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Aug 14, 1978
Up Front: Federal prosecutors unveil the astonishing intrigues of the Scientology church — People magazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cheryl McCall Source:
People magazine Since its founding by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, Scientology has been among the growth stocks on the self-help market: a quasireligious, quasiscientific cult that has attracted three million U.S. followers (some highly touted celebrities among them) and estimated annual revenues in the hundreds of millions, much of it tax-exempt. Until recently Scientology's only certifiable vice was eccentricity, but within a week a federal grand jury in Washington is expected to hand down a bulging sheaf ...
May 17, 1978
Church kept 'enemies list' // Raid on Scientologists netted CIA documents — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Picton Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Washington DC — Secret documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were discovered when offices of the Church of Scientology in the United States were raided by federal agents last year, according to reports published here yesterday. The reports said that apparently original Internal Revenue Service documents were found during the raids, as well as confidential letters between members of the U.S. Cabinet. Also, it was discovered the church kept an enemies list, which included files on Senator
Edward Kennedy , ...
May 16, 1978
Scientologists kept files on 'enemies' — Washington PostMore: xenutv.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Shaffer Source:
Washington Post The Church of Scientology, in its efforts to investigate and attack its "enemies," kept files on five Washington federal judges, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, other congressmen, Jacqueline Onassis, the Better Business Bureau and the American Medical Association, according to Scientology documents in the possession of federal investigators. The Scientologists' files, summarized in a 525-page inventory filed in court by the federal government, were in many cases marked "Eyes Only," "Top Secret," "Enemy Names" and "Battle Plans." Their contents were coded with ...
Sep 1, 1977
Reforming the world in Scientology's image // Hubbard's Electrometer: Tin can technology — Valley NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Alexander Source:
Valley News The Church of Scientology attempts to reform individuals through its counseling and teaching techniques. It also has a large operation dedicated to reforming society. This comes under the heading of traditional religious activism, Scientologists say, but various government agencies say it goes far beyond. In this, the fourth and final segment of a series on Scientology , the Valley News explores the legal and political entanglements of the church. By BRIAN ALEXANDER The "applied religious philosophy" of Scientology has political as ...
Mar 1, 1976
Phenomena, comment and notes — SmithsonianMore: link
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Smithsonian [...] Meanwhile, one finds in the same issue of Medical World News that doctors are seeking clues to the identity of another affliction. It seems that someone is sufficiently disgruntled with the policies of the American Medical Association to be swiping its documents and leaking them to the press and to federal investigators. AMA staffers say they know who it is but cannot prove it. They also say the informant is no doubt connected with the Church of Scientology, which the ...
Jan 29, 1976
Church's history marked with legal battles — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 11, 1975
Church of Scientology sues AMA for $1.6 million — St. Paul DispatchMore: link
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St. Paul Dispatch The American Medical Association (AMA) is among several defendants in a $1.6 million libel suit filed Friday by the Church of Scientology of Minnesota. Other defendants in the suit filed in Ramsey District Court include the Minnesota State Medical Association Foundation (MSMAF), several foundation officers and Ralph Lee Smith, a writer for the AMA's "Today's Health" magazine. The church contends the AMA secretly hired Smith to do articles attacking various groups considered by the AMA hierarchy to be a threat to ...
Mar 6, 1974
Hard sell to build the faith [fourth of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Growth and expansion come close to being an obsession of the Church of Scientology. From street pamphleting to sophisticated media exposure of such Scientology converts as professional football player John Brodie and singer Amanda Ambrose, Scientologists solicit new recruits in a promotional whirlwind more often associated with used car salesmanship than with religion. Local Scientology centers promote services and plan their expansion with the help of high-level directives outlining a variety of methods to bring in "the raw public by the ...
May 18, 1973
Church committee issues report denouncing the AMA — Labor Tribune (Illinois)More: link
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Labor Tribune (Illinois) The Church of Scientology Committee on Public Health and Safety recently issued a report denouncing the American Medical Association. The report exposes the AMA as a money motivated, monopoly seeking group representing the interests of physicians, with little or no concern for the welfare of the American People. The report holds the AMA responsible for a number of faults which have led to the "Health Crisis" in America as has been reported by President Richard Nixon and Senator Edward Kennedy. The ...
May 6, 1973
Scientologists making impact on West Side // Church largest and fastest growing of its kind in the area — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Author(s):
John H. Hall Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Despite a 10-year running battle with the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Assn., Scientology appears to have finally arrived on the West Side. Aided by a 1971 federal district court decision, the Church of Scientology is not only a recognized religious science but the largest and fastest-growing pandenominational church in this area. And the greatest concentration of its members may well be here. There are 75,000 Scientologists in Los Angeles, according to the Rev. Glenn A. Malkin, executive ...
Jun 10, 1972
Church panel to probe health care — Portland Press HeraldMore: link
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Portland Press Herald BOSTON (UPI) — The Church of Scientology has announced the formation of "The Church of Scientology's Committee on Public Health and Safety." They are investigating the charge that the American Medical Association is a political monopoly responsible for rising costs and declining quality of health care. Jeff Freidman recently appointed President of the committee stated, "This committee on public health and safety will be a stepping stone for reform in society. Too long has the publics' health been toyed with. We ...
May 22, 1972
Scientology fights back — The NationMore: link
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Clay Steinman Source:
The Nation Mr. Steinman is a free-lance writer living in New York. Like all true believers, the members of the young Church of Scientology (or Dianetics as it is sometimes known) believe they have found the answers. A visit to their New York headquarters in the Hotel Martinique shows that Scientology has at least put smiles on a few faces and seems to have solved many of the existential problems of the members who work and study there. According to the recent U. ...
Apr 1, 1972
Author here sues Scientologists — New York Times
Dec 1, 1971
Suit-happy scientologists [exact date unknown] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , transcript from another publication
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Author(s):
Lester Kinsolving Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Churches have been generally reluctant to engage in the expense and acrimony of lawsuits ever since St. Paul counseled the Corinthian church to avoid property litigation between members before pagan magistrates. (1 Cor. 6: 1-9) But an organization called "the church of Scientology" appears to have taken just the opposite course, in what seems to be a means of acquiring extensive publicity and at the same time frightening anyone inclined to expose their operations. Scientology, which focuses upon intimate interviews using ...
Nov 20, 1971
Scientific religion struggles... grows — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Jun 2, 1971
Scientology ministers visit FDA over case — The News American (Maryland)More: link
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The News American (Maryland) The head of the Baltimore office of the federal Food and Drug Administration has been visited by a group of ministers and parishioners from the Church of Scientology in connection with a U. S. District Court case being pressed by the FDA against the religious body. The eight-year-old case, which is slated to go to court Monday, June 7, in Washington, stems from a raid on a Scientology church In the nation's capital in January, 1963, by a group of FDA-deputized ...
Jan 18, 1971
Medicine's week — American Medical
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 16 Scientology Versus Medicine — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 3: Enter Dianetics — Delacorte Press
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National EnquirerMore: link
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Author(s):
Ralph Lee Smith Source:
National Enquirer How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Aug 12, 1969
Church of Scientology said 'Menace to Mental Health' — Evening Independent (Florida)More: news.google.com
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Author(s):
Walter C. Alvarez Source:
Evening Independent (Florida) In that fine journal published by the American Medical Association, "Today's Health," for December, 1968, there is a
splendid article by Ralph Lee Smith on Scientology , which he calls a "menace to mental health." "Couched in [pseudoscientific] terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons — for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health." Anyone who wants to learn something about ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' MagazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Arlene Eisenberg ,
Howard Eisenberg Source:
Parents' Magazine When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
Dec 19, 1968
"Murder cult" — Detroit Michigan Chronicle
Dec 1, 1968
SCIENTOLOGY – Menace to Mental health — Today's HealthMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ralph Lee Smith Source:
Today's Health Couched in pseudoscientific terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons—for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health. [Picture / Caption: L. Ronald Hubbard, Scientology's founder.] [Picture / Caption: Bust of Hubbard flanks "altar" in Scientology "church" near London. Among his accomplishments, Hubbard claims to have been dead and recovered, to have visited Venus and heaven. ] LAST SUMMER in New York City, ...
Sep 30, 1968
Scientologists lose tax-exempt status — AMA NewsMore: link
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AMA News The Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D.C. (The AMA News , Sept. 2, 1968 ) has lost its tax-exempt status because a federal court says its activities were too commercial. Donald E. Lane, trial commissioner of the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, ruled that the church received substantial income from its "processing and auditing" services, and that the value of these services was over and above the organization's religious and spiritual aspects. Government officials have indicated the decision would signal ...
Nov 16, 1955
Minister's trial reset here — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
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Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Trial of Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, yesterday was reset for Jan. 3 by Superior Judge Fred J. Hyder. Clark, who resides at 1811 N. First Ave., was scheduled to go on trial yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Harry A. Stewart Jr., attorney for Clark, advised Judge Hyder he had been ill several weeks and had been unable to properly prepare his client's defense. Charles C. Stidham, chief deputy criminal ...
Sep 21, 1955
Clark trial set Nov. 16 — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)More: link
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Republic (Phoenix, AZ) Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, will go on trial Nov. 16 in superior court on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Clark, 1811 N. First Ave., appeared yesterday before Superior Judge Fred L. Hyder and pleaded innocent to the charge. He was arrested early this month after a police woman and a secretary in the office of County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr., charged they paid him $55 for treatment of non-existent ailments. ...
Sep 21, 1955
Medicine case plea is filed More: link
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Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First. Ave., a minister in the Church of American Science, pleaded innocent today to charges of practicing medicine without a license. SUPERIOR COURT Judge Fred J. Hyder set trial for Nov. 16. Harry Stewart, attorney for Clark, was granted 20 days to file motions challenging the information. He indicated he will challenge the case as an invasion of the province of religion, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Stewart said Clark is a minister ...
Aug 1, 1951
Boiled Engrams — American Mercury
Type: Press
Author(s):
Willard Beecher ,
Calder Willingham Source:
American Mercury In May of last year, from the modest little town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, came a voice that promised complete salvation for mankind on this earth. That in itself is nothing new, but this particular voice was a powerful roar, worth at least a footnote in any account of our troubled age. It was the voice of a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. Until this moment, Hubbard had been known as a writer of science fiction fantasies. But ...
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