Page 1 2 3 4 of 4:
⇑ Latest
↑ Later
Earlier ↓
Earliest ⇓
Jan 25, 1980
Affidavit of Tonja Burden
Mar 7, 1974
Counterattack: The response to criticism [last of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) "We are not a law enforcement agency. BUT we will become interested in the crimes of people who seek to stop us ... If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Said Emily Watson, the church's national public affairs representative: "We tried doing that for years, but the attacks kept growing ...." Two attacks to which she referred were ...
Oct 26, 1972
Books / Inside Scientology — Rolling StoneMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William S. Burroughs Source:
Rolling Stone [Picture / Caption: Burroughs using a Scientology E-Meter: "All this time I felt my self-respect slipping away from me and finally completely gone . . . officially removed. . . " ] Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman Olympia Press. 279 pp. BY WILLIAM BURROUGHS The upper levels of Scientology processing are classified as "confidential," which means that only those who have completed the lower grades, passed security checks, and paid the large fees in advance are allowed to see and run this ...
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 08 The British and Australian Orgs — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 10 The Suppressives — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 11 The Sexual and Criminal Security Check — Tower Publications, Inc.
Oct 10, 1970
Ex-Scientologist tells of 'fear' atmosphere // McMaster accuses Hubbard of fostering spiritual tyranny within organization — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Dart Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) One year ago an articulate but soft-spoken man named John McMaster was extolling the virtues of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the worldwide, quasi-scientific "religion." Appearing on television talk shows and giving lectures as Hubbard's personal representative, McMaster was eminently qualified. He was the first person to achieve Scientology's state of "clear," which purportedly gives a person full control a his mental processes. Now McMaster describes the Church of Scientology and other organizations run by Hubbard as engaging ...
Mar 1, 1970
I, William Burroughs, challenge you, L. Ron Hubbard — Mayfair (magazine)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William S. Burroughs Source:
Mayfair (magazine) 'You claim Scientology is the universal road to freedom. Well I've taken your course and I say: prove it to all of us. Come out country simple and prove it' In view of the fact that my articles and statements on Scientology may have influenced young people to associate themselves with the so-called Church of Scientology, I feel an obligation to make my present views on the subject quite clear. 'Some of the techniques are highly valuable and warrant further study ...
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 7: "Ethics" — Delacorte Press
Dec 1, 1969
The Tragi-Farce of Scientology — Queen (magazine)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paulette Cooper Source:
Queen (magazine) If you think you have problems with Scientology in England, you should see what's happening in the States. Here, they pass out their leaflets on the street corners of some of the most pukka neighbourhoods, urging innocent bystanders to try out Scientology. Those who have accepted the invitation have found themselves in one of their many dingy headquarters, listening to a dull lecture on Scientology, followed by a film of equal merit on its leader, L. Ron Hubbard. Those who didn't ...
Jun 1, 1969
The Dangerous New Cult of Scientology — Parents' MagazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Arlene Eisenberg ,
Howard Eisenberg Source:
Parents' Magazine When ministers of the Founding Church of Scientology told a Falls Church, Virginia couple that could teach the couple's defective son to talk and raise his IQ at same time, the man and wife, understandably in search of a miracle, willingly paid—in advance—the sum of $3,000 as a "contribution for spiritual guidance." The husband cashed a life insurance policy, sold some bonds, added the proceeds of a small bequest and "scraped around in various places." And then his son Paul's "processing" ...
Mar 9, 1969
Scientology – Help? Hindrance? — Pacific Stars & Stripes
Aug 2, 1968
Father 'alarmed' at rise of the mind cult — Scottish Daily Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nigel Benson Source:
Scottish Daily Mail (UK) A FATHER said yesterday he was 'alarmed' at the rise of Scientology. Mr Thomas Riley, 45, spoke after his daughter Kathleen, 15, was sacked from a job in the publications organisation of the cult in Edinburgh. Kathleen, of Niddrie Marischal Place, Edinburgh, worked for five weeks in the cult's offices which send out pamphlets and leaflets. Last night she told of tests she had been given on an 'E' meter. 'They asked all sorts of questions — they were really odd. ...
Aug 2, 1968
Life in the cult -- by Kathleen and Iain [part of the article missing] — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ian Metcalfe ,
Allan Gulland Source:
Daily Record (Scotland, UK) A BOY and a girl told last night of what happened to them in while they worked at the Scottish headquarters of the Scientologists. THE GIRL, Kathleen Riley, said it was a bit frightening at first when she was given a kind of lie-detector test. THE BOY, lain Thomson, 20, claimed he was told to work for more than 15 hours — then sleep on a wooden floor. Kathleen, of 31 Niddrie Marischal Place, Edinburgh, said she was linked to an ...
Aug 1, 1968
Girl tells 'News' about her job with Scientology // Inspect cult offices, says councillor — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Logan Robertson ,
Nigel Hawkins Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) An Edinburgh Town Councillor has complained to the public health authorities about the offices in Edinburgh of Scientology — the system of religious philosophy of American origin, which claims to increase a person's ability. Mr I. W. Wintour, Chief Sanitary Inspector for Edinburgh Corporation, said today: "We have received this complaint and are investigating." —– Family find it 'disquieting' Today we give the account of a local girl, Kathleen Riley, of her job as an employee of the organisation Scientology. Councillor ...
Jul 28, 1968
Scientology: Sex, hypnotism and security checks — Sunday Mirror (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George Martin Source:
Sunday Mirror (UK) "SCIENTOLOGY is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially; and its adherents sadly deluded and often mentally ill. "It's founder is Lafayette Ron Hubbard, an American . . . who falsely claims academic and other distinctions, and whose sanity is to be gravely doubted." While the British authorities hummed and hawed, an official inquiry in Victoria, Australia, in 1965 condemned Hubbard and his organisation in these unmistakable terms. Intimate It branded Hubbard ...
Jul 26, 1968
How the cult deals with its critics — The Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Henry Stanhope Source:
The Times (UK) The Minister of Health, who announced the Government's plans to clamp down on the cult of scientology yesterday, must consider himself in imminent danger of a "noisy investigation". "Noisy investigations" were recommended to scientologists by their guide and mentor, Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, a Nebraskan, two years ago as one way to deal with the cuIt's growing number of critics. "You find out where he or she works or worked—doctor, dentist, friends, neighbours, anyone—and phone 'em up and say: 'I am ...
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology 'brainwash' // JP's comment as ex-student is cleared of theft — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) Hearing how Scientologists "audited" members who knew or mentioned people "disconnected" from the organisation, chairman of East Grinstead magistrates, Mr Antony Evans said: "It sounds like brainwashing to me." And the defendant and a witness in the case being heard by the court on Tuesday asked for their addresses to be kept secret to avoid persecution by members of the organisation. After a five-hour hearing the magistrates dismissed a case brought against former Scientologist Mr Maurice Johnson of South Shields, by ...
Mar 20, 1966
One man Britain can do without / He is sending out spies to smear anybody who dares attack his strange cult — The PeopleMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Derek Ive Source:
The People HE IS SENDING OUT SPIES TO SMEAR ANYBODY WHO DARES ATTACK HIS STRANGE CULT [Photos / Caption: Mr. Hubbard . . . from him, dangerous words.] [Photos / Caption: Mr. Sharpe . . . from him, angry words.] BEHIND the elegant walls of a country mansion in Sussex, a nasty enterprise is being directed by the head of a strange American cult. It is an evil plan which will offend every fair-minded citizen in this country. The man is Lafayette Ron ...
Jul 1, 1965
Borderline special // L. Ron Hubbard // Scientology---The sound and the fury — BorderlineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
L. Ron Hubbard ,
Richard G. Sipes Source:
Borderline [Borderline Vol. 1 Number 7 July 1965] EDITOR'S NOTE: In the October, 1964 issue of BORDERLINE, Richard Grey Sipes authored an article titled,
L. Ron Hubbard: An Opinion And A Summing Up . Previously, BORDORLINE executive editor Sydney Omarr had invited Hubbard to contribute to the magazine. Hubbard's views and movements—his books and his organization—represent fascinating excursions into the borderline areas. But Hubbard, understandably, is a busy man, as he explained in this communication, dated June 22, 1964, from East Grinstead, ...
Apr 7, 1963
Scientology claims cure, chases Reds, vexes U.S. — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jack Mann Source:
Detroit Free Press When the Church of Scientology offered last August to send its E Meter into battle against Communist subversion, President Kennedy didn't even say, "No thanks." Because this religious organization when scorned has political fury of a Hell it doesn't especially believe in, Mr. Kennedy will hear more about his oversight. In the meantime, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized the E Meter. FDA, bureaucratically unconcerned with any spiritua or ideological magic the machine might work, had United States ...
Jan 1, 1963
U.S. Acts to Stop Use of Cure-All Device — The Evening Star
Dec 31, 1959
Blow-offs
Page 4 of 4 :
⇑ Latest
↑ Later
Earlier ↓
Earliest ⇓
Permalink