FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #143
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September [?]1, 1956
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Reference is made to your letter dated August [?] 1956, bearing your stamp
number [?]580, wherein you requested that you be furnished information
available in the files of this Bureau regarding "The Hubbard Dianetic
Research Foundation" and the American citizens who are connected with that
organization.
According to the records of the Bureau, "The Hubbard Dianetic Research
Foundation, Inc.," was incorporated on June 1, 1950, in the State of New
Jersey for the alleged purpose of furthering the work of La Fayette [sic]
Ron Hubbard, an author whose book, "Dianetics," ha[?] been published in
1948. In 1951 the organization moved to Wichita, Kansas, later to
Phoenix, Arizona, and within the recent past to Silver Spring, Maryland.
The foundation has reportedly encountered difficulty with the police
authorities in New Jersey, Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., for
allegedly conducting a school in these areas, in which school a branch of
medicine and surgery was taught without a license.
In regard to Hubbard himself an inquiry was initiated by this Bureau on
February 26, 1951, after information was received that he had been taken
into custody in Chicago, Illinois, for kidnapping his wife and daughter
and taking them out of the State of California. No investigation of this
alleged violation was conducted, however, since United States Attorney at
Los Angeles, California, state[?] that this was a family matter and did
not warrant invest-[?]
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Letter to [BLACKED OUT]
The Los Angeles, California, "Times Herald" in its issue of April 24,
1951, related that Hubbard's wife accused him of subjecting her to
scientific torture experiments. The news story reported that Mrs.
Hubbard, in a divorce suite, claimed that he was hopelessly" insane. Her
complaint stated in part that the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation
did more than a million dollars worth of business in 1950.
No information is available in the records of this Bureau to indicate that
the booklet entitled "Brainwashing" has at any time been banned or
restricted in the United States. Actually the authenticity of the booklet
appears to be of a doubtful nature since its lacks documentation of source
material and contains no quotations from well-known communist works which
would normally be used in a synthesis of communist writings. In addition
the alleged author of the publication admits he cannot vouch for the
authenticity of the booklet.
No data identifiable with [BLACKED OUT] was located in the files of this
Bureau.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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