FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #61
April 5, 1962
Airtel
To: SAC, Albany
From: Director, FBI 962-94080)
LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD
HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS)
BUDED 4-16-62
Enclosed are two copies of self-explanatory letter received by
me from [BLACKED OUT] You are instructed to have an agent contact
[BLACKED OUT] personally and acknowledge my receipt of her
correspondence. She should be informed of the following: Special
Agent training does not include a study of Scientology nor are
lectures given by Scientologists; the FBI has never, at any time,
issued any statement whatsoever relating to Scientology and
Dianetics. With regard to specific information concerning the
Scientology Center at Washington, D.C., and its founder, Lafayette
Ronald Hubbard, she should be informed that the FBI, as an
investigative agency of the Federal Government, does not evaluate
any organization, publication or individual. Information in FBI
files is confidential pursuant to regulations of the Department of
Justice. It should be suggested to [BLACKED OUT] that she might
choose to direct inquiries to the Better Business Bureau of
Washington, D.C., Inc., Perpetual Building, Washington, D.C., for
information she desires. Further, the identity of the Scientologist
about whom [BLACKED OUT] speaks as being in her locale should be
ascertained. He should thereafter be located and thoroughly and
completely admonished for any reference or inference he makes or
had made concerning alleged connections between FBI training
procedures and the administration of any part of such training by
Scientologists.
Hubbard 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 mental problems
and obtaining human ability.
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Follow-up made for 4-16-62
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Airtel to SAC, Albany
LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD
HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
RESEARCH (CORRESPONDENCE AND TOURS)
BUDED 4-16-62
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 recommend that Hubbard be committed to
a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a
mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia."
Submit results under above caption to reach Bureau no later than
4-16-62
NOTE: Correspondent not identifiable Bufiles. Prior Bureau
correspondence to one [BLACKED OUT] on 9-28-61, suggested she
contact the Better Business Bureau of Washington, D.C., Inc., the
same procedure as suggested this airtel.
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