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Jan 6, 2008
Scientologist HQ Moves To Detroit — WDIV Detroit
Jan 5, 2008
Scientologists heading downtown — Detroit News
Dec 24, 2007
Church of Scientology Buys One Griswold — CoStar Group
Type: Press
Author(s):
Afunu Ali Source:
CoStar Group Raymond James Exchanges 50,000-SF Office in Wayne County for $3.5M
Raymond James Financial Services sold One Griswold St. in Detroit, MI, to the Church of Scientology for $3.5 million, or approximately $70 per square foot.
Built in 1926, this eight-story office building is in the central business district along Detroit's waterfront. The building features an on-site property manager.
Sam Munaco and Angela Arcori of Signature Associates represented Raymond James Financial Services, and Tim Jarzembowski and Dave MacDonald of the Staubach Co. ...
Oct 19, 1994
Letter: Scientology explained — Metro Times (Detroit, Michigan)More: link
Type: Press
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Metro Times (Detroit, Michigan) The
article that appeared in the Metro Times Sept. 21-27 issue is a perfect example of how the media believe they need "controversy" in order to thrive. A group of people practicing their religion, thriving and learning isn't controvetsial enough, so things get added which are intended to stop any new idea from growing. Scientology is a people's activity, a grass-roots movement, and is taken up and used by individuals who then apply it to their lives. The understanding that ...
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 ...
Dec 3, 1993
Talk show host 'elated' after defeating lawsuit — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Maryanne George Source:
Detroit Free Press Talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael savored her victory Thursday in an invasion of privacy lawsuit against her, but the Church of Scientology member who sued Raphael vowed to continue her struggle. A Washtenaw County jury found that Raphael and her production company did not invade the privacy of Dorothy Dickerson of Albion. Nor did they violate the state's eavesdropping law by broadcasting a surreptitiously obtained tape of a conversation between Dickerson and her children, the jury decided. Dickerson, an instructor ...
Nov 19, 1993
Judge lets talk host know who runs show — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Maryanne George Source:
Detroit Free Press Making her courtroom debut in Ann Arbor, Sally Jessy Raphael hosted the morning round of testimony Thursday, defending herself in a lawsuit over an edition of her talk show about the Church of Scientology. Raphael, in a taupe suit and her trademark red eyeglasses, nodded deferentially to the jury, as if it were an audience, and interrogated lawyers. Finally, Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Melinda Morris told her to knock it off. "Put yourself in the position of people you ask questions ...
Nov 18, 1993
TV talk-show host will testify in Ann Arbor — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Maryanne George Source:
Detroit Free Press Tabloid TV queen Sally Jessy Raphael, who peers through her trademark red eyeglasses and titillates talk-show audiences with tough questions, will be asked to answer some zingers herself today in Ann Arbor. Raphael is to testify in a high-profile, lawsuit stemming from an episode about the Church of Scientology. Church staffer Dorothy Dickerson, 61, of Albion claims Raphael invaded her privacy and caused her emotional distress in 1991, after a conversation between Dickerson and her children was secretly recorded by a ...
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 15, 1980
Scientology office opens — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Harry Cook Source:
Detroit Free Press The Church of Scientology of Michigan opened its new state headquarters Monday in the former Burton Abstract & Title building in downtown Detroit. The church group, which claims 4,000 adherents in Michigan, bought the 50-year-old, four-story stone structure from Burton in October for $650,000 cash. The church headquarters had been at 3605 Rochester Road in Royal Oak. Citing a desire "to be more centrally located for our parishioners," Suzanne Lee, Scientology's local public relations director, said the church spent the last ...
Nov 25, 1979
Scientology 'dirty tricks' bared — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press Washington: Court documents show the Church of Scientology put together a scheme to blackmail the Internal Revenue Service into doing a favorable tax audit on the church. According to documents released Friday, the church stole secret IRS files on famous Americans and.planned to threaten to release them unless the audit was favorable. There was no indication any blackmail threat against any individual was made. The documents were among thousands of files seized from the church in 1977, and ordered released Friday ...
Nov 2, 1979
Church spies infiltrate health groups — Detroit NewsMore: link
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Detroit News WASHINGTON — (AP) Leaders of the Church of Scientology considered the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Institute of Mental Health enemies and infiltrated the AMA as part of an effort to discredit it, according to documents made public yesterday. The documents released by a federal judge show that the church planted spies and had a "doom program" aimed at the AMA. Church leaders also planned to "take over control" of the National Institute of Mental Health near Washington, the ...
Oct 27, 1979
Scientology members guilty in data thefts — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press WASHINGTON — (AP) — A federal judge Friday convicted nine members of the Church of Scientology, including the wife of the founder, of taking part in a major conspiracy to steal government documents about the church. As the defendants and their lawyers clustered in front of him, U.S. District. Judge Charles Richey said the evidence "establishes each and every element" of the crimes that resulted in convictions. RICHEY SET no date for sentencing the defendants, who included Mary Sue Hubbard, wife ...
Aug 17, 1979
Church of Scientology must pay woman $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) — A 22-year-old woman whose attorney claimed she "lived through an Orwellian horror story" as a Church of Scientology member was awarded more than $2 million in court Wednesday. Julie Christopherson Titchbourne charged in her suit that the church engaged in unlawful trade practices, fraud and outrageous conduct, damaging her psychologically. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated 18 hours before awarding her $3,000 as compensation for the cost of Scientology courses she took and $150,000 ...
Aug 16, 1979
Claim of Scientology fraud nets Oregonian $2 million — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press PORTLAND, Ore. — (AP) — A jury awarded more than $2 million in damages Wednesday to a 22-year-old woman who claimed the Church of Scientology defrauded her by failing to fulfill promises of improving her life. The jury deliberated 18 hours over two days before reaching its unanimous decision. In her suit, Julie C. Titchbourne, 21, of Portland, alleged she suffered emotional distress as a result of her experience with the church in 1975-76. She had sought $2 million in punitive ...
Apr 1, 1978
Church of Scientology is explained [letter] — Detroit News
Feb 16, 1978
Names & faces [L. Ron Hubbard sentenced in Paris] — Detroit Free Press
Dec 18, 1976
Some cults may aid blacks — Detroit News
Nov 23, 1976
Churchman's son dead — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. — (AP) — A man who died here Nov. 12 was identified Monday as Geoffrey Quentin McCaully Hubbard, son of L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the controversial Church of Scientology. Young Hubbard, 22, was found semicomatose in an auto near McCarran International Airport on Oct. 28. He failed to respond to medical treatment at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital, officials said. Coroner Richard A. Mayne said the cause of death was not known, and the results of tests will ...
Sep 25, 1976
Scientologists angered by arrest — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Aug 29, 1976
Viewers' choice: // Closeup on cultism — Detroit NewsMore: link
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Detroit News Though religious cults have existed elsewhere for thousands of years, their ranks have only begun to swell in America in the past few decades. They flourished particularly in the sixties, when celebrity involvement — by the Beatles, among others — helped make cult abbreviations like "TM" (for Transcendental Meditation) commonplace. Unofficial estimates place the number of cults in the United States today at 5,000, with an individual total of two million members. But as that number grew, so did the controversy ...
Jul 1, 1976
Church sues for U.S. file [exact date unknown] — Detroit Free PressMore: link
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Detroit Free Press WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Founding Church of Scientology sued the National Security Agency Wednesday, seeking release under the Freedom of Information Act of intelligence files the agency admits it holds on the church group. The security agency first told the church that it could not locate the files, but after the Central Intelligence Agency said it had been provided the files by the National Security Agency, the NSA Wrote to the church and said the files had been located but ...
Jan 21, 1976
[Action line / "will you please help get our money back?"] — Detroit Free Press
Aug 2, 1975
Will real CIA agent please stand up? — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chuck Stone Source:
Detroit Free Press ONCE THE PANDORA'S BOX of unsubstantiated allegations is pried open, it no longer becomes a question of, "Is there one?" but rather, "Who is the one?" Alexander Butterfield seems to have rebutted reports that he was the CIA's man in the White House. But is it even logical to assume such a direct contact exists? It is, if you know anything about Washington bureaucratic infighting. Is one of President Ford's 43 assistants and special assistants in league with the CIA? A ...
Sep 12, 1971
Fat fighters mine pots of gold [incomplete] — Sunday News (Detroit)
Jan 4, 1970
Christ, Satan and Manson haunt a London cult — Sunday News (Detroit)
Dec 10, 1969
Tate link sought in 2 other deaths — Detroit News
Nov 19, 1969
Marching against psychiatry — Detroit Free Press
Aug 1, 1969
Screen star Stephen Boyd, since that chariot race — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bruce Vilanch Source:
Detroit Free Press [...] THE WHOLE idea of moral obligation and responsibility for one's fellow man, as well as responsibility to oneself, fills up a great deal of Boyd's conversation. He speaks of co-workers as if they were close relatives, not just contractual partners. "I was a guest on one of those New York radio panel shows and they were talking about Judy Garland," he says, "one fellow, I won't mention his name it's so sickening, was carrying on about how she was a ...
Mar 20, 1969
[Church of Scientology of Michigan press release / never published]
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