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"Children are being forced to disconnect from their parents. Families are splitting up. These disconnection policies are awful. This is not spiritual freedom. This is suppression and enslavement."
-unnamed ex-scientologist quoted in the East Grinstead Courier
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| SOURCE: | DATE: | STORY: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guardian | 07/Feb/80 | Papers reveal sect's dirty tricks / Snow White's dirty tricks | Details of Operation Snow White and other operations including harassment of Sir John Foster and Lord Balniel |
| Guardian | 08/Feb/80 | Scientology's bizarre manual of dirty tricks | Internal documents give details of illegal tactics used to silence Scientology's enemies |
| Guardian | 09/Feb/80 | Sect framed journalist over "bomb threats" | Operation Freakout against Paulette Cooper and Operation Italian Fog against Gabe Cezares |
| Mail on Sunday | 29/Jul/84 | The Hubbard Youth | |
| East Grinstead Courier | 09/Feb/84 | Sect row over policy | Ten Scientologists leave over disconnection policy |
| Daily Mail | 11/Feb/84 | 'We disconnect you' | Examples of the disconnection policy at work |
| East Grinstead Courier | 16/Feb/84 | Buy-out bid for sect HQ | The AFINITIES splinter-group and disconnection |
| East Grinstead Courier | 23/Feb/84 | Poison-pen campaign alleged | Arguments between the church and AFINITIES splinter-group |
| East Grinstead Courier | 05/Apr/84 | £120,000 Reward Offered by Sect | Scientology outraged that Lawley and Scott obtain NOTS documents. Independents picket Saint Hill |
| East Grinstead Courier | 26/Apr/84 | Sect obtains High Court order | Fallout from the leak of the Denmark NOTS documents |
| The Times | 24/Jul/84 | Judge brands Scientology 'sinister' as mother is given custody of children | Details of Mr. Justice Latey's damning judgement in the High Court |
| East Grinstead Courier | 26/Jul/84 | Scientology "Dangerous and Corrupt" | A summary of the Latey judgement |
| East Grinstead Courier | 02/Aug/84 | Time to go | An editorial responding to the Latey judgement |
| Sunday Times Magazine | 28/Oct/84 | Sinking the Master Mariner | The coup that took place after LRH's death; the infamous Mission Holders' Conference; mass defections; allegations of imprisonment and forced labour |
| East Grinstead Courier | ??/Mar/86 | Cult harasses us say dissidents | Scn raids an ex-member's house, accusing her of copying tapes illegally |
| East Grinstead Courier | 23/Feb/87 | The new menace that waits outside the school gates | The Way to Happiness campaign in East Grinstead |
| BBC Regional TV | 24/Feb/87 | London Plus | Short item on Home Office warning to parents about Scientology promotional material aimed at children |
| BBC Regional TV | 10/Apr/87 | East on Two | Half-hour documentary on Ruth Clarke, a Scientologist, and her family |
| TVS (Regional TV) | ?/Nov/87 | Facing South: Scientology, the Cult Business | Broadcast date unknown: a documentary covering many aspects of Scientology and Hubbard's life |
| Panorama (BBC TV) | 27/Apr/87 | Scientology - The Road to Total Freedom? | Interviews with Scott Mayer, Hana Whitfield, Don Larson and others (details) |
| The Listener | 30/Apr/1987 | The 'extended sting operation' of Scientology | Panorama reporter John Penycate explains the history and ethos of Scientology and describes how the Church reacted to his documentary |
| BBC Radio 4 | 11/Aug/87 | Ruthless Adventure: the Lives of L. Ron Hubbard | Includes interviews with his friends and enemies, writers and psychiatrists. Speakers include David Mayo, Gerry Armstrong, Hana Whitfield (details) |
| Independent | 13/Oct/87 | Xenu and the Book of Profits | Scn recruitment targets ME sufferers |
| The Times | 16/Oct/87 | Law report: Public interest outweighs private duty | Confidentiality arguments over "Bare-faced Messiah" |
| Sunday Times | 18/Oct/87 | Scientologists in dirty campaign to stop book | Attacks upon the author, publisher and serialising newspaper of Russell Miller's book "Bare-Faced Messiah" |
| The Times | 23/Oct/87 | Law report: Church appeal to ban book fails | Scientology's attempt to ban "Bare-Faced Messiah" is rejected. |
| Sunday Times | 01/Nov/87 | Cult threatens to sue on book | |
| The Spectator | 07/Nov/87 | God became an undesirable alien | Glowing review of "Bare-faced Messiah" by Patrick Skene Catling |
| Sunday Times | 08/Nov/87 | Cult's private detective fires at journalists | The campaign to prevent publication of "Bare-faced Messiah" |
| Sunday Times | 15/Nov/87 | Face to face with fanaticism | Review of "Bare-Faced Messiah" |
| Sunday Times | 15/Nov/87 | Farce and fear: Operation Snow White | |
| New Statesman | 07/Nov/87 | Bored to distraction | Positive review (with some reservations) of "Bare Faced Messiah" by Duncan Campbell |
| Times Literary Supplement | 08/Jan/88 | Spiritual Escapologist | Cautiously positive review of "Bare-Faced Messiah" by Malise Ruthven |
| Nature | 14/Jan/88 | Propheteering business | Martin Gardner reviews and summarises "Bare-Faced Messiah" |
| Punch | 19/Feb/88 | See you in court | Scientology's unsuccessful court battle against Russell Miller, biographer of Hubbard |
| Daily Telegraph | 04/May/88 | Man went bankrupt after £175,000 gifts to Scientologists | A company founder uses "commercially wrong" practices to raise money to give to Scientology |
| East Grinstead Courier | 12/May/88 | The 'Hard Sell' Cult | Long article about families affected by Scientology |
| East Grinstead Courier | 19/May/88 | Man loaned cash for Scientology courses | A loan scam being run by a Scientologist |
| Sunday Times | 15/May/88 | Branson firm hired to help 'sinister' cult | |
| Northern Echo | 12/Nov/88 | Answer to LSD claims- See also the follow-up article, 22/Jun/90. | |
| BBC TV | 21/Nov/88 | BBC News | Short item: Spanish police have arrested 51 people at an international Scientology conference in Madrid. |
| East Grinstead Observer | 24/Nov/88 | Spanish Police Swoop on Cult | The arrest of Heber Jetzsch and others |
| Glasgow Herald | 12/Dec/88 | Scientology leader is freed on £375,000 Bail | News of Heber Jentzsch in the Spanish trial |