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Sep 29, 1971
Scientology--Spiritual healing of mental ills — The Day (New London, Connecticut)
Aug 28, 1971
Miami Scientologists seek drug programs in prisons — Miami News
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Wilcox
Source: Miami News
Representatives of the Miami Scientology Church, aderents of a controversial but growing religion, are to meet with state drug abuse officials soon. They want to put a Scientology rehabilitation program into the state's prisons. The subject of much criticism since its founding in the 1950s, the church has recently gained official status as a religion from the courts, and along with it permission to use a crude lie-detector device in its psychiatric counseling. Counseling is at the heart of Scientology. Scientologists ...
Jun 26, 1971
New religion takes on U.S. government, psychiatry — Monterey Peninsula Herald
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Monterey Peninsula Herald
An aggressive modern religion that has taken on the U.S. government and the psychiatric profession has come to the Peninsula. The Church of Scientology, which established a study group here last August, has now opened a counseling center at 604 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey. Still a mission of the San Francisco church, the local congregation is training a minister and conducting lectures and personal counseling sessions. Court Fight The church, founded only 16 years ago, has been engaged in a court fight ...
Jun 13, 1971
Scientology: To get free of 'negative memories' — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Edward B. Fiske
Source: New York Times
A young man and a middle-aged woman stared silently at each other across a long, narrow table in a room in a tan brick building in Washington, D.C., one day last week. A guide explained that they were engaged in an exercise known as "training rudiment zero" so as to make them "more able to confront another life source." At the end of the table another young man was busy making little clay models. He, too, was engaged in a spiritual ...
Jun 12, 1971
Unconventional modern religion hitting snags — Valley Morning Star (Texas)
Type: Press
Author(s): George W. Cornell
Source: Valley Morning Star (Texas)
NEW YORK (AP) — An unconventional, modern-made religion, the Church of Scientology, is going strong today, in followers, facilities and systematic financing. But it also is having to fight recurrent government interference for the right to pursue its methods. "The road has been rocky," says the Rev. Kenneth J. Whitman, of the organization's Los Angeles headquarters. "But we keep growing because we're helping people." Incorporated just 16 years ago, under direction of its founder the iconoclastic American scientist-thinker [[../scienos/hubbard1.html L. Ron ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 11, 1971
Scientology growing despite brushes with FDA — Albuquerque Journal
Jun 8, 1971
Scientologists and F.D.A. clash in court — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Edward B. Fiske
Source: New York Times
USE OF DEVICE CHALLENGED: The "E-meter," an electrical instrument similar to the lie detector, used by Scientologists, being demonstrated by group's head, the Rev. Robert H. Thomas. Food and Drug Administration case contends , group made false statements about "E-meter's" use. At right is Rev., Arthur. J. Maren, minister or sect. WASHINGTON, June 7—The eight-year legal battle between the Food and Drug Administration and the Church of Scientology moved into the Federal District Court here today with the Government arguing that ...
Jun 4, 1971
Electrometer fight continues Monday — Washington Daily News
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Type: Press
Author(s): Juergen Haber
Source: Washington Daily News
The Electrometer is not much bigger than a breadbox but has been the object of an eight-year court battle — to be resumed Monday in U.S. District Court — between the Food and Drug Administration and the Church of Scientology. Eight years ago U.S. marshals raided the headquarters of the scientologists headquarters here, and the FDA charged that the device and it s accompanying literature made false claims of cures for everything from cancer to radiation burns from atomic explosions. ====NO ...
May 8, 1971
Has FDA bungled the Scientology church case? — The Evening Star
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Type: Press
Author(s): William F. Willoughby
Source: The Evening Star
It was more than eight years ago, here in Washington, on Jan. 4, 1963. that a group of Baltimore longshoremen who had been deputized by officials of the Federal Food and Drug Administration staged one of the most bizarre raids in American history. The contingent, escorted by motorcycle policemen, entered a church on 19th Street NW and the residences of its ministers and began grabbing the church's scriptures, confessional aids and documents, loading them into two waiting vans. Some of the ...
Apr 30, 1971
"The Hubbard Apprentice Course teaches fundamentals of communication" // Scientology defined as knowing how to know — Hoofbeat
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Type: Press
Source: Hoofbeat
Scientology is defined as knowing how to know. It is an applied religious philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge. Through the application of its technology it brings about desirable changes in the conditions of life. But, according to Scientology Literature it could be better defined as summated and organized information about you. It is everything that has been known about you for at least 2500 years, but it is summated so it is communicable, so that it is applicable and ...
Mar 4, 1971
Growth of irrational cults — Daily World (New York)
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 01 From Dianetics to Scientology — Tower Publications, Inc.
May 7, 1970
Church of Scientology begins 20th anniversary program — Wilshire Press
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Type: Press
Source: Wilshire Press
The Church of Scientology of California will launch the 20th anniversary of Dianetics at Celebrity Centre Organization, 1809 W. 8th St., from 10 a.m. until midnight Saturday, May 9. Arts and crafts workshops, ttape plays and entertainment and shows will be featured during the day and night. Guest entertainers include the Lamonte Johnson jazz trio, the Great American Entertainment Show, and concert pianist and virtuoso Mario Fenninger. This special all-day program marks the 20th birthday of the publication of "Dianetics: The ...
Feb 12, 1970
Tustin Scientology center attracts people of many faiths — The Register (Tustin)
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 1: The Now religion — Delacorte Press
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 4: Scientology — 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 Enquirer
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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 Nation
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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 25, 1969
Scientology boom // A disputed religion growth — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Donovan Bess
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Today and tonight hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Californians will sit down in pairs and stare at one another. One of them will give the other commands such as "Tell me something you wouldn't mind forgetting." The one who is commanded will hold two tin cans attached by wires to an E-meter, a device that measures electrical resistance in the body. The commander will watch a needle on the device's circuit board in the belief that it measures emotional charge. ...
Aug 3, 1969
Religion or business? // Practices of Scientology being investigated again — Los Angeles Times (California)
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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 ...
Mar 16, 1969
Ex-science fiction writer typed out Scientology plan — Detroit Free Press
Mar 9, 1969
Scientology – Help? Hindrance? — Pacific Stars & Stripes
Feb 1, 1969
The Secret of Scientology: An Examination Of The Controversial Religious-Psychological-Pseudoscientific cult — Winnipeg Free Press
Dec 1, 1968
SCIENTOLOGY – Menace to Mental health — Today's Health
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Type: Press
Author(s): Ralph Lee Smith
Source: Today's Health
Couched in pseudoscientific terms and rites, this dangerous cult claims to help mentally or emotionally disturbed persons—for sizable fees. Scientology has grown into a very profitable worldwide enterprise . . . and a serious threat to health. [Picture / Caption: L. Ronald Hubbard, Scientology's founder.] [Picture / Caption: Bust of Hubbard flanks "altar" in Scientology "church" near London. Among his accomplishments, Hubbard claims to have been dead and recovered, to have visited Venus and heaven.] LAST SUMMER in New York City, ...
Nov 15, 1968
Scientology: A growing cult reaches dangerously into the mind — Life Magazine
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Sep 12, 1968
Britain's Scientologists too busy to hold sex orgies — Enid News and Eagle (Oklahoma)
Sep 11, 1968
'Largest Mental Health Institution' Becomes Storm Center in Britain — Iowa City Press-Citizen
Type: Press
Author(s): David Lancashire
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen
Health Minister Kenneth Robinson last month denounced Scientology as "socially harmful ... a potential menace," and moved to keep foreigners from coming to Britain as students enrolled at the College of Scientology here.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 28, 1968
Scientology leader may be banned — Sunday Express (UK)
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Type: Press
Source: Sunday Express (UK)
MR. JAMES CALLAGHAN, the Home Secretary, is urgently considering whether to ban from Britain Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, American leader of the controversial scientology cult. This would be a sharp follow-up to the curbs, announced in the Commons on Thursday, on foreigners who belong to the cult entering or remaining in Britain either as staff or students. Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health, told M.P.s: "The Government are satisfied, having reviewed all the available evidence, that scientology is socially harmful. "It ...
Jun 15, 1968
[Report on Scientology] [exact date unknown] — CBC News
Type: TV
Source: CBC News
["Here's an amazing clip from the late 1960's addressing the growing concern around scientology."]
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