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FBI files on L Ron Hubbard


FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #70

January 16, 1963

[BLACKED OUT ADDRESS BLOCK]

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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Mrs. [BLACKED OUT]

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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