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Nov 24, 1988
Spanish police swoop on cult — East Grinstead ObserverMore: link
Nov 22, 1988
Three Britons held in mass swoop on cult — Daily Mail (UK)
Jun 16, 1988
Scientology – what readers think — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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John Ablett Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE recent news reports concerning the Church of Scientology have been so damning, and the defence by members of the Church has been so unconvincing, that readers may be left wondering how some one could be so gullible as to ever become involved with such an apparently unsavory organisation in the first place. Or, once involved, how could they be deceived for so long? But the truth is not so simple and the process is more elaborate that it seems. Some ...
May 26, 1988
Cult to pay taxes // US court confirms Church of Scientology is a profit making organisation — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) THE church of Scientology has been ruled a profit making organisation. In the Supreme Court, Washington DC, last Monday, the cult was refused leave to appeal against a 1984 tax exempt ruling and must now pay $1.2 million back taxes for 1970 to 1972 and $287,614 in penalties for late filing. This will come as a severe blow to the church which has been fighting the Internal Revenue Service since the late 1960's to keep its tax exemption status. The United ...
May 26, 1988
Letters: The 'Big League Sales' church — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) The 'Big League Sales' Church AS the perpetrator of the supposed 'hooligan antics' against the Concerned Businessman's Association at the May Fayre, could I reply to the Scientology Public Relations officer's allegations? Worried by the Courier's recent story on the tactic of luring children into Scientology via front groups, I stopped by at the Concerned Businessman's Association stand to find whether they admitted any link to Scientology. Asked the question, one of the scientologists on the stand said 'yes', the other ...
May 19, 1988
Man loaned cash for Scientology courses — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) AS the Church of Scientology hits hack at last week's report outlining its "hard sell" techniques, we can reveal that some people were so desperate to raise money for courses that they used the services of a fellow Scientologist who loaned them money at exhorbitant rates of interest. Dozens of people rang to confirm the details of last week's story and some provided documents showing how one wealthy Scientologist loaned his own money to help people pay for the cult's expensive ...
May 19, 1988
Scientology defended [Letters] — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Scientology defended I HAVE several points to make about your last week's coverage of the Church of Scientology. 1. On your front page, you used photographs taken by two men who at the recent May Fayre heckled and abused the two female Scientologists who were giving their help to get the street signs cleaned. In fact these photographs were taken while the heckIing was going on. Thus these men have been "rewarded” for their hooligan antics. 2. You rely almost exclusively ...
May 15, 1988
Branson firm hired to help 'sinister' cult — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
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Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) RICHARD BRANSON's Virgin company has been distributing thousands of newspapers and magazines for the Church of Scientology. The publications, containing propaganda and articles encouraging people to buy the cult's controversial and expensive courses, have been packaged at Virgin's distribution centre at Crawley, West Sussex, and sent to homes in Britain and abroad. Virgin won the contract to distribute the publications, Good News and Source magazine, through an agent in Los Angeles who used Branson's cargo company to fly in thousands of ...
May 12, 1988
The 'Hard Sell' Cult — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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Author(s):
Mike Ricks ,
Sarah Gorman Source:
East Grinstead Courier (UK) As a campaign by members of the church of Scientology to make Britain the first Scientology country gains momentum, we can reveal the cost of the "hard sell" 'religion' which has split families and which last week led one Ashurst Wood couple to the Bankruptcy Court. Our investigations suggest the cult uses high pitch American style sales techniques to trap their hapless "believers" in a never ending web of lengthy courses. Scientology is the religious philosophy which grew out of Dianetics, ...
May 4, 1988
Man went bankrupt after £175,000 gifts to Scientologists — Daily Telegraph (UK)More: link , link
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Lin Jenkins Source:
Daily Telegraph (UK) A MATHEMATICS graduate who founded his own computer company, went bankrupt after he "recklessly and cynically exploited" easy credit from banks, finance and credit card companies to give more than £71,000 in 17 months to the Church of Scientology. Mr Adrian Thomas Hayman, 38, paid £175,000 to the "corrupt, sinister and dangerous" church over 14 years. But he began increasing his average annual payments of £8,000 by borrowing. At a public examination at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, yesterday, he denied a suggestion ...
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