Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives Teaching Communism

From the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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July 28, 1959

Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover:

I am writing you pertaining to an organization called the "Hubbard
Foundation", which organization is supposed to practice scientology.  I
am most anxious to know just as soon as possible whether or not your
department has ever investigated this Foundation.

I am sure that this organization is not what it is supposed to be; that
they do not teach scientology, but communism.

Perhaps you have heard by this time that my husband, [BLACKED OUT] who has
worked with your department for years on subsersive activities, having
been on the [BLACKED OUT] for about twenty-four years, passed away
suddenly on July 12th of a heart attack.

Our son, who is thirty-two and who has been living in [BLACKED OUT]
Arizona for the past seven years, moved to northern California just about
two weeks before his father passed away.  From conversations which I have
had with him since he has been here, and from the completely changed
attitudes which he now has, I am sure he has been taken in by this
organization.  In fact, he has been indoctrinated, at least to a great
extent, but just how far, I am not quite sure.  I have talked to him two
or three times on the subject, but of course, I am only his mother, and
consequently got nowhere.

Mr. Hoover, I am sick at heart and frantic with worry.  I can take the
shock of his father's passing, but

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this thing that has happened to our son, an only child, is far worse.

Do you have an F.B.I. man near hear who could call and see me in the very
near future?  It may not be too late to have the right person talk to him
in the proper way to make him see what has happened.  He has always been
extremely sensitive and strong willed.  But he has always been a good boy,
and has never given us the slightest amount of trouble.

He is in San Francisco for a few days looking for a job in traffic
engineering, and will be back the latter part of the week.  Just how
long he will be here after that I do not know.

I am also afraid that he is being influence by a so-called friend, who
lives in Oakland, near San Francisco, and who may have influenced him to
find work in or near San Francisco.  I am also fearful and worried about
the friend taking up where they left off in [BLACKED OUT] I have the
name and address of the friend, and my brother-in-law is going to have him
checked at that end.

Any help that you could give me will be gratefully accepted.  I need
help so badly.

Would you please give me an immediate reply to this letter?

Thanking you so much in advance, I am

Very Sincerely,


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