[There was an article in the Daily Record, page 3, titled "Inside the Scots H.Q.", referred in the scan above]

A MAN who came to Scotland to study scientology fell 50 feet to his death yesterday from the rear bedroom of a hotel. James Stewart, aged about 35, travelled to Edinburgh from South Africa with his wife to study at the new Scottish Scientology Headquarters, the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence. Refused This is the cult founded in 1951 by Lafayette Ron Hubbard, a cult which, it is claimed, helps its followers to resolve their problems. Mr. Stewart and his wife—also ...

SCIENTOLOGY chiefs are staging an all-out drive to get new British recruits—despite Government action to curb the "harmful" cult. So far the chief effect of the Government clampdown is to restrict foreign students going to the "mind-training" cult's world HQ at St. Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex. Under existing law no action can be taken to ban British Scientologists, although Health minister Kenneth Robinson has promised to "consider other measures should they prove necessary." This is small comfort to the residents ...

LAST night I visited the Hubbard College of Personal Independence in South Bridge, Edinburgh. It's the Scottish headquarters of Scientology—the organisation Health Minister Kenneth Robinson claimed is "socially harmful." He also said the Government has found it "So objectionable that it would be right to take all steps within their power to curb its growth." The first thing I was told by Madeline Litchfield (21) was: "Scots are particularly suited to Scientology. "Their desire for personal independence is what Scientology is ...

MR. JAMES CALLAGHAN, the Home Secretary, is urgently considering whether to ban from Britain Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, American leader of the controversial scientology cult. This would be a sharp follow-up to the curbs, announced in the Commons on Thursday, on foreigners who belong to the cult entering or remaining in Britain either as staff or students. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health, told M.P.s: "The Government are satisfied, having reviewed all the available evidence, that scientology is socially harmful. "It ...

"SCIENTOLOGY is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially; and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill. "It's founder is Lafayette Ron Hubbard, an American . . . who falsely claims academic and other distinctions, and whose sanity is to be gravely doubted." While the British authorities hummed and hawed, an official inquiry in Victoria, Australia, in 1965 condemned Hubbard and his organisation in these unmistakable terms. Intimate It branded Hubbard ...

Shocked Scottish leaders of an organisation branded by the Government as "an objectionable" cult yesterday hit back. Officials of the Hubbard College of Personal Independence in Edinburgh, which promotes the cult of scientology, described the Government's criticism as "insane." The attack came from Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health. He said: "Scientology is a pseudo-philosophical cult introduced into this country some years ago from the United States. The Government are satisfied, having reviewed all the available evidence, that scientology is socially ...

The main Edinburgh practitioner, it seems, is a Mr Ernest Saren, and at the appointments he produces a personality "graph" showing the questionnaire results on ten "personality dimensions" such as happy-depressed and capable-inhibited. The final column on the capacity analysis chart gives an I.Q. figure. Saren's qualifications for discussing people's problems on the basis of this questionnaire, according to a H.A.P.I. spokesman, are scientology qualifications only. One of those tested in the H.A.P.I. building this week, a 19-year-old apprentice who had ...

The interest of last night's recital by the Cairo-born pianist, Mario Feninger — sponsored by the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence at the Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh—centred principally on the presence of some rare pieces by Busoni, and secondarily on the effect which, the pianist claims, the practice of "Scientology" has had on his keyboard technique. Without having heard any other scientology-inspired pianists, and thus having no standards other than the normal ones by which to measure him, one can only report ...

The Government, in the Commons yesterday, announced plans to curb the growth of what Mr Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, called the "objectionable " growth of Scientology. In a written answer to Mr Geoffrey Johnson Smith (C., East Grinstead), Mr Robinson said: "During the past two years the Government have become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United Kingdom. Scientology is a pseudo-philosophical cult introduced into this country some years ago from the United States and has ...

The Minister of Health, who announced the Government's plans to clamp down on the cult of scientology yesterday, must consider himself in imminent danger of a "noisy investigation". "Noisy investigations" were recommended to scientologists by their guide and mentor, Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, a Nebraskan, two years ago as one way to deal with the cuIt's growing number of critics. "You find out where he or she works or worked—doctor, dentist, friends, neighbours, anyone—and phone 'em up and say: 'I am ...

The piano recital given in the Freemasons' Hall last night was notable for much more than that it was in aid of the Edinburgh Society of Musicians. It brought to the most enthusiastic notice of a very sizeable audience Mario Feniger, whose diverse musical gifts and intelligence enabled him to dispense a Bach transcription, Scarlatti Sonatas, generous helpings of Chopin, Teresa de Bogatis and Liszt, as well as two pieces of his own, with ease and brilliance. It is hard to ...

The Government yesterday announced steps to curb the growth of scientology, the cult which has its world headquarters in 30 acres of Sussex countryside near East Grinstead. Mr. Robinson, Minister of Health, said in a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Conservative M.P. for East Grinstead, yesterday that the Government had been increasingly concerned at its spread in this country during the past two years. He announced six steps to stop foreign students, teachers and administrative staff coming to study ...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH Scientology Mr. G. John Smith asked the Minister of Health, in view of the representations he has received concerning the potentially harmful activities of scientologists in this country, what action he proposes to take; and if he will make a statement. Mr. K. Robinson: During the past two years, Her Majesty's government have become increasingly concerned at the spread of scientology in the United Kingdom. Scientology is a pseudo-philosophical cult introduced into this country some years ago from ...

THE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE PLANNING APPEAL BY SClENTOLOGISTS CONCLUDED AT EAST GRINSTEAD ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AFTER LASTING THREE-AND-A-HALF DAYS — THE LONGEST INQUIRY EVER TO BE HELD IN THE TOWN. The appeal by the Church of Scientology, California, was into the refusal by East Grinstead Urban Council to allow development extending to 23,500 square feet at the Scientology headquarters at Saint Hill Manor on the outskirts of the town. The Urban Council had booked East Grinstead Parish Hall for the ...

WHEN we want the Scientologists to run East Grinstead we will let them know . . . They seem blissfully Ignorant of the fact that the residents of the town are growing a little tired of their antics such at issuing a list of places which they have decided to put out of bounds to their members. They include cafes, shops, public houses, and even a professional man, a solicitor, is named. Just who do the Scientologists think they are to ...

Moored at South bridge, Edinburgh, everything aboard the "ship" was Bristol fashion yesterday. Communications, and people, flowed quickly and smoothly. The "vessel" is actually a converted hostel—Suttie's Hotel, 20 South Bridge—bought from the Y.M.C.A. In May, after redecoration and recarpeting by scientologists themselves, it became the Hubbard College for Personal Independence and the world centre for administration of, and instruction in, scientology's advanced courses. As befits the Sea Organisation, as the Advanced Organisation is known, the college has the air of ...

[...] It is said he shot himself accidentally while cleaning his revolver [...] but an open verdict was returned by the coroner. [...]

TWO long-haired Swedish youths who for the past month had been studying at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, the headquarters of the Scientology Foundation, appeared before a special East Grinstead Court on Wednesday last week. Mats Bengtson (18) and Yngue Mokvist (22), both of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully in the U.K. contrary to the Aliens Order of 1953. They were granted an absolute discharge and bound over in the sum of £5 each, on their own recognisance, ...

TWENTY-TWO businesses have been put 'Out of Bounds' to Scientologists by their Saint Hill headquarters at East Grinstead. A letter to the members headed 'Executive Directive,' lists the businesses as 'out of bounds,' and says: 'The shops have indicated that they do not wish Scientology to expand in East Grinstead, and we are, therefore, relieving them of the painful experience of taking our money.' The Press officer at Saint Hill, Mr. H. Dunston, said that the list had come about following ...

Health Minister MacKinnon said yesterday that talks at the conference of Federal and State health ministers in Darwin had confirmed his belief that W.A. was becoming the stronghold for the scientology cult in Australia. He would discuss the problem with Police Minister Craig and Justice Minister Griffith because legal aspects did not come under his portfolio. He was concerned only with the mental health aspect of the cult. Mr MacKinnon, who had arrived from Darwin said scientology had been discussed at ...

["Here's an amazing clip from the late 1960's addressing the growing concern around scientology."]

Hearing how Scientologists "audited" members who knew or mentioned people "disconnected" from the organisation, chairman of East Grinstead magistrates, Mr Antony Evans said: "It sounds like brainwashing to me." And the defendant and a witness in the case being heard by the court on Tuesday asked for their addresses to be kept secret to avoid persecution by members of the organisation. After a five-hour hearing the magistrates dismissed a case brought against former Scientologist Mr Maurice Johnson of South Shields, by ...

A former Scientologist who left the movement 'in disgust,' described it at East Grinstead court on Monday as an 'evil cult.' Maurice William Johnson of South Shields County Durham, told the court that since he resigned from the movement in June 1966, he had been persecuted by the Scientology organization and had received over 100 letters of abuse from Scientologists. A man who wrote one of the letters to Mr. Johnson while he was a member of the Scientology movement himself ...