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Jan 14, 2010
N.Y. state lawmaker's expulsion urged — UPI
Jan 21, 2008
Travolta goes to Cruise's defense — UPI
Jan 8, 2008
Cruise camp considering $100M lawsuit — UPI
Jan 6, 2008
Cruise biography could prompt dispute — UPI
Aug 8, 2007
Germany: Scientology a security threat? — UPI
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UPI HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 8 (UPI) — The interior minister of Hamburg, Germany, sees Scientology as a threat to his state's security. Scientology is not a religious community but an "extremist grouping" that needs to be banned, said Udo Nagel, the interior minister of the northern German state of Hamburg. According to Nagel, Germany’s Interior Ministry in Berlin is currently probing whether a ban of Scientology would hold up in court. Observers and virtually all political parties in Germany see Scientology as ...
Dec 14, 2004
Cruise ripped for plugging Scientology — UPI
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UPI NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) – Tom Cruise apparently won't win any prizes for using last week's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo as a platform to plug Scientology.
The "Collateral" star and Oprah Winfrey co-hosted Saturday's event, which featured such performers as Cyndi Lauper, Patti Labelle and Diana Krall, MSNBC reported Tuesday.
"One of the things that we believe in (as Scientologists) is peace, freedom," Cruise said in promoting the concert, which will be broadcast in the United States Dec. ...
Mar 5, 2002
Egypt jails two Scientologists — UPIMore: hrwf.net
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Issandr El Amrani Source:
UPI United Press International (05.03. 2002) /- HRWF International Secretariat (14.03.2002) C Website http://www.hrwf.net - Two members of the Church of Scientology are being held by Egyptian authorities under charges of "contempt of religion." They are accused of trying to spread their doctrines "with the aim of sparking riots." "Contempt of religion" is a charge that has come up increasingly often in Egypt in recent years. Similar accusations have been used against other non-mainstream religious groups or to punish groups whose activities ...
Jan 31, 1990
Copyright dispute blocks biography of Scientology founder — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Jan 30, 1990
Judge bars unauthorized biography L. Ron Hubbard — UPI
Nov 24, 1988
Church of Scientology threatens to sue judge — UPI
Aug 17, 1986
Church of Scientology settles in multimillion-dollar civil suits — Orlando Sentinel
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Orlando Sentinel The Church of Scientology has reached out-of-court settlements in four multimillion-dollar civil suits, but details were ordered sealed by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich. Settlements were reached with former Clearwater Mayor Gabe Cazares, a Democratic candidate for Congress; Tanja Burden of Las Vegas; Nancy McLean of Ontario, Canada; and Margery Wakefield, no address available. Tampa attorney Walt Logan, who represented plaintiffs in all four cases, said the files were sealed Thursday over our objections. The Cazareses sued the church for $1.5 ...
Jun 13, 1983
[The founder and spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology diverted millions of dollars in church funds] — UPI
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UPI The founder and spiritual leader of the Church of Scientology diverted millions of dollars in church funds into his own personal accounts, it was reported Sunday. L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive leader of the Clearwater-based church, used a "dummy" foreign corporation as a funnel for the funds, the St. Petersburg Times said in a copyright story. Church officials denied the charges. But the newspaper said court files in the United States and Canada show Hubbard collected money worldwide through the Religious ...
May 3, 1983
Legality of new religion fraud bill challenged — UPIMore: link
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UPI A new bill, designed to control fraud by religious organizations, was criticized Monday by an attorney for the Church of Scientology who said it still may be unconstitutional. Lee Boothby, the lawyer for the church, told the Senate Judiciary Committee some sections of SB343 may conflict with doctrines of the Catholic and Mormon churches, putting it in possible conflict with the First Amendment. SB343 is a replacement for an earlier bill which singled out religious cults which could be sued for ...
Mar 5, 1983
Private school site may become Oregon's only federal prison — UPI
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UPI A 1,300 acre site used for a school associated with the Church of Scientology has won initial backing from a federal committee for a prison site to house 400 minimum security inmates. The Executive Committee of the Federal Bureau of Prisons meeting in Tallahasse, Fla., was reported Friday to have chosen the site for further consideration for a prison. The prison would have a staff of about 140 and a $4.6-million annual budget. Alice Propes, real estate agent for the Delphian ...
Nov 15, 1982
Cult founder's son asks to be trustee [exact date unknown] — UPIMore: link
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UPI The oldest son of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, has filed a petition in Superior Court, saying he believes his father is either dead or mentally incompetent. The
Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Saturday that Ronald DeWolf also claims in court papers filed last week that officials in the church have stolen millions of dollars, gems and securities from Hubbard's estate. DeWolf further claims in the court papers that his father had been ill for decades, suffered from ...
May 29, 1982
Scientology... or science fiction? — UPIMore: link
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UPI CARSON CITY, Nev. — The former L. Ron Hubbard Jr. shed his father's name in a simple legal maneuver. Shedding the effects of his powerful church is another matter. Left behind are bitter hatreds, fears for his safety only half-jokingly laughed off, charges of money-grubbing and wrongdoing and deep emotional scars. The Church of Scientology counters that the wayward son is merely fantasizing. Ron DeWolf, 47, first born offspring of Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the brilliant and controversial force behind the fabulously ...
May 8, 1982
Aboard church ship / Father doubts story of how daughter died — Lodi News-Sentinel (California)More: news.google.ca
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Lodi News-Sentinel (California) CLEARWATER. Fla. (UPI) — The father of a young girl who was killed in 1971 aboard a ship owned by the Church of Scientology in Morocco said Friday he doesn't believe the church officials who told him his daughter committed suicide. George Meister, testifying before the City Council, said he flew to Morocco and was shown a photograph of his bloodied daughter Susan and was told by church officials she had been found shot to death with a long-barreled .22-caliber pistol, ...
Dec 29, 1980
[An arson in Pasadena California] — UPI
Apr 7, 1974
Narconon programs help addicts in prisons, community centers — Reading Eagle (Pennsylvania)
Feb 11, 1951
Model and mate, instructor in dianetics, slain — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) BERKELEY, Feb. 10 (U.P.)—A "dianetics instructor" and his "artist's model" wife were found shot to death in their apartment last night, apparently a murder and suicide, according to police. The bodies of David E. Cary, 29, and his wife Helen, 27, were found after neighbors complained the apartment radio had been blaring without stop for "at least a week." Police said the couple had been dead for about 10 days. Police Investigator J. L. Houston said Mrs. Cary apparently shot her ...
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