Airgram: FBI to Legal Attache Havana, Cuba (April 27, 1951)

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 ITS STRUCTURE. DURING THE INTERVIEW HE LIKEWISE STATED THAT HE STRONGLY FELT THAT DIANETICS CAN BE USED TO COMBAT COMMUNISM. AGENT CONDUCTING INTERVIEW CONSIDERED HUBBARD TO BE A 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 OF WHICH HUBBARD WAS ARRESTED IN CHICAGO. FEDERAL PROSECUTION DECLINED IN FAVOR OF STATE PROSECUTION, ON BASIS MATTER A FAMILY AFFAIR, AND NO INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY BUREAU. ACCORDING TO BUREAU RECORDS, DIANETICS IS ALLEGEDLY NEW APPROACH TO TREATMENT OF MANY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ILLNESSES WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS OR MEDICINE. IN THIS FUNCTION IT IS NOTED THAT UNDER DATE OF MARCH FOURTEEN, FIFTY ONE, THE DEPARTMENT 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, INC., AND THAT THE CASE WAS DUE FOR TRIAL IN 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.

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