examiner's preliminary test results. The man is described as white, 35 to 45 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 144 pounds. He had ...
Jul 1, 1988
Body is found in Clearwater Harbor — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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