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Oct 28, 1984
Sinking the Master Mariner — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link , reprint in The Weekend Australian
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Barnes Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) "Corrupt, sinister and dangerous" were the words used to describe the Church of Scientology in a judgment given by Mr Justice Latey this summer. He also referred to it as "immoral and socially obnoxious". But who controls the Church now? A major Sunday Times Magazine investigation into the activities of the cult in America and Britain has uncovered a disturbing and extraordinary story — the takeover of the organisation by a small band of youthful fanatics following the disappearance of the ...
Tag(s):
Advanced Ability Center •
Alan Walters •
Annie M. Tidman (aka Annie Broeker aka Annie Logan aka Lisa Mitchell) •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Assets •
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Battlefield Earth •
Bent Corydon •
Blackmail •
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) •
California •
Cause Resurgence Rundown aka "Running Program" •
Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library) •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
David Mayo •
David Miscavige •
Diane Voegeding •
Edward "Eddie" Walters •
False imprisonment •
Florida •
Fort Harrison Hotel (also, Flag Land Base) @ 210 South Fort Harrison Avenue Clearwater FL United States •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Golden Era Productions •
Hard sell •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Howard "Homer" D. Schomer •
Income •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Inurement •
Jay Hurwitz •
John Barnes •
Judge Ben Krentzman •
Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. •
Justice Latey, Sir John •
Kathleen "Kathy" Gorgon •
Kenneth McFarlane •
Laurel J. Sullivan (née Watson) •
Lawsuit •
Lee Lawrence •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Marc Yager •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Membership •
Michael "Mike" Garside •
Michael J. Flynn •
Mission Holders Conference •
New Era Publications International, ApS (NEPI) •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Richard N. Aznaran •
Ron's Journal 38 •
Ronald "Nibs" Edward DeWolf (L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.) •
Saint Hill Manor @ East Grinstead (UK) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Slave labor •
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corporation (SLDLC) •
Stephen "Steve" Marlowe •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Tax matter •
The Sunday Times (UK) •
The Weekend Australian •
Tonja C. Burden •
Vicki J. (McRae) Aznaran •
Warren L. McShane •
Wendell Reynolds •
William W. "Bill" Franks
Aug 28, 1984
Ex-members denounce sect rehab program — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
George-Wayne Shelor Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The young man — by all appearances a teen-ager — crouched on the dark, narrow stairway as he scrubbed the sixth-floor landing in the former Fort Harrison Hotel, the "Flag Land Base" headquarters of the Church of Scientology. "Are you in RPF?" queried a reporter. "Sir?" he asked quietly, peering up from his work. "Are you in RPF?" "Yes sir, I am." RPF is the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which, depending on who is speaking, is either a businessman's approach to ...
Jul 29, 1984
Hubbard youth // The teenage bullies who reign supreme over a sinister cult — Daily Mail (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Dobbie Source:
Daily Mail (UK) THE head of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, whose organisation was described by a High Court judge as 'dangerous, immoral, sinister and corrupt', has been ordered to stay away from Britain. The 74-year-old recluse, himself declared a 'charlatan' by the judge, had hoped to reverse a Home Office ruling which barred him from coming to this country to address his followers at the British headquarters of the sect, Saint Hill, at East Grinstead, Sussex. But when he refused to ...
May 11, 1984
Ex-Scientologist says quest turned sour — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Myrna Oliver Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) A disillusioned former member of the Church of Scientology, accused of taking documents belonging to the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, testified Thursday that he had been lured into the organization by the "promise of truth" but repeatedly encountered lies. Gerald Armstrong began what is expected to be several days of testimony in the non-jury trial of the church's civil suit to retrieve the documents, which is being tried before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. ...
May 11, 1982
Scientology starts publicity campaign — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Girardi Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) The Church of Scientology has embarked on a citywide publicity campaign in the wake of five days of public hearings on the sect by the Clearwater City Commission, a church minister said Monday. At a 10:30 a.m. press conference, Scientology spokesman the Rev. Hugh Wilhere announced the beginning of an "open house" publicity campaign. Less than an hour earlier church attorney Paul B. Johnson of Tampa had told the Commission he would not use the four days set aside for church ...
May 8, 1982
City of Clearwater 1982 Hearings - Church of Scientology: Janie Peterson
May 8, 1982
Sect witnesses recount fear, deception, 'suicide' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Girardi Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Teen-ager David Ray testified Friday he had a spectacular start with the Church of Scientology in California, but quickly became a rebel trapped in The Fort Harrison Hotel, relegated to cleaning rooms and stomping garbage. Casey Kelly, 23, testifying for the second day, said he "wasn't a very good Scientologist," either. "One thing you don't do in Scientology is joke around, so obviously I didn't make out very well," he quipped. Like one other witness called in the third day of ...
May 7, 1982
Ex-member cites abuse by church — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Ward Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — Lori Taverna was a young, impressionable mother of two children when a friend took her to a free lecture given by the Church of Scientology in June 1965. "It sounded very good," she testified Thursday. "It sounded like it was something I was looking for. "I thought it was great," she said. "I was joining a group that would handle drugs crime and war. And, my children would be growing up in this." Part of Taverna's education by the ...
May 7, 1982
Ex-Scientologists detail grim lifestyle — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Harwood Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Life at the Church of Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel was so miserable, Lori Taverna remembered Thursday, that "I felt that I was in . . . an insane asylum." Casey Kelly recalled being distressed by the hard work and low pay. "Here I was, working 70 to 80 hours a week, and I was making $20," Kelly said. "This did not jive." Eventually both Kelly, 23, and Ms. Taverna, 39, quit Scientology. Thursday they testified before Clearwater city commissioners ...
May 7, 1982
Fort Harrison: 'horror house' — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Prescott Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) A 17-year veteran of the Church of Scientology told Clearwater city commissioners Thursday she lived through "horror" while staying at the former Fort Harrison Hotel three years ago. Lori Taverna, who said she broke with the sect two months ago, was asked by Mayor Charles LeCher to describe a "normal day" while she worked as a Scientology trainer. "Most of it was horror, so I don't know," said Mrs. Taverna, 39. But in about three hours of testimony during the second ...
Sep 1, 1981
Scientology: The sickness spreads — Reader's DigestMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eugene H. Methvin Source:
Reader's Digest Eighteen months ago, the U.S.-based Church of Scientology launched a global—and unsuccessful—campaign to prevent publication of a Reader's Digest report called "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult." The church engaged a detective agency to investigate the author, Digest Senior Editor Eugene H. Methvin. Digest offices in a half-dozen nations were picketed or bombarded with nuisance phone calls. In Denmark, South Africa and Australia, the church sued unsuccessfully to prevent publication. In the months since the article appeared, in May 1980, a ...
Dec 1, 1980
Scientology's war against judges — The American Lawyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
James B. Stewart Source:
The American Lawyer On September 5, 1980, as U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey was recuperating from two pulmonary embolisms and exhaustion, lawyers for the Church of Scientology and the Justice Department gathered before Judge Aubrey Robinson, Richey's successor in the two-year-old conspiracy case against 11 members of the Church of Scientology. Judge Richey had already convicted and sentenced nine of the original 11 defendants, but the remaining two, recently extradited from England, were about to go on trial. "Particularly from the standpoint of ...
Apr 14, 1980
Defector describes Scientology // Scientology at Gilman — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Terry Colvin Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) The Church of Scientology first moved into Riverside County when it opened a mission in Riverside in 1972. Later, it was revealed that the Church had a secret operation at La Quinta, near Indio. Now, from court records, it has been learned the church has established its worldwide command center at Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet. Here is the second of a two parts on the Gilman operation. ''[I do not have the first part of this special Gilman coverage. Of ...
Apr 5, 1980
For some it was hard to forsake Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , news.google.com , news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Craig Roberton Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) On Dec. 13, former Scientologist LaVenda Van Schaick filed a $200-million class-action lawsuit against the Church of Scientology in Federal Court in Boston, contending that the church falsely promises to improve the lives of its members. Since then, 10 other ex-Scientologists have filed affidavits in support of the suit, giving a glimpse of life within Scientology. The church has filed a motion to dismiss that case. It also sued Mrs. Van Schaick and others, contending that she is "motivated by malice." ...
Apr 3, 1980
Former member details life aboard Scientology ship — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Mar 7, 1980
Affidavit of Silvana Garritano More: link
Type: Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF SILVANA GARRITANO I was introduced to Scientology in October, 1977, when I went to the New York Church to take a "Communications Course". The "registrar" (a euphemism for salesman) was Jerry Indursky. He told me that my problem was a lack of assertiveness, that I did not speak up for myself. Indursky promised me Scientology would remedy that problem and I would emerge from the Communications Course a happier, more successful person because I could stand up for myself. ...
Tag(s):
Auditing •
Bart Dobin •
Big League Sales Closing Techniques (book) •
Blackmail •
Children, youth •
Church of Scientology of California (CSC) •
Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO) •
Communications Course •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Cost •
Estates Project Force (EPF) •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gold Base (also, "INT Base") @ Gilman Hot Springs •
Gradation chart •
Hacienda Serena @ 49875 Avenida Obregon La Quinta CA United States •
Hard sell •
Income •
Inurement •
Jerry Indursky •
Max Goodman •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Oxford Capacity Analysis (aka, "free Scientology personality test" aka "U-Test" aka "Pape Test") •
Recruitment •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Religious cloaking •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Salary •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Security check ("sec check") •
Silvana Garritano •
Slave labor •
Statistics (Stats) •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE)
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