FBI Files on L. Ron Hubbard, by FBI

FBI FILES ON L. RON HUBBARD

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #81  
		HJM:SB:wm 

		21-16-124  
		February 13, 1963  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter of January 22, 1963, and enclosures, to the Director of 
		the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been referred to me for 
		consideration.  
		The subject matter of the action involving the Academy of Scientology 
		is a quantity of "Hubbard E-Meter" devices held on the premises of the 
		organization, and which investigation by the Food and Drug 
		Administration revealed were misbranded under the Federal Food, Drug, 
		and Cosmetic Act. The proceedings are not directed against the Founding 
		Church of Scientology, nor any individual, and are not designed to 
		interfere with the constitutionally protected rights of any person. 
		 
		The seizure of the devices was made in strict conformity with 
		approved routine legal procedures, and the Federal Marshals involved 
		performed their duties with dignity and restraint. The owners of the 
		devices have the opportunity to contest the action in a court of law, 
		and at that time may raise all pertinent objections.  
		We share your concern for freedom of religious belief, and you may 
		feel assured that in any action by the Government this interest will be 
		carefully protected.  
		Sincerely,  
		HERBERT J. MILLER, JR. 

		Assistant Attorney General  
		ENCLOSURE  
		
		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #82  
		1 - Name Check Section  
		February 15, 1963  
		LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD  
		The files of the FBI contain considerable information concerning the 
		captioned individual and his various business enterprises; however, this 
		Bureau has not conducted any investigation concerning Hubbard or his 
		organization.  
		L. Ron Hubbard was the founder and president of the Hubbard Dianetic 
		Research Foundation, Inc. (HDRF), which was incorporated in New Jersey 
		during April 1, 1950.  
		The December 5, 1950, issue of "Look" magazine contained an article 
		entitled "Dianetics - Science or Hoax?" which related that L. Ron 
		Hubbard was an obscure writer of pseudoscientific pulp fiction prior to 
		the publishing of his book entitled "Dianetics." Hubbard's book asserts 
		that "the creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man comparable to his 
		discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the 
		arch...the intelligent layman can successfully and invariably treat all 
		psychosomatic ills and inorganic aberrations," according to Hubbard. 
		"These psychosomatic ills, uniformly cured by dianetic therapy, include 
		such varied maladies as eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, some heart 
		difficulties, migraine headaches and the common cold." According to the 
		article, Hubbard's book has "outraged scores of psychiatrists, 
		biochemists, psychologists, physicians and just-plain-ordinary 
		scientists, who look upon the astounding claims and the growing 
		commercial success of this strange new phenomenon with awe, fear and a 
		deep disgust...Hubbard's greatest attraction to the troubled is that his 
		ersatz psychiatry is available to all. It's cheap. It's accessible. It's 
		a public festival to be played at clubs and parties."  
		During March, 1951, the Board of Medical Examiners, State of New 
		Jersey, had a case against the HDRF scheduled for trial on the grounds 
		that the organization was conducting a school, teaching a branch of 
		medicine and surgery, without a license.  
		ORIGINAL AND 1 - HEW Request received: 2-14-63 SEE NOTE ON YELLOW, 
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		This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions on the 
		FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and 
		its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. This is in 
		answer to your request for a check of FBI files.  
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		Lafayette Ron Hubbard  
		In 1951, the HDRF established national headquarters at Wichita, 
		Kansas, and sponsored the Allied Scientists of the World, which 
		organization had as its avowed purpose "to construct and stock a 
		library...in an atomic proof area where the culture and technology of 
		the United States could be stored in a state of use by science and 
		preserve it in case of attack."  
		The April 24, 1951, issue of the "Times Herald," Washington, D.C., 
		revealed that Hubbard's wife charged in a divorce suit that "competent 
		medical advisors recommended that Hubbard be committed to a private 
		sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment 
		known as paranoid schizophrenia."  
		Allegedly during 1952, Hubbard formed the Hubbard Association of 
		Scientologists, an Arizona corporation, and reverted "dianetics" back to 
		its original name, "scientology." Thereafter, offices were opened in New 
		Jersey and London, England.  
		During the early part of 1956, HDRF, Silver Spring, Maryland, was 
		circulating a pamphlet entitled "Brain-Washing, A Synthesis of the 
		Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics." According to the book, 
		psychopolitics is the "art and science of asserting and maintaining 
		dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, 
		bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of conquest of enemy nations 
		through mental health.'"  
		Hubbard has corresponded with the Bureau and the Department of 
		Justice on several occasions for various reasons, including complaints 
		about his wife and about alleged communists. In one lengthy letter in 
		May, 1951, it is perhaps noteworthy the Hubbard stated that while he was 
		in his apartment on February 23, 1951, about two or three o'clock in the 
		morning, his apartment was entered. He was knocked out. A needle was 
		thrust into his heart to produce a coronary thrombosis and he was given 
		an electric shock. He said his recollection of this incident was now 
		very blurred, that he had no witnesses and that the only other person 
		who had a key to the apartment was his wife.  
		Hubbard and various organizations with which he has been associated 
		have been the subject of numerous inquiries and complaints directed to 
		this Bureau. He and  
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		Lafayette Ron Hubbard  
		his organizations operated in various parts of the country. Under 
		date of October 8, 1957, we received a letter from Richard F. Steves, 
		"Organizational Secretary" of "Scientology, United States, The Academy 
		of Scientology," 1812 - 19th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. This 
		letter requested that the Bureau investigate an individual allegedly 
		representing himself as a "dianetic auditor" though not associated with 
		any "Dianetic" or "Scientology" organization. The letter requested that 
		this person be investigated as to communist activities. The letterhead 
		listed seventeen associated organizations and publications including the 
		Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International. Three of the 
		associated organizations are purported churches of scientology. Also 
		listed as associate groups are the Hubbard Guidance Center, Hubbard 
		Dianetic Research Foundation, Hubbard Research Foundation, and Hubbard 
		Communications Office.  
		In addition to the foregoing, you are advised that Hubbard has FBI 
		Identification Record Number 2440210-B.  
		Pursuant to your specific request, there are enclosed communications 
		received by this Bureau from Hubbard. In addition, with regard to your 
		request for background information, this Bureau has been advised of a 
		book called "Brief Biography of L. Ron Hubbard." This book reportedly 
		states the Hubbard is the so-called founder of "Scientology" and has 
		traveled most of the world. He is reportedly sponsored by the Congress 
		of Scientologists, Washington, D.C. According to this publication, 
		Hubbard served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1941 to 
		1946. It is further reported that he has been previously committed to a 
		mental hospital. A copy of the foregoing publication is not contained in 
		the files of this Bureau and the afore-mentioned information has not 
		been verified.  
		(62-94080)  
		Enclosures (5)  
		_NOTE:_ Request originated with [BLACKED OUT] Food and Drug 
		Administration, to SA [BLACKED OUT] Bufiles reveal FDA on 1-4-63 seized 
		various devices and written material form D.C. headquarters of Hubbard's 
		organization and initiated legal action against Hubbard's group.  
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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #83  
		[BLACKED OUT LETTERHEAD INFORMATION] 
		 
		April 15, 1963  
		The Federal Bureau of Investigation 

		Washington, D.C.  
		Dear Sirs:  
		I am concerned about an institution which has commanded the 
		allegiance of one of my constituency.  
		This "institution" is "The Founding Church of Scientology" and is 
		located at 1912 19th St., N.W., Washington 9, D.C. (telephone ADams 
		2-6296). They go under the names also of: "The Academy of Scientology" 
		and "The Hubbard Guidance Center."  
		Can you furnish me with any information concerning this organization? 
		I would appreciate anything you can tell me.  
		Truly yours,  
		[SIGNATURE BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		
		April 19, 1963  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter of April 15th has been received. 
		 
		Although I would like to be of service, the FBI being an 
		investigative agency of the Federal Government neither makes evaluations 
		nor draws conclusions as to the character or integrity of any 
		organization, publication or individual. I regret I am unable to be of 
		help to you and hope you will not infer either that we do or do not have 
		data in our files relating to the subject of your inquiry.  
		Sincerely yours,  
		[stamped] J. Edgar Hoover 
		 
		John Edgar Hoover 

		Director  
		NOTE: Bufiles contain no record identifiable with correspondent. The 
		founder and president of the The Founding Church of Scientology is L. 
		Ron Hubbard who has established several groups for the purpose of 
		furthering his theory of scientology, an alleged science which instills 
		self-confidence and assists individuals in removing mental problems and 
		human ability. Hubbard was described as being "hopelessly insane" by his 
		wife during divorce proceedings in 1951. We have had previous inquiries 
		concerning this group. (62-94080)  
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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #84  
		2 May 1963  
		The Federal Bureau of Investigation 
		 
		Washington 25, D.C.  
		Gentlemen:  
		In recent weeks I have become exposed to literature which I felt 
		might bear further investigation as to its validity and connections. The 
		subject matter is in connection with a science called Dianetics and 
		Scientology founded by L. Ron Hubbard.  
		From what I have been able to gather the practices involved have not 
		met with complete or approval of the American Medical Association. So 
		called raids' on the headquarters in Washington, D. C. by the Food and 
		Drug Administration were made to confiscate documents and literature 
		pertaining to the processing of individuals taking part in the 
		prescribed program.  
		I would like to know of any affiliation with the Communist Party on 
		the part of the founder L. Ron Hubbard and or the science of Dianetics 
		or Scientology. I would also like to know if there is any connection 
		between the program prescribed by this science and brain washing or if 
		this information is dangerous to the individual in any way.  
		The material stresses the think for yourself' idea but in some cases, 
		leaves you little choice in conclusions. Constant vague accusations 
		directed at the A.M.A. are included and the reasons for the A.M.A. not 
		accepting the so called findings of this science are that its general 
		acceptance by the public would hurt the medical business since fewer 
		people would need professional help in fact, a relative few and then 
		only those who were completely beyond help and would require 
		institutionalizing.  
		It occurs to me that this is either the most fantastic and wonderful 
		find in the field or the most damaging.  
		Looking forward to hearing from you, 
		 
		[NO SIGNATURE]  
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		All publications to my knowledge come from 
		 
		Hubbard Association of Scientologists 

		Box 242 

		Silver Spring, Maryland  
		Some examples of the publications are: 
		 
		The Creation of Human Ability 
		 
		Dianetics  
		Scientology: Its Contribution to Knowledge 
		 
		Ability, a magazine of Dianetics and Scientology a monthly and 
		bi-monthly publication  
		F.D.A.'s raid was on January 4, 1963 at 1812 19th Street, N.W. 
		Washington 9, D.C.  
		 
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		May 8, 1963  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear Miss [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter of May 2nd has been received. 
		 
		In response to your inquiry, I would like to point out that 
		information in our files must be maintained as confidential pursuant to 
		regulations of the Department of Justice. I regret I am unable to be of 
		service and hope you will not infer either that we do or do not have 
		this information in our files.  
		I am forwarding a copy of your letter to the Commissioner, Food and 
		Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 
		Washington 25, D.C., for whatever assistance he might be able to render.
		
		
		Sincerely yours,  
		[stamped] J. Edgar Hoover 
		 
		John Edgar Hoover 

		Director  
		CJJ:cai (3)  
		NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles. A copy of her 
		letter was referred to the FDA. The Academy of Scientology, run by L. 
		Ron Hubbard, is well-known to the Bureau. 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. 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 sanitarium for psychiatric observation 
		and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia." 
		(105-55601-5)
		
		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #85  
		OPTIONAL FORM NO 10  
		UNITED STATES GOVERMENT 

		Memorandum  
		TO: Mr. A. Rosen  
		DATE: July 2, 1963  
		FROM: Mr. G.H. Scatterday 
		 
		SUBJECT: FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY 

		INQUIRY CONCERNING  
		[BLACKED OUT] Peace Corps [BLACKED OUT], on July 1, 1963, 
		telephonically contacted Assistant Director C.A. Evans and requested 
		information as to whether the FBI was conducting and investigation 
		concerning the captioned organization. The matter was referred to the 
		Name Check Section for handling.  
		Bureau files were reviewed by Special Agent [BLACKED OUT] and 
		[BLACKED OUT] was subsequently telephonically advised in reply to his 
		inquiry that this Bureau has conducted no investigation concerning the 
		Founding Church of Scientology. [BLACKED OUT] was advised that according 
		to information in Bureau files the organization was founded by Lafayette 
		Ron Hubbard concerning whom there has been considerable publicity in the 
		past. [BLACKED OUT] was advised that if Hubbard's background was of 
		interest to him he might desire to review the December 5, 195[?], issue 
		of "Look" magazine which contained an article entitled "Dianetics - 
		Science or Hoax," and the April 24, 1951, issue of the "Times Herald," 
		Washington, D.C., newspaper, which contained an article concerning a 
		divorce suit against Hubbard wherein his wife charged that "competent 
		medical advisors recommended that Hubbard be committed to a private 
		sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental illness 
		known as paranoid schizophrenia." He was also referred to the Food and 
		Drug Administration in view of publicity concerning a raid on offices 
		occupied by Hubbard by representatives of that administration on January 
		4, 1963.  
		[BLACKED OUT] was very appreciative of the information furnished and 
		stated that the foregoing fully answered his request.  
		It should be noted that Hubbard, who has a long history of 
		participation in organizations professing "cure-alls" for both physical 
		and mental illnesses, has corresponded  
		1 - Mr. Rosen 

		1 - Mr. Evans 

		1 - Name Check Section  
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		Memorandum to Mr. A. Rosen 

		Re: Founding Church of Scientology 

		Inquiry Concerning  
		with this Bureau and the Department on several occasions for various 
		reasons including complaints about his wife and about alleged 
		communists.  
		RECOMMENDATIONS  
		For information.  
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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #86  
		[handwritten letter, poor handwriting, badly xeroxed] 
		 
		[?]-4-63 [probably September] 
		 
		Mr. J. Edgar Hoover 

		Chief, U.S. Secret Service 

		Washington, D.C.  
		Hon Sir:--  
		I am one of the many Americans, who believe that our Country was 
		founded upon the only Republic created in 1620.  
		[illegible line] 

		[BLACKED OUT] 

		[illegible line] [BLACKED OUT] 

		[BLACKED OUT][illegible word][BLACKED OUT] 

		[BLACKED OUT] [illegible rest of line] 

		the union in 1800.  
		My son [BLACKED OUT] was in the Navy and on [BLACKED OUT] for the 
		duration. My son [illegible word] [BLACKED OUT] volunteered at [BLACKED 
		OUT] for Pacific duty and when Korea broke out he  
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		left his family and went over [?] The other son-in-law was in the 
		Navy - [BLACKED OUT] duty and left last year as one of the chil[?] 
		mechanics for the [BLACKED OUT] now with family crippled for life as 
		[BLACKED OUT]. The other son-in-law is at [BLACKED OUT]  
		Two brothers of my grandfather [BLACKED OUT] landed in America from 
		England in 1623.  
		My grandmother born Cecil Maryland in early 18th century was [BLACKED 
		OUT] - a relative of Noah.  
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		I did my patriotic duty for [illegible]; am a graduate of [BLACKED 
		OUT] 17 and after returning to [BLACKED OUT] in 1918 was Secy for the 
		[BLACKED OUT] That was followed by 15 years [BLACKED OUT], which gave me 
		an opportunity to know [illegible] great Americans and to do 
		Humanitarian work.  
		[BLACKED OUT PARAGRAPH]  
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		[BLACKED OUT PARAGRAPH]  
		[BLACKED OUT PARAGRAPH]  
		VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY. 
		 
		One of my many acquaintances in Congress, I c[?]ld Senator Carl 
		Hayden the greatest.  
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		The enclosed pamphlet - I picked up on the Ocean Beach. 
		 
		Kindly have one of your faithful workers tell me what it is about.
		
		
		Sincerely and may He grant you strength for our organization, 
		 
		[SIGNATURE BLACKED OUT]  
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		September 11, 1963  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter of September 4th, with enclosures, was received, and I 
		want you know how much I appreciate the best wishes you extended.  
		In response to your inquiry, the FBI is strictly an investigative 
		agency of the Federal Government and as such does not make evaluations 
		nor draw conclusions as to the character or integrity of any 
		organization, publication or individual. In view of this, I am sure you 
		will understand why I cannot comment on the material you enclosed. 
		 
		I am returning these items to you. 
		 
		Sincerely yours,  
		[stamped] J. Edgar Hoover 
		 
		John Edgar Hoover 

		Director  
		Enclosures (5) 

		Correspondent's enclosures  
		See NOTE next page  
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		Mr. [BLACKED OUT]  
		NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles. His enclosures 
		were two pamphlets distributed by the Academy of Scientology and a 
		brochure and letter relating to [BLACKED OUT] The Academy of 
		Scientology, run by L. Ron Hubbard, is well-known to the Bureau. 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. 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 sanitarium 
		for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as 
		paranoid schizophrenia." (105-55601-1)  
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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #87  
		DATE: September 19, 196[?] [probably 63] 
		 
		DIRECTOR, FBI  
		FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (62-0-8198] 
		 
		SUBJECT: FOUNDING CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, aka 

		SCIENTOLOGY 

		L. RON HUBBARD, Founder 

		Hubbard Association of Scientologists 

		International 

		INFORMATION CONCERNING  
		On September 13, 1963, [BLACKED OUT] advised that on September 11, 
		1963, [BLACKED OUT] Seattle, head of a religious mystical church was 
		shot to death before members of his group in the Seattle headquarters in 
		the Church of Scientology of Washington State. [BLACKED OUT] Seattle, 
		surrendered to the Seattle Police Department. He was charged with the 
		premeditated killing and his apparent motive was his belief that his 
		wife's estrangement from him resulted from the instructions given to 
		this group by [BLACKED OUT]  
		Literature and correspondence in possession of the deceased [BLACKED 
		OUT] indicated that this group was affiliated with the Founding Church 
		of Scientology, aka Scientology, L. RON HUBBARD, Founder, Hubbard 
		Association of Scientologists International, whose headquarters in the 
		United States are at 1017 North Third Street, Phoenix, Arizona and whose 
		international headquarters are at 163 Holland Park Avenue, London W. 
		Levin. Among the possessions of the deceased was the enclosed pamphlet 
		entitled "Brain-Washing, A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on 
		Phycopolitics [sic]", a copy of which is enclosed for the Bureau's 
		information. [BLACKED OUT] advised that it was apparent from the 
		prepared lectures of the deceased that this pamphlet was used in 
		instructing his group.  
		2 - Bureau (REG) 

		2 - Seattle (62-0-8198) 

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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #88
		
		[Look Magazine article, 5 Dec 
		1950, page 79; badly xeroxed] 
		DIANETICS SCIENCE OR HOAX?
		
		Half a million laymen have 
		swallowed this poor man's psychiatry. Now they're set to try it on 
		others. 
		By Albert Q. Maisel 
		[photograph of woman lying 
		prone, Hubbard seated next to her, audience; captioned: "L. Ron Hubbard, 
		originator of dianetics, demonstrates his new "science" with a woman 
		student."] 
		A year ago, L. Ron Hubbard was 
		an obscure writer of pseudoscientific pulp fiction. Today, he has:
		
		...Half a million devout 
		followers.

		...A foundation with a chain of bustling [?]ches stretching from 
		Elizabeth, N.J., to far off Honolulu.

		...The best-selling nonfiction since Dale Carnegie discovered the secret 
		of success.

		...A swarm of pop-eyed students, who stand in line for the privilege of 
		plunking down 500 bucks for [illegible words] month course which 
		converts them into "professional auditors," complete with couch and 
		capable of outpsyching any ordinary psychiatrist.

		...Even larger and faster-growing tribes who pay $200 each for the 
		15-lecture short course--or $25 an hour to have their "case opened" by 
		$500 professional auditors.

		...And a small army of associate members, at a mere 15 smackers each, 
		who gratefully keep up with the whirlwind developments of Hubbard's new 
		"science" of dianetics through the Dianetics Auditors Bulletin.
		Dianetics and the Discovery 
		of Fire 
		Hubbard, you might gather from 
		the foregoing, has discovered the key to success and demonstrated once 
		again that Barnum underestimated the sucker birth rate. 
		But that, by Hubbard's own 
		admission, is probably the least of his discoveries. 
		Unencumbered by the modesty 
		that hogties ordinary mortals, Hubbard starts his book --THE BOOK, his 
		followers call it -- with the calm assertion that "the creation of 
		dianetics is a milestone for Man comparably to his discovery of fire and 
		superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch." 
		A few lines beyond, one learns 
		that, with dianetics, "the intelligent layman can success[?]y_ and 
		invariably treat all psychosomatic [illegible word] and inorganic 
		aberrations." 
		Farther on, one discovers that 
		these psychosomatic ills, "uniformly cured by dianetic therapy," include 
		such varied maladies as eye trouble, bursitis, ulcers, some heart 
		difficulties, migraine headaches and the common cold. 
		But you ain't heard nothing 
		yet. For Hubbard's auditors (anyone with four dollars to buy The Book 
		and the stamina to read through it can "audit" without further license) 
		achieve these miracles by the simple process of re- 
		(Continued on page 81)
		[page 81] 
		DIANETICS continued 
		[photograph of Hubbard and a 
		three people looking at a document; captioned "Hubbard and secretary 
		meet fervent followers after Los Angeles lecture-demonstration. 
		Enthusiasm is high at five other centers."] 
		[large type under photo: 
		Dianetic auditors, trained one month, need no license] 
		leasing the "engrams" that have 
		been bedeviling their friends and customers. 
		This opens up marvelous 
		possibilities which Hubbard is not loath to point out. "A number of germ 
		diseases," he flatly states, "are predisposed and perpetuated by engrams. 
		Tuberculosis is one. Engrams predispose people to accidents. Engrams can 
		predispose and perpetuate bacterial infections." 
		Modesty Prevails 
		
		[illegible word] the present 
		time," Hubbard continues, "dianetics research is scheduled to include 
		cancer and diabetes. There are a number of reasons to suppose that these 
		may be engramic in cause, particularly malignant cancer." 
		At this point, an unsuspected 
		sense of caution overcomes the new Messiah, and he hastily points out 
		that "this is not to be taken as any kind of avowal of a cancer cure."
		
		But then, once more overwhelmed 
		by the awe-inspiring nature of his own discovery, author Hubbard swings 
		back onto his familiar track and asserts that "those diseases which were 
		catalogued above [illegible word] is, everything from eye trouble 
		through tuberculosis, accidents and bacterial infections) have been been 
		thoroughly tested and have uniformly yielded to dianetic therapy."
		
		Most Ills Succumb 
		
		Nor has Hubbard's new science 
		been content to deprive the doctors of seven tenths of their business. 
		Dianetics lays claim to the ability to remove "aberrations" of an 
		infinite variety. Neuroses, of course, can be cured, Hubbard asserts. 
		So, too, can sex deviations and "every type of inorganic mental 
		illness." 
		And that's just the beginning.
		
		To dianetics for individuals, 
		Hubbard and his buys associates are hastily adding political dianetics, 
		child dianetics, judiciary dianetics, medical dianetics and industrial 
		dianetics. "Education, medicine, politics and art and, indeed, all 
		branches of human thought, are clarified with dianetics," Hubbard 
		claims. 
		"And even so," he sighs, "that 
		is not enough." 
		It may not be enough for 
		Hubbard. But it has outraged scores of psychiatrists, biochemists, 
		psychologists, physicians and just-plain-ordinary scientists, who look 
		upon the astounding claims and the growing commercial success of this 
		strange new phenomenon with awe, fear and a deep disgust. 
		
		"Exaggerated Claims" 
		
		The American Psychological 
		Association, for example, has denounced Hubbard's claims as "not 
		supported by empirical evidence," and has called upon its members "in 
		the public interest" to avoid using Hubbard's techniques except when 
		making "scientific investigations to test the validity of his claims."
		
		Dr Will Menninger, past 
		president of the American Psychiatric Association and co-head of the 
		famous Menninger Clinic of Topeka, Kans., goes even farther in indicting 
		dianetics: "It can potentially do a great deal of harm. It is obvious 
		that the mathematician-writer has oversimplified the human personality, 
		both as to its structure and function...He has made in- 
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		DIANETICS continued 
		[Large type: Scientists say 
		dianetics can often do real harm] 
		ordinate and very 
		exaggerated claims in his results." 
		Dr. Frederick J. Hacker, a Los 
		Angeles psychiatrist, adds: "If it were not for sympathy for mental 
		suffering of disturbed people, the so-called science of dianetics could 
		be dismissed for what it is...a clever scheme to dip into the pockets of 
		the gullible with impunity. The dianetic auditor is but another name 
		for the witch doctor, exploiting a real need with phony methods." 
		
		Hubbard Recalls Birth 
		
		The man who touched off all 
		this frenzy was born on a blustery March morning in 1911 at Tilden, 
		Nebr. Like most newborn babies, L. Ron Hubbard did not seem at the time 
		to be paying much attention to the proceedings. But with the aid of his 
		new science, he has recently recalled all the details of his own birth 
		and sent them to his aunt, who, he says, agrees that they check most 
		accurately. 
		In his youth Hubbard 
		traipsed around the world with his father, a lieutenant commander in the 
		Navy, and ultimately wound up at the George Washington University 
		Engineering School. His biography in Who's Who in the East says that he 
		got his bachelor's degree in civil engineering there in 1934. His 
		publishers, Hermitage House, Inc., identify him as a mathematician and 
		theoretical philosopher. Hubbard himself finds this somewhat 
		embarrassing, because, as he is quick to tell interviewers, "I never 
		took my degree." 
		Exploring the Pulps 
		
		He also deprecates the 
		inaccuracy of his Who's Who biography, which lists him as "explorer 
		since 1934." Actually, as Hubbard now recalls the details, he led the 
		Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition, conducting a group of college 
		students from island to island. "It was a two-bit expedition and 
		financial bust," he says, "and I quit the ship at Puerto Rico in 1933."
		
		Hubbard really got going a few 
		years later, however, when he took to writing for the pulp magazines. 
		He moved into the science-fiction field under such six-shooter 
		pseudonyms as Winchester Remington Colt. A dynamic (though not yet 
		dianetic) writer, he says he used to bat out as many as 120,000 words 
		between Friday and Monday. 
		But after a time, despite such 
		success, he just couldn't put his heart to science fiction any more. For 
		he had begun to fathom the innermost regions of the mind, and life took 
		on a new meaning and purpose. 
		The war interrupted the 
		development of dianetics. As a Naval Reserve lieutenant, Hubbard served 
		on escort vessels until he was sent to the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital near 
		Oakland, Calif., where he stayed for the best part of a year, suffering, 
		he now recalls, from "ulcers, conjunctivitis, deteriorating eyesight, 
		bursitis and something wrong with my feet." 
		But his sufferings were not 
		entirely in vain. For the hospital had an excellent medical library, and 
		Hubbard, with dianetics boiling up within him, wanted to avail himself 
		of this facility. 
		"Doctor" in the Library
		
		The library, unfortunately, was 
		not for patients but rather for the use of staff medical officers. But 
		the young scientist got around that easily enough. "I just had a friend 
		in the Marines refer to me as Doctor, loudly, several times, within 
		earshot of the librarian. After that I had free run of the joint."
		
		By 1947, Hubbard, discharged 
		from the Navy and granted a VA disability pension, had pretty well 
		unraveled the mysteries of the engram and was venturing to "process" his 
		friends, who urged him not to withhold this great boon from suffering 
		humanity. There remained, however, the problem of choosing a suitable 
		scientific medium in which to announce and expound dianetics. 
		
		This problem was resolved in 
		May, 1950, when John W. Campbell, Jr., convinced Hubbard that Astounding 
		Science Fiction, which Campbell edits, was the ideal medium. A month 
		after that, the definitive issue of Dianetics, 452 pages for four bucks, 
		appeared between hard covers under the imprimatur of Hermitage House. It 
		carried an introduction by J. A. Winter, M.D., an appendix on the 
		Philosophic Method by Will Durant (reprinted from The Story of 
		Philosophy, 1926) and two other appendixes by Campbell and Donald H. 
		Rogers. 
		Birth of a Best Seller
		
		Since then, history has been in 
		the making. Although virtually unadvertised, the volume has been 
		disappearing from bookstore shelves at an astounding rate. Virtually 
		boycotted by book reviewers for many months, and later panned by them, 
		it nonetheless climbed onto the best-seller lists and has remained at 
		the top. 
		The Hubbard Dianetic 
		Research Foundation shortly was set up as a nonprofit New Jersey 
		corporation, with Hubbard as president, Arthur R. Ceppos (of Hermitage 
		House) as executive vice president, John W. Campbell, Jr. (of Astounding 
		Science Fiction), as treasurer and Mrs. 
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		DIANETICS continued 
		[photograph of Hubbard 
		standing, dictating to a woman; captioned "Dictating to his secretary, 
		Hubbard deals with some of the mounds of correspondence from devotees 
		who have read his best seller."] 
		Hubbard as librarian. Hubbard 
		went on the payroll at a picayune $500 a month, and the rapidly 
		accumulating book royalties, student fees and associate-membership 
		revenues have all been channeled into the Foundation, for the support of 
		dianetic research and the greater glory of dianetics. 
		[Look Magazine article, 5 Dec 
		1950, page 79; badly xeroxed]

		[continued from #88A] 
		Human Mind Divided 
		
		In The Book, Hubbard defines 
		and discusses two main parts of the human mind. The "analytical mind" is 
		what you think with; it perceives, remembers and reasons. Hubbard also 
		calls it the "computational mind" a[?] affectionately --the "egsush[?]ef." 
		By any name, however, it's a nice old plodder, doing its best to be 
		good. But behind it is the "reactive mind," and that is the seat of all 
		evil - -a sort of glorified tape recorder that files and retains pain 
		and painful emotions as "engrams." 
		And these engrams, still 
		according to the master, are impressions on cellular protoplasm itself, 
		complete recordings down to the last accurate detail of every perception 
		present in a moment of unconsciousness. 
		Engrams Will Get You 
		
		It's your engrams that will get 
		you if you don't watch out. [illegible word] cause aberrations, 
		psychogic diseases, neuroses and psychoses. Unless they are "released" 
		-- by dianetic therapy, of course--you're a gone goose. 
		Worst of all, you just can't 
		help gathering up engrams. You didn't even have to wait to be born for 
		the evil work to begin. It started at the very instant of conception, 
		when you were just a little freshly fertilized egg nestling cozily in 
		your mother's womb. 
		Here is Hubbard's own jazzed-up 
		description of what happened to you then: 
		"Mama sneezes, baby gets 
		knocked unconscious.' Mama runs lightly and blithely into a table and 
		baby gets its head stoved in...Mama get hysterical, baby gets an engram. 
		Papa hits Mama, baby gets an engram.. Junior bounces on Mama's lap, baby 
		gets an engram. And so it goes." 
		What happens to your engrams? 
		They wait like potent little demons until they are "keyed in" by some 
		later event. And then they bring on every sort of mental, moral and 
		physical ailment. 
		Along the "Time Track"
		
		But these aberrations can be 
		cured, says Hubbard, by tracking down the engrams and releasing them. 
		The process is simplicity itself. You lie on a couch. Your auditor will 
		help you fall into a state of "reverie," usually by counting slowly. 
		Then he will take you back along your "time track," a sort of mental 
		clothesline on which hangs all your dirty wash of engrams. 
		One by one, as you go back 
		through the years in reverie, you relive the painful experiences 
		engraved, as engrams, upon your unconscious reactive mind. You may 
		recall the shock of operations, the phrases the doctor used when he had 
		you under anesthesia, even the things that were said when, as an 
		innocent baby, your father and mother argued above your cradle. As you 
		recall these things, reading them off your cellular tape, you engrams 
		release their charge and lose their power of evil. 
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		DIANETICS continued 
		[large type: Dianetics centers 
		draw many serious, sincere people] 
		Most important of all is the 
		engram that Hubbard calls "basic-basic" -- the one impinged upon your 
		protoplasmic cells almost as soon as you were conceived. All too 
		often, according to Hubbard, these prenatal engrams stem particularly 
		from abortion attempts on the part of the mother. 
		Abortion Attacked 
		
		Unlike many religious groups, 
		the proponents of dianetics have nothing against birth control. But the 
		greatest of all crimes and the root of most evils, as they see it, is 
		the attempt -- or even just the verbal wish -- to cause the abortion of 
		a child already conceived. They object here, not so much on moral 
		grounds, as because such attempts -- or such wishes and thoughts -- load 
		down the time track with the basic-basic demon engram. 
		But all is not lost. Dianetics 
		can transform you into a "clear" -- a person whose every engram has been 
		resolved. Then, and then only, according to Hubbard, will you be free of 
		your ills and experience a tremendous surge of new energy, creative 
		dynamism and well being. 
		Tens of thousands of people 
		have been swallowing this doctrine with almost religious fervor. 
		
		Cultists Have a Try 
		
		Some are the usual 
		lunatic-fringe types -- frustrated maiden ladies who have already worked 
		their way through all the available cults, young men whose homosexual 
		engrams are all too obvious. But most are serious people, deeply 
		believing and sincerely wanting to believe. 
		A defender of dianetics is 
		Frederick L. Schuman, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government at Williams 
		College. He is but one of those men of high achievement in their chosen 
		professions, so convinced of the importance of dianetics that they 
		willingly write long letters protesting antagonistic comments, and 
		enthusiastic articles singing the praises of the new "science." 
		
		National headquarters of the 
		Dianetic Research Foundation is an unprepossessing, back-street office 
		building in Elizabeth, N.J. There are five other centers of dianetic 
		teaching and instruction, in Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles 
		and Honolulu. 
		Of all the dianetic centers, 
		Los Angeles is the most exuberantly expansive and enthusiastic. There 
		the Hubbard Foundation moved into a suite of modest offices late last 
		July. In August, it took over a two-story building housing a lecture 
		theater and 20 "processing" rooms. A few weeks later, it had to expand 
		again -- this time into a 110-room building, where swarms of student 
		auditors raptly attend Hubbard's lectures and practice processing one 
		another. 
		Still more recently, there have 
		been instituted a series of weekend sessions at the swank Country Club 
		Hotel in Hollywood. Here, taking over 20 or 30 rooms, a band of student 
		auditors and pre-clears meet under the guidance of professional auditors 
		for "intensive auditing with chemical assist." 
		Hubbard and his associates 
		insist that this use of drugs has nothing to do with narcosynthesis. 
		They claim that "chemical assistants," purchasable in California at any 
		drugstore, aid in helping resistant pre-clears to achieve dianetic 
		reverie and to dredge up their basic-basic engrams. 
		Medical Men Protest 
		
		This treatment by laymen of 
		deep-seated psychological and psychiatric problems is one of the chief 
		causes of the violent criticism from medical men -- and particularly 
		psychologists and psychiatrists. 
		Under the laws of almost every 
		state, the practice of the healing arts is restricted to medical 
		physicians, osteopaths and similarly trained professionals who have 
		passed stringent, state-administered licensing examinations. 
		But the proponents of dianetics 
		are not worried about these restrictions, despite the fact that most of 
		the professional auditors, trained in one-month courses, could never 
		qualify for the practice of medicine or any of the related healing arts.
		
		"Pre-clears," Hubbard 
		explains, "get dianetic processing ... neither therapy nor medicine."
		Then he adds, with a disarming grin, "It just happens that what we 
		release is the cause of their psychosomatic illnesses." 
		Temporary Aid Likely 
		
		Leading psychiatrists, however, 
		are not so sanguine about either the effectiveness or the innocuousness 
		of Hubbard's poor man's psychiatry. Dr. Jack A. Dunagin, of the 
		Menninger Foundation, for example, concedes that some sufferers from 
		mental malaise may find temporary relief under dianetic hocus-pocus, 
		just as they sometimes do under hypnotism, Coueism or voodoo. 
		
		"But," he declares, "the 
		greatest harm to a person would come, not because of the vicious nature 
		of dianetic therapy, but because ... it will lead them away from 
		treatment which they may badly need." 
		Other psychiatrists point out 
		that Hubbard has borrowed from (and in the process, distorted) most of 
		the psychiatric 
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		DIANETICS continued 
		[photo of Hubbard, back to 
		camera, in front of an audience; captioned: "Unencumbered by false 
		modesty, Hubbard assures followers his new science can cure colds, 
		ulcers and other ills he calls psychosomatic."] 
		researches of the last fifty 
		years. They object to the extreme claims of dianetics, to Hubbard's 
		constant repetition of his assertion that dianetics "always," 
		"invariably," "uniformly," and "without exception" cures the most 
		amazing list of mental and psychosomatic ills. 
		M.D.s Reject "Science"
		
		They are outraged and indignant 
		at Hubbard's insistence that he has developed a "science." They charge 
		that his "evidence" is merely the endlessly repeated assertion that 
		cures have been achieved in "270 cases" -- unsupported by documentation 
		that these individuals were ever really sick in the first place or ever 
		achieved cure under dianetic processing. 
		Although these faults appear 
		overwhelming to men who have spent their lives in the scientific 
		disciplines, they carry little weight with Hubbard's growing legions. 
		For dianetics apparently brings them something that conventional 
		psychiatry has failed to offer them. 
		Condemn it as obscure, verbose, 
		unscientific; the fact remains that some individuals find in dianetics a 
		way to bring onto a conscious level some of the troubles and fears and 
		idiosyncracies most of us hold deeply buried within ourselves. Some 
		persons, whether they are cured of anything at all or not, find 
		satisfaction and a feeling of better adjustment to the world through 
		this confessional process. 
		Also, though dianetics is 
		certainly far from the conventional psychiatry, it has great commercial 
		advantages over the real thing. 
		In place of the psychiatrist, 
		with his many years of training and his medical degree, Hubbard offers a 
		professional auditor, supercharged for processing by a month of 
		high-pressure training -- or even an amateur who points you toward the 
		couch with one hand while he finishes The Book in the other. 
		In place of scores, and 
		sometimes hundreds, of sessions on the psychiatric couch, Hubbard offers 
		a few intensive hours -- but still the comfort of a couch. 
		In place of a whole host of 
		complex Freudian causes for neuroses -- Oedipus complexes, father images 
		and what not -- Hubbard offers a neat package of engrams. When he gets 
		down to explaining them in detail, they turn out to smack rather 
		strangely of Freud. But dressed up in English words (instead of Greek or 
		Latin), they seem easier to understand. 
		Dianetics Reaches All 
		
		Hubbard's greatest attraction 
		to the troubled is that his ersatz psychiatry is available to all. It's 
		cheap. It's accessible. It's a public festival to be played at clubs and 
		parties. 
		In a country with only 6,000 
		professional psychiatrists, whose usual consultation fees start at $15 
		an hour, Hubbard has introduced mass-production methods. Whether such 
		methods can actually help you if you're sick is a moot point. 
		
		But moot or not, half a million 
		people are having a lot of morbid fun, getting a lot of excitement and 
		going through a whirl of mental gymnastics while red-headed Ron 
		builds his chainstore Foundation. 
		To Father Divine's "Peach, it's 
		wonderful," the dianetician might add, "Become a clear' -- it's 
		basic-basic, wonderful-wonderful.'" 
		
		
		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #89  
		The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc.

		275 Morris Avenue

		P.O. Box 502, Elizabeth, N.J.

		Elizabeth 3-2[?]51  
		Office of the President  
		March 3, 1951  
		FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

		WASHINGTON, D.C.

		Attn: Mr. Parrish.  
		Gentlemen:  
		The following is a list of Communist Party members of suspects in our 
		organization.  
		LEO WEST: In charge Chicago office. Known.

		DAVE VROOMAN: Employee our Chicago office. Suspect.

		ROSS LAMEREAUX: " " " " ".

 
		SARA NORTHRUP (HUBBARD), formerly of 1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue, 
		Pasadena, Calif. 25 yrs. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. Currently missing 
		somewhere in California. Suspected only. Had been friendly with many 
		Communists. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion. 
		Drug addiction set in fall 1950. Nothing of this known to me until a few 
		weeks ago. Separation papers being filed and divorce applied for.  
		MILES HOLLISTER: Somewhere in vicinity of Los Angeles Evidently a 
		prime mover but very young. About 22 y 6'. 180 lbs. Black hair. Sharp 
		chin, broad forehead, rather Slavic. Confessedly a member of the Young 
		Communists. Center of most turbulenc[?] in our organization. Dissmissed 
		[sic] in February when affiliations discovered. Active and dangerous. 
		Commonly armed. Outspokenly disloyal to the U.S..  
		GENE BENTON: Somewhere in Los Angeles. Permitted to resign when 
		discovered to be a member of the Young Communists. Center of much 
		turbulence in organization. Was living at Deane Apts. on North 
		Carondelet. May still be there. Squat, beefy, about 5'8", about 30. 
		Possibly a member of the Lincoln Brigade but not very probable. Right 
		name, Weinberger.  
		PEGGY BENTON: Member Young Communists by statement. 28 yrs. old, wife 
		of Gene Benton.  
		LYN HITE: Friend of Bentons and Hollister. Suspected 840 N. Western, 
		Los Angeles, Hempstead 1316. Very intimate with none but Communists or 
		suspects.  
		HENRY HUNTER: Mathematician from Berkeley. One arm. Left arm severed 
		at shoulder. Supposed to have ha[?] trouble with government before. 
		About 28 yrs. Blond hair. Blue-grey eyes. Suspected only.  
		MARGE HUNTER: Wife of Henry. States she is a 
		 
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		SUSAN ISAACSOON: New York office of Foundation. Suspect. Cont. 
		M.Hunter) Trotskite. [sic] Living with Hunter somewhere in Los Angeles. 
		Still to be found around LA Dianetic Foundation even though ejected. 
		 
		ROGER STARR: About 20 yrs. Small, good looking boy. Intimate of Miles 
		Hollister, probably a dupe. Suspected only. HAL MOON: The orders of this 
		man are implicitly obeyed by these other Los Angeles people. Was once 
		employed by the Foundation. About 6'1", black hair, tall and pompous. 
		Advertisdely [sic] a practicing minister of the gospel at Monte Bello, 
		California. Intimate with these others. Cause of much trouble in 
		Foundation. Shows considerable leadership. No other data.  
		RICHARD HALPERN: New York office of Foundation, 55 East 82nd St. A 
		trustee of the NY Corp.. Only very faintly suspected due to small 
		objections to our having loyalty oaths.  
		[HANS crossed out, Haljmar handwritten] RUTZEBAK: Sunland, 
		California. Intimate of the Bentons. Highly liberal but not otherwise 
		known to have any Communist connections. Once employed by the government 
		for forming cooperatives.  
		All but Starr, Moon and Rutzebak have been reported to field offices.
		
		
		At the last session of the board of Trustees, Mar. 2, 1951, a motion 
		was made and passed that everyone employed by the Hubbard Dianetic 
		Research Foundations everywhere should be requested to sign a strong 
		oath of loyalty to the U.S. government, a denial of Communism and that 
		their fingerprints be taken and forwarded to the F.B.I. The operation of 
		preparing and signing the oaths and fingerprinting all employees is now 
		being undertaken and the results will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau 
		of Investigation in Washington as soon as these are completed. It may 
		take some weeks to complete this task but the documents, as completed, 
		will be sent in.  
		The Foundation has assumed a highly punitive stand on Communism. I 
		shall shortly be in Washington to go over this matter with the 
		government.  
		[signed] L. Ron Hubbard

		L. Ron Hubbard  
		
		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #90  
		Mar. 3, 1951  
		FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

		CHICAGO, ILL.

		Attn: R.J.Wilson.  
		Gentlemen;  
		Supplementing data already furnished to you, the following two names 
		are enclosed as part of the list.  
		DAVE VROOMAN. Came into organization with Miles Hollister. Highly 
		recommended by Hollister, who is apparently a member of the Young 
		Communists. Vrooman has caused some trouble in the organization. The 
		only reason to suspect Vrooman is that he is an intimate friend of 
		Hollister's and takes Hollister's orders. Vrooman is employed by the 
		Chicago Foundation Office. He is about twenty-three, plump, about 5'5" 
		or more, black hair. Seldom wears a coat.  
		ROSS LAMEREAUX. Employee at Chicago. A doctor of philosophy, 
		according to his statement. Takes orders from Hollister and is highly 
		recommended by Hollister. Nothing else is known about this man.  
		If anything is going to be done about these people at Chicago, it had 
		better be done soon. At the board of trustees meeting last Saturday, I 
		requested a motion to the effect that eveyone in the Foundation be 
		required to take a strong loyalty oath to the U.S. and that the 
		fingerprints of everyone employed be taken and, with a copy of the oath, 
		be sent to the F.B.I.. Some objection was made by Richard Halpern, a 
		trustee from New York City, and a great deal of objection was made by 
		Leo West of Chicago. It is my belief that we are going to see a blow-up 
		in the Chicago office and an attempt to withdraw from the Foundation. 
		Evidently employment of C.P. members could have been an action of West. 
		The oath and fingerprint motion was passed and will be a completed 
		project shortly.  
		L. Ron Hubbard  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #91  
		The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc.

		275 MORRIS AVENUE

		P.O.BOX ELIZABETH, N.J.

		ELIZABETH 3-2951  
		March 5, 1951  
		Mr. Parrish

		Federal Bureau of Investigation

		Washington, D.C.  
		Dear Mr. Parrish:  
		Attached are the forms which the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation 
		is requesting its employees to sign. We are also requesting that they 
		file their fingerprints with us and with the Federal Bureau of 
		Investigation via these forms.  
		I am enclosing a copy of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation's 
		Validation Pamphlet and associated material for your perusal.  
		May I point out that at any time, the Foundation stands ready to 
		serve the interest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with whatever 
		technique or knowledge it has that can be of use to the government. 
		 
		Sincerely,  
		[signed] James M. Elliott

		James M. Elliott

		National Administrator  
		JME/gb  
		enc.  
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		- CHICAGO, ILL. - LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - HONOLULU, T.H.]  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #92  
		STANDARD FORM NO. [?]4

		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT  
		TO : M.H. Holm[?]  
		DATE: March 7, 1951  
		FROM : F.J. Baumgardner  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. INFORMATION 
		CONCERNING  
		_PURPOSE:_  
		To advise you concerning an interview with L. Ron Hubbard, President 
		of the above-captioned foundation.  
		DETAILS:  
		L. Ron Hubbard, President, and James M. Elliott, Administrator of the 
		Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., were referred to the 
		Internal Security Section by Mr. Nichols' office for interview on March 
		1, 1951.  
		Hubbard advised that he had written a book, [illegible word] "Dianetics, 
		The Modern Science of Mental Health," which was published by the 
		Hermitage House Publishing Company, June, 1950. He has also established 
		the above-mentioned foundation with headquarters in Elizabeth, New 
		Jersey, and branch offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los 
		Angeles, and Honolulu.  
		Hubbard advised that he felt Communists within his organization were 
		undermining its structure. He advised that he had turned over the names 
		of several suspected Communists to the FBI office in Los Angeles. 
		Hubbard could only recall the name of one of these individuals. He 
		stated Miles Hollister was one of the individuals he suspected of being 
		Communistically inclined. Concerning Hollister, Hubbard stated that he 
		was instrumental in driving Hubbard's wife, Sara Elizabeth Northrup, to 
		the point of insanity. Hubbard expressed considerable concern in 
		connection with Hollister's influence on his wife. He stated that his 
		wife, as well as his Army .45 Automatic, had been missing for several 
		days. He also stated that he expected to have difficulty with his wife 
		in connection with their ten-month old child, Alexis Valerie, who he was 
		having brought to the State of New Jersey. [BLACKED OUT]  
		Attachment

		JWP:dew:vab  
		[BLACKED OUT PARAGRAPH]  
		In further connection with Hubbard's suspicions of Communist 
		activities within his organization, he advised that Arthur J. Ceppos is 
		now organizing the Caduceus Foundation, which Hubbard alleges will be 
		utilized to take over his, Hubbard's, organization sometime in the 
		future. Hubbard advised that he suspicioned Ceppos, former President of 
		Hermitage House, the publishing firm which published Hubbard's book, of 
		being connected with Communists [BLACKED OUT REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH] 
		 
		Hubbard stated that he strongly feels that Dianetics can be used to 
		combat Communism. However, he declined to elaborate how this might be 
		done. He stated that the Soviets apparently realized the value of 
		Dianetics because as early as 1938 an official of Amtorg, while at the 
		Explorer's Club in New York contacted him to suggest that he go to 
		Russia and develop Dianetics there.  
		In an apparent attempt to give credence to his statements, Hubbard 
		advised that he was recently psychoanalyzed in Chicago and was found to 
		be quite normal with the exception of his recent marital difficulties. 
		Hubbard made available the two attached pamphlets concerning "Dianetics 
		and Psychoanalysis" and "Dianetics: A Brief Discussion" for the Bureau's 
		information.  
		ACTION:  
		None. The above is for your information. 
		 
		- 2 -  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #93  
		STANDARD FORM NO. [?]4

		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT  
		TO : DIRECTOR, WFO  
		DATE: March 7, 1951  
		FROM : SAC, WFO  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC

		RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED

		INTERNAL SECURITY - R  
		[ENTIRE FIRST PAGE BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		cc: Newark  
		CFW:vac

		121-14345  
		[next page]  
		WFO 121-14345  
		Corporation Records, District of Columbia, revealed that Hubbard 
		Dianetic Research Foundation, Incorporated, is a New Jersey Corporation 
		started in April, 1950, and maintains offices at 666 East Bay Head, New 
		Jersey, and 2065 Hill Top Road, Westfield, New Jersey. Trustees of the 
		Corporation were shown as follows:  
		L. RON HUBBARD, Explorers, 10 West 72nd Street, New York, New York.
		
		
		ARTHUR R. CEPPOS, 177 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. 
		 
		JOHN W. CAMPBELL, Jr., 2065 Hill Top Road, Westfield, New Jersey. 
		 
		DONALD H. ROGERS, 41 Fourth Street, Fanwood, New Jersey. 
		 
		JOSEPH A. WINTER, M.D., 11 Beacon Boulevard, Sea Girt, New Jersey.
		
		
		SARA N. HUBBARD, Post Office Box 666, Bay Head, New Jersey. 
		 
		C. PARKER MORGAN, 1143 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey. 
		 
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		Credit Bureau reports reflect that the Hubbard Foundation has main 
		offices at 275 Morris Avenue, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and a local office 
		at 2025 Eye [s/b I Street] Street, Northwest. [REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH 
		BLACKED OUT]  
		No record of [BLACKED OUT] or [BLACKED OUT] was located in the files 
		of the Washington Field Office.  
		With regard to the officers of the Hubbard Foundation, the files of 
		Washington Field Office reflect that [BLACKED OUT]  
		-2-  
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		wfo 121-14345  
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT--handwritten notation to side: All these 
		persons were [?]ot at mee[?]]  
		By letter dated August 30, 1905, entitled "Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Incorporated, Internal Security - R," the Washington Field 
		Office advised Newark that information had been received from [BLACKED 
		OUT] who had read a book entitled "Hermitage House" by L. RON HUBBARD 
		and had decided to enroll in the Hubbard School. After spending two 
		weeks in the school, he decided the organization could have subversive 
		motives behind it and could be the means of transmitting espionage 
		materials over the United States. He offered no plausible explanation 
		for the above statement.  
		The letter of January 25, 1951, advised that no action was being 
		taken in the matter in the absence of Bureau instructions.  
		The above information is being submitted for the information of the 
		Bureau and Newark. Should the Newark Office be in possession of 
		information which they believe pertinent to this matter, it should be 
		furnished to the Bureau and Washington Field Office.  
		-3-  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #94  
		March 9, 1951  
		Mr. James M. Elliott, National Administrator

		The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc.

		275 Morris Ave.

		Post Office Box 502

		Elizabeth, New Jersey  
		Dear Mr. Elliott:  
		Reference is made to your letter dated March 5, 1951, by which you 
		furnished further data concerning the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Inc. and advised of your proposal to file the fingerprints 
		of employees of your organization with this Bureau. I wish to thank you 
		for the material which you furnished.  
		With respect to the fingerprints of your employees, which you propose 
		to file with this Bureau, I wish to advise you that the FBI has no 
		authority to handle fingerprints with the exception of those received 
		from bona fide law enforcement departments and federal and state 
		agencies.  
		Sincerely yours,  
		John Edgar Hoover

		Director  
		JWP:vab  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #95  
		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
		 
		TO : Mr. Belmont  
		DATE: March 9, 1951  
		FROM : Mr. Baumgardner  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. INFORMATION 
		CONCERNING  
		PURPOSE  
		To advise you concerning further information which has been furnished 
		by L. Ron Hubbard, President of the captioned organization and James M. 
		Elliott, National Administrator.  
		DETAILS  
		Reference is made to my memorandum of March 7, 1951, which set out 
		the results of an interview which took place on March 7, 1951, with L. 
		Ron Hubbard.  
		By letter dated March 3, 1951, which is attached, Hubbard, President 
		of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., furnished a list of 
		Communist Party suspects in his organization. He advised that all but 
		three of these individuals, Roger Starr, Hal Moon, and Hjalmar Rutzbak, 
		have previously been reported to the FBI field offices. Attached to this 
		communication is a carbon copy of a letter dated March 3, 1951, to the 
		Chicago Field Division, which reported Dave Vrooman and [?]oss Lamereaux 
		to the Chicago Division. In his letter to this Bureau, Hubbard states 
		that all his employees are going to be requested to sign a strong oath 
		of loyalty and have their fingerprints taken and forwarded to this 
		Bureau.  
		By letter dated March 5, 1951, James M. Elliott, National 
		Administrator of this foundation, made available additional information 
		concerning the foundation and advised that fingerprints of employees 
		would be filed with the FBI.  
		Enclosure

		JWP:vab  
		[next page]  
		ACTION:  
		The letters of Hubbard and Elliott are being acknowledged separately. 
		The Los Angeles Field Division will be furnished information concerning 
		the three individuals, Starr, Moon, and Rutzebak, who are the 
		individuals Hubbard advises have not as yet been reported to his Bureau 
		as Communist suspects  
		- 2 -  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #96  
		March 9, 1951  
		Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, President

		The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc.

		275 Morris Avenue

		Post Office Box 502

		Elizabeth, New Jersey  
		Dear Mr. Hubbard:  
		Reference is made to your letter dated March 3, 1951, by which you 
		furnished further information concerning the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Inc.  
		You advise that arrangements are being made to fingerprint your 
		employees and file these fingerprints with this Bureau. I wish to advise 
		you that the FBI has no authority to handle fingerprints with the 
		exception of those received from bona fide law enforcement departments 
		and federal and state agencies.  
		I wish to thank you for the information you have made available to 
		this Bureau.  
		Sincerely yours,  
		John Edgar Hoover

		Director  
		JWP:vab  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #97  
		[LETTERHEAD INFORMATION BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		March 14, 1951  
		Federal Bureau of Investigation

		Washington, D.C.  
		Gentlemen:  
		The Board has a case against the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Incorporated, coming on for trial in the Union County 
		District Court in Elizabeth on March 27th, for conducting a school 
		teaching a branch of medicine and surgery without a license.  
		Will you kindly let us know whether you have any information on file 
		about the Foundation or any of the following persons listed as trustees 
		in the articles of incorporation:  
		L. Ron Hubbard Explorers Club
               10 West 72nd Street
               New York, N.Y.

John W. Campbell, Jr.  2065 Hilltop Road
                       Westfield, N.J.

Arthur R. Ceppos 177 Madison Avenue
                 New York, N.Y.

Donald H. Rogers 41 - 4th Street
                 Fanwood, N.J.

Joseph A. Winter, M.D. Cranford, N.J.

Sara N. Hubbard P.O. Box #666
                Bay Head, New Jersey

C. Parker Morgan 1143 East Jersey Street
                 Elizabeth 4, New Jersey

		Very truly yours  
		[SIGNATURE BLACKED OUT]

		Secretary  
		ESH:W  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #98  
		March 15, 1951  
		SAC, Los Angeles  
		Director, FBI  
		THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.

		INFORMATION CONCERNING  
		By letter dated March 9, 1951, L. Ron Hubbard, president of the 
		above-named foundation, furnished a list of individuals, the majority of 
		whom had been connected with his organization, whom he suspected of 
		engaging in Communist activities. Hubbard furnished the names of the 
		following three individuals as individuals who had not previously been 
		reported to Bureau field offices.  
		Hjalmar Rutzebak, of Sunland, California, mentioned by Hubbard, 
		[REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		[BLACKED OUT] concerning Roger Starr, who Hubbard stated was 
		approximately 20 years of age and was an intimate of Miles Hollister who 
		resided in Los Angeles. Hubbard advised that he had previously reported 
		his suspicions concerning Hollister to your office.  
		[BLACKED OUT] concerning Hal Moon. Hubbard advised that this 
		individual had been employed by his foundation in Los Angeles and had 
		advertised himself as a practicing minister of the gospel at Monte 
		Bello, California.  
		The names of these persons should be checked through your office 
		indices and in the event information is disclosed indicating that they 
		have been engaged in Communist Party activities, inquiry should be made 
		to ascertain their present activities.  
		JWP:vab  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #99  
		March 21, 1951  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		AIR MAIL

		SPECIAL DELIVERY  
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter dated March 14, 1951, has been received. 
		 
		In the very near future a representative of our Newark Office will 
		contact you concerning the matters mentioned in your communication. 
		 
		Sincerely yours,  
		John Edgar Hoover

		Director  
		CC: Newark, with a copy of incoming. AMSD , by cover memo ATTENTION 
		SAC: It is requested that you advise [BLACKED OUT] of the confidential 
		nature of the Bureau's files and the fact that a policy established for 
		the Bureau precludes furnishing information. [REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH 
		BLACKED OUT]  
		For your own information, no identifiable information was located in 
		Bufiles concerning the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc. and no 
		derogatory information was identifiable with the other individuals 
		mentioned in [BLACKED OUT] communication. It view of the date set for 
		the trial, it is suggested that this matter receive immediate attention.
		
		
		ROK:mcq (See note on next page) 
		 
		[page 2]  
		NOTE: [PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		No identifiable information was located in Bufiles concerning Hubbard 
		Dianetics Research Foundation, Inc.  
		One L. Ron Hubbard, in 1940, furnished information of a security 
		nature to our New York Office. No other identifiable information located 
		in Bufiles concerning the other individuals mentioned.  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #100  
		STANDARD FORM NO. 64

		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT  
		TO : DIRECTOR, FBI  
		DATE: March 21, 1951  
		FROM : SAC, NEWARK  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED INTERNAL 
		SECURITY - R  
		Reference is made to Washington Field letter to the Bureau under 
		above caption dated March 7, 1951.  
		A review of the files of this office reflect the following 
		information concerning captioned organization.  
		On November 3, 1950 this office received a letter from C. PARKER 
		MORGAN, Secretary and General Counsel of the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Incorporated, 275 Morris Avenue, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
		requesting an interview with a Special Agent for the purpose of giving 
		some information on Communist activities designed to obtain the national 
		mailing list of the foundation. [BLACKED OUT] MORGAN was subsequently 
		interviewed and furnished the following information:  
		The Foundation was set up about May, 1950, to further the work of L. 
		RON HUBBARD, author, whose book entitled "Dianetics" had been published 
		about two years previously and had been very well received by the 
		public. Many branch offices of the Foundation had also been established 
		to assist the many clubs and study groups which had been formed to reach 
		a better understanding of "Dianetics".  
		According to MORGAN "Dianetics" is a new approach to the treatment of 
		many physical and mental illnesses without the use of drugs or medicine.
		
		
		As Secretary and General Counsel of the Foundation, MORGAN had in his 
		possession, a mailing list containing about sixteen thousand names of 
		persons who are interested in "Dianetics" and who have previously 
		subscribed to material from the Foundation. In his opinion, this list 
		would be quite valuable to anyone interested in circularizing Communist 
		Party literature.  
		One ARTHUR R. CEPPOS, President, Hermitage House Publishing Company, 
		New York City, New York and formerly Executive Vice President of the 
		Foundation, had tried to obtain this mailing list from the Foundation. 
		MORGAN stated he had received information that CEPPOS was in sympathy 
		with the Communist Party; however, he was unable to elaborate on this. 
		CEPPOS allegedly resigned from the Foundation because of a dispute over 
		policy.  
		cc: Washington Field

		Enc. (1) Bureau

		TEK:TL

		NK 105-636  
		[page 2]  
		Letter to the Director -- March 21, 1951 
		 
		NK 105-636  
		MORGAN also stated that [BLACKED OUT] which organization is in no way 
		associated with the Foundation, is alleged to be a Communist 
		sympathizer, but MORGAN could not elaborate on this.  
		[BLACKED OUT] allegedly tried to organize a [BLACKED OUT] for the 
		purpose of having himself elected as the National President and thereby 
		gain information concerning the organizations already set up, throughout 
		the United States and its possessions. According to MORGAN, many clubs 
		have been formed, and he believes they would be a futile source for 
		Communist infiltration on a national scale, inasmuch as they have 
		already been set up on an organizational plan.  
		MORGAN stated that the Foundation is anti-Communist in its work and 
		had been criticized in Communist Party publications.  
		The above information was furnished to the New York Office. 
		 
		MORGAN also advised that DONALD H. ROGERS, Director of Research and 
		Assistant Treasurer of the Foundation, is also a former Special Agent of 
		this Bureau.  
		It is further noted that information from the Atlanta Office, 
		captioned REUBEN ARCHER TORREY, III, [BLACKED OUT] who is now associated 
		with the Foundation, has been furnished to the Bureau.  
		Enclosed is a copy of the "Look" magazine, published December 5, 
		1950, containing an article on page 79 entitled "Dianetics, Science or 
		Hoax." This article refers to the book written by L. RON HUBBARD and the 
		work of the Foundation, and it is believed this article may be of 
		interest to the Bureau.  
		RUC.  
		- 2 -  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #101  
		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
		 
		TO : DIRECTOR, FBI  
		DATE: April 11, 1951  
		FROM: SAC, Los Angeles  
		SUBJECT: THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH 

		FOUNDATION, INC. 

		INFORMATION CONCERNING  
		Re Bureau letter, dated March 15, 1951, requesting that names of 
		persons furnished by L. RON HUBBARD be checked through the office 
		indices for Communist Party activities.  
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		[PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT]  
		In view of the above, no further action is being taken in this 
		matter.  
		REFERRED UPON COMPLETION TO THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN 
		 
		RLM: bjh 

		100-34566  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #102  
		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
		 
		TO : DIRECTOR, FBI  
		DATE: April 20, 1951  
		FROM : SAC, CHICAGO  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETIC 

		RESEARCH FOUNDATION 

		INTERNAL SECURITY - C  
		On March 23, 1951, [BLACKED OUT] Chicago, and [BLACKED OUT] Chicago, 
		were interviewed as complainants concerning the possible use of 
		captioned organization and individuals connected with it, for 
		influencing patients to join the CP.  
		[BLACKED OUT] and [BLACKED OUT] advised that the captioned 
		organization has headquarters in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was founded 
		by LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD about two years ago. It has branches in Chicago 
		and Los Angeles. They explained that the foundation's function is to 
		treat by means of "psyco-therapy" [sic] and added that the treatment has 
		been extremely successful. The treatment is administered by "auditors," 
		trained by the Hubbard Foundation, who have audiences with the patients 
		over a period of time. These audiences continue for from two to six 
		hours. Complainants were of the opinion that the "auditors" become 
		influential with the patients especially when the treatment is 
		successful and opinioned that if the "auditors" are communists they 
		could conceivably influence the patients along communist lines.  
		The Chicago Foundation is directed by [BLACKED OUT] who came to 
		Chicago from St. Joseph, Michigan in August, 1950. On March 22, 1951, 
		the Chicago Foundation personnel had a meeting called for the purpose of 
		deciding on whether or not the personnel should sign loyalty oaths as 
		required by the National Office. In the presence of 12 people, [BLACKED 
		OUT] said that he is a Communist but is not active at present, that he 
		has not  
		2cc: Newark 

		2cc: Los Angeles 

		2cc: New York 

		cc: 100-22245 [BLACKED OUT]  
		100-0 

		CNF:cam  
		[page 2]  
		Letter to Director, FBI  
		attended CP meetings or paid dues since coming to Chicago. He stated 
		however that he believed in Communism despite his inactivity at the 
		present time and would therefore refuse to sign the loyalty oath.  
		[BLACKED OUT] according to the complainants, is a protege of [BLACKED 
		OUT] formerly with the Hubbard Foundation and now the head of a Dianetic 
		Clinic in New York City. [BLACKED OUT] is reportedly a close friend of 
		one [BLACKED OUT] (phonetic) who informants have heard was a 
		Communist Organizer in Washington, D.C.[BLACKED OUT] is believed to 
		be associated with [BLACKED OUT] in New York City at the present time.
		
		
		[BLACKED OUT] who is formerly from Los Angeles, advised that he had 
		heard that the Los Angeles Foundation is Communist dominated; this 
		information reportedly came from [BLACKED OUT] Complainants also advised 
		that they had hearsay information that [BLACKED OUT] and [BLACKED OUT] 
		formerly of the Hubbard Foundation, Los Angeles, were Communists.  
		Complainants advised that in their opinion the National Office of the 
		Foundation is attempting to weed out Communists.  
		LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD, Elizabeth, New Jersey, the founder of 
		captioned organization, appeared at the Chicago Office on February 26, 
		1951 and furnished information concerning alleged Communist influence 
		within the Chicago and Los Angeles branches. The information furnished 
		by HUBBARD concerning the Los Angeles Foundation was submitted to Los 
		Angeles by Chicago letter of March 9, 1951 in the case entitled [BLACKED 
		OUT]  
		For information.  
		- 2 -  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #103  
		[newspaper article]  
		[handwritten across the top: Hubbard Dianetic [illegible word] 
		 
		[handwritten next to article: Taken from Times Herald, Tuesday, April 
		24, 195[?]; probably 1951]  
		Wife Accuses Mental' Expert Of Torturing Her 
		 
		LOS ANGELES, April 24 (UP). The wife of L. Ron Hubbard, dianetics 
		founder, charged in a divorce suit yesterday that he subjected her to 
		"scientific torture experiments" and is suffering from a mental ailment.
		
		
		Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, charged in her divorce suit that 
		Hubbard subjected her to "systematic torture" through denial of sleep, 
		beatings, strangulations, and suggestions that she kill herself, "as a 
		divorce would hurt his reputation."  
		Hubbard Called Insane  
		As a consequence, she and her medical advisers concluded that 
		Hubbard, 40, is "hopelessly insane," her petition stated. 
		 
		"Competent medical advisers recommended that Hubbard be committed to 
		a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a 
		mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia," it said.  
		The complaint said the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, which 
		deals with the "modern science of mental health," did more than 
		$1,000,000 business in 1950.  
		Mrs. Hubbard said she married Hubbard Aug. 10, 1946, at Chestertown, 
		Md., on his representation he was unmarried. But she claimed it was not 
		until December, 1947, that he obtained a divorce at Port Orchard, Wash., 
		from Margaret Grubb Hubbard.  
		$500,000 Demanded  
		Should the court find she is not legally Hubbard's wife as a result, 
		Mrs. Hubbard demanded $500,000 damages "to compensate her for the golden 
		years of a woman's life.  
		Mrs. Hubbard asked a court to restrain Hubbard from harassing her and 
		to compel him to submit to psychiatric examination.  
		She also asked sole custody of their child, Alexis, 13 months, after 
		charging in a habeas-corpus action earlier this month that Hubbard 
		abducted the child Feb. 23.  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #104  
		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
		 
		TO : Director, FBI  
		DATE : May 15, 1951  
		FROM : SAC, Kansas City  
		SUBJECT: HUBBARD DIANETICS RESEARCH FOUNDATION; 

		L. RON HUBBARD - Founder 

		INFORMATION CONCERNING  
		There is enclosed herewith a copy of an article appearing in the 
		Wichita, Kansas Beacon, May 4, 1951, concerning the above captioned 
		subject, which might be of interest to the Bureau and auxiliary offices.
		
		
		HUBBARD, with his associates, recently established national 
		headquarters for the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation at 211 West 
		Douglas, Wichita, Kansas.  
		General gossip at Wichita has it that the Los Angeles branch of the 
		Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation went broke and the cost of 
		operation in New Jersey necessitated establishing headquarters of the 
		organization in the Central United States. A recent article appeared in 
		the Wichita newspaper, indicating that the Hubbard Dianetics Research 
		Foundation had filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of 
		State, Topeka, Kansas, naming DON PURCELL, a Wichita building contractor 
		and independent hotel operator, as president. [REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH 
		BLACKED OUT]  
		On May 4, 1951 an anonymous letter was received in the Wichita 
		resident agency of the Kansas City Office, addressed to the FBI, 
		Wichita, Kansas, stating as follows:  
		"Gentlemen:  
		Investigate No. 211 West Douglas, under the Hubbard Dianetics 
		Research Foundation', they are conducting a vicious sexual racket. There 
		are four women and a larger number of men. If they have moved go after 
		them. They are bad, I know, because I am one of the victims. I am 
		reporting them to the PO inspectors for they are using the mails." 
		 
		ERF:hs 

		62-0 

		Encl. 

		cc: Los Angeles (Encl.) 

		Newark (Encl.)  
		[page 2]  
		KC 62-0  
		This letter was unsigned; however, it bore the postmark of [BLACKED 
		OUT]  
		From the information available in this field division, it does not 
		appear that L. RON HUBBARD or the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation 
		are violating any Federal law over which the FBI has investigative 
		jurisdiction. However, it is felt that numerous inquiries will be 
		received both at the Seat of Government and the Kansas City Office. 
		Therefore, it is deemed desirable to record the above information. 
		Additional developments will be called to the attention of the Bureau.
		
		
		ERF:hs 

		62-0  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #105  
		[newspaper article, undated; probably Kansas Beacon, Wichita, Kansas, 
		May 4, 1951; badly xeroxed]  
		[illegible title word] FOR DIVORCE 
		 
		L. Ron Hubbard, founder of dianetics, a new mental science designed 
		to help the individual "control" his environment, has found that his own 
		marital and domestic affairs have gotten out of control.  
		Hubbard, who recently established his foundation's national 
		headquarters here at 211 West Douglas, has been sued for divorce by his 
		wife, Sara, and accused of conspiring to hide her baby from her.  
		Mrs. Hubbard recently filed a nine-page petition with a Los Angeles, 
		Calif., court, stating that she  
		[photograph: profile of Hubbard; captioned: L. RON HUBBARD] 
		 
		had not seen the child, Alexis Valorie, [sic] 13 months old, since 
		the child was taken from her nursery on February 23.  
		The 25-year-old Mrs. Hubbard stated in the petition that Frank B. 
		Dessler, 39, an executive of the Los Angeles branch of the Hubbard 
		Dianetics Foundation; Richard B. de Mille, identified as the 29-year-old 
		son of Film Director Cecil B. de Mille, and her husband had conspired to 
		kidnap the baby.  
		After taking the baby, the three men returned and ordered her into an 
		automobile, while she was clad only in a nightgown, according to Mrs. 
		Hubbard. She stated that De Mille drove the car and her husband subdued 
		her with a "hammerlock, causing strangulation and preventing an outcry." 
		The two men drove her to Yuma, Ariz., she said.  
		Mrs. Hubbard claimed in the petition that her husband told her she 
		would never see her baby again and that "if you really loved me, you 
		would kill yourself and thus save me further bother with you." 
		 
		Hubbard then went east by plane and Mrs. Hubbard drove the automobile 
		back to Los Angeles.  
		Hubbard, whose book, "Dianetics," was a best-seller last year and 
		created a nationwide following for the new science, told reporters here 
		recently that he intended to make Wichita his home and concentrate his 
		foundation's activities here.  
		In the divorce action, Mrs. Hubbard asked a substantial cash 
		settlement as payment for having given Hubbard "the golden years of a 
		woman's life."  
		Charles Leonard, director of public relations for the dianetics 
		foundation, said:  
		"This entire thing is a plot rigged up by the enemies of dianetics to 
		either destroy it or control it.  
		He said Friday morning that the charges of kidnapping had been thrown 
		out of court by a Los Angeles judge.  
		"Mr. Hubbard has no desire to make any statement in his own defense 
		until the divorce case enters the courts," Leonard said, "At that time 
		he will have a full and complete answer to every point set forth in the 
		petition," Leonard said.  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #106  
		AIRGRAM  
		[BLACKED OUT] DATED APRIL 17, 1951 AT HAVANA, CUBA. RECEIVED VIA 
		AIRGRAM.  
		LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS. SUBJECT PRESENTLY IN 
		CUBA AND HAS APPEALED TO MILITARY ATTACHE HERE FOR PROTECTION FROM 
		COMMUNISTS. SUBJECT CLAIMS HE OWNS HUBBARD PUBLICATIONS ELIZABETH, NEW 
		JERSEY AND IS AUTHOR OF BOOK QUOTE DIANATICS [sic] UNQUOTE. PLEASE 
		ADVISE BY AIRGRAM OF ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION RE SUBJECT.  
		RECEIVED 4-19-51 3:11 PM VAM 
		 
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #107  
		[airgram, badly xeroxed]  
		CC-150  
		FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

		UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE  
		To: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. 
		 
		April 27, 1951  
		Transmit the following message to: LEGAL ATTACHE 
		 
		HAVANA, CUBA  
		AIRGRAM  
		LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS. RE YOUR AIRGRAM 
		APRIL SEVENTEEN, LAST. BUREAU RECORDS REFLECT THAT HUBBARD, PRESIDENT OF 
		THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., AND AUTHOR OF QUOTE 
		DIANETICS, THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH UNQUOTE, PUBLISHED IN 
		JUNE, FIFTY, CAME TO THE BUREAU ON MARCH SEVEN, FIFTY ONE, TO ADVISE 
		THAT COMMUNISTS WITHIN HIS ORGANIZATION WERE UNDERMINING IT STRUCTURE. 
		DURING THE INTERVIEW HE LIKEWISE STATED THAT HE STRONGLY FELT THAT 
		DIANETICS CAN BE [?]LD TO COMBAT COMMUNISM. AGENT CONDUCTING INTERVIEW 
		CONSIDERED HUBBARD TO BE MENTAL CASE. BUREAU RECORDS LIKEWISE REFLECT 
		THAT DURING FEBRUARY OR MARCH, FIFTY ONE, SUBJECT'S WIFE FILED 
		KIDNAPPING COMPLAINT AGAINST SUBJECT WITH LOS ANGELES POLICE AS RESULT 
		[illegible word or two] HUBBARD WAS ARRESTED IN CHICAGO. FEDERAL 
		PROSECUTION DECLINED IN FAVOR OF STATE PROSECUTION, ON [?]SIS MATTER A 
		FAMILY AFFAIR, AND NO INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY BUREAU. ACCORDING TO 
		BUREAU RECORDS [illegible word] IS ALLEGEDLY NEW APPROACH TO TREATMENT 
		OF MANY PHYSICAL [illegible word] ILLNESSES WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS OR 
		MEDICINE. IN THIS [illegible word or two] IT IS NOTED THAT UNDER DATE OF 
		MARCH FOURTEEN, FIFTY ONE, [illegible word or two] OF LAW AND PUBLIC 
		SAFETY, BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ADVISED THAT IT 
		HAS A CASE AGAINST THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, IN., AND 
		THAT THE CASE WAS DUE FOR TRIAL IN  
		SENT VIA airgram 4-27-51 6:32 AM Per NL 
		 
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		CC-150 

		FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

		UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE  
		To: COMMUNICATIONS SECTION. 

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		Transmit the following message to:  
		AIRGRAM  
		UNION COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, MARCH TWENTY 
		SEVEN, FIFTY ONE, BECAUSE THE FOUNDATION CONDUCTED A SCHOOL TEACHING A 
		BRANCH OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY WITHOUT POSSESSING A LICENSE.  
		NLF:dm  
		CC - Foreign Service Desk (detached) 
		 
		SENT VIA airgram 4-27-51 6:32 AM Per NL 
		 
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #108  
		[undated letter, possibly circa May 1951] 
		 
		The Federal Bureau of Investigation 

		Washington, D.C.  
		Dear Sir:  
		How can I find out if the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc 
		of P.O. Box #502 Elizabeth, N.J. and perhaps having offices in Wash. 
		D.C. now, or did have, is a (1) Communist front organization. (2) Is or 
		was infiltrated by communists. (2) [sic] Has been cleared or supposed 
		communist infiltration. (3) Has been checked by the FBI.  
		How can I find out if Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics did 
		(1) ask the FBI to investigate his organization named above for the 
		purpose of eliminating communists or for other purposes. (2) Voluntarily 
		asked the FBI to check his group and handed in some 40 odd "cases" of 
		suspected communists which were in his organization.  
		Is a [BLACKED OUT] former member of the Hubbard group, a known 
		communist? What about [BLACKED OUT] publisher of the book, "Dianetics".
		
		
		Is it possible to find out in any way whether or not communists did 
		allegidly [sic] try to "take over" Hubbard Dianetics??  
		Is [BLACKED OUT] a former administrator, of the Washington D.C. 
		Hubbard office, a communist, or associated with them? What about Mr. 
		[BLACKED OUT] a former member of the L.A. branch of the Hubbard group 
		who recently and perhaps now resides in Orlando Florida.  
		My reason for asking this or rather these questions is: I believe 
		Communism is a serious menance [sic] to the United States. I am a 
		patriotic citizen and wish to help my country. I have been and am 
		interested in Dianetics, a method of psycho-therapy with promising new 
		discoveries which may be of benefit to many. I have heard rumors which 
		lead me to write you and ask the above questions. I do not wish to 
		knowingly or unknowingly get mixed up with or communists if I can help 
		it. If you can suggest something to do I will be glad to do it.  
		Sincerely  
		[SIGNATURE BLACKED OUT]  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #109  
		May 10, 1951  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter dated May 3, 1951, has been received and I appreciate the 
		interest which prompted you to write as you did.  
		I must advise, however, in answer to the questions you propounded 
		concerning the individuals and organizations mentioned in your 
		communication, a long-standing policy established for this Bureau holds 
		our files confidential and available for official use only. No 
		inference, of course, should be drawn that we do or do not have data 
		concerning them in our files because of my inability to be of aid. 
		 
		I am taking the liberty of enclosing some material which I thought 
		you might like to have and your attention is directed particularly to 
		the comments I made concerning the test of a front organization in my 
		statement before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of 
		Representatives, on May 26, 1947.  
		It is suggested that whenever you come into possession of information 
		which you believe to be of value to the FBI please feel free to contact 
		our representatives in the Miami Office at 3915 Biscayne Boulevard, 
		Miami 32, Florida.  
		Sincerely yours,  
		John Edgar Hoover  
		cc - Miami with copy of incoming 
		 
		Enclosure 

		US News and World Report 

		Hoover Answers 10 Questions 

		Director's Statement 2-26-51  
		Foe [illegible word] Freedom; Statement before House Un-American 
		Activities 

		RG[?]:[?]: urh  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #110  
		[typed, but badly xeroxed] 
		 
		The Hubbard Dianetic Foundation, Inc. 

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		211 W. Douglas St. 

		Wichita, Kansas 

		May 14, 1951  
		THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 

		DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

		Washington, D.C.  
		Dear Sir:  
		You will find that I have reported some of these matters to the FBI 
		in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. before but this is getting 
		to a point where the mere delivery of facts into files is pointless. 
		 
		It is more than a belief on my part that the Communist Party or 
		members of the Communist Party have in the past year wiped out a half a 
		million operation for me, have cost me my health and have considerably 
		retarded material of interest to the United States Government.  
		I am, basically, a scientist in the field of atomic and molecular 
		phenomena. At least, that was my course in college. I followed this into 
		the fields of human thought, identified an energy and produced through 
		twenty years of research, a science of thought known popularly as 
		dianetics.  
		Although this story starts earlier, when I left the Navy in which I 
		served as an officer during the war, I found myself associated with a 
		woman known as Sara Elizabeth Northrup. I met her in Pasadena in late 
		1945. [illegible words] considerable interest in my scientific 
		researches.  
		In 1949, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, I formed an organization known as 
		the American Institute of Advanced Therapy. Miss Northrup, whom I 
		believed to by my wife, having married her and then, after some mix-up 
		about a divorce, believed her to be my wife in common law, was 
		instrumental in breaking up this organization. In 1950 I wrote a book 
		called DIANETICS and formed the HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION in 
		New Jersey.  
		From the first this organization, quite unlike my naval commands, was 
		a source of great turbulence to me. Strange things were done for which I 
		had no accounting. Orders were rarely carried out. Research was held to 
		zero. Funds were spent in unproductive ways.  
		In August of that year I had reason to believe my wife was unfaithful 
		and went to California. I was afraid of publicity and did nothing about 
		this. By October, things  
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		had come to such a pass in terms of organizational enturbulence that 
		C. Parker Morgan, a member of the Foundation board of trustees told me 
		he believed subversion was taking place. He asked the FBI to make an 
		investigation. I know nothing further of this investigation. However, 
		investigating on my own, I found that the publisher of the book, Arthur 
		Ceppos, Hermitage House, was failing to distribute the book and was 
		actually upsetting the organization by invalidating me and the science. 
		I challenged Ceppos with this and forced him to resign from the board of 
		trustees of the Foundation. At this time I learned also that Ceppos was 
		"formerly" a member of the Communist Party. Resigning with Ceppos and 
		hand in glove with him, evidently, was J.A. Winter, MD, medical director 
		of the Foundation. I discovered then that Winter was a psycho-neurotic 
		discharged officer of the US Army Medical Corps and that Winter seemed 
		to have Communist connections. I was not alert still any belief that 
		this strange upset in the organization was Communist inspired.  
		In early October my alleged wife, who a few months later would be 
		claiming we were not married, caused me to make out a will to her via 
		attorney Milt Davis of Los Angeles, leaving her shares in the copyrights 
		and Foundations. I returned to Rahway New Jersey and in late October, 
		while asleep in my home, was slugged. I had no proof of this and so I 
		wisely or unwisely sheered away from publicity for something for which I 
		had no witnesses and tried to carry on. However I was thereafter in poor 
		health.  
		I returned to Los Angeles. On my first day in town Sara Northrup left 
		our baby in a car and I was arrested for it. I could never understand 
		why the police insisted it was I, but it is a matter of court record 
		that the act was done by Sara.  
		On December the 5th, while asleep in my apartment, on North Rossmore 
		in Los Angeles I was again attacked and knocked out. When I woke I 
		debated considerably going to the police but was again afraid of 
		publicity for again I did not know who might have done this. It never 
		occured [sic] to me to suspect that my wife had any part in this.  
		I had become so ill by January 1st and was so long overdue in writing 
		my second book that I went to Palm Springs. I returned from Palm Springs 
		in late February to find my wife apparently ill, in bad mental 
		condition, and my baby more or less forgotten in a back room of the Los 
		Angeles Foundation. I instantly took steps, what steps I could, to give 
		my wife help. She seemed to recover.  
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		I was in my apartment on February 23rd, about two or three o'clock in 
		the morning when the apartment was entered, I was knocked out, had a 
		needle thrust into my heart to give it a jet of air to produce "coronary 
		thrombosis" and was given an electric shock with a 110 volt current. 
		This is all very blurred to me. I had no witnesses. But only one person 
		had another key to that apartment and that was Sara.  
		Further, earlier in the week, I had found letters in a "love nest" 
		she had had with a Miles Hollister, an employee of the Foundation. These 
		letters contained, with their love language, also enormous amounts of 
		data on the Foundation and my activities. Further there was a telegram 
		which came from Hollister containing the phrase, "Lombardo should live 
		so long" Lombardo being a name she sometimes called me.  
		I learned of this quickly by phone from New Jersey and my orders from 
		my eastern Foundation were to get out. I went back to the apartment that 
		night however and found my "wife" had returned but seemed drugged. I 
		found two strange men watching the apartment. I got her out, she 
		consenting, and took her to Palm Springs. Hollister instantly had 
		warrants issued for my arrest for "abducting" my wife and gave the 
		Beverly Hills police a false address for himself. Further, I had put my 
		baby safely in a nursing home and Hollister issued a compalint [sic] 
		against me in Los Angeles for kidnapping my own baby. I tried to get 
		Sara out of California, knowing her to be under terrific duress of some 
		kind. She however would not further accompany me than the Arizona 
		border. I have her signed statement, requested of her by me before the 
		border guard that she was under her own power and was with me by full 
		consent. At the moment she demanded to go back I could not deter her 
		naturally without using force and so I let her go.  
		I went east. My baby was delivered to me there. The child was ill and 
		I took her south to get her some sunshine. I wrote my second book in 
		Havana. I returned here to Wichita.  
		Meanwhile I was able to integrate this matter and obtained more data 
		from friends. There are many witnesses to these things, Frank Dressler, 
		A.E. van Vogt, Mrs. Fay Clauson,  
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		Richard de Mille, and others. 
		 
		Sara was associating exclusively and using her position to support a 
		group consisting of Miles Hollister, Gene [?]ent[?], (an alias, his real 
		name being Weinberger), Peggy [?]enton, Roger Starr, Lyn Hite, Henry 
		[?]nter, Marge Hunter and Gregory Hemmingway. In the east she was 
		closely and exclusively associated with Dr. Winter, Arthur Ceppos and a 
		Nancy Roodenburg. Using a Foundation position as Executive 
		vice-president, she provided this group with funds. Handling my own 
		accounts she neglected to pay many debts. She was closely connected as 
		well with H[?] [?]oon, a "pastor" in Monrovia or some such town in 
		California. Also she was associated, as a part of this group, with 
		Mar[?] Lawrence, the actor, and via Benton, Stan [?]enton, the orchestra 
		leader seems also associated with this group and also with a [?]ill 
		Graff or Graph. Also connected here is Edward [?]uhl or [illegible word] 
		Universal Pictures but in what way I am not certain.  
		Gene and Peggy Benton confessed to our general manager that they had 
		been members of the Young Communists. Henry Hunter and Marge Hunter are 
		alleged to have been connected with Communism. Marc Lawrence [this name 
		is nearly illegible and may be incorrect], very active in this group, is 
		supposed to have been (admitted in the House to have been) a member of 
		the Communist Party. Hollister stated to me that he had been a member of 
		the Young Communists and is associated with Dr. Werner Wolfe of Bard 
		College.  
		In November the Medical Director of the Foundation Dr. Rowland Walker 
		died very suddenly, in Winter's House [sic], of "coronary thrombosis", 
		after a siege of terrible nerves. In late January or early February, an 
		instructor of the Los Angeles Foundation, on the verge of important 
		research data, was shot to death by his wife who then committed suicide 
		- out of which Hollister and Benton seemed to have attempted to make 
		anti-dianetic publicity. Earlier, in New York, a young patient, after an 
		interview with Gene Benton committed suicide and an effort had been made 
		to publicize t[?]  
		The group above named has produced remarkable turbulence in our 
		organization so that the organization has collapsed and another has had 
		to be set up to replace it. Their removal from dianetics has been 
		attended by a most remarkable smear campaign in California.  
		In February in Chicago I took tests at the Chicago Psychological 
		Institute to guarantee the fact that I am sane. This talk of insanity 
		and other matters in the press have behind them a remarkable clause in 
		the "divorce" petition leveled by Sara "Hubbard" - a receivership for 
		the Foundation and turning it all over to her. She was aware of  
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		that my will had been changed. 
		 
		Many offers of peace were extended to her before this strange attack 
		was launched. I have been called a "dope fiend" by her. I have been 
		called "insane". Every effort is being made to get dianetics. 
		 
		This is data: in August 1950 I found out a method the Russians use on 
		such people as Vogeler, Min[?]nty and others to obtain confessions. I 
		could undo that method. My second book was to have shown how the 
		Communists used narcosynthesis and physical torture and why it worked as 
		it did. Further, I was working on a technology of psychological war[?] 
		to present it to the Defense Department. All that work was interrupted. 
		Each time I tried to write, a new attack was launched.  
		As a one-time officer of ONI[?]I I try not to see Indians behind 
		every bush. I have not the use of your files. I find out, suddenly, that 
		a Leo West, in charge of our office is a Communist and so discharge him 
		and close that o[?] But I could not discover these things until damage 
		has been done.  
		I enclose a validation pamphlet of dianetics. It is not a 
		psychotherapy but a study of the energy of thought. It is important 
		technology. The proof of it in the field of psychotherapy is indicated 
		in this pamphlet.  
		Those ex-Communists or current Communists "helped me". They stayed 
		close to me. They shut me off from Communication. I did not realize that 
		my wife was one until this spring. Only then could I separate myself.
		
		
		While my proof may be slight, it is strange that turbulence in the 
		new Foundation ceased the moment I began to use only personnel screened 
		by a "lie detector". This present organization is secure as well as I 
		can make it. But the old Foundations have been thrust into oblivion. 
		 
		Dianetics is important politically. It indicates way [?] of 
		controling [sic] people or de-controling [sic] them and of handling 
		groups which is good technology. It is an American science. Arthur 
		Ceppos sat on the press side of dianetics and we have received since the 
		publication of the book a most rabid anti-dianetic press.  
		The field of Group Dianetics could become an ideology if anyone let 
		it. Who controls dianetics, its techniques and researches can be a 
		menace to the security of this country.  
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		It may be that this is wildcat party activity. It may be that these 
		members are simply ex- Communists. But an Alastair Kyle, stated by 
		Parker Morgan to be a Communist, tried long and hard from New York to 
		get our mailing list.  
		I only know these things - while I let them, unsuspected, cluster 
		around me, these people stopped dianetics in its tracks. With them gone 
		we can run an organization. But once ejected they began, evidently, 
		through Sara, these remarkable attacks. I believe this woman to be under 
		heavy duress. She was born into a criminal atmosphere, her father having 
		a criminal record. Her half sister was an inmate of an insane asylum. 
		She was part of a free love colony in Pasadena. She had attached herself 
		to a Jack Parsons, the rocket expert, during the war and when she left 
		him he was a wreck. Further, through Parsons, she was strangely intimate 
		with many scientists of Los Alamos Gordos. I did not know or realize 
		these things until I myself investigated the matter. She may have a 
		record.  
		My plea is simply this: security in which science can work. Why do 
		these people remain at large, free of our press[?] destructive of our 
		efforts? I have been developing, in spite of these enturbulences, data 
		of some value as this rudimentary pamphlet proves. Dianetics and the 
		Foundation, potent forces, almost fell into complete Communist control 
		or the control of ex-Communists whichever it is. I cannot fight the 
		battle of Communist vs the world as the only opponent or threat. 
		Certainly some one else must be at least faintly interested. My life has 
		been in danger, my work has suffered, my life is still in danger. My 
		reputation is almost ruined so these vermin Communists or ex-Communists 
		whatever they are can take over a piece of society and a technology. 
		 
		If Russia possessed the notes I have on psychological warfare, she 
		would be that much more potent.  
		Further, I do not believe these people meant to destroy dianetics but 
		to drive it underground. They "helped" me with radio programs which did 
		not get played, by pamphlets which did not give the whole story (like 
		this validation pamphlet and by "advice" which attempted to knock every 
		loyal American out of dianetics.  
		What can one do in the face of this? When, when, when will we have a 
		round-up?  
		Please compare these notes with your central files. I am certain you 
		will find these names repeated there connect [?]  
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		with Communist activities. Perhaps in your criminal files or on the 
		police blotter of Pasadena you will find Sara Elizabeth Northrup, age 
		about 26, born April 8, 19[?] about 5'9", blonde-brown hair, slender. My 
		own investigation seems to indicate that possibility. Her residence from 
		42 to 45 was 1003 South Orange Grove, Pasadena, Calif. I have no revenge 
		motive nor am I trying to angle this broader than it is. I believe she 
		is under duress, that they have something on her and I believe that 
		under a grilling she would talk and turn StateIs [sic] evidence.  
		I am unsure of Edward [?]uhl and Stan Benton as connected but merely 
		mention them as associated vaguely with this group. I am very sure of 
		the politics or ex-politics of other members of the group. Gregory 
		Hemmingway is the son of Ernest Hemmingway [sic] and is employed at 
		Douglas Aircraft in California. He may be a dupe but he has taken a 
		solid role in this group. Roger Starr is probably a dupe. Lyn Hite is 
		not known to be a Communist but associated solidly with Communists. Marc 
		Lawrence was definitely aiding Sara in January 1950 in her efforts to 
		stop the second boo[?]  
		All these matters are, of course, confidential. I do not wish them to 
		be published in any way. I am not trying to regain a reputation by 
		blaming Communism. But I am trying hard to understand how it is that 
		these persons, all so solidly _ex_-affiliated or currently affiliated, 
		as a group, work in such close partnership against a technology they 
		know would hurt Communism and yet remain at liberty.  
		I am applying to the Department of Defense for [?]ermi[?] to deliver 
		to them my work on psychological warfare. I hope this new Foundation can 
		operate. Frankly, from what has happened, I am not certain I will live 
		through this. If I do not, know that I have only these enemies in the 
		entire world.  
		May I respectfully request, sir, your assistance in rendering America 
		a trifle safer for new sciences. I wish I could ask you to extend that 
		clause in the charter of the FBI about persons in distress.  
		Sincerely,  
		L. Ron Hubbard  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #111  
		[handwritten, on letterhead] 
		 
		[symbol at top of letterhead: pyramid in a circle] 
		 
		THE HUBBARD DIANETIC FOUNDATION, INC. 

		211 WEST DOUGLAS AVENUE - - - WICHITA [?] KANSAS  
		June 9, 1951  
		In return for the divorce which is guarranteed [sic] by L. Ron 
		Hubbard to Sara N. Hubbard in Mid June 1951 I hereby cancel the 
		recievership [sic] action against the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation of California.  
		Sara N. Hubbard  
		Witnessed by Hon Wm. Maloney 
		 
		When Mr. Hubbard is granted his Kansas divorce I will cancel my 
		California divorce action--Sara N. Hubbard  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #112  
		June 11, 1951  
		I, Sara Northrup Hubbard, do hereby state that the things I have said 
		about L. Ron Hubbard in courts and the public prints have been grossly 
		exaggerated or entirely false.  
		I have not at any time believed otherwise than that L. Ron Hubbard 
		was a fine and brilliant man.  
		I make this statement of my own free will for I have begun to realize 
		that what I have done may have injured the science of dianetics, which 
		in my studied opinion may be the only hope of sanity in future 
		generations.  
		I was under enormous stress and my advisers insisted it was necessary 
		for me to carry through an action I have done.  
		There is no other reason for this statement than my own wish to make 
		atonement for the damage I may have done. In the future I wish to lead a 
		quiet and orderly existence with my little girl far away from the 
		enturbulating influences which have ruined my marriage.  
		[signed] Sara Northrup Hubbard 

		SARA NORTHRUP HUBBARD  
		[handwritten] Witnessed 6/11/51 

		[signed] John Wm. Maloney 

		[signed] Chas. Leonard  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #113  
		[handwritten letter, hard-to-read writing and badly xeroxed] 
		 
		[ADDRESS INFO BLOCKED OUT] 
		 
		Oct 24 - 1951  
		J. Edgar Hoover 

		Director of Beaureau [sic] of Investigation 

		Washington D.C.  
		Dear Mr. Hoover - I re[?]ed a Room [?]et [?]fth - to a [illegible 
		word] I believe is with the underworld organization. Here are some 
		letters also some things he has written and discarded.  
		He told me he worked at [?]essma's [illegible three words] He does a 
		lot writing in his Rooms which reads like he is all an organizer of an 
		underworld He le [?][rest is off the page due to poor xeroxing]  
		[page 2]  
		[illegible three words] I would know what it is all about - may be I 
		don't so will let you decide He is a Hunch back. I sent the type of man 
		who would ordernairely [sic] rent a room in a [illegible word] Room[?] 
		[illegible word]  
		I wouldn't want him or the [?] to know I reposted this But if it is 
		any thing [possibly a word missing here?] of the underworld I will do 
		all I can to help.  
		Yours very truly-  
		[SIGNATURE BLACKED OUT]  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #114  
		November 6, 1951  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear Mrs. [BLACKED OUT]  
		Your letter dated October 24, 1951, has been received, and I 
		appreciate very much your thoughtfulness in making available the 
		information enclosed with your letter.  
		I am enclosing some material which I thought you might like to have.
		
		
		Sincerely yours,  
		John Edgar Hoover 

		Director  
		Enclosure: Director's Statement 7/26/50; Presidential Directive. 
		 
		NOTE: Correspondent forwarded notes and other documents discarded by 
		her roomer, one [BLACKED OUT] dealing with Dianetics and the Hubbard 
		Dianetic Auditors' Association-International. Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, 
		president of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Incorporated, and 
		author of "Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health," is the 
		subject of Bufiles, 62-94080 and 64-3361. A newspaper clipping dated 
		4/24/51 from the Los Angeles Times Herald indicated that he is insane. 
		(62-94080-A). We have no pertinent information identifiable with 
		[BLACKED OUT]  
		AVH:mms:mnf  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #115  
		KENNETH MC KELLAR, TENN., CHAIRMAN 

		DANL. HAYDEN, ARIZ. ----- STYLES BRIDGES, [?] 

		RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA. ----- HOMER FERGUSON, MICH. 

		PAT MC CARRAN, NEV. ----- GUY GORDON, OREG. 

		JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY, WYO. ----- LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, MASS. 

		DENNIS CHAVEZ, N. MEX. ----- MILTON R. YOUNG, N. DAK. 

		BURNET R. MAYBANK, S.C. ----- WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, CALIF. 

		ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA. ----- EDWARD J. THYE, M[?] 

		LISTER HILL, ALA. ----- [?]ALES N. BECTON, MONT. 

		HARLEY M. K[?], W.VA. ----- JOSEPH R. MC CARTHY, WISC. 

		JOHN L. MC LELLAN, ARK. 

		A. WILLIS ROBERSON, VA.  
		EVERARD H. SMITH, CLERK 

		THOMAS J. SCOTT, ASST. CLERK  
		UNITED STATES SENATE 

		COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS  
		February 26, 1953.  
		[handwritten, probably by FBI: Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 
		Inc.]  
		Honorable Louis B. Nichols 

		Federal Bureau of Investigation.  
		Dear Louis:  
		I am in receipt of a letter from [BLACKED OUT] of Traverse City, 
		Michigan, which reads:  
		"I am deeply concerned about some literature. I confess I can 
		generally do some investigating and find out what I wish to know but 
		this time I am compelled to seek some assistance. Who publishes 
		"HANDBOOK FOR PRECLEARS" by L Ron Hubbard and who is this man "Hubbard". 
		They run rather than the name of the publishers the following  
		"Manufactured in the U.S.A. 
		 
		"I shall appreciate greatly an analysis of this literature Frankly I 
		don't like the trend of it and some of my parishioners have it." 
		 
		I will appreciate your advising me if you have any information in 
		regard to the foregoing.  
		With best wishes and kind personal regards, 
		 
		Sincerely,  
		[signed] Homer Ferguson  
		HF/f  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #116  
		February 30, 1953  
		Mr. Glavis  
		H.L. Edwards  
		[BLACKED OUT]  
		[BLACKED OUT]  
		SYNOPSIS  
		The Investigative Division has referred information which was 
		received from the Philadelphia Office on 1-19-53 that [BLACKED OUT 
		SEVERAL LINES] with two Marshals while they were attempting to serve a 
		bench warrant on L. Ron Hubbard while Hubbard was lecturing in a 
		building [BLACKED OUT LINE] of the Association of Scientologists of 
		which Hubbard is the founder. [BLACKED OUT TWO LINES] Bureau files were 
		negative on the Association of Scientologists; however, they were 
		replete with information concerning one Lafayette Ron Hubbard, who 
		appears to be identical with the individual arrested by the U.S. 
		Marshals [BLACKED OUT] Information in Bureau files reveals that Hubbard 
		had been director of several organizations interested in Dianetics 
		(mental Health) and the preservation of science, culture and the people 
		in the event of atomic war. He has been described as having "delusions 
		of grandeur," and one newspaper item of divorce action quoted his wife 
		as saying he was hopelessly "insane." Allegations have been made that 
		organizations he was affiliated with were of particular interest to 
		perverts, hypochondriacs and curiosity seekers. In 1951 the State of New 
		Jersey reported it had a case against him for teaching medicine without 
		a license and in 1952 the Post Office was investigating him for mail 
		fraud. [REMAINDER OF PAGE BLACKED OUT]  
		CC: SOG - Philadelphia Field Office file 

		SOG - Milwaukee Field Office file 

		SOG - New York Office file  
		[BLACKED OUT]  
		WEL:wjs:jar  
		[page 2]  
		[REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		_DETAILS_  
		The Investigative Division has referred information which it received 
		from the Philadelphia Office on January 19, 1953, that [SEVERAL LINES 
		BLACKED OUT] .S. Marshals on 12-16-53 when they were attempting to 
		execute a bench warrant on one L. Ron Hubbard, who was lecturing in a 
		building [TWO LINES BLACKED OUT] for the Association of Scientologists 
		of which Hubbard is the founder. [SEVERAL LINES BLACKED OUT] Hubbard, 
		who is a noted writer of scientology who came from England to the United 
		States [BLACKED OUT] and for the purpose of lecturing to an Association 
		of Scientologists composed chiefly of professors and members of the 
		engineering profession.  
		[SHORT PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Bureau files were negative on the Association of Scientologists; 
		however, they were replete with information concerning one Lafayette Ron 
		Hubbard, who appears to be identical with the individual arrested by the 
		Marshals [BLACKED OUT] One main file reflects that Hubbard directed the 
		Allied Scientists of the World and was the sponsor of the Hubbard 
		Dianetics Foundation of Wichita, Kansas, which organization had been 
		adjudged bankrupt. The Allied Scientists of the World was investigated 
		by the Bureau during 1952 as an internal security matter and a closing 
		report was submitted on April 7, 1952. Among the many purposes of this 
		organization was the goal of furnishing maximal protection to the people 
		and culture of various countries against the threat of atomic war. 
		Another goal was the establishment of a means of collecting and 
		safeguarding existing scientific technology against destruction. This 
		organization was  
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		under investigation by the post office in 1952 for possible violation 
		of mail fraud statutes. Hubbard was reported to have "delusions of 
		grandeur." The purpose of the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 
		Inc. was allegedly to teach the practice of dianetics which was a new 
		approach to the treatment of physical and mental illnesses without the 
		use of drugs or medicine. Hubbard was also reported as the subject of 
		alleged kidnaping [sic] violation of his wife and daughter in Los 
		Angeles, California, during 1951 in connection with a family dispute. 
		Prosecution was declined by the U.S. Attorney and no investigation was 
		conducted in connection with this matter; a newspaper item reflected 
		that Mrs. Hubbard in filing suit for divorce indicated that her husband 
		was "hopelessly insane." Hubbard has contacted the Bureau on several 
		occasions to make complaints concerning the staff of his organization 
		and his wife. Some of these complaints concerned Communist allegations 
		against individuals rather than the organization. Allegations have been 
		made that his Dianetics Research Foundation was of particular interest 
		to sexual perverts, hypochondriacs and curiosity seekers. In 1951 the 
		State of New Jersey advised it had a case against Hubbard for conducting 
		a school teaching medicine and surgery without a license (7-6000, 
		100-354196, 62-95972)  
		RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 
		ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION 
		 
		[BLACKED OUT]  
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		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #117  
		March 2, 1953  
		PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL 
		 
		Honorable Homer Ferguson 

		United States Senate 

		Washington, D.C.  
		My dear Senator,  
		Your letter of February 26, 1953, addressed to Mr. Nichols, 
		forwarding an inquiry from [BLACKED OUT] of Traverse City, Michigan, 
		concerning L. Ron Hubbard, publisher of "Handbook for Preclears," has 
		been received.  
		The Federal Bureau of Investigation has not conducted any 
		investigation of Hubbard. Information has been received, however, that 
		Hubbard is the author of a book entitled "Dianetics, The Modern Science 
		of Mental Health" and founder of the Hubbard Dianetic Research 
		Foundation, Incorporated, with headquarters of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
		
		
		The stated purpose of the Foundation is to "study and conduct 
		research in the field of the human mind and of human thought in action" 
		through the medium of "Dianetics," which may be likened to 
		psychotherapy, with certain differences as to method and concepts. 
		 
		In this connection, in March, 1951, the Board of Medical Examiners of 
		the Department of Law and Public Safety, State of New Jersey, was taking 
		to trial, in the Union County District Court, Elizabeth, New Jersey, a 
		case against the Foundation. The basis for the case was that the 
		Foundation allegedly conducted a school teaching a branch of medicine 
		and surgery without a license.  
		In regard to Hubbard himself, the Los Angeles, California, Times 
		Herald in its issue of April 24, 1951, related that Hubbard's [illegible 
		words] accused him of subjecting her to scientific torture experiments. 
		This news story reported that Mrs. Hubbard in a divorce suit, claimed
		
		
		(See [illegible word] next page] 
		 
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		Honorable Homer Ferguson March 2, 1953 
		 
		that Hubbard was "hopelessly insane." Her complaint stated that 
		"...the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, which deals with the 
		modern science of mental health,' did more than $1,000,000 business in 
		1950."  
		I regret that we do not have available any information concerning the 
		book "Handbook for Preclears," mentioned by [BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		With expressions of my highest esteem and best regards, 
		 
		Sincerely  
		[stamped] J. Edgar Hoover 
		 
		NOTE: Above data from files 62-94080-1; 62-94080-1, encl. 10; 
		62-84080-4; 62-94080-A. Hubbard was interviewed at the Bureau on 3-7-51, 
		when he came in to complain about Communists in his organization. 
		(62-84080-1). [BLACKED OUT TWO LINES] On February 26, 1951, we initiated 
		an inquiry concerning Hubbard, after receiving information that he had 
		been arrested in Chicago for kidnaping his wife in California and taking 
		her out of the state. Since this was a family matter, the U.S. Attorney 
		at Los Angeles instructed no investigation should be undertaken. 
		(7-6000-2)  
		Since information in body of letter is public information, and will 
		cover essentials of Senator Ferguson's inquiry, not believed necessary 
		to include any data from above paragraph in body of letter.  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #118  
		STANDARD FORM NO. 64 

		Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT  
		TO : Director, FBI  
		DATE: May 22, 1953  
		FROM : SAC, Detroit (80-90) 
		 
		SUBJECT: THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH 

		FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED 

		[BLACKED OUT]  
		[SHORT PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		People who were bothered with mental problems were being treated by 
		this organization with the use of an apparatus involving two beer cans 
		which were attached to an electric meter somewhat resembling a lie 
		detector machine [LINE BLACKED OUT]  
		It is noted in one of the enclosures [BLACKED OUT] that members of 
		the organization are going to be fingerprinted and that an affidavit was 
		to be obtained from each member which was to be filed with the Federal 
		Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.  
		In another enclosure it is noted that the organization was stopping 
		dianetic processing within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, 
		evidently at the request of the United States Attorney. This would 
		indicate that perhaps the Bureau may have had some information 
		concerning the Hubbard Foundation contained within the Bureau files in 
		Washington, D.C.  
		Indices of the Detroit Division are negative on the organization. 
		 
		For the benefit of the Detroit Office [BLACKED OUT] it is requested 
		that the Bureau files be reviewed and any pertinent information relative 
		to the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation be furnished to the Detroit 
		Office.  
		RCM:bet  
		Encls. - 3  
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #119  
		May 29, 1953  
		SAC, Detroit (80-90)  
		Director, FBI  
		THE HUBBARD DIANETIC RESEARCH 

		FOUNDATION INCORPORATED 

		[BLACKED OUT] 

		RESEARCH (CRIME RECORDS)  
		Reurlet May 22, 1953, requesting information from Bufiles concerning 
		captioned organization.  
		Bufiles reflect that the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., 
		was incorporated in April, 1950, in New Jersey to further the work of 
		Lafayette Ron Hubbard, author, whose book "Dianetics" had been published 
		two years previously. This organization reportedly went broke in New 
		Jersey. An article appearing in the May 4, 1951, issue of "The Wichita 
		Beacon," Wichita, Kansas, stated that this organization had recently 
		established a national headquarters at 211 West Douglas Street, Wichita, 
		Kansas.  
		The stated purpose of the Foundation is to "study and conduct 
		research in the field of the human mind and of human thought in action" 
		through the medium of "dianetics," which may be likened to psychotherapy 
		with certain differences as to method and concept. In this connection, 
		in March, 1951, the Board of Medical Examiners of the Department of Law 
		and Public Safety, State of New Jersey, was taking to trial in the Union 
		County District Court, Elizabeth, New Jersey, a case against the 
		Foundation. The basis for the case was that the Foundation allegedly 
		conducted a school teaching a branch of medicine and surgery without a 
		license.  
		In regard to Hubbard himself, an inquiry was initiated on February 
		26, 1951, after information was received that he had been arrested in 
		Chicago for kidnapping his wife and daughter and taking them out of the 
		State of California. Since this was a family matter, the U.S. Attorney, 
		Los Angeles, instructed that no investigation should be undertaken. The 
		Los Angeles, California, "Times Herald," in its issue of April 24, 1951, 
		related that Hubbard's wife accused him of subjecting her to scientific 
		torture experiments. The new story reported that Mrs. Hubbard, in a 
		divorce suit, claimed that Hubbard was "hopelessly insane." Her complaint 
		stated that "...the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation did more than 
		$1,000,000 business in 1950."  
		NOTE: Above information was contained in Bufile 62-94080.
		 
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		Letter to SAC, Detroit ----- May 29, 1953 
		 
		Hubbard had contacted the Bureau on several occasions to make 
		complaints concerning his wife and the staff of his organization, 
		stating that he believed them to be Communistically inclined. 
		Allegations have also been made that the Foundation was of particular 
		interest to sex perverts, hypochondriacs, and curiosity seekers.  
		Hubbard, by letter of March 3, 1951, wrote the Bureau advising that 
		arrangements were being made to fingerprint his employees to file with 
		the FBI. He was advised by letter of March 9, 1951, that the FBI had no 
		authority to handle fingerprints with the exception of those received 
		from bona fide law enforcement departments and Federal and state 
		agencies. There is no indication in Bufiles of the Foundation being 
		requested to discontinue dianetic processing in the District of 
		Columbia.  
		Bufiles further reflect Hubbard also directed The Allied Scientists 
		of the World. Among the many purposes of this organization was the goal 
		of furnishing maximum protection to the people and culture of various 
		countries against the threat of atomic war. This organization was 
		investigated by the Post Office Department in 1952 for possible 
		violation of mail fraud statutes.
		

		FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #120  
		March 5, 1954  
		[ADDRESS BLOCK BLACKED OUT] 
		 
		Dear [BLACKED OUT]  
		Two of your recent articles have brought questions to my mind that 
		you might consider worth answering in some future column.  
		The first concerns your definition of a communist. 
		 
		In 1947 I joined an anti-Communist Party, communist group. It has 
		since been labled [sic] subversive--and God knows, if the Communist 
		Party is subversive, the one I joined was twice so; they even subverted 
		the Communists. You surely know enough abut communism to realize that I 
		did not believe myself to be subversive, but instead believed that I was 
		one of _the_ enlightened young men, who, if we could just present our 
		case adequately enough, would convince all the poor misguided 
		capitalists that their brutal ways were futile and that by foregoing 
		them they could create a heaven on earth. I have yet to meet one of the 
		so-called cynical communists; I've known quite a few of different 
		leftist persuasions, but each one fervently believed himself to be an 
		American patriot---and the, "All-American," to be a traitor, motivated 
		by greed.  
		I quit the group within a few months, giving these three reasons: (1) 
		I objected to the group's insistence that non-communist writers should 
		not be read; (2) I believed they were wasting time, and should start the 
		revolution immediately; (3) I didn't believe that good could result from 
		violence. You may note a lack of consistency in these reasons. I've more 
		recently realized that I simply lacked the guts required even to be a 
		communist.  
		From the point on, I justified my being practically a bum, by the 
		noble ideals, including Marxism, that I aspired to. I wanted such good 
		things for the world, that people should excuse my not holding a job, 
		borrowing from them, etc., etc. Besides, some day I was going to write a 
		book that would achieve the bloodless revolution.  
		Then, being a crackpot of the overly intellectual variety, when the 
		crackpot therapy, "Dianetics," came along, I got involved with that. But 
		I was unique from the other crackpots I have met in that field, in that 
		I'm a whiz at reading-comprehension; I finish those tests that aren't 
		supposed to be finished, in three quarters of the alloted time, and get 
		_all_ the answers right.  
		I'll cut this sob-story short. I understood Dianetics, followed 
		directions, and not surprisingly considering that the technique has been 
		developed by the empirical "scientific method" from the ground, up--I 
		got and am getting results.  
		Okay, what results?  
		I started as less than a communist and am at this point by practical 
		definition almost a fascist--this latter qualified by the realization 
		that the goal-motivated, free society envisioned by our Constitution is 
		probably the sanest concept of government since the technically 
		impossible attempts at democracy by the Greeks some three-thousand years 
		ago.  
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		Now to set the stage for my first question, first let me define 
		communism, fascism, etc. as they are understood in Dianetics. To a 
		dianeticist, the "natural" functional state of any sane and healthy 
		person is indicated by the word, "enthusiastic." Dianetics postulates 
		that the Good Lord did a mighty fine job of constructing us--enthusiasm 
		as the normal state, then, for emergencies, different psysiological 
		[sic] adjustments, nervous, muscular, vascular, glandular take place 
		that are emotionally experienced as, indicatively: strong interest, mild 
		interest, content, indifference, boredom, threatening, anger, 
		veiled-hate, fear, grief, apathy, deepest apathy, death. From any of 
		these psysiological [sic] adjustments the body is supposed to readjust 
		itself automatically back up to enthusiasm; from "death," this seems to 
		involve getting reborn. (You may not like this mechanical description; I 
		know I don't, but it's convenient) Unfortunately, this readjustment is 
		accompanied by several side effects that man, not understanding, has 
		decided to dispense with: apathy comes off with deep sighs; grief with 
		bawling; fear with perspiration, "hysterical" laughter, etc; anger with 
		violent activity. Edietic day-dreams on the entire depressive situation 
		seem a necessary part of reattaining enthusiasm. And every single damned 
		one of these things is treated by our society as uncouth, animal, 
		something to be ashamed of, or a sign of weakness. Result: people don't 
		readjust back up to enthusiasm, but instead, by the time they are in 
		their teens, they are, on the average, chronically depressed to anger, 
		and by the time they reach maturity, they've become "intellectuals"--too 
		beat to fight openly, they start undermining, with big words and twisted 
		conceptions.  
		Political states are reflections of emotional states. Our nation was 
		conceived against a background of unbelievable freedom and potential 
		wealth by men vigorous and alive enough to carve a nation from 
		wilderness. Further, they were coalesced by a goal, thus mingling and 
		augmenting their strength. They created a nation reflecting their 
		temperament.  
		Time, and to a great measure, freedom passes. The sick mores of 
		Europe and its culture find their way to a no longer so vigorous United 
		States. By the time of Teddy Roosevelt, the temperament of the people 
		finds best expression in the threat, "Carry a big stick!," and in the 
		anger--fascism--of the Cuban war. And fascism breeds veiled-hate and 
		fear--communism: hiding behind makeup-falsies-perverted ethics-foreign 
		culture-intellectualism, to strike out deviously at anything strong: as 
		Marx would destroy FREE enterprise, from behind the facade of a glorious 
		sounding, mathematically brilliant, intellectual tour de force that 
		seeks to impose nothing other than the CONTROLS which destroy that 
		greatest beauty and strength of all--life. Next step down: the apathy of 
		India, and until recently of China, who I believe took an upward step 
		with communism, surged up to fascism, and may damn well, if encouraged, 
		continue right on up to free enterprise.  
		Here, at last, is the question: 
		 
		To me a Communist is a sick person, who, I know can be cured. His 
		sickness is, however, virulently contagious--yet! the most direct source 
		of his sickness is the fascist, the man who scares the bejesus out of 
		him. I recognize McCarthy as a far healthier man than a communist, and 
		as a guidon of a vigorous resurgence of our nation. Yet, I know damn 
		well that McCarthy has created more communists in this country, with the 
		exception of Hitler, than any man since John Wesley managed to get 
		castrated by some Washington businessmen twenty-odd years ago. 
		Particularly, among Jews, who five years ago would have knocked your 
		block off it you spouted communism--but who now, seeing in McCarthy the 
		rising American Hitler, and smelling the stench of the furnaces from 
		just beyond tomorrow, are now muttering unfamiliar phrases about 
		controlled economy, or, "wasn't Jack London's writing marvelous?," or, 
		"you know, so-and-so (a commie) makes some sense at that...," to such an 
		extent that since getting my boost from Dianetics, I feel nauseated 
		trying to talk to these people  
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		who used to feel nauseated trying to talk to me. 
		 
		Healthier than a communist, yes!--but Mr. McCarthy has split this 
		nation into a million suspicious segments, while coalescing into a firm 
		legion the previously constantly inter-squabbling factions of leftists.
		
		
		I was raised under a dictatorship, my grandfather's. 
		 
		Should I now, recognising the psychotic slime I became under that 
		dictatorship to be a devious poison, ally myself with the overt 
		blackjack of McCarthyism? Would that, according to your lights, make an 
		honest American of me, or would it not be a perversion of honesty 
		itself? Further, those persons above anger, are they failing their duty 
		as citizens, when they fail to ally themselves with the anti-communist 
		movement which relative to themselves is destruction incarnate?--or put 
		it this way:  
		Jefferson, were he alive today, but retaining the sanity of 
		yesterday, would despise communism. But do you believe that he would 
		deny the communists freedom of thought and belief, or would he view them 
		as he viewed other men: when sick, sick through controls; when 
		revolting, serving a valuable function as a symptom of a sickness in the 
		society, NOT to be cured with the mankind-old cyclic 
		fascist-commie-fascist-commie cure of more CONTROLS, but with the new, 
		1776, United States cure of great, inspiring, rewarding, and ever higher 
		GOALS and ever more FREEDOM to attain them?  
		I'll answer this question for myself, by myself, but I'd like to know 
		your thoughts on the matter.  
		Second question: How? How the blue-blazes can a hospitalization 
		insurance policy be put on the market, that would pay for lengthy 
		hospitalization? If you insure a group, frequently a single injury will 
		wipe out the premium that was paid for the whole group. From that time 
		on, you are covering any subsequent injuries that may occur in that 
		group, with money gained from premiums paid by other groups--or by other 
		people, for entirely different lines of insurance. A kid's playground in 
		New Jersey was insured early last year. The first day the playground 
		opened, a boy broke his leg. The doctor's bill was more than the entire 
		season's premium, yet the protection lasted for the rest of the year and 
		paid for several other injuries.  
		Or, let's look at this way. The only money that comes into an 
		insurance company is the money that people pay as premiums, plus the 
		relatively small amount that can be gained by very careful investments 
		of a certain part of those premiums. Some of this money is spent on 
		administrative costs; a little goes to the stockholders; some goes into 
		a legally required reserve. The rest goes to pay loses [sic].  
		The common practice is that if over 50% of the premium for a line (a 
		_type_ of policy) is spent on losses, the rate is raised or the 
		conditions of the policy restricted. If only 30% of the premium is being 
		spent on losses, however, the premium is lowered or the conditions of 
		the line broadened. 50% over losses might seem like a hell of a large 
		margin of profit, but when you consider that in some companies it costs 
		an average $2. (sometimes more) to process every slip of paper 
		concerning policies that comes into the company--and many of these slips 
		mean money going out to an assured--that grand profit soon starts 
		looking very meager indeed.  
		I would say that on the average, the insurance men rank among the 
		most moral and civic minded men in the country, and would not be 
		associated with [illegible word]  
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		They recognise the moral crime of cancelling a policy when a person 
		becomes chronically ill, but they further recognise the yet greater 
		moral crime of charging a premium that could cover chronic illness, and 
		by so doing, completely removing accident and health insurance from the 
		financial reach of the many people who can now receive at least some 
		benefit from it.  
		[BLACKED OUT] if you or anyone else can find a means of providing 
		broad health coverage at a premium rate that people can afford--just 
		mention it in dulcet tones around an insurance company. The rigorous 
		competition that exists between these companies will have them all 
		providing it within a year.  
		The insurance companies are in the same position as the Red Cross. 
		They provide a tremendous and frequently inspired service for our 
		nation, but they are big, and thus a target, and a few missfits [sic] 
		make them appear fair game for anyone wanting to take potshots. But 
		what's the matter with a few potshots--except--the unprotected lives, 
		homes, and health of those who pay attention to them.  
		I'm not going to sign this letter for the simple reason that I can't 
		see how my signature could do anyone any good, and I can see how it 
		might do me a lot of harm.  
		My best regards, and respect to you, sir. May the need to avoid 
		signing letters, soon become a vague and amusing memory.  
		P.S. One of the greatest rewards of my boost by Dianetics, is the 
		pleasure I can now get from reading [BLACKED OUT] column. That guy used 
		to scare hell out of me; I could sick simply by reading a few paragraphs 
		of his writing. Now, although I darned frequently disagree with him, I 
		get an invariable lift and a yak from the vigour with which he expresses 
		his point of view. And also find a wealth of sense in his writing, that 
		I never before suspected to exist.  
		You, even while I was a commy, I could read. I thought, however, that 
		you were a sadly warped and treacherous sort of soul.  
		
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