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auditing • cost • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • fair game • federal bureau of investigation (fbi) • fort harrison hotel (also, flag land base) @ 210 south fort harrison avenue clearwater fl united states • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • gabriel "gabe" cazares • harassment • infiltration • internal revenue service (irs) • jane kember • judge charles r. richey • l. ron hubbard's credentials • l. ron hubbard's death • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • membership • michael j. flynn • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • raymond banoun • ronald "nibs" edward dewolf (l. ron hubbard, jr.) • tax matter
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75 matching items found between Jan 1980 and Dec 1984. Furthermore, there are 212 matching items for all time not shown.
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Nov 4, 1984
Splinter group // Ex-Scientologist plans to offer classes for former sect members — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): David Dahl
Source: Clearwater Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — A former Scientologist says he is about to form a group in north Pinellas County that will offer Scientology-related classes, but will not be affiliated with the controversial sect. David Findlay, who recently moved to North Pinellas, said he plans to begin offering the classes somewhere in Clearwater's Countryside area in the next two or three months. Like other splinter Scientology groups around the country, Findlay said he will largely draw on people who have left the Church of ...
Jul 13, 1984
How profits the prophet? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
L. Ron Hubbard, the controversial and elusive founder of the Church of Scientology, is nothing if not a prophet. In 1949, while still known principally as an author of science fiction, he was reported to have told a lecture audience, "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." Conventional clerics may dispute Hubbard's theology but they can't refute his economics. By ...
Jul 11, 1984
Scientology chief got millions, ex-aides say — New York Times
More: link, nytimes.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Lindsey
Source: New York Times
Former officials of the Church of Scientology say they helped L. Ron Hubbard, the reclusive founder of the cult-like organization, to secretly divert more than $100 million from the church into foreign bank accounts he controlled. The organization, long a subject of investigations in this country, Britain, France, Australia, South Africa, Spain and elsewhere, has maintained that Mr. Hubbard cut his ties to it in the mid-1970's, that he has received only a token consulting fee of $35,000 annually since then ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 2, 1984
Scientology: 'auditing' the 'engram' — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): John McCoy
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The basic premise of the Church of Scientology is that humans can realize their full potential only if they clear away negative memories. The means of doing so were presented by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in the best-selling book "Dianencs," which he wrote in 1950. Hubbard argued that by a process of counseling ("auditing"), negative memories ("engrams") could be erased. Auditing involves the use of an E-meter, a sort of lie detector on which, the subject holds two tin ...
May 6, 1984
A history // This church has long tradition of drawing attention of public — Sacramento Bee (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Dale Maharidge
Source: Sacramento Bee (California)
Scientology has been in the limelight over the years: * ln 1979, nine church members — including founder L. Ron Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue — were convicted of bugging, burglarizing and infiltrating government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service. In addition, church and FBI files show its members have executed, with mixed success, elaborate plots to entrap and discredit reporters and public officials. * Several documents came to light in the 1970s that revealed a church policy of attacking its "enemies." ...
Nov 30, 1983
Church of Scientology buys into Oklahoma oil company — Las Vegas Review Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jack Taylor
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
DENVER — The Church of Scientology, one of the nation’s wealthiest and most controversial religious organizations, has moved into the oil business with the purchase of a significant interest in an Oklahoma City oil and gas exploration company, The Denver Post has learned. The church also has provided $3.3 million to finance drilling for the company, HG&G Inc. The investment was made through a Florida-based, non-profit unit of the church, and is the religious group’s first venture into active participation in ...
Nov 27, 1983
Scientology church enters oil business — Denver Post
Jul 24, 1983
Scientologists seem to be on buying blitz — The Ledger (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Edwin McDowell
Source: The Ledger (Florida)
A best-selling adventure novel by a controversial figure who has not been seen in public for years has become the focus of concern among some book sellers. The book sellers said they belleve that "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard is being bought in large numbers in their stores by members of the Church of Scientology, founded by the reclusive Hubbard, as part of an effort to boost it onto the country's best-seller lists. Some book sellers and critics of Hubbard ...
May 31, 1983
Scientology defectors charge 'dirty tricks' in Boston — Boston Globe
Type: Press
Author(s): Ben Bradlee Jr.
Source: Boston Globe
Robert Dardano and Warren Friske were trusted members of the Boston mission of the Church of Scientology in the mid-1970s when they say they were recruited to join a group of other church members intent on carrying out "dirty tricks" against critics and others deemed enemies of the church in this area. The activities of the group included break-ins, the theft of documents, harassment and misrepresentation, according to sworn testimony by Dardano in Florida last year and affidavits from him and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 23, 1983
Late Night: L. Ron Hubbard Jr. — Public Broadcasting Television (PBS)
More: Youtube
Type: TV
Source: Public Broadcasting Television (PBS)
[picture of L. Ron Hubbard in cowboy attire with a camera] HOST—VOICE OF: Believers think of L. Ron Hubbard as a genius and a saint; detractors call him a fraud and, according to his own son, one of the biggest con men of the century. HOST—ON CAMERA: Whether L. Ron Hubbard is alive or sane is also up for grabs. Our guests are Ron DeWolf, who is L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. He split with his father in 1959 and is now ...
Apr 1, 1983
Scientology officials deny charges that it practices 'brainwashing' [exact date unknown] — Flint Journal (Michigan)
Mar 7, 1983
Sect's missing founder leaves legal morass — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s): Jay Mathews
Source: Washington Post
Three years ago, somewhere near this dusty little town of watermelon fields and senior citizen trailer parks, a pudgy, prolific science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard climbed into a black van and reportedly disappeared from sight. Nobody in Hemet, 80 miles east of Los Angeles, or anywhere else might have cared about the fate of a 71-year-old eccentric with a lust for privacy, except that Hubbard was the founder of one of the word's wealthiest and most controversial new religions. ...
Mar 1, 1983
INFORMATION TO OBTAIN A SEARCH WARRANT
Feb 20, 1983
30 years later, the reclusive founder of Scientology keeps controversy swirling — Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
Feb 5, 1983
Omaha Church of Scientology breaks off ties — Omaha World-Herald
Jan 31, 1983
Mystery of the Vanished Ruler — TIME Magazine
More: gerryarmstrong.org
Jan 30, 1983
City, Scientologists fighting new battle in 7-year-old war / Scientologists cite changes; city officials skeptical — Miami Herald
Jan 24, 1983
Ministry of fear // Scandal rocks Scientology as the founder's wife goes to prison and his son turns prosecution witness — People magazine
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): John Saar
Source: People magazine
[Picture / Caption: Scientology's headquarters in L.A. was formerly the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The church purchased It for $5 million In 1977.] Last October in San Francisco, some 70 local leaders of the Church of Scientology gathered to hear nine church executives harangue them about their shortcomings. Styling themselves with titles that ranged from the quasi-military ("Commander," "Warrant Officer") to the quasi-lunatic ("International Finance Dictator"), the men announced that they represented the new hierarchy of the organization, and that they ...
Jan 17, 1983
Struggle to control power, money splits Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Jan 8, 1983
Scientology founder's wife gets prison term — Washington Post
Jan 8, 1983
Scientology founder's wife ordered to prison — Los Angeles Times (California)
Jan 6, 1983
Fight over funds divides Scientology group — New York Times
More: nytimes.com
Dec 31, 1982
Trial ordered to determine if L. Ron Hubbard is alive — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 19, 1982
A sect asunder? Scientology showing signs of schism — Kansas City Star
Dec 12, 1982
Son says he thinks Scientology founder died — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Source: New York Times
The son of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, has asked to be named trustee of the religion's holdings. "I think he's dead, or become as mentally incompetent as a cigarstore wooden Indian," Ronald E. DeWolf said of his father. "I've known for years that the person writing me and other members of my family, and sending presents, was not L. Ron Hubbard." Mr. DeWolf, who is 48 years old, is an apartment manager in Carson City, ...
Nov 23, 1982
Scientology founder's fate: Dead or alive? — USA Today
More: link
Type: Press
Source: USA Today
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology founder, is dead. Or mentally incompetent. Or alive and well. The status of the wealthy 71-year-old author depends on whether you're talking to his estranged son or his wife. In Los Angeles, the two are mounting a courtroom tug-of-war over Hubbard's estate. Ronald E. DeWolf claims his father is either dead or mentally incompetent, and wants control of the estate. Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue Hubbard, filed suit Friday to block DeWolf's probate court action. If anyone knows ...
Nov 21, 1982
L. Ron Hubbard: A new controversy / Son of Scientology founder questions father's health, location — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 20, 1982
Hubbard wife to oppose try to rule church founder dead — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Oct 19, 1982
Affidavit of Gerald Armstrong
Jul 14, 1982
Inside Scientology: Son of Scientology — News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Dennis Wheeler
Source: News-Herald (Santa Rosa, California)
He's been called the Son of Scientology. His name has been changed from L. Ron Hubbard, Jr., to Ron DeWolf, and he's the firstborn son of the former science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology. It's been 23 years since hes seen his father, and he suspects that the founder of what many people call a destructive cult may, in truth, be dead. "To be perfectly frank, my life's been pretty much of a disaster and a miserable mess ...
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