FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #80
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Miami, Florida
February 8, 1963
Re: The Founding Church of Scientology
On February 7, 1963, [BLACKED OUT] came to the office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, and furnished the following
information:
[BLACKED OUT] stated he is very much opposed to an organization
headed by one Ronald Hubbard, which organization is known as the
Founding Church of Scientology. He said he had written President
John F. Kennedy a letter complaining about this group and asking
President Kennedy to examine the "Scientology file of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation" and take appropriate action. He furnished
a copy of the letter which he addressed to the President, which is
as follows:
"Sir:
"Enclosed herewith, I respectfully submit to you:
"1. Data on Scientology and Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, Science
Fiction Writer, compiled by Oliver Field, Director of Legal and
Socio-Economic Division of the American Medical Association, 525
North Dearborn St., Chicago 10, Illinois, Department of
Investigation.
"2. Copy of L. Ron Hubbard's Alert Memo' to his cell leaders
throughout America and the world after our U.S. Pure Food and Drug
Administration seized the tools of this quack practitioner in the
evil premise of Scientology.
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"3. Copy of memorandum titled Scientology Seizure' directed to
me by [BLACKED OUT] of the Miami Office of the U.S. Pure Food and
Drug Administration under the heading: Scientology Devices Seized:
Cure-All Claims Attacked.
"4. A picture of [BLACKED OUT] my children, who are the captives
of Scientology. Their last known address was [BLACKED OUT] and are
as guinea pigs in this psychotic unscientific idiotology in the
hands of [BLACKED OUT] Scientology Auditor and their mother
[BLACKED OUT]
"Mr. President, I respectfully address you as the recognized
leader of the free world and petition you and your great office to:
"Direct the Attorney General of the United States to examine the
Scientology file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation which I
initiated approximately three years ago, in a report to [BLACKED
OUT] Former Director of the Miami Division, and take appropriate
action: Examine, affirm or deny this criminal investigator's
contention supported by fact that:
"1. Scientology, like an evil genius who tries to play God, is a
fraud and:
"2. Furthermore, that L. Ron Hubbard has tried to hide the evil
philosophy of Dianetics and Scientology under the protection of the
First Amendment of the Constitution as a religious institution in
order to:
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"A. Avoid Payment of many millions of dollars of Federal Income
Tax.
"B. Fraudulently practice medicine without a license.
"C. Use the United States mails to distribute the fraudulent
scheme.
"D. Place before the public of the United States and other
countries [sic] of the world, his sinister pronouncements more
sinister than Karl Marx and Lenin in Communism and more dangerous
to the morals and minds of man than the most lewd, lascivious and
evil pornography ever composed by a sick mind.
"Mr. President, I as you, took the oath to defend the
Constitution of the United States of America when I joined the
Pennsylvania National Guard, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the
U.S. Marine Corps, the Coast Guard Reserve, the U.S. Army, the
Coast Artillery and the U.S. Air Force, where I terminated my
service as a Provost Sergeant with Criminal Investigative Duty.
"This duty, Sir, along with a proper religious childhood
prepared me as a private citizen to recognize a threat to our great
country and our free way of life when the psychotic, evil and
debilatising philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard destroyed my family. My
wonderful children, Mr. President now languish in Hubbard's snake
pit of Scientology without direction in religion, manners and the
morals of mankind.
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"The idiot-lunatic fringe of Scientology is a danger to man-kind
as was Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and now Castro in Cuba. A
knowledge of Scientology by this writer, made Khruschchev come
through loud and clear as he pounded his shoe on a table at the
United Nations.
"I, in conclusion, respectfully petition you and you honorable
high office, one father to another, to aid in the protection of the
religious and moral standards of our great country and of our
children, I am sir,
"Respectfully,"
