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Mystery followed L. Ron Hubbard throughout life and into death — Telegram-Tribune (San Luis Obispo County)
Jan 29, 1986
L. Ron Hubbard dies of stroke; founder of Church of Scientology — New York TimesMore: nytimes.com
May 20, 1985
Scientology church protest draws hundreds to Oregon — New York Times
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New York Times Hundreds of members of the Church of Scientology converged in Portland on Sunday to protest a $39 million fraud judgment against the church.. A jury Friday awarded the judgment to a woman who had been a member of the church for nine months in 1975 and 1976. She testified that church teachings held that Scientology could improve her weak eyesight and raise her intelligence quotient. About 500 members rallied outside the Multnomah County Circuit Court, where the case was decided.
May 18, 1985
Church of Scientology loses $39 million in fraud lawsuit — New York Times
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New York Times A jury today awarded $39 million to a woman who says the Church of Scientology defrauded her with claims it would improve her eyesight and make her more intelligent. The Multnomah Circuit Court jury, after a 10-week trial and two and a half days of deliberations, found that the church defrauded the woman, Julie Christofferson Titchbourne, who had been a church member for nine months. "This is a ridiculous decision," said Earle C. Cooley, a, attorney representing the church. "The Constitution ...
Oct 24, 1984
Son of church founder is sued by stepmother — New York Times
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New York Times LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 — The wife of the founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, has filed a $5 million suit against Mr. Hubbard's son, charging "massive fraud" in his 1982 effort to have his father declared legally dead or mentally incompetent. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court Monday by Mr. Hubbard's third wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, the stepmother of Mr. Hubbard's oldest son, Ronald DeWolf. The suit charges that Mr. DeWolf and his Massachussetts attorney, Michael ...
Sep 3, 1984
Lawyer says Church of Scientology is waging campaign to 'frame' him — New York TimesMore: link , Reprint in Sarasota Herald-Tribune , cs.cmu.edu
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Robert Lindsey Source:
New York Times LOS ANGELES — Michael J. Flynn, a Boston lawyer, was piloting a light aircraft toward South Bend, Ind., in October 1979 when its engine quit mysteriously at 8,500 feet. After making an emergency landing, he said he found several quarts of water in the fuel tank. Since then, Mr. Flynn, who has led a legal battle against the Church of Scientology, a group that has long been the subject of Government investigations, says he has been followed by as many as ...
Jul 20, 1984
Insights // Did Scientology defraud members? — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
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L.A. Weekly (California) Is it the beginning of the end for the Church of Scientology? In the past senior church officials have refused to discuss the inner workings of L. Ron Hubbard's empire, but according to a recent story in the New York Times , disillusionment with Hubbard and a power struggle within the organization have prompted several church officials to meet with police investigators and testify against Scientology in a number of court cases. At a trial that just ended in Los Angeles County ...
Jul 11, 1984
Scientology chief got millions, ex-aides say — New York TimesMore: link , nytimes.com
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Robert Lindsey Source:
New York Times Former officials of the Church of Scientology say they helped L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the cult-like organization, to secretly divert more than $100 million from the church into foreign bank accounts he controlled. The organization, long a subject of investigations in this country, Britain, France, Australia, South Africa, Spain and elsewhere, has maintained that Mr. Hubbard cut his ties to it in the mid-1970's, that he has received only a token consulting fee of $35,000 annually since then ...
Jan 28, 1984
2 million check, puzzling clues, tangled trails — New York TimesMore: groups.google.com
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New York Times Byline: FOWLER, GLENN
ISSN: 03624331
Publication Date: 01-28-1984
Page: 1.25
Edition: Late Edition (East Coast)
Section: 1
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Language: English
One morning in the spring of 1982, two young men walked into the New York branch of the Middle East Bank and presented a check for $2 million.
The check was signed by L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the Church of Scientology, who has not been seen in public for many years. It was made out to one ...
Jul 24, 1983
Scientologists seem to be on buying blitz — The Ledger (Florida)More: news.google.com
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Edwin McDowell Source:
The Ledger (Florida) A best-selling adventure novel by a controversial figure who has not been seen in public for years has become the focus of concern among some book sellers. The book sellers said they belleve that "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard is being bought in large numbers in their stores by members of the Church of Scientology, founded by the reclusive Hubbard, as part of an effort to boost it onto the country's best-seller lists. Some book sellers and critics of Hubbard ...
Jul 20, 1983
L. Ron Hubbard novel selling well in Pinellas — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 6, 1983
Fight over funds divides Scientology group — New York TimesMore: nytimes.com
Dec 12, 1982
Son says he thinks Scientology founder died — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times The son of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, has asked to be named trustee of the religion's holdings.
"I think he's dead, or become as mentally incompetent as a cigarstore wooden Indian," Ronald E. DeWolf said of his father. "I've known for years that the person writing me and other members of my family, and sending presents, was not L. Ron Hubbard."
Mr. DeWolf, who is 48 years old, is an apartment manager in Carson City, ...
Mar 15, 1982
The psychology of the cult experience — New York Times
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Glenn Collins Source:
New York Times The same story makes the headlines again and again. An anguished family is trying to rescue its child, who has, the parents charge, been stolen by a cult, sometimes after only a single weekend of involvement. The parents describe the child as a humorless zombie - where formerly he or she was self-possessed, intelligent and completely normal. And, as family members begin to consult the clergy, lawyers and deprogrammers, they keep expressing confusion about exactly what has happened, and why. A ...
Sep 14, 1981
Top Scientology officials removed from Church — New York Times
Sep 10, 1981
Church of Scientology wins U.S. settlement — New York Times
Apr 1, 1981
Moon's sect loses libel suit in London — New York Times
Dec 1, 1980
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
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James B. Stewart Source:
The American Lawyer On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
Oct 9, 1979
Judge backs guilty plea bargain by Scientology church leaders — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) — A Federal judge today upheld a disputed agreement under which nine leaders of the Church of Scientology would plead guilty to a single count in connection with an alleged conspiracy to steal Government documents. District Judge Charles Richey entered his ruling just 24 hours before the church members were to stand trial on a 28-count indictment. He ordered the opposing lawyers to appear Friday, "whereupon the court will pronounce its findings with respect to guilt or ...
Jan 22, 1979
Author of book on Scientology tells of her 8 years of torment — New York TimesMore: link
Jan 22, 1979
Some in congress seek inquiries on cult activities — New York TimesMore: select.nytimes.com
Dec 6, 1978
Ex-agent alleges fraud in F.B.I.; says many informers are bogus — New York Times
Jul 7, 1978
Judge upholds F.B.I. raids on Scientology church — New York TimesMore: link , select.nytimes.com
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New York Times LOS ANGELES, July 6 (AP) — The Government won a major victory in its battle with the Church of Scientology when a judge ruled yesterday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's seizure of thousands of church documents was legal. Federal District Judge Malcom M. Lucas rejected allegations by church attorneys that the F.B.I. had exceeded the scope of a search warrant in the seizures last July 8. Federal attorneys said that the ruling, unless appealed, cleared the way for the documents ...
May 10, 1978
Advertising // Scientology campaign for Basic Book — New York TimesMore: select.nytimes.com , link
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Philip H. Dougherty Source:
New York Times Having discovered that there is nothing quite like advertising for keeping an idea alive, the Churches of Scientology in 21 markets will begin on Monday a TV ad campaign for "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," a 28-year-old book written by the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Collectively they will be spending about $650,000 during the remainder of the year, on the TV and on radio and magazine advertising, according to George Chelekis, public relations director of the New York ...
Mar 24, 1978
Disparate events in capital underline issue of F.B.I. curbs — New York Times
Mar 21, 1978
Court refuses to act in Church of Scientology appeal — New York Times
Apr 1, 1972
Author here sues Scientologists — New York Times
Jul 31, 1971
[Re. FDA v. Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C.] — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times Fed Dist Judge G A Gesell condemns use at 'E-meter' but permits Ch of Scientology to continue using instrument in its religious practices; rules that L R Hubbard's claims for meter are 'quackery' but says that Scientology does meet qualifications of being religion and is entitled to protection under 1st Amendment of Const; orders FDA to return 100 'E-meters' and 2 tons of printed material seized in '63; rules that only Scientology mins will be permitted to use 'E-meters' and that ...
Jun 13, 1971
Scientology: To get free of 'negative memories' — New York TimesMore: link
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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 8, 1971
Scientologists and F.D.A. clash in court — New York TimesMore: link
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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 ...
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