Another wonderful letter from Hubbard. All one has to remember is that in 1955, the US was in the grip of a massive anti-communism campaign and Hubbard was playing it to the hilt. This was an era when all you had to do was call your neighbor a "commie" and they were ruined. Watch Hubbard at his best. (Well, almost his best.) (laugh)

Robert Vaughn Young
writer@eskimo.com

RonIsXenu (ronisxenu@aol.com) wrote:

L. RON HUBBARD.  D.D.  PH.D.
Box 242
Silver Springs, Md.
July 29, 1955

TOTHE 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 Hub-bard 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 unim-peachable 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 ex-tending 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 about Dianetics and
Scientology and their organization history and would not know, by any usual
means, what occurred in Phoenix.  Out of the blue, on an acquaintance with
me from many, manyXyears 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 U.S. public attitude toward me (which is in
actuality rather good considering) 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."

L. RON HUBBARD  D.D.  PH.D.


In the greatest spirit of friendship and camaraderie 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

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

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 tha he is
acting in an entirely friendly way and it sav 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 hope 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