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Cult concocted scheme to have Sun reporter fired — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 27, 1979
Cult sought to shield $8 million from IRS — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON—The project was so top secret and top priority that L. Ron Hubbard himself christened it. He called it "Goldmine." At stake was more than $8 million in Scientology money that the Internal Revenue Service might get if top-level sect "guardians" didn't work quickly and vigorously to protect Scientology from unfavorable IRS audits. The scheme was based in Clearwater, where in November 1975 the sect had just established its phony United Churches group. But top Scientologists around the country were prepared ...
Nov 27, 1979
Memo tells of plan to safeguard 'Red Box' documents — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
New group seeks investigation of 'destructive cult phenomenon' — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Now it's time for action — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 27, 1979
Scientologists infiltrated Forbes magazine — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Church got access to grand jury testimony — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Frame reporter — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Scientologists sought to infiltrate Times — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Sect sabotaged Cazares's '76 election bid — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 24, 1979
Cult tried to control newspaper — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The Church of Scientology plotted to purchase or otherwise "control" the Clearwater Sun by attempting to cut the paper's advertising revenue, discredit reporters and editors and rally readers against it, according to sect documents released Friday.
Nov 24, 1979
Documents describe church efforts to get around immigration law — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Documents describe Scientology infiltration of Clearwater Sun — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Documents: Scientologists plotted to frame writer — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Nov 24, 1979
Scientology files: Scientologists planned to discredit police, lie to U.S. agency — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Tenney calls Scientologists 'private CIA' — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 22, 1979
Court rules Scientology documents can be released — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 20, 1979
Scientologists gather to protest at newspaper — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 10, 1979
Scientologists got secret files of Times, lawyers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Secret letters and memos from the personal files of St. Petersburg Times editors and its attorneys were obtained and analyzed by members of the Church of Scientology shortly after the church moved to Clearwater four years ago. The letters and memos were used by the church in calculating its response to news media reports revealing its purchase through a front organization of the Fort Harrison Hotel. How the Church of Scientology or its agents got access to the locked filing cabinets ...
Nov 9, 1979
Government attorneys argue for release of Scientology documents — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — Government attorneys said Thursday that Church of Scientology documents cannot he kept sealed because, among other reasons, a federal grand jury in Tampa needs them. Carl S. Rauh, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and four of his assistants asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District to reject the church's request that the documents be kept secret. The documents were among 48,000 seized in raids on church headquarters in Los Angeles on July 8, 1977. They ...
Nov 8, 1979
Scientology's survival plan is revealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 8, 1979
Tampa jury may get sect documents — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — Thousands of top-secret Church of Scientology documents now in the hands of the federal government will be used in widespread probes of the sect by the Internal Revenue Service, prosecutors in several states and grand juries In Tampa and New York, a top U.S. prosecutor said Wednesday. Scientology attorneys have filed four separate appeals requesting the return of the documents, which were the basis of recent conspiracy convictions of nine high-ranking church officials. Today, government attorneys are expected to ...
Nov 7, 1979
Letter indicates Hubbard came to city to 'save the operation' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was so concerned with the success of his newly formed Clearwater headquarters that he visited there in late November 1975 to "save the operation." A letter Hubbard sent one of his top-level "Guardians" shows the founder wanted to make sure "this scene stays cool" while his United Churches of Florida front group established itself in the old Fort Harrison hotel and Bank of Clearwater buildings. The letter is included in ...
Nov 7, 1979
Lid is clamped on release of more Scientology material — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — There was a temporary lid imposed Tuesday on further public release of documents seized by the government from the Church of Scientology for the prosecution of nine church leaders. The lid could become permanent. Among those documents made public have been some that revealed a church plan to maneuver government officials and news media to "take control" of Clearwater, as well as programs to discredit public officials and private individuals in Pinellas County whom church officials regarded as enemies ...
Nov 7, 1979
Opinion // Of grudges and lies — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) "Maybe it is time to stop harping on past grudges but instead work toward the goal of a safer and more charitable world. . .This is our plan, our purpose, our goal and has always been." — Nancy Reitze, Scientologist spokesman, Clearwater. THE ABOVE is a recent quote by Ms. Reitze, following the unmasking of Scientology's plans to dominate everyone from Taco Bill (former Clearwater mayor Gabe Cazares) to international financiers, mental health leaders, Clearwater Sun Editor Ron Stuart and Pinellas-Pasco ...
Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — United Churches of Florida, the Scientology front group established in Clearwater in November 1975, was designed to be a tax shelter that could launder sect revenue nationwide, top-secret Scientology documents show. Sect founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in September 1975 that United Churches was being created "to preserve the assets of Scientology . . . in case of a total wipeout of the Church of Scientology by IRS." The secret correspondence between Hubbard and highest-level Scientology "Guardians" show that ...
Nov 6, 1979
Russell inquiry angers Scientologists — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — Top officials of the Church of Scientology considered Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney James T. Russell a major enemy because he pressed for an investigation about a gun found in Dunedin that may have belonged to sect founder L. Ron Hubbard. An April 14, 1977, memo between two sect "guardians," on file in the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, shows that Russell was dubbed a "suppressive person" making him a potential target for Scientology espionage and character assassination aimed at removing him ...
Nov 6, 1979
Scientologists' goal: world takeover — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — The Clearwater branch of the Church of Scientology actively participated in a master plan of founder L. Ron Hubbard apparently aimed at taking over the world, internal cult documents reveal. In Clearwater, the plan centered on removing from office political and and media figures considered "enemies" of the cult: former mayor Gabriel Cazares, Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney James Russell, Clearwater Sun Editor Ron Stuart and local broadcaster Bob Snyder. But on a grander scale, Hubbard's scheme was to "obliterate" and ...
Nov 4, 1979
Curtain of secrecy descends on sect — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Gutwein-Guenther Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — The lid clamped down hard Saturday at Scientology's headquarters, as church officials chased a reporter through the streets and ordered other church members not to talk to the press. The church had publicized an afternoon open house, but visitors found themselves quickly escorted into a closed room if they tried to wander anywhere in the building. Nancy Reitze, publicity director for the church, wouldn't answer any questions. No, she said, a reporter could not roam the building and talk ...
Nov 4, 1979
Memo: Scientologists aimed attack at local man — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Gutwein-Guenther ,
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) CLEARWATER — A two-page policy memo written by four top Church of Scientology officials apparently singled out for attack a former vice president of a local bank, according to documents released last week by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. The memo, included among the documents, cites Wilby F. Anderson of Buttonwood Court as an "enemy," apparently because of a speech Anderson made before the city commission in 1975. Anderson, who at one time worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, ...
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