Foster Report

[1] The report made its case with L. Ron Hubbard's own words and reprinted a number of the Church's internal Ethics Orders.

It did not ban Scientology outright,[2]: 64  but asked for legislation to ensure that psychotherapy 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," and that the Scientology ethics and justice system did not meet such criteria.

[3]: 195–196 Documents seized by the FBI 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.

[4] 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.