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Recommendation from Representative
Warren G. Magnuson, 8 April 1941

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The following document is possibly forged - Warren G. Magnuson's library does not contain this letter (a highly unusual occurrence) and the signature is described as "a good likeness" - not much of a declaration of authenticity. Stylistically, it is distinctly Hubbardian, as a comparison with the letter purportedly from Senator Robert M. Ford shows. That, from Ford's own testimony, was written by Hubbard. There is a fair likelihood (perhaps an evens chance) that this, too, was forged by Hubbard.

Magnuson was Hubbard's Congressman. They had corresponded earlier in the year over a suggestion by Ron that the US Navy should set up its own Bureau of Information, both to improve the Navy's public relations and to counter the "defeatist propaganda" which, according to Ron, was "flooding the press".



The letter makes a number of false claims which clearly originated with Ron, as he repeated them in future years:

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