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Jun 1, 1974
Fear and Loathing in Sutton: The McLean family's fight to escape Scientology — MacleansMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Saunders Source:
Macleans The
McLean family first became involved in Scientology in 1969, when Nan, an energetic grandmother, joined the cult. Her husband, Eric, their two sons and their daughter-in-law followed. Eric McLean is a soft-spoken, 52-year-old teacher of auto mechanics now on leave to work for the Ontario high-school teachers' federation. He and Nan live in an old farmhouse outside the village of Sutton, north of Toronto. By 1972, the five McLeans were pillars of the Church of Scientology. Nan drove 100 ...
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 ...
Mar 6, 1974
The reclusive founder of Scientology [second of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be to start his own religion." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology Lafayette Ronald Hubbard tossed off this remark at a lecture in Newark N.J., in 1949. At the time Hubbard was 38 years old, a prolific science fiction writer advising science fiction buffs on the tricks of his trade. The audience ...
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Arthur Hubbard •
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Bolivar •
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Diana Hubbard Horwich •
Dianetics •
E-Meter •
Elaine Viets •
Excalibur (ship) •
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) •
Founding Church of Scientology, Washington D.C. •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Income •
James E. Adams •
John McLean •
Jonathan "Jon" Horwich •
L. Ron Hubbard •
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Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Nancy McLean •
Operation and Transport Corporation, Ltd. (OTC) •
Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard •
Ronald "Nibs" Edward DeWolf (L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.) •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) •
Suzette Hubbard Mar 3, 1974
Expensive trip to spirituality [first of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) The Church of Scientology of Missouri, a branch of a controversial organization promising total spiritual freedom for all followers, opened in 1969 with a six member staff at a small Brentwood office. Today, the church has a staff of 150 and is in the process of moving from rented, two-story quarters at 4225 Lindell Boulevard to an even larger building of its own at 3730 Lindell. For fees that can total $5700, the staff conducts personal enlightenment and improvement courses for ...
Oct 1, 1973
The Awful Truth About Scientology — The RealistMore: ep.tc
Type: Press
Source:
The Realist [Reproduced here with express permission of Paul Krassner — Publisher of The Realist. Thank you! Transcribed from scanned pages at The Realist Project Archive .] Although many people have had some brief acquaintance with Scientology, very few have gotten into the subject far enough to find out what it is really all about. It is a subject which doesn't easily lend itself to study. The courses are many and tend to become quite expensive, not only in terms of money, ...
Jun 26, 1971
New religion takes on U.S. government, psychiatry — Monterey Peninsula HeraldMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Monterey Peninsula Herald An aggressive modern religion that has taken on the U.S. government and the psychiatric profession has come to the Peninsula. The Church of Scientology, which established a study group here last August, has now opened a counseling center at 604 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey. Still a mission of the San Francisco church, the local congregation is training a minister and conducting lectures and personal counseling sessions. Court Fight The church, founded only 16 years ago, has been engaged in a court fight ...
Jan 1, 1971
The Scandal of Scientology - 07 The Sea Org — Tower Publications, Inc.
Jul 6, 1970
Scientologists' convention ends on cheer for Hubbard // [Hubbard: "Scientologists are in the upper tenth of the upper tenth of the world's population in intelligence"] — Press-TelegramMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Noel Swann Source:
Press-Telegram About 3,000 scientologists from across the nation wrapped up their three-day national convention in Long Beach Sunday with a rousing, two-minute standing salute to their "commodore and leader," L. Ron Hubbard. The group had just heard a tape recorded message from Hubbard, made in the Mediterranean aboard the 3,000-ton motor yacht, Apollo, from which he runs the oft-controversial religion. As his voice reverberated through the Long Beach Arena, spotlights played on a gigantic portrait of Hubbard, the onetime science fiction and ...
Jun 1, 1970
Mr. Burroughs, you're wrong about my husband — Mayfair (magazine)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard Source:
Mayfair (magazine) We are trying to bring into confrontation two of the world's most revolutionary minds. World-famous author William Burroughs, in a
recent Mayfair article , stirred up the controversial cult of Scientology by directly accusing its enigmatic leader, L. Ron Hubbard, with hiding tremendous psycho-therapeutic discoveries behind a neo-fascist organisation. Hubbard himself hasn't replied, but for the first time ever in a British publication, his wife Mary Sue Hubbard has come to his defence. This statement came direct from the Hubbard's yacht ...
Jan 1, 1970
Scientology: the Now Religion - Chapter 4: Scientology — Delacorte Press
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