A. A. Allen: FBI Record Declassified

In 1965, the FBI's Legal Attaché in London opened an investigation into A. A. Allen's fraudulent claims in his healing revivals. Several members of Parliament in London received letters of complaints during a three-month series of revivals. The letters were forwarded to the British Home Office, and London Metropolitan Police opened an active investigation into Allen's claims. It was then learned that Allen had a criminal record back in the United States, with convictions and charges ranging from several alcohol-related charges to tax evasion. An unnamed informant in one of Allen's 1959 revivals sent information to the FBI that Allen had staged fake healings in his revivals in Texas. Allen apparently planted people in the healing lines that would "hobble to the altar" and suddenly pretend to be healed.

Allen's fake healing gimmick was apparently profitable. According to the FBI report, A. A. Allen had been in litigation over unpaid taxes. Allen owed $350,000, which was approximately the same amount Branham apparently owed.
Interestingly, A. A. Allen's FBI file also included a request for J. Edgar Hoover to open an investigation into Anton Lavey and the First Organized Church of Satan. The FBI had not yet opened an active investigation into Lavey, but did have correspondence between the A. A. Allen Revivals and the Church of Satan, and also had record of Allens' request for his cult of personality to send him money to fight Lavey.[25]

A. A. Allen died of alcoholism at the Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco, California, on June 11, 1970. FBI documents reveal that Allen was an alcoholic for most of his evangelistic career. His FBI Record lists arrests in 1946 in Las Vegas for drunken driving, 1956, 1959, and 1960 in California for drunkenness, and 1964 in Florida for drunken driving and fleeing the scene of the accident. He was also arrested in Tennessee for drunken driving, though the FBI did not have a record of it at the time of the inquiry. From the report, it appears that failing mental health played a factor in his drunkenness; in 1962 Allen's wife filed a petition to have him committed to a mental institution in Arizona. When he died, the coroner's report stated that Allen died from liver failure brought on by acute alcoholism. The coroner reported that when Allen died, he had a blood alcohol content of .36, which was "enough to ensure a deep coma". Members of Allen's cult of personality, however, are told that the coroner had falsified his report and that Allen died of cardiac arrest.

A. A. Allen:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/a._a._allen

Declassified FBI Document;
https://william-branham.org/site/resource?key=a26177f9-db68-44a1-952b-61997ba95c2f&parent=a._a._allen