December 20, 1998Scientology: A Rare Inside
Look, ABCNEWS 20/20 via the Wayback Machine (Tonight, a groundbreaking investigation. 20/20 goes deep inside the Church of Scientology to show you the raging controversy...)
December 19, 1998
Television Program. Inside Scientology.
Investigative Reports, A&E
A probe into the conflict surrounding the controversial Church of Scientology.
December 14, 1998Chicken soup, Scientology and a holiday 'Ally McBeal' - The Standard-Times (..."Inside Scientology," a two-hour presentation of "Investigative Reports with Bill Kurtis" (9 p.m., A&E). Based on the writings of former science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, the Church of Scientology has known controversy for most of its five-decade existence...)
December 14, 1998 "Shallowness mars A&E's investigation" BY MANUEL MENDOZA, Dallas Morning News (INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS: INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY)
March 1, 1998Powerful church targets fortunes, souls of recruits, Boston Herald (...Local Scientologists recruit on college campuses in Boston and on the street...Scientology is clearly a destructive cult, said Hassan, who has established a new local resource center to educate people about coercive religions.)
March 1, 1998Judge found Hubbard lied about achievements, Boston Herald (Church of Scientology's late founder, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, left behind a $640 million fortune, and an estimated 25 million words in books and lectures that form the spiritual core of his controversial religion.
But some of those words are a legacy of exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies, according to Hubbard's son, court records and critics...
...And Hubbard's claim of combat, or war wounds, is definitively ruled out by Navy records, according to published reports in Time and Forbes magazines, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, and books by critics and defectors Jon Atack, Russell Miller and Bent Corydon...)
1997
December 28, 1997Can the Cult Awareness Network, 60 Minutes via Burrelle's (the Church of Scientology's alleged efforts to get rid of CAN)
February 4, 1997Steve Hassan's War on Cults; The ex-Moonie says the groups have become more menacing; as they have gone mainstream, John Koch, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe (Steve Hassan says that he was prepared to commit murder, "absolutely." Or, if necessary, take a bullet in his own body and die a glorious death.
Hassan was a follower of Sun Myung Moon, a true believer in the South Korean evangelist's Unification Church. He used to literally fall to his knees, kowtowing in Moon's presence.
It was the late 1970s, and the aspiring poet and English teacher had chucked his studies at Queens College in New York and become, in his words, "a Moonie."...
...Now, working out of a spacious Cambridge office, Hassan dispenses information and counsel. A virtual one-man information center dedicated to exposing and
debunking destructive cults, he is also a licensed mental health professional specializing in therapeutic interventions for cult victims and their families.
He claims to have helped thousands of people break the psychological chains binding them to such "destructive cults" as the Unification Church, Transcendental Meditation, the Church of Scientology, est, the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, the Boston Church of Christ and Victory Chapel...)
In a bizarre twist of fortune, the organization that was once the most vocal critic of Scientology is now owned by a member of the controversial church...)
A federal judge has thrown out the remaining part of a $415 million lawsuit brought by the Church of Scientology against Time Warner Inc. The suit charged that Time magazine maliciously libeled the church in a 1992 article that called it a "cult of greed."... (Photos included.)
1996States, Private Groups React, Washington Post (The Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network...The network was sued by critics and dismembered in bankruptcy court in 1996. A Church of Scientology member bought its logo and name in the proceedings.)
Everyone seems to have a plan to assist the citizens of the former Soviet Union, and the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY is no exception. For the past month, journalism students at the 237-year-old Moscow State University have been studying in the newly renovated L. Ron Hubbard Reading Room. Scientology propaganda in dozens of languages lines the walls...Western scholars in Moscow are outraged that the cult has gained such influence. With an outpost in an established university, Scientologists plan to launch a college of their own in Moscow...
1991
May 6, 1991The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, Time Magazine (Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes. Scientology poses as a religion but is really a ruthless global scam -- and aiming for the mainstream.)
A federal judge has thrown out the remaining part of a $415 million lawsuit brought by the Church of Scientology against Time Warner Inc. The suit charged that Time magazine maliciously libeled the church in a 1992 article that called it a "cult of greed."... (Photos included.)
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