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Hubbard: malevolent or maligned? — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
Clearwater Times (Florida) ''On Dec. 13, former Scientologist LaVenda Van Schaick filed a $200-million class-action lawsuit against the Church of Scientology in Federal Court in Boston, contending that the church falsely promises to improve the lives of its members. Since then, 10 other ex-Scientologists have filed affidavits in support of the suit, giving a glimpse of life within Scientology. The church has files motion to dismiss that case. It also sued Mrs. Van Schaick and others, contending that she is "motivated by malice." Last ...
Mar 5, 1980
Affidavit of Marjorie Hansen More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF MARJORIE HANSEN I, Marjorie Hansen of Hanover, Massachusetts depose and state as follows: On or about April 16, 1978, I was walking on Boylston Street in Boston when I was approached by a man named Kevin, who asked me if I would consent to taking a "Personality Survey". Kevin stated that he was working on the survey for some college courses he was taking. He then led me to a building on Beacon Street which I later found out ...
Mar 1, 1980
Affidavit of Anne Rosenblum [exact date unknown, circa March 1980 assumed] More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF ANNE ROSENBLUM In December, 1972, after my first semester of college (in the state of Washington), I was introduced to Scientology when another Scientologist encouraged me to take a "Personality Test" at the Portland "Org". I was given a poor evaluation on the test. I later learned, however, that it is a customary practice of the "Church" to give one a poor evaluation on the test in order to induce the person into Scientology processing. The Scientologists also told ...
Tag(s):
Anne Rosenblum •
Auditing •
Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International @ 5930 Franklin Avenue Los Angeles CA United States •
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO) •
Committee of Evidence ("Comm Ev") •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Disconnection •
Estates Project Force (EPF) •
Ethics (Scientology) •
Excalibur (ship) •
False imprisonment •
Former Bank of Clearwater building @ 500 Cleveland Street Clearwater FL United States •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Freeloader's debt •
Income •
Medical claims •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Overboarding •
Overt, withhold •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Release contract, form, waiver •
Rock Slam (R/S) •
Rock-Slam Project •
Salary •
Scientology's "dynamics" •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Staff Status ? (Scientology courses) •
Statistics (Stats) •
Success stories ("wins") •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Threat •
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[needtotag] Jan 25, 1980
Affidavit of Tonja Burden
Jan 15, 1980
Woman suing Church of Scientology says she was “brainwashed” — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Langer Source:
Boston Globe A woman who was a member of the Church of Scientology for seven years and who has now filed a $200 million class action suit against the church, said of her experience that “it was a whole menagerie of lies.”
Lavenda Van Schaick, a 29-year-old native of Texas who joined the church in Las Vegas, recited a list of experiences that her attorney, Michael Flynn, said, can only be described as “Orweilian,” referring to George Orwell’s depiction of a future society ...
Dec 14, 1979
Former Scientologist sues church for $200-million — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas Brown Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) BOSTON — A 29-year-old former member of the Church of Scientology filed a $200-million lawsuit Thursday against the church, charging that the group has cheated thousands of converts by subjecting them to "mind control." Lavenda Van Schaick of Somerville, Mass. contended in the suit filed in U.S. District Court here that the church misled her into divorcing her husband, paying about $13,000 for Scientologist instruction and working for the church without pay for nine years in Clearwater and Las Vegas, Nev. ...
Sep 19, 1979
Scientology secrets revealed in 2 million dollar consumer fraud case // Scientology on trial — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard H. Meeker Source:
Bay Guardian (San Francisco) How a Portland jury got a crash course in one of the oddest "religions" ever created and awarded the plaintiff more than $2. million Note: This summer, a jury in Portland spent a month listening to testimony in a $4 million lawsuit over the practices of the Church of Scientology there. The plaintiff: Julie Christofferson, a young Portland woman who was a follower of Scientology in 1975 and 1976. The defendants: three local Scientology organizations and one of their leaders. ''Richard ...
Aug 31, 1977
Those affected disagree // Scientology: Self control or mind control? // Technology versus the Ethics Department — Valley NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Alexander Source:
Valley News Opinions about the Church of Scientology run from hot to cold, and from very hot to very cold. In the third segment of a four-part series on the church, the Valley News samples some of those opinions and tells the stories behind them. An accompanying story describes the experience of a young couple who left the church without bitterness despite some disturbing incidents. By BRIAN ALEXANDER The
price is high , and the
pressure to buy is heavy, but ...
Sep 12, 1976
Despite suspicions, Scientology flourishes / 'We are the wave of the future,' Church's lifetime Guardian tells convention — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Apr 5, 1976
A Sci-Fi Faith — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Source:
TIME Magazine The mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen. When 200 tight-lipped strangers moved into the hotel, rumors ...
Oct 26, 1972
Books / Inside Scientology — Rolling StoneMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William S. Burroughs Source:
Rolling Stone [Picture / Caption: Burroughs using a Scientology E-Meter: "All this time I felt my self-respect slipping away from me and finally completely gone . . . officially removed. . . " ] Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman Olympia Press. 279 pp. BY WILLIAM BURROUGHS The upper levels of Scientology processing are classified as "confidential," which means that only those who have completed the lower grades, passed security checks, and paid the large fees in advance are allowed to see and run this ...
Dec 23, 1971
QC criticizes ban on entry of foreign members but urges legislation on psychotherapy — The Times (UK)
Dec 23, 1971
Scientology report / QC criticizes ban on entry of foreign members but urges legislation on psychotherapy — The Times (UK)
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 - 11 The Sexual and Criminal Security Check — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 12 The World of Scientology — Tower Publications, Inc.
Dec 22, 1970
Scientologists lose libel action against Tory MP and decide against an appeal — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Source:
The Times (UK) At the end of the longest libel action in recent legal history, Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, M.P., was cleared yesterday by a High Court jury of libelling the Church of Scientology of California.
Jun 22, 1970
COMPLIANCE REPORT / RE: MANSON, BRUCE DAVIS [incomplete]
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 7: "Ethics" — Delacorte Press
Dec 1, 1969
The Tragi-Farce of Scientology — Queen (magazine)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paulette Cooper Source:
Queen (magazine) If you think you have problems with Scientology in England, you should see what's happening in the States. Here, they pass out their leaflets on the street corners of some of the most pukka neighbourhoods, urging innocent bystanders to try out Scientology. Those who have accepted the invitation have found themselves in one of their many dingy headquarters, listening to a dull lecture on Scientology, followed by a film of equal merit on its leader, L. Ron Hubbard. Those who didn't ...
Nov 9, 1969
Scientology -- Cult with millions of followers led by man who claims he's visited heaven twice — National EnquirerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ralph Lee Smith Source:
National Enquirer How profitable Scientology has become is one of the organization's most closely guarded secrets, but estimates of the personal worth of founder L. Ron Hubbard have ranged up to $7 million. In 1963 the Internal Revenue Service claimed the church earned more than $750,000 in the United States from 1955 through 1959, the year Hubbard moved international headquarters from Washington, D.C., to England. There, according to the Los Angeles Times, world receipts rose to $140,000 weekly in 1968. —– In New ...
Sep 29, 1969
Scientology: Total freedom and beyond — The NationMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Donovan Bess Source:
The Nation DONOVAN BESS Mr. Bess is on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco This is the year of
Apollo 11 . It is also the year in which that psychological sophisticate,
Richard Alpert , came back from his guru in India to reap a big following of inner-space explorers with his story of spiritual conversion. It is a lime of burgeoning meditation societies on the college campuses, and of passionate rebellion against the amorality of our technology. Thus it ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RELIGION OR BUSINESS? Practices of Scientology Being Investigated Again By John Dart Times Religion Writer [Picture / Caption: YOUNG INITIATES — The Rev. Robert Bobo talks with two children who are taking Scientology courses. The photo on the wall is of the founder of the worldwide group, L. Ron Hubbard.] The mimeographed notice looked more like a secret police communique than a church message. It informed "those concerned" that a certain 20-year-old girl "is hereby declared a Suppressive Person and assigned ...
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" ...
May 4, 1969
Bid to muzzle us fails — News of the World
Type: Press
Source:
News of the World An attempt by a section of the Scientologists to muzzle the News of the World has failed. Last week, more than three years after issuing a writ against us for alleged libel concerning its "Mind Cult," the Hubbard Association of Scientologists dropped the action. They are to pay a considerable sum to cover the legal costs we incurred in preparing to defend the action. The Scientologist [text not readable] their action was heard before Master Bickford Smith in chambers. He approved ...
Apr 1, 1969
Scientology: Is there anything you don't understand — Eye (New York)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Malko Source:
Eye (New York) Scientology begins with Dianetic Release, leads up through Grade O, SOLO and eventually CLEAR. And, if you're among the lucky few, you might even emerge an auditor... one of the most valuable beings on the planet. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND? BY GEORGE MALKO Leonard Cohen's in it, and so is Tennessee Williams, read William Burroughs, and Cass Elliot got her Grades down in St. Thomas, and there's the rumor that's been around for years that Truman or Kennedy or ...
Mar 19, 1969
Greeks expel scientology group — The Times (UK)
Mar 9, 1969
Scientology – Help? Hindrance? — Pacific Stars & Stripes
Jan 1, 1969
As politicians talk -- a cult plans ahead — The Age (Australia)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nicholas Turner Source:
The Age (Australia) THE New Zealand Government is expected to make an announcement shortly on the setting up of a formal board or commission of inquiry into scientology. The Prime Minister (Mr. Holyoake) has said that Ministers are seeking information from abroad before making a final decision. He has been attacked by the Opposition Leader (Mr. Norman Kirk) for delaying the announcement. A 10-member joint committee of the House of Representatives conducted a preliminary inquiry Into the cults activities in October and recommended the ...
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