Letter: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to [?] (August 3, 1962)

NOTE: Correspondent not identifiable in Bufiles.

The Founding Church of Scientology, 1812 19th Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C., identical to 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 advisers 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)