Foster Report - Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology 1971

The Foster Report is a 1971 report titled ''Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology'', written by Sir John Foster for the government of the

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, regarding the

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. UK National Archive piece referenc
MH 153/606
The report made its case with

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's own words and reprinted a number of the Church's internal Ethics Orders. It did not ban

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outright, but asked for legislation to ensure that

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in the United Kingdom is "a restricted profession open only to those who undergo an appropriate training and are willing to adhere to a proper

code of ethics Ethical codes are adopted by organizations to assist members in understanding the difference between right and wrong and in applying that understanding to their decisions. An ethical code generally implies documents at three levels: codes of b ...

," and that the Scientology ethics and justice system did not meet such criteria. Documents seized by the

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in raids on the Church's US headquarters in July 1977 revealed that an agent had been sent to investigate Sir John Foster in an attempt to link him to Paulette Cooper, author of '' The Scandal of Scientology'' and victim of Operation Freakout. The documents showed that Lord Balniel, who had requested the official inquiry, was also a target. Hubbard had written, "get a detective on that lord's past to unearth the tit-bits". Several official inquiries were made into Scientology in England, Australia, and elsewhere, and a number of reports were published by respective governments in the late sixties and early seventies.

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Foster Report
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