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Aug 2, 1993
Counterpoint // Scientologist response remains true to form — Daily Bruin (University of California)More: link
Sep 1, 1992
Scientology: Church, cult or con? // 'People need to know there is a way out' — Australian Women's WeeklyMore: link
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Australian Women's Weekly Glen entered the trap willingly and, for a while, he didn't even realise that he'd been caught Glen McClelland has the look of hate in his eyes as he remembers what he's just been through. Now 28, Glen spent four years as a convert to the Church of Scientology. For him, this wasn't so much a religion as a way of life. And it nearly cost him his family and girlfriend, his sanity — and bank balance, too. The story starts ...
Apr 29, 1992
La Marche du siècle [French] — France 3More: Part 2 , Part 3
Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
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Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Oct 20, 1991
The religion that sells the sky — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
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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 ...
Jul 21, 1991
The two sides of Scientology — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
Jun 5, 1991
[Letter to USA Today from Lyle Stuart] More: link
Type: Opinion
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Lyle Stuart USA TODAY 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22229 5 June 1991 I was one of your charter subscribers and have followed your growth both in circulation and influence from the beginning. In fact, I liked USA TODAY so much that I directed my company to place a full page back cover ad in the national edition for our Dr. Who book series. During the past fortnight I have read with dismay, the clumsy sereies of attacks against Time magazine by the ...
Jun 1, 1991
Petrolia's new neighbors – L. Ron Hubbard's followers, the Church of Spiritual Technology — North Coast JournalMore: link
Type: Press
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Joe Cempa Source:
North Coast Journal Petrolia — A few miles outside of this coastal community, a massive 400-foot subterranean vault constructed of steel and concrete lies beneath a peaceful knoll overlooking the Pacific. The breadth and dimension of the vault stagger the imagination: 100 feet longer than a football field and 20 feet in diameter, the two-story sarcophagus is almost complete. It is designed to withstand the ravages of nature as well as man-made destruction. Humboldt County is now home to one of the most impregnable ...
May 24, 1991
The Scientology of selling // The Hubbard is bare — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
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Ralph Rugoff Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) I ARRIVED FOR MY APPOINTMENT AT THE L. RON Hubbard Life Exhibition Hall a few minutes early. Unlike in other commemorative mausoleums, such as the Nixon Library and Birthplace, you're not allowed to walk around the Hubbard by yourself. Instead, you must sign up for an hour-and-a-half guided tour. Possibly they don't trust the unassisted viewer to fully reap the museum's rewards, though it might also be a matter of security. The presence of a young guard dressed in the Church ...
May 11, 1991
Cult busters — The Age (Australia)More: link
Type: Press
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Jacqui MacDonald Source:
The Age (Australia) Two American cult-busters recently flew to Australia to try to reclaim a young man from Scientology. JACQUI MACDONALD watched as they tried to unlock his mind, hour by hour, inch by inch. The names of the family and the cult-busters have been changed. FOR TWO days Peter Nolan has rehearsed how to greet his son. Peter and his wife Mary have planned how they will open the flywire front door and smile at the son they have not seen for several ...
Apr 14, 1991
More hokum from guru Hubbard — Daily Yomiuri (Japan)More: link
Type: Press
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Mark Wilkinson Source:
Daily Yomiuri (Japan) CLEAR BODY, CLEAR MIND: The Effective Purification Program, by L. Ron Hubbard; Bridge Publications; 306 pages. After years of polluting your body, there's hope: L. Ron Hubbard's Clear Body Clear Mind . It gives insights into the horrible toxins in all of us and provides home remedies for flushing our bodies. And if you're an utter rube, you may find comfort in the evangelical, condescending tone of this astounding example of self-promotion. Claiming to have discovered the presence of impurities in our ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 1: The Mind Behind the Religion — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
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Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) It was a triumph of galactic proportions: Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard had discarded the body that bound him to the physical universe and was off to the next phase of his spiritual exploration — "on a planet a galaxy away." "Hip, hip, hurray!" thousands of Scientologists thundered inside the Hollywood Palladium, where they had just been told of this remarkable feat. "Hip, hip, hurray! Hip, hip, hurray!" they continued to chant, gazing at a large photograph of Hubbard, creator ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 2: Creating the Mystique — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Hubbard's image was crafted of truth, distorted by myth. To his followers, L. Ron Hubbard was bigger than life. But it was an image largely of his own making. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge put it bluntly while presiding over a Church of Scientology lawsuit in 1984. Scientology's founder, he said, was "virtually a pathological liar" about his past. Hubbard was an intelligent and well-read man, with diverse interests, experience and expertise. But that apparently was not enough to satisfy ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Chapter 3: Life With L. Ron Hubbard — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Aides indulged his eccentricities and egotism. L. Ron Hubbard enjoyed being pampered. He surrounded himself with teen-age followers, whom he indoctrinated, treated like servants and cherished as though they were his own children. He called them the "Commodore's messengers." " 'Messenger!' " he would boom in the morning. "And we'd pull him out of bed," one recalled. The youngsters, whose parents belonged to Hubbard's Church of Scientology, would lay out his clothes, run his shower and help him dress. He taught ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Staking a Claim to Blood Brotherhood — Los Angeles Times (California)More: scs.cmu.edu
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) As L. Ron Hubbard told it, he was 4 years old when a medicine man named "Old Tom" made him a "blood brother" of the Blackfeet Indians of Montana, providing the inspiration for the Scientology founder's first novel, "Buckskin Brigades." But one expert on the tribe doesn't buy Hubbard's account. Historian Hugh Dempsey is associate director of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Canada. He has extensively researched the tribe, of which his wife is a member. He said that blood brothers ...
Mar 12, 1990
Who is the owner of the written word? — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
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Bob Sipchen Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Imagine that a biographer is rummaging through an old trunk. He discovers a previously unseen letter from George Washington to Martha. He unfolds the brittle pages. "Martha, I must tell you, I was fibbing when I said, 'I cannot tell a lie.' " When that hypothetical biography is published, will you, the book buyer, get to read the Founding Father's confession? Hard to say. Last month the Supreme Court refused to review an appeals court ruling that copyright law strictly limits ...
Feb 21, 1990
Curbs stand on unpublished writings — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Feb 21, 1990
Justices permit strict curbs on use of unpublished writing — Washington Post
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