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New drug clinic splinters Oklahoma town // Scientology-affiliated treatment center alarms Newkirk residents — Dallas Morning NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Arnold Hamilton Source:
Dallas Morning News NEWKIRK, Okla. — The people of this farming hamlet near the Oklahoma-Kansas border thought the idea was the perfect tonic for their rural economic ills. Out-of-state investors offered to take over the abandoned Chilocco Indian School and transform it into a major drug and alcohol treatment center. They signed a 25-year lease — worth an estimated $16 million — with the five tribes that control the campus. They brought expectations of new jobs and increased business for the area. Now, only ...
Feb 16, 1989
Police arrest American suspected of spying on judge for Scientologists — Associated Press
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Associated Press Police on Thursday arrested an American suspected of acting on behalf of the Church of Scientology to investigate the private life of a judge looking into fraud and tax evasion charges against the church here. A police spokesman said police arrested Humberto Juan Fontana, 33, a native of Havana and reportedly a Church of Scientology member, and confiscated three dossiers containing information of a confidential nature. No hometown was available for Fontana, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity. Other charges ...
Feb 22, 1988
U.S. v. Kattar 840 F.2d 118
Nov 15, 1987
Scientologists in dirty campaign to stop book — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE CHURCH of Scientology has mounted a campaign of intimidation and harassment against the author and publisher of a new book on the founder of the religious cult to be serialised shortly by The Sunday Times. Scientologists and private detectives have been used to put pressure on people in Britain and the United States involved in the forthcoming publication of Bare Faced Messiah: the True Story of L Ron Hubbard. Russell Miller, the author, who spent more than two years researching ...
Nov 8, 1987
Cult's private detective fires at journalists — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) A private detective employed by representatives of the Church of Scientology cult to investigate one of its opponents, shot at a Sunday Times reporter and photographer and threatened to kill them last week. The detective, Jarl Grieve Einar Cynewulf, fired a pistol at the journalists after saying: "You'd better go now unless you want to end up in a wooden box. Do you want to be another Hungerford martyr?" Although the gun was fired from close range, the journalists escaped unharmed ...
Nov 8, 1987
Messiah at the Manor [excerpt from "Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard"] — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
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The Sunday Times (UK) Scientology grew out of the ashes of L Ron Hubbard's 'new science' of Dianetics, which enjoyed a brief vogue in the America of the 1950s then faded to bring its founder close to bankruptcy. In this second extract from the book the Church of Scientology tried to ban, RUSSELL MILLER describes the bizarre, science-fiction basis of the new, highly profitable religion and Hubbard's self-appointed mission to 'save the world' —– L RON HUBBARD had often said: "If a man really wanted ...
Nov 1, 1987
Cult threatens to sue over book — The Sunday Times (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.be , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE CHURCH of Scientology cult has threatened worldwide legal action against The Sunday Times in an attempt to prevent the newspaper today publishing extracts of a new book on its founder. Lawyers representing the church last week said they would sue The Sunday Times and its distributors in more than 50 countries if extracts of a book by Russell Miller, published into today's Sunday Times, breach the copyright of the estate of the late L. Ron Hubbard, scientology's founder. The threats ...
Oct 30, 1987
Literary review // A profit without honor — Private Eye (UK)More: link
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Private Eye (UK) Bare-Faced Messiah Russell Miller ''Michael Joseph, £2.95 (copies available from Church of Scientology, Tottenham Court Road) CULTS require their members to believe three impossible things before breakfast. But a successful cult's adherents can't afford breakfast because they've given all their money to the guru. And, of all the gurus in the world, none was as opportunistic, mendacious, paranoid, miserly and psychopathic as Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, inventor of Scientology and Dianetics. Every story he told about himself was a lie — and ...
Oct 25, 1987
'Murder' used in plot against cult author — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE AUTHOR of a new book on the Church of Scientology cult has become the victim of a bizarre plot to link him to the murder of a communist pop singer. Russell Miller, whose book, Bare Faced Messiah: The True Story of L Ron Hubbard, is to be serialised shortly in The Sunday Times, is being investigated by private detectives trying to link him to the death last year of Dean Reed, an American singer who defected to the Soviet bloc. ...
Aug 4, 1987
New hassle over Scientology book — New York PostMore: link
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New York Post HIGH on summer reading lists, at least for members of the Church of Scientology, is Bent Corydon's "L. Ron Hubbard — Messiah or Madman?" This is the book L. Ron Hubbard Jr. was co-writing before the church reportedly paid him $250,000 to stop feeding information to Corydon. Corydon went ahead by himself, and Scientologists have been so anxious to get advance copies of his expose about the late church founder, says a spokeswoman for publishers Lyle Stuart Inc., that they were ...
Apr 27, 1987
Panorama: Road to Total Freedom — BBC NewsMore: transcript
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BBC News Description of video is in italics. VO=VOICEOVER shot of Church of Scientology, Los Angeles; apparently group of ex-members VOICEOVER: The Church of Scientology, one of the largest and richest new religious movements, is being sued for a billion dollars by former members for fraud and breach of trust. They regard Scientology as a dangerous cult. group of Scientologists VO: Yet the church goes on expanding, making converts and claiming it is "The Road to Total Freedom". ''"Panorama" opening credits; while music ...
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Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
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Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
BBC News •
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Body thetans (BTs) •
Church of Scientology International (CSI) •
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Cyril Ronald Vosper •
David Miscavige •
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Dede Reisdorf •
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Don Larson •
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Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
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Harold Clarke •
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Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. •
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Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) •
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Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire) Aug 1, 1986
Scientology investigated foe, lawyer says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
May 29, 1986
$100G Scientology 'scam' // Feds charge 2 with Mob connections — Boston HeraldMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim MacLaughlin Source:
Boston Herald A DISBARRED lawyer with Mob connections and a Methuen man linked to organized crime were arrested yesterday and charged with trying to bilk the Church of Scientology out of $100,000, said officials. The alleged scam netted Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, and George T. Kattar, 67, of Methuen, $33,333 before they were arrested by FBI agents, said the US. Attorney's office. The two were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston May 23 and charged with fraud, extortion and other ...
May 29, 1986
Was church cheated or part of a larger plot? — Lawrence-Eagle-TribuneMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Van Osdol Source:
Lawrence-Eagle-Tribune Four years ago, two men walked into a New York bank and tried to cash a $2 million check drawn on the Bank of New England account of L. Ron Hubbard, the head of the Church of Scientology. The bank refused to cash the check after it could not verify the signature. Since then, the church has been on the warpath to find out who forged their now-dead founder's check. It offered a $100,000 reward, bought full-page advertisements in the country's ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [The government's war against Scientology] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) The Government's War Against SCIENTOLOGY Scientologists say the church is engaged in "a war for the human spirit" against a global conspiracy, involving psychiatrists, the Rockefeller family, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) and the U.S. government (including the FBI, CIA and IRS). According to Ken Hoden, Scientologists feel that although each of these diverse entities have different reasons for attacking the church, their enemies have banded together as one to achieve a common end — "destroying the Church of Scientology." ...
Dec 22, 1985
60 Minutes: Scientology / Update [16m 51s] — CBS News
Jun 27, 1985
Altadena town council votes to deny permit to Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Arax Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) ALTADENA — The Town Council has voted to deny a conditional-use permit needed by an affiliate of the Church of Scientology to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the foothills. The 8-2 vote Monday against the granting of the permit serves only as a recommendation and does not bind the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, which will consider the matter and make a final decision in the fall. The vote ended more than a month of emotional debate over ...
Apr 25, 1985
IRS wins OK to copy videotapes — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
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The Oregonian (Portland) The Internal Revenue Service won court permission Wednesday to copy five hours of clandestinely made videotapes involving a former Church of Scientology member that were played earlier this month in a Portland fraud trial against the church. The IRS request followed a claim by church officials in Los Angeles that the tapes revealed a government plot to take control of church assets and property. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Stuckey said the tapes were sought by the IRS in connection with ...
Apr 17, 1985
Court hears final Scientology tape — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) Jurors in the Church of Scientology fraud trial Tuesday listened to the last of five hours of surreptitiously-taped conversations in which a former Scientologist talked about a plan to "transform" church leadership by filing suit to take managerial control. "I think both of us want the organization to be transformed into something decent," Gerald D. Armstrong told a Scientologist who was involved in the effort to discredit Armstrong as a court witness by making tapes of the conversations without Armstrong's knowledge. ...
Apr 11, 1985
Scientology trial jury views surreptiously made videotapes — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) The Church of Scientology struck back Wednesday against a former member who testified against the church by playing to a Portland jury videotapes, made surreptitiously, in which the man discussed placing phony documents in church files. Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer allowed the 108 minutes of tapes, made in a Los Angeles park last November, to be played to the jury as evidence of bias on the part of Gerald D. Armstrong against the church. "I can create documents with ...
Apr 5, 1985
Judge rules out videotapes aimed at discrediting witness — The Oregonian (Portland)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Fred Leeson Source:
The Oregonian (Portland) An attempt to discredit a witness testifying against the Church of Scientology in a fraud trial hit a snag Thursday when a Portland judge called surreptitiously made videotapes an "amateurish performance" and refused to let them be shown to the jury. "I think they are devastating, devastating against the church," Multnomah Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer said out of the presence of the jury after viewing 108 minutes of tape recorded in a Los Angeles park last November. The tapes involved ...
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
Type: Press
Author(s):
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 ...
Aug 14, 1984
Letters to the Editor // In response — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) Editor: I read your recent editorial with interest and noted the deep support and warmth that you feel for Mr. Michael Flynn. My concern is that such support is not based on facts. The facts are that Mr. Flynn was part of a criminal conspiracy to forge a check on the account of L. Ron Hubbard. This has now been turned over to federal authorities as this is a criminal act. Mr. Flynn may be opposed to several religions and indeed ...
Aug 10, 1984
Affidavit of Michael J. Flynn
Jul 24, 1984
Scientologists blame mystery forgery try on lawyer-critic — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William Overend Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Church of Scientology officials Monday accused a Boston lawyer who has been a prominent critic of the organization of conspiring to pass a counterfeit $2-million check on the account of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and later blaming the forgery on members of the church as part of an "overall plan" to destroy the group. The charges were made against attorney Michael Flynn in documents filed in Los Angeles federal court in connection, with a lawsuit filed by a Scientology member, ...
May 4, 1984
Salvos open Scientology trial — Las Vegas Review JournalMore: link
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Las Vegas Review Journal LOS ANGELES — Stacks of papers show reclusive Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard packed lie after lie into his books, a lawyer claimed in court Thursday. Boston attorney Michael Flynn is representing the man who acquired the papers before they were sealed by the court. Flynn told Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge defendant Gerald Armstrong received the papers legally from a British writer who was preparing a biography on Hubbard. The plaintiffs, the church and Hubbard's wife, Mary ...
Mar 19, 1984
Lawyer seeks to force Scientology 'leaders' to testify in lawsuit — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: link
Feb 9, 1984
Sect president denies wrongdoing in probe — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Mangum Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Recent reports about the Church of Scientology hiring de-? pose as businessmen to elicit views about the sect from Clearwater civic leaders are "much ado about nothing," sect President Heber Jentzsch said Wednesday. "The issues all will come out in court," the 48-year-old Jentzsch told reporters during an "open house" at the sect-owned Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater. Jentzsch would not discuss specifics, but hinted the Scientology inquiry was tied into concerns about real estate speculation downtown and its potential ...
Feb 3, 1984
Private detective outlines undercover church probe — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Feb 3, 1984
Private eye says he conducted covert operation for church — Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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