FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #31
February 3, 1959
LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD
c/o Hubbard Dianetic Auditors School
Elizabeth, New Jersey
HUBBARD DIANETIC AUDITORS SCHOOL
275 Morris Avenue
Elizabeth, New Jersey
No investigation pertinent to your inquiry has been conducted
by the FBI concerning the captioned individual and organization.
However, the files of this Bureau reveal the following information
which may relate to the subjects of your name check request.
The December 5, 1950 issue of "Look" magazine contained an
article entitled "Dianetics - Science or Hoax?" which revealed
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 inventions of the wheel and the arch...the intelligent
layman can sucessfully [sic] 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."
Orig and one to OSI-4
Pro rec'd: 1/19/59
[BLACKED OUT]/rlk
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Lafayette Ron Hubbard
Hubbard Dianetic Auditors School
The April 24, 1951, issue of the "Times Herald," Washington,
D.C., revealed 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."
The foregoing information is furnished to you as a result of
your request for an FBI file check and is not to be construed as a
clearance or a nonclearance of the individual and the organization
involved. This information is loaned for your use and is not to be
disseminated outside of your agency.
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