Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives Fighting Communism

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

[handwritten letter]

Mar. 24, 1[illegible year, probably 1961]

J. Edgar Hoover - F.B.I.
U.S. Dept. Of Justice
Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Mr. Hoover,

I wrote you requesting a list of all subversive organizations operating
within our country.

Since that time, I have read your book on "Masters of Deceit" and wish
to know about a particular organization.  It is called The Founding Church
of Scientology" and "Academy of Scientology" 1812 19th St Washington, D.C.

I even wrote a letter to President Kennedy about this, the science of
making able men more able.  I haev received literature called Ability
Magazines and enrolled as a student, thinking that sometime I might attend
this school.  But, since I heard [BLACKED OUT] speak to our club and in
reading your book, I wish to know more about it from the standpoint of
someone who has fought and is fighting communism in our country.

I am truly concerned about this because, first and foremost, I am an
American citizen and do realize that communism is gaining ground in our
country as well as other countries.

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I am [line cut off by xeroxing]
but it is somethign I must know.  I had even left my own Catholic church
here in [BLACKED OUT] but plan to go back on Easter Sunday.  I realize
what this has done to my children because they thought I did not believe
in God, which is false because I do know that a Supreme Being does,
indeed, exist.

Will you let me hear from you soon?  I do hope that I wrong about this
school.  They have always said they were fighting communism and I truly
felt that I was so doing.  Everyone disagrees with me so much that I now
wonder about it.

Yours very sincerely,


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