Scientology Lies

Atlantic Monthly: Shock And Disbelief

Los Angeles New Times: Letters To The Editor: Bad science (about Narconon)

Marburg Journal Of Religions: Letter To The Editor

Practical Accountant: IRS reacts to newspaper reports of scientology settlement.

San Jose Mercury News : Germany Defends Scientology Stand

US: Jenna Elfman.

Miami Herald : Clinton Sex Scandal Is One For The Books

New York Times: Germany says it will press on with Scientology...

San Jose Mercury News : U.S. Report On Scientology Angers Germans

Akron Beacon Journal : Criticism From U.S. Angers Many Officials

St. Paul Pioneer Press : Germans Say Opposition To Scientology Justified//Officials Object To Criticism By State Department

Economist: A German eye on Scientology.

'Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies' is published. "A fast-paced look at remote viewers at Stanford Research Institute [SRI] and Fort Meade, a U.S. Army base." It has a small amount about Scientology; remote viewing participants Pat Price, Ingo Swann, and Harold Puthoff were all involved with Scientology. [published in Feb 1997; exact date unknown]

Wichita Eagle

Spy magazine: "Do you Want to Buy a Bridge?" by Mark Ebner

Philadelphia Inquirer: Internet's anonymity a boon to the 'twisted'

Koos Nolst Trenite wins a Usenet Kook of the Month award for his posted transcripts of telepathic auditing of dead cult founder L. Ron Hubbard and others.

A $3,000 credit is applied to Lisa McPherson's Scientology account, bringing the balance to $30,595.59. The notation is "25 Hour Intensive, Power-Grade V and Power Plus-Grade VA." Judging by a debit on Feb. 13, the total cost of this intensive appears to be $13,000.00.

St. Petersburg Times: City looks to court for opinion on records

Entry from the diary of Albert Jaquier, an OT7 Scientologist: Sick. Passing blood. Wrote to IAS for refunds of Patron Meritorious ( a "status" achieved by paying $250,000 to the International Association of Scientologists) of Jody Darling, Hans-Kaspar Rhyner ( another delinquent debtor, Scientologist, who did not repay over $300,000) and Edwin Baer.

Runner's World: The corps crowd.

Redbook: Saturday night feeding. (cover story)

Scientologist Cheryl S leaves her husband and departs Scientology. During the past few years, her husband had had an affair with another Scientologist (both of them were execs at their org), and Cheryl's health was suffering, partly due to overwork while on staff herself. She later wrote, "I thought about it long and hard. I requested marriage counseling. I was mid-auditing action and unless I could come up with a lot of money to complete it and then pay for the marriage counseling, then I could not get the "marriage counseling." I saw the Chaplains at AOLA and ASHO. I was informed ... that since Steve was a staff member, it would be an uphill battle to pull him away from being full-time staff, and I would be viewed as the bad guy. He was compassionate, but that was the reality of the situation. Nothing changed. No help was forthcoming from Scientology. I reviewed my past history and determined that if I stayed with Steve and stayed in Scientology, there was a good chance that I would be dead at an early age, the way things were going. I decided I had to get away from both." In her epilogue, she writes, "It took a long time to emotionally recover from the abuses. The hardest thing to overcome was the initial feeling that the rug had literally been pulled out from under my feet. Everything I had believed in had turned out to be false, and all I had to show were the years I missed watching my children grow up, poor health and no money. But within a year I was in much better financial shape and things were going so much better without Scientology in my life."

Beacon Journal: Getting It Straight (brief mention of Scientology)

Tom Voltz begins negotiating with Ken Salman about obtaining rights to the personality test Scientology uses, having learned that Salman, not Scientology, owned those rights. (The test had been developed by his wife, Julia Lewis-Salman, who had since died.) Voltz wishes to grant RTC a free license to continue to use the test for Scientology purposes; Voltz plans to make money from the use of the test in commercial contexts. Over the next year, Scientology's response to Voltz's generous offer was to insist that he give up the rights he bought from Salman and to try to ruin Voltz financially. Voltz was ultimately declared suppressive. [early Feb 1990; exact date unknown]

Boston Globe: The Real Show Was Outside Stadium (brief mention of Scientology)

Carol Chamberlain writes a Dev T Chit on Lisa McPherson.

Billy Hathaway writes a Dev T Report on Lisa McPherson.

Carol Chamberlain writes a Late Report on Lisa McPherson.

L. Fletcher Prouty, a former colonel in the US Air Force, creates an affidavit stating that the records released by the US Navy documenting L. Ron Hubbard's service in the armed forces "are incomplete ... those materials and records provided give ample evidence that proves the existence of other records that have been concealed, withheld and overlooked."

Clearwater Police Dept. Report Number SR3.1 RK-2 The affidavit of Richard Bast and the declaration of Robert S. Keefer. This affidavit and declaration were filed in Federal Court reference the Tonja Burden Case. The affidavit and declaration were filed to explain Mr. Bast's role in the Judge Krentzman boat incident.

Clearwater Police Dept. Report Number SR3.1 R (K-2) The report concerns the boat incident and Krentzman incident. I, (Lt. Emmons), made contact with Federal and State authorities asking permission to investigate the case. This case was outlined previously in this summary.

Enid Vien, director of the Church of Scientology's Flint, Michigan, mission, resigns from Church and sends a scathing letter to Church officials in Los Angeles. In her letter, she said, ''I can no longer support a church that bleeds its parishioners, abuses its staff, uses fear tactics to ensure everyone at least pretends to agree and engages upon coercive tactics to sew its missions up.'' Despite the criticism, Ms. Vien said she still believes in Scientology technology and in Scientology as applied religious philosophy. [Sometime in February 1983; exact date unknown.]

Hepatitis breaks out in Scientology's Cadet Org in Los Angeles. From an internal memo from May 1979: "Then in Feb. the hepatitis scene happened and we were swarmed over by County and State Health Inspectors." [Sometime in Feb. 1979; exact date unknown.]

L. Ron Hubbard writes to (the apparently newly-founded) WISE corporation: "I am extremely pleased about the goals and intentions of WISE I have provided management counseling services for many Scientologists with companies or careers. They asked me to advise them using the unadulterated application of my administration technology, so that they could increase their success rate. These clients, Scientologists, are all potential WISE members."

Los Angeles Times: Church of Scientology buys old Cedars of Lebanon hospital

Radio talk show host Bob Snyder is fired by WDCL. He said the station was threatened with a $5-million suit if it did not stop him from criticizing the church. WDCL's general manager, Ross Charles, said the station attorney advised that Snyder be fired because of litigation expenses that "a little station in Dunedin" could not survive. Snyder will be rehired a month later with the understanding that he would not discuss Scientology on his program. However, he begins writing a newsletter and organized several public forums in which he criticized the church. [Early Feb. 1976; exact date unknown.]

Michael Meisner goes to Los Angeles for auditing and briefing regarding his Guardian Office assignments. While there, he has numerous meetings with his immediate superiors, as well as other officials of the Guardian's Office. During the first week of February, Mr. Meisner attends a meeting with Henning Heldt and Richard Weigand in Heldt's office on the sixth floor of Fifield Manor. Also present are the Deputy Guardian for Finance Mary Heldt, the Deputy Guardian for the Legal Bureau Mary Rezzonico, and the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) US Martin Greenberg, an official in the Finance Bureau. At Heldt's request, Weigand tells Meisner to attend the meeting. Its purpose is to discuss and analyze the current IRS strategy as revealed in the stolen documents regarding the pending Church of Scientology of California audit. Each person present at the meeting expresses full knowledge that the documents in question had been stolen from the IRS offices. That same day, Meisner attends another meeting with Mary Rezzonico and Gregory Willardson in Weigand's office. Rezzonico directs Meisner to instruct Scientology's covert agents in the District of Columbia to be alert to any IRS documents regarding a Scientology front organization known as the Religious Research foundation (RRF). She also seeks any information disclosing knowledge by the IRS of any financial dealings and relationship between RRF and the Church of Scientology of California. While in LA, Meisner also meets with the Weigand and Willardson in Weigand's office at the Fifield Manor to discuss the Information Bureau's access to current documents in the possession of the IRS. The participants discuss a telex which had been received from the CSG Assistant for Information, Jimmy Mulligan, regarding the access to current information in the office of Mr. Lewis Hubbard of the IRS. Weigand instructs Meisner to prepare a report outlining what he had done in that respect and to respond to Mulligan's telex. As a result of that directive, Meisner prepares a response, including a telex in Weigand's name responding to Mulligan's inquiry. Meisner gives that telex directly to the Weigand, who approves it in his presence and orders it sent to Mulligan in Florida. [Beginning of Feb 1976; exact date unknown]

According to a government document, "At least three burglaries were committed during the early months of 1976" at the law offices of Arent Fox Kinter Plotkin & Kahn, who were representing the St. Petersburg Times. "These burglaries and thefts of documents were carried out pursuant to the orders of defendant Mitchell Hermann. In February 1976 two entries were made into the office of Jack Bray and his secretary at the above-mentioned law firm, the first one by Richard Kimmel, the acting assistant guardian for information in the District of Columbia, and the second one by Kimmel and Michael Meisner." On each occasion, according to the document, papers relating to The Times lawsuit against the Scientologists were taken. [Sometime in Feb. 1976; exact date unknown.]

Paulette Cooper's confidential client file is stolen from the office of her psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Cath, in Belmont, MA. [Sometime in February or March 1975; exact date unknown.]

Paulette Cooper begins work as stringer for the National Enquirer, which remains her major source of income through at least 1982. [Sometime in February 1974; exact date unknown.]

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Accounts Policing '.

National Tattler - article on Charles Manson, which says that Scientology literature was also said to be found at the ranch when Manson and his family were captured

Economist (UK): Scientology: what has changed? (UK orders Foster inquiry; Scientology claims to discontinue coercive measures, security checks, and the writing down of confessions)

Lisa Marie Presley is born.

L. Ron Hubbard asks for volunteers to accompany him on a special mission on the _Avon River_ ship. According to "Bare-Faced Messiah": "Hubbard accepted thirty-five volunteers for the mission and for the next few weeks conducted daily training sessions on the deck of the Avon River, often watched by envious students hanging over the rails of the Royal Scotman moored alongside in Valencia harbour. With a stop watch in one hand, the Commodore put the crew through innumerable drills to rescue men overboard, fight fires, handle lines, launch and retrieve small boats and repel boarders - he told them he was worried about piracy in the Mediterranean and wanted to be sure they would not panic if that circumstance arrived. At the beginning of March the Avon River set sail, leaving the Royal Scotman seething with speculation about the nature of her mission. ... Hubbard mustered the crew on the well deck for a briefing. ... He had accumulated vast wealth in previous lives, he explained, and had buried it in strategic places. The purpose of their present mission was to locate this buried treasure and retrieve it, either with, or without, the co-operation of the authorities." The buried treasure would never be found.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Stature'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'How to View Art'.

L. Ron Hubbard recovers from a serious illness. Later, in Ron's Journal 67, he describes this illness as being related to his development of the upper-level material: "So in January and February of this year, I became very ill, almost lost this body, and somehow or another brought it off and obtained the material, and was able to live through it. I am very sure that I was the first one that ever did live through any attempt to attain that material. This material I'm talking about, of course, is very upper level material and you will forgive me if I don't describe it to you in very broad detail because it's very likely to make you sick, too." [Jan & Feb 1967; exact dates unknown]

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'HGC Cure, Intern Training and Staff Auditors'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Staff Auditor and Supervisor Procurement'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Statistics, Actions to Take, Statistic Changes'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Danger Conditions, Inspections by Executive Secretaries, How to Do Them'.

Lord Balniel, MP, asked the British government to investigate Scientology. Hubbard responds by hiring a private detective to investigate Lord Balniel. Unfortunately the detective ran off and sold his story to the newspapers thereby creating even more ill feeling for Scientology. [Sometime in Feb. 1966; exact date unknown.]

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB "Routine 3, Urgent-Urgent-Urgent, All Class III and IV Auditors".

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Flows, Basic'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOINFO '3D Criss Cross Assessment Tips'.

L. Ron Hubbard gives a lecture, 'Flows'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes PAB153 'CCH'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Clearing of Fields'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes PAB129 'Confronting'.

L. Ron Hubbard writes PAB105 "The Story of a Static".

L. Ron Hubbard gives a lecture, 'Auditing Techniques: Games Conditions'.

L. Ron Hubbard gives a lecture, 'Exteriorization, Taking Direction '.

L. Ron Hubbard gives a lecture, 'Processing Havingness Lecture '.

Anastasius Nordenholz is born in Buenos Aires. In 1934, he will publish a book entitled "Scientologie - Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und Tauglichkeit des Wissens" ("Scientology Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge"), thus predating L. Ron Hubbard's use of the word by several years.