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Freedom: (May 1985)

May 1, 1985 by Clerk1

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Freedom (May 1985)
  • IRS Strategic Plan Exposed1
  • Videotapes of Federal Informant Reveal Bizarre Plot to Destroy Church
  • Agencies in Turmoil As Conspiracy Exposed: Freedom’s expose of the Armstrong videotapes has created an uproar in a number of government agencies and departments

Notes

  1. This document in image format. This document in PDF format. ↩

Filed Under: Cult documents, Media articles Tagged With: Al Ciampini, Al Lipkin, Al Ristuccia, Andy Lenarcic, Brackett B. Denniston III, Cointelpro, Freedom, Gerry Armstrong, IRS, Kathy Gorgon, L. Fletcher Prouty, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, Michael J. Flynn, Richard Greenberg, Roscoe Egger, Stacy Young, Thomas Doughty, Thomas G. Whittle

OSA Press Release (May 29, 1984)

May 29, 1984 by Clerk1

Source  “PR Newswire”
Author  Kathy Gorgon
Date  May 29th, 19841

LOS ANGELES, May 29/PRN – Cross-examination of a former Church of Scientology
employee  revealed  that  her  fears  of  being  harassed  by  the  church  were  completely
unfounded,  according  to  the  Church  of  Scientology,  which  released  court  transcripts
today.

During her second day of cross-examination, attorney Barrett Litt of Los Angeles elicited
an admission from Laurel Sullivan, 34, that she could not cite any factual instances to
support her earlier allegations of harassment by the church. Additionally, according to the
transcripts,  she  could  not  support  her  earlier  testimony  that  others  had  been  sued  as  a
form of harassment for leaving the church.

Sullivan’s testimony was sought by attorneys seeking to defend Gerald Armstrong, 37, a
former  church  archivist  who  admitted  that  he  took  thousands  of  pages  of  valuable
historical material belonging to Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard when he
left his position in 1981.

Among  the  documents  taken  now  under  the  custody  of  the  court  is  one  unpublished
manuscript  of  Hubbard’s  valued  at  $1  million.  The  church  is  suing  Armstrong  in  Los
Angeles Superior Court for the return of the documents and for $50,000 in damages.

Church attorney Robert Harris of Los Angeles confronted Sullivan with sworn testimony
she had made in a prior court case which completely conflicted with her testimony in the
Armstrong trial regarding the alleged practice of “Fair Game” by the church.

According to records of that testimony entered in court today, Sullivan stated that she
knew of no policies or practices of the church which try to convince or prevent people
from leaving active participation in Scientology and encourage church members to harass
people.

Sullivan stated, “If somebody just left (Scientology) and said ‘I don’t want anything more
to do with it’ … then I would sit down and talk with them, and usually the people would
come back to the org (Scientology organization).”

Attorney Harris asked Sullivan if she did tell the truth in her prior testimony. Sullivan
replied that she thought she did. According to church spokesman Sandy Block, the trial is
expected to continue for up to three more weeks.
Hubbard’s  most  recent  best-selling  work,  “Battlefield  Earth,”  is  not  only  currently  in
production for the screen, but a musical sound track written by Hubbard for the book has
been released under the same title.

Contact – Kathy Gorgon of the Church of Scientology at 213-662-9431.

Notes

  1. Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩

Filed Under: Cult documents, Media articles Tagged With: Gerry Armstrong, Kathy Gorgon, L. Ron Hubbard, Laurel Sullivan

OSA Press Release (1984)

May 3, 1984 by Clerk1

Source  “PR Newswire”
Author  Kathy Gorgon
Date  May 3rd, 1984 1

LOS  ANGELES,  May  3/PRN  –  Hundreds  of  letters  and  telegrams  from  religious  and
civic leaders, celebrities, and private citizens throughout tyhe country, expressing shock
and indignation at Boston lawyer Michael J. Flynn for pursuing a case which “weakens
the individual’s right to privacy and encourages vigilante acts of theft of valuable private
property,”  have  poured  into  the  Church  of  Scientology  in  the  last  48  hours,  a  Church
spokesman announced today.

Church  attorney John  Peterson  said  the letters were an indication of “the massive and
instantaneous  public  response”  to  the  Armstrong  case,  which  seeks  the  release  of
“priceless personal papers” of L. Ron Hubbard.

“Americans have held as inviolable their right to privacy,” Peterson said, adding that the
Church’s legal offices have been “deluged” with letters of support in the case.

Peterson revealed that the letters had come from scholars such as William Bainbridge,
sociology  professor  at  Harvard  University,  celebrities  such  as  Grammy  Award  winner
Chick Corea, a wide range of religious leaders, numerous business executives, and others
concerned with what he termed “our fundamental, constitutional right to privacy.”

Peterson  said  that  the  case  involves  a  claim  against  former  church  employee  Gerald
Armstrong,  “who  illegally  removed  thousands  of  Mr.  Hubbard’s  priceless  personal
documents from Church property while he was entrusted with their care.

Contact – Kathy Gorgon of Dateline Communications at 213-662-9431 for the Church of
Scientology.

Notes

  1. Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩

Filed Under: Cult documents, Media articles Tagged With: Gerry Armstrong, John G. Peterson, Kathy Gorgon, Michael J. Flynn

OSA Press Release (January 24, 1984)

January 24, 1984 by Clerk1

Source  “PR Newswire”
Author  Kathy Gorgon
Date  January 24th, 19841

CLEARWATER,  Fla.,  Jan.  24/PRN  –  The  Church  of  Scientology  –  joining  other
prominent national religious groups – announced here today it has filed a federal lawsuit
asking that a charitable solicitation ordinance enacted by the city of Clearwater against
what  the  church  termed  “all  religious  and  charitable  organizations”  to  be  declared
unconstitutional, and that the city be enjoined from enforcing it.

The action by the Church of Scientology’s Flag Service Organization, headquartered in
Clearwater,  came  only  days  after  an  initial  constitutional  challenge  to  the  ordinance  –
potentially  of  landmark  significance  –  was  launched  by  a  coalition  of  major  religious
groups, including the National Council of Churches, the American Jewish Committee, the
American Baptist Church, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

In its suit filed in U.S. District Court, Tampa, the Church of Scientology charged that the
Clearwater  ordinance  –  which  seeks  to  control  fund-raising  by  churches  and  other
nonprofit  charitable  organizations  in  the  Florida  city  –  violates  the  U.S.  Constitution’s
First Amendment freedoms of religion, press, speech and assembly, and other guarantees
under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and 14th amendments to the Constitution.

The  church  asserted  that  the  constitutionally  untenable  ordinance  –  adopted  by  the
Clearwater City Commission last October after urging by a Boston lawyer, Michael J.
Flynn  –  was  specifically  designed  to  single  out  the  church  for  “harassment  and
persecution”  and  ultimately  to  drive  it  out  of  the  city,  overtly  violating  the  church’s
constitutional rights of free establishment and exercise, due process and equal protection
under the law.

Church attorney Paul B. Johnson, commenting on the legal action, pointed out that Flynn,
paradoxically,  was  the  same  lawyer  who  last  year  claimed  –  abortively  –  that  L.  Ron
Hubbard,  founder  of  Dianetics  and  Scientology  religious  technology,  was  a  “missing
person.”  Flynn  was  subsequently  fined  for  contempt  of  court  by  a  California  district
judge.

Citing the church’s lawsuit, Johnson also emphasized that while the Clearwater ordinance
may  have  explicitly  targeted  the  Church  of  Scientology,  its  unconstitutionality  has
“unfortunately also directly – and profoundly – affected the main-line religions. They  have
perceived  this  and  that  is  why,  apparently,  they  filed  their  suit  last  week.”
Charging  abridgment  of  freedoms  and  guarantees  under  both  the  United  States  and
Florida  State  constitutions,  the  church  said  the  ordinance  would  “foster  massive
entanglement  between  church  and  state”  by  –  among  other  things  –  unfairly  and
discriminatively  hampering  religious  organizations  of  all  kinds  in  their  efforts  to  raise
funds;  imposing  destructively  heavy  regulatory  procedures  and  punishments;  and
conferring on the city of Clearwater both “extraordinary powers of censorship” and “vast
discretion” in interpreting and enforcing the vaguely worded ordinance.

Contact – Kathy Gorgon of the Church of Scientology at 213-662-9431.

Notes

  1. Retrieved on September 22, 2014 from www.xenufrance.net/osa-so-called-press-releases-year-1984.pdf ↩

Filed Under: Cult documents, Media articles Tagged With: Kathy Gorgon, Michael J. Flynn, Paul B. Johnson

Freedom Issue 61 (1984)

January 1, 1984 by Clerk1

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Freedom 61 (1984)
  • Boston Attorneys Linked to Underworld In Plot To Loot Hubbard’s Estate1
  • FAMCO: Anatomy of a Conspiracy
  • Special Supplement: Co-Conspirators Finger Flynn in $2 Million Forgery Scheme

Notes

  1. This document in image format. This document in PDF format. ↩

Filed Under: Cult documents, Media articles Tagged With: Ala Fadili Al Tamimi, Check Forgery Frame, Eugene M. Ingram, FAMCO, Freedom, Heber C. Jentzsch, Kathy Gorgon, Kevin Flynn, L. Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., Michael J. Flynn, Stacy Young, Thomas G. Whittle, Wayne Hollingsworth

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