FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #53
[illegible form info]
UNITED STATES GOVER[___]NT
TO : Mr. DeLoach
DATE: 9-1-61
FROM : M.A. Jones
SUBJECT: INQUIRY FROM [BLACKED OUT]
[BLACKED OUT]
SENATOR STROM THURMOND, RE
BOOKLET "BRAIN-WASHING, A SYNTHESIS
OF THE RUSSIAN TEXTBOOK ON PSYCHOPOLITICS"
_BACKGROUND_
You will recall that by letter to you (Mr. DeLoach) dated August
29, 1961, [BLACKED OUT] enclosed a copy of captioned booklet and
advised that he had been informed that the booklet's contents
originated with the FBI. He asked if you (Mr. DeLoach) could vouch
for its authenticity.
_INFORMATION IN BUFILES_
Captioned booklet has been brought to this Bureau's attention
numerous times in the past. Some copies indicate the author to be
Charles Stickley, New York City. Some are allegedly issued by
[BLACKED OUT] while others are allegedly issued by L. Ron Hubbard
of the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, Box 242, Silver
Spring, Maryland.
The Bureau has not information concerning the "Communist Manual
of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare" on which the above
booklet is allegedly based. A review of this booklet by the Central
Research Section of the Bureau reveals that the authenticity of the
booklet seems to be of doubtful nature since it lacks documentation
of source material and communist words and phrases. Also, there are
no quotations from well-known communist works as normally would be
used in a synthesis of communist writings.
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GCL:kmd
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[page 2]
Jones to DeLoach memo
Re: Inquiry From [BLACKED OUT]
Bufiles contain no identifiable data concerning [BLACKED OUT]
The wife of Hubbard, in filing a petition for divorce in Los
Angeles in 1951, described him as being "hopelessly insane."
(62-94080-27)
Nothing is contained in Bufiles which would furnish any basis
whatever to justify the allegation that the contents of the
above-described booklet originated with the FBI.
_OBSERVATIONS_
Captioned document is apparently a thinly-veiled attack upon
mental health programs along the line that such programs are a part
of the world-wide communist conspiracy. It is apparently being
circulated by persons of highly questionable background and, in
some instances, sanity.
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