Memorandum: Re Booklet “Brainwashing A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics” (September 1, 1961)

Captioned booklet has been brought to this Bureau’s attention numerous times in the past. Some copies indicate the author to be Charles Stickley, New York City. Some are allegedly issued by [redacted] while others are allegedly issued by L. Ron Hubbard of the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, Box 242, Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Bureau has no information concerning the ’’Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare” on which the above booklet is allegedly based. A review of this booklet by the Central Research Section of the Bureau reveals that the authenticity of the booklet seems to be of doubtful nature since it lacks documentation of source material and communist words and phrases. Also, there are no quotations from well-known communist works as normally would be used in a synthesis of communist writings.

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Captioned document is apparently a thinly-veiled attack upon mental health programs along the line that such programs are a part of the world-wide communist conspiracy. It is apparently being circulated by persons of highly questionable background and, in some instances, sanity.