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Dec 22, 1978
Scientology suit hits a major snag — Saint John's Edmonton Report (Canada)
Dec 19, 1978
Daughter denies knowing where Hubbard is — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — Diana Hubbard Horwich, 26, the daughter of the founder of the Church of Scientology, Ron Hubbard, was in Toronto yesterday to speak to Scientologists about her father. However, in a press conference she denied all knowledge of her father's whereabouts and refused to say where she had last met him. She said Mr. Hubbard has been filming instructional films to train counsellors. He is in some mountainous place . . . Where? Gosh, I don't know.
Oct 17, 1978
Religious 'cults' [Letter] — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Cabinet members are deliberating on a possible government inquiry into minority religious groups - or cults, as they have been sneeringly designated. I am a minister in the Church of Scientology. I wish to point out that like my church the Christian church began as a cult and has survived thus far on the basis of its own merits and demerits. I claim the right for my church and others to do the same Carolyn Lois Wightman Assistant Professor Department of ...
Aug 27, 1978
Scientology: A long trail of controversy — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Gillette ,
Robert Rawitch Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) On May 14, 1951,
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard wrote to the U.S. attorney general to plead for help in fending off a Communist conspiracy, dedicated, he averred, to destroying him. "When, when, when," he wrote, "will we have a roundup?" Rambling through
seven single-spaced typewritten pages , the letter was, to all appearances, the heartfelt cry of a troubled man. A successful science fiction writer in the 1940s, L. Ron Hubbard, as he signed himself, had gone on to bigger things. ...
Aug 24, 1978
Heaven (on earth) can wait — Albertan (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob McKee Source:
Albertan (Canada) Those not-so-saintly Scientologists are in the news again. This time, it appears, our money-making missionaries have been up to their cassocks in — of all things — spying and as a result 11 members of the pay-as-you-learn church have been indicted in Washington on charges of stealing government documents and bugging government offices. Some of the things the reverie reverends are accused of include planting scientology "agents" in the government to find out about its investigations into the church; and of ...
Aug 16, 1978
Calgary group to fight influx of mind-warping cultists — Calgary Herald (Canada)More: link
Type: Press
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Patrick McMahon Source:
Calgary Herald (Canada) A group of concerned Calgarians ex-Scientologists and parents of youngsters of the various mind-warping, brainwashing cults such as Hare Krishna and the Unification Church (Moonies), have got together and formed an organization. Its main functions will be to combat such cults, to help parents cope with and understand the situation when their children fall prey to them and, where possible, to rescue the victims and help them get their heads back together. They held their first meeting recently, with 17 people ...
Aug 16, 1978
Church of Scientology attacks investigators and critics — Washington PostMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Shaffer Source:
Washington Post The Church of Scientology is an organization that fervidly shuns investigations. When probed, it attacks the investigators. When criticized, it makes the critics pay. Church attempts to stifle investigations and criticism include lawsuits, harassment, frameups and attempts to have critics jailed, or at least enjoined from talking about Scientology. If there is "a long-term threat" to Scientology, founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in a confidential memorandum to his staff, "you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black PR campaign to ...
May 17, 1978
Church kept 'enemies list' // Raid on Scientologists netted CIA documents — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Picton Source:
Globe and Mail (Canada) Washington DC — Secret documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency were discovered when offices of the Church of Scientology in the United States were raided by federal agents last year, according to reports published here yesterday. The reports said that apparently original Internal Revenue Service documents were found during the raids, as well as confidential letters between members of the U.S. Cabinet. Also, it was discovered the church kept an enemies list, which included files on Senator
Edward Kennedy , ...
Apr 6, 1978
Members of 3 churches parade to protest remarks by Timbrell — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — Members of Hare Krishna, Unification Church and the Church of Scientology paraded outside Queen's Park yesterday to protest against what they call a witchhunt by the Ontario Government. About 80 protesters carried placards saying, Don't Kill My Religion and Investigate Abuses Not Churches. They were objecting to remarks made March 2 in the Legislature by Health Minister Dennis Timbrell, who said his ministry was considering legislation to impose control over such groups. Mr. Timbrell said that one of ...
Jan 21, 1978
Firemen fight blaze at church of Scientology — Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Globe and Mail (Canada) Toronto ON — Toronto firemen were fighting a fire which broke out in the basement of the Church of Scientology at Avenue Road and Bernard Avenue early this morning. The fire, which firemen described as a two-alarm blaze was still out of control at 1 a.m., an hour after firemen were called. No injuries were reported. Ten fire trucks were sent to the scene. Southbound buses on Avenue Road were rerouted along Bedford Avenue. Mario Greco Jr., 21, the owner of ...
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