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Oct 7, 1984
Could Hubbard be hiding on Suncoast? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
He may be the most highly visible "invisible" man on earth — Mr. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Although not seen publicly since 1980, the reclusive founder of the controversial Clearwater-based Church of Scientology is constantly the subject of newspaper stories, court testimony and television [?] around the world. L. Ron Hubbard, a flamboyant millionaire philosopher, adventurer and explorer, mystic and messiah, has become the Howard Hughes of our time. For no one knows — at least no one is saying — where ...
Sep 30, 1984
Charges against sect security guard dropped — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office has dropped a charge of false imprisonment pressed in August against a security guard for the Church of Scientology, officials said. Roy Rodriguez was arrested Aug. 23 after he and two other sect guards chased 21-year-old John Williams of Clearwater on foot through downtown Clearwater, police said. The guard accused the man of throwing a rock through the window of the sect communications office at 500 Cleveland St., police said. Four sect guards were in the ...
Sep 27, 1984
Cazares blasts sect's candidate forum — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 27, 1984
Scientology church in California denied tax exemption as religious organization — Wall Street Journal
Sep 27, 1984
Sect's interest in college buy rumored — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 27, 1984
U.S. Tax Court rules Scientology owes $1.4 million — Los Angeles Times (California)
Sep 26, 1984
Editorial: Scientology bears no resemblance to religion — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 26, 1984
Scientology heads to appeal tax ruling — Daily News
Sep 26, 1984
Sect vows to fight tax 'setback' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 21, 1984
City earmarks $100,000 to beautify causeway — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Sep 20, 1984
Cult father loses plea to keep children — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sep 6, 1984
Letters to the Editor // On Scientology — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Editor: Scientology is basically an applied religious philosophy. Scientology traces its religious roots back 2500 years to a man named Gautama Siddhartha, better known to the Western world as Buddha. Buddha was concerned with increasing the individual's awareness of himself or herself as a spiritual being. He achieved this increased awareness for himself and devoted the remainder of his life to helping others achieve the same state. In Scientology today, we have an extension and expansion of Buddha's work with the ...
Sep 3, 1984
Lawyer says Church of Scientology is waging campaign to 'frame' him — New York Times
More: link, Reprint in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, cs.cmu.edu
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Lindsey
Source: New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Michael J. Flynn, a Boston lawyer, was piloting a light aircraft toward South Bend, Ind., in October 1979 when its engine quit mysteriously at 8,500 feet. After making an emergency landing, he said he found several quarts of water in the fuel tank. Since then, Mr. Flynn, who has led a legal battle against the Church of Scientology, a group that has long been the subject of Government investigations, says he has been followed by as many as ...
Sep 1, 1984
Officials to study sect's financial records — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Howard French
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Pinellas County tax officials are preparing to wade through thousands of financial documents belonging to the Church of Scientology, in the wake of an agreement hammered out in court earlier this week. According to Assistant County Attorney Susan Churuti, the development may not constitute a major breakthrough in relations between the county and the sect, but is at least a change in the Scientologists' position. She said the agreement was worked out under Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge B.J. Driver, and ...
Aug 30, 1984
Right track founder presents plaque — San Bernadino American News (California)
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Type: Press
Source: San Bernadino American News (California)
Actor Michael Roberts, founder of the popular durg abuse prevention group, "RIGHT TRACK", was in Hollywood recently to present a plaque to best selling author L. Ron Hubbard, to acknowledge Hubbard's work in the field of drug abuse prevention. Hubbard's Public relations Officer, Sue Lawler, accepted the award on behalf of Mr. Hubbard. Hubbard has been honored across the country by mayors and governors with similar plaques and recognition, including a proclamation from Mayor Saldana of Catalina Island. Roberts said that ...
Aug 29, 1984
Rights group attack psychiatric treatment — Chelsea Record
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Type: Press
Source: Chelsea Record
Beth Cieslinski of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) was in Chelsea this week to announce the start of CCHR's new Mental Health Abuse Helpline for parents, children or any individual who has been mistreated, abused or criminally assaulted by psychiatrists or other mental health professionals. Anyone who falls into the above categories or has a family member or friend who falls into these categories is asked to call CCHR immediately for direction and assistance. Beth Taylor-Cieslinski, a Smith College ...
Aug 28, 1984
Ex-members denounce sect rehab program — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The young man — by all appearances a teen-ager — crouched on the dark, narrow stairway as he scrubbed the sixth-floor landing in the former Fort Harrison Hotel, the "Flag Land Base" headquarters of the Church of Scientology. "Are you in RPF?" queried a reporter. "Sir?" he asked quietly, peering up from his work. "Are you in RPF?" "Yes sir, I am." RPF is the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which, depending on who is speaking, is either a businessman's approach to ...
Aug 26, 1984
Editorials of the Sun // It's the Scientologists who are acting 'bizarre' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
It's ironic that Scientology spokesman Richard Haworth has accused Clearwater Sun Staff Writer George-Wayne Shelor of "bizarre behavior." Haworth has announced he will no longer respond to questions from the reporter. He accused Shelor of a long list of offenses, including an attempt to break into the sect's headquarters on S. Fort Harrison Avenue. And, Haworth added, Shelor was abetted in the attempted break-in by Clearwater Sun Managing Editor Sam Fenton. Flabbergasted by the charge, Fenton said he and Shelor were ...
Aug 25, 1984
Scientologists charge Sun reporter with bias — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Howard French
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Church of Scientology public affairs director Richard Haworth has accused Clearwater Sun Managing Editor Samuel E. Fenton and staff writer George-Wayne Shelor of attempting to break into the church's Clearwater headquarters earlier this month, after attending a sect press conference. As a result of the alleged break-in attempt and other "bizarre actions" on Shelor's part, Haworth said the reporter is banned from church property and is allowed to communicate with him only in writing. Shelor has written a series of stories ...
Aug 25, 1984
Scientology guard released on $5,000 bond — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
A Church of Scientology security guard, charged with false imprisonment late Thursday after police said he tackled and handcuffed a 21-year-old Clearwater man, was released on $5,000 bond Friday. Roy Rosa Rodriguez, 30, who listed his address as the sect's headquarters at 210 S. Fort Harrison Ave., was arrested after he tried unsuccessfully to spray a suspected vandal with "Paralyzer" mace and subsequently tackled him and handcuffed the man's hands behind his back, police said. A Church of Scientology official refused ...
Aug 24, 1984
Sect repaying disgruntled members — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): George-Wayne Shelor
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The Church of Scientology has begun reimbursement of money to a number of current and former members who claimed refunds were owed them for services not delivered when they took courses in Clearwater, a California attorney said Thursday. California attorney David Jordan, himself a former Scientologist, said about $160,000 has been repaid 14 of his clients in recent months, and another 19 persons with claims totaling about $240,000 should be paid within 30 days. Jordan also represents another 237 current and ...
Aug 22, 1984
Court puts solicitation law on hold — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Howard French
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The 11th District Court of Appeal in Atlanta has issued a temporary injunction against Clearwater's charitable-solicitation ordinance, at the request of the Church of Scientology. The order is expected to put the law on the shelf for at least four months. The ruling came only three weeks after a lower federal court in Tampa refused to issue a restraining order against the ordinance, ruling that the city could begin enforcing at least a portion of it, even as the appeals process ...
Aug 17, 1984
Opinion // Sect leaders abusing their access to the press — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
There is an implicit journalistic canon that "the other side" must always be given an opportunity to respond to an attack. So the press has bent over backward to let leaders of the Church of Scientology rebut allegations of reprehensible practices by their organization. It seems the sect, leaders, have devised a strategy to take an unfair advantage of this access to the media. They are traveling about America holding press conferences and making startling accusations, with little or no documentation ...
Aug 16, 1984
"Right Track" founder presents plaque — Voice (Riverside, California)
Aug 16, 1984
Actress Linda Griffin to be featured on Hills Street Blues — San Bernadino American News (California)
Aug 16, 1984
Dynasty actor talks of role
Type: Press
Aug 16, 1984
Sect accuses phantom firm of land gobbling — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Howard French
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
An unnamed, $2 billion corporation has been making a bid to control Clearwater real estate by buying more than 300 parcels of property since 1973, according to Heber C. Jentzsch, international president of the Church of Scientology. And when the church began buying downtown property in 1975, he said, that phantom corporation began a campaign to discredit the church and to keep property values low until it could complete its own acquisition program. "We must have cut across the plans of ...
Aug 16, 1984
Summer fun for kids mean? — Voice (Riverside, California)
Aug 16, 1984
[Letter to the Editor] No hard proof — Daily News
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Type: Press
Source: Daily News
As I read the article about the Church of Scientology in your paper I was reminded of all the earlier, similar claims and allegations I've read in various publications over the years — and I've never seen any hard proof. It seems to me that if even a small part of these tales were true we'd see a decline in the activities of the church. It seems to be prospering more than ever! I have seen literally hundreds of proclamations signed ...
Aug 15, 1984
Sect moves its mortgages to 'religious trust' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): David Dahl
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology has transferred mortgages on nine of its 10 North Pinellas properties to a "religious trust" whose beneficiaries the church refuses to name. The new mortgage holder is the Church of Scientology Religious Trust, according to records filed July 31 in the Pinellas County Courthouse. The records say the trust will receive $872,148.75 in annual mortgage payments from the owner of the property — which is another Scientology organization. A church spokesman said that money to ...
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