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altadena, ca • church of spiritual technology (cst) (dba, l. ron hubbard library) • disconnection • e-meter • earle c. cooley • fair game • fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • fred leeson • garry p. mcmurry • gerald "gerry" armstrong • heber c. jentzsch • internal revenue service (irs) • inurement • judge donald h. londer • julie christofferson titchbourne • julie christofferson titchbourne vs. church of scientology, et al. • l. ron hubbard's credentials • laurel j. sullivan (née watson) • lawsuit • mark arax • private investigator(s) • real estate • suppressive person (sp) • tax matter • the oregonian (portland)
Reference materials L. Ron Hubbard's credentialsL. Ron HubbardRonald "Nibs" Edward DeWolf (L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.)Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) (dba, L. Ron Hubbard Library)Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (book)
27 matching items found between Jan 1985 and Dec 1985. Furthermore, there are 697 matching items for all time not shown.
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Dec 22, 1985
60 Minutes: Scientology / Update [16m 51s] — CBS News
Oct 16, 1985
Scientology president fights legal controls as 'gas-chamber therapy' — Advertiser (Australia)
Oct 6, 1985
Advertisement: The Invaders Plan by Master Storyteller L. Ron Hubbard — Los Angeles Times (California)
Sep 26, 1985
Church of Scientology withdraws from deal to buy Altadena site — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology has backed out of an agreement to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the Altadena foothills, ending three months of controversy in which some local residents charged that the group was a cult seeking to establish a base of operations there. Scientology officials last week withdrew their application for a conditional-use permit for the former LaVina Hospital complex. In a letter to the county's Regional Planning Commission, the group said it had found another site more ...
Sep 22, 1985
Scientologists withdraw from Altadena deal — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology has backed out of an agreement to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the Altadena foothills, ending three months of controversy in which some local residents charged that the group was a cult seeking to establish a base of operations here. Scientology officials last week withdrew their application for a conditional-use permit for the former LaVina Hospital complex. In a letter to the county's Regional Planning Commission, the group said it had found another site more ...
Jun 27, 1985
Altadena town council votes to deny permit to Scientologists — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
ALTADENA — The Town Council has voted to deny a conditional-use permit needed by an affiliate of the Church of Scientology to purchase a 198-acre former hospital complex in the foothills. The 8-2 vote Monday against the granting of the permit serves only as a recommendation and does not bind the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, which will consider the matter and make a final decision in the fall. The vote ended more than a month of emotional debate over ...
Jun 20, 1985
Residents accuse Scientologists of harassing tactics — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
ALTADENA — Residents have expressed fear and outrage over what they describe as harassment and intimidation by supporters of the Church of Scientology's plans to buy a 198-acre former hospital complex in the foothills here. At an emotional Altadena Town Council meeting Tuesday, residents complained of late night phone calls and mass mailings of pamphlets about the church, all aimed at winning community support for a conditional-use permit needed by the church to complete the sale. Council Member Beverly Hurt said ...
Jun 13, 1985
Scientologists try to ease concern on Altadena plans — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Author(s): Mark Arax
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
ALTADENA — Incorporation papers filed by the Church of Spiritual Technology seemingly contradict public assurances by church officials that their planned training center here will not be used as a base to espouse the tenets of Scientology. Officials of the Church of Spiritual Technology, an affiliate of the Church of Scientology, tried to allay community concerns Tuesday over their plans to buy a 198-acre complex in the Altadena foothills, which was occupied until last year by the La Vina Hospital. During ...
May 30, 1985
Scientology on trial — Willamette Week
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Author(s): Bill Driver
Source: Willamette Week
Why a Portland jury awarded $39 million in damages against one of the world's most profitable cults. ONE SUNNY AFTERNOON last week, an elderly man, who looked as though he had probably spent the past few nights sleeping under the stars, stood in the southeast corner of Lownsdale Square in downtown Portland gazing in bewilderment at the scene before him. Several hundred people, many wearing T-shirts proclaiming something about a crusade for religious freedom, gathered around a large stage in the ...
May 26, 1985
The selling of Scientology // Hubbard's motivations revealed in correspondence — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Three years after publishing a best-selling book in 1950 about his theories for improving mental health, L. Ron Hubbard, 42, was living in Spain and worrying about money. An idea struck him. Why not present Scientology as a religion, he suggested in a letter written to Helen O'Brien, then the head of an organization for marketing his mental health concepts known as the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. This was the formative stage of the Church of Scientology. Over the next 30 ...
May 23, 1985
Scientology plan to buy site worries neighbors — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Mike Ward, Victor M. Valle
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A plan by an affiliate of the Church of Scientology to buy a former hospital in the foothills above Altadena to house church archives and to serve as a training center for ministers is running into opposition from neighbors. "There's a lot of fear and worry," said William Kellogg, chairman of the Altadena Town Council's Land-Use Committee. Most of the concern centers on Scientology and its adherents, Kellogg said, rather than on the use of the 198-acre property, which was occupied ...
May 19, 1985
Scientologists converge on Portland for protest: Thousands to assail award of $39 million to ex-member in suit — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Jan Klunder
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Several thousand members of the Church of Scientology are planning to converge on Portland, Ore., today and Monday to protest a jury's $39-million damage award to a former church member who claimed that she was defrauded out of $3,253 by the group. The Rev. Kathleen Gorgon, president of the Church of Scientology of California, said that several hundred members left Saturday from the church's Hollywood headquarters by car, bus, train and plane to join others from around the world in a ...
May 16, 1985
Scientology defense religion-based — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A civil fraud suit in Portland seeking $42 million in punitive damages against the Church of Scientology was described Tuesday as the "broadest-based attack on religion that has ever happened in the history of man." Earle C. Cooley, a Boston attorney who headed the church defense, told a Multnomah County Circuit jury that Scientology "ranks up among the most abused religions in the history of the world. Perhaps only the Jews have suffered more at the hands of their enemies." Cooley, ...
May 10, 1985
Church civil fraud trial nears end — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The end of a civil fraud trial against the Church of Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard drew unexpectedly closer Wednesday when the defense announced it would call no more witnesses on the church’s behalf. Defense attorney Earle C. Cooley surprised his opposition by resting the defense case early Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court after one week of testimony and eight witnesses. Cooley’s decision means the church will not call any high-ranking officials to refute claims that the reclusive ...
May 5, 1985
Judge frees records of church founder — Olympian
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Type: Press
Source: Olympian
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A judge has released from court custody records of reclusive Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's World War II military service and medical treatment. The records could show whether Hubbard, who has written that he was crippled and blinded as a result of war injuries, was actually injured. Attorneys for a woman suing the church contend he never served in combat, and never was seriously injured. Hubbard has written in church materials that he cured himself ...
May 4, 1985
Judge frees Hubbard data from custody — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Records of L. Ron Hubbard's World War II military service and medical treatment were released from court custody Friday by a Portland judge who decided they have become relevant to a fraud trial against the Church of Scientology. Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer ruled that defense testimony offered this week by the church would make the private records relevant to the claim by a Portland woman that the church and its founder, Hubbard, defrauded her in 1975. Londer reviewed several hundred ...
May 3, 1985
Enrollment in Scientology course told — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A former Portland man who enrolled Julie Christofferson Titchbourne in her first Scientology course in 1975 testified Thursday that Titchbourne willingly signed up for the class and that she was advised that the course material involved religion. "She came in already wanting to do the course," said William M. Landers, describing Titchbourne's first appearance at the Portland Church of Scientology mission in July 1975 when Titchbourne was 17. Titchbourne is suing the church and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in Multnomah ...
May 1, 1985
Founder of Scientology faces default judgement — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A Multnomah County judge entered a default judgment Tuesday against L. Ron Hubbard, the controversial founder of the Church of Scientology, as a long-running civil fraud trial against Hubbard and the church reached the halfway mark. Circuit Judge Donald H. Londer signed the default against the reclusive Hubbard at the conclusion of the plaintiff's case in the eighth week of trial. Hubbard, who has not been seen publicly since 1980, did not appear for the trial. Londer's ruling means Hubbard by ...
Apr 26, 1985
Witness says Scientology founder veiled income — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A former personal secretary to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, told a Portland jury Thursday about a secret system Hubbard used in the 1970s for collecting personal income from church organizations. Laurel J. Sullivan, who said she worked closely with Hubbard until he disappeared from public view in 1980, also testified that Hubbard held managerial control over numerous Scientology organizations despite his publicly announced "retirement" from church management in 1966. Contrary to a 1972 church policy ...
Apr 25, 1985
IRS wins OK to copy videotapes — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The Internal Revenue Service won court permission Wednesday to copy five hours of clandestinely made videotapes involving a former Church of Scientology member that were played earlier this month in a Portland fraud trial against the church. The IRS request followed a claim by church officials in Los Angeles that the tapes revealed a government plot to take control of church assets and property. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles W. Stuckey said the tapes were sought by the IRS in connection with ...
Apr 17, 1985
Court hears final Scientology tape — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Jurors in the Church of Scientology fraud trial Tuesday listened to the last of five hours of surreptitiously-taped conversations in which a former Scientologist talked about a plan to "transform" church leadership by filing suit to take managerial control. "I think both of us want the organization to be transformed into something decent," Gerald D. Armstrong told a Scientologist who was involved in the effort to discredit Armstrong as a court witness by making tapes of the conversations without Armstrong's knowledge. ...
Apr 12, 1985
New secret tapes revealed in lawsuit — The Oregonian (Portland)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The existence of two more surreptitiously made videotapes involving conversations of a former member of the Church of Scientology was revealed in court Thursday, one day after church lawyers said they had no knowledge of any more such tapes. The new tapes bring to four the number of meetings in which the former Scientologist, who has attacked the church, was videotaped without his knowledge during meetings with church members who led him to believe they were trying to reform church practices. ...
Mar 30, 1985
Ex-Scientologist testifies church founder's biography 'lies' — The Oregonian (Portland)
Feb 28, 1985
Suburbanites salute Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Feb 12, 1985
U.S. granted access to some Scientology papers — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Myrna Oliver
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The U.S. government won access Monday to six sealed letters and memos concerning the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and failed in its attempt to see 11 others. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. had placed the 17 items under seal in June at the end of a civil trial in which he absolved former church archivist Gerald Armstrong of taking documents belonging to the organization. He sealed the items largely because they involved ...
Jan 1, 1985
A biography of L. Ron Hubbard [10 MiB]
Jan 1, 1985
Scientology — CBC
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