Bare-Faced Messiah, FBI Archives Letters to/from FBI

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

January 16, 1963

[BLACKED OUT ADDRESS BLOCK]

Dear Mrs. [BLACKED OUT]

Your letter of January 10, 1963, has been received and the motives
prompting your contacting this Bureau are appreciated.  The information
you furnished is being made a matter of record in our files.

One copy of your communication is being forwarded to the Commissioner,
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, Washington 25, D.C., to whom its contents may be of interest.

Sincerely yours,

John Edgar Hoover
Director

1 - Foreign Liaison Unit - Enclosure

1 - Ottawa - Enclosure

Attention Legal Attache: Recent newspaper clippings have indicated that
Food and Drug Administration officials recently raided the Washington,
D.C. headquarters of Ron Hubbard to whom correspondent refers, inasmuch
as his club was misrepresenting claims as to what their "machines" could
do.

Hubbard runs the Academy of Scientology, and he is the founder and
president of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., for the
purpose of furthering Hubbard's theory of "Scientology," an alleged
science which instills self-confidence and assists individuals in
removing mental problems and obtaining human ability.  Hubbard has been
described as being "hopelessly insane" by his wife in suing for divorce
and the "Washington Times Herald" of 4-24-51, in mentioning this divorce
proceeding, stated that "competent medical advisors recommended that
Hubbard be committed to a private

(See Bu note next page.)

DCL:mlk (6)

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Mrs. [BLACKED OUT]

sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment
known as paranoid schizophrenia.  At the time FDA was confiscating books
and these wonder "machines" found in Hubbard's headquarters, he was
allegedly in England.  No arrests were made.  Correspondent is not
identifiable in Bufiles.

NOTE: The Academy of Scientology and the Hubbard Dianetic Research
Foundation, Inc., are subject of Bufile 105-55601

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