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Mar 3, 1998
Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon — Boston HeraldMore: scientology-lies.com , rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joseph Mallia Source:
Boston Herald An organization with ties to the Church of Scientology is recruiting New England schoolchildren for what critics say is an unproven — and possibly dangerous — anti-drug program. And the group — Narconon Inc. of Everett — is being paid with taxpayer dollars without disclosing its Scientology connections. Narconon was paid at least $942,853 over an eight-year period for delivering anti-drug lectures at public and parochial schools throughout the region, according to federal income tax documents. The money came from fees ...
Mar 2, 1998
Church keys programs to recruit blacks — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 2, 1998
Milton school shades ties to Scientology — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 1, 1998
Powerful church targets fortunes, souls of recruits — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Dec 11, 1997
Letters to the Editor / Spreading pure innuendo — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: whyaretheydead.info
Type: Press
Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) As if your article of pure innuendo (For some Scientologists, pilgrimage has been fatal) weren't enough, you've also continued to use discredited sources as "authoritative consultants" to forward your bigoted agenda. I won't detail how a similar article could be written about any religion. Indeed, I'd bet money that no newspaper in the United States has ever started isolating the death of the members of a religion. If you were to do it with the local Catholics, I am sure it ...
Dec 9, 1997
Gifts of cash fuel battle of principle / Hub man's aid to Scientology critics draws fire and rhetoric from church — Boston Globe
Dec 7, 1997
A belief in reincarnation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Nov 19, 1997
Secret lives: Lafayette Ron Hubbard [video] — Channel 4 (UK)More: transcript , local copy of transcript
Type: TV
Source:
Channel 4 (UK) VOICES: "We were saving the world, we were convinced that Hubbard was the returned saviour and that his techniques and his knowledge and his majesty would eventually bring all mankind to an enlightened state and that was what we were doing..." "There were some things about him that I do feel were rather dangerous. I felt so much under his spell that I told my room-mate that if ever I told her that I was going to marry this man, she ...
Aug 27, 1997
Scientology's system "hacker proof" More: link
Type: Account
Author(s):
Robert Vaughn Young (To be included in OSA US DR re RVY) INCOMM was created to be the computer data base for Scientology. Foster Thompkins was put in charge of the setup. It was to serve as a repository for all LRH writings so they could be word searched. (That was "SIR" or Source Information Retrieval). Routing forms were to go into the computer base. Time machine programs were to run the programs, automatically ordering the person to do the step. And there was ...
Mar 6, 1997
Nightmare on the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Prendergast Source:
Denver Westword News A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. Strange things happen around Lawrence Wollersheim. His businesses collapse. His Boulder apartment gets raided by federal marshals, his computers seized. When college students offer to help him rebuild his computer bulletin-board system, they receive threatening phone calls–anonymous voices urging them to stay away from Larry. A California judge who presided over a lawsuit in which Wollersheim was the plaintiff told reporters he'd encountered a lot ...
Feb 21, 1997
Scientology had woman in isolation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: groups.google.ca , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Dec 1, 1996
Scientologist Buys Bankrupt Cult-Fighting Organization — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Laurie Goodstein Source:
Seattle Times BARRINGTON, Ill. - For 20 years, the Cult Awareness Network ran the nation's best-known hotline for parents who grew distraught when unconventional religious groups they neither trusted nor understood suddenly won the allegiance of their children. From its offices in a Chicago suburb, the network (known as CAN) answered more than 350 telephone inquiries a week, counseled relatives at conferences attended by thousands and gave news interviews to everyone from small-town daily newspapers to "Nightline." As CAN's influence rose, so did ...
May 29, 1996
Ominous new threat to free speech — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Gray Source:
Herald Sun (Australia) Free speech has come under renewed threat because of a little-noticed decision by the Australian Broadcasting Authority. In an ominous echo of moves to restrict free speech via racial hate laws, the ABA has ruled that radio station 3RRR breached acceptable standards on religious vilification. The unprecedented case centred on criticisms of the Church of Scientology by ex-Scientologist Cyril Vosper on 3RRR's
The Liars' Club program last year. Among other criticisms, Vosper likened Scientology to an extremist political regime and ...
Dec 1, 1995
alt.scientology.war — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wendy M. Grossman Source:
Wired When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, and police pierce the security anonymous remailers,the days of the Net as a cozy, cocktail party are over. Welcome to a flame war with real bullets. When computers are seized because they contain allegedly stolen intellectual property, or the security of anonymous remailers is pierced by police, alt.scientology.war the days of the Internet as a cozy, private, intellectual cocktail party are over. Welcome to mortal combat between two alien cultures ...
Oct 4, 1995
Stalking the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Prendergast Source:
Denver Westword News IN THE ONLINE BRAWL OVER SCIENTOLOGY, INTERNET USERS DISCOVER THAT VIRTUAL REALITY BITES BACK.SHOWDOWN IN CYBERSPACE THE BATTLE OVER SCIENTOLOGY'S SECRETS IGNITES A HOLY WAR ON THE INTERNET.
Lawrence Wollersheim's hands shake as he reads his notes, ticking off the damage done to his computers. Surrounding the 46-year-old Boulder resident is a cluster of reporters and, beyond that, a ring of glowering, dark-suited men (and one woman wearing a clerical collar), all packed into a hallway of the federal courthouse in ...
Aug 26, 1995
Scientology critics claim harassment for using Internet — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jennifer Bjorhus Source:
Seattle Times As the Church of Scientology battles a band of cyberspace dissidents - seizing computers and papers from the homes of vocal online critics in the past two weeks - local defectors charge they are being harassed for speaking out against the church. Robert Vaughn Young and Stacy Young, longtime staff members who left the Church of Scientology in 1989, complained to police that Scientologists have picketed their house in West Seattle at least five times in the past two weeks. They ...
Jul 13, 1995
The Big Story: Inside the Cult (video) — Carlton TelevisionMore: Youtube , transcript
Jan 28, 1995
Police looking for church's private eye — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Dec 25, 1994
Scientology fiction: The church's war against its critics -- and truth — Washington PostMore: link
Aug 12, 1994
What's Scientology got to do with it? — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) WHY DID LISA Marie Presley and Michael Jackson get married? Love, if you believe her press release, the one pledging to "dedicate my life to being his wife." Or, according to speculation from Hollywood, Jackson is rehabbing his image and simultaneously consummating the ultimate entertainment empire merger. But another possibility is circulating among the conspiracy-minded former members of the Church of Scientology. It's an astounding theory — that the church itself helped arrange the Presley-Jackson union. But these defectors say that ...
Aug 9, 1994
One theory on Michael-Lisa: It's all a plot — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Seattle Times Why did Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson get married? Love, if you believe her press release, the one pledging to "dedicate my life to being his wife." Or, goes the speculation from Hollywood, Jackson is rehabbing his image and simultaneously consummating the ultimate entertainment merger. But another possibility is circulating among conspiracy-minded former members of the Church of Scientology. It's an astounding theory - that the church itself helped arrange the Presley-Jackson union - but these defectors say nothing about ...
Aug 4, 1994
Harmonic conversion? // Ex-Scientologists speculate on why Michael and Lisa wed — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Washington Post Why did Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson get married? Love, if you believe her press release, the one pledging to "dedicate my life to being his wife." Or, goes the speculation from Hollywood, Jackson is rehabbing his image and simultaneously consummating the ultimate entertainment empire merger. But another possibility is circulating among the conspiracy-minded former members of the Church of Scientology. It's an astounding theory – that the church itself helped arrange the Presley-Jackson union – but these defectors say ...
Mar 28, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Secrets of Saint Hill — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) Special investigation by chief reporter PAUL BRACCHI [A very small picture of Mr. Bracchi is shown.] [A picture of a man in a long military coat with brass buttons is shown. Below the picture is this title: "A Scientologist out on liberty time in a miliary-style greatcoat."] THEY dress like naval officers. But the uniforms, complete with epaulettes and brass buttons, are not what they seem. These men and women do not belong to the armed services...they are Scientologists. Most of ...
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. —– ...
Jan 23, 1994
Church seeks world conquest, defector says — Albuquerque Journal
Jan 23, 1994
Mountain of mystery / A Scientology sect's underground N.M. archive is an enigma to some neighbors — Albuquerque JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Sharpe Source:
Albuquerque Journal TREMENTINA — High in the headwaters of the Rio Trementina, a reclusive sect of the Church of Scientology has established what is described as an archive to preserve for a millennium the words of its founder. In January 1984, the California-based Church of Spiritual Technology — one of the parent church's dozens of spinoffs during its 26-year legal battle with the federal government over tax exemptions — began buying the first of a dozen tracts of land some 50 miles east ...
Dec 19, 1993
Commentary: Taking exception — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 15, 1993
The Scottish highland quietude club — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 1, 1993
Scientology from inside out — Quill
Feb 16, 1986
Hubbard dwelt in an enigmatic haze / Tour of Scientology founder's ranch throws some light on his last days — Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
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