From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C.
May 9, 1958
[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT]
Dear [BLACKED OUT]
Your letter dated April 28, 198, with enclosure, has been received.
While I would like to be of service, I must advise that this Bureau has
never investigated the Hubbard Association of Scientologists
International, and I am unable to be of assistance to you.
Sincerely yours,
[stamp] J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover
Director
NOTE: Correspondent not indentifiable in Bufiles. Stamped
self-addressed envelope being used for reply. L. Ron Hubbard, who
has been described as mentally ill, has given widespread publicity
to his Association which alleges that mental illness can be cured
through a new system of treatment he developed. He states that his
discovery is to present-day man equivalent to what the discovery of
fire was to primitive man. We have not investigated this association
though files contain numerous citizen inquiries regarding it.
JK:us
(3)
For L. Ron Hubbard's Navy war records, here is Ron the War Hero.
For further information on the Scientology organization's ideals and for copies of their once-secret documentation, here is Operation Clambake.