FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #12
3 - orig & 2
- yellows
1 - Boardman
1 - Belmont
1 - Huelskamp
April 5, 1957
THE HUBBARD ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGISTS INTERNATIONAL
[BLACKED OUT] A check of our records reflects the following
information concerning captioned organization and its founder L.
(Lafayette) Ron Hubbard.
L. Ron Hubbard was the founder and president of the Hubbard
Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc. (HDRF), which was incorporated
in New Jersey during April, 1950/ (62-94080)
The December 5, 1950, issue of "Look" magazine contained an
article entitled "Dianetics - Science or Hoax?" which reflected
that L. Ron Hubbard was an obscure writer of pseudoscientific pulp
fiction prior to the publishing of his book entitled "Dianetics."
Hubbard's book asserts that "the creation of dianetics is a
milestone for Man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior
to his invention of the wheel and the arch...the intelligent layman
can successfully and invariably treat all psychosomatic ills and
inorganic aberrations," according to Hubbard. "These psychosomatic
ills, uniformly cured by dianetic therapy, include such varied
maladies as eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, some heart difficulties,
migraine headaches and the common cold." According to the article,
Hubbard's book has "outraged scores of psychiatrists, biochemists,
psychologists, physicians and just-plain-ordinary scientists, who
look upon the astounding claims and the growing commercial success
of this strange new phenomenon with awe, fear and a deep
disgust...Hubbard's greatest attraction to the troubled is that his
ersatz psychiatry is available to all. It's cheap. It's accessible.
It's a public festival to be played at clubs and parties."
(62-94080)
During March, 1951, the Board of Medical Examiners, State of New
Jersey, had a case against the HDRF scheduled for trial on the
grounds that the organization was conducting a school, teaching a
branch of medicine and surgery, without a license. (62-94080)
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1 - Foreign Liaison Unit
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In 1951 the HDRF established national headquarters at Wichita,
Kansas, and sponsored the Allied Scientists of the World, which
organization had as its avowed purpose "to construct and stock
a library ... in an atomic proof area where the culture and
technology of the United States could be stored in a state of use
by science and preserve it in case of attack." (62-95972)
The April, 24, 1951, issue of the "Times Herald," Washington,
D.C., reflected that Hubbard's wife charged in a divorce suit 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." (62-94080)
Allegedly during 1952, Hubbard formed the Hubbard Association of
Scientologists, an Arizona corporation, and reverted "dianetics"
back to its original name, "scientology." Thereafter, offices were
opened in New Jersey and London, England. (62-94080)
During the early part of 1956, HDRF, Silver Spring, Maryland,
was circulating a pamphlet entitled "Brain-Washing, A Synthesis of
the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics." According to the book,
psychopolitics is the "art and science of asserting and maintaining
dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers,
bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy
nations through mental health.'"
NOTE:
Bufiles reflect that Hubbard appeared at the Bureau and was
interviewed on March 1, 1951. Hubbard furnished information
regarding alleged communist infiltration into his organization.
Thereafter, he corresponded with the Bureau re individuals in
his organization whom he believed to be communists. Attached to
Hubbard's July 11, 1955, letter is a notation [BLACKED OUT] This
letter and subsequent letters were not acknowledged. Bufiles also
reflect numerous inquiries made of the Bureau and by the Bureau
concerning Hubbard's activities. (62-94080)
