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Dec 1, 1994
Litigation noir // Ford Greene thought he knew all about hardball litigation. Then he sued the Church of Scientology. — California LawyerMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steven Pressman Source:
California Lawyer It was a strange way to describe an aspect of a theology. But L. Ron Hubbard, the highly successful science-fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology in the 1950s, had little tolerance for those who challenged his beliefs. And so it was, at one time, that Scientology scripture came to include an unusual litigation clause: "The only way to defend anything is to attack, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged ...
Apr 12, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Victims who are 'fair game' — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) [Transcribed by Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> 21 May 1995 07:35:27 +0100] The Church of Scientology may call itself a religion, but it does not have a reputation for turning the other cheek. For a week last month Jon Atack and his family were subjected to scenes like this outside their home in Cranston Road, East Grinstead. Why? The placard-carrying demonstrators are Scientologists, and they do not like Mr. Atack because he is an outspoken critic of the cult. The police were twice called ...
Apr 3, 1994
Cult accused of intimidation — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) Police are investigating complaints that private investigators employed by the Church of Scientology, the cult created by L. Ron Hubbard, have intimidated witnesses and plaintiffs in forthcoming court cases. The cult, which claims to have 300,000 members in Britain and 8m worldwide, has attempted to undermine its critics after coming under severe financial pressure in this country. It is anxious to protect its funds which are set to be drained further by a series of expensive civil actions brought by former ...
Mar 8, 1994
Affidavit of Hana Eltringham Whitfield
Type: Declaration
Author(s):
Hana Whitfield Tag(s):
Amos Jessup •
Andrew Bagley •
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Barbara Bradley •
Blackmail •
Body thetans (BTs) •
Bomb threat •
Cancer •
Carly Swirtz •
Church of Scientology International v. Steven Fishman •
Confidential preclear (PC) folder •
Corydon vs. Church of Scientology •
Cost •
David Miscavige •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Death •
Disconnection •
Eugene "Gene" Denk •
Eugene M. Ingram •
Fair game •
False imprisonment •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Friend vs. Church of Scientology International •
Guillaume Lesevre •
Hana Eltringham Whitfield •
Heber C. Jentzsch •
Jack Horner •
Jane Parker •
Jennie Walker •
Jerry Whitfield •
John McMaster •
Jonathan W. Lubell •
Julie Christofferson Titchbourne vs. Church of Scientology, et al. •
Kathleen "Kathie" Wasserman (aka Kathie Heard) •
Kendrick L. Moxon •
L. Ron Hubbard •
Legal •
Lyman D. Spurlock •
Marc Yager •
Marcy McShane •
Mark C. "Marty" Rathbun •
Mary Florence (Flo) Barnett •
Mary Sue (Whipp) Hubbard •
Medical claims •
Michelle "Shelly" Miscavige (né Barnett) •
Murder •
Norman F. Starkey •
Office of Special Affairs (OSA) (formerly, Guardian's Office) •
Operating Thetan (OT) •
Paulette Cohen •
Potential Trouble Source (PTS) •
Private investigator(s) •
Quentin Geoffrey MaCauley Hubbard •
Raymond "Ray" Mithoff •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Roxanne Friend •
Scientology Missions International (SMI) •
Scientology's "Clear" state •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
Stephen "Steve" Marlowe •
Sterling Management Systems (SMS) •
Steven Fishman •
Suicide •
Suppressive person (SP) •
Susan Meister •
Timothy Bowles •
Warren L. McShane •
Watchdog Committee (WDC) •
Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch Nov 19, 1993
Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1993 CanLII 1348 (ON C.A.)
Type: Legal
[...] Scientology decided that Casey Hill was its "Enemy" and set out to destroy him. It levelled false charges against him. It prosecuted him on those charges. It repeated those charges after a judge had found them groundless. It repeated allegations in its pleadings and in open court which it knew were lies. It made additional serious false accusations against Casey Hill. It attacked his veracity. It accused him of putting on a performance to improperly influence the jury. In summary, ...
Nov 1, 1993
Scientology from inside out — Quill
Oct 1, 1993
Remarks on Heber Jentzsch and Scientology — Update & Dialog (Denmark)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Reinhart Hummel Source:
Update & Dialog (Denmark) Dear Friends and Colleagues! As you know Heber Jentzsch , President of the Church of Scientology International, has used, or rather misused, the Conference in London to launch an attack against churches, newspapers and the public in Germany and elsewhere. He has charged them with participating in a smear campaign against the Church of Scientology and has drawn a parallel with the persecution of Jews in Nazi-Germany. You will certainly know about the Scientology brochure titled Hatred and Propaganda where this argument ...
Aug 13, 1993
Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
Type: Press
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) Pinning our hopes on Old Doll Body I READ with interest Denise Harrison's statement of incredulity that a new religion could be the work of a science fiction writer. According to the saying, truth is stranger than fiction, so what about this one? In his early lectures, Ron Hubbard mentioned "Old Doll Body", a mythical figure from the past, who travelled freely in the universe in his flying saucer. In 1964, I was driving up the Turners Hill Road one night ...
Aug 2, 1993
Counterpoint // Scientologist response remains true to form — Daily Bruin (University of California)More: link
Oct 7, 1992
Cult awareness group being sued — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gabor Komaromy Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) Seven self-professed "parishioners" of the Church of Scientology have filed religious discrimination lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network and five members of the group, including a Glendale resident, in Glendale Superior Court. In the lawsuits, filed Friday and Monday, the plaintiffs allege that they have been denied access to the Cult Awareness Network's national convention, to be held in November, on grounds of their religious beliefs. The seven lawsuits — practically identical except for the plaintiffs' names — claim that the ...
Sep 29, 1992
Scientologists accuse local woman — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sophie Yarborough Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) Members of a group led by a supporter of the Church of Scientology have alerted Glendale police to alleged "deprogramming" activities of a Glendale woman. Kevin Hulce, a member of the Church of Scientology, along with two members of the Deprogramming Survivor's Network, accused Priscilla Coates of conspiring with Hulce's parents to turn him away from the religious group formed by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. "Because Priscilla Coates lives in Glendale, Kevin thought the police might like ...
Dec 29, 1991
Scientologists ran campaign to discredit Erhard, detective says — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) In October of 1989, a private detective was called into the Church of Scientology's offices in Los Angeles and asked to conduct an investigation in Northern California. Ted Heisig, a non-Scientologist based in Orange County, said he was led into a room and shown five file cabinets filled with documents Scientology had been collecting for years. The subject: Werner Erhard, founder of the worldwide self-awareness movement known as est. "They had contacts (in the file cabinets) dating back to his childhood ...
Jun 20, 1991
Advertising // Scientology dispute draws in WPP chief — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joanne Lipman Source:
Wall Street Journal A bizarre run-in between Time magazine and the Church of Scientology has ensnared an unlikely victim: WPP Group's Martin Sorrell. Ever since Time ran a May 6 cover story depicting the Scientology group as a "cult of greed," the Scientologists have been striking back, criticizing the article as a "sensationalized attack" full of "falsehoods." In the past week, the Scientologists have broadened their attack. This time, in one of the stranger plot twists Madison Avenue has seen, their target is Mr. ...
Jun 6, 1991
In battle against Time, Scientologists put money on ads — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bob Sipchen Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Last June, the Los Angeles Times published a damning series on the Church of Scientology. Scientologists responded by extracting a few good things the writers had to say about their organization and putting those quotes in foot-high letters on billboards all over town. On May 6 of this year, Time magazine published a cover story on Scientology. It had even fewer good things to say, and now the church has responded with an even more aggressive counterattack. Scientology's campaign of daily ...
May 6, 1991
Scientologists keep tabs on Neighborhood Watch chief — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Greg Roberts Source:
The Age (Australia) The Church of Scientology used contacts in the police and media to gather information on the chairman of Neighborhood Watch in Victoria, Mr David Lentin, according to an internal church report. The report, a copy of which has been obtained by 'The Age', shows that Mr Lentin is regarded as a dangerous opponent whose opposition to sects had to be curbed. Mr Lentin is a private investigator and leading "cult-buster" who has counselled people seeking to leave the church and other ...
May 1, 1991
Scientology church builds Humboldt vault — Lumberjack (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jack Durham Source:
Lumberjack (Humboldt State University, Arcata, California) On a 3,000-acre ranch in rural Humboldt County, devotees of Church of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard are building a 375-foot-long underground vault. The vault is being built on the Sunset View Ranch in Petrolia, a small town located about 20 miles south of Ferndale, by the Church of Spiritual Technology (COST). COST is linked to the controversial Church of Scientology, whose operations, according to court documents, include a lack of financial records, public policy violations, deceptive practices and the maintenance of ...
Apr 22, 1991
Church out to even the score — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jo Chandler ,
Jacqui MacDonald Source:
The Age (Australia) A telex sent in April 1987 to Scientology's Melbourne Office of Special Affairs from its Australian-New Zealand headquarters tracks the church's defensive strategy in response to an investigation by the former television program 'Willesee'. The program was looking at a woman's claim that her trip into the Russell Street headquarters had almost cost her $43,000. The telex spelt out a seven-step program for defusing the story. One course of action was to loudly brand the investigation a "set up". "(The) Church ...
Jul 15, 1990
Scientologists in dirty tricks campaign — The Sunday Times (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Palmer ,
Richard Caseby Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) THE Church of Scientology, a religious cult accused of
brainwashing its devotees, has paid private detectives more than £100,000 to organise a worldwide "dirty tricks" campaign against a Sunday Times journalist. Documents seen by The Sunday Times detail how
Russell Miller , journalist and author of a book on scientology's founder,
L. Ron Hubbard , has been secretly pursued around the world by investigators and members of the sect for the past three years. A former employee of the church, ...
Jun 29, 1990
The Scientology Story: Attack the Attacker // On the Offensive Against an Array of Suspected Foes — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) "Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars." —L. Ron Hubbard The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Ministers mingle with private detectives. "Sacred scriptures" counsel the virtues of combativeness. Parishioners double as paralegals for litigious church attorneys. Consider the passage that a prominent Scientology minister selected from the religion's scriptures, authored by the late L. Ron Hubbard, to inspire the faithful during a gala church event. "People attack Scientology," the minister quoted Hubbard ...
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