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FBI files on L Ron Hubbard


FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #158

July 21, 1965

[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT]

Dear Miss [BLACKED OUT]

Your letter of July 16th, with enclosures, has been received.

With respect to your inquiry, information contained in our files must be maintained as confidential in accordance with regulations of the Department of Justice. I trust you will understand the necessary reasons for this policy and why I cannot comment as you suggested.

Sincerely yours,

[stamped] J. Edgar Hoover

NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles. Regarding the Academy of Scientology, in late 1962, newspapers indicated that Food and Drug Administration officials 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

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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 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. (105-55601)

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