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New and Updated Information at Scientology LiesLos Angeles Times: The Man in Control
June 24, 1990: The Church of Scientology today is run by David Miscavige, a high-school dropout who grew up at the knee of the late L. Ron Hubbard and wields power with the iron-fisted approach of his mentor.
Boston Herald: Scientology Group Reaches Kids through PBS Videos
March 5, 1998: More than 30 million American schoolchildren have watched PBS-TV math videos made by a Los Angeles-based foundation with intimate ties to the controversial Church of Scientology.
Boston Herald: Battle Sites in the Web War
March 4, 1998: Internet sites for Scientology and its on-line opponents
Boston Herald: Sacred Teachings Not Secret Anymore
March 4, 1998: Scientology teaches that humans first came to the earth from outer space 75 million years ago, sent into exile here by an evil warlord named Xenu, according to church documents. The church also teaches members to communicate with plants, zoo animals, and inanimate objects such as ashtrays. But these esoteric secrets have only recently been revealed publicly, because the Church of Scientology for decades used copyright lawsuits and other measures to keep them under wraps.
Boston Herald: Church, Enemies Wage War on Internet Battlefield
March 4, 1998: 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.
Boston Herald: Milton School Shades Ties to Scientology
March 2, 1998: A Church of Scientology school in Milton is enrolling large numbers of children from middle-class and professional black families in what critics say is part of the church's nationwide plan to recruit minorities. Officials at Delphi Academy do not tell parents that the school is part of the Church of Scientology, and that they are trying to recruit blacks for Scientology's costly programs.
Boston Herald: Church Keys Programs to Recruit Blacks
March 2, 1998: The Church of Scientology has targeted black families in Massachusetts with a learn-to-read program that critics say is just a rehash of old methods that leans heavily on the church's religious teachings. Critics and former members say the program - the World Literacy Crusade - is part of a nationwide effort by the church to entice blacks into Scientology and then convince them to take other, expensive programs.
Boston Herald: Judge Found Hubbard Lied about Achievements
March 1, 1998: California Judge Paul Breckenridge found that Scientology "clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be reflective of its founder LRH ... The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements."
Tass: Khabarovsk Sect Chief Convicted for Money Laundering
June 27, 2001: Olga Ukhova, director of the regional Dianetics scientology centre, was sentenced to six years imprisonment conditionally for illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering.
St. Petersburg Times: Scientologists Establish Missions in their Back Yard
March 1, 2003: Geared toward introducing newcomers to Scientology, five Florida missions mark the first time in the church's 27 years in Clearwater that Scientology overtly will try to recruit Tampa Bay area residents.
Reuters: French ex-Scientology leader guilty of fraud
November 15, 1999: A French court sentenced a former regional leader of the Church of Scientology to jail for fraud in connection with courses offered by the organisation.
Budapest Sun: Scientology E-meters?
December 1, 2005: The Hungarian Church of Scientology, having been accused of wanting to import lie detectors to Hungary in September, has now been accused of having a similar machine which it uses on its members. Several citizens have complained about the church's methods of collecting data about its members.
Guardian: Alarm in Prisons at Scientology Drug Cures Aimed at Inmates
November 15, 2005: The Prison Service has warned that activists linked to the Church of Scientology are targeting offenders in British jails with unauthorised anti-drug and education programmes. Narconon, the drug detox and rehab programme developed by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, and Criminon, his drugs education and rehab programme, are both being offered to prisoners through correspondence courses. Officials frown on the programmes but can't stop them.
CNN: 360 Degrees - Scientology's Mysterious Desert Circles
December 2, 2005: Mysterious markings in a remote corner of the New Mexico desert, but what are they, and why won't the Church of Scientology talk about them? CNN goes to New Mexico to investigate on Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees.
Washington Post: A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles
November 27, 2005: Scientology tried to persuade station KRQE not to air a report about aerial signposts marking a Scientology compound that includes a huge vault "built into a mountainside." The tunnel was constructed to protect the works of L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the church in the 1950s.
Sunday Mirror Investigates: Inside Tom Cruise Cult
November 20, 2005: A Sunday Mirror reporter spends four weeks in Scientology to discover just what Katie Holmes, his 26-year-old pregnant fiancee, is facing as one of the Church of Scientology's latest recruits. A High Court judge once dismissed the organisation as "corrupt, sinister and dangerous" but she arrives at their London HQ in Tottenham Court Road prepared to be open-minded. During the next few weeks she sees and hears things that leave her feeling very uncomfortable.
Scientologist Willem Van Rompay sentenced to 25 years for murder
November 17, 2005: Scientologist Willem Van Rompay was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering 23-year-old Katrijn Borre.
New York Post: Scientology's New Psych-out Museum
November 20, 2005: Scientology will open a "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" museum in L.A., created by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights [CCHR] - which was founded by the church in 1969. Top church officials were in New York last week promoting the exhibit at the International Association of Scientologists' annual meeting.
Het Nieuwsblad: We Can Best Defend our Daughter
November 15, 2005: The parents of Katrijn Borre, murdered on December 29, 2003 by Scientologist Willem Van Rompay, represent her themselves at the killer's trial.
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