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Dec 25, 1994
Scientology fiction: The church's war against its critics -- and truth — Washington PostMore: link
Apr 25, 1994
Tom's Scientology secrets exposed! — Woman's Day (Australia)More: link
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Greg Sinclair Source:
Woman's Day (Australia) Exclusive A former cult security guard blows apart the star's squeaky clean image with claims of shocking abuse HOLLYWOOD megastar Tom Cruise has been sensationally named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit in the United States alleging receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illicit perks from the controversial Scientology religious cult. The 32-year-old Oscar winner is alleged to have turned a blind eye to the use of slave labour to build him a gym, an apartment and other gifts ...
Apr 21, 1994
Humans are 'thetans' — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
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Chichester Observer (UK) [Picture / Caption: The founder: L Ron Hubbard.] Scientologists have been active in Chichester for at least 10 years and their English base is in East Grinstead. They stepped up their role in the city after their Portsmouth offices closed a few years ago. The cult was founded in 1950 by American science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who had been involved in black magic. Its main beliefs is that humans are 'thetans', clusters of spirits who were banished to Earth ...
Jan 31, 1994
The prisoners of Saint Hill — The Independent (UK)More: cosmedia.freewinds.cx , link
Dec 22, 1993
Church assets are set at $400 million — Glendale News-Press (California)
Oct 18, 1993
Who says this isn't a religion? — Tampa Tribune (Florida)More: link
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Neil Cote Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) CLEARWATER — One thing about the Church of Scientology: the folks in charge sure do things the hard way. For 40 years, they feuded off and on with the Internal Revenue Service, which viewed Scientology as a for-profit brain-washing racket instead of just another religion in want of federal tax exemptions. At times, the feuding got awfully ugly, with Scientologists getting sent up the river for burglary and other niceties that church people don't normally commit — well at least those ...
Oct 13, 1993
Scientology surrounded by secrecy, controversy — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link
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David Barstow Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) In 1975, the Church of Scientology used a front company to secretly buy the historic Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater for $2.3-million. There has been controversy ever since. Shortly after making the hotel its worldwide spiritual headquarters, Scientologists issued an internal directive outlining a plan to "fully investigate the Clearwater city and county area so we can distinguish our friends from our enemies and handle as needed." It called for protecting "ourselves against any potential threat by taking control of ...
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
Aug 20, 1993
Letters to the Editor // The Scientology debate — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) The Courier has received a number of letters this week which are not being published because they are considered to be defamatory. —– Misdirected energy AS SPOKESMAN for the Church of Scientology I have only one thing to say to Mike Ricks (
Letters, August 13 ), and that is that if he had spent as much time on improving conditions in town as he did in persecuting a religion, East Grinstead would be an even more pleasant environment to live and ...
Jun 23, 1993
Declaration of Margery Wakefield More: groups.google.com
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DECLARATION OF MARGERY WAKEFIELD I, Margery Wakefield, having personal knowledge of the following, hereby declare: 1. I was a member of the Church of Scientology of California from October of 1968 until February of 1980. I joined the Church in Los Angeles, California, where I was primarily based although I also took courses and/or worked at Church organizations in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida. 2. While in Scientology I progressed to the level of OT 3 (an ...
Mar 26, 1993
Prayer for today — Evening Standard (UK)
Nov 26, 1992
'Best way to make money is to found a religion' — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
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Chichester Observer (UK) Jesus is a fantasy Implanted in our minds millions of years ago, according to the Scientology cult. And L Ron Hubbard, who founded Dianetics and Scientology, dabbled in anti-Christian rituals with a disciple of black magician Aleister Crowley. Former Scientologists Jon Atack and Bonnie Woods spoke to a Chichester audience of head teachers and representatives from churches, Scouts, local councils and the police. Mr Atack, who thought the city was the cult's latest target, said Scientology has "200 front groups" including ...
Sep 17, 1992
'It's immoral, sinister and corrupt' says judge — Chichester Observer (UK)
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 10, 1991
Scientology's children: What are church's beliefs? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: link , pqasb.pqarchiver.com
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Curtis Krueger Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) L. Ron Hubbard was a writer who conjured up tales of time travel and rocket ships to Mars. But science fiction was not all that sprang from Hubbard's pen. He also wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health . In it, Hubbard described a new kind of counseling, which he said could help people increase their IQs, cure themselves of arthritis, allergies, asthma and migraine headaches, and reduce their chances of having a car wreck. The book was published ...
Sep 2, 1991
Scientologists emerge as creators of mystery-shrouded movie firm — Los Angeles Business Journal
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Anne Rackham Source:
Los Angeles Business Journal Scientologists emerge as creators of mystery-shrouded movie firm
Is it just a movie company, this one owned and run by members of a controversial church? Or is it a front?
Future Films, the mysterious movie company that arrived in Burbank and in Garland, Texas, last month with ambitious goals and a huge marketing splash, is financed and managed by a small group of high-level members of the Church of Scientology.
Critics of the church, who label the religion a cult and ...
May 12, 1991
Ruthless cult has local company // 'Mafia like' US cult has local links — Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)More: link
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Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) MEMBERS of the Church of Scientology, described as a thriving cult of greed and power in a recent Time magazine expose have been linked to Cyprus through offshore company Theta Management Limited, which deals in consultancy and investments. In a special report dated May 6, Time reporter Richard Behar said the Church, which claims to have eight million followers, squirreled away an estimated $400 million in bank accounts in Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Cyprus. Theta Management Ltd was created on 29.10.1984, on ...
May 11, 1991
Cult busters — The Age (Australia)More: link
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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 ...
May 6, 1991
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power — TIME Magazine
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Richard Behar Source:
TIME Magazine By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in ...
Jul 1, 1990
Psychiatry and Scientology — The Southern California PsychiatristMore: link
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Louis Jolyon West Source:
The Southern California Psychiatrist The Church of Scientology began as a pseudo-scientific healing cult, Dianetics, described by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer, in his best-selling book "Dianetics: The Modern science of Mental Health" (1950). At first, Dianetics attracted followers by promising to cure psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders through a procedure called "dianetic auditing," based on pop-psychology, hypnosis, and cybernetics. Hubbard's theory as based on the principle that people can achieve health through abolishing ("clearing") negative influences ("engrams") from their minds by going back ...
Jun 24, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Making of L. Ron Hubbard // Defining the Theology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) What is Scientology? Not even the vast majority of Scientologists can fully answer the question. In the Church of Scientology, there is no one book that comprehensively sets forth the religion's beliefs in the fashion of, say, the Bible or the Koran. Rather, Scientology's theology is scattered among the voluminous writings and tape-recorded discourses of the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who founded the religion in the early 1950s. Piece by piece, his teachings are revealed to church members ...
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