There is a conflict between Dianetics and political practices such as psychiatry since electric shock, brain operations and general degradation of the person may prevent the patient's recovery by Dianetics. As answers exist now for insanity there is no reason to continue Medieval or Fascist solutions to the problem of the psychosomatically ill or the insane and we are doing everything in our power against fantastic opposition to end the torture and killing of the insane regardless of the … [Read more...] about HCOB: Dianetic Assists (1969)
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Letter: FBI SAC J. Gordon Shanklin to Senior Resident Agent, Naval Investigative Service (February 26, 1968)
File/Ref. No.: 62-117658-8-62
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Allegations have been made that the activities of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation are of particular interest to sexual perverts, hypochondriacs, and are also subscribed to by a goodly number of curiosity seekers. Several individuals, including Sara Northrup, have alleged Hubbard is mentally incompetent. Under date of March 14, 1951, the Department of Law and Safety, Board of Medical Examiners, State of New Jersey, advised this bureau that it had a case against the Hubbard Dianetics … [Read more...] about Letter: FBI SAC J. Gordon Shanklin to Senior Resident Agent, Naval Investigative Service (February 26, 1968)
Memorandum: Founding Church of Scientology, aka Scientology; L. Ron Hubbard, Founder; Hubbard Association of Scientologists International; Information Concerning; Pamphlet: Brain-washing (September 23, 1963)
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On September 13, 1963, […] Seattle, Washington Police Department, advised that on September 11, 1963, WILLIAM J. FISK, Seattle, head of a religious mystical church was shot to death before members of his group in the Seattle headquarters in the Church of Scientology of Washington State. […] surrendered to the Seattle Police Department. He was charged with the premeditated killing and his apparent motive was his belief that his wife’s estrangement from him resulted from the instructions given … [Read more...] about Memorandum: Founding Church of Scientology, aka Scientology; L. Ron Hubbard, Founder; Hubbard Association of Scientologists International; Information Concerning; Pamphlet: Brain-washing (September 23, 1963)
Letter: Ross W. Moshier to AMA Director Oliver Field (September 4, 1962)
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Letter: [?] to FBI (October 3, 1961)
File/Ref. No.: 62-94080
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I would appreciate having a copy of your book or brochure titled THE COMMUNIST PARTY LINE. Also, can you tell me how to go about getting information as to SCIENTOLOGY, headed by L. Ron Hubbard, 1812 19th Street, N.W., Washington 9, D.C.? They profess to be anti-communist and their teaching the opposite of brainwashing; but as I see it their teaching is definitely brain-washing, and I wonder how they have been able to become worldwide in just eleven years, which they claim. … [Read more...] about Letter: [?] to FBI (October 3, 1961)
Memorandum: Re Booklet “Brainwashing A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics” (September 1, 1961)
File/Ref. No.: 62-94080
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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 … [Read more...] about Memorandum: Re Booklet “Brainwashing A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics” (September 1, 1961)