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SBN 583-12249-3 (UK pbk)
non-fiction, mind control, conspiracy, cult, identity, scientology, L.Ron Hubbard
Illustrated.
"After 14 years and a senior officer posting in the Church of Scientology Cyril Vosper investigates and condemns.
"Scientology was founded by former science-fiction writer L.Ron Hubbard. It has grown into an international cult whose network of cells is devoted to 'pulling the society under us'.
"At the end of the Sixties, Cyril Vosper was declared a Suppressive Person to his fellow Scientologists, whereby he could be 'deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist -- tricked, sued or lied to, or destroyed'. Finally he was declared in a condition of Enemy. His marriage broke down and he was separated from his children.
"Vosper has struck back with this book. It immediately became subject to a writ from the Scientologists seeking to restrain its publication. After a bitter court action, the Scientologists have lost their case." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1973]
"Cyril Vosper joined the Church of Scientology when it was still an eccentric, little-known form of psychotherapy in the mid-1950's. In later years he became a senior official at Scientology's British H.Q. in Saint Hill, East Grinstead, Sussex. All other biographical details of interest are in the author's work itself; in part a confession, in the main an individual's self-affirming act of resistance.
"Researched to the last chilling detail, clinically authentic yet often ablaze with riotous observations on a world gone mad, the book you have in your hands is now 'clear'. Following the unsuccessful litigation against it, The Mind Benders invites you to participate in a (legally) mind-bending paperback experience." [publisher's bumpf]
"A fast, furious, funny, violent exposure of a major global cult. Indicates quackery of a type which might be dangerous behind closed doors...capable of such danger that the public interest demands that people should know what is going on." -- Lord Denning, The Master of the Rolls.
Secret Lives: L.Ron Hubbard
(1997, TV documentary, Channel 4... episode from the 'Secret Lives' documentary series... programme first aired Wednesday 19 November 1997... biographic portrait... features testimony from Cyril Vosper, among others)
Sloth's Suppressive Person's Page
(this site still exists and is well worth noting for the archives... too many files have otherwise disappeared)
"This is an exposé of the Church of Scientology and it's Orwellian tactics." --Bob Barsanti.
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