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Church of Scientology in the News 2000 - 1999

2000

1999

  • November 28, 1999 John Travolta, Out on the 'Battlefield' Washington Post (Includes news on Scientology)
  • Nevember 15, 1999 French scientologists guilty of fraud, BBC
  • October 22, 1999 Cults: for and against Varsity, University of Cambridge (Includes information on Scientology.)
  • September 9, 1999 Scientology's Revenge, New Times Los Angeles via the Wayback Machine (For years, the Cult Awareness Network was the Church of Scientology's biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard's L.A. -Based religion cured that --By taking it over. Contains mature language.)
  • September 1, 1999 Gimme That High-Tech Religion, The Industry Standard (Last month, a new series of "high-tech career nights" kicked off in Silicon Valley with an unlikely sponsor: the Church of Scientology.

    The church's Palo Alto mission started hosting the lecture series in early August, featuring Scientologists prominent in the technology field. Critics say the church is trying to sucker unsuspecting job hunters into joining what many have labeled a cult..)

  • July 22, 1999 How I was reduced to black despair by 'caring' church's personality test, Daily Express
  • June 9, 1999 Scientologists pay for libel, Clare Dyer, Legal Correspondent, The Guardian (The Church of Scientology agreed yesterday to pay £55,000 libel damages to a former member the church accused of waging a "hate campaign" against it.

    ...The controversial church...apologised at the high court in London for publishing a defamatory leaflet about Bonnie Woods, an American who became a Scientologist in the 1970s but left the church in 1982. )

  • June 4, 1999 Church of Scientology vs. Amazon.com, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (...In February Amazon removed from its offerings a controversial exposé critical of the Church of Scientology, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1959.

    To Amazon's credit, it reversed its position just before Memorial Day and is again offering the book...

    ...While Amazon officials remained vague about the reasons for initially pulling "A Piece of Blue Sky," as did the book's UK publisher, Carol Publishing Group, the threat of a lawsuit from Scientology is ever-present...)

  • March 23, 1999 Award against anti-cult group upheld, Seattle Times (...Jason Scott...He sued the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), and the Supreme Court agreed it must pay up...The people involved in the Supreme Court case say they are in a group called CAN, but a Scientologist now owns the name. The group that sprang from the name purchase espouses the opposite views of the old CAN. Many Scientologists belong to the new CAN...)

07/16/03 Link fixed.