Teletype: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to Eureka Chief of Police (with FBI note) (June 22, 1961)

REURRADIO 6-2o-611. LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD, SUBJECT OF YOUR INQUIRY, POSSIBLY IDENTICAL SAME NAME, FBI 244-210-B. SIMILAR DESCRIPTION, BORN 3-13-11, AT TILDEN, NEBRASKA. OUR IDENTIFICATION FILES SHOW HUBBARD FINGERPRINTED 8-17-48 BY SHERIFF, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, PETTY THEFT – CHECKS, ARRESTED FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY, RELEASED ON BOND. ALSO ARRESTED 12-16-52, UNITED STATES MARSHAL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA HIS NUMBER 11838, CHARGE BANKRUPT, BAIL $1000 COURT.

HOOVER

NOTE: Subject of radiogram from Chief of Police, Eureka, Calif., is probably L. Ron Hubbard, on whom the Bureau has received numerous inquiries and complaints concerning the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation Inc., the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International and the Academy of Scientology, all organizations with which Hubbard has been connected. In a divorce suit in 1951 his wife accused him of insanity and competent medical advisors recommended he be committed to a sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. Previous correspondence in this matter handled by Domestic Intelligence Division. (Bufile 62-94080) File in 62-94030 “Scientology”.