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auditing • australia • children, youth • cost • david miscavige • disconnection • fair game • france • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • gerald "gerry" armstrong • heber c. jentzsch • internal revenue service (irs) • l. ron hubbard's credentials • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • medical claims • membership • michael j. flynn • narconon (aka scientology drug rehab) • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • purification rundown ("purif") • recruitment • sea organization (sea org, so)
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Mar 30, 1997
The true story of a false prophet — Mail on Sunday (UK)
Mar 25, 1997
The Scientology problem — Wall Street Journal
More: holysmoke.org, link
Type: Press
Source: Wall Street Journal
As no doubt befits a society founded by Pilgrims, America has a long tradition of controversial movements maturing to success, whether Mormons or Christian Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, the latest cult forcing itself to our attention is the Church of Scientology. Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer. He fashioned a creation myth around Xenu, who froze and transported thetan souls to volcanoes in Teegeeack, now earth. The creed holds that humans ...
Mar 1, 1997
Examiner lied, Scientology lawyer says — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 21, 1997
Scientology had woman in isolation — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: groups.google.ca, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 14, 1997
Official, Scientology take battle to court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Feb 2, 1997
Classes for defendants have ties to church — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Jan 29, 1997
Church sues medical examiner — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com, link
Jan 28, 1997
Word War Two — Star magazine
Jan 12, 1997
Photo in Scientology paper angers Clearwater mayor — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 22, 1996
Scientologist's death / A family searches for answers — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: link
Dec 22, 1996
Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 21, 1996
Testimony / The Autobiography of Margery Wakefield (book): Chapter 11 - Offloaded
Nov 28, 1996
The Big Story: The S-Files — ITV
More: transcript, partial transcript
Type: TV
Author(s): Dermot Murnaghan
Source: ITV
Title "The S Files" [S as in Scientology Logo] [Presenter Dermot Murnaghan (DM henceforth) no relation to any other DM] Tonight we're going to expose serious financial crime in one of the Scientology cult's most successful operations in Britain. We show how they cooked the books, made false statements to obtain bank loans, and changed invoices to fiddle their VAT. [Extract from "Trust" ad] This advert for the Church of Scientology was recently shown on cable TV. It was a major ...
Nov 23, 1996
French Scientologist sentenced after church member's suicide — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Craig R. Whitney
Source: New York Times
The founder and former head of the Church of Scientology in Lyons was convicted of fraud and involuntary homicide today in the death of a church member who committed suicide after going heavily into debt to pay the sect for counseling sessions. A French tribunal sentenced the defendant, Jean-Jacques Mazier, to serve 18 months in prison, with an additional 18 months suspended, and fined him $100,000. The eight-day trial, in the first week of October, also examined charges of fraud, attempted ...
Apr 18, 1996
Scientology told to pay fees in copyright suit — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
More: scientology-lies.com, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Rex Bossert
Source: Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
SAN FRANCISCO — Saying that the Church of Scientology has been playing "fast and loose with the judicial system," a federal appeals court has ordered the religious organization to pay nearly $3 million in attorneys fees to a former member it sued after he formed his own splinter group. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the unusual sanction against the church for years of litigation spawned by two 1985 suits it filed against David Mayo and others involved with ...
Feb 5, 1996
Church of Scientology of California v. Lawrence Wollersheim — Daily Appellate Report
Aug 28, 1995
Firm consults businesses in fraud prevention — Glendale News-Press (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Annette Chavez
Source: Glendale News-Press (California)
With white-collar crimes on the rise nationwide, more and more businesses are looking into ways of preventing internal theft and fraud before it costs them or their clients billions of dollars. The Glendale-based financial firm of Wiseman and Burke, Inc. is an example of a business that takes the threat of white-collar crime very seriously. "White-collar crime costs more than street crime does," said Robert LaRose, vice president of the Business Fraud Division. Last year the company, at 206 S. Brand ...
Jul 14, 1995
New pressure group under fire from cult — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Cathy Buss
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
A NEW pressure group calling for government action to raise public awareness of cults has come under fire from the Church of Scientology. Founders of Families Under Scientology Stress (Fuss) say that in the few weeks it has been formed it has been amazed at how many people have come forward from all parts of the country pledging support. A group spokesman said: "Most of our supporters have been through difficulties of having a family member in Scientology and it is ...
Apr 23, 1995
Man sues church for fraud, emotional harm — Daily Tribune (Oakland County, Michigan)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Murphy
Source: Daily Tribune (Oakland County, Michigan)
Macomb resident contends he was duped while attending vocational school. PONTIAC — Former Scientologist Linda Hostetler isn't the first metro Detroiter to hold a financial and emotional grudge against the Church of Scientology of Michigan. Since the Detroit branch was founded in 1969, at least 14 lawsuits have been filed against the church, according to circuit court records. Of the 14 cases, which sought damages ranging from $10,000-$60,000, six have been filed since the church moved to Royal Oak in the ...
Mar 23, 1995
Allstate admits training was 'unacceptable' — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Thousands of workers participated in seminars that taught them to disregard ethics in the quest for productivity Allstate Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it hired a consultant who taught "unacceptable" Church of Scientology management principles to the insurance company's agents and supervisors between 1988 and 1992. The company denied allegations some workers were hounded, intimidated and wrongfully fired as a result of the training program. Scientology is a religious-scientific movement founded in the 1950s by the late author L. Ron Hubbard that ...
Dec 13, 1994
Jurors clear Lilly's Prozac in murder case — Wall Street Journal
Dec 1, 1994
Litigation noir // Ford Greene thought he knew all about hardball litigation. Then he sued the Church of Scientology. — California Lawyer
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Steven Pressman
Source: California Lawyer
It was a strange way to describe an aspect of a theology. But L. Ron Hubbard, the highly successful science-fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, had little tolerance for those who challenged his beliefs. And so it was, at one time, that Scientology scripture came to include an unusual litigation clause: "The only way to defend anything is to attack, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged ...
Sep 21, 1994
Scientology saves? // The science of selling salvation — Metro Times (Detroit, Michigan)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Leah Samuel
Source: Metro Times (Detroit, Michigan)
Is the Church of Scientology a religion, or a multimillion-dollar corporate cult? Some former Scientologists have spoken of spending thousands of dollars or working long hours without food or sleep to pay off debts to the church. The church characterizes itself as misunderstood and persecuted, emphasizing testimonials and community outreach activities, while attempting to discredit critics. "Scientology is a racket," says Bloomfield Hills attorney Constance Cumbey, who has handled four Michigan lawsuits against the church. "That's not to say that everyone ...
Jul 19, 1994
Cults / New style, old problem
Jul 15, 1994
Second snub for Saint Hill — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): David Thompson
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
ST JOHN Ambulance is refusing to accept donations from the Church of Scientology. The announcement is another rebuff for the cult after Queen Victoria Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital also turned down proceeds from the cult's recent Saint Hill summer fete. John Mills, communications director of the volunteer organisation's London head office, said flatly: "We do not want to give credibility to an organisation of which we do not approve. It could bring the good name of St John ...
Jun 24, 1994
Now other groups back off cult's fete — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
CONTROVERSY this week continued to cloud tomorrow's Saint Hill summer fete. Other groups have now denied links with the Church of Scientology event after Queen Victoria Hospital last week refused to accept cult money from the proceeds. Advertisements and flyers pushed through East Grinstead letter boxes say the fete, with John Travolta topping the bill, will be opened by Radio Mercury. But the station's programme director, Martin Campbell, denied it would attend the event at the organisation's headquarters. He stressed: "Radio ...
Jun 17, 1994
Letters // Hospital says: We don't want anything to do with them // High price on this kind of salvation — East Grinstead Courier (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Courier (UK)
Scientologists and QVH Hospital says: We don't want anything to do with them WE HAVE noted, with some concern, an advertisement by the Church of Scientology for an event purporting to raise money for our hospital. This advertisement appeared without our knowledge or permission. We have written to this organisation asking them not to use our name in any way. Through this letter we would like to make clear that we have no relationship whatsoever with this organisation and will not ...
Jun 13, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Secret of a drugs 'cure' — The Argus (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Paul Bracchi
Source: The Argus (UK)
JOHN WOOD wants to tell your children the truth about drugs. He is the UK president of an organisation which claims it has been educating young people about the dangers of addiction for 25 years. It claims that message had been successful, and it claims it can also help those who have already fallen to drugs and drink. In fact, Narconon makes rather a lot of claims, and the group has targeted Sussex with literature and glowing tributes from grateful "clients". ...
Jun 12, 1994
Special investigation: Scientology — Sunday Mail (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Marion Scott, Stewart Kirkpatrick
Source: Sunday Mail (UK)
TEENAGER David McLaren is in hiding, after breaking free from the Scientology cult. "I'm the one who got away," said the brave 18-year-old, who came forward to help Scots girl Christine Forsyth. "I found freedom, now I want Christine to enjoy that same freedom", he said. Last week we told the shocking story of how 24-year-old Christine, from Kirkcaldy, was "tried" for "treason" by the mind-bending cult. HER CRIME WAS SPEAKING TO AN "OUTSIDER". Christine's distraught dad begged the cult to ...
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