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Scientology officials jailed for ignoring subpoenas — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
Clearwater Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Church of Scientology spokesman Milt Wolfe and another church official were jailed Thursday for failing to respond to subpoenas by Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney James T. Russel. Wolfe and Ted Froyland, an official of the church's Ministry of Legal Affairs, were taken into custody by detectives from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office at 3 p.m., according to sheriff's spokesman Merrill Stebbins. After spending less than two hours in custody, the two Scientologists were released on their own recognisance by Circuit ...
Mar 1, 1980
Affidavit of Anne Rosenblum [exact date unknown, circa March 1980 assumed] More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF ANNE ROSENBLUM In December, 1972, after my first semester of college (in the state of Washington), I was introduced to Scientology when another Scientologist encouraged me to take a "Personality Test" at the Portland "Org". I was given a poor evaluation on the test. I later learned, however, that it is a customary practice of the "Church" to give one a poor evaluation on the test in order to induce the person into Scientology processing. The Scientologists also told ...
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Anne Rosenblum •
Auditing •
Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International @ 5930 Franklin Avenue Los Angeles CA United States •
Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (CSFSO) •
Committee of Evidence ("Comm Ev") •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Disconnection •
Estates Project Force (EPF) •
Ethics (Scientology) •
Excalibur (ship) •
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Former Bank of Clearwater building @ 500 Cleveland Street Clearwater FL United States •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
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Medical claims •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
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Overt, withhold •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
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Rock Slam (R/S) •
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[needtotag] Feb 25, 1980
Man dies at Church of Scientology convention — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 11, 1980
Drug unit is linked to church — Detroit NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Shellenbarger Source:
Detroit News LANSING — The Michigan Department of Corrections paid more than $100,000 during the last three years to a drug treatment program with veiled ties to the controversial Church of Scientology. Leaders of the drug program, known as Narconon, admit it is based on Scientology teachings, but they deny any affiliation with the church. A state corrections official said he was satisfied that Scientology does not run Narconon. Church records obtained by The Detroit News showed, however, that Scientology leaders created Narconon ...
Jan 25, 1980
Affidavit of Tonja Burden
Jan 24, 1980
The Scientology Papers: Hubbard still gave orders, records show — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Marshall Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — L. Ron Hubbard, the former science fiction writer who publicly resigned in 1966 from leadership of the Church of Scientology, continued to give orders to its leaders into 1977, a Washington court has been told. Evidence obtained in 1977 in raids on U. S. offices of the cult by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed there was a detailed program to cover up Mr. Hubbard's involvement in the leadership of Scientology. Called Operation Bulldozer Leak, it was part ...
Jan 9, 1980
Court tangle gave Scientology its first 'martyrs' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Dispute over tax status goes to court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , antisectes.net
Jan 9, 1980
Scientology brings 4 years of discord — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 9, 1980
Shedding light on Scientology's dark side — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 15, 1979
Scientology foes rally today — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1979
Clearwater official favors joint suit on Scientology tax status — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1979
Scientologists sought sex smear of Cazares, their documents show — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 27, 1979
Cult sought to shield $8 million from IRS — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON—The project was so top secret and top priority that L. Ron Hubbard himself christened it. He called it "Goldmine." At stake was more than $8 million in Scientology money that the Internal Revenue Service might get if top-level sect "guardians" didn't work quickly and vigorously to protect Scientology from unfavorable IRS audits. The scheme was based in Clearwater, where in November 1975 the sect had just established its phony United Churches group. But top Scientologists around the country were prepared ...
Nov 27, 1979
Scientology files: Frame reporter — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Documents describe Scientology infiltration of Clearwater Sun — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 24, 1979
Scientology files: Scientologists planned to discredit police, lie to U.S. agency — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Nov 10, 1979
Scientologists got secret files of Times, lawyers — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Secret letters and memos from the personal files of St. Petersburg Times editors and its attorneys were obtained and analyzed by members of the Church of Scientology shortly after the church moved to Clearwater four years ago. The letters and memos were used by the church in calculating its response to news media reports revealing its purchase through a front organization of the Fort Harrison Hotel. How the Church of Scientology or its agents got access to the locked filing cabinets ...
Nov 8, 1979
Scientology's survival plan is revealed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) WASHINGTON — United Churches of Florida, the Scientology front group established in Clearwater in November 1975, was designed to be a tax shelter that could launder sect revenue nationwide, top-secret Scientology documents show. Sect founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in September 1975 that United Churches was being created "to preserve the assets of Scientology . . . in case of a total wipeout of the Church of Scientology by IRS." The secret correspondence between Hubbard and highest-level Scientology "Guardians" show that ...
Nov 4, 1979
Years with sect span tax battles, infiltrations and acquisitions [incomplete] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The following is a chronology of local events from the Scientologists 1975 purchase of the former Fort Harrison hotel to last week's release of church documents by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. 1975 Oct. 27 — Fort Harrison officials acknowledge sale of the hotel, saying the Jack Tar chain will cease operations on Nov. 30. The buyer is Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. Nov. 5 — Citizens learn Southern Land has agreed to buy another downtown landmark, the old ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists' targets in Pinellas listed in files — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Charles Stafford Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) WASHINGTON — Six boxes of documents make it clear: People in Pinellas County — a newspaper editor, a reporter, a mayor, a state attorney — were targets three years ago of the "fair game" policy of members of the Church of Scientology. The documents were among thousands seized by the FBI in 1977 raids on church headquarters in Washington and Los Angeles. They were the basis for indictments against nine church leaders on charges of conspiring to steal government documents and ...
Mar 25, 1979
Beware the vicious and aggressive cults — The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
Aug 28, 1978
'Fair Game' policy // Scientology critics assail belligerence — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Rawitch ,
Robert Gillette Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate (sic) or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who . . . seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists." — L. Ron Hubbard, Aug. 15, 1967 It was not the first time that private investigator Eual R. Harrow had interviewed jurors following a verdict, but ...
Apr 27, 1978
Scientology church gives county spending records — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Denley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology has given Pinellas County their records showing how the church spends its money, but those records are being kept confidential under a court protective order. The records were turned over to county attorneys Monday in preparation for a civil trial that begins today to determine whether the church's Clearwater property should be tax-exempt. he property in question in the lawsuit — which deals specifically with 1976 taxes — is the former Fort Harrison Hotel and ...
Dec 28, 1977
Scientology Church again files suit seeking tax-exempt status — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jul 25, 1977
They hope to see clear days forever — Flint Journal (Michigan)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Betty Brenner Source:
Flint Journal (Michigan) The two-story brick building at N. Ballenger Hwy. and Sloan St. looks as if it should house an insurance agency or doctor's office. It is a well-built, well-kept structure. Inside, quality furniture and a quiet, professional greeting welcome the visitor. But this building houses a center related to a church that is under fire from federal agencies. Early this month, the FBI used crowbars and sledgehammers to enter offices of the Church of Scientology in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. Agents were ...
Nov 25, 1976
Scientology leader's son cremated; staff disclaims his identity — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 1, 1976
"Poor Man's Psychoanalysis?": Observation on Dianetics — The ZeteticMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roy Wallis Source:
The Zetetic The sociology of marginal medicine is a neglected field of endeavor. There exist only a mere handful of brief accounts of unorthodox therapeutic practices and their development in Western societies. I shall seek, therefore, to provide a contribution to this scant literature, in the belief that such studies are not only of intrinsic interest but also provide insight into a number of strains and tensions generated by advanced industrial societies and into some of the less orthodox methods of coping with ...
Jul 31, 1976
Scientology plea for tax exemption is rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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