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L. Ron Hubbard's son says his father 'destroys' foes [incomplete] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Prescott Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The son of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of scientology, testified Wednesday his father was obsessed with controlling people and "destroyed" those who opposed him and the church. "My father only knew how to do one thing; that was destroy them," said L. Ronald Hubbard Jr., who has changed his name to Ronald Edward DeWolf. DeWolf contended also the elder Hubbard, fabricated most of the personal qualifications and scientific expertise he claimed when forming the sect. "I can say ...
May 6, 1982
Scientology founder's son: Father a liar — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Harwood Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) What they said: [Picture / Caption: Attorney Michael J. Flynn promised that Wednesday's testimony "is just laying the foundation" for revelations concerning Clearwater.] [Picture / Caption: "If Hubbard decides to leave this planet, he will take these people with him," said former Scientologist Edward Walters, drawing a comparison to the late Rev. Jim Jones.] [Picture / Caption: "My father only knew how to do one thing and that was to destroy people," said the former L. Ron Hubbard Jr., now known ...
May 6, 1982
Witnesses are critical of church — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
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Author(s):
Tom Ward Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology deceives, brainwashes and takes money from its followers, and its founder is a man who beat his wife and is preoccupied with sex, two witnesses told the City Commission Wednesday. The hearings are being held by the city to investigate church practices. One of those witnesses was the 47-year-old son of church founder L Ron Hubbard. Another witness was Ed Walters, a former high-ranking church official, who said followers are encouraged to donate all their ...
Sep 14, 1981
Preliminary report to the Clearwater city commission re: The power of a municipality to regulate organizations claiming tax exempt or non-profit status
May 1, 1980
Scientology: Anatomy of a frightening cult [Canadian edition] — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eugene H. Methvin Source:
Reader's Digest The faithful inner core serve as thieves, decoys and spies. The shocking story behind one of the most dangerous “religious cults” operating today IN THE late 1940s, pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard declared, “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million, the best way would be to start his own religion.” Hubbard did start his own religion, calling it the “Church of Scientology,” and it has grown into an enterprise today grossing ...
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[needtotag] Jan 26, 1980
The Scientology Papers: The hidden Hubbard — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Jan 24, 1980
The Scientology Papers: Hubbard still gave orders, records show — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Marshall Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — L. Ron Hubbard, the former science fiction writer who publicly resigned in 1966 from leadership of the Church of Scientology, continued to give orders to its leaders into 1977, a Washington court has been told. Evidence obtained in 1977 in raids on U. S. offices of the cult by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed there was a detailed program to cover up Mr. Hubbard's involvement in the leadership of Scientology. Called Operation Bulldozer Leak, it was part ...
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 22, 1980
The Scientology Papers: Secret Ontario documents found in U.S. cult's files — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Marshall Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Confidential documents from various Ontario Government offices including an attorney-general's communication about police intelligence operations have been found in U.S. Church of Scientology files. The documents were part of the evidence submitted by federal attorneys in the Washington prosecution of U.S. leaders of the cult on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and obstruct justice by cover-ups and by kidnapping an informer. Of 12 indicted, including two in Britain and the informer, nine have been tried, convicted and sentenced by ...
Dec 17, 1979
Part II: Scientology defined / Individual life is focus of Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 29, 1979
FBI file questions mental state of L. Ron Hubbard — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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 ...
Sep 19, 1979
Scientology secrets revealed in 2 million dollar consumer fraud case // Scientology on trial — Bay Guardian (San Francisco)More: link
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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 ...
Sep 1, 1979
L. Ron Hubbard, a living legend — Xenophile
Aug 27, 1978
Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard . . . official biographies seem larger than life — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) [Picture / Caption: FOUNDER — L. Ron Hubbard bust in lobby of Scientology administrative building.] Like the Romanesque bronze busts of L. Ron Hubbard displayed in churches of Scientology, the official biographies of Scientology's founder seem larger than life. Born in Tilden, Neb., on March 13, 1911, to Navy Comdr. Harry Ross Hubbard and his wife, Dora May, he is said to have spent his early childhood on the Montana cattle ranch of his maternal grandfather, "where long days were spent ...
Jan 1, 1978
Chases' Calendar of Annual Events — Apple Tree Press
Aug 28, 1977
The Church of Scientology - Religion or traveling medicine show? — Valley NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Alexander Source:
Valley News The Church of Scientology offers a free personality evaluation to persons interested in its counseling services. Valley News staff writer Brian Alexander took the test at the Sherman Oaks Scientology center, posing as a college student and using an assumed name. As the second segment of a four-part series on the church, he tells what happened. —– The Church of Scientology's free
personality test is like a warm handshake, but the grip is too tight. The counselor who evaluates ...
Jun 23, 1977
Scientology founder heavenly visits — Albertan (Canada)
Nov 23, 1976
Death of church founder's son still a mystery — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mystery continued to shroud the death of Geoffrey Hubbard, the son of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, as officials here asked Tuesday for a delay in the release of the cause of death. Dr. G. Sheldon Green, chief Clark County medical examiner, asked for the delay so he could consult with outside pathologists. Young Hubbard, 22, of Clearwater, Fla., was found unconscious in his car near McCarran International Airport on Oct. 28. Because he carried ...
Nov 23, 1976
Scientology student death probe — Las Vegas SunMore: link , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sharon Spigelmyer Source:
Las Vegas Sun Police and private investigators are probing the mysterious death of the Church of Scientology founder's son, found unidentified three weeks ago near McCarran International Airport in a coma, Coroner Dick Mayne said Monday. Cause of death is still unknown for
Geoffrey Quentin McCally Hubbard , 22, of Clearwater, Fla. He was a student and counselor in scientology. The homicide division of the Metropolitan Police Department Monday combed the scene where Hubbard was found, and discovered identification, license plate, car registration and ...
Nov 23, 1976
[Re. Quentin Hubbard's death, exact date unknown] — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) The 22-year-old son of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was cremated in Las Vegas at the request of his family. Nevada officials said the remains would be brought to Los Angeles, where the church has its main headquarters. Geoffrey Hubbard of Clearwater, Fla., died Nov. 12 at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas. The cause of his death is still a mystery; he was found in a semicomatose condition in Las Vegas Oct. 28 and died before being ...
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
Jun 15, 1976
Scientologists pressed for answers by Cazares — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen "Steve" Advokat Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Attorneys representing Mayor Gabriel Cazares in his $8-million libel suit against the Church of Scientology have served the other side with a series of questions that, if answered, would resolve many of the doubts still lingering about the group. Perhaps the most bizarre question sent to the Scientologists' counselor, Sarasota attorney Clyde H. Wilson, involves Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Clearwater attorney Patrick D. Doherty has asked that representatives from the organization that owns the former Fort Harrison hotel and the ...
Apr 5, 1976
Letters / Scientology offers answers / Get to know yourself — Michigan JournalMore: link
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Michigan Journal To the Editor: Scientology is coming to this campus on April 14, 1976. Scientology is an applied religious philosophy that answers such questions as, can one find PEACE OF MIND? What is the mind? How can I become more myself? How an I be happier in the dealings of everyday life? Scientology was discovered, developed, and organized by L. Ron Hubbard, an engineer, writer, and philosopher who spent most of this early years studying human behayior and researching ways in which ...
Mar 22, 1976
Man of many parts to reside here — Cork Examiner (Ireland)
Mar 21, 1976
Hubbard in Heaven — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) There can be no doubt Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard believes in heaven. He says he has been there—twice. In a 1963 bulletin, Hubbard wrote that although he had once been skeptical, his travels had convinced him heaven was real. "For a long while, some people have been cross with me for my lack of cooperation in believing in a Christian Heaven. God and Christ," he wrote. "I have never said I didn't disbelieve in a Big Thetan (Scientology's 'soul') but ...
Mar 16, 1976
Scientology / Scientology's founding father (third in a series) — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Aug 12, 1974
Inside the therapy subculture — New York MagazineMore: books.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ted Morgan Source:
New York Magazine [...] Bernard Green was born 39 years ago in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a Lithuanian father and a Polish mother. As a child, he suffered from such severe stammering that, he says, "I lived in a silent world." When he took the bus he had to hand the driver a note telling the stop he wanted. At school he was mute. When he was eighteen he was cured of his stammering by a therapist using dianetics. a system developed by ...
Jul 26, 1974
Scientologists deny they harass defectors from church // 'Misrepresentation and distortion' alleged — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: groups.google.com
Mar 22, 1974
Scientology renews the spirit — Today's Post (Pennsylvania)
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