Scientology courses are designed to make students dependent on their instructors so it is "easier to brainwash them," a disaffected Church of Scientology communications supervisor testified Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. One particular "drill" called "bull baiting" involved verbal and physical abuse and sometimes overt sexual contact, Diana Morgan testified. She appeared as a witness for Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 21, in the trial of a $2 million-plus damage suit Mrs. Titchbourne brought against three Scientology organizations and adherents. She is ...

Each year, Americans fill out hundreds of employment, tax and health forms. Many will be kept on record; others will be forgotten. But one group, American Citizens for Honesty in Government, conducted a demonstration last week in front of Detroit's Federal Building to encourage people to be more aware of what's kept on record about them. Charging that Americans don't know anything about the thousands of secret files kept by government agencies that they have rightful access to, 12 of the ...

Church of Scientology officials said they will attempt to repay any defaulted loans they may have taken out fraudulently by Scientology members in Riverside, an attorney for the organization said Friday. Christopher Ashworth, a Century City attorney, said the church will take a nationwide collection from its members to set up a trust fund to reimburse any lender "who may have been harmed by credit misrepresentation." The offer came a week after Riverside sheriff's deputies raided the church's Riverside mission in ...

Riverside Mission is Searched for Evidence of False Loan Scheme Sheriff's deputies seized 17 boxes of documents from the Riverside mission of the Church of Scientology Wednesday in a search for evidence that possibly as many as 100 past and current members fraudulently obtained bank loans and then gave the money to Scientology. More than two dozen Riverside County sheriff's deputies spent six hours searching through the offices of the mission for tax, payroll and other records on 20 named individuals ...

LONDON (AP)—The Church of Scientology lost a London court battle Friday to prevent two of its members from being extradited to the United States on charges of counseling and procuring burglary of American government offices. But the church immediately announced an appeal to the Divisional Court in London and said that if necessary it would pursue the appeal through the House of Lords and the European Court, which has jurisdiction because of Britain's membership in the European Economic Community. Magistrate William ...

Bonn WEST GERMANY — BONN (AP) - A legal battle is raging between the Scientology Church and the West German army over a draft deferment for a trainee minister of the controversial cult. The deferment was granted to 23-year-old Franz Walter Siedler by a Darmstadt court last December, freeing him from 15 months of military duty while he completes studies in the Scientology Church of Germany, which claims 20,000 members. The deferment was the first ever granted in West Germany to ...

In the beginning there was Xenn, god of the Galactic Federation, a 76-planet union formed some 95 million years ago. The Federation, whose planets averaged 178 billion inhabitants each, had something of a population problem. Xenn solved it by "implanting" the excess to Teegeeack (earth) and dumping them into volcanos. These beings were somehow fused into humans when hydrogen bombs were dropped on the volcanos. After the radioactive dust cleared, the new humans were confused by being shown religious pictures of ...

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.

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. ...