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Aug 2, 1968
Scientologists issue writs for libel — The Times (UK)
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Source: The Times (UK)
The Church of of California has issued writs claiming damages for libel against four newspapers. The writs also seek injunctions restraining publication of the "said or any similar libels". The newspapers concerned are the News of the World, the Sunday Express, the Sunday Mirror, and the Daily Express. The church, stated in the writs to be a non-profit-making corporation incorporated under the laws of California and with a registered office at Fitzroy Street, W., is suing the publishers — the News ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientology company issues libel writs — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
THE Church of Scientology has issued High Court writs for libel against the publishers of four British newspapers. And it announced yesterday, through London solicitors its intention to lay complaints against the British Government before the European Commission of Human Rights. Suing as a company with registered offices in Fitzroy Street, London, the Church is claiming damages for alleged libel in the Sunday Express, News of the World, and Sunday Mirror last Sunday, and in the Daily Express last Friday. In ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientology founder rebukes Britain as a 'police State' — The Guardian (UK)
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Source: The Guardian (UK)
Mr Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, American founder of the scientology movement, sent a message to the movement's East Grinstead headquarters yesterday saying: "I have finished my work. Now it is up to others." He founded the movement in the early 1950s. The movement, which was called "socially harmful" by the Minister of Health in the House of Commons, has been described by one scientologist as "an applied religious philosophy, designed to increase the individual's ability within his community." View of world The ...
Aug 1, 1968
50 Scientologists told to leave Britain — Daily Telegraph (UK)
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MORE than 50 Scientology students were yesterday ordered to leave Britain by immigration officials after arriving on three flights from America. Many had arrived at Heathrow Airport late on Tuesday night. They were booked into local hotels and guarded by security men until flight departure times yesterday. A Home Office spokesman said last night that all 74 Scientology students who had arrived in Britain on Tuesday had been refused entry. Although most were provided with overnight accommodation, 23 had been sent ...
Aug 1, 1968
As more are barred, Scientologists say: We will beat ban — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Author(s): Tom Brown
Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
THE scientology sect—whose students are barred from entering Britain—is going ahead with plans for an "international conference" in London this month. Yesterday 72 scientology students were turned back at London Airport—52 of them after a night under guard in £4 10s.-a-time rooms at airport hotels at the expense of B.O.A.C.. They booked with the airline as a party from an American oil company. Delegates to the international scientology conference in Croydon from August 16-18 will beat the ban by declaring themselves ...
Aug 1, 1968
Britain curbs activities of cult of Scientologists // Refuses to admit Americans known to be followers of the semireligious group — New York Times
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Author(s): Anthony Lewis
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LONDON, July 31—On successive days this week groups of Americans arriving in Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as scientology. The ban on scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British Government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, said in the House of Commons that he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
British bar Scientology 'students' // 'Socially harmful,' authorities claim — New York Times
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Author(s): Anthony Lewis
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LONDON — On successive days this weeks groups of Americans headed for Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as "Scientology." The Bar on Scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, told the House of Commons he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." He said: "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
Cult plans recruiting drive for Scotland — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)
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Source: Daily Record (Scotland, UK)
STUDENTS of scientology said yesterday that they are to start a major recruiting drive in Scotland. On Monday, a special team of 10 will begin a three-week lecture tour of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Perth. Mr. Roger Barnes, 24, the governor of the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence, in Queen Street, Edinburgh, said yesterday that more than 2000 Scots had passed through in the five weeks since it opened. Flights A spokesman for the cult said that students will continue ...
Aug 1, 1968
Cult's demand for public inquiry — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
Demands for a public inquiry into the conduct of Mr Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health, and the action of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, were made yesterday by the Scientology headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex. The demand came as more cult students, newly arrived from America, were being flown out of Britain after being ordered to leave. The chief spokesman for the Scientologists, Mr David Gaiman, said: "I want a public inquiry or a Royal Commission to investigate the propriety ...
Aug 1, 1968
Entry was easy, say students — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Author(s): Lorna Blackie
Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
SCIENTOLOGY students, newly arrived from overseas, were still enrolling yesterday at the Edinburgh "Advanced Org" headquarters of the cult. Two of the new students at the centre, where only the most advanced members go, described how they had come into Britain yesterday. Mrs. Ruth Porsin (39), from Farmington, Michigan, said it took her less than five minutes to pass through Immigration. "I said that I was here for pleasure and study," said Mrs. Porsin, who plans to stay for five weeks. ...
Aug 1, 1968
Ethics officers in cult 'look after staff' — Evening News (Edinburgh)
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Author(s): Logan Robertson, Nigel Hawkins
Source: Evening News (Edinburgh)
We called at the Thistle Street Lane premises of Scientology last night and interviewed Mrs Judy Ziff, deputy director of Scientology's publications organisation in Edinburgh. The accommodation now occupied there by Scientology comprises former warehouse premises which a have been converted in about five weeks into extensive office accommodation, in which Scientology publications are redistributed to countries in many parts of the world. At 11.30 p.m., when we left, many members of the staff were still at work. We put a ...
Aug 1, 1968
Girl tells 'News' about her job with Scientology // Inspect cult offices, says councillor — Evening News (Edinburgh)
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Author(s): Logan Robertson, Nigel Hawkins
Source: Evening News (Edinburgh)
An Edinburgh Town Councillor has complained to the public health authorities about the offices in Edinburgh of Scientology — the system of religious philosophy of American origin, which claims to increase a person's ability. Mr I. W. Wintour, Chief Sanitary Inspector for Edinburgh Corporation, said today: "We have received this complaint and are investigating." —– Family find it 'disquieting' Today we give the account of a local girl, Kathleen Riley, of her job as an employee of the organisation Scientology. Councillor ...
Aug 1, 1968
Government curb the growth of Scientology // Council call special meeting — East Grinstead Observer
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East Grinstead Urban Council were due to hold a special meeting last night (Wednesday) to discuss the statement made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Health, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, of government plans to curb the growth of Scientology, which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. In a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, East Grinstead's M.P., the Minister said the Government had become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United ...
Aug 1, 1968
Scientology curb 'a worrying precedent' — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
The Government's clamp-down on scientology, announced last week, set a worrying precedent, Mr Tony Smythe, general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, said in Edinburgh last night. "I wonder who is going to be next on the list," Mr Smythe said at a late-night discussion "Injustice '68 Style," arranged by Shelter at the British Conference of Christian Youth. Scientologists had somehow incurred governmental displeasure, and the Minister of Health had announced that administrative measures would be used "to oppress ...
Aug 1, 1968
Scientology jet charter flight off — Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
ANOTHER Scientology jet charter flight to Scotland next month has been cancelled because of the Government's ban on the entry to Britain of followers of the cult. Caledonian Airways had planned to operate the charter. It was to have carried 186 members of the Hubbard Advanced College of Personal Independence from New York to Prestwick at the end of September. Two days ago, 186 scientology students should have arrived at Prestwick aboard a Caledonian jet charter but the flight was cancelled ...
Aug 1, 1968
We are not running away, says scientologist Candy — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)
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BLONDE Candy Chaleff waited for the plane taking her to America yesterday and spoke of her scientology beliefs. The mini-skirted 22-year-old New York secretary was one of the first group of the cult's students to complete an "advanced course" in Edinburgh. She explained that she was the group's Public Relations Officer, and had been working with the organisation for a year before coming to Edinburgh two months ago. Candy laughed at suggestions that the students were leaving because of nation-wide criticism ...
Jul 31, 1968
Family sent back to U.S. — Glasgow Herald (UK)
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Source: Glasgow Herald (UK)
An American family of seven were sent back to the United States yesterday from Heathrow Airport, London, five hours after flying in from New York. They told immigration officials they had come to London to attend a music festival, but their tickets were said to be made out in the same way as those of Scientology students, and had been paid for from the same source. The father, who described himself as a musician and a student, said at the airport ...
Jul 31, 1968
Group 'not worried' by charter plane ban — Evening News (Edinburgh)
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Scientology students can still enter Britain to attend courses, despite turnarounds of charter aircraft bringing members of the cult into the country as ordered by the Government. This was stated in Edinburgh today at the Hubbard College of Advanced Studies in South Bridge by public relations officer Laurel Watson. She said they were not worried about the situation, and explained: "Many of the people who come here are on holiday or business trips by service aircraft. They are ordinary peopue and ...
Jul 31, 1968
Is scientology sick? — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
The cult of scientology won unwelcome publicity for itself last week when the Government banned foreigners coming to this country specifically to study it or to work at its centres. For a belief or pursuit which offers alleged improvements to adherents' personalities and which holds to the maxim, "if it's not written, it's not true," the organisers are remarkably chary of publicity and free with threats of writs for libel. It has recently opened three offices in Edinburgh, one of which ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientologists stopped at airport — East Grinstead Observer
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IMMIGRATION officers at Heathrow Airport stopped six Americans who said they had come to study scientology, and ordered them to be sent home again. The Americans, a woman with two children, two other men and a young woman, were stopped as they were passing through the controls. They told Immigration Officials that they had come to attend a School of Scientology at East Grinstead. Later a Home Office spokesman said the party was refused entry because the six were coming to ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientologists to issue writs // Reports 'unfair' — The Scotsman (UK)
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Source: The Scotsman (UK)
A Scientologists' spokesman said yesterday that they planned to issue writs for alleged libel and appeal to the European Council on Human Rights. Mr David Griman, speaking from the Scientology World Headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex, said the writs would be served to parties who, he claimed, had reported their activities unfairly and with gross inaccuracy. Seven Americans, including five children, who landed at Heathrow Airport, London, yesterday were sent back to New York. They said they were to attend a ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientology riddle as jet leaves Prestwick — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
LARGE party of scientology students is believed to have flown into Scotland from Toronto yesterday. After 146 passengers left the B.O.A.C. flight at Prestwick, dozens of scientology pamphlets and leaflets were found during the last stage of the flight to London. A Home Office official said last night: "No scientology students were refused at Prestwick today, but it is possible they were admitted as visitors." The Home Office does not recognise the cult as a bona fide student group, and any ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientology suspects barred — The Times (UK)
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Source: The Times (UK)
Seven Americans, a husband, his wife and their five children, were sent back to the United States from Heathrow yesterday five hours after arriving from New York. They had told immigration officials that they had come to London to attend a music festival, but their tickets were said to have been made out in the same way as those of scientology students and to have been paid for from the same source. The man, who described himself as a musician and ...
Jul 31, 1968
Yard probes mind cult — Daily Mail (UK)
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Source: Daily Mail (UK)
SCOTLAND YARD detectives are investigating Scientology, the American-devised mind cult. Their report will go to the Home Office. Last week, Health Minister Kenneth Robinson told the Commons that the cult was socially harmful and that foreigners would not be allowed into Britain for Scientology courses. But 20 American Scientologists were let in yesterday — because they said they were on holiday. A family of seven Scientologists on the same plane at Heathrow were sent back because they wanted to stay for ...
Jul 30, 1968
Cult to expand [?] Scotland [Article incomplete] — Evening News (Edinburgh)
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[First part missing] Canada, Australia, and England. "Since we have only just started setting up in Scotland, we have no Scots yet," said "Communicator" Madeleine Litchfield, from Canada. "But there are a number who are on their way." On a local basis, the organisation have started the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence in an old workshop in Queen Street. The workshop was bought from house furnishers W. K. Storie & Son, at a cost of £28,000 but several thousand pounds more ...
Jul 30, 1968
Mind cult's Scots trip is grounded — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Author(s): Lorna Blackie, Bob Smith
Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
A SPECIAL "flight-to-freedom" charter jet bringing 186 Americans to Edinburgh to study scientology, the international cult condemned by the Government, was cancelled yesterday by Caledonian Airways. The airline was told by the Home Office that the passengers would be banned from landing at Prestwick. Even if the airline had rejected the Government's advice, under international regulations they would have had to fly the passengers back to New York. An airline spokesman said yesterday: "Because of what has been said in the ...
Jul 30, 1968
Scientology man banned to family — The Times (UK)
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Source: The Times (UK)
From Our Correspondant East Grinstead, July 29 John McIlvenny, aged 21, a former scientologist, told the magistrates at East Grinstead, Sussex, today, that his fiancee, parents and other relatives could no longer have anything to do with him because he had been declared a "suppressive" by the organization which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor. He was charged with stealing two diamond rings, together worth £650, from another scientologist, Mrs. Helen McKee of Forest Row, Sussex. Mr. McIlvenny, ...
Jul 29, 1968
'Mind cult' family are sent back to U.S. — Daily Mail (UK)
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TWO American Scientology students were held at London Airport for almost five hours yesterday before being refused admission to Britain. Mr Donald Hill and his wife, June, arrived aboard a TWA Boeing jet from Washington with their two children. They were on their way to the Hubbard School of Scientology at East Grinstead, Sussex. Loaded They were met by immigration men and taken to a detention room where they were looked after by a Securicor guard. The family were brought refreshments ...
Jul 29, 1968
A message to the founder (somewhere in the Med.) — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)
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A cable was on its way last night to Lafayette Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology organisation. He is somewhere in the Mediterranean on board Enchanter, one of the three ships that form the nerve-centres of the cult. The message, sent by the group's British H.Q. In Edinburgh, asked if he wanted to answer allegations made against him and the Scientologists by Health Minister Kenneth Robinson in the Commons. The Daily Record had invited Hubbard to defend his cult and explain ...
Jul 29, 1968
Man dies in 50ft. plunge from window — Scottish Daily Express (UK)
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Author(s): Guy Simpson
Source: Scottish Daily Express (UK)
A MAN suspended from "training" with the scientology cult in Edinburgh a few days ago died in a 50ft. plunge yesterday. Jim Stewart (35), a South African, fell from the third floor window of an hotel bedroom in the centre of the city. And last night the news of his death shocked leaders of the cult that was branded last week as "socially harmful" by Health Minister Kenneth Robinson. Mr. Stewart had arrived in Edinburgh with his wife early this month ...
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