 In July 1947 Dr. J. J. <unk> , director of the Medical Advisory Division of the Federal Trade Commission , wrote to the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) asking them to investigate Reich 's claims about the health benefits of orgone . The FDA assigned an investigator to the case , who learned that Reich had built 250 accumulators . The FDA concluded that they were dealing with a " fraud of the first magnitude . " According to Sharaf , the FDA suspected a sexual racket of some kind ; questions were asked about the women associated with <unk> and " what was done with them . " From that point on , Reich 's work came increasingly to the attention of the authorities . 
