Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives Letter to the FBI

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

[handwritten letter, undated, probably circa Sept 24 1961, badly
xeroxed]

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To the F.B.I. in Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs - I am a widow and not well; + I have a 21 year old nephew in
Detroit, Mich.  He is out of High School + now he is thinking of taking
some kind of an 8 weeks course of study in Washington D.C. - The tuition
is $600 - This, so called training center, is at 1812 - 19th St. N.W.
Zone #9. - I fear it is not a place where he will get anything help him
earn a liveing [sic] - I do fe[?] it may be a Spiritualist center. - I
fear it may not even be a schoo[?] that is really leagal. [sic] - It is
run by a Mr L. Don [sic] Hubbard. - He call his self a Engineer + a
Philosopher.
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I am not sure what sort of a place it is or if it is really a school, or
if it is just a fraud. - He claims there [sic]  study is Scio - "Knowing
in the full sence [sic], esp., logos - study.  I think the word logos in
the Hebrew is the same word as Spirit in English.  I therefore fear it
may be a school to train mediums, or some thing [?] that order.

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out if this school is really O.K., - or if it is just a bad hold-up, to
your [illegible word] of this nation?  - I do not feel he would get any
thing out of that course, that would help him to make a living in a leagel
[sic] way - I would like to have your [illegible word] this school, if I
can have it. - I told him I though [sic] as he was one of the 10 best in
his class at High School in Detroit; when he finished, over two years
ago, - that if he was in the U.S.A. army, he would be able to get free
collage [sic]; of the very best kind.  Was that not good advise [sic] - H
is working He is bright I don't do no want him to make an awful bad
mistake.

- So I would be so glad to find out if this sch[?] which is called the
academy of Scientolgy [sic] Dose [sic] this school carry any credits,
that are worth the name, with other good State Universities of the nation. -
Is it even a leagel [sic] school?  He said the [illegible word], + all w[?]
come to $1200 for the [illegible word] It seems outrag[?] to me. - May I
please hear from you soon.  Yours very truly [SIGNATURE BLACKED OUT]