In the 1990s, Major Ed Dames offers a course in remote viewing to the public
for $4,500.00 a person. He is the CIA Officer who was involved in the CIA Remote Viewing Program at SRI in the 1970’s.
This course utilizes Scientology technology and he charges money for it. He
has sold this to an estimated 10,000 people and also offers videotapes for $299.00. The
Church of Spiritual Technology has brought copyright suits against others for this but oddly, they have done nothing about Major Dames
doing it. (Criminal Time Track:
Issue III, (11, 61))
First groups formed in Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Taiwan, China, Romania,
Algeria, Argentina, Yugoslavia and Russia. (CofS)
Scientologists sue Gabe Cazares for tossing them out of a Democratic Party meeting.
Scientology is in court with the county over $4.5-million in unpaid back taxes, which Scientology refuses to pay. Clearwater's 1990 budget is $113.5-million,
$17.1-million of which is raised through property taxes.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
January -- Cazares calls for a grand jury investigation of Scientology from the State's Attorney's office.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
Michael Pattinson completes OT VIII. His homosexuality appeared resolved
until 2 months later when the urge returned. He had spent $500,000.00 and was broke, therefore he could not buy more auditing to handle the problem.
At this point, priest-penitent privileged information was taken from his confessional folders and made public. The MAA on the Freewinds sent
the confessional data to Celebrity Center in Paris. Olivia Pilo also called his
business associates to see if they had any "dirt" on him that could be used
against him.
The information was used to show his friends and business associates so they
would disconnect from him, thus destroying his business. On two occasions, staff members and his friends were told to write KRs on him and given the
data to put in the reports. The reports were secret and false and robotically said what they were told to say in them, omitting any reference
in the reports that they had been provided with the false data. Over the next several years he spends $120,000.00 just in the effort to clear his
name of the false accusations made against him. (Criminal Time Track:
Issue III, (13))
February -- The IRS brings its long court battle with the Church of Scientology to federal court in Tampa. The IRS contends that the Clearwater organization
may be involved in commerical activities that should be taxed.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
Washington Post: Copyright and Suppression.
SOONER OR later--and preferably sooner--the Supreme Court is going to have
to resolve the collision between the copyright laws and the First Amendment.
One urgent question is whether copyrights can be used to suppress information
of public interest. For example, a recent and unflattering biography of L. Ron
Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, used many quotations from
his unpublished writings. The copyright holder went to court for an
injunction, claiming infringement. The trial judge described the biography as
"a serious book of responsible historical criticism." How much
latitude should that kind of a work and its author be given to quote
copyrighted sources?
No doubt the Supreme Court was right not to take this case, at this stage,
as an opportunity to answer the question. Both the trial court and the Court
of Appeals had denied the injunction on the narrow grounds that the Press
copyright holder had delayed too long. But unfortunately the Appeals Court's
opinion last summer wandered far from the injunction to offer a wealth of
remarkably restrictive views. Since that court is in New York, the center of
American book publishing, its decision will now cast a long shadow over
writers and writing throughout the country even though it technically applies
in only one circuit.
The Church of Scientology case runs more deeply into First Amendment
concerns than the other recent copyright decisions. One involved President
Ford's memoirs and whether one magazine, the Nation, could print excerpts from
a leaked manuscript when publica tion rights had been sold to another, Time.
The memoirs were to be published in any event. In another case, a biography of
the author J. D. Salinger was barred from publication until the
deletion of quotations and paraphrases from some of his letters. The re it
could at least be argued that the author's turn of phrase was his livelihood
and his property, to the use of which other authors were not entitled.
But the Hubbard biography primarily involves questions of facts, many of
which can be best settled by quotation from Mr. Hubbard's own writings. Here a
broad application of copyright protection trespasses on a public right to
know.
When Congress wrote the copyright law, it did not intend that protection to
be absolute. Congress set a series of tests regarding use of copyrighted
material.
Those are the criteria that the courts are now in the process of defining. So
far the decisions have been, to an unhealthy degree, against publication and
in favor of suppression.
The Churches of Scientology Stevens Creek (California), Munich (Germany) and
Zurich (Switzerland) were formally acknowledged for achieving the size of old
Saint Hill at the annual celebration of L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday. (CofS)
May -- The Clearwater Sun, one of the targets in Scientology's initial attack on the city, folds.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
- TRs and Objectives Co-audit Course released.
- Clear Body, Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program released.
- The Hubbard Key to Life Course, the solution to a world out of communication,
released to the public.
- The Churches of Scientology Milano (Italy) and Stuttgart (Germany) were
formally acknowledged for achieving the size of old Saint Hill.
- Church of Scientology of Catania, Italy founded. (CofS)
The Manual of Justice is a public domain document, copyrights ended in the
1980s. See New Era Publications v Carol Publishing Group & Atack, NY,
1990, US District Court Southern District of New York, 89 Civ. 3845, and the same
case at the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, no. 1204-1376, decided 24 May 1990. (Criminal Time Track:
Issue III, (20))
The Hubbard Life Orientation Course released. (CofS)
The grand (official) opening of the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center at
Chilocco, Oklahoma. (CofS)
July -- Clearwater Chamber of Commerce president David Stone reacts to the church's announcement that they plan to build a $1-million Scientology
museum downtown: "I certainly don't view it as any kind of an asset to the community."
City Commissioner L. Regulski says, "I think it's a far-out situation for a so-called religious organization to use to promote its product." He said the museum would
put "an emphasis on something that the downtown doesn't need emphasis on."
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
August -- "Affinity Publications" beings to publish a weekly Scientology-oriented community newspaper to "fill the void" left by the departure of the Clearwater
Sun.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
December -- Five local companies sue the CoS for more than $127,000, claiming that the organization has failed to pay its bills for work and construction
equipment. Besides these lawsuits, the Scientologists have settled five others in the previous two years from companies that claimed they were owed more than
$39,000 for items ranging from travel services to construction materials.
Companies involved in suit:
- APG Electric, Inc. (claims it is owed $35,391 plus interest for electrical work at the Sandcastle and Coachman buildings)
- J.R. Industrial contractors (construction bills)
- Twincraft, Inc. (specialized toiletry items)
- Sun Services of America (laundry equipment)
- Bill Byington and Associates (remodeling work in Coachman building)
In one of the above court cases, records showed a 1987 credit statement for the organization that listed "Estimated annual sales" of more than $90-million. This
was apparently the first time such information was made public, according to the Times. The 1987 statement also listed estimated annual purchases of
$13-million.
The Scientologists had previously said in court filings that their annual operating expenses were about $26-million.
Each of these figures apply only to the main Clearwater-based Scientology group, called the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, not to the
others based in California and abroad.
(Brief History of Scientology in Clearwater)
Somebody changes LRH HCOB 23 December 1971 C/S Series 73, The No-Interference
Area Clarified and Re-Enforced. They issue a non-LRH revision called HCOB 23
December 1973RB. Their revision changes things LRH said in his issue, plus it
omits things he said and is seven pages shorter than the LRH HCOB.
Note: This effects the sec checking of people on Solo Nots. It shows that
"Source" is changed at will... just as it fits Management. (Virginia McClaughry:
"My Story")
IAS Freedom Medal awarded to Scientologists Jane Allen and Julia Migenes at
the annual convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. (CofS)
Library of Congress records show that: CSI copyrights their squirrel version of Hubbard False Purpose Rundown
Course. (Criminal Time Track:
Issue III, (68))
Church of Scientology of Salt Lake City, Utah founded. (CofS)
- Basic Study Manual published.
- Elementary and Executive Data Series Evaluator’s Courses released. (CofS)
[ HOME ] [ UP ] [ CONTINUE ] | 
1990