Letter: FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley to Charles B. B. Parselle (May 16, 1974)

NOTE: Our files reveal no information identifiable with correspondent or Lorraine Anne Coventry. A check with the Research Section of the External Affairs Division, determined that the statements furnished by Coventry are essentially what Mr. Kelley said. However, since the cover letter is on the stationery of the Church of Scientology, it is felt that we should not completely affirm the fact that the statements are essentially the same. The reason being that we have currently in the house at least five requests for information from our files concerning the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This appears to be an attempt to have the Bureau put itself in the position of affirming Coventry’s statements and then having them come back in an effort to force disclosure of data in our files concerning Hubbard and this organization.