Scientology's Suppressive Person Doctrine

snoflower · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:20 am

I know a man who knew Hubbard in the 1950`s (he is quite advanced in years, and is a WWII vet). He was recieving some auditing, and while waiting in the living room noticed some mail on the fireplace mantle. Being an avid stamp collector, he picked up the envelopes to examine the stamps. Hubbard came into the room and immediately became suspicious and extremely upset that his mail envelopes were being touched. Hubbards paranoia dates back many, many years, and is at the root of his SP theories.

nightsinger · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:46 am

That 'Chart Of Human Evaluation' anywhere online? That makes me shudder. Echoes of 'V' in the background of my mind.

Patty Pieniadz · **Joined:** Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:50 am **Posts:** 452

What do you think of the symbolism in this ad.

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Sponge · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:07 pm

^ LOL @ cockrocket.

caroline · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:58 pm

nightsinger wrote:

That 'Chart Of Human Evaluation' anywhere online? That makes me shudder. Echoes of 'V' in the background of my mind.

Here's an excerpt that shows Hubbard's evaluation for people at 1.1 on the tone scale.
http://www.suppressiveperson.org/spdl/images/stories/scripture/sos-chart-human-eval-1.1.gif

You could also try a check on Worldcat to see if Science of Survival is in your local library.

caroline · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:53 pm

snoflower wrote:

I know a man who knew Hubbard in the 1950`s (he is quite advanced in years, and is a WWII vet). He was recieving some auditing, and while waiting in the living room noticed some mail on the fireplace mantle. Being an avid stamp collector, he picked up the envelopes to examine the stamps. Hubbard came into the room and immediately became suspicious and extremely upset that his mail envelopes were being touched. Hubbards paranoia dates back many, many years, and is at the root of his SP theories.

That's interesting snoflower. I wonder whether it'd be possible to get that person's first hand account down, even in a video or audio recording.

caroline · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:33 pm

Jim Warren, Celebrity Artist and Scientology Ambassador is currently commenting on Glosslip article: Scientology Ditz, Jenna Elfman’s New Fall Show… A CBS Accident For Sure. Here's the RSS comments feed. And here's the OCMB thread about the Glosslip article.

I'll post Jim Warren's 2003 Celebrity interview about the SP doctrine, in the public interest.

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Jim Warren wrote:

"One of my early successes was only about a year after I started in Scientology. I accomplished one of my biggest dreams... I painted the cover and it won a Grammy Award for Best Album Package."

Jim Warren

The name Jim Warren may be familiar to you. It may also be that you've never heard his name. But, you have undoubtedly seen his art at some time, in some form. It may be on some of your record album covers or, perhaps, on the front of a treasured paperback. It could be that you were struck by one of his paintings on a billboard while driving to work, on one of your favorite television shows, or even on a greeting card you received from a friend.

Jim Warren's career as an artist started almost thirty years ago, where he won first place in his first art show in California. Since that time he has quickly gained popularity painting fine art, illustrations and portraits.

Early in his career, Jim painted album art, winning a Grammy Award for the cover art of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band's Against the Wind.

Jim also illustrated book covers, with over two hundred covers to his credit, including titles from authors such as Arthur C. Clark, Clive Barker and Piers Anthony.

For the past eleven years, Jim has been a featured artist in the prestigious Wyland Gallery chain and has collaborated on several now classic paintings with top marine life artist Wyland.

Jim has made his living solely from his art since coming into Scientology in 1978. This month, he speaks with Celebrity Magazine on a service that especially contributed to his success as an artist, the PTS/SP Course.

CELEBRITY: How did you get into Scientology?

JIM: I saw an advertisement in 1978 on TV for Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The ad showed a boy feeling bad because of an upsetting incident in the past. What I was experiencing at the time was the exact same thing as shown on the ad and I thought, "That's what's happening to me. That's what I need. Get me that book." I ran out and bought the book.

Then I went to the mission in Long Beach, California. They recommended I do the PTS/SP Course. It was recommended for artists and people who were roller-coastering in life, doing good, then doing bad. — "Hey! That's what I'm doing," I thought. I was doing well in many ways but not enjoying it as I should have, and I would start to go up, then roll back down again. It was getting frustrating, until I started studying Scientology.

First I did the Success Through Communication Course and I really liked it. Then I went straight onto the PTS/SP Course — about 40 hours per week — and it truly hit the spot.

CELEBRITY: what gains did you notice while doing or having completed the course?

JIM: I noticed right away my situation getting sorted out. I first learned it had to do not just with other people, but with myself and my ethics and how that related to being bothered by other people. I realized things I was doing wrong that caused the situation I was in. I realized, "Wow. Ethics is an important thing and I shouldn't do those things. I should be more honest with people."

At that point I started to get along with people better and started feeling much better about myself. I started understanding people better. I started seeing that there were kinds of people around me that I shouldn't be around — they weren't so ethical and they weren't exactly encouraging me with my art. They were destructive people and I was trying to do something constructive. It wasn't working.

I dramatically changed my lifestyle and the people with whom I was associated. After that my art career became very stable. I started to enjoy being an artist again.

CELEBRITY: How did that affect your career?

JIM: I was much more confident, and I could go forward and I felt free to do whatever I wanted to do. I immediately went up rather than up and down. I started to have big successes in my art very soon after I started in Scientology.

I accomplished one of my biggest dreams at the time which was, since high school, I wanted to paint album covers and see my art on album covers of musicians that I admired. In 1979, Bob Seger had wanted me to do his album cover for Against the Wind, which was of horses. The art director for Capitol Records encouraged me that I could do this. I painted the cover and it won a Grammy Award for Best Album Package.

The album also went #1, exactly what I'd always dreamed ten years earlier in high school — "Gee, I want to see my artwork out there, internationally on a hit record album. Something everybody sees." I went after a dream and I got it.

Another dream was to be a fine artist and be in the public eye, something I had actually been withdrawing from after earlier attempts. With my new confidence and ability to handle people, I went out again to the very large public art show in Westwood, California where I won first place for my fine art. That was my dream too — to be accepted as an artist for my own paintings and for my own ideas.

Another dream was to have my art published and distributed broadly in stores. This soon happened also.

It was just a simple matter of weeding people out who overtly, or worse, covertly, tell you "you can't" or "you shouldn't" or "you're not good enough." All of the negative yackety-yack.

I now love being an artist and also can easily juggle the demands of family and career.

CELEBRITY: I read that before you painted the Against the Wind cover, you hadn't painted horses.

JIM: No. I just painted mostly people and when the art director said, "Oh, Bob Seger really wants horses," I said "I can't do horses." "Yes you can," he said. "Ok. For Seger I can do horses." My attitude was, if somebody said I could, I could. That's the kind of people to associate with, people who encourage, especially in the beginning of your career. You need the confidence and belief in the positive. Don't worry about the failings and rejections. Don't worry about the unimportant things like that.

One thing unusual about me and my success is that I have made it as an illustrator (book covers, movie posters, corporate ads, etc.), a fine artist (over 40 galleries and many products such as puzzles and greeting cards worldwide) and as a portrait artist. I continue to do all three when I choose.

I attribute much of my success to the PTS/SP Course, because before that, success was mostly just a dream, not a reality that I could actually "have."

CELEBRITY: It is an LRH datum that the artist attracts the antisocial. Is this something you've experienced, and how did you handle it?

JIM: It's very real to me as an artist. I was not aware that there were antisocial people in the world, although they were very much around me I later found. There were people that would even "get behind me" in business, that in one way or another were tearing me down even when "promoting" me. It almost became normal to me and I accepted that this is the way life is.

Painting was what I wanted to do, but I started thinking, "Well, as an artist, you're going to be treated that way." And I was resigned to that.

With the PTS/SP course, I saw that wasn't right and there are just some people that have that attitude. It's just a false, weird data that "You're an artist and artists are..." They have these fixed ideas that they try to put on you. I kind of believed that, because I didn't know otherwise — until I did the PTS/SP Course.

It actually can become a generality, "Artists are just weirdos. They aren't really smart. They just paint things." It's very general so you start feeling that everyone thinks that about you and after a while I started to believe it myself. If you don't understand people, you can easily go into agreement with what they are saying about you. I found that's how it worked on me. I started to believe those covert generalities until I looked at it on the PTS/SP Course. When I got specific as to who around me was making me feel like that, I found it was really only a few. I could then separate who was that way and who wasn't. What was once "everyone" became just a few, whom I didn't need around me.

A weird thing I noticed about the antisocial person is they act like you need them to survive. "Oh, you're just an artist. I will promote you, because artists can't promote themselves — they aren't very smart, you know." Forget it. I don't need that.

After that, I promoted myself. I was the one who sent out my art to the record companies and other places, which resulted in the Grammy Award and other successes. I didn't promote myself before that. I relied on other people. This is a good example of how my viewpoint changed from the course. I could promote myself with confidence and I could stay true to my dreams.

CELEBRITY: Having PTS tech under your belt, do you operate differently now?

JIM: I never really have to think about weeding out people anymore. My art is in over 40 galleries right now, and I do about 50 art shows a year. So, I'm around a lot of people — almost everybody in the business. I don't even have to think about the application of PTS tech anymore. I just instinctively know who I want to talk to and who I don't. It's not something where I have to sit down and think, "Oh, I shouldn't be dealing with this person."

I don't even attract them anymore. It doesn't happen. Those people that used to buzz around me like a swarm of bees, it's like they don't exist anymore. I think they just know when they come around and start talking to me, I don't look like I'm going to fall for their little game anymore. My instincts guide me now because I know the tech so well. It's just second nature.

You know, most people are good intentioned, and I just deal with them.

I want to mention also that there is constructive criticism and destructive criticism and after the course, I could truly tell which is which.

CELEBRITY: How has the Golden Age of Tech affected your knowledge of the PTS Tech?

JIM: Well, the original PTS/SP course I did back in the late 70s had enough important basics that I could take these tools, use them to see what was happening and do what LRH said to do in order to handle situations. When I did the course later with the Golden Age of Tech, it put the tech in solidly.

Quote:

"I just instinctively know who I want to talk to and who I don't. It's not something where I have to sit down and think, "Oh, I shouldn't be dealing with this person."

[Image captions: Left to right: "Nature's Little Helper"; "Snow White's Romance," a collaboration with Disney; "Wild Waters"]

The drills really helped me to get all the data so that I don't have to look back for an answer. I know the tech perfectly. I know the tech enough to help other people with it. The course took my ability to apply PTS tech to that new level.

The new checksheet is laid out in a simple gradient that makes it easy to study and easy to apply. In the end, it all fits together like the pieces of a puzzle — so that you have the whole concept of the subject when you are finished. I use it every day without even thinking about it.

Aspiring artists around the world e-mail me every day and sometimes they say, "I'm not very good. My teacher says..." "Well, ok," I tell them, "Go by what you think. Paint from the heart and don't stop and you will be as good as you want someday. It doesn't matter what the teacher thinks. Some people are just stuck on their own failure and believe nobody else is able to make it. People used to tell me that, but I don't listen anymore."

CELEBRITY: How has knowing PTS tech helped you move up The Bridge? Jilfi:Well, the reason I did the course was because of PTSness. When you have and can apply PTS tech, you can have wins and continue with more. You're not dealing with problems going on around your life, where you're distracted all the time.

I'm surprised they knew at the mission that I needed to do the PTS/SP Course before Dianetics. But it was true. I wouldn't have moved otherwise.

Aside from the technical reasons — out-ethics, problems — when you have a PTS situation, you can get distracted, goof around or waste a lot of time. In short, you'll do anything but move up The Bridge.

For me, there was no middle ground. I either had a lot of suppression around or I had none. When I had it around, if I went up at all, I went right back down. You tend to want to give up.
But when you have the data of what is going on, and you know what to do about it — Wow! You can move on.

CELEBRITY: Who should, in your opinion, do this course?

JIM: Everyone, really. This course also cleaned up a lot of things in my past. Things I should have known long before I was an artist. I could have used that!

Looking back, wow! My first grade teacher was like this. No wonder I was sick and I didn't want to go to school.

I don't look at the PTS/SP course as one only artists need because they attract antisocials.

Everybody, especially successful people, and anyone who wants to become successful. Even if you don't have an obvious problem, it'll make certain that you don't get caught by surprise. You'll be ready for it and handle it. I can't imagine anyone not knowing this data.

I have kids now, and in a gradient way, my wife and I are already teaching them about it.

CELEBRITY: Is there anything else you'd like to say?

JIM: I'd just like to stress it's such a good feeling to feel confident and have understanding about people, especially when you are in the public eye as an artist.

And I forgot to mention a very important thing, the achievement of my greatest goal. This data has steadily improved my art and what it communicates. Many of the letters I get, from places such as Iraq, Iran and Israel, mention after seeing my website that my art has uplifted and inspired them and given them a happy place to go in "these stressful times." Changing the world for the better with my art is what I set out to do from the beginning. I could never communicate artistically in that way without the PTS/SP Course, that's for sure. •

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caroline · **Posted:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:53 pm

Guardian's Office intelligence agents trained on this policy letter in which Hubbard defined "Fair game" and ordered the treatment of SPs. Although this PL was later redated and revised on 23 December 1965 (OEC, Vol. 1, 1974 ed.), the 1974 Confidential Intelligence Course specifies Hubbard's original 1 March 1965 version. (See p. 18, Section E, #2.)

L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 March 1965
(HCO Division 1)

Gen Non-Remimeo
Post Public Bulletin Board

JUSTICE
SUPPRESSIVE ACTS
SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS
THE FAIR GAME LAW

Due to the extreme urgency of our mission I have worked to remove some of the fundamental barriers from our progress.

The chief stumbling block, huge above all others, is the upset we have with POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCES and their relationship to Suppressive Persons or Groups.

A POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE is defined as a person who while active in Scientology or a pc yet remains connected to a person or group that is a Suppressive Person or Group.

A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON or GROUP is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist by Suppressive Acts.

SUPPRESSIVE ACTS are acts calculated to impede or destroy Scientology or a Scientologist and which are listed at length in this policy letter.

A Scientologist caught in the situation of being in Scientology while still connected with a Suppressive Person or Group is given a Present Time Problem of sufficient magnitude to prevent case gain, as only a PTP can halt progress of a case. Only ARC Breaks worsen it. To the PTP is added ARC Breaks with the Suppressive Person or Group. The result is no-gain or deterioration of a case by reason of the suppressive connection in the environment. Any Scientologist, in his own experience, can probably recall some such cases and their subsequent upset.

Until the environment is handled, nothing beneficial can happen. Quite the contrary. In the most flagrant of such cases the Scientologist’s case worsened and the Suppressive Person or Group sent endless reports to press, police, authorities and the public in general.

Unless the Potential Trouble Source, the preclear caught up in this, can be made to take action of an environmental nature to end the situation one has a pc or Scientologist who may cave in or squirrel because of no case gain and also a hostile environment for Scientology.

This policy letter gives the means and provides the policy for getting the above situation handled.

A Potential Trouble Source may receive no processing until the situation is handled.

A Suppressive Person or Group becomes “fair game”.

By FAIR GAME is meant, without rights for self, possessions or position, and no Scientologist may be brought before a Committee of Evidence or punished for any action taken against a Suppressive Person or Group during the period that person or group is "fair game".

The families and adherents of Suppressive Persons or Groups may not receive processing. It does not matter whether they are or are not Scientologists. If the families or adherents of Suppressive Persons or Groups are processed, any auditor doing so is guilty of a misdemeanor. (See HCO Policy Letter of 7 March 1965, Issue II.)

A Potential Trouble Source knowingly permitting himself or herself or the Suppressive Person to be processed without advising the auditor or Scientology authorities is guilty of a crime. (See HCO Policy Letter of 7 March 1965, Issue II).

SUPPRESSIVE ACTS

Suppressive Acts are defined as actions or omissions undertaken to knowingly suppress, reduce or impede Scientology or Scientologists.

Such Suppressive Acts include public disavowal of Scientology or Scientologists in good standing with Scientology Organizations; public statements against Scientology or Scientologists but not to Committees of Evidence duly convened; proposing, advising or voting for legislation or ordinances, rules or laws directed toward the Suppression of Scientology; pronouncing Scientologists guilty of the practice of standard Scientology; testifying hostilely before state or public inquiries into Scientology to suppress it; reporting or threatening to report Scientology or Scientologists to civil authorities in an effort to suppress Scientology or Scientologists from practicing or receiving standard Scientology; bringing civil suit against any Scientology organization or Scientologist including the non-payment of bills or failure to refund without first calling the matter to the attention of the Chairman at Saint Hill and receiving a reply; demanding the return of any or all fees paid for standard training or processing actually received or received in part and still available but undelivered only because of departure of the person demanding (the fees must be refunded but this Policy Letter applies); writing anti-Scientology letters to the press or giving anti-Scientology or anti-Scientologist evidence to the press; testifying as a hostile witness against Scientology in public; continued membership in a divergent group; continued adherence to a person or group pronounced a Suppressive Person or Group by HCO; failure to handle or disavow and disconnect from a person demonstrably guilty of suppressive acts; being at the hire of anti-Scientology groups or persons; organizing a splinter group to use Scientology data or any part of it to distract people from standard Scientology; organizing splinter groups to diverge from Scientology practices, still calling it Scientology or calling it something else; calling meetings of staffs or field auditors or the public to deliver Scientology into the hands of unauthorized persons or [persons] who will suppress it or alter it or who have no reputation for following standard lines and procedures; infiltrating a Scientology group or organization or staff to stir up discontent or protest at the instigation of hostile forces; 1st degree murder, arson, disintegration of persons or belongings; mutiny; seeking to splinter off an area of Scientology and deny it properly constituted authority for personal profit, personal power or “to save the organization from the higher officers of Scientology”; engaging in malicious rumourmongering to destroy the authority or repute of higher officers or the leading names of Scientology or to “safeguard” a position; delivering up the person of a Scientologist without defense or protest to the demands of civil or criminal law; falsifying records that then imperil a Scientologist; receiving money, favours or encouragement to suppress Scientology or Scientologists; sexual or sexually perverted conduct contrary to the well being or good state of mind of a Scientologist in good standing or under the charge of Scientology such as a student, a preclear, a ward or a patient; blackmail of Scientologists or Scientology organizations threatened or accomplished – in which case the crime being used for blackmail purposes becomes fully outside the reach of Ethics and is absolved by the fact of blackmail unless repeated.

Suppressive Acts are clearly those covert or overt acts knowingly calculated to reduce or destroy the influence or activities of Scientology or prevent case gains or continued Scientology success and activity on the part of a Scientologist. As persons or groups that would do such a thing act out of self interest only to the detriment of all others, they cannot be granted the rights and beingness ordinarily accorded rational beings and so place themselves beyond any consideration for their feelings or well being.

If a person or a group that has committed a Suppressive Act comes to his, her or their senses and recants, the HCO Secretary:

A. Tells the person or group to stop committing present time overts and to cease all attacks and suppressions so he, she or they can get a case gain;

B. Requires a public announcement to the effect that they realize their actions were ignorant and unfounded and stating where possible the influences or motivations which caused them to attempt to suppress or attack Scientology; gets it signed before witnesses and published broadly, particularly to persons directly influenced or formerly associated with the former offender or offenders. The letter should be calculated to expose any conspiracy to suppress Scientology or the preclear or Scientologist if such existed;

C. Require training beginning at HAS at their expense if Division 2 (Training and Processing) will have the person or the group members;

D. Make a note of the matter with copies of the statement and files in the Justice files.

E. Inform the Chairman at Saint Hill and forward a duplicate of the original copy which shows signatures.

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Until a Suppressive person or group is absolved, but not during the period when the person requests and has a Committee of Evidence, or an amnesty occurs, no Scientology Justice other than this HCO Policy Letter applies to such persons, no Committee of Evidence may be called to punish any Scientologist or person for any offenses of any kind against the Suppressive Person except to establish in cases of real dispute whether or not the person was suppressing either Scientology or the Scientologist.

The homes, property, places and abodes of persons who have been active in attempting to suppress Scientology or Scientologists are all beyond any protection of Scientology Justice, unless absolved by later Justice or an amnesty.

Such persons are in the same category as those whose certificates have been cancelled, and persons whose certificates, classifications and awards have been cancelled are also in this category.

The imagination must not be stretched to place this label on a person. Errors, misdemeanors and crimes do not label a person as a Suppressive Person or Group. Only High Crimes do so.

A Committee of Evidence may be called by any Convening Authority who wishes more concrete evidence of efforts to suppress Scientology or Scientologists but if such a Committee’s findings, passed on, establish beyond reasonable doubt Suppressive Acts, this Policy Letter applies and the person is fair game.

Outright or covert acts knowingly designed to impede or destroy Scientology or Scientologists is what is meant by Acts Suppressive of Scientology or Scientologists.

The greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics requires that actions destructive of the advance of the many, by Scientology means, overtly or covertly undertaken with the direct target of destroying Scientology as a whole, or a Scientologist in particular, be summarily handled due to the character of the reactive mind and the consequent impulses of the insane or near insane to ruin every chance of Mankind via Scientology.

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POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE

A Scientologist connected by familial or other ties to a person who is guilty of Suppressive Acts is known as a Potential Trouble Source or Trouble Source. The history of Dianetics and Scientology is strewn with these. Confused by emotional ties, dogged in refusing to give up Scientology, yet invalidated by a Suppressive Person at every turn they cannot, having a PTP, make case gains. If they would act with determination one way or the other – reform the Suppressive Person or disconnect, they could then make gains and recover their potential. If they make no determined move, they eventually succumb.

Therefore this Policy Letter extends to suppressive non-Scientology wives and husbands and parents, or other family members or hostile groups or even close friends. So long as a wife or husband, father or mother or other family connection, who is attempting to suppress the Scientology spouse or child, or hostile group remains continuingly acknowledged or in communication with the Scientology spouse or child or member, then that Scientologist or preclear comes under the family or adherent clause and may not be processed or further trained until he or she has taken appropriate action to cease to be a Potential Trouble Source.

The validity of this policy is borne out by the fact that the US government raids and other troubles were instigated by wives, husbands or parents who were actively suppressing a Scientologist, or Scientology. The suppressed Scientologist did not act in good time to avert the trouble by handling the antagonistic family member as a suppressive source or disconnect fully.

Disconnection from a family member or cessation of adherence to a Suppressive Person or Group is done by the potential trouble source publicly publishing the fact, as in the legal notices of “The Auditor” and public announcements and taking any required civil action such as disavowal, separation or divorce and thereafter cutting all further communication and disassociating from the person or group.

Unwarranted or threatened disconnection has the recourse of the person or group being disconnected from requesting a Committee of Evidence from the nearest Convening Authority (or HCO) and producing to the Committee any evidence of actual material assistance to Scientology without reservation or bad intent. The Committee must be convened if requested.

Before publicly disconnecting, the Scientologist would be well advised to fully inform the person he or she accuses of Suppressive Acts of the substance of this policy letter and seek a reform of the person, disconnecting only when honest efforts to reform the person have not been co-operated with or have failed. And only then disconnecting publicly. Such efforts should not be unduly long as any processing of the Potential Trouble Source is denied or illegal while the connection exists and a person not actively seeking to settle the matter may be subjected to a Committee of Evidence if processed meanwhile.

The real motives of suppressive persons have been traced to quite sordid hidden desires – in one case the wife wanted her husband’s death so she could get his money, and fought Scientology because it was making the husband well. Without handling the wife or the connection with the woman the Scientologist, as family, drifted on with the situation and the wife was able to cause a near destruction of Scientology in that area by false testimony to the police and government and press. Therefore this is a serious thing – to tolerate or remain connected to a source of active suppression of a Scientologist or Scientology without legally disconnecting
the relationship or acting to expose the true motives behind the hostility and reform the person. No money particularly may be accepted as fee or loan from a person who is “family” to a suppressive person and therefore a Potential Trouble Source. There is no source of trouble in Scientology’s history greater than this one for frequency and lack of attention.

Anyone absolved of Suppressive Acts by an amnesty or a Committee of Evidence ceases to be fair game. Anyone found guilty of Suppressive Acts by a Committee of Evidence and its Convening Authorities remains fair game unless saved by an amnesty.

This Policy Letter is calculated to prevent future distractions of this nature as time goes on.

RIGHTS OF A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON OR GROUP

A truly Suppressive Person or Group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.

However a person or group may be falsely labelled a Suppressive Person or Group. Should the person or group claim the label to be false, he, she or they may request a Committee of Evidence via their nearest HCO. The executive with the power to convene a Committee of Evidence must do so if one is requested for recourse or redress of wrongs.

The person or representative of the group labelled Suppressive is named as an Interested Party to the Committee. They attend it where it convenes.

The Committee must pay attention to any actual evidences that the person or group that is accused of being suppressive may produce particularly to the effect of having helped Scientology or Scientologists or a Scientologist and if this is seen to outweigh the accusations, proof or lack of it, the person is absolved.

Any knowingly false testimony, forgeries or false witnesses introduced by the person or group accused of being suppressive can result in an immediate finding against the person or group.

Any effort to use copies of the testimony or findings of a Committee of Evidence called for this purpose or holding it to scorn in a civil court immediately reverses any favourable finding and automatically labels the person or group suppressive.

Failing to prove guilt of Suppressive Acts, the Committee must absolve the person or group publicly.

If the findings, as passed upon by the Convening Authority, demonstrate guilt, the person or group is so labelled as a Suppressive Person or Group.

RECOURSE OF A POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE

A person labelled a Potential Trouble Source and so barred from receiving auditing, may request a Committee of Evidence of the nearest HCO as recourse if he or she contests the allegation.

The Committee of Evidence requested must be convened by the nearest Convening Authority.

If evidences of disconnection are given or if the alleged Suppressive Person or Group is clearly and beyond reasonable doubt shown not to be guilty of Suppressive Acts or is shown clearly to have reformed, the Committee of Evidence findings and the Convening Authority must remove the label of Potential Trouble Source from the Scientologist and the label Suppressive Person or Group from the suspected person or group.

But should the former Potential Trouble Source’s state of case show no gain after reasonable time in processing, any executive of Division 2 (Training and Processing) may order a new Committee of Evidence in the matter and if it and its Convening Authority reverses the former findings, the labels are applied. But no auditor may be disciplined for auditing either during the period between the two findings.

RECOURSE OF AN AUDITOR

An auditor disciplined for processing a Potential Trouble Source or a Suppressive Person or a member of a Suppressive Group, may request a Committee of Evidence if he can persuade the Potential Trouble Source and the Suppressive Person or a representative of the Suppressive Group to appear before it.

The auditor so requesting may also have named as an Interested Party or Parties with himself the person or persons who supplied the information or misinformation concerning his actions.

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No damages or costs may be borne by or ordered by a Committee of Evidence in cases involving Potential Trouble Sources or Suppressive Persons or Groups.

When the Potential Trouble Source or Suppressive Person or Group representative fail to appear before a Committee of Evidence on a Bill of Particulars labelling persons as Potential Trouble Sources or Suppressive Persons or Groups at the published time of its convening, the Bill of Particulars stands as proven and the Convening Authority is bound so to declare.

EVIDENCE OF DISCONNECTION

Any HCO Secretary may receive evidences of disconnection or disavowal or separation or divorce and, on finding them to be bona fide, may publicly announce them on a public board and legal notices in The Auditor.

The HCO Secretary must place copies of such evidences in the Justice file and in the CF folders of all persons named in them.

The disconnecting person then ceases to be a Potential Trouble Source.

The procedure for a recanting Suppressive Person or Group is outlined above.

EVIDENCES OF SUPPRESSION

It is wise for any Scientologist, HCO Secretary or Committee of Evidence in matters concerning Suppressive Acts to obtain valid documents, letters, testimonies duly signed and witnessed, affidavits duly sworn to and other matters and evidences which would have weight in a court of law. Momentary spite, slander suits, charges of Scientology separating families, etc. are then guarded against.

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If matters concerning Suppressive Acts are given good and alert attention, properly enforced, they will greatly accelerate the growth of Scientology and bring a new calmness to its people and organizations and far better case gains where they have not heretofore been easy to achieve.

Preclears with present time problems, ARC broken with associated but suppressive persons will not obtain case gains but on the contrary, may experience great difficulty.

Observance of these facts and disciplines can help us all.

L. RON HUBBARD

LRH:jw:mek
Copyright (c) 1965
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Emphasis added.
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Judith Anderson · **Joined:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:15 pm **Posts:** 1162

Toward the bottom of this so-called policy letter Hubbard states: "charges of Scientology separating families, etc. are to be guarded against."

So that's where the lie began. That's why Scientology's position is: "disconnection is rarely used and then, only for apostates." It wouldn't do for them to be exposed as a family-unfriendly organization in a family-friendly country all the while slopping up tax-exempt benefits at the public trough.

Wieber · **Joined:** Tue May 23, 2006 10:57 pm **Posts:** 8401

"Suppressive Persons" are one of scientology's main products.

Even if no one fit the definition they would still be "declaring" people "suppressive." The scientology "justice" system requires "heads on pikes." A person who is "declared" to be a "suppressive person" is an example to others withing the organization to stay in line and be controlled.

The document used to "declare" a person as a "suppressive person" is part of the "fair game" procedure. Since it is part of the "fair game" procedure it may, according to scientology policy, contain lies about the person and their actions.

Caroline, is there scientology policy on how to write up a "declaration?" If there is and you have a copy it might be worthwhile reproducing it in this thread.

RedPill · **Joined:** Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:33 am **Posts:** 1362

Wieber wrote:

"Suppressive Persons" are one of scientology's main products.

Even if no one fit the definition they would still be "declaring" people "suppressive." The scientology "justice" system requires "heads on pikes." A person who is "declared" to be a "suppressive person" is an example to others withing the organization to stay in line and be controlled.

The document used to "declare" a person as a "suppressive person" is part of the "fair game" procedure. Since it is part of the "fair game" procedure it may, according to scientology policy, contain lies about the person and their actions.

Caroline, is there scientology policy on how to write up a "declaration?" If there is and you have a copy it might be worthwhile reproducing it in this thread.

I suppose that getting your golden rod is akin to getting your diploma. You really haven't graduated from Scientology until you have been officially declared. I guess I am just a lowly dropout.

Pete

RealityWillTell · **Joined:** Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:05 pm **Posts:** 3097

RedPill wrote:

I suppose that getting your golden rod is akin to getting your diploma. You really haven't graduated from Scientology until you have been officially declared. I guess I am just a lowly dropout.

Pete

Naw, your route is the equivalent of a G.E.D. ! :lol:

Still respectable!

caroline · **Posted:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:19 am

Wieber wrote:

"Suppressive Persons" are one of scientology's main products.

Even if no one fit the definition they would still be "declaring" people "suppressive." The scientology "justice" system requires "heads on pikes." A person who is "declared" to be a "suppressive person" is an example to others withing the organization to stay in line and be controlled.

The document used to "declare" a person as a "suppressive person" is part of the "fair game" procedure. Since it is part of the "fair game" procedure it may, according to scientology policy, contain lies about the person and their actions.

Caroline, is there scientology policy on how to write up a "declaration?" If there is and you have a copy it might be worthwhile reproducing it in this thread.

You're right, Wieber. Issuing public declares are part of the fair game, although I'm not familiar with a policy on such declares where Hubbard gave specific instructions to lie. He asserted over and over throughout his scriptures on the SP doctrine that SPs are criminals. (E.g. HCOB Critics of Scientology)

In HCOPL 2 June 1965, Writing of an Ethics Order (OEC Vol 1 (c) 1991 L. Ron Hubbard Library) Hubbard wrote that "Labeling them [SP] is a kind action." Two weeks earlier, he wrote "Labeling as a Suppressive is our hanging" (HCOPL 16 May 1965 Indicators of Orgs). In both policies, Hubbard justified the labeling of SPs with the idea that if labels aren't put on the SPs, they are far more likely to "vanish forever."

I'll post the latter policy because it contains Hubbard's "head on a pike" language and it clearly expresses his Command Intention to bully people into compliance with "ethics" and to get them to project all their bad conditions onto SPs, including SPs outside the org.

This policy is published in OEC Vol 1 (1974, 1991) and was studied as well on the confidential GO Intelligence Course.

L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 MAY 1965 Issue II

Gen Non-Remimeo

HCO Division 1 Dept of Inspections and Reports (Dept 3) Ethics Section

INDICATORS OF ORGS

Just as pcs have indicators so do orgs.

There is a probable long list of good indicators. When these are present, Ethics is quiet and hangs onto an interrogation, etc., only long enough to get policy and technology in.

There is a probable long list of BAD Indicators. When these are present Ethics becomes industrious in ratio to the number of bad indicators.

The first indicators, good or bad, are statistics – the OIC graphs for units, sections, departments, divisions and the org. When these are rising, the rise is a GOOD INDICATOR.

When these are falling the fall is a BAD INDICATOR.

The second of these indicators, good or bad, is TECHNICAL GAINS. When technology is in cases are gaining. This is a good indicator. When technology is out, cases are losing. This is a bad indicator.

Ethics only exists to hold the fort long enough and settle things down enough to get technology in. Ethics is never carried on for its own sake. It is pushed home only until technology is functioning and then technology resolves matters and Ethics prowls off looking for other targets.

We don’t hang people because we started to hang them and so must do so. We start to hang people and keep right on tying the noose in a workmanlike fashion right up to the instant we can get tech in – which of course makes the noose unnecessary.

But if tech never does get in then we complete the hanging.

You will find if you label a Suppressive you will some day get him back and get tech in on him. If you don’t ever label they wander off and get lost.

Labeling as a Suppressive is our hanging.

When things are bad (bad indicators heavily visible) putting a body on the gallows is very salutary. We call it “putting a head on a pike”. Too many BAD Indicators and too goofed up a situation and we must put a head on a pike. Then things simmer down and we can begin to get tech in.

That’s the whole purpose of Ethics – to Get Tech IN. And we use enough to do so, to get correct standard tech in and being done.

When there are lots of bad indicators about – low and falling statistics, goofed cases, we get very handy with our interrogatories and put the place very nearly under martial law – we call this a State of Emergency. Once Emergency is declared, you usually have to put a head or two on a pike to convince people that you mean it. After that necessity level rises and the place straightens up. If an Emergency is continued beyond a reasonable time, we resort to very heavy discipline and comm-ev the executives who wouldn’t get off it.

Ethics, then, is applied to the degree required to produce the result of getting tech in. Once tech is really in on a person (with a case gain) or a Tech Division, let us say, and auditors actually audit standard processes by the book, we know it will resolve and we ease off with ethics.

Ethics, then, is the tool by which you get good indicators in by getting tech in. Ethics is the steam roller which smooths the highway.

Once the road is open we are quite likely to skip remaining investigation and let it all be.

But somebody promising to be good is never good enough. We want statistics. Bettered statistics.

SYMPTOMS OF ORGS

Orgs have various symptoms which tell us how things really are
ethicwise.

One of these is dilettantism.

DILETTANTE-ISM

Dilettante = One who interests himself in an art or science merely as a pastime and without serious study.

In an org, this manifests itself with “people should live a little.” “One needs a rest from Scientology.” “One should do something else too.” All that kind of jazz.

It also manifests itself in non-consecutive scheduling, part-time students, "because things are different in this town and people can come only two nights...." Ask what they do with other nights. Bowling. Horse racing.

Boy, you better maul the case folders of staff. You have a suppressive aboard. Maybe six.

Scientology, that saves lives, is a modern miracle, is being compared to bowling. Get it?

That org or portion just isn’t serious. Scientology is an idle club to it, an old lady’s sewing circle. And to somebody, selling training and auditing are just con games they put over on the public.

SUPPRESSIVES!

Root them out.

WILD RUMORS – This Symptom is caused by potential trouble sources. Find whose case roller-coasters (gets better, gets worse). Investigate. You’ll find a suppressive or two outside the org.

Put a head on a pike with an HCO Ethics Order and publish it widely.

ARC BROKEN FIELD – The Johannesburg Comm Ev Order of last week is a perfect method of handling the situation. Appoint a Comm Ev Chairman to inquire into matters and form a list of interested parties based on reports he will now receive.

BAD TECH – When results just don’t happen in the Academy, HGC or Review one or another, look for the potential trouble sources and suppressives. Only they can keep tech out. Put a big head on a pike and then begin to interrogate every slip in the place. Suddenly tech is in again.

There are many such symptoms.

AT THE ROOT OF EVERY BAD CONDITION WILL BE FOUND A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON.

Locate your potential trouble sources by locating passers of rumors, etc. Then locate the suppressive and shoot.

Calm reigns. Tech is in.

And that’s all one means to accomplish.

Today TECHNOLOGY WORKS ON EVERY CASE. If the local org can’t handle a case, Saint Hill can.

If you get tech in well enough in an org, tech handles all. Beautifully. But if it is out, only Ethics can bat down the reasons it can’t be gotten in.

OPTIMUM STATE

The optimum state of an org is so high that there is no easy way to describe it. All cases getting cracked, releases and clears by the hundreds, command of the environment. Big. That’s an optimum state for any org.

If it isn’t rising toward optimum today, it is locally being held down.

The viewpoint of Ethics is there is no adequate reason why an org is stumbling except ethics reasons. Let others take care of any other lacks. Ethics never gets reasonable about lack of expansion. If Ethics shoves hard enough others will get a high enough necessity level to act.

So when an org is low:

Find out where its statistics are down and who is a PTS or an SP and ACT.

That’s the job of Ethics. Thus little by little we take off the brakes for a cleared Earth.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
Hubbard, L. R. (1991). The organization executive course. Vol. 1, HCO division. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications.

caroline · **Posted:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:55 am

RealityWillTell wrote:

RedPill wrote:

I suppose that getting your golden rod is akin to getting your diploma. You really haven't graduated from Scientology until you have been officially declared. I guess I am just a lowly dropout.

Pete

Naw, your route is the equivalent of a G.E.D. ! :lol:

Still respectable!

I'm with RWT on this, RedPill. :lol:

Actually, if Scientology determines that you have committed a "suppressive act" they'll treat you as an SP, whether or not they publish an SP Declare. Many people are exposed to fair game, without being placed on notice with such an order. Scientology may be applying the "DEAD FILE" policy on you.

I'll post the whole policy letter, in the public interest.

L. Ron Hubbard wrote:

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 JUNE 1965

Remimeo
All Executive HATS

ALL DIVISIONS

ENTHETA LETTERS AND THE DEAD FILE, HANDLING OF

DEFINITIONS

AN ENTHETA LETTER = is a letter containing insult, discourtesy, chop or nastiness about an org, its personnel, Scientology or the principal figures in Scientology. En = Enturbulated; theta = Greek for thought or life. An Entheta Letter’s nastiness is aimed at the org, its personnel, Scientology or the principal figures of Scientology. It is different from an Ethics Report (below). It is routed only as given in this Policy Letter.

AN ETHICS REPORT = is a report to Ethics (or by error, to the org) concerning the misuse or abuse of technology or the misconduct of a Scientologist. This is routed directly to the Ethics section and becomes a subject for investigation. Such a report is not Dead Filed (as will be explained) but may become a Dead File.

A MIXED LETTER = is a letter which is an entheta letter (couched in nasty terms to the org or its personnel) which also contains a report pretending to be an Ethics Report. "You awful people have an awful auditor in the field – ." A Mixed Letter is always routed to Dead Files as given in this Policy Letter. It is simply routed like any Dead File letter. However no names mentioned in it are Dead Filed only because they occur in the letter.

A PETITION = is a polite request to have something handled by the Office of LRH or the Org. If it is not polite it is not a petition and is not covered by the Petition Policy Letters. An impolite "Petition" is handled as an Entheta Letter always.

IMPORTANT = It is important not to Dead File a Scientologist for reporting a bad breach of Ethics. This should be encouraged. However, people on our side make such reports without accusing us. When such reports are also accusative of us they are Dead Filed.

HISTORICAL

Every movement amongst Man runs into the phenomena that when you try to help some people – or help them – they react like mad dogs. Trying to assist them is like trying to give a mad dog medicine. You are liable to be bitten.

The more successful a movement is, the more violent this phenomena becomes. Such people are Suppressives or belong to Suppressive Groups. Things that make people better put them in terror as to them it means that if others around them were stronger these would devour the person. This is highly irrational. It is a dramatization of an engram the person is defending himself in. People when processed grow stronger but also more rational and less destructive.

Such people number about 20% but make such a fuss they seem like 110% and thus seek to deny the decent 80% service.

This 20% can be processed and can recover only on the Power Processes administered by a Class VII auditor working in an environment well under Ethics control. But even so, this Policy Letter still applies as I doubt they deserve the reward and remember, we don’t owe the human race a thing. Handling them even under optimum conditions is rough and hard on an org. I prefer to leave them until later. There is nothing reasonable about their attitude from our point of view. We do our best in a very enturbulated world.

ADMINISTRATION

Efforts to handle the 20% are time consuming.

They take up vast amounts of time. They are not worth it.

When they get too bad we act, using Suppressive Person declarations and Potential Trouble Source declarations.

The fast thing to do is get them off our lines and out of the teeth of staff members and deny them information and communication such as mailings or letters without troubling to consume even Ethics time on them.

If they still get into the cog wheels we act more energetically.

The fast way to handle, we call the DEAD FILE SYSTEM which is described herein.

PLAN OF ORG

Built into our Org Pattern is the principle of fast flow. We move slow or troublesome particles off the assembly line and into special slots.

We let the main traffic flow untroubled by checks designed to restrain the very few. This is quite opposite to usual wog organization where the many are penalized to restrain the few.

We could wreck the whole pattern of our orgs by not using it correctly. The Qualifications Division exists to handle flat ball bearings turned out by Tech or old patterns or check sheets or special cases. That keeps the assembly line roaring along. The flat ball bearings are shunted to Review. The round ones keep rolling on the assembly line to a finished product.

The bulk of the public is quite decent. They are polite and appreciative. The bulk of our results are excellent and the 80% majority is pleased with us. That 80% must be served.

The 20% who are mad dogs also have a place to go – the Ethics Section. It is important not to let them into the Admin flow lines. It is important to box them into Ethics. Otherwise they mess up the flow badly.

In the old days when a squawk came through org personnel rushed it to the head of the line, or to the Registrar or anywhere in the org. This gave a weird view. The head of the org or the Registrar or executives began to think it was all mad dog. They only had the 20%. Nobody showed them the 80%. Because the 20% required "special action" and consumed time Registrars would soon believe the Academy and HGC contained only mobs of dissatisfied people. Heads of orgs would begin to believe the public was sour on them. They’d react accordingly. They never went down to CF and really looked. So they got a twisted idea of the state of the org, the workability of tech. They let down. They tended to stop trying, convinced by the minority 20% it was not working.

I recall the shock it was to one org’s executives when they found that they had thousands and thousands of highly appreciative letters in their files, appreciating Scientology and what we did and how we did it. That whole executive group had been handed only the entheta letters and people – because there was no place to put them but into executives’ hands. They never got the 80% that were sincere thank yous. They were quite stunned. Scientology had been working well in their org for some time. The top brass hadn’t found it out. Therefore it is illegal as can be to handle Entheta Letters or Ethics Reports in any other way than to and by Ethics.

And Ethics personnel now and then must be shown the big wins the org is getting. Otherwise they will begin to think that all is sour, since they handle the sour. The Org Pattern is made to flow fast. It can only flow fast if its lines are in. Hence this handling of Entheta Letters and Mixed Letters. They must not be handled in any other way.

THE DEAD FILE

Ethics Files shall include a DEAD FILE.

This File includes all persons who write nasty or choppy letters to an org or its personnel. Rather than go to the trouble of issuing a Suppressive Person order or even investigating we assign writers of choppy letters to the DEAD FILE. When their area is enturbulated and we want to locate a suppressive we can always consult our DEAD FILE for possible candidates and then investigate and issue an order.

The DEAD FILE is by sections of the Area or the World, and alphabetical in those sections.

The actual action is simply to cut comm. You can always let entheta lines drop. Entheta means En = Enturbulated; theta = thought or life.

About 20% of the human race is inclined to natter. About 2 1/2 percent at a guess are suppressive. Under our fast flow system of management we can’t tie ourselves up with 20% of the correspondence. All the decent people, all the service and help should go to the 80%. This is also financially sound. The 20% lose us money. An insolvent org is entirely involved with the 20% and is neglecting the 80%!

We just don’t comm with the entheta line. I can show you many instances of where we were seriously at fault to do so as later years proved.

DEAD FILE NON-CO-OP

We used to have an HCO category known as "Non-Co-op" meaning no co-operation from US. People who demanded 90% of our time comprised only a small percent of our people. Such we put on a private non-co-operate list. We just didn’t do anything for them. When they called and demanded action we’d say "uh-huh" and forget it. After a while they’d wander off our lines and we’d be free of them.

Dead File is actually only an extension of "non-co-op".

It was we who didn’t co-operate.

WHAT IT DOESN’T COVER

Dead File does not cover business firms demanding bills, government squawks or dangerous suits or situations. It covers only entheta public letters received on any line including SO # 1.

ROUTING

HCO personnel or the Letter Registrar or any part of the org receiving an entheta letter routes it as follows:

1. Receiver stamps it with a big rubber stamp
"ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address then
TO ETHICS DEAD FILES"

2. Central Files receives it, draws a pencil through "To Central Files" and looks in the files. If the person has a folder CF picks up the folder and stamps it with a big rubber stamp

"ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address
TO ETHICS DEAD FILES"

crosses off "To Central Files" and hands the letter and folder to Address.

If the person has no folder in CF, CF makes a mustard-coloured dummy, puts the person’s name in it and stamps the dummy

"ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address
TO ETHICS DEAD FILES"

and also the letter.

If the person has a CF DEAD FILE dummy already the letter is similarly forwarded to Address.

The dummy of course is kept in CF in the regular files. (CF has no Dead File as such.)

3. Address, on receiving a folder marked DEAD FILE ETHICS, crosses off "To Address" on the stamping, pulls the person’s Address plate from the regular address plate file and puts it in a separate plate drawer marked DEAD FILE PLATES and forwards the folder to Ethics by leaving the "To Ethics" reading on the stamp.

If Address receives a letter marked with the stamp as above it crosses off "To Address", looks in the regular plate files to be sure the person’s name has not crept in and if so moves it to the DEAD FILE plate drawer. If not in the regular file Address looks in the DEAD FILE plate drawer and makes a plate or changes any address needful in the DEAD FILE plate and sends the letter to Ethics.

4. Ethics on receiving a folder marked with the stamp simply files it in the DEAD FILES.

If a letter so marked is received by Ethics from Address it is filed in the person’s folder in the DEAD FILE.

ETHICS ACTION

Ethics receiving a folder or a letter marked with the ENTHETA stamp takes the following action:

Writes a surface mail post card coloured an ugly mustard yellow to any organizations where the person’s name may be part of CF, stamped on the back as follows:

FROM: Name of Org
ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address
TO ETHICS DEAD FILE

and writes the person’s name and address under it. Do NOT put two names on one card. One Card = one name.

On receipt of such a card by an org it follows the routine channels in the org as though it were the folder or letter.

However, if Ethics finds the person is not in its DEAD FILE and all it has received is a card, ETHICS makes a folder and puts the card in it. That way the DEAD FILE of an org tells one that there is other material in another org and knows what org.

For instance, Saint Hill receiving an entheta letter from Minnesota would, as above, with a card, advise DC, NY, LA and Detroit and Twin Cities especially. The person is likely
to write any of these orgs.

Any org on any DEAD FILE always advises Saint Hill with a card.

ETHICS ACTION

Ethics does not even bother to read the letter or examine the folder on receiving a DEAD FILE folder or letter.

This is after all, a fast flow system of management. With the DEAD FILE system one just parks the name in a folder in the DEAD FILES as inactive until there is a reason to do otherwise.

SUCH LETTERS MUST NOT BE CIRCULATED ON THE LINES OTHER THAN AS ABOVE.

It is the business of the Ethics Officer to see that the HCO Sec. the Ltr Reg. the Distribution Division and any other contact point where an entheta letter may arrive is equipped
with a rubber stamp:

ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address
TO ETHICS DEAD FILES

and that the Ethics Section has a rubber stamp reading

FROM (name of org)
ENTHETA
TO Central Files
TO Address
TO ETHICS DEAD FILES

Ethics makes sure all entheta letters (except business letters and goof letters) are so stamped by people receiving in the org and so routed AND NOT ANSWERED.

Ethics seeing somebody answer an entheta letter for SO #1 or procurement or distribution or for any other reason, should order a hearing on the person.

Any executive who is not a mail receipt point having an entheta letter forwarded to him by a staff member must turn in a Dev-T report on that staff member to Ethics and forward it and the report to Ethics. Ethics then stamps it and routes it to CF, etc. with the standard stamp (Ethics must not just file it in Dead Files). The Dev-T report goes into the staff member’s Ethics folder.

It is the full intention that:

1. All choppy, nattery, rumour-mongery letters dead end in the DEAD FILE.

2. That no further magazines or procurement letters go to the person.

3. That no staff personnel be enturbulated by the content of such letters.

4. That the line be cut completely.

5. That a record remain in Ethics.

LTR REG ANSWERING

When a Letter Reg in answering some letter calls for the folder and finds it is a mustard coloured DEAD FILE DUMMY, the letter to be answered is simply stamped with the above Entheta stamp no matter what it says, and is routed with the Dummy on through as though it were an Entheta letter regardless of what the new letter says. Short of Releasing and Clearing these mad dogs don’t change their froth.

EXPIRED MEMBERSHIPS, ETC.

Expired memberships are not dead filed. Dead file does not mean they stopped communicating with us. It means we stopped communicating with them. Expired memberships go into the Qual Div Expired Membership File. Retired Files (last year’s) must never be called DEAD FILES.

DEAD FILE USEFULNESS

The DEAD FILE is the best possible file for tracing trouble in an investigation.

Only when a hot investigation comes up is it looked at by Ethics. Then all names found in an area are cross referenced by making copies of the letters they contain, and filing those under the new names, and the Suppressive is located by the simple expedient of thus finding the fattest file and an order is issued.

DEPT OF ESTIMATIONS DEAD FILE NAMES

The Dept of Estimations occasionally calls for a run off of the DEAD FILE drawer from Address and when a student or pc turns up, looks over this DEAD FILE list for the person’s name. That is for every applicant for training or processing.

If the name is found in the DEAD FILE list the person must have an Ethics Clearance before being trained or processed. The person found in the DEAD FILE list by the Dept of Estimations is sent directly to Ethics and Ethics is told why.

Ethics looks up the folder and takes whatever action is indicated, giving the person a chance to disconnect if a PTS or A to E if a Suppressive or make himself or herself more agreeable to the org by any proper action such as an amends project. Or Ethics simply informs Estimation of the matter and forbids training or processing. The last is by far the more usual course. Processing is hard to do on a PTS or SP and the whole Academy can be turned upside down by one.

SUPPRESSIVES AND POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCES

All Suppressive Persons and Groups are filed in the DEAD FILE but with the Ethics Order. The Ethics Order is stamped with the ENTHETA stamp as above but with the additional stamp Suppressive.

This is the usual "Entheta To Central Files To Address To ETHICS DEAD FILES" STAMP. Remember, every Suppressive Person Ethics Order issued by Ethics is so handled. One copy of that order is stamped with the stamp and put on the lines to CF. CF handles it just like it would any other letter so stamped.

Address handles it exactly as any other letter or folder but types SP on the plate before it goes into the DEAD FILE Drawer.

Then the order and any folder goes back to Ethics as before and Ethics even cards it to other orgs even though they got the SP order itself.

A Potential Trouble Source order is not given the Entheta DEAD FILE routing unless the person refuses to disconnect or handle. At this time the person’s name is put on a despatch stamped with the Entheta stamp and is routed to CF, etc. as above. Sometimes a PTS refusing to disconnect is declared suppressive and in such a case it is handled as an SP above. Therefore all SPs, PTS, and entheta letters all wind up in the DEAD FILE. This cuts their comm and still keeps track of them.

RELEASE AND CLEAR DECLARATIONS

When a Release Declaration or a Clear Declaration is made by the Dept of Certificates and Awards, a copy is always sent to CF.

If it collides there with a DEAD FILE DUMMY, the Dept of Certs and Awards declaration is pinned to it and it goes to ETHICS.

Ethics removes the person’s folder from the ETHICS DEAD FILE and routes it to Address with the Release or Clear declaration on top and stamped "To Address, then to Central Files, Restore to good standing".

Address takes the plate out of its DEAD FILE drawer and puts it back in its proper position in the regular address files, removes any SP on the plate, [marks] the order "Address Restored" and sends it to Central Files. The dummy is halved and put in the folder and folder (with half a dummy in it) is put back into CF.

Nothing short of Releasing or Clearing ever really cures these people. So when an SP does A to E and is restored to training or processing he or she is still a DEAD FILE until a Release or Clear declaration is issued.

SUSPENSION

No action by DEAD FILE is taken because of a suspension or other discipline. No Ethics Order but one for SP or an unco-operating PTS is handed to DEAD FILE. All other types of Ethics Orders go to different Ethics Section Files.

PETITION

A petition is never a petition if it is discourteous and contains entheta. Don’t attach a Petition Pol Ltr to it. Just stamp it ENTHETA and send it the route as contained herein.

STUDENT NOTES

Notes from students or pcs now on course or in the HGC containing entheta are routed to Ethics for a Court of Ethics action.

Only if they result in SP are they routed to CF, Address and DEAD FILE. RESULTS OF DEAD FILE

Being DEAD FILED does not result in action but neither does it debar further action.

DEAD FILE is the first place to look in cases of trouble. Further action may then be taken such as an Ethics Order.

By using the DEAD FILE system we keep our lines cleaner.

GETTING OUT OF DEAD FILE

How does a person ever get out of the Dead File?

One could somehow discover without our help he or she was in the Dead File (we never inform them). If so he or she could take it up with the Ethics Officer. But the probable outcome may just be more Dead File.

How do you resurrect the dead? Release and Clear of course. How can they get it then if turned off by Estimations? Well, a cleared cannibal is still only a cleared cannibal so who needs them?

I’d rather solve the problems of those who were decent to us. We didn’t put them in the shape they’re in. That’s their problem.

L. RON HUBBARD

Hubbard, L. R. (1974, 1991). The organization executive course. Vol. 1, HCO division. Los Angeles: Bridge Publications.

caroline · **Posted:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:24 am

Judith Anderson wrote:

Toward the bottom of this so-called policy letter Hubbard states: "charges of Scientology separating families, etc. are to be guarded against."

So that's where the lie began. That's why Scientology's position is: "disconnection is rarely used and then, only for apostates." It wouldn't do for them to be exposed as a family-unfriendly organization in a family-friendly country all the while slopping up tax-exempt benefits at the public trough.

Glad you brought up this point, Judith. Here's a policy letter that orders covert planning and coordinated manipulation by org personnel on disconnection matters, obviously to "guard against" the kind of charges Hubbard was concerned about. GO intelligence agents trained on this directive. (See p. 17)

HCOPL 15 September 1973 Confidential Handling Disconnections wrote:

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER 0F 15 SEPTEMBER 1973

General Non-Remimeo
HASes[1]
A/Gs [2]
Ethics Officers
Qual Secs [3]
CSes [4]
Ds of P [5]

CONFIDENTIAL

HANDLING DISCONNECTIONS

(Reference HCO PL 15 Nov '68 "Disconnection Cancelled"; HCO B 10 August '73 "PTS Handling", HCO PL 5 April '72, "PTS Type A Handling", HCO PL 7 May '69 "Policies on Sources of Trouble", and HCO B 24 Nov 65, "Search and Discovery".)

"Handle or disconnect" is part of current procedure on handling Potential Trouble Sources, as per HCO B 10 August '73 "PTS Handling".

This does not mean that we are returning to the practice of publishing or writing disconnection letters to the person concerned.

Whether the PTS interview is done by the Ethics Officer, D of P, Auditor or Qual personnel, the actual "handling" steps must be done under the jurisdiction of the Ethics Officer.

A large percentage of cases will completely resolve during the PTS interview itself or when the handling steps are actually done. The Ethics Officer must ensure that a written plan of handling does actually exist and that it is followed. All copies of correspondence, attested reports on personal interview handlings must be presented to the Ethics Officer as evidence of the handling.

If the handling is being badly handled or not done, the Ethics Officer must get this corrected. If the handling, even under the jurisdiction of the Ethics Officer, gets badly bugged, then he should request Qual Sec intervention and assistance.

DISCONNECTION

One needs to understand the meaning of the word Disconnection in order to be able to apply it. Disconnection = to break or undo the connection of, separate, detach.

Disconnection has come to mean the actual action of writing to a person to inform him/her of the fact. This is a very extreme application of the word. A person can simply decide to disconnect and be disconnected from that moment on.

In some cases, the item found may be dead, and the person.

HCO PL 15.9.73
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has no other choice than to disconnect. In that event, the person simply disconnects then and there, in the Ethics Officer's office, or in session. No other action is required. Some may wish to write up a statement of such which is simply filed in his ethics file, with no other action taken. It is not mailed to anyone.

When handling disconnection, the word "disconnection" must "be fully defined, so the person actually understands what he has to do.

Getting the above done will handle a large majority of cases.

Very occasionally, there will be a person who has a real live SP on their lines now. No amount of handling will be successful. In this event, the Ethics Officer must draw up a full CSW[6], with copies of all earlier correspondence and attested handlings and send to the A/G, with a proposed recommended method of handling the situation.

The public person or staff member being handled is NOT informed of what is contemplated until the above CSW is okayed by the A/G, and even then the A/G is not mentioned unless the A/G wishes it.

The A/G will naturally not permit any misemotional or accusative disconnection letters or actions to be done which could rebound on the Org.

The A/G will probably find that the earlier handling steps required by the 10 August 73 HCO B have not been properly applied or not done, and would write up instructions to get this done efficiently.

In only a few cases will open disconnection handling be required, and when this happens, it must be handled with the utmost care so that no repercussions occur.

HCO B 10 Aug 73 "PTS Handling" is specifically written up for the handling of Potential Trouble Sources types 1 and 2 per HCO B 24 Nov '65 "Search and Discovery" and Troublesome Source A of HCO PL 7 May '69 "Policies on Sources of Trouble", and does NOT cover the handling of other types of org troublesome sources, (B-J), who are handled per existing policy, and are not PTSes according to the technical definitions of PTS.

Ens. Judy Ziff, CS-5 [7]
for
Capt. Mary Sue Hubbard, CS-G [8]
Authorized by AVU
for the
BOARDS OF DIRECTORS
of the
CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY

BDCS:HE:MSH:JZ:cc
Copyright (c) 1973
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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[1] HASes: Hubbard Communications Office Area Secretaries (Div 1 exec)
[2] A/Gs: Assistant Guardians
[3] Qual Secs: Qualifications Secretaries (Div 5 exec)
[4] CSes: Case Supervisors
[5] Ds of P: Directors of Processing
[6] CSW: Completed staff work; a type of despatch.
[7] C/S-5: Commodore's staff Div 5
[8] C/S-G: Commodore's staff Guardian

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