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Selling Scientology — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Matt Davis Source:
Portland Mercury (Oregon) In the mid-1980s, more than ever before, television advertising was about big budgets and excess. Bucking that trend was Scientologist and marketing whiz Jeff Hawkins, whose understated, minimalist TV ads for L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics helped launch the book onto the best-seller list—and arguably sparked a worldwide interest in the religion. Hawkins' ads featured simple questions like, "Why are you unhappy?" in white print against a black background, backed by edgy music supplied by Hawkins' friends, and finally, a shot of ...
Jul 27, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 17: Freedom
Jul 15, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 13: Attacks and Informercials
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins I had never been this close to a real cobra before. As it rose up and spread its hood, I could feel my hackles raise and a primordial fear tickle some primitive level of my brain. The handler said we were perfectly safe, but even so, I didn’t want to get too close to the thing. [...]
Jul 10, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 12: Over the Rainbow
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jeff Hawkins Scientology’s International Base is located on the sloping foothills at the north end of California’s San Jacinto Valley, about ninety miles east of Los Angeles. When I first moved there in 1989, the valley was still mostly a rural farming community – sheep still grazed on fields near the Base. But the area was being rapidly taken over by LA’s "Inland Empire" suburbs, spreading out east from Riverside like a virus. Nearby Moreno Valley had already achieved the dubious status of ...
Jul 1, 2008
Anti-Scientology group on attack — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Source:
NY Daily News (New York) Critics of Scientology say they plan another theatrical protest against the church — this time targeting its intelligence division. The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous says its July 12 "Spy vs. Sci" demonstration will be held in "cities all around the world," according to a press release. Anonymous members — who include former Scientologists — are focusing on alleged "abuses" of the church’s intelligence agency, known as the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), says the release. It asks, "Why does something ...
Jun 30, 2008
Scientology's crushing defeat [What Scientology paid $8 Million to hide] — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Six years ago, when I was a reporter at New Times LA, ''I’d written several stories about Scientology (Los Angeles is one of its headquarters), and I was about to uncork the longest one yet—a 7,000 word piece about an embarrassing, $8 million defeat Scientology had just suffered, when the weekly paper suddenly folded. That unpublished story has been sitting in storage ever since. Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part ...
Jun 1, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 7: The Land Base
May 9, 2008
Marc Headley interview on Glosslip — Glosslip
May 6, 2008
Declaration of Lawrence H. Brennan
Type: Declaration
Author(s):
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan Tag(s):
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) •
Church of Scientology International (CSI) •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
David Miscavige •
David Miscavige: physical violence •
Disconnection •
Elwood Rickless •
Fair game •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Front groups •
Gordon Cook •
Hana Eltringham Whitfield •
Hard sell •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
International Association of Scientologists (IAS) •
Inurement •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Lawrence "Larry" Wollersheim •
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan •
Legal •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Mission Corporate Category Sort out (MCCS) •
New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) •
Norman F. Starkey •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Omar V. Garrison •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Perjury •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious cloaking •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Ronald L. Pook •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Scientology Missions International (SMI) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corporation (SLDLC) •
Tax matter •
United Churches of Florida •
United Kingdom (UK) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
William W. "Bill" Franks •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) Mar 17, 2008
Cult Friction — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Cook Source:
Radar Online Cult Friction
After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?
By John Cook
[Picture]
Masked hackers have declared war on Scientology. Could the celebrity-friendly religion be in its final days? (Photo: Sam Comen)
This article is from the April issue of Radar Magazine. For a risk-free issue, click here
Clearwater is prepared for its enemies. It's a warm, if ...
Mar 12, 2008
Wikileaks exposes Scientology's zeal to 'clean up rotten spots of society' — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan Goodin Source:
The Register (UK) Talk about commitment. A former Church of Scientology investigator was required to contract himself to a group linked with the organization for one billion years, according to documents recently posted to whistleblower website Wikileaks. Of course, the employee was completely lucid when he made the promise to the CoS-related group known as the Sea Organization, but just in case, his employment contract contained the following recital: I, Frank Oliver DO HEREBY AGREE to enter into employment with the Sea Organization and, ...
Feb 25, 2008
Revenge Of The Nerds: The War Between 4chan & Scientology — Salient (Victoria University of Wellington)
Feb 19, 2008
What Really Happened at Scientology’s secret INCOMM facility
Feb 11, 2008
Activists decry attempt to quash Cruise video — New Haven Register
Jan 30, 2008
Malignant narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology's policies of narcissistic rage
Type: Research
Author(s):
Stephen A. Kent ,
Jodi M. Lane In this article, we argue that Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, likely presented a personality disorder known as malignant narcissism, and then we establish that this disorder probably contributed to his creation of organizational policies against perceived enemies that reflected his narcissistic rage. We illustrate our argument by discussing Hubbard’s creation of an internal Scientology organization called the Guardian’s Office, which carried out a sustained and covert attack against a Scientology critic, Paulette Cooper. This attack, and the Scientology policies that ...
Jan 29, 2008
Scientology's Fanatical Military — Orato
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Duignan Source:
Orato I spent a few days with Prof. Stephen Kent, of the Sociology Department of the University of Alberta, a couple of months ago. He is one of the few really brave academics willing to face up to mind control cults of the Scientology ilk, study, and expose what they really are and the damage they do the people they control. I spent many hours with Steve, describing my 20-year experiences within the cult’s fanatical, militant and secretive inner circle, an organization ...
May 24, 2007
Scientology is not a church or charity. It is, in fact, a cult — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) BBC reporter John Sweeney was last week seen losing his temper at the end of a sixmonth investigation into scientology. In 1994, The Argus published a
damning exposé of the East Grinsteadbased "religion". Former chief reporter Paul Bracchi, who secretly infiltrated the cult, remembers how its followers relentlessly threatened and pursued him in revenge for criticising their deceptive and manipulative methods. Here Mr Bracchi, who now lives in London, tells the chilling story of how he was stalked and intimidated ...
May 19, 2007
'Tom Cruise's Church of hate tried to destroy me' — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
Daily Mail (UK) This week a BBC reporter was shown screaming in fury after being hounded by Scientology fanatics. Here, a Mail writer tells how he, too, was the victim of a vicious cult smear campaign. The voice at the end of the line was trembling. "Is that Mr Bracchi?" "Yes, it is," I replied. The caller could not have been more relieved. I was supposed to be dead. Someone had started a rumour that I had been killed in a fire. The same ...
May 14, 2007
Anderson Cooper 360 degrees: Inside Scientology — CNNMore: Video footage on Youtube
Type: TV
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN Aired May 14, 2007 - 22:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, everyone.
Tonight, thousands of American troops in Iraq searching for three of their American buddies, searching their hearts out because they know all too well what the people who claim to have them can do and have done to captives in the past. We will have the latest on the ...
Mar 27, 2007
Scientology's New European Offensive: The March of the 'Orgs' — Spiegel
Type: Press
Author(s):
Holger Stark Source:
Spiegel Scientology has started a new propaganda offensive in Europe, opening new offices in capitals across the continent. German authorities are responding by increasing their efforts to monitor the controversial organization. At first sight, the building in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood looks like a run-of-the-mill office complex: a functional, seven-story construction covered with glass windows. The young receptionist is dressed in black and wears a futuristic-looking headset. But for Scientologists, the building is a chapel, a place for studying their own doctrine and, ...
Dec 18, 2005
Tom Cruise and Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Claire Hoffman Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church.
GILMAN HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Nearly 30 years ago, the Church of Scientology bought a dilapidated and bankrupt resort here and turned the erstwhile haven for Hollywood moguls and starlets into a retreat for L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion.
Today, the out-of-the-way 500-acre compound near Hemet has quietly grown into one of Scientology's major bases of operation, ...
Aug 5, 2005
Debunking a movement / Scientollywood — Pasadena Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Carl Kozlowski Source:
Pasadena Weekly Exposing some of the unsavory claims that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other celebrities would rather you didn't know about Scientology
For nearly 20 years, Tom Cruise has been Hollywood's Golden Boy. The star of Top Gun," "Risky Business" and, most recently, "The War of the Worlds," Cruise has attributed his vast success to being a follower of Scientology, a self-help movement-turned-religion which claims the ability to "clear" its followers from all their problems. It seemed like the perfect match: the ...
Jan 30, 2005
Englightenment's Dark Side — Buffalo News
Jul 7, 2004
Ron the Humoritarian (or is that the Humortician)
Type: Essay
Author(s):
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong [Re. Scientology's Operation Funny Bone , or the "fair gaming" of cartoonist Jim Berry.]
May 16, 2004
Lure of the celebrity sect / During an exclusive tour of Scientology's Celebrity Centre, Jamie Doward quizzed personnel about the church's teachings — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jamie Doward Source:
The Observer (London, UK) For a second or so the needle proceeds smoothly along the dial. I watch its progress while clutching two can-shaped metal devices, wired to the small machine housing the dial. Suddenly, the needle jerks violently. 'What was that?' asks Janet Laveau, head of the UK Office of Special Affairs, the Church of Scientology's PR machine. I'm disturbed and temporarily impressed - the needle jumped just as I was thinking of a friend who is seriously depressed. How could the machine 'know' ...
Jan 1, 2004
CCHR - Human Rights Organization Attacks Its 'Enemies'
Dec 1, 2003
A Church's Lethal Contract — Razor Magazine
Nov 9, 2003
Be glad you lost, Julie
Type: Account
... I froze. I wasn't moving much to begin with, but I froze solid. I didn't want to breathe. I forgot all about our immediate problems. My CO had just said he was going to murder Julie Titchbourne. He was absolutely serious. I was in shock. Sure, she deserved to die — all SPs did. But you can't actually do that that sort of thing. My thoughts raced. Please, I thought, please, somebody say something that will make this stop. I ...
Sep 1, 2003
Scientology and the European Human Rights debate: A reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force study — Marburg Journal of Religion
May 24, 2003
Kanadier sucht Schutz vor Scientology [Former lead member fled to Germany // Canadian seeks protection from Scientology] — Badische Neueste Nachrichten
Type: Press
Source:
Badische Neueste Nachrichten Controversial organization uses any means to get "apostate" Karlsruhe. Gerry Armstrong has not lost hope. His will to survive has not given out on him either – amazing, with several lawsuits, imminent threats from the antagonistic lawyers at his throat, Gerry is impressed, but he has a clear message, "From Germany I will and must convince the authorities in my Canadian homeland and also in the USA, that Scientology is neither a religion nor even a church, and certainly not a ...
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