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### Federal and local scrutiny
An FBI name check requested by Brigadier General [[Sherman Miles]] of Army G-2 on October 10, 1940 for Parsons, then living at 168 Terrace Drive, Pasadena, returned "NO RECORD WAS LOCATED."[^16] In March 1942 FBI agents searched Germer's [[New York]] home for almost four hours and read his and his wife's letters.[^17] [[Tobias Churton]]'s biography of Crowley, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, records that on January 16, 1943 the lodge "is visited by the F.B.I. after they are told it is a house of subversive 'Sex Perversion'."[^18] On February 3, 1943 Smith wrote to Crowley: "I told two FBI men ten days ago after three hours questioning that they had my full permission to read all my letters" and "We have been harried by the FBI thrice lately."[^19] On March 27, 1943 Max Schneider wrote of "a lodge that has been so badly mismanaged and has acquired an undesirable reputation to the extent of inviting the repeated scrutinies of the local police as well as of the F.B.I.," and described the Winona Boulevard house as known as a "hangout" of homosexuals and lesbians.[^20]
An FBI name check requested by Brigadier General [[Sherman Miles]] of Army G-2 on October 10, 1940 for Parsons, then living at 168 Terrace Drive, Pasadena, returned "NO RECORD WAS LOCATED."[^16] In March 1942 FBI agents searched Germer's [[New York City|New York]] home for almost four hours and read his and his wife's letters.[^17] [[Tobias Churton]]'s biography of Crowley, as cited in the Crowley Timeline, records that on January 16, 1943 the lodge "is visited by the F.B.I. after they are told it is a house of subversive 'Sex Perversion'."[^18] On February 3, 1943 Smith wrote to Crowley: "I told two FBI men ten days ago after three hours questioning that they had my full permission to read all my letters" and "We have been harried by the FBI thrice lately."[^19] On March 27, 1943 Max Schneider wrote of "a lodge that has been so badly mismanaged and has acquired an undesirable reputation to the extent of inviting the repeated scrutinies of the local police as well as of the F.B.I.," and described the Winona Boulevard house as known as a "hangout" of homosexuals and lesbians.[^20]
Crowley wrote to Smith on April 1, 1943 that Smith's "attitude to the F.B.I." showed his "complete unfitness for your position": he "should have welcomed the investigators in the warmest way" and told them that the world's only hope was to accept the Law of Thelema officially. Smith replied on June 10, 1943: "You judge my fitness for a position by the way I handled the two F.B.I. men. Really, that is not sound!"[^21] On November 3, 1943 Crowley wrote to Smith that Smith's conduct had made "the F.B.I. wonder what is going on."[^22] Smith, for his part, wrote to Crowley on September 14, 1943 that Crowley's letters were ones "the F.B.I. seem to take seriously."[^23]