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Affidavit of James Gervais [exact date unknown, circa March 1980 assumed] More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES GERVAIS I, James Gervais, state the following under the pains and penalties of perjury: 1. My introduction to Scientology was in July of 1973, when many representations were made to me concerning the benefits of "auditing" and Scientology. 2. The following representations were made to me relative to benefits allegedly provided by Scientology and "auditing". a) raise my IQ; b) cure diseases and mental illness; c) solve drug problems and other personal problems; d) stabilize and promote familial ...
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 •
Threat of physical harm •
[needtotag] Feb 8, 1980
Scientology's bizarre manual of dirty tricks — Guardian Unlimited
Feb 1, 1980
Cultist sets up group to fight tests on pupils — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Denys Horgan Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — A Scientologist who, with the encouragement of cult founder L. Ron Hubbard, organized parents to fight the education system of British Columbia three years ago has joined forces with a Toronto Scientologist to organize parents in a similiar battle in Ontario. Arda Froese, the founder of Parents Interested in Education in Vancouver, has come to live in Port Credit and with the help of Scientologist Ester MacPherson has established an Ontario branch of the organization. Mrs. Froese says ...
Jan 26, 1980
The Scientology Papers: The hidden Hubbard — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Jan 23, 1980
The Scientology Papers: Cult harassment, spying in Canada documented — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Marshall Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) New light has been shed on the Canadian operations of the controversial Church of Scientology by files made public by a U.S. District Court in Washington. The evidence refutes denials by Toronto cult leaders of information I reported more than five years ago in a series of articles based on internal cult documents and interviews with defectors. Other accounts since then of clandestine operations by the cult in Canada are also supported by the files, submitted in court after being seized ...
Jan 17, 1980
Digest Thursday [Suicide of Margarit Winkelmann] — Evening Independent (Florida)
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 ...
Jan 9, 1980
Court tangle gave Scientology its first 'martyrs' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 17, 1979
Part II: Scientology defined / Individual life is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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. ...
Nov 27, 1979
Now it's time for action — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Nov 24, 1979
Church's covert activity told — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 1, 1979
How cults bilk all of us — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carson Williams Source:
Reader's Digest Because they don't have to file annual financial reports with the IRS, unscrupulous sects can — and do — ignore the law with impunity. Let's close this tax loophole HOW CULTS BILK ALL OF US
SOME THREE MILLION AMERICANS have joined cult churches in the last decade, a phenomenon attributed to everything from the breakdown of the family to loss of faith in traditional institutions. One thing is certain: these cults could not have experienced their spectacular rise to wealth and ...
Oct 8, 1979
Scientology verdict: Erosion of rights? — Los Angeles Times (California)
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 17, 1979
Church of Scientology must pay woman $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — A 22-year-old woman whose attorney claimed she "lived through an Orwellian horror story" as a Church of Scientology member was awarded more than $2 million in court Wednesday. Julie Christopherson Titchbourne charged in her suit that the church engaged in unlawful trade practices, fraud and outrageous conduct, damaging her psychologically. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated 18 hours before awarding her $3,000 as compensation for the cost of Scientology courses she took and $150,000 ...
Aug 16, 1979
Claim of Scientology fraud nets Oregonian $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. — (AP) — A jury awarded more than $2 million in damages Wednesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of Scientology defrauded her by failing to fulfill promises of improving her life. The jury deliberated 18 hours over two days before reaching its unanimous decision. In her suit, Julie C. Titchbourne, 21, of Portland, alleged she suffered emotional distress as a result of her experience with the church in 1975-76. She had sought $2 million in punitive ...
Aug 16, 1979
Woman awarded $2 million in suit against Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Church failed to fulfill promises of improving life, she claimed; also said she suffered emotional distress PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury awarded more than $2 million in damages Wednesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of Scientology defrauded her by failing to fulfil promises of improving her life. The jury deliberated 18 hours over two days before reaching its unanimous decision. In her suit, Julie C. Titchbourne, 21, of Portland, alleged she suffered emotional distress as a result ...
Aug 15, 1979
Scientology search warrant upheld // Riverside hunt for bank fraud evidence legal, judge rules — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Ramos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RIVERSIDE — A Superior Court judge here upheld a search warrant Tuesday used by authorities to raid the local mission of the Church of Scientology in search of evidence of possible bank loan fraud. But at the same time, Judge Ronald Deissler delayed action on a church motion that the 17 boxes of Scientology records seized during the June 13 raid be returned. A hearing on that matter has been set for Aug. 20. More than two dozen Riverside County sheriff's ...
Jul 25, 1979
Scientologists' suit seeks return of seized papers — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) RIVERSIDE (AP) —The Church of Scientology has filed suit to retrieve documents seized in a sheriff's raid on the church's Riverside Mission and to quash a search warrant used in the June 13 raid. "The seizure," said Christopher Ashworth, a Los Angeles attorney representing the church, "was offensive to the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens who were part of the church." The suit contends: — That most of the information used in support of the warrant was more than a year ...
Jul 25, 1979
Witness describes Scientology drills — The Oregonian (Portland)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Painter Jr. Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Scientology courses are designed to make students dependent on their instructors so it is "easier to brainwash them," a disaffected Church of Scientology communications supervisor testified Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. One particular "drill" called "bull baiting" involved verbal and physical abuse and sometimes overt sexual contact, Diana Morgan testified. She appeared as a witness for Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, 21, in the trial of a $2 million-plus damage suit Mrs. Titchbourne brought against three Scientology organizations and adherents. She is ...
Jun 23, 1979
Church offers to pay back false, defaulted loans — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Forster Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Church of Scientology officials said they will attempt to repay any defaulted loans they may have taken out fraudulently by Scientology members in Riverside, an attorney for the organization said Friday. Christopher Ashworth, a Century City attorney, said the church will take a nationwide collection from its members to set up a trust fund to reimburse any lender "who may have been harmed by credit misrepresentation." The offer came a week after Riverside sheriff's deputies raided the church's Riverside mission in ...
Jun 14, 1979
Scientology unit raided in fraud probe — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Riverside Mission is Searched for Evidence of False Loan Scheme Sheriff's deputies seized 17 boxes of documents from the Riverside mission of the Church of Scientology Wednesday in a search for evidence that possibly as many as 100 past and current members fraudulently obtained bank loans and then gave the money to Scientology. More than two dozen Riverside County sheriff's deputies spent six hours searching through the offices of the mission for tax, payroll and other records on 20 named individuals ...
Nov 18, 1978
Ex-Scientologist charges harassment, sues church — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A former follower of the controversial Church of Scientology has filed suit claiming she was harassed and shamed into contributing more than $7,000 to the church. Saundra Haynes, in a fraud suit filed Thursday by attorney Hiram M. Martin, claimed that she went along with the urgings because she hoped the church's "auditing" procedures would enable her to "go clear," as the church calls it, and "rid her of her deep depressions and suicidal attempts." At one point, she claimed in ...
Aug 27, 1978
Church wages propaganda on a world scale — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette ,
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "The DEFENSE of anything is untenable. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversations, public debate, or a court of law." — L. Ron Hubbard For more than a decade, the worldwide Church of Scientology, one of the burgeoning new religions of the 1960s and '70s, has conducted sophisticated intelligence and propaganda operations on an international ...
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American Citizens for Honesty in Government (ACHG) •
American Medical Association (AMA) •
American Psychiatric Association (APA) •
American Psychological Association (APA) •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Apple Schools •
Arthur J. Maren •
Better Business Bureau (BBB) •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Committee on Public Health and Safety •
David Gaiman •
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) •
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) •
Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C. •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Income •
Infiltration •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Interpol •
Jane Kember •
Jeffrey A. Dubron •
Kenneth J. Whitman •
Linda Polimeni •
Los Angeles Times (California) •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Michael James Meisner •
Mitchell Hermann (also, "Mike Cooper") •
Narconon (aka Scientology drug rehab) •
National Association of Mental Health •
National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice (NCLE) •
Nazi labelling •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operation Cat •
Operation Cut Throat •
Operation Snow White •
Raymond Banoun •
Red box •
Robert Gillette •
Robert Rawitch •
Sherry Hermann (also, Sherry Canavarro, Sandy Cooper) •
Tax matter •
Warren M. Young •
World Federation of Mental Health Aug 14, 1978
Up Front: Federal prosecutors unveil the astonishing intrigues of the Scientology church — People magazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cheryl McCall Source:
People magazine Since its founding by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, Scientology has been among the growth stocks on the self-help market: a quasireligious, quasiscientific cult that has attracted three million U.S. followers (some highly touted celebrities among them) and estimated annual revenues in the hundreds of millions, much of it tax-exempt. Until recently Scientology's only certifiable vice was eccentricity, but within a week a federal grand jury in Washington is expected to hand down a bulging sheaf ...
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)
Type: Press
Source:
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.
Feb 16, 1978
Names & faces [L. Ron Hubbard sentenced in Paris] — Detroit Free Press
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