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Mar 21, 2007
'Master craftsman of big story' dies — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Basse Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) ST. PETERSBURG - Charles L. Stafford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the St. Petersburg Times and its national correspondent for two decades, died at 83. Mr. Stafford died of leukemia on Monday (March 19, 2007) at his home in Springfield, Va., according to a son, Michael. The 1980 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting was awarded to him and fellow reporter Bette Orsini for their investigation of the Church of Scientology. Tensions were especially high when Mr. Stafford and Orsini published their ...
Jun 28, 1980
U.S. says Scientologists are still lying, cheating — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — The government said Friday that agents of the Church of Scientology are still up to their old tricks of lying and cheating. The accusation was the latest round fired in the case of United States vs. Jane Kember and Morris Budlong. The two church leaders are scheduled for trial July 7 on charges involving theft of government documents. Kember and Budlong were indicted with nine other Scientologists in 1978. The nine, including Mary Louise Hubbard, wife of Scientology founder ...
Jan 9, 1980
'Priority' critics of church faced special handling — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Book spells out rationale for church's 'spy system' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Church entered Clearwater on path of deceit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Church infiltrated the Clearwater Sun — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Church moves to defend itself against 'attackers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Church played dirty tricks on Cazares — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Church tried to infiltrate Pinellas police agencies — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Court tangle gave Scientology its first 'martyrs' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Dispute over tax status goes to court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , antisectes.net
Jan 9, 1980
Individual life force is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Operation Bunny Bust — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Scientologists' downfall began with phony IDs — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Scientology brings 4 years of discord — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Shedding light on Scientology's dark side — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
St. Petersburg Times topped 'enemies' list — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 31, 1979
Church vs. press — Newsweek
Dec 17, 1979
Part II: Scientology defined / Individual life is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1979
Scientologists sought sex smear of Cazares, their documents show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Cartoon prompted 'Op Funny Bone' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Frame reporter — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Scientology files: Scientologists planned to discredit police, lie to U.S. agency — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 22, 1979
Court rules Scientology documents can be released — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 10, 1979
Scientologists got secret files of Times, lawyers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Secret letters and memos from the personal files of St. Petersburg Times editors and its attorneys were obtained and analyzed by members of the Church of Scientology shortly after the church moved to Clearwater four years ago. The letters and memos were used by the church in calculating its response to news media reports revealing its purchase through a front organization of the Fort Harrison Hotel. How the Church of Scientology or its agents got access to the locked filing cabinets ...
Nov 9, 1979
Government attorneys argue for release of Scientology documents — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — Government attorneys said Thursday that Church of Scientology documents cannot he kept sealed because, among other reasons, a federal grand jury in Tampa needs them. Carl S. Rauh, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and four of his assistants asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District to reject the church's request that the documents be kept secret. The documents were among 48,000 seized in raids on church headquarters in Los Angeles on July 8, 1977. They ...
Nov 8, 1979
Scientology's survival plan is revealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 7, 1979
Lid is clamped on release of more Scientology material — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — There was a temporary lid imposed Tuesday on further public release of documents seized by the government from the Church of Scientology for the prosecution of nine church leaders. The lid could become permanent. Among those documents made public have been some that revealed a church plan to maneuver government officials and news media to "take control" of Clearwater, as well as programs to discredit public officials and private individuals in Pinellas County whom church officials regarded as enemies ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists' targets in Pinellas listed in files — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — Six boxes of documents make it clear: People in Pinellas County — a newspaper editor, a reporter, a mayor, a state attorney — were targets three years ago of the "fair game" policy of members of the Church of Scientology. The documents were among thousands seized by the FBI in 1977 raids on church headquarters in Washington and Los Angeles. They were the basis for indictments against nine church leaders on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and ...
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