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May 26, 1988
Cult to pay taxes // US court confirms Church of Scientology is a profit making organisation — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE church of Scientology has been ruled a profit making organisation. In the Supreme Court, Washington DC, last Monday, the cult was refused leave to appeal against a 1984 tax exempt ruling and must now pay $1.2 million back taxes for 1970 to 1972 and $287,614 in penalties for late filing. This will come as a severe blow to the church which has been fighting the Internal Revenue Service since the late 1960's to keep its tax exemption status. The United ...
May 26, 1988
Letters: The 'Big League Sales' church — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) The 'Big League Sales' Church AS the perpetrator of the supposed 'hooligan antics' against the Concerned Businessman's Association at the May Fayre, could I reply to the Scientology Public Relations officer's allegations? Worried by the Courier's recent story on the tactic of luring children into Scientology via front groups, I stopped by at the Concerned Businessman's Association stand to find whether they admitted any link to Scientology. Asked the question, one of the scientologists on the stand said 'yes', the other ...
May 19, 1988
Man loaned cash for Scientology courses — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) AS the Church of Scientology hits hack at last week's report outlining its "hard sell" techniques, we can reveal that some people were so desperate to raise money for courses that they used the services of a fellow Scientologist who loaned them money at exhorbitant rates of interest. Dozens of people rang to confirm the details of last week's story and some provided documents showing how one wealthy Scientologist loaned his own money to help people pay for the cult's expensive ...
May 19, 1988
Scientology defended [Letters] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Scientology defended I HAVE several points to make about your last week's coverage of the Church of Scientology. 1. On your front page, you used photographs taken by two men who at the recent May Fayre heckled and abused the two female Scientologists who were giving their help to get the street signs cleaned. In fact these photographs were taken while the heckIing was going on. Thus these men have been "rewarded” for their hooligan antics. 2. You rely almost exclusively ...
May 12, 1988
The 'Hard Sell' Cult — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) As a campaign by members of the church of Scientology to make Britain the first Scientology country gains momentum, we can reveal the cost of the "hard sell" 'religion' which has split families and which last week led one Ashurst Wood couple to the Bankruptcy Court. Our investigations suggest the cult uses high pitch American style sales techniques to trap their hapless "believers" in a never ending web of lengthy courses. Scientology is the religious philosophy which grew out of Dianetics, ...
Feb 23, 1987
The new menace that waits outside the school gates / Children as young as six are being lured by cult with 'hidden message' booklets — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Mar 1, 1986
Cult harasses us say dissidents [exact date unknown] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Aug 2, 1984
Editorial: Time to go — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE DAYS when Scientology threw writs at anyone daring to criticise it may have passed — but do not be too sure. There has been no change in the function and purpose of the bizarre organisation at Saint Hill to which East Grinstead has been a reluctant and embarrassed host for more than 20 years. The best news would be that the whole strange set-up had packed up and left. Mr Justice Latey's denunciation of Scientology in the High Court last ...
Aug 2, 1984
Sect custody dad to appeal — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE FATHER of two children who lost the Scientology custody case last week, said he is to appeal against the judgement. The case made national headlines when the High Court judge, Mr Justice Latey, awarded custody of the youngsters to their mother because he said the man's Scientology beliefs were "dangerous? sinister and corrupt". The six-month tug-of-love battle ended by the judge declaring in open court that the influence of the sect would put the children gravely at risk. "The church ...
Jul 26, 1984
Scientology 'dangerous and corrupt' — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link , cosmedia.freewinds.be
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A HIGH COURT judge has made the most outspoken condemnation yet of the Church of Scientology, which has its British headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. He condemned it as "corrupt sinister and dangerous". Its founder, former American science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard and his wife Mary Sue were condemned by Mr Justice Latey as "charlatans and worse." And the sect, said the judge, was "both immoral and socially obnoxious." Hubbard and his helpers were said to be "grimly ...
Apr 26, 1984
Sect obtains High Court order — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE CHURCH of Scientology has obtained a High Court order against a fourth person for the return of documents which it says have been taken from its European headquarters in Denmark. But local independent Scientologists are hoping that the civil actions will be dropped as a result of the verdict of a Copenhagen court last Wednesday. The order, issued by the High Court, London, on Friday (April 13), is against Mr Steven Bisbey, a former member of the Church of Scientology, ...
Apr 5, 1984
£120,000 Reward Offered by Sect — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A REWARD of £120,000 had been offered by the international body of the Church of Scientology for information leading to the recovery of what are said to be scriptures stolen from its European headquarters in Denmark. The sect is hoping to obtain information which will lead to the arrest of other people in Britain and abroad who were involved in the theft. The offer follows an international police operation and the issuing of High Court orders in London and Edinburgh to ...
Feb 23, 1984
Poison-pen campaign alleged — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Feb 16, 1984
Buy-out bid for sect HQ / Factions announce plans to fight 'disconnections' — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Feb 9, 1984
Sect row over policy / Members Quit in 'Disconnection' Protest — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) AT LEAST 10 leading local members of the East Grinstead-based Church of Scientology have resigned from the sect over policy differences, it was disclosed this week. It is understood that the resignations follow disquiet over the reintroduction of "disconnection" practices whereby church members are advised to completely sever relations with fellow members. These policies were abandoned for a time in 1968. It is alleged that these disconnection policies are now beck in force since a new policy dated September 10, 1983. ...
Aug 25, 1983
Doubts over 'new image' // Scientologists expel 12 but... // 'I don't think it will work' says vicar — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the Scientologists have kicked out 12 key members of their UK headquarters staff at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, as part of a policy change, has received a mixed reception in the town. East Grinstead's mayor Cr Ray Boulger said that if the Scientologists were genuinely trying to purge themselves, then it was in everyone's interests to try to promote better relations. But the Rev Roger Brown, vicar of St Swithun's parish church, East Grinstead, said the history ...
Feb 22, 1978
Scientology boss gets jail term [scan] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Feb 22, 1978
Scientology boss gets jail term [transcript] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) RON L. Hubbard, the American born founder of the Church of Scientology, who turned Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, into the world headquarters of the movement, was sentenced in his absence to four years in prison and fined 35,000 Francs for fraud by the Paris Criminal Court last week.
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology 'brainwash' // JP's comment as ex-student is cleared of theft — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Hearing how Scientologists "audited" members who knew or mentioned people "disconnected" from the organisation, chairman of East Grinstead magistrates, Mr Antony Evans said: "It sounds like brainwashing to me." And the defendant and a witness in the case being heard by the court on Tuesday asked for their addresses to be kept secret to avoid persecution by members of the organisation. After a five-hour hearing the magistrates dismissed a case brought against former Scientologist Mr Maurice Johnson of South Shields, by ...
Dec 7, 1967
Scientology -- Town's biggest business — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Jul 1, 1962
Asks Dr. Hubbard — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) WEALTHY Dr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, the "Father of Scientology" is applying to East Grinstead Urban Council for permission to build a 75-room administration centre on grounds remote from his manor house home at Saint Hill. The move follows a confidential request from the council urging him to apply for planning permission to regularise use of the manor for office and research work. At present it is only scheduled for private residential use. In the meantime, some traders in the town have ...
Mar 25, 1960
Have you lived before? Yes say these four — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Mar 25, 1960
I was a male, born of space parents... — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Aug 16, 1959
His tomatoes keep on growing – to 16 feet — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) EXPERIMENTS being conducted by a nuclear scientist at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead could have far-reaching effects on agriculture. Some of his tomato plants are growing from ten to 16 feet high! One most interesting discovery of Dr. Ron Hubbard is a method of curring and preventing mildew in greenhouse. Dr. Hubbard, who works in greenhouses fitted as laboratories, told this week that market gardeners had lost thousands of pounds through mildew. "An infra-red ray lamp inserted in the greenhouse is ...
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