| September 19, 1986 | $30-Million Court Fight Lost by Scientology | In a staggering blow to the Church of Scientology of California, a Superior Court judge Thursday upheld a jury's $30-million damage award to a former church member who said the organization wrecked him mentally and financially. | |
| August 6, 2008 | Anonymous Returns, Scientology Responds | Cringely outlines Scientology's long history of harassing journalists and critics. | |
| January 3, 1995 | article about Scientology's harassment of Arnie Lerma | AP: article about Scientology's harassment of Arnie Lerma | |
| 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. | |
| March 19, 1998 | Boston Herald: Church of Scientology Probes Herald Reporter | The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life. | |
| March 4, 1998 | Boston Herald: Church, Enemies Wage War on Internet Battlefield | Scientology's lawyers - including prominent Boston attorney Earle C. Cooley - raided and searched the homes of Scientology critics in Virginia, Colorado, and California and seized their computer disks. | |
| August 29, 1978 | Church Claims U.S. Campaign of Harassment | Los Angeles Times: Church Claims U.S. Campaign of Harassment | |
| Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment | Boston Herald: Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment | |
| March 20, 1999 | Church of Scientology Targets Journalist | Two pickets from the Church of Scientology appeared before the Peace Tower with placards pasted with a photograph of a beaming Ms. O'Malley and the inscriptions "the Face of Bigotry" and "Religious Intolerance." | |
| 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. | |
| April 17, 1985 | Court Hears Final Scientology Tape | Jurors in the Church of Scientology fraud trial Tuesday listened to the last of five hours of surreptitiously-taped conversations in which a former Scientologist talked about a plan to "transform" church leadership by filing suit to take managerial control. In the final two recorded meetings, Armstrong said he "wouldn't touch" an idea posed by his questioner about writing false materials on the letterhead of a private investigator, whom Armstrong believed was pursuing him on behalf of the church. As it turned out, the private investigator was the one making the tapes. | |
| March 29, 1999 | Critics Public And Private Keep Pressure On Scientology - At Home | Scientology reacts to the pickets by sending staffers out to confront them and take pictures. Increasingly, Scientologists go out and picket critics' home or office, distributing fliers that accuse them of being "religious bigots." Some pickets say Scientologists have frightened elderly family members with visits and questions about their picketing. | |
| April 8, 1986 | Ex-Scientologist Says Church Harassed Him | Miami Herald: Ex-Scientologist Says Church Harassed Him | |
| June 29, 1990 | Former Church of Scientology lawyer Joseph Yanny has become a target of harassment | Los Angeles Times: Former Church of Scientology lawyer Joseph Yanny has become a target of harassment | |
| October 17, 1985 | Former Scientology Aide Wins Ruling On Church Records | The state Supreme Court yesterday allowed a former Church of Scientology official to obtain church records in a suit against the group. The action lifts the court's order of September 10 blocking release of the records of "audits," or examinations, of church members, to Gerald Armstrong, who resigned in 1981 as archivist of the church's Los Angeles branch. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge has said the church declared Armstrong a "suppressive person," and employees spied on him, assaulted him and hit him with a car.
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| December 29, 1991 | Founder of est Targeted in Campaign by Scientologists | Heisig said it was clear from the documents that Scientology was preparing a "media blitz" against Erhard-and that he was going to be a key player, spreading and collecting information that could be used to discredit the est founder.
"The reason, I think it comes down to, is competition," Heisig said. "Since Werner started his est program, he took potential customers ... away from the church." The secret campaign against Erhard would span more than a year and become one of the Church of Scientology's top priorities. | |
| June 16, 2000 | Harassment By Scientologist Denounced | Associated Press: Harassment By Scientologist Denounced | |
| March 28, 1999 | Hardball | In a 14-month, worldwide survey, the St. Petersburg Times has documented a consistent pattern of church officials relentlessly pursuing its critics in legal actions that some charge are designed as much to harass as to achieve legal victory. In one year alone, the Times has found, Scientology spent more than $30-million on legal and professional fees. | |
| January 19, 1997 | Hounded by the Church of Stars and Hype | Some of Hollywood's biggest names have accused Germany of persecuting the Church of Scientology. But in Britain, the church itself is accused of using dirty tricks to harass its critics. In 1993, leaflets denouncing Bonnie as a "hate campaigner" were handed out and she sued for libel. The church countersued and has since mounted two further actions against them. A private investigator precipitated further proceedings. | |
| April 4, 1986 | Inside Scientology - Finally | When the staffers learn that you are a "wog" (Scientology-speak for non-Scientologist) or, worse yet, a wog journalist their warm smiles change instantly to icy defensiveness. Unless a Scientologist's neighbor is a fellow member of the church, Scientologists can be zealously self protective. | |
| October 20, 2000 | Kennedy Claims Harassment | Vallejo Times-Herald: Kennedy Claims Harassment | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: A Lawyer Learns What It's Like to Fight the Church | Attorney Joseph Yanny says his Century City law firm was burglarized four times and that Scientology-related documents turned up missing; that he has been spied upon by a church "plant" working as a secretary in his office; and that private investigators have camped outside his Hermosa Beach residence and shadowed him when he left. | |
| June 24, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: Burglaries and Lies Paved a Path to Prison | A web of criminal conspiracy to discredit the church's foes resulted in prison sentences for 11 top-ranking Scientologists. | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: On the Offensive Against an Array of Suspected Foes | 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. | |
| June 29, 1990 | Los Angeles Times: The Battle with the "Squirrels" | Hubbard contended that only church members are qualified to administer his self-improvement-type courses. Outsiders, he said, inevitably misapply the teachings, wreaking spiritual harm on their subjects. But those who have launched "independent" Scientology-style centers say Hubbard concocted this as an excuse to eliminate competition so he could charge exorbitant prices for his courses. | |
