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16 witnesses unlock sect's closed society — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Prescott Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The 16 witnesses who testified in Clearwater's public hearings on Church of Scientology activities provided the first-hand information city officials will use if they decide to design ordinances to regulate the sect. Boston attorney Michael Flynn, who gathered the witnesses, said he questioned them extensively about their Scientology experiences and people they knew in the sect. He confirmed that information through other witnesses and contacts inside the church, he said. If they had not been in the sect, Flynn said, "I'd ...
May 11, 1982
Scientologists decline to call witnesses, say hearings are a 'circus' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
May 11, 1982
Scientology starts publicity campaign — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Girardi Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The Church of Scientology has embarked on a citywide publicity campaign in the wake of five days of public hearings on the sect by the Clearwater City Commission, a church minister said Monday. At a 10:30 a.m. press conference, Scientology spokesman the Rev. Hugh Wilhere announced the beginning of an "open house" publicity campaign. Less than an hour earlier church attorney Paul B. Johnson of Tampa had told the Commission he would not use the four days set aside for church ...
May 9, 1982
Ex-Scientologists describe illegal activities — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Harwood Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Why, Robert Dardano was asked, had he done it — why had he participated with other Scientologists in burglaries and theft of documents and smear campaigns against the church's perceived enemies? Because he was convinced, the slender, soft-spoken Dardano told Clearwater city commissioners, "that Scientology was going to save the planet and free the world. "That we were right and everyone else was wrong," Dardano, a 31-year-old Boston resident, was one of eight witnesses to testify Saturday during commission ...
May 8, 1982
City of Clearwater 1982 Hearings - Church of Scientology: Janie Peterson
May 8, 1982
City of Clearwater 1982 Hearings - Church of Scientology: LaVenda Van Schaick
May 7, 1982
Ex-member cites abuse by church — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Ward Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — Lori Taverna was a young, impressionable mother of two children when a friend took her to a free lecture given by the Church of Scientology in June 1965. "It sounded very good," she testified Thursday. "It sounded like it was something I was looking for. "I thought it was great," she said. "I was joining a group that would handle drugs crime and war. And, my children would be growing up in this." Part of Taverna's education by the ...
May 7, 1982
Ex-Scientologists detail grim lifestyle — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Harwood Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Life at the Church of Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel was so miserable, Lori Taverna remembered Thursday, that "I felt that I was in . . . an insane asylum." Casey Kelly recalled being distressed by the hard work and low pay. "Here I was, working 70 to 80 hours a week, and I was making $20," Kelly said. "This did not jive." Eventually both Kelly, 23, and Ms. Taverna, 39, quit Scientology. Thursday they testified before Clearwater city commissioners ...
May 7, 1982
Fort Harrison: 'horror house' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Prescott Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) A 17-year veteran of the Church of Scientology told Clearwater city commissioners Thursday she lived through "horror" while staying at the former Fort Harrison Hotel three years ago. Lori Taverna, who said she broke with the sect two months ago, was asked by Mayor Charles LeCher to describe a "normal day" while she worked as a Scientology trainer. "Most of it was horror, so I don't know," said Mrs. Taverna, 39. But in about three hours of testimony during the second ...
Feb 1, 1982
In unprecedented action: Scientologists list reasons for break [exact date, newspaper unknown]
Jun 4, 1981
Scientologists get okay on programs — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
May 26, 1981
Scientologists to open parochial school — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Citing "social problems" in the public schools, the Church of Scientology has decided to open its own parochial school for children of its staff members. Church spokesman Milt Wolfe said Monday the school will open by this fall in the former Quality Inn in the 2000 block of U.S. 19S, just north of Tri-City Plaza at U.S. 19 and E Bay Drive. The church bought the former motel in 1979 and uses it for staff quarters. The school will ...
Jul 19, 1980
Former Scientologist opposes moving trial to California — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jun 18, 1980
Group linked with Scientology cult denied school lease — Cupertino Courier
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Myslinski Source:
Cupertino Courier An education group organizing in the Cupertino School District area may have tried to play down its affiliation with a controversial religious cult, the Church of Scientology. The non-profit Applied Scholastics Inc. (ASI) has also held unauthorized training courses for three district teachers at the district's Hoover School after a request to have the district sponsor ASI programs was turned down by Associate Superintendent for Instruction William Zachmeier. "We're not a front for Scientology," stressed ASI Executive Director Lisa Patella. "Our ...
Apr 3, 1980
Former member details life aboard Scientology ship — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Apr 2, 1980
Ex-Scientologists recall their 'disconnection' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Mar 7, 1980
Affidavit of Silvana Garritano More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF SILVANA GARRITANO I was introduced to Scientology in October, 1977, when I went to the New York Church to take a "Communications Course". The "registrar" (a euphemism for salesman) was Jerry Indursky. He told me that my problem was a lack of assertiveness, that I did not speak up for myself. Indursky promised me Scientology would remedy that problem and I would emerge from the Communications Course a happier, more successful person because I could stand up for myself. ...
Tag(s):
Auditing •
Bart Dobin •
Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) •
Blackmail •
Children, youth •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Communications Course •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
Estates Project Force (EPF) •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Gradation chart •
Hacienda Serena @ 49875 Avenida Obregon La Quinta CA United States •
Hard sell •
Income •
Inurement •
Jerry Indursky •
Max Goodman •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Recruitment •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Religious cloaking •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silvana Garritano •
Slave labor •
Statistics (Stats) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) Jan 25, 1980
Affidavit of Tonja Burden
May 31, 1974
Ex-Scientologist charges rip-off — Calgary Herald (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barry Nelson Source:
Calgary Herald (Canada) The former head of the Church of Scientology in Calgary said Thursday she has been used by the organization to talk Calgarians out of more than $200,000 — perhaps as much as $350,000. Rev. Lorna Levitt, who resigned from the church April 19, said: "I was being used by the organization to exploit people by promising then in tangibles that I had been indoctrinated into believing Scientology could and would deliver for a price." The price currently varies from $50 per ...
Jun 12, 1973
Scientology church aids erring youth — CrusaderMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Crusader John Smith, age 14, was declared incorrigable by social workers at the Clayton Juvenile Court and Detention Center. He had run away from home for the "8th time" when he was given four days temporary custody with his aunt on May 25, '73. At the end of that four days a warrant was to be issued for his arrest. "I felt I didn't belong to myself. I wanted out, to live my own life, and was on my way to Chicago ...
Dec 23, 1971
Scientology report / QC criticizes ban on entry of foreign members but urges legislation on psychotherapy — The Times (UK)
Nov 20, 1971
Scientific religion struggles... grows — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 07 The Sea Org — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 08 The British and Australian Orgs — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 10 The Suppressives — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 12 The World of Scientology — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 13 Children and Celebrities — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 15 Is Scientology Political? — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Epilogue — Delacorte Press
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" ...
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