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Jul 7, 2010
Tutoring service approved by DC public schools has ties to Church of Scientology — WTTG-Fox 5
Type: Press
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Melanie Alnwick Source:
WTTG-Fox 5 WASHINGTON — Federal law says that failing public schools have to provide free tutoring service to students. It is called Supplemental Educational Services (SES). Concerned parents contacted FOX 5 about one of the groups approved for tutoring by D.C.'s Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) — a group that has connections to the founder of the Church of Scientology. Applied Scholastics International is one of 29 tutoring services listed in the Title I Supplemental Educational Services Guide. Parents of ...
Nov 4, 2009
The news on the street — Washington Post
Type: Press
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Roxanne Roberts ,
Amy Argetsinger Source:
Washington Post Timing is everything, and sometimes it's awkward: The Church of Scientology unveiled its grand new center a half-mile from the White House on Saturday – the same day the St. Petersburg Times unveiled a major investigative report alleging the church deployed coercive tactics and espionage against staff members who tried to leave. Among the dignitaries speaking to the crowd that filled a cordoned-off block of 16th Street NW: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), who presented the church with a flag that had ...
Oct 30, 2007
Connecticut Avenue draws residents to nearby area — Howard University
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brittan Moncrease Source:
Howard University Connecticut Avenue runs strong with places available for all ages and ethnic groups. The avenue is filled with shops and restaurants, and at every corner are small residential neighborhoods. The Founding Church of Scientology sits just blocks from the Dupont Circle metro station. Tony Bokas, a member of the Scientology Church and Maryland resident, described the area as an essential spot in the District that attracts a huge number of politicians. "Important people come by all the time with police squads ...
Sep 11, 2007
The L. Ron Hubbard House: Get There Before Travolta — Washington City Paper
Type: Press
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Jule Gardner Source:
Washington City Paper In the pantheon of D.C. area weird religious places to go and gawk, you’ve got the George Washington Masonic Memorial, the Oz-like LDS Washington D.C. Temple Visitors’ Center and now L. Ron Hubbard’s house.
A bold, swanky sign went up less than a week ago in front of 1812 19th Street NW in Dupont, site of the “founding church” of Scientology that Hubbard set up in 1955. The house belonged to the church until the mid-’70s, when it was sold and ...
May 5, 2006
Scientology spreads out in push for D.C. members — Washington Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erin Killian Source:
Washington Business Journal Jackson Wyan, a young Tom Cruise look-alike with short black hair and a black button-down shirt, greets people with laser-focused eye contact, a fixed smile and solid handshake at the Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. in Dupont Circle.
His mission not-so-impossible: Recruit more members.
Would-be Scientologists approach the landmark red building, also known as Fraser Mansion, at 20th and R streets NW, with regularity. Wyan, who's been with the D.C. church six years, gives tours that include a sweep through ...
Mar 29, 1998
Scientology's influence grows in Washington — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Dahl Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON – After years of holding the U.S. government in contempt, the Church of Scientology is enlisting members of Congress, the U.S. State Department and even President Clinton to advance its agenda in foreign lands. Prodded by the Scientologists' paid lobbyists and its cadre of sympathetic entertainers, several lawmakers and the Clinton administration have criticized the German government for allegedly discriminating against Scientology practitioners. They even got their argument against Germany to the floor of the House of Representatives last November. ...
Feb 28, 1998
German panel brings concerns on Scientology to Washington — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jack R. Payton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) There are some Germans out there who don't trust John Travolta.
Not only that, at least one of these Germans - actually a member of Germany's parliament - doesn't at all like the idea of Travolta talking with the president of the United States or his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, about the state of U.S.-German relations.
The reason this German lawmaker worries about the popular movie actor getting to see the president and his advisers is that Travolta is a ...
Feb 14, 1997
Celebrity Scientologists tell Congress Germany persecutes them — Seattle Times
Oct 28, 1995
News in brief — Washington Post
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Washington Post The Founding Church of Scientology dedicated its new center last weekend in the renovated Fraser Mansion at 20th and R streets NW, near Dupont Circle. The mansion, built in 1890 for former representative George S. Fraser, will serve as a spiritual center for local members and as the East Coast center for ministerial training, spokeswoman Sylvia Stanard said. The church, with about 3,000 members in the area, will continue to operate its "celebrity center" on 16th Street NW for counseling purposes, ...
Sep 22, 1977
Scientologist: I was driven from job — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A long-time member of the Church of Scientology says she was driven out of her job with the Defense Communications Agency (DCA) because of membership in the controversial church. Emylee Lynne Miller in an affidavit prepared for the church, said U.S. Attorney Paul Figley and DCA counsel Richard Whalen "intimidated" her and Interrogated her "under considerable pressure . . ." The Miller case arose after the DCA denied the church access to information in its files The Church of Scientology has ...
Jul 6, 1975
Stamped with the Waddy Wood architectural personality — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sarah Booth Conroy Source:
Washington Post [...] Many of the houses were more modest. He designed several groups of row houses. The 1810-1820 19th St. NW are handsome houses with red tile roofs, Flemish gables, baroque stone work, bay windows, lights courts and cream-colored brick with the trim originally sage green. According to Eig and Bryan, the six are now used variously as offices of the Founding Church of Scientology, a halfway house, and multi-family homes. [...]
Jul 31, 1971
FDA seizure of e-meters is reversed — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas W. Lippman Source:
Washington Post The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that since the Scientology organization had made a case—uncontested by the Government—that it was a religion, a 1963 raid on its headquarters was illegal because it violated its constitutional rights. In a much-publicized raid on Jan. 4, 1963, agents from the Food and Drug Administration seized so-called "E-meters" and stacks of literature from the headquarters of the Founding Church of Scientology here. The FDA charged at the time that the Scientologists made false claims ...
Oct 26, 1962
Education without lectures — McGill Daily (Montreal)
Narconon Eastern United States: Form 990 filings
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