FROM THE FILES OF THE FBI #73

[undated, probably circa Jan 1963]

Mr. J. F. Kennedy

President of the United States of America

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President,

Twice within the past few weeks you have spoken publicly about the advancing of the human spirit, once at a banquet here in Washington, and again, to ex-prisoners of Castro, in Miami.

Therefore, I invite your personal attention to last Friday's raid, by U.S. Marshals, on a legally constituted church organization, The Founding Church of Scientology, at 1812 19th Street, N.W., Washington 9, D.C., in violation of the United States Constitution.

The purpose was to seize an instrument used in our confessional, and religious literature.

Mr. President, would you greet with equanimity, a loud interruption, by public servants, sworn to uphold the Constitution, of your private confessions to your priest? It happened here.

Please help to restore the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom by whatever means at your command.

Sincerely,

[signed] Rev. H. R. Angell

Rev. H.R. Angell

Director of Training

Academy of Scientology

Founding Church of Scientology