FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #69
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Jan 10/63
The Federal Bureau of Investigation,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
_Re: Investigation of Scientologists_
Gentlemen :
A news item on a [BLACKED OUT] radio station came on the air
last Saturday Jan 5th, with an item of interest to me. I am at the
present time in the process of getting some Washington papers to
read about this particular item, which mentioned at the time, that
The Scientologists, who are located in Washington and elsewhere,
are being investigated and have their machines taken from them and
this news item went on to say that they claimed they could cure
people, and that Ron Hubbard, who is at the head of this crackpot
organization was not available for comment at that time.
I would like to state to you my past experience with this racket
and it is that my husband (who has since disappeared), took this
course for three months from July till [sic] October of 1958, and I
myself did visit him in Washington for a week end during that time,
and as you probably know are located in Central Washington just off
the main street. I knew at that time they were a fraud. My former
husband took this course to the tune [BLACKED OUT] for which
courses he had to borrow the money, because they had to have the
money for this course in advance : and which debt was left for me
to pay because after taking this course, he deserted me the
following year and during the time since he had taken the course he
had kept in touch with them and also bought one of their machines
with which they work. Do not underestimate my former husbands [sic]
mentality, because he was extremely clever and thought that this
had something to offer. He has not been seen or heard of since,
altho [sic] he cashed a [BLACKED OUT] cheque in Mexico somewhere,
as the company he was working for let me know when it was cashed
and if he is in the States with this outfit of Scientologists, he
is there illegally. My lawyer wrote to both Washington and New
York, to these people at the time to get some papers signed from
him, with no reply and we have not persued [sic] it any further,
because I certainly do not wish to bother with him.
I know if I recall correctly that they had on the back of their
literature, that in a case of emergency - that they are located
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in Maryland. I am only mentioning these things to you to help
you know just what a racket this thing is and Ron Hubbard in it
should be exposed, and I know there were others taken for a ride
like myself in Canada, and I have had to work since he disappeared
to pay of this [BLACKED OUT] debt he left and it has taken nearly
everything I had to keep up to it. I have long since disgarded
[sic] all their literature, but I do recall them mentioning in
their literature that they had been sued before but were not
worried, but believe me these people do need investigating because
they [?]ck up peoples [sic] home and take money that people cannot
afford and have people going around in a trance. In fact one of
their sneaky representatives came up here to [BLACKED OUT] once a
[BLACKED OUT] so she called herself) supposedly married to a
[BLACKED OUT] in their New York office, drumming up business for
further courses! You may find some of these people who take this
course at The Elmwood House if it is still there - for your
information my former husbands [sic] name is [BLACKED OUT] not
unless he has changed it and is living under an alias in the
States.
I did not mean this to be a long epistle, but I had to do some
explaining and was quite pleased when I heard this on the news--for
at last someone has got wise to them and felt that I had to write
and hope I have been of some service.
Yours sincerely,
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