Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives Idiot-Lunatic Fringe of Scientology

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

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Miami, Florida
February 8, 1963

Re: The Founding Church of Scientology

On February 7, 1963, [BLACKED OUT] came to the office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Miami, and furnished the following information:

[BLACKED OUT] stated he is very much opposed to an organization headed by
one Ronald Hubbard, which organization is known as the Founding Church
of Scientology.  He said he had written President John F. Kennedy a letter
complaining about this group and asking President Kennedy to examine the
"Scientology file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation" and take
appropriate action.  He furnished a copy of the letter which he
addressed to the President, which is as follows:

"Sir:

"Enclosed herewith, I respectfully submit to you:

"1. Data on Scientology and Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, Science Fiction
Writer, compiled by Oliver Field, Director of Legal and Socio-Economic
Division of the American Medical Association, 525 North Dearborn St.,
Chicago 10, Illinois, Department of Investigation.

"2.  Copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Alert Memo' to his cell leaders throughout
America and the world after our U.S. Pure Food and Drug Administration
seized the tools of this quack practioner in the evil premise of
Scientology.

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"3.  Copy of memorandum titled Scientology Seizure' directed to me by
[BLACKED OUT] of the Miami Office of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug
Administration under the heading: Scientology Devices Seized: Cure-All
Claims Attacked.

"4.  A picture of [BLACKED OUT] my children, who are the captives of
Scientology.  Their last known address was [BLACKED OUT] and are as
guinea
pigs in this psychotic unscientific idiotology in the hands of [BLACKED
OUT] Scientology Auditor and their mother [BLACKED OUT]

"Mr. President, I respectfully address you as the recognized leader of
the free world and petition you and your great office to:

"Direct the Attorney General of the United States to examine the
Scientology file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation which I initiated
approximately three years ago, in a report to [BLACKED OUT] Former
Director of the Miami Division, and take appropriate action: Examine,
affirm or deny this criminal investigator's contention supported by fact
that:

"1.  Scientology, like an evil genius who tries to play God, is a fraud
and:

"2.  Furthermore, that L. Ron Hubbard has tried to hide the evil
philosophy of Dianetics and Scientology under the protection of the
First Amendment of the Constitution as a religious institution in order to:

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"A. Avoid Payment of many millions of dollars of Federal Income Tax.

"B.  Fraudulently practice medicine without a license.

"C.  Use the United States mails to distribute the fraudulent scheme.

"D.  Place before the public of the United States and other countires
[sic] of the world, his sinister pronouncements more sinister than Karl
Marx and Lenin in Communism and more dangerous to the morals and minds
of man than the most lewd, lascivious and evil pornography ever composed by
a sick mind.

"Mr. President, I as you, took the oath to defend the Constitution of
the United States of America when I joined the Pennsylvania National Guard,
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Marine Corps, the Coast Guard
Reserve, the U.S. Army, the Coast Artillery and the U.S. Air Force,
where I terminated my service as a Provost Sergeant with Criminal
Investigative Duty.

"This duty, Sir, along with a proper religious childhood prepared me as a
private citizen to recognize a threat to our great country and our free
way of life when the psychotic, evil and debilatising philosophy of L.
Ron Hubbard destroyed my family.  My wonderful children, Mr. President now
languish in Hubbard's snake pit of Scientology without direction in
religion, manners and the morals of mankind.

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"The idiot-lunatic fringe of Scientology is a danger to man-kind as was
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and now Castro in Cuba.  A knowledge of
Scientology by this writer, made Khruschchev come through loud and clear
as he pounded his shoe on a table at the United Nations.

"I, in conclusion, respectfully petition you and you honorable high
office, one father to another, to aid in the protection of the religious
and moral standards of our great country and of our children, I am sir,

"Respectfully,"

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[BLACKED OUT] also furnished the enclosures mentioned in the above
letter, which contain the following information:

1) A letter from the American Medical Association dated January 24,
1963, signed by Oliver Field, Director.

This letter outlines information in American Medical Association (AMA)
files on Scientology and enclosed for [BLACKED OUT] information data which
had been published regarding the organization and its practices.  The AMA
letter stated the the Council and Mental Health of their organization felt
that none of the Scientology organizations employ methods which are based
on scientific medical background.

2) A copy of a memorandum by L. Ron Hubbard protesting the seizure of
property and records of the organization by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration in Washington, D.C.

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3) A memorandum entitled "Scientology Devices Seized, Cure-All Claims
Attacked."

This release was furnished to [BLACKED OUT] by Inspector [BLACKED OUT] of
the Miami Office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and relates
that 100 Scientology devices had been seized by U.S. Marshals at the
Academy of Scientology and the Hubbard Guidance Center, both in
Washington, D.C.  Also seized as labeling containing therapeutic claims
charged to be false were numerous books put out by the organization.
The Food and Drug Administration charged that the Scientology devices
mentioned above are misbranded under the Federal Food and Drug Act
because
their labeling claims are false.

[BLACKED OUT] He did not specify when he planned to do this nor did he
state what specific grounds he planned to use in his law suit. [BLACKED
OUT] stated he is also planning to write a book on Scientology in which
he will play the central character who joins a Scientology Church and then
is victimized by the group.  He believes this book will expose this group
for what they are.

PROPERTY OF FBI - This memorandum is loaned to you by the FBI and
neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency
to which loaned.

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