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Jun 1, 1991
Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression — Psychiatric TimesMore: link , lermanet.com
Type: Press
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Psychiatric Times A personal aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for eight of her nearly 20 years with the group says that
fluoxetine (Prozac) and therapy have finally stopped the depression and suicidal ideation she had suffered since 1976. "I have to speak out."
Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield told
The Psychiatric Times . "The Scientologists choose the most prominent psychiatrists and the most successful drugs to attack. That's why they attacked
Ritalin , and that's why they are now attacking Prozac." Although ...
May 6, 1991
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Behar Source:
TIME Magazine By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in ...
Apr 19, 1991
Medical flap // Anti-depression drug of Eli Lilly loses sales after attack by sect — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas M. Burton Source:
Wall Street Journal Scientologists Claim Prozac Induces Murder or Suicide, Though Evidence Is Scant Campaign Dismays Doctors INDIANAPOLIS—L. Ron Hubbard, the late founder of the Church of Scientology, long harbored a profound and obsessive hatred for psychiatrists, who, he declared, were "chosen as a vehicle to undermine and destroy the West!" Five years after Mr. Hubbard's death, Scientologists are still waging war on psychiatry. The quasi-religious/ business/ paramilitary organization's latest target is Prozac, the nation's top-selling medicine for severe depression. The group is calling ...
Dec 12, 1990
'Management seminar' horrowing experience — Cherokee County Herald (Alabama)More: news.google.com , news.google.com , link
Oct 14, 1990
School drops assembly because of group's Scientology link — Los Angeles Times (California)More: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sam Enriquez Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The principal of a Sherman Oaks elementary school has canceled an assembly by an environmental group because of fears that parents would object to the organization's connection with the Church of Scientology. The Sherman Oaks School's 927 students were scheduled to watch skits and hear songs Monday performed by Cry Out, an environmental group affiliated with Scientology. The event, which was to include an appearance by child actor Vonni Ribisi, was to kick off a yearlong study of environmental issues such ...
May 20, 1990
Scientology church feud with anti-cultists heats up — Chicago Sun TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Daniel J. Lehmann Source:
Chicago Sun Times A festering dispute between a nontraditional religion and an anti-cult group has escalated to the point where each camp is accusing the other of using Nazilike tactics. Chances of a truce between the Church of Scientology and the Cult Awareness Network appear slim. Each denies the other's allegations of employing techniques that fleece victims of money and inflict psychological damage. The two have been at odds for at least a decade. The faceoff heated up in a recent solicitation letter from ...
Apr 15, 1990
Hubbard hot-author status called illusion — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike McIntyre Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune In 1981, St. Martin's Press was offered a sure thing. L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp writer turned religious leader, had written his first science-fiction novel in more than 30 years. If St. Martin's published it, Hubbard aides promised the firm, subsidiary organizations of Hubbard's Church of Scientology would buy at least 15,000 copies. "Battlefield Earth," priced at $24.95, was released the next year in hardcover, rare for a science-fiction title. Despite mixed reviews, the book quickly sold 120,000 copies — enough ...
Jan 21, 1990
A tale of capture and brainwashing / Medina clan tells how cult ruled lives — Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio)More: link
Aug 10, 1989
Ex-Member defies gag order, speaks out against Scientology — Associated PressMore: link
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Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A former member of the Church of Scientology is defying church lawyers and a federal judge by publicly alleging that the church held her captive and committed fraud by promising to cure her mental illness. Margery Wakefield, 41, is prohibited under a 1986 federal court settlement from speaking out against the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. But she says she is ignoring the gag order so she can expose church practices and warn potential ...
Aug 2, 1989
Ex-Scientologist risks jail to speak against church — Orlando SentinelMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Claire Dezern Source:
Orlando Sentinel TAMPA — You shouldn't be reading this story. The tale of Margery Wakefield vs. the Church of Scientology is supposed to be a secret. Church officials say so. So does a federal judge. In fact, Wakefield could go to jail for talking about the 12 years she spent as a member of the cult, which has its spiritual headquarters in Clearwater. Wakefield, 41, is talking anyway, braving the threats of Scientology lawyers and testing the patience of a U.S. district judge. ...
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Cost •
Craig Dezern •
Cult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation) •
Cynthia Kisser •
False imprisonment •
Ford Greene •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Hypnosis •
Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawsuit •
Margery Wakefield •
Medical claims •
Mental illness •
Moonies •
Orlando Sentinel •
Paul B. Johnson •
Release contract, form, waiver •
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Silencing criticism, censorship •
Supernatural abilities (aka OT powers) •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) Nov 22, 1988
Top Scientologist arrested in Spain — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 17, 1988
The cult wars // Ten years after Jonestown, the battle intensifies over the influence of 'alternative' religions — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Sipchen Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Eldridge Broussard Jr.'s face screwed into a grimace of such anger and pain that the unflappable Oprah Winfrey seemed unnerved. It hurts to be branded "the new Jimmy Jones" by a society eager to condemn what it doesn't understand, the founder of the Ecclesia Athletic Assn. lamented on TV just a few days after his 8-year-old daughter had been beaten to death, apparently by Ecclesia members. At issue were complex questions of whether the group he had formed to instill discipline ...
Jan 23, 1988
1950's Dianetics still fuels controversy — Post-Tribune (Indiana)
Aug 22, 1987
Cults are now taking aim at elderly victims — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Diane Salvatore Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Seventy-four-year-old Catherine, recently widowed, joined a religious group at a neighbor's urging in the hope of learning how to prepare her soul for death. Over time, Catherine's daughter Susan noticed that her usually healthy mother was losing weight and was tired and withdrawn. After nine months, Catherine abruptly decided to move to the group's headquarters in a neighboring state. She liquidated all her assets, removed her daughter's name from their joint bank account and withdrew thousands of dollars of her life ...
Jul 30, 1987
Skinheads, skateboards, Scientology prompt calls // Do you avoid downtown? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Henderson Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Another caller wanted to talk about our Sunday story regarding merchants in downtown Clearwater and how they appreciate the business of their Scientology customers. How many local residents, the caller wondered, stay away from the downtown area only because they don't want to be seen with Scientologists and be considered one of them, or at least because they would feel uncomfortable with the many Scientologists scurrying back and forth on downtown sidewalks? The caller believes there are many such people, and ...
Aug 12, 1986
'Expert' turns bad trial into bad verdict — Journal-AmericanMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Arnold Source:
Journal-American Why do I have to spend so much time defending religions I don't belong to? I didn't really want a scrapbook of columns sticking up for persecuted Jews, Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Taoists, Native American Shamanists, Moonies and Scientologists, among others. The question that troubles me most, though, is why do I have to defend them from our own government? The reason, of course, is that I don't want the First Amendment repealed. And a Los Angeles jury did just that July ...
Jul 10, 1986
Hubbard, Cazares in the news — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Cult Awareness Network, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to "alerting the world to the danger of destructive cults," has an interesting item in its latest newsletter about a Montessori school in Illinois using books by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The item, based on an
article in the Chicago Sun-Times , said the school's founder, a Scientologist, fired six of her teachers because they refused to use the books. "I'm the leader, and I call the shots," Janet Bowes is quoted ...
Nov 9, 1984
Cazares criticizes sect on lively 'Donahue' show — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Apr 4, 1984
Speaker to analyze the cult philosophy — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Apr 11, 1983
Ex-chief of Scientology mission quits church — Flint Journal (Michigan)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Betty Brenner Source:
Flint Journal (Michigan) The Rev. Enid Vien, former director of the Church of Scientology's Flint mission, has resigned from the church. Her letter of resignation is strongly critical of the church's operation. Her letter, submitted after nearly 18 years as a Scientologist and a minister since 1967, says in part: "I can no longer support a church that bleeds its parishioners, abuses its staff, uses fear tactics to insure everyone at least pretends to agree and engages upon coercive tactics to sew its missions ...
Jun 16, 1982
Inside Scientology: Cult or religion? — News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dennis Wheeler Source:
News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California) "To try to stop people from listening, the Chaos Merchant has to use words like 'cult,' " says L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the Church of Scientology) of his enemies. "That's a closed group, whereas Scientology is the most open group on Earth to anyone." Cult or religion? Scientology has been called both. A note prefacing most of Hubbard's books defines Scientology as "a religious philosophy containing pastoral counseling procedures intended to assist an individual to gain greater self-confidence and personal ...
Nov 11, 1981
Anti-cult group given approval to hold service — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Oct 2, 1981
Anti-cult group denounced on eve of convention — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
May 30, 1980
Attorney probing complaints against church // Scientology plot to smear official — Los Angeles Times (California)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard West Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The woman would be "very tough," "obviously pregnant" and a "good actress." She would storm into the Sacramento office of the state attorney general, the boss of Deputy Atty. Gen. Lawrence Tapper of Los Angeles. "I told Larry I wouldn't do this but he gave me no choise (sic)," she would shout, following the "Operation Snapper" scenario written for her by someone connected with the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. "I don't care about his career anymore! I mean look ...
May 29, 1980
Scientology bizarre plot to get official — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)More: groups.google.com , link
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Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California) Church of Scientology members planned to discredit a high-level official in the California attorney general's office in Los Angeles with a bizarre undercover operation involving a pregnant woman, a phony nun and a fake bribery kickback, according to documents obtained by the Herald Examiner. The church's records of "Operation Snapper" — part of 100,000 pages of documents seized by the FBI in Los Angeles three years ago — identified the target at Lawrence Tapper, deputy attorney general in charge of the ...
Aug 29, 1976
Viewers' choice: // Closeup on cultism — Detroit NewsMore: link
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Detroit News Though religious cults have existed elsewhere for thousands of years, their ranks have only begun to swell in America in the past few decades. They flourished particularly in the sixties, when celebrity involvement — by the Beatles, among others — helped make cult abbreviations like "TM" (for Transcendental Meditation) commonplace. Unofficial estimates place the number of cults in the United States today at 5,000, with an individual total of two million members. But as that number grew, so did the controversy ...
Loser: Who needs the truth when you've got the L. Ron Hubbard Study Bible and Apologetics Handbook! More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
We were surprised but flattered the other day when a phone call reached our office from L. Ron Hubbard, the secretive and rarely seen founder of Scientology who reportedly died in 1986. He had a problem he felt only we could solve. You see, he said in recent years things had been looking up for the group. The Clinton administration had given the church back its non-profit tax exempt status (which it lost in the 1970s when a group of the ...
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