Campbell took it upon himself to get to the bottom of the rumors, and the foundation established a board of ethics. There was concern over “black dianetics,” which twisted the therapy into a form of mind control, but the investigation was primarily an extension of Hubbard’s accusations about communism. The editor began “a simple process of getting all the gripes I could, airing them in the meetings, and back-checking on the information until we found where it started,” with the assistance of the former FBI agent C. Parker Morgan, whose investigative methods included “desk-prying [and]
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