FBI records at http://usminc.org/FBIFILES/FIVE/05015.pdf
DATE: 27 February 27, 1957
TO: Mr. Nichols
FROM: M. A. Jones
SUBJECT: Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Lafayette Ron Hubbard; Request for Information by Senator Styles Bridges
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Although Bureau records do not show that we have investigated the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, there have been numerous inquiries concerning the activities of this organization on the part of private citizens and law enforcement agencies both in this country and abroad. The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., was incorporated on June 1, 1950, in New Jersey for the purpose of furthering the work of Hubbard whose book, “Dianetics,” had been published in 1948. In 1951 the organization moved to Kansas, then to Arizona and recently to Silver Spring, Maryland. The Foundation has encountered difficulty with police authorities in New Jersey, Michigan and the District of Columbia for allegedly conducting a school in those areas in which a branch of medicine and surgery was taught without a license. Bufiles contain a newspaper clipping from the “Washington Times Herald” for April 24, 1951, with a date line in Los Angeles relating that Hubbard’s wife, in suing for divorce, claimed that he was “hopelessly insane” and had subjected her to “scientific torture experiments.” (62-94080-30)
LAFAYETTE RON HUBBARD
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION BY
SENATOR STYLES BRIDGES