US GOVERNMENT RAIDS

reference to an attempt by the Food and Drug Administration to discredit Scientology by claiming that the E-Meter was used to "diagnose" or "cure illness." On January 4, 1963, US marshals, deputized longshoremen and armed police barged their way into the Founding Church of Scientology in Washington, threatened the staff and left with two vans of not only E-Meters, but books, scriptures and other materials. They did not succeed in their attemptTthe Washington, DC Federal Appeals Court later ruled that the E-Meter had not been improperly labeled or used and all seized materials were returned to the Church.