FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #158
July 21, 1965
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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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