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Aug 30, 1981
Sect courses resemble science fiction — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) At the Fort Harrison Hotel in downtown Clearwater, Scientologists are learning to leave their bodies, control other people's thoughts and communicate with plant life. They learn this by reliving a galactic holocaust carried out by space creatures millions of years ago. So say top-secret Scientology documents spelling out the highest level of training available to church members. It is training that costs thousands of dollars and, according to church defectors who provided the documents, amounts to nothing but a swindle dreamed ...
Aug 25, 1981
Psychiatrist: Sect drove man insane — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Leiby Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) A downtown Clearwater businessman who last year joined the Church of Scientology was committed to a Mental hospital Monday after a psychiatrist testified that Scientology apparently contributed to the man's insanity. Francis G. Diamond, 45, a successful antique dealer before his breakdown, told Circuit Judge William Walker that other Scientologists' "thetans," or spirits, had invaded his body during counseling sessions and now control him. "It's not something out of Star Trek-it happens," insisted Diamond, who brought a book by Scientology founder ...
Aug 6, 1981
Opinion: Scientology church supports proposed hotel as vital to downtown rebirth — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Aug 4, 1981
Scientologists accuse city of collusion — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jul 29, 1981
Church releases 'financial report' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.ca , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gary McElroy Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is a visible, viable Clearwater institution, church spokesman Milt Wolfe said Tuesday morning: "We're here. We're going to stay here." And in an attempt to make that fact more palatable, the church released a "financial report" during a Tuesday press conference, contending that the controversial organization spent exactly $10,028,000 in the Tampa Bay area in 1980. Reading from a prepared press release in a chapel inside the church's Fort Harrison Hotel headquarters, Wolfe said the ...
Jul 29, 1981
Development of downtown called too slow — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.ca
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gary McElroy Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Even as proposed plans were being unveiled Tuesday afternoon for a new hotel-retail complex along Clearwater's bayfront, a Church of Scientology group was saying hotel development here has been too slow. They say they have plans of their own. The group, New Clearwater for the 80s, has compiled a voluminous "Clearwater Downtown Development Data Pack" that they say will bring developers and investors, "especially hotel developers, into downtown Clearwater." The packet consists of maps, copies of a City of ...
Jul 29, 1981
Lawyers says he doesn't know where Scientology leader is — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.ca
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tim Smart Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) TAMPA — A former lawyer for Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard said in a sworn statement Tuesday that he never spoke directly with his client during five years of serving as his legal counsel. Sarasota attorney Clyde Wilson Jr. was asked whether he had ever communicated with the elusive Hubbard or his wife Mary Sue, both of whom are defendants in a $16-million damage suit filed by Tonja Burden, a disgruntled ex-member of the church. MISS BURDEN'S St. Petersburg ...
Jul 29, 1981
Zoning could bar educational parish — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.ca , MISSION from Page 1
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Henry Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — It appears that the Church of Scientology cannot legally open an educational parish on Highland Avenue, the chief planner for the City of Clearwater said Tuesday. "The evidence, that I have would indicate that that is a zoning violation," said Chief Planner Jon Richter. "I would expect our zoning enforcement officers to follow up on it." The Scientologists plan to use a remodeled house at 511 S Highland Ave. as a "Clearwater Parish" where local residents can take beginning ...
Jul 18, 1981
Digest / [re. Douglas Sadwick in jail for contempt of court] — Evening Independent (Florida)
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