Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives SAC, Oklahoma City

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

1 [____]itson

SAC, Oklahoma City (100-0)

Director, FBI (62-94080)

DOCUMENT CAPTIONED "BRAIN-WASHING -
A SYNTHESIS OF THE TEXT - BOOK ON
PSYCHOPOLITICS"
INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA

Reurlet 6-7-61 furnishing copy of captioned document.

For your information, the document has been given wide distribution since
its publication in 1955.  It is distributed by the Hubbard Dianetic
Research Foundation, Inc., Box 242, Silver Spring, Maryland.  Various
copies of the document have been received by the Bureau from individuals
from coast to coast and even from Australia, together with inquiries
concerning its authenticity.

The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., was founded by one L. Ron
Hubbard who is connected with the Hubbard Association of Scientologists
International, The Academy of Scientology and The Founding Church of
Scientology, 1812 19th Street, Northwest, Washington 9, D.C.

The April 24, 1951, issue of the "Washington Times Herald" contained an
article with a Los Angeles, California, date line [sic] indicating that
Hubbard's wife, in suing for divorce, claimed he was "hopelessly
insane."

Individuals who have been connected with the organizations headed by
Hubbard or who have been in contact with him have indicated he is a
"crackpot," and of "doubtful mental background."  No investigation has
been conducted by the Bureau concerning Hubbard.

NOTE: Oklahoma City Office forwarded to Bureau captioned document which
could be construed as a text on brainwashing which elaborates on a
purported address by "Beria" to American students at "Lenin University"
at an unspecified date.  The document contains some reasonable statements
and also much that is incomprehensible.  The author of the document, one
"Charles Stickley," does not claim that it is a textbook, but states it
is a "synthesis of information gathered...over the last 10 years."

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