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A battle of beliefs waged in megabytes — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: groups.google.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wayne Garcia Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientologists and their critics are colliding in cyberspace. The critics started the fight, creating an electronic bulletin board dubbed alt.religion.scientology on the Internet, a worldwide web of computer networks with an audience pushing 25-million. Then they downloaded their knowledge and opinions in e-mail messages that just about anyone with a computer, a little money and a modem can view. "As you will see, Scientology is astronomically prohibitive," one anonymous writer said on a.r.s in a message that reprinted the church's price ...
Aug 1, 1994
Press watchdog backs Argus — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) Britain's newspaper watchdog has thrown out complaints against the Evening Argus by the Church of Scientology. The cult accused us of inaccurate and misleading reporting following our investigation into its activities earlier this year. But the Press Complaints Commission dismissed every single allegation. Today Argus editor Chris Fowler said: "The Scientologists have tried every trick in the book to prevent us publishing details about their activities. "This ruling confirms that our investigations were carried out to the highest standards of British ...
Jun 12, 1994
Special investigation: Scientology — Sunday Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marion Scott ,
Stewart Kirkpatrick Source:
Sunday Mail (UK) TEENAGER David McLaren is in hiding, after breaking free from the Scientology cult. "I'm the one who got away," said the brave 18-year-old, who came forward to help Scots girl Christine Forsyth. "I found freedom, now I want Christine to enjoy that same freedom", he said. Last week we told the shocking story of how 24-year-old Christine, from Kirkcaldy, was "tried" for "treason" by the mind-bending cult. HER CRIME WAS SPEAKING TO AN "OUTSIDER". Christine's distraught dad begged the cult to ...
Jun 5, 1994
My girl's cult hell — Sunday Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stewart Kirkpatrick ,
Marion Scott Source:
Sunday Mail (UK) A heartbroken father begged the world's biggest cult yesterday: "Let my daughter go." And Eddie Forsyth wept when he learned that daughter Christine had been subjected to a nightmare ordeal at the hands of the Scientologists. A Mail investigation has discovered that the cult's "thought police" branded her a traitor for talking to an outsider. Blond Christine was hauled before a kangaroo court and convicted of "treason". Beans Experts believe she would have been sentenced to hard labour, ordered to wear ...
Apr 29, 1994
'Brainwashed' / Bristol man to sue cult for over £10,000 — Bristol Journal (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Emily Compston Source:
Bristol Journal (UK) A BRISTOL man is suing an organisation which he claims taught him to lie and reject his family, whilst charging him over £7,000 for the pleasure. John Simpson, aged 24, (not his real name) is a former member of the controversial cult of the Church of Scientology or Dianetics, as it is otherwise known. He finally 'escaped' last month after seven months in the group. If you had quizzed him last year about his involvement with Scientology, he would probably have ...
Apr 22, 1994
I harassed no one, says private eye — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) AN AMERICAN private eye working in East Grinstead has denied harassing residents. Eugene Ingram, 48, from California, has been investigating documents allegedly stolen from the Church of Scientology UK base at Saint Hill. During the past month he has approached some 150 people across the south east. Speaking exclusively to the Courier about his work, Mr Ingram said: "Apart from a couple of exceptions, everytime I've seen allegations of harassment there's no name to go along with it." "The question is ...
Apr 21, 1994
Church calls it quits // As Scientology backs away from critics, it may hurt in libel case — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Pressman Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) [Picture / Caption: RESOLUTION — "I think the judge just wanted to bring an end to this case," says Graham E. Berry, right, with Gordon J. Calhoun.] For years, the Church of Scientology has been synonymous with bitter litigation battles. But the 40-year-old religious organization, long known for its aggressive legal tactics, threw in the towel recently on a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles that it had been waging against two critics. Besides serving as a legal setback, the action in ...
Apr 15, 1994
Escape route from Scientology 'has never been busier' — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) A HUSBAND and wife team who help Church of Scientology members leave the controversial organisation say they have never been busier after a spate of national coverage surrounding the cult. Bonnie Woods, a former Scientologist, and her husband Richard formed Escape nearly three years ago and operate from their East Grinstead home. The couple claim to have given advice to about 100 former cult members. But the spotlight has been thrown on them and their work by a spate of stories ...
Apr 12, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — The cult and a private eye — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) THIS man is working for the Church of Scientology. But you won't find him hovering on a street corner with a smile and a clipboard. He is an American private detective. Ex-Los Angeles police officer Eugene Ingram was sent to Britain to investigate the alleged theft of confidential documents from Saint Hill in East Grinstead, the national headquarters of the cult. Relatives of one leading anti-Scientology campaigner in Sussex have found Mr Ingram on their doorstep. Clergymen who have attacked the ...
Apr 3, 1994
Cult accused of intimidation — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) Police are investigating complaints that private investigators employed by the Church of Scientology, the cult created by L. Ron Hubbard, have intimidated witnesses and plaintiffs in forthcoming court cases. The cult, which claims to have 300,000 members in Britain and 8m worldwide, has attempted to undermine its critics after coming under severe financial pressure in this country. It is anxious to protect its funds which are set to be drained further by a series of expensive civil actions brought by former ...
Mar 8, 1994
Affidavit of Hana Eltringham Whitfield
Type: Declaration
Author(s):
Hana Whitfield Tag(s):
Amos Jessup •
Andrew Bagley •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Barbara Bradley •
Blackmail •
Body thetans (BTs) •
Bomb threat •
Cancer •
Carly Swirtz •
Church of Scientology International v. Steven Fishman •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Corydon vs. Church of Scientology •
Cost •
David Miscavige •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Death •
Disconnection •
Eugene "Gene" Denk •
Eugene M. Ingram •
Fair game •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Friend vs. Church of Scientology International •
Guillaume Lesevre •
Hana Eltringham Whitfield •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Jack Horner •
Jane Parker •
Jennie Walker •
Jerry Whitfield •
John McMaster •
Jonathan W. Lubell •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne vs. Church of Scientology, et al. •
Kathleen "Kathie" Wasserman (aka Kathie Heard) •
Kendrick L. Moxon •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Legal •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Marc Yager •
Marcy McShane •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Mary Florence (Flo) Barnett •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Medical claims •
Michelle "Shelly" Miscavige (né Barnett) •
Murder •
Norman F. Starkey •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Paulette Cohen •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Private investigator(s) •
Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard •
Raymond "Ray" Mithoff •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Roxanne Friend •
Scientology Missions International (SMI) •
Scientology's "Clear" state •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Stephen "Steve" Marlowe •
Sterling Management Systems (SMS) •
Steven Fishman •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Susan Meister •
Timothy Bowles •
Warren L. McShane •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch Mar 7, 1994
Declaration of Vicki Aznaran [pre-settlement]
Type: Declaration
GRAHAM E. BERRY, State Bar No. 128503 GORDON J. CALHOUN, State Bar No. 84509 LEWIS, D'AMATO, BRISBOIS & BISGAARD 221 N. Figueroa Street, Suite 1200 Los Angeles, California 90012 Telephone: (213) 250-1800 Attorneys for Defendants UWE GEERTZ, PH.D. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA No. CV 91-6426 HLH (Tx) DECLARATION OF VICKI AZNARAN RE: MOTION FOR COSTS Date: APRIL 4, 1994 Time: 10:00 a.m. Courtroom: 7 CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, Plaintiff, VS. STEVEN FISHMAN and UWE GEERTZ, Defendants. —– ...
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
Jun 23, 1993
Declaration of Margery Wakefield More: groups.google.com
Type: Affidavit
DECLARATION OF MARGERY WAKEFIELD I, Margery Wakefield, having personal knowledge of the following, hereby declare: 1. I was a member of the Church of Scientology of California from October of 1968 until February of 1980. I joined the Church in Los Angeles, California, where I was primarily based although I also took courses and/or worked at Church organizations in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida. 2. While in Scientology I progressed to the level of OT 3 (an ...
Dec 29, 1991
Scientologists ran campaign to discredit Erhard, detective says — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In October of 1989, a private detective was called into the Church of Scientology's offices in Los Angeles and asked to conduct an investigation in Northern California. Ted Heisig, a non-Scientologist based in Orange County, said he was led into a room and shown five file cabinets filled with documents Scientology had been collecting for years. The subject: Werner Erhard, founder of the worldwide self-awareness movement known as est. "They had contacts (in the file cabinets) dating back to his childhood ...
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Sep 1, 1991
Former Scientologist harassed after saying Prozac helped her depression — Psychiatric TimesMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Psychiatric Times The former top-level Scientologist who told
The Psychiatric Times in June that
fluoxetine (Prozac) had helped her overcome the depression she suffered while in Scientology has been under surveillance along with her husband, and she said her friends neighbors have been harassed by private investigators since shortly after the story was released. Both
Hana Whitfield and her husband, Jerry have been watched at their home and followed whenever they leave. They were also investigated by police in England ...
Aug 8, 1991
Harassement shouldn't quiet media, say cult experts — Winnipeg SunMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Winnipeg Sun The Church of Scientology has a long and undistinguished history of harassing its detractors — but that shouldn't stop the media or anyone else from speaking out against it, cult experts say. The church commonly threatens lawsuits, tries to have detractors arrested, and harasses sources and individual reporters, said Cynthia Kisser of the Cult Awareness Network in Chicago. And recent Sun stories linking the church — alleged by experts to be a dangerous, mind-control cult — to Narconon, a drug rehabilitation ...
Aug 4, 1991
Town terrorized for fighting church — Winnipeg SunMore: link
Type: Press
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Winnipeg Sun When Narconon comes to town, the Church of Scientology — and trouble — follows, residents of Newkirk, Okla. warned yesterday. Newkirk civic leaders were threatened and harassed by the controversial church and its private investigators after they opposed a Narconon treatment centre set up on Indian territory near the small, rural town in 1989, Mayor Gary Bilger said. "We had three investigators in our little town of 2,300 off and on for weeks," he said. "My little boy was 11 years ...
Jun 6, 1991
In battle against Time, Scientologists put money on ads — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Sipchen Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Last June, the Los Angeles Times published a damning series on the Church of Scientology. Scientologists responded by extracting a few good things the writers had to say about their organization and putting those quotes in foot-high letters on billboards all over town. On May 6 of this year, Time magazine published a cover story on Scientology. It had even fewer good things to say, and now the church has responded with an even more aggressive counterattack. Scientology's campaign of daily ...
Jun 1, 1991
Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression — Psychiatric TimesMore: link , lermanet.com
Type: Press
Source:
Psychiatric Times A personal aide to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard for eight of her nearly 20 years with the group says that
fluoxetine (Prozac) and therapy have finally stopped the depression and suicidal ideation she had suffered since 1976. "I have to speak out."
Hana (Eltringham) Whitfield told
The Psychiatric Times . "The Scientologists choose the most prominent psychiatrists and the most successful drugs to attack. That's why they attacked
Ritalin , and that's why they are now attacking Prozac." Although ...
May 8, 1991
Centre business couple Time cover story — Cherokee County Herald (Alabama)
May 6, 1991
Scientologists keep tabs on Neighborhood Watch chief — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Greg Roberts Source:
The Age (Australia) The Church of Scientology used contacts in the police and media to gather information on the chairman of Neighborhood Watch in Victoria, Mr David Lentin, according to an internal church report. The report, a copy of which has been obtained by 'The Age', shows that Mr Lentin is regarded as a dangerous opponent whose opposition to sects had to be curbed. Mr Lentin is a private investigator and leading "cult-buster" who has counselled people seeking to leave the church and other ...
May 6, 1991
The Scientologists and Me — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Behar Source:
TIME Magazine Strange things seem to happen to people who write about Scientology. Journalist Paulette Cooper wrote a critical book on the cult in 1971. This led to a Scientology plot (called Operation Freak-Out) whose goal, according to church documents, was "to get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail." It almost worked: by impersonating Cooper, Scientologists got her indicted in 1973 for threatening to bomb the church. Cooper, who also endured 19 lawsuits by the church, was finally exonerated in 1977 ...
Apr 22, 1991
Church out to even the score — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jo Chandler ,
Jacqui MacDonald Source:
The Age (Australia) A telex sent in April 1987 to Scientology's Melbourne Office of Special Affairs from its Australian-New Zealand headquarters tracks the church's defensive strategy in response to an investigation by the former television program 'Willesee'. The program was looking at a woman's claim that her trip into the Russell Street headquarters had almost cost her $43,000. The telex spelt out a seven-step program for defusing the story. One course of action was to loudly brand the investigation a "set up". "(The) Church ...
Jul 15, 1990
Scientologists in dirty tricks campaign — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer ,
Richard Caseby Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE Church of Scientology, a religious cult accused of
brainwashing its devotees, has paid private detectives more than £100,000 to organise a worldwide "dirty tricks" campaign against a Sunday Times journalist. Documents seen by The Sunday Times detail how
Russell Miller , journalist and author of a book on scientology's founder,
L. Ron Hubbard , has been secretly pursued around the world by investigators and members of the sect for the past three years. A former employee of the church, ...
Jun 29, 1990
The Scientology Story: Attack the Attacker // A Lawyer Learns What It's Like to Fight the Church — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Joseph Yanny represented the movement until a falling out. Now he says lengthy litigation and mysterious harassment indicate he's become 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Los Angeles attorney Joseph Yanny was driving through rural Ohio in the pre-dawn hours in 1988 when he was pulled over by police, who had received a tip that he was carrying a cache of cocaine and guns in his rental car. A telephone caller had supplied authorities in Ohio with Yanny's name, the car's description and ...
Jun 29, 1990
The Scientology Story: Attack the Attacker // On the Offensive Against an Array of Suspected Foes — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars." —L. Ron Hubbard The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Ministers mingle with private detectives. "Sacred scriptures" counsel the virtues of combativeness. Parishioners double as paralegals for litigious church attorneys. Consider the passage that a prominent Scientology minister selected from the religion's scriptures, authored by the late L. Ron Hubbard, to inspire the faithful during a gala church event. "People attack Scientology," the minister quoted Hubbard ...
Aug 31, 1989
Narconon researches opposition // Scientology group hires investigator, buys ad — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)More: link
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Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma) According to a story by Michael McNutt in the August 25th edition of The Daily Oklahoman , an alleged Scientology group operating as Narconon near Newkirk has hired a private investigator to find the extent of illegal drug use in Kay County and the identity of those opposing "effective drug rehabilitation programs." Actually, the private investigator was hired over a month ago. Newkirk Mayor Garry Bilger says that he was visited by Woody Bastemeyer, owner of Western Investigating, 4423 N. Greenvale Circle, ...
Aug 25, 1989
Open letter to kay county residents about Narconon — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim Reese Source:
Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STATE OF OKLAHOMA August 25, 1989 OPEN LETTER TO CITIZENS OF NEWKIRK AND KAY COUNTY: In response to your packet and the numerous letters of protest concerning the Narconon Drug treatment facility to be located at the Chilocco Indian School complex, I want you to know that I, too, am extremely concerned and am doing everything I know to stop this development. I have contacted and expressed my concerns to every individual and entity in state government that ...
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