FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #70
January 16, 1963
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Dear Mrs. [BLACKED OUT]
Your letter of January 10, 1963, has been received and the
motives prompting your contacting this Bureau are appreciated. The
information you furnished is being made a matter of record in our
files.
One copy of your communication is being forwarded to the
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, Washington 25, D.C., to whom its contents
may be of interest.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
1 - Foreign Liaison Unit - Enclosure
1 - Ottawa - Enclosure
Attention Legal Attache: Recent newspaper clippings have
indicated that Food and Drug Administration officials recently
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
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
(See Bu note next page.)
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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.
Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles.
NOTE: The Academy of Scientology and the Hubbard Dianetic
Research Foundation, Inc., are subject of Bufile 105-55601
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