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Dec 8, 1976
Scientologists lay libel suits against author — Winnipeg Free Press
Dec 7, 1976
Libel Settlement Reached With Scientology Church — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 4, 1976
Talks interrupt Scientologists' libel suit — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Myrna Oliver Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) The first libel suit to come to trial over a 1971 book, "The Scandal of Scientology," was interrupted this week in Los Angeles Superior Court while Scientologists discussed the settlement of seven suits filed about the book [...]
Sep 28, 1976
Scientologist's seized machine pistol may be illegal — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Sep 25, 1976
Churches cry 'foul' as ABC gets 'closeup' — Variety
Sep 15, 1976
Cult launches lawsuit against ex-members [exact date unknown]
Sep 15, 1976
Curing the cult curse [exact date unknown]
Sep 15, 1976
Former member fight cults [exact date unknown]
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 ...
Aug 12, 1976
Church of Scientology finally gets foothold on NSA — Washington Star-NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vernon A. Guidry Jr Source:
Washington Star-News The National Security Agency is the kind of operation in which the public affairs office telephone is answered with a four-digit number rather than a name, a practice that even the CIA has abandoned. So perhaps it wasn't surprising when NSA time after time told the Founding Church of Scientology of Washington that it could find no information in its files about the church, nor its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The church had made repeated requests over a number of months, ...
Aug 4, 1976
Scientology's Pinellas tax battle isn't the first — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
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Bette Orsini Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The controversial Church of Scientology's failure to gain tax-exempt status for $3-million worth of Pinellas County properties is only the latest chapter in a stormy history of legal battles over taxes. And the latest battle, which opened in the county courthouse last week, appears far from over. Scientology spokesmen vow to take their Pinellas tax case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Pinellas officials, for their part, are just as determined to defend their denial of tax-exempt status for the ...
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 ...
Jun 15, 1976
Scientologists pressed for answers by Cazares — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen "Steve" Advokat Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Attorneys representing Mayor Gabriel Cazares in his $8-million libel suit against the Church of Scientology have served the other side with a series of questions that, if answered, would resolve many of the doubts still lingering about the group. Perhaps the most bizarre question sent to the Scientologists' counselor, Sarasota attorney Clyde H. Wilson, involves Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Clearwater attorney Patrick D. Doherty has asked that representatives from the organization that owns the former Fort Harrison hotel and the ...
Jun 1, 1976
Quakers say police state near — Washington Star-NewsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
William F. Willoughby Source:
Washington Star-News The American Friends' Service Committee, the first, and until recently, the only registered church lobby, has charged that the United States is "in close danger of developing the very police state we as a people fear so much." The warning by the Quaker agency on Capitol Hill was made after it revealed that government agencies have been keeping it under surveillance since 1921. The Quaker committee thus far has collected nearly 1,300 pages on itself from government intelligence agencies under the ...
May 28, 1976
Judge: Request to transfer Scientology trial is premature — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vernon Kirby Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — A Circuit Court judge witheld a ruling Thursday on the Church of Scientology's bid to move Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares' 8-million libel suit against the church out of the county. Circuit Judge John S. Andrews indicated that he probably will deny the transfer request unless attempts to seat an impartial jury are unsuccessful. "I believe at this time that it is premature," Andrews said at the outset of the brief hearing on the motion for a change of venue ...
May 20, 1976
Scientologists review 'false reports' data — Largo SentinelMore: link
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Largo Sentinel Government intelligence agencies have created and distributed false reports on the Church of Scientology for more than two decades, according to a 20-month study by an investigative panel within the religious group. Citing a documented, 380 page submission to the Church's Board of Directors, the Special Task Force on Religious Defense has charged the government with "malicious interference in the Church's affairs and with violations of its First Amendment rights," according to Kathleen Heard. The materials studied by the task force ...
Apr 20, 1976
Scientologists asking depositions in Cazares suit — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Cryer Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — The Church of Scientology Monday filed a notice in U.S. District Court that it intends to take depositions from several newspaper executives, a reporter and employes of a Pinellas radio station. The depositions are being taken in connection with the church's $1-million libel and slander suit against Clearwater Mayor Gabriel Cazares. Cazares, who had earlier objected to giving his deposition to the church, will give his deposition today at the Pinellas County Courthouse in Clearwater, a spokesman for the ...
Apr 5, 1976
A Sci-Fi Faith — TIME Magazine
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TIME Magazine The mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen. When 200 tight-lipped strangers moved into the hotel, rumors ...
Mar 26, 1976
Scientology called 'anti-God' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 26, 1976
Snyder calls Scientology 'anti-God' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 25, 1976
Scientologists name Sun, employe in suit — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen "Steve" Advokat ,
Mark Sableman Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Charging a reporter's enrollment in one of its courses caused members "extreme mental anguish, suffering and humiliation," the Tampa mission of the Church of Scientology sued the Clearwater Sun and a Sun employe Wednesday for $250,000. Bruce Harrell, direector of the mission, charged that Sun Assistant City Editor Tom Coat enrolled in the Tampa mission for the purpose of writing articles about the controversial group that has purchased the former Fort Harrison hotel. "Coat's unwarranted and surreptitious intrusion and invasion of ...
Mar 25, 1976
Scientologists sue Clearwater newspaper — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeanne Pugh Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology filed a $250,000 damage suit in Tampa Wednesday against Tom Coat, assistant city editor of the Clearwater Sun, and Clearwater Newspapers Inc., publishers of the newspaper, charging that Coat violated the "privacy and confidentiality" of the church by "joining" it under false pretences and then taking part in its "advanced training." Announcement of the suit, filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court, was made at a news conference in the former Fort Harrison hotel, now owned and ...
Mar 20, 1976
Scientology yacht Apollo up for sale — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
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Los Angeles Times (California) The Church of Scientology has announced it is selling its 3,287-ton yacht Apollo, the sometime home of founder L. Ron Hubbard and the mobile site of the worldwide sect's highlevel leadership training. [...]
Feb 12, 1976
Clearwater lends Cazares legal support — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Feb 12, 1976
Scientology critic fired from radio job — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Feb 12, 1976
Times sues Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jan 29, 1976
Church's history marked with legal battles — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
What is this Church of Scientology? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 3, 1976
1975 was all in how it was seen — Washington Star-News
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