Letter: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to [?] (October 8, 1969)

NOTE: Bufiles contain no record of correspondent In late 1962, newspaper clippings indicated that Food and Drug Administration officials raided the Washington, D. C., Headquarters of Ron Hubbard who runs the Academy of Scientology. Hubbard is the founder and president of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., which furthers Hubbard’s theory of Scientology, an alleged science which instills self-confidence and assists to 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 treatment at paranoid schizophrenia.