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"Cult" office gets the all clear — Sunday PostMore: link
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Sunday Post FOLLOWING complaints by a 15-year-old girl about working conditions, the Sanitary Department of Edinburgh Corporation Public Health Authority inspected the premises of the Publications Organisation World Wide in East Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh. The premises are part of the Scientology Cult Administration in Edinburgh. A spokesman said they had nothing to report except a few minor infringements of the Offices, Shops, and Railway Premises Act. The inspection was carried out at the request of Councillor Rupert Speyer after he had heard ...
Aug 4, 1968
Scientology: wanted -- fact — The Observer (London, UK)More: link
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The Observer (London, UK) THE case of the Scientologists raises a very prickly issue. On the one hand, it is difficult to fault the verdict of Mr Kenneth Robinson, the Minister of Health, that the cult is 'socially harmful.' On the other hand, the Government's decision to ban followers of the cult from entry into Britain does raise a very basic issue: should moral and social disapproval be translated into executive action? In each and every case, the damage done to the principle of freedom ...
Aug 3, 1968
Check is made on cult premises — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
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Logan Robertson ,
Nigel Hawkins Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) The premises in North-East Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh, occupied by the Scientology administered Publications Organisation World Wide, have been inspected by the Sanitary Department of Edinburgh Corporation public health authority. A spokesman for the department said they found nothing to report, "except a few minor infringements of the Office, Shops, and Railway Premises Act, which will be attended to. There was no evidence of employees sleeping on the premises." The inspection was carried out after the Sanitary Department had been approached ...
Aug 2, 1968
'Finished my work,' says Scientology founder — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) Mr Ron Hubbard (57), American founder of the Scientology movement, sent a Telex message to the cult's world headquarters in East Grinstead, Sussex, yesterday saying: "I finished my work. Now it is up to others." This was stated by Mrs David Gaiman, wife of the movement's chief spokesman. She said the message — which did not mention the current controversy over the cult — gave no clue to Mr Hubbard's whereabouts. It read: "I retired from Scientology directorships over two years ...
Aug 2, 1968
Cult founder says he has finished — The Times (UK)More: link
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The Times (UK) Mr. Lafayette Ron Hubbard, aged 57, American founder of the scientology movement, sent a telex message yesterday to the cult's headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex, saying: "I finished my work. Now it is up to others." Mrs. David Gaiman, wife of the movement's chief spokesman, said the message gave no clue to Mr. Hubbard's whereabouts. It read: — "I retired from directorship in scientology organization two or more years ago to explore and study the decline of ancient civilizations and so ...
Aug 2, 1968
Cult jobs: Ban imposed by Ministry — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
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Logan Robertson ,
Nigel Hawkins Source:
Evening News (Edinburgh) The Ministry for Employment and Productivity have stopped sending people for vacancies at the Edinburgh offices of Publications Organisation. The ban was applied after it was found there was a link between Publications Organisation and Scientology. A spokesman for the Ministry said in Edinburgh today that they had referred the whole matter to their headquarters in London. He said : "We have sent several women, and one or two men, to vacancies notified to us by Publications Organisation. We did not ...
Aug 2, 1968
Father 'alarmed' at rise of the mind cult — Scottish Daily Mail (UK)More: link
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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
I'm not your leader // Hubbard tells scientologists — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)More: link
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Daily Record (Scotland, UK) The founder of Scientology, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, announced yesterday that he is no longer leader of the movement. The 57-year-old American said this in a cable to the cult's headquarters in East Grinstead, Sussex. He sent it from his 3300 ton yacht Royal Scotman which "is somewhere at sea." The message stated that Hubbard had not been the leader since he "retired from Scientology directorships" two years ago. Earlier this week staff at the Scottish H.Q. in Edinburgh seemed to think ...
Aug 2, 1968
Life in the cult -- by Kathleen and Iain [part of the article missing] — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)More: link
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Ian Metcalfe ,
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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 2, 1968
Sanitary inspectors to investigate Scientology premises — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) Sanitary inspectors are to carry out an investigation into the conditions in which, it is alleged, members of the Scientology cult are living in their office headquarters — a converted warehouse — in the centre of Edinburgh. Councillor Rupert Speyer has asked the city's sanitary department to find out if members of the Scientology staff who study a religious philosophy, are sleeping in their offices at North-east Thistle Street Lane. He also wants to know how many toilets there are for ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientologists issue writs for libel — The Times (UK)More: link
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The Times (UK) The Church of of California has issued writs claiming damages for libel against four newspapers. The writs also seek injunctions restraining publication of the "said or any similar libels". The newspapers concerned are the News of the World, the Sunday Express, the Sunday Mirror, and the Daily Express. The church, stated in the writs to be a non-profit-making corporation incorporated under the laws of California and with a registered office at Fitzroy Street, W., is suing the publishers — the News ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientology company issues libel writs — Scottish Daily Express (UK)More: link
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Scottish Daily Express (UK) THE Church of Scientology has issued High Court writs for libel against the publishers of four British newspapers. And it announced yesterday, through London solicitors its intention to lay complaints against the British Government before the European Commission of Human Rights. Suing as a company with registered offices in Fitzroy Street, London, the Church is claiming damages for alleged libel in the Sunday Express, News of the World, and Sunday Mirror last Sunday, and in the Daily Express last Friday. In ...
Aug 2, 1968
Scientology founder rebukes Britain as a 'police State' — The Guardian (UK)More: link
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The Guardian (UK) Mr Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, American founder of the scientology movement, sent a message to the movement's East Grinstead headquarters yesterday saying: "I have finished my work. Now it is up to others." He founded the movement in the early 1950s. The movement, which was called "socially harmful" by the Minister of Health in the House of Commons, has been described by one scientologist as "an applied religious philosophy, designed to increase the individual's ability within his community." View of world The ...
Aug 1, 1968
50 Scientologists told to leave Britain — Daily Telegraph (UK)More: link
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Daily Telegraph (UK) MORE than 50 Scientology students were yesterday ordered to leave Britain by immigration officials after arriving on three flights from America. Many had arrived at Heathrow Airport late on Tuesday night. They were booked into local hotels and guarded by security men until flight departure times yesterday. A Home Office spokesman said last night that all 74 Scientology students who had arrived in Britain on Tuesday had been refused entry. Although most were provided with overnight accommodation, 23 had been sent ...
Aug 1, 1968
As more are barred, Scientologists say: We will beat ban — Scottish Daily Express (UK)More: link
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Scottish Daily Express (UK) THE scientology sect—whose students are barred from entering Britain—is going ahead with plans for an "international conference" in London this month. Yesterday 72 scientology students were turned back at London Airport—52 of them after a night under guard in £4 10s.-a-time rooms at airport hotels at the expense of B.O.A.C.. They booked with the airline as a party from an American oil company. Delegates to the international scientology conference in Croydon from August 16-18 will beat the ban by declaring themselves ...
Aug 1, 1968
Britain curbs activities of cult of Scientologists // Refuses to admit Americans known to be followers of the semireligious group — New York TimesMore: link , select.nytimes.com
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New York Times LONDON, July 31—On successive days this week groups of Americans arriving in Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as scientology. The ban on scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British Government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, said in the House of Commons that he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
British bar Scientology 'students' // 'Socially harmful,' authorities claim — New York TimesMore: link
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New York Times LONDON — On successive days this weeks groups of Americans headed for Britain have been turned back because they are followers of a semi-religious cult known as "Scientology." The Bar on Scientologists, as they call themselves, was imposed by the British government after a study. The Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, told the House of Commons he was satisfied that "scientology is socially harmful." He said: "Its authoritarian principles and practices are a potential menace to the personality and well-being of ...
Aug 1, 1968
Cult plans recruiting drive for Scotland — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)More: link
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Daily Record (Scotland, UK) STUDENTS of scientology said yesterday that they are to start a major recruiting drive in Scotland. On Monday, a special team of 10 will begin a three-week lecture tour of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Perth. Mr. Roger Barnes, 24, the governor of the Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence, in Queen Street, Edinburgh, said yesterday that more than 2000 Scots had passed through in the five weeks since it opened. Flights A spokesman for the cult said that students will continue ...
Aug 1, 1968
Cult's demand for public inquiry — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) Demands for a public inquiry into the conduct of Mr Kenneth Robinson, Minister of Health, and the action of the Home Office and Scotland Yard, were made yesterday by the Scientology headquarters at East Grinstead, Sussex. The demand came as more cult students, newly arrived from America, were being flown out of Britain after being ordered to leave. The chief spokesman for the Scientologists, Mr David Gaiman, said: "I want a public inquiry or a Royal Commission to investigate the propriety ...
Aug 1, 1968
Entry was easy, say students — Scottish Daily Express (UK)More: link
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Scottish Daily Express (UK) SCIENTOLOGY students, newly arrived from overseas, were still enrolling yesterday at the Edinburgh "Advanced Org" headquarters of the cult. Two of the new students at the centre, where only the most advanced members go, described how they had come into Britain yesterday. Mrs. Ruth Porsin (39), from Farmington, Michigan, said it took her less than five minutes to pass through Immigration. "I said that I was here for pleasure and study," said Mrs. Porsin, who plans to stay for five weeks. ...
Aug 1, 1968
Ethics officers in cult 'look after staff' — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
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Evening News (Edinburgh) We called at the Thistle Street Lane premises of Scientology last night and interviewed Mrs Judy Ziff, deputy director of Scientology's publications organisation in Edinburgh. The accommodation now occupied there by Scientology comprises former warehouse premises which a have been converted in about five weeks into extensive office accommodation, in which Scientology publications are redistributed to countries in many parts of the world. At 11.30 p.m., when we left, many members of the staff were still at work. We put a ...
Aug 1, 1968
Girl tells 'News' about her job with Scientology // Inspect cult offices, says councillor — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
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Logan Robertson ,
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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 ...
Aug 1, 1968
Government curb the growth of Scientology // Council call special meeting — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer East Grinstead Urban Council were due to hold a special meeting last night (Wednesday) to discuss the statement made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Health, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, of government plans to curb the growth of Scientology, which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. In a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, East Grinstead's M.P., the Minister said the Government had become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United ...
Aug 1, 1968
Scientology curb 'a worrying precedent' — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) The Government's clamp-down on scientology, announced last week, set a worrying precedent, Mr Tony Smythe, general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, said in Edinburgh last night. "I wonder who is going to be next on the list," Mr Smythe said at a late-night discussion "Injustice '68 Style," arranged by Shelter at the British Conference of Christian Youth. Scientologists had somehow incurred governmental displeasure, and the Minister of Health had announced that administrative measures would be used "to oppress ...
Aug 1, 1968
Scientology jet charter flight off — Daily Telegraph (UK)More: link
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Daily Telegraph (UK) ANOTHER Scientology jet charter flight to Scotland next month has been cancelled because of the Government's ban on the entry to Britain of followers of the cult. Caledonian Airways had planned to operate the charter. It was to have carried 186 members of the Hubbard Advanced College of Personal Independence from New York to Prestwick at the end of September. Two days ago, 186 scientology students should have arrived at Prestwick aboard a Caledonian jet charter but the flight was cancelled ...
Aug 1, 1968
We are not running away, says scientologist Candy — Daily Record (Scotland, UK)More: link
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Daily Record (Scotland, UK) BLONDE Candy Chaleff waited for the plane taking her to America yesterday and spoke of her scientology beliefs. The mini-skirted 22-year-old New York secretary was one of the first group of the cult's students to complete an "advanced course" in Edinburgh. She explained that she was the group's Public Relations Officer, and had been working with the organisation for a year before coming to Edinburgh two months ago. Candy laughed at suggestions that the students were leaving because of nation-wide criticism ...
Jul 31, 1968
Family sent back to U.S. — Glasgow Herald (UK)More: link
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Glasgow Herald (UK) An American family of seven were sent back to the United States yesterday from Heathrow Airport, London, five hours after flying in from New York. They told immigration officials they had come to London to attend a music festival, but their tickets were said to be made out in the same way as those of Scientology students, and had been paid for from the same source. The father, who described himself as a musician and a student, said at the airport ...
Jul 31, 1968
Group 'not worried' by charter plane ban — Evening News (Edinburgh)More: link
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Evening News (Edinburgh) Scientology students can still enter Britain to attend courses, despite turnarounds of charter aircraft bringing members of the cult into the country as ordered by the Government. This was stated in Edinburgh today at the Hubbard College of Advanced Studies in South Bridge by public relations officer Laurel Watson. She said they were not worried about the situation, and explained: "Many of the people who come here are on holiday or business trips by service aircraft. They are ordinary peopue and ...
Jul 31, 1968
Is scientology sick? — The Scotsman (UK)More: link
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The Scotsman (UK) The cult of scientology won unwelcome publicity for itself last week when the Government banned foreigners coming to this country specifically to study it or to work at its centres. For a belief or pursuit which offers alleged improvements to adherents' personalities and which holds to the maxim, "if it's not written, it's not true," the organisers are remarkably chary of publicity and free with threats of writs for libel. It has recently opened three offices in Edinburgh, one of which ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientologists stopped at airport — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
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East Grinstead Observer IMMIGRATION officers at Heathrow Airport stopped six Americans who said they had come to study scientology, and ordered them to be sent home again. The Americans, a woman with two children, two other men and a young woman, were stopped as they were passing through the controls. They told Immigration Officials that they had come to attend a School of Scientology at East Grinstead. Later a Home Office spokesman said the party was refused entry because the six were coming to ...
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