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Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 9 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
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Arts and Entertainment Channel Crowd of people outside Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles; picture of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman VO: The high profile role of Scientology’s celebrities– which include America’s most popular actor, Tom Cruise– adds to Scientology’s mystique. footage of Travolta being presented with a “1998 Celebrity with glamour of the year” (?) award from somebody (glass trophy with red and blue hand prints painted on it) JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and on camera): I’m part ...
Dec 10, 1998
Scientology wants city's kids — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Quaint Clarkson, tucked away on the westernmost edge of Mississauga, seems as unlikely a place as any to find L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi-writer-turned-icon and founder of the much-vilified Church of Scientology.
But here, just past the picket fences and over the train tracks where the old post office used to be, the portrait that graces Hubbard's opus Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health – sailor cap, face turned upward, blue sky in the background – hangs in the foyer of ...
Oct 16, 1998
Letters to the Editor // Defamatory attack — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
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Globe and Mail (Canada) In early June, The Globe and Mail distributed an insert published by The Church of Scientology entitled Freedom . This insert contained an article that amounted to a lengthy and defamatory attack on me and my research on new and alternative religions, particularly Scientology itself. As an insert in The Globe and Mail, this Scientology publication and the article about me may have enjoyed a greater degree of credibility than would otherwise have been the case, which prompts my response in these ...
Sep 24, 1998
A classic example of the fair game policy at work More: groups.google.com
Type: Account
Author(s):
Stacy Brooks Young (Gerry Armstrong is my friend now that we are both out of Scientology, and I have already told him this story. I have told him how sorry I am for my part in trying to destroy him when I was still an
OSA staff member. I’ve told several other people this story as well, and they have urged me to share it because it is such a classic illustration of how far
DM and his cronies are willing to ...
Sep 1, 1998
When Scholars Know Sin — Skeptic magazineMore: skeptic.com
Jun 13, 1998
Church of Scientology targets [University of Alberta] professor for criticizing its practices — Edmonton JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Rusnell Source:
Edmonton Journal The Church of Scientology has launched a countrywide personal attack against a University of Alberta professor who has publicly criticized some of their practices. Sociology professor Stephen Kent was the subject of a scathing article in a 16-page Church of Scientology supplement entitled Freedom that was distributed with the Globe and Mail newspaper Friday. In the two-page article, Kent is compared to well-known neo-Nazi hatemongerer Ernst Zundel and is referred to "as the academic point man for the voices of hate ...
Feb 24, 1998
Review & Outlook / The Secrets of the Universe — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Feb 13, 1998
Scientology's Star Roster Enhances Image — New York TimesMore: link
Feb 1, 1998
Scientology in Clearwater: digging in / Scientology in Clearwater — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Tobin Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) She is one of an estimated 3,300 Scientologists who have migrated to Clearwater in the 1990s, the most dramatic period of growth for the church during its 22 years in Clearwater. In addition, the church has said it is "deadly serious" about its plans for the year 2000, which include tripling the size of its Clearwater staff to more than 3,500; launching a local Scientology "university" that would accommodate more than 10,000 students a week; and having "Clearwater known as the ...
Jan 28, 1998
Hardball: When Scientology goes to court, it likes to play rough -- very rough. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 15, 1998
A Hubbard legacy: Scientology's punitive policies — Watchman Expositor
Jan 1, 1998
Purification: Liver damage — I. F. Magazine
Dec 28, 1997
60 Minutes: The Cult Awareness Network — CBS News
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CBS News Transcript: Descriptions of video in italics. VO=Voiceover of Lesley Stahl. LESLEY STAHL (in studio): There was a time if you were worried about your son or daughter being in a cult, you could get help from a small, non-profit organization called the Cult Awareness Network, or CAN, for 20 years the nation’s best-known resource for information and advice about groups it considered dangerous. Among them was Scientology, a church not known for turning the other cheek. But church officials say Scientology ...
Nov 1, 1997
Advance in the eastern frontier — Stern (magazine)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bettine Sengling Source:
Stern (magazine) The business-minded Scientology strategists are conquering Russia with psycho-programs and management courses — and they seek access to politics and the military Oh, what a wonderful day, Marina thinks it's great to write up her sins. Anna has learned that aspirin ruins her brain. And Vladimir, an old man with thick glasses, can explain what ethics is by using building blocks. That's how it is with Scientologists, everybody has a little bit of success every day in the evening at 5:30 ...
Sep 1, 1997
Special look at the Church of Scientology [exact date unknown] — Lotus magazine
Jun 1, 1997
Did Scientology strike back? — The American Lawyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Hansen Source:
The American Lawyer When the end finally came for the old Cult Awareness Network, it happened fast. Cynthia Kisser, CAN's executive director, struggled to stay calm as she sat in federal bankruptcy court in Chicago late last October waiting for the auction to begin. Kisser, who had spent the past nine years leading CAN's efforts to inform the public about dangerous cults, had hoped that she wouldn't have to pay much for her group's assets that day. Nor did she want much, she claims ...
May 31, 1997
CATS out of the bag [May 31, 1997, Vol. 12, No. 9] — World MagazineMore: 64.233.169.104
Type: Press
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World Magazine In the early fall of 1991 Atlanta businessman Ralph Regan participated in a local radio talk show dealing with abuses by the Internal Revenue Service and problems with the federal tax system. Shortly afterward, the 35-year old nurseryman received a call from Victor Krohn, the head of Citizens for an Alternative Tax System (CATS), who asked Mr. Regan to start up an Atlanta area CATS chapter. A few months later Mr. Regan resigned his post after discovering that CATS had been ...
Mar 19, 1997
Scientology denies an account of an impromptu I.R.S. meeting — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times The Church of Scientology has denied that its leader and another official had an unscheduled meeting in October 1991 with Fred T. Goldberg Jr., then the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. A statement released by the church, which was sharply critical of an article on March 9 in The New York Times, said that its leader, David Miscavige, had not had an impromptu meeting with Mr. Goldberg and that all meetings between church representatives and I.R.S. officials had been attended ...
Mar 16, 1997
Who can stand up? — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Frank Rich Source:
New York Times Can anyone stand up to the Church of Scientology? Such was the plaintive question asked by The St. Petersburg Times in an editorial last week, and with good reason. The great American religious saga of the 1990's may be the rise to power of a church that has successfully brought the Internal Revenue Service, the State Department and much of the American press to heel even as it did an end-run around the courts. As Douglas Frantz reported in The New ...
Mar 11, 1997
Intimidating the IRS — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Most taxpayers would not be rewarded if they tried to intimidate the Internal Revenue Service into giving them a break. They also would be kicked out the door if they barged into the office of the head of the IRS and demanded to be seen without an appointment. But most taxpayers are not the Church of Scientology, which succeeded in doing both. The decision by the IRS in 1993 to give the Church of Scientology the tax exemption granted to churches ...
Mar 9, 1997
An ultra-aggressive use of investigators and the courts — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times For years, Scientology has gone to great lengths to defend itself from critics. Often its defense has involved private investigators working for its lawyers. While the use of private investigators is common in the legal profession, some instances involving the church have been unusual. Scientology officials said that the investigators operated within the law and that the tactics were necessary to counter attacks made over the years by Internal Revenue Service agents and the press. "When people stop spreading lies about ...
Mar 9, 1997
Scientology's puzzling journey from tax rebel to tax exempt // Taxes and tactics behind an I.R.S. reversal — New York TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Douglas Frantz Source:
New York Times On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church's recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. For 25 years, I.R.S. agents had branded Scientology a commercial enterprise and refused to give it the tax exemption granted to churches. The refusals had been upheld in every court. But that night the crowd learned of an astonishing turnaround. The I.R.S. had granted tax exemptions to ...
Feb 25, 1997
Scientology's "Holocaust" // Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor? — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Hudson Source:
Salon BERLIN — “Historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." Strong words from Madeleine Albright, who had good reason to apply them. America's new secretary of State was referring to the widely publicized statement by Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood celebrities equating Germany's current treatment of the Church of Scientology with the Holocaust. When she met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week, Albright was committed to bringing up U.S. "concerns" about Germany's treatment of Scientologists. At the same time, she clearly ...
Feb 10, 1997
Does Germany Have Something Against These Guys? — TIME Magazine
Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Jan 28, 1997
Word War Two — Star magazine
Jul 4, 1996
Freedom Flames Out on the 'Net — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com , groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Colman Jones Source:
NOW Magazine Ron Newman, a corporate Web page designer in Cambridge, Massachussetts, turns on his computer one day last month and signs on to the Net to check in on his favourite newsgroup, alt.religion.scientology, a.r.s. for short. But as his computer modem erupts into the now all-too-familiar squeal that marks the arrival online, Newman begins to sense that something's not quite right. Ordinarily, it takes only a few seconds to retrieve the day's new postings on this electronic bulletin board. Today there are ...
Jun 30, 1996
Shadow Boxing // The downside of Internet egalitarianism. — Slate Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Wright Source:
Slate Magazine The good news for Sky Dayton, 24-year-old chairman of one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, is that the Internet is a place where a smart young man can become a tycoon overnight. The bad news for Sky Dayton is that the Internet is a place where anyone with a home computer, a modem, and some animus can make your life miserable, and perhaps do real damage to your business. The bad news for the rest of us is the ...
Apr 1, 1996
New World War — Reason Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Post Source:
Reason Magazine Cancelbunny and Lazarus battle it out on the fontier of cyberspace–and suggest the limits of social contracts. "Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man....It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of warre as this; and I believe it was never generally ...
Mar 5, 1996
Church of secrets // In the dark: Scientologists enlist the heavy hand of the law to quash attempts to scrutinise their beliefs — The Bulletin (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Millikan Source:
The Bulletin (Australia) YOU ARE PERHAPS SICK OF HEARING that Kate Ceberano, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and various other luminaries owe their glittering fame and wealth to Scientology. You may also have noticed that Scientology is taking ads on buses. The days of the kids with clipboards eyeballing you on the street to ask if you would like to do a personality test are fading. Scientology is moving to big business and the Internet. The Church of Scientology tends to live by ...
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