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September 23, 1976 |
Clearwater Sun: Police Hold Scientologists' Guns |
Police confiscated a cache of weapons in a temporary Church of Scientology headquarters in Dunedin after the Scientologists abandoned the base. State and federal authorities are investigating. |
Clearwater, crimes, Press |
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March 20, 1976 |
Church of Scientology puts "Apollo" yacht up for sale |
Los Angeles Times: Church of Scientology puts "Apollo" yacht up for sale |
Press |
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March 7, 1974 |
Counterattack: The Response To Criticism |
The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Church policy is to find what attackers have to hide. The organization is quick to bring lawsuits challenging unfavorable books and articles. Many persons who leave or who are expelled by the church say that they are frightened by the organization. |
Fair Game, harassment, Paulette Cooper, Press |
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March 6, 1974 |
Hard Sell to Build the Faith |
Growth and expansion come close to being an obsession of the Church of Scientology. From street pamphleting to sophisticated media exposure of Scientology celebrities, Scientologists solicit new recruits in a promotional whirlwind more often associated with used car salesmanship than with religion. |
Press |
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March 5, 1974 |
A System of Engrams and Thetans |
Scientologists perceive their system as a form of spiritual engineering. They make radical-sounding claims about their ability to revamp the ailing human spirit and personality on what is purported to be scientifically-based procedures. |
What is Scientology?, Press |
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March 4, 1974 |
The Reclusive Founder of Scientology |
Hubbard and church leaders contend that he has resigned from the church's directorship, but that resignation seems to have made little difference. In a "policy letter" dated Sept. 1, 1966, the matter was ambiguously worded. Hubbard said that he was "resigning the title of executive director" and was being given the title of "Founder" instead - and that Scientology organizations owed him money. |
L. Ron Hubbard, Press |
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March 3, 1974 |
Expensive Trip To Spirituality |
The Church of Scientology of Missouri, a branch of a controversial organization promising total spiritual freedom for all followers, opened in 1969 with a six member staff at a small Brentwood office. Policy memorandums from the offices of the founder, L. Ron Hubbard, have not allayed Scientology's reputation as a paramilitary society that regards itself with messianic seriousness. |
What is Scientology?, Press |
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April 1, 1972 |
Author Here Sues Scientologists |
Paulette Cooper, a freelance writer, has accused the Church of Scientology in a lawsuit filed here of "intentional interference" with her constitutional freedom of speech and press, charging that the organization threatened her in the form of libel suits and wiretapping after her critical book about the quasi-religious organization was published last fall. |
harassment, lawsuits, New York, Paulette Cooper, Press |
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April 20, 1970 |
Dear South End - Scientology |
A chapter of the Church of Scientology is now in the process of forming on the campus of Wayne State. These people seem quite sincere in what they are doing. They want to make the world a better place in which to live by making man better. However, their sincerity seems more like $incerity. The first of four levels cost only $650.00 and as far as I could tell each successive level costs more. |
What is Scientology?, Press, Scientology and Society |
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November 15, 1968 |
Life: A Growing Cult Reaches Dangerously into the Mind |
Scientology is scary -- because of its size and growth, and because of the potentially disastrous techniques it so casually makes use of. To attain the Truth, a Scientologist surrenders himself to "auditing," a crude form of psychoanalysis. |
Press |
