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Apr 21, 1994
Church calls it quits // As Scientology backs away from critics, it may hurt in libel case — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Steven Pressman
Source: Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
[Picture / Caption: RESOLUTION — "I think the judge just wanted to bring an end to this case," says Graham E. Berry, right, with Gordon J. Calhoun.] For years, the Church of Scientology has been synonymous with bitter litigation battles. But the 40-year-old religious organization, long known for its aggressive legal tactics, threw in the towel recently on a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles that it had been waging against two critics. Besides serving as a legal setback, the action in ...
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 ...
Jan 16, 1994
Father's letter pleads for a week's dialogue — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)
More: link
Dec 22, 1993
Church assets are set at $400 million — Glendale News-Press (California)
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): John H. Richardson
Source: Premiere (magazine)
Tag(s): Ability (Scientology magazine)American Premiere (magazine)Andrea JaffeAnne ArcherAnti-psychiatryApple SchoolsAuditingAuthor Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology)Bert SalzmanBlackmailBob DolmanBonnie ReissBrad PittBrian GrazerCelebrity (magazine)Celebrity CentreCharlie SheenChurch of Scientology International (CSI)Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)CommissionsCorey SlavinCostCreative Artists AgencyCry Out (booklet)Cult Awareness Network (CAN) (earlier form, Citizen's Freedom Foundation)David MiscavigeDelphi Schools, Inc.Diana CanovaDisconnectionDon SimpsonDror SorefE-MeterEarth Communications Office (ECO)Edgar WinterEmilio EstevezEric ShermanErnest LehmanFloyd MutruxFoundation for Advancements in Science and Education (FASE)Freddie PrinzeGary ImhoffGentle Birth FoundationGeoffrey LewisHana Eltringham WhitfieldHarassmentHarvey HaberHealthMedHeber C. JentzschJanet CharltonJeff PomerantzJeffrey ScottJerry SeinfeldJoel SappellJohn H. RichardsonJohn TravoltaJudy Norton-TaylorJuliette LewisJustice Clarence ThomasKaren BlackKelly PrestonKen RoseKimberley KatesKirstie AlleyL.A. Style (magazine)LawsuitLee PurcellLeo J. RyanLisa Marie PresleyLisa Stuart HalversonManu TupouMark C. "Marty" RathbunMark IshamMary Sue (Whipp) HubbardMichael D. RobertsMichael J. "Mike" RinderMichael OvitzMichael WisemanMike FarrellMilton KatselasMimi RogersMoney launderingNan Herst BowersNancy CartwrightNarconon InternationalNicole KidmanOperation Snow WhitePat KingsleyPatrick RyanPatrick SwayzePaulette CooperPeter HortonPhilip JepsenPremiere (magazine)Priscilla PresleyPrivate investigator(s)Project CelebrityPublic fundingPurification Rundown ("Purif")R. Michael WisnerReader's DigestRecruitmentReligious Technology Center (RTC)Richard BeharRichard DonnerRichard NataleRobert "Bobby" LiptonRobert W. WelkosRon HowardScientology's "Code of Honor"Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power (article)Shaw Health CenterStudy technology (Study tech)Suppressive person (SP)Threat of physical harmTom CruiseTom MankiewiczVonni RibisiXenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)Yvonne Gillham Jentzsch
Mar 21, 1993
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology / Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology — San Francisco Examiner (California)
More: stop-wise.biz, link
Type: Press
Author(s): Erin McCormick
Source: San Francisco Examiner (California)
Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology by Erin McCormick of the Examiner Staff It was once the sweetheart of the Bay Area business world - a woman-run chocolate company that grew from a single storefront to a national success. Now, two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest ...
Jan 23, 1993
Church of Scientology a big loser in S.B. case / Can the road map to salvation be copyrighted? — Santa Barbara Independent (California)
More: lermanet.com
Dec 17, 1992
Letters: Reply to attacks — Chichester Observer (UK)
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 ...
Jul 29, 1992
Silicon Valley firm sued over Scientology issue — Sacramento Bee (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Sacramento Bee (California)
SANTA CLARA — Former employees of Applied Materials have filed suit alleging that the Silicon Valley manufacturing firm forced them to undergo Church of Scientology seminars. Trial proceedings began Tuesday as lawyers for both sides argued motions before Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Frank Cliff. In their suit, former employees Steven Hunziker, Virginia Sanders and Kate Schuchmann allege that Applied Materials hired an outside firm to teach workers communication and time-management skills. But the seminar firm, Applied Scholastics of Fremont, ...
Oct 20, 1991
The religion that sells the sky — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Kevin Shinkle
Source: Tampa Tribune (Florida)
A PIECE OF BLUE SKY. By Jon Atack. Lyle Stuart. 428 Pages. $21.95. It has been 17 years since the Church of Scientology secretly bought the historic Fort Harrison Hotel and established a base for an important arm of the church in the city of Clearwater. And it has been nearly 10 years since critical public hearings — which detailed allegations of a slew of Scientology wrongs — captivated city residents for more than a week. The church professes to have ...
Sep 1, 1991
Former Scientologist harassed after saying Prozac helped her depression — Psychiatric Times
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Psychiatric Times
The former top-level Scientologist who told The Psychiatric Times in June that fluoxetine (Prozac) had helped her overcome the depression she suffered while in Scientology has been under surveillance along with her husband, and she said her friends neighbors have been harassed by private investigators since shortly after the story was released. Both Hana Whitfield and her husband, Jerry have been watched at their home and followed whenever they leave. They were also investigated by police in England ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 8, 1991
Harassement shouldn't quiet media, say cult experts — Winnipeg Sun
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Winnipeg Sun
The Church of Scientology has a long and undistinguished history of harassing its detractors — but that shouldn't stop the media or anyone else from speaking out against it, cult experts say. The church commonly threatens lawsuits, tries to have detractors arrested, and harasses sources and individual reporters, said Cynthia Kisser of the Cult Awareness Network in Chicago. And recent Sun stories linking the church — alleged by experts to be a dangerous, mind-control cult — to Narconon, a drug rehabilitation ...
Aug 4, 1991
Town terrorized for fighting church — Winnipeg Sun
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Winnipeg Sun
When Narconon comes to town, the Church of Scientology — and trouble — follows, residents of Newkirk, Okla. warned yesterday. Newkirk civic leaders were threatened and harassed by the controversial church and its private investigators after they opposed a Narconon treatment centre set up on Indian territory near the small, rural town in 1989, Mayor Gary Bilger said. "We had three investigators in our little town of 2,300 off and on for weeks," he said. "My little boy was 11 years ...
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
The Scientologists and Me — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Behar
Source: TIME Magazine
Strange things seem to happen to people who write about Scientology. Journalist Paulette Cooper wrote a critical book on the cult in 1971. This led to a Scientology plot (called Operation Freak-Out) whose goal, according to church documents, was "to get P.C. incarcerated in a mental institution or jail." It almost worked: by impersonating Cooper, Scientologists got her indicted in 1973 for threatening to bomb the church. Cooper, who also endured 19 lawsuits by the church, was finally exonerated in 1977 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 20, 1990
Scientologists claim harassment by IRS — Mesa Tribune
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Lawn Griffiths
Source: Mesa Tribune
Saying the Internal Revenue Service harasses and discriminates against their members, Arizona followers of the Church of Scientology have gotten four of the state's congressmen and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to look into their allegations against the IRS. Scientologists have long waged a bitter battle with the IRS, which has challenged members' tax returns, saying they cannot claim charitable deductions on some money they pay for church-sponsored courses, materials and other costs associated with the 35-year-old organization founded by L Ron ...
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 // The Battle With The 'Squirrels' // When the Doctrine Leaves the Church — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert W. Welkos, Joel Sappell
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology hates "squirrels." That is the scornful word L. Ron Hubbard used to describe non-church members who offer his teachings, sometimes at cut-rate prices. Most are ex-Scientologists who say they believe in Hubbard's gospel but left the church because its hierarchy was too oppressive. "We call them squirrels," Hubbard once wrote, "because they are so nutty." Hubbard contended that only church members are qualified to administer his self-improvement-type courses. Outsiders, he said, inevitably misapply the teachings, wreaking spiritual ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 29, 1990
The Scientology Story: Attack the Attacker // A Lawyer Learns What It's Like to Fight the Church — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Joseph Yanny represented the movement until a falling out. Now he says lengthy litigation and mysterious harassment indicate he's become 'Public Enemy No. 1.' Los Angeles attorney Joseph Yanny was driving through rural Ohio in the pre-dawn hours in 1988 when he was pulled over by police, who had received a tip that he was carrying a cache of cocaine and guns in his rental car. A telephone caller had supplied authorities in Ohio with Yanny's name, the car's description and ...
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 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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