Operation Clambake presents: The H Files.
FBI files on L Ron Hubbard
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Office Mem[______]um - UNITED [______] GOVERNMENT
TO : Mr. L.V. Boa[__]man
DATE: October 11, 1957
FROM: Mr. A.H. Belmont
SUBJECT: THE ACADEMY OF SCIENTOLOGY
INFORMATION CONCERNING
INTERNAL SECURITY
On 10-9-57 the Bureau received a letter dated 10-8-57 from
Richard F. Steves, organizational secretary, The Academy
of Scientology, 1812 19th Street, Northwest, Washington
9, D.C. Steves states on Harvey Jackins is purporting himself
as someone knowing the "Science" and doing this work in
Seattle, Washington. Steves continues that Jackins has
no association with this organization or any other Dianetic
or Scientology organization, and
it is the Academy's desire that Jackins be investigated as to
communist activities.
The Academy of Scientology has not been the subject of
investigation by the Bureau. It is operated by L. Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard has either operated or been connected with organizations
pertaining to Scientology and Dianetic [sic] for a number
of years. Dianetic [sic] has been described as a modern
science of mental health, which may be likened to psychotherapy
with certain differences as to method and theory. Scientology
has been described as the modern scientific method for
instilling self-confidence, assist individuals in removing
mental problems and obtaining human ability.
Hubbard appeared at the Bureau and was interviewed on 3-1-51.
He furnished information regarding alleged communist infiltration
into one of his organizations. Thereafter, he corresponded
with the Bureau concerning individuals in his organization
whom he believed to be communists. Attached to a letter
of Hubbard's dated 7-11-55 is a notation
"make appears
mental card' [BLACKED OUT]" This letter and subsequent
letters have not been acknowledged. Numerous inquiries
have been made of the Bureau concerning Hubbard's activities.
(62-94080)
Bufiles contain no record of Steves other than reflecting
his position as organizational secretary of The Academy
of Scientology.
1 - Mr. Boardman
1 - Mr. Belmont
1 - Mr. Preusse
WNP:pw (4)
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Memorandum to Mr. Boardman
RE: THE ACADEMY OF SCIENTOLOGY
[BLACKED OUT PARAGRAPH]
_OBSERVATIONS_
In the past, letters from L. Ron Hubbard, who operates
The Academy of Scientology, have not been acknowledged
because of his possible mental instability and rambling
and incoherent nature of his letters. Contents of Steves'
letter reflect probably intent The Academy of Scientology
to discredit Jackins in Dianetic and Scientology field
and use the Bureau as a steppingstone in doing so. It is
believed no purpose would be served by acknowledging Steves'
letter. Furthermore, a letter in his possession might be
used by him or The Academy of Scientology for self-serving
purposes. As letter contains no significant information
of value concerning Jackins, Seattle will not be advised
of contents of letter.
_RECOMMENDATION_
It is recommended Steves' letter not be acknowledged for
reasons set forth above.
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1826 R St. NW
Washington, D.C.
July 11, 1955
TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES
FROM L. R. HUBBARD
SUBJECT Further information on attack on Hubbard Assn of Scientologists of
Phoenix, Arizona
Ref. First report of last week.
Information has just been received here that one of the major contributing
factors in the attack upon and collapse of the Hubbard Assn. of
Scientologists in Phoenix Arizona was an accountant.
Named "Jerry" Rahn this accountant first came to the organization in March
volunteering to assist in accounting and income tax matters. A tax return
was given him for filing with the IRS. This tax return was then reported
by the IRS as never having been filed and was then filed again by
registered mail.
His presence insisted upon by Wm. Burke Belknap as Assn president, this
Rahn proceeded, in the absence of the treasurer and without her
permission, to delve into the books of the Assn. On the pretext that they
were in serious error. He pretended to discover many omissions and cast a
serious shadow on the organization directors except Balknap [sic]. Many
rumors were started by this Rahn which had no foundation in fact.
Finally Rahn brought into the picture a Mr. Brewer reputed to be from the
IRS. Before employees in several visits Mr. Brewer alleged that I, while
a director, was actually engaged in some dark and underhanded activity and
had used the organization as a blind and that I was in serious trouble
with the IRS which, in consulting the main office, is apparently not the
case, there being no reason for it.
Panicked by this Rahn and Brewer the organization directors, Belknap, and
one Carol Hadley spent little time on their actual duties and spent some
six weeks involving themselves with this Rahn and Brewer, which by reason
of such inattention, cut the organization off from immediate income and
stopped all outgoing correspondence and activity, quite sufficient in this
case to destroy it which is what happened.
I have had to act to preserve what few assets and activities the
organization had for with its local credit destroyed and without activity
to its membership
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its finances, already involved in the Humphrey suit collapsed.
As no reports were due to the government until October 10th, 1955 and as
adequate time remained and is being used to make these reports, the
introduction of a strange accountant against the wishes of the absent
treasurer and the interjection of a supposed IRS agent - who may very well
be an IRS agent in Phoenix - and the rumors and threats made by these men,
it can be seen that this contributing factor was important.
The attack made by psychiatrists using evidently Communist connected
personnel on the Elizabeth NJ Foundation in 1950 and 51 and the attack
made on the Wichita Foundation in 1952 all ended on the same note of
reports to IRS and much rumor concerning what the IRS would do. However,
so far as anyone knows, the IRS itself took no real notice of the 1950, 51
and 52 attacks and when contacted by myself did not seem to know anything
about the matter. The current attacks on these organizations however is
known to the IRS for the IRS has mildly interviewed me concerning matters.
However the panic caused by the wild accusations and insinuations of this
Brewer, prompted evidently by Rahn (pronounced, I think, "Ran") are new
and strange to my experience with the IRS.
However, the accountant at the Elizabeth N.J. Foundation in 1950 was
continued in employment by one John Maloney and D.G. Purcell until
mid-1951 when I, demanding better security and demanding a review of the
books as Chairman of the Board, the post I occupied in 1951 with the
Wichita Foundation, was refused. I insisted on, then, a lie detector
check being made on personnel of whom I was not sure. One D.H. Rogers, an
officer of the Elizabeth and the Wichita Foundation registered positive on
Communist leanings. The registrar (a Cole Alyneck (Sp?)) refused the test
and disappeared. The accountant whose service had extended over both
Foundations became very nervous, refused the test and disappeared. His
name is not now known to me.
Thus we have a continued parallelism in these attacks on Dianetics and
Scientology in accountancy. Accountancy was a target in 1950, 1951 and
1955 by accountants strange to the organization or of suspicious
circumstance. There might have been some parallelism in the public
relations department if the organization now maintained one for the 1950
and 51 public relations man, Charles Leonard, registered positive on
Communism in the police check
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at Wichita in or around April of 1951, possibly May.
In 1952 and A.E. van Vogt, a writer from Canada naturalised in the US and
living in Los Angeles and a heavy foe of Dianetics and Scientology for
years although pretending to be involved with it and an associate of Gene
Benton, Sara Hollister and others of stated Communistic leanings, made the
statement in writing many times that the IRS was after me and the
organization, a thing which a call to the IRS failed to disclose. Thus
the pattern of reporting to the IRS or spreading rumors about the
intention of the Internal Revenue Service has been continued and confirmed
and is at this time evidently the contributing factor in ending the life
of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists.
To the best of my recollection the accountant "Jerry" Rahn appeared in the
organization about three days after the first despatch [sic] was sent to
the Department of Defense, by wire, concerning a solution to brain
washing. I can establish this more accurately when I obtain, if I can,
possession of my files and accounts.
[signed] L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Note: To the best of my knowledge and belief and having seen lately copies
of its accounts and seeing to an audit of them at this time, there is
nothing whatever in error about or suspicious about these accounts. They
are the ordinary routine accounts of a business of the type the
Association is engaged in. LRH
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D, PH.D.
Box 242
Silver Spring, Md.
July 29, 1955
TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Communist Activities Division
Ref - my earlier correspondence.
Gentlemen:
Having gotten on a somewhat more even keel after the collapse of the
organization in Phoenix, Arizona (the HASI) and having begun operation in
the East with more public success and enthusiasm than I am used to, I have
a better perspective on what occurred in Phoenix.
The attack on the HASI, like the attacks on the 1950 Hubbard Dianetic
Research Foundation found psychiatry and Communist connected personnel
very much in evidence and both active with defamation and very
unreasonable - and unsuccessful - attack.
But something has now occurred which seems strange at this juncture and
entirely too pat. I have received from an unimpeachable source an
invitation to go to Russia. I have been told that this would be as easy
as taking a taxi to the airport.
But the oddity of this invitation is that the person extending it,
evidently on behalf of the Russian government, would not know anything
about the trouble in Phoenix. He obviously has no connection with
anything or anyone in Phoenix. Further, he knows little or nothing of
Dianetics and Scientology and their organizational history and would not
know, by any usual means, what occurred in Phoenix. Out of the blue, on
an acquaintance with me from many, many years ago he locates me here, is
very quiet and casual and then gradually works into the Russian situation
and finally, with a burst of enthusiasm confides in me that in view of the
state of my organizations in the United States (about which he would
really know nothing in fact) and in view of the fact that I "am a cinch to
be ruined by all the people who hate me in Internal Revenue" there is
"really nothing left for it but to accept this Russian offer."
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D., PH.D.
In the greatest spirit of friendship and comeraderie [sic] it seems that I
can go to Russia as an advisor or a consultant and have my own
laboratories and receive very high fees. And it is all so easy because it
has already been ascertained that I could get my passport extended for
Russia and all I had to do was go to Paris and there a Russian plane would
pick me up and that would be that.
Indeed I suppose that that would be that.
This is my third invitation to go to Russia. The first was extended to me
by a member of Amtorg in New York in 1938 who knew of my work in the field
of the mind. The second occurred less directly in 1948 after some
personal difficulty. This third has come when the Phoenix organization
has been collapsed and it would not be known that it did not influence my
own affairs as much as it might be thought.
With this some of the personnel connected with the recent Phoenix trouble
has now drifted into Washington. Shukrie Marinus, the girl connected with
Jackins in Seattle has arrived here. Wm. Burke Belknap, although an
officer in Phoenix seems either the effect of that activity or assisted it
and is here, busy on the phone eight hours a day with local calls in an
area where he has never lived. Carol Hadley Bryans, also an officer in
Phoenix, has likewise arrived and is likewise busy on the phone but
neither of these last two seem prone to do any work but are very busy
spreading disquiet amongst the personnel connected with me here. Two
young men, also strangely connected arrived here and were sent home by me
quickly - Bernard McKnown and Jim Henry both formerly of Hollywood - they
arrived anxious to discredit the better people in the organization. One
Jack Horner has come here and has many rumors with which to upset
Washington personnel - Horner will be recalled as the minister recently
deported from England by the Home Secretary; I have just stopped Horner
from further defiance of English law on behalf of his "fiance" in London
and further discrediting of Scientology in the English papers.
In short I have my hands a little full but unless such people actually can
stir up great trouble we will survive easily and well. I am trying to
disperse them from the area.
I suppose when the Russian-inclined "friend" finds that
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D., PH.D.
my desires to travel in and work in Russia do not exist, I can expect more
violent measures.
I have not given you the name of this contact because he is a little too
highly placed on the Hill and because it _may_ be that he is acting in an
entirely friendly way and it _may_ be, as I sometimes learn, that the fate
of Scientology and its adventures has good word of mouth. I would not
submit you an irresponsible report which then might find me under the TV
cameras telling one of this man's committees why I reported him as a
Communist because I do not know that he is - I only know that he and his
influence has been quite liberal and in all the smoke of the Summit he may
be carried away with enthusiasm. But he _did_ know, when no possible
reasonable way existed for him to know too much about the activities of a
subject about which he professes to know nothing and he has made several
allusions to my possible fate in the United States, rather benign threats.
[signed] L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D, PH.D.
Box 242
Silver Spring, Md.
Sept. 7, 1955
TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Communist Activities
Gentlemen:
A series of sudden insanities and disturbances in Dianetic and Scientology
groups reached seven last week on the West Coast.
In Atomic Energy's Richland, Washington a young boy who had never been
treated with Dianetics or Scientology but whose father Verne mcAdams [sic]
is the local Scientology group leader in Richland suddenly and
mysteriously became insane, so suddenly and so thoroughly that the head of
the institution for insane in Richland, evidently of good security,
suspects the use of LSD, the insanity producing drug so favored by the
APA. Two of our ministers in that area at my request went further into
the situation and by means we will not detail recovered from the boy
information of which his family had been entirely ignorant. On
instructions to find the "other psychiatrist" our ministers by this means
located an unsuspected one in Atomic Energy's front yard, a man who had
been the construction company doctor during the building of Richland and
who had then turned psychiatrist and whose name strangely enough is
Menkowski (sp?). The boy had evidently had some association with this man
before this sudden onset.
With this information not yet cool long distance from San Francisco Bay
Area notified us of the sudden and inexplicable descent into insanity of
one Wanda Collins. She is ravingly insane and yet was completely sane a
day ago. Her people and our people cannot account for missing nine hour
period just before this onset. You should be interested in this because
Wanda Collins resigned from the Communist Party some time ago, foreswore
it and tried to make amends with Scientology and would be a logical
candidate for an LSD attack.
Concurrently with this in Phoenix, Arizona
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D., PH.D.
our Mr. Edd Cark was suddenly arrested "for practicing medicine without a
license", and this is very odd because he is the first Dianeticist or
Scientologist in five years of world wide operation to be so accused. He
could not have been practising medicine because Dianetics and Scientology
seek only to assist able people to improve their talents and have no
interest in sickness or insanity. He was arrested and without and search
warrant all his papers and letters were seized even down to blank
typewriter and were carried away, a fact which places this matter quite
solidly in the field of the F.B.I. Mr. Clark is a half-blind deaf old
man. He was once a chiropractor but has long since ceased to be one. He
was told by the County Attorney that the County Attorney meant to "get to
the bottom of this thing about Hubbard and Scientology."
The "bottom of the thing" can be found in "Who Knows and What" and "Who's
Who in the East" in the local library or from bookstores which carry my
books. My own life is about as hard to investigate as a white rock on a
summer's day.
It is not uncommon in the past five years to have judges and attorneys
mad-dogged at about what a terrible person I am and how foul is
Scientology. Persons never named or available step in, spread violent
tales and accusations and vanish. This mad-dogging has evidently been
done at this County Attorney to prompt such a foolish action. This makes
the third civil official in that area to off half-cocked about
Scientology. When it is all done and Scientology has been neatly ruined
by the newspapers in the area and when all the charges have been quashed
there is no on from whom any recompense can be drawn. "It was all a
mistake".
In 1950 the Dianetics Foundations were violently attacked and discredited.
The 200 Foundation employees, when screened, yielded 35
Communist-connected persons. That done the commotion stopped. After
three quiet years in the Phoenix area we forwarded to the Defense
Department data on brain-washing. Instantly
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D., PH.D.
we became the subject of violence. Four people were seized by
psychiatrists in that area to date and to this day so far as I know are
still being held, their sanity shattered.
After we so informed the Defense Department about brain-washing
technologies in our hands and offered them, we have been in a state of
siege. __Understand that we accuse the D.D. of nothing.__
Psychiatrists as far north as Seattle have said they were "out to get
every Scientologist." An Internal Revenue official has used those very
words before witnesses and said he was going to get to the bottom of this
thing in Phoenix. People in suspicious condition were sent from one place
in Southern California to be "treated by Scientology" for insanity and yet
we have no interest in treating anyone, especially the insane. Now two
more people go suddenly and inexplicably insane in widely different places
both the same way. All manner of defamatory rumors have been scattered
around about me, questioning even my sanity which is fortunately a matter
of good record with the Navy as by statement "having no psychotic or
neurotic symptoms whatsoever."
I have a wife and three little kids. I have a good many thousand people
scattered around the world trying to help their fellow man and I am
responsible for these people. I am trying to turn out some monographs on
matters in my field of nuclear physics and psychology for submission to
the government on the subject of alleviating some of the distress of
radiation burns, a project I came east to complete. This lawless and
brutal attack on Scientology now spreading evidently to three states will
probably not end until a great deal of injustice and human suffering has
occurred.
Would you please discover for me or for yourselves the exact names and
whereabouts of the persons whose statements inflamed the County Attorney
in Phoenix in arresting a half-blind old man and seizing all his books and
papers. If we have those names and if we trace them back we will have
someplace to start on this madness
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L. RON HUBBARD, D.D., PH.D.
which now reaches us into three states. Can you do this for us?
I am getting additional copies of the material which was offered to the
Defense Department since that agency has not acknowledged or returned
anything shipped to it about brain-washing and when I have these copies I
will send one to you for this is the only starting place I know about for
this outbreak and the matter, while far from conclusive at least tells me
that something went astray which was dangerous in the wrong hands.
Could you please have your Phoenix office obtain the names of the people
who defamed us to the County Attorney? Your Bay Area and Richland offices
have already been apprised of the incidents in those areas.
[signed] L
L. Ron Hubbard
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The Hubbard Association of Scientologists International
(Incorporated in the State of Arizona, U.S.A. and registered in England)
BRUNSWICK HOUSE, 83 PALACE GARDENS TERRACE, LONDON, W.8. CABLES:
SCIENTOLOGY LONDON. TEL: BAY 5780 AND 4294
16th December, 1955.
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C.
U.S.A.
Gentlemen:
We are enclosing our printing of what appears to be a Communist manual on
Psychopolitics.
This was compiled from Communist sources for use of our research
department and people.
It may that we will also use this in anti-Communist campaigns.
As there is evidently a copy of Psychopolitics in full view in the Library
of Congress, you evidently do not classify this subject..
We have been seriously hurt by Communists and Communism and we see nothing
wrong in our using their tactics against them.
Should you run into this manual on how to brainwash people you will now be
able to recognize it as printed and distributed by an anti-Communist group
for their research.
Yours very truly,
[signed] L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
LRH:mvt
L. RON HUBBARD - MARY SUE HUBBARD - RALPH SWINSON - KENNETH BARRETT - WM.
BURKE BELKNAP, JR.
Resident in Great Britain authorised to accept service of processes and
notices: GEO. WINCHELOW, 20 CHEPSTOW VILLAS, LONDON W.2
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SAC, Jacksonville 12-4-63
Director, FBI
SCIENTOLOGY ACADEMY
1812 19TH STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D.C.
RESEARCH (CRIME RECORDS)
Reurairtel 11-26-63.
Bufiles contain considerable information regarding Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
This individual founded the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation,
Incorporated (HDRF), in New Jersey in 1950. This organization was
concerned with the treatment of psychosomatic illnesses through "dianetic
therapy," which was allegedly a system of healing involving no drugs or
surgery.
In 1951, the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners filed charges
against HDRF for teaching a branch of medicine without a license. Hubbard
subsequently moved HDRF to Wichita, Kansas, and in 1952, formed the
Hubbard Association of Scientologists in Arizona. Thereafter, he
established offices of this Association in New Jersey and London, England.
Hubbard claims that "scientology" is a new science which instills
confidence in individuals and assists them in removing mental problems and
bolstering their capabilities.
The 4-24-51, issue of the "Washington Times Herald" contained an article
indicating that Hubbard's wife, in suing him for divorce in Los Angeles,
had claimed he was "hopelessly insane" and had subjected her to
"scientific torture experiments." According to this article, "competent
medical advisors recommended that Hubbard be committed to a private
sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment
known as paranoid schizophrenia."
In January, 1963, the Food and Drug Administration directed a raid against
the Academy of Scientology at 1812 19th Street, Northwest, Washington, in
which machines used by the Academy in the practice of scientology were
seized. It was alleged that these machines, known as "Hubbard
Electrometers," were falsely advertised as being effective in diagnosing
and treating various types of illnesses.
Hubbard has corresponded with the Bureau on several occasions for various
reasons, including complaints against his wife and about alleged
communists. We have not conducted an investigation of him or his
organizations.
See NOTE on Page 2
ELR:ca[?]
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Letter to SAC, Jacksonville
RE: SCIENTOLOGY ACADEMY
In the event [BLACKED OUT] recontacts the Ocala, Florida Resident Agency,
concerning this matter, he should be advised that we cannot assist him as
Bureau files are confidential. [REMAINDER OF PARAGRAPH BLACKED OUT[]
NOTE: Jacksonville requested that background data concerning Hubbard and
the Scientology Academy be furnished that Office and that they be advised
as to whether this information could be furnished to [BLACKED OUT] since
it was anticipated he would recontact that Office.
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The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc.
275 Morris Avenue
P.O. Box 502, Elizabeth, N.J.
Elizabeth 3-2[?]51
Office of the President
March 3,1951
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Attn: Mr. Parrish.
Gentlemen:
The following is a list of Communist Party members of suspects in our
organization.
LEO WEST: In charge Chicago office. Known.
DAVE VROOMAN: Employee our Chicago office. Suspect.
ROSS LAMEREAUX: " " " " ".
SARA NORTHRUP (HUBBARD), formerly of 1003 S. Orange Grove Avenue,
Pasadena, Calif. 25 yrs. of age, 5'10", 140 lbs. Currently missing
somewhere in California. Suspected only. Had been friendly with many
Communists. Currently intimate with them but evidently under coercion.
Drug addiction set in fall 1950. Nothing of this known to me until a few
weeks ago. Separation papers being filed and divorce applied for.
MILES HOLLISTER: Somewhere in vicinity of Los Angeles Evidently a prime
mover but very young. About 22 y 6'. 180 lbs. Black hair. Sharp chin,
broad forehead, rather Slavic. Confessedly a member of the Young
Communists. Center of most turbulenc[?] in our organization. Dissmissed
[sic] in February when affiliations discovered. Active and dangerous.
Commonly armed. Outspokenly disloyal to the U.S..
GENE BENTON: Somewhere in Los Angeles. Permitted to resign when
discovered to be a member of the Young Communists. Center of much
turbulence in organization. Was living at Deane Apts. on North
Carondelet. May still be there. Squat, beefy, about 5'8", about 30.
Possibly a member of the Lincoln Brigade but not very probable. Right
name, Weinberger.
PEGGY BENTON: Member Young Communists by statement. 28 yrs. old, wife of
Gene Benton.
LYN HITE: Friend of Bentons and Hollister. Suspected 840 N. Western, Los
Angeles, Hempstead 1316. Very intimate with none but Communists or
suspects.
HENRY HUNTER: Mathematician from Berkeley. One arm. Left arm severed at
shoulder. Supposed to have ha[?] trouble with government before. About
28 yrs. Blond hair. Blue-grey eyes. Suspected only.
MARGE HUNTER: Wife of Henry. States she is a
[small type along the bottom of page: NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. - WASHINGTON,
D.C. - CHICAGO, ILL. - LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - HONOLULU, T.H.]
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SUSAN ISAACSOON: New York office of Foundation. Suspect.
Cont. M.Hunter) Trotskite. [sic] Living with Hunter somewhere in Los
Angeles. Still to be found around LA Dianetic Foundation even though
ejected.
ROGER STARR: About 20 yrs. Small, good looking boy. Intimate of Miles
Hollister, probably a dupe. Suspected only.
HAL MOON: The orders of this man are implicitly obeyed by these other Los
Angeles people. Was once employed by the Foundation. About 6'1", black
hair, tall and pompous. Advertisdely [sic] a practicing minister of the
gospel at Monte Bello, California. Intimate with these others. Cause of
much trouble in Foundation. Shows considerable leadership. No other
data.
RICHARD HALPERN: New York office of Foundation, 55 East 82nd St. A
trustee of the NY Corp.. Only very faintly suspected due to small
objections to our having loyalty oaths.
[HANS crossed out, Haljmar handwritten] RUTZEBAK: Sunland, California.
Intimate of the Bentons. Highly liberal but not otherwise known to have
any Communist connections. Once employed by the government for forming
cooperatives.
All but Starr, Moon and Rutzebak have been reported to field offices.
At the last session of the board of Trustees, Mar. 2, 1951, a motion was
made and passed that everyone employed by the Hubbard Dianetic Research
Foundations everywhere should be requested to sign a strong oath of
loyalty to the U.S. government, a denial of Communism and that their
fingerprints be taken and forwarded to the F.B.I. The operation of
preparing and signing the oaths and fingerprinting all employees is now
being undertaken and the results will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation in Washington as soon as these are completed. It may
take some weeks to complete this task but the documents, as completed,
will be sent in.
The Foundation has assumed a highly punitive stand on Communism. I shall
shortly be in Washington to go over this matter with the government.
[signed] L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
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Mar. 3, 1951
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
CHICAGO, ILL.
Attn: R.J.Wilson.
Gentlemen;
Supplementing data already furnished to you, the following two names are
enclosed as part of the list.
DAVE VROOMAN. Came into organization with Miles Hollister. Highly
recommended by Hollister, who is apparently a member of the Young
Communists. Vrooman has caused some trouble in the organization. The
only reason to suspect Vrooman is that he is an intimate friend of
Hollister's and takes Hollister's orders. Vrooman is employed by the
Chicago Foundation Office. He is about twenty-three, plump, about 5'5" or
more, black hair. Seldom wears a coat.
ROSS LAMEREAUX. Employee at Chicago. A doctor of philosophy, according
to his statement. Takes orders from Hollister and is highly recommended
by Hollister. Nothing else is known about this man.
If anything is going to be done about these people at Chicago, it had
better be done soon. At the board of trustees meeting last Saturday, I
requested a motion to the effect that eveyone in the Foundation be
required to take a strong loyalty oath to the U.S. and that the
fingerprints of everyone employed be taken and, with a copy of the oath,
be sent to the F.B.I.. Some objection was made by Richard Halpern, a
trustee from New York City, and a great deal of objection was made by Leo
West of Chicago. It is my belief that we are going to see a blow-up in
the Chicago office and an attempt to withdraw from the Foundation.
Evidently employment of C.P. members could have been an action of West.
The oath and fingerprint motion was passed and will be a completed project
shortly.
L. Ron Hubbard
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