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Scientology’s FAQ: What is disconnection?

Q What is disconnection?1

A If an individual attempting to improve his life through Scientology is encountering persistent opposition from a close associate, his spiritual advancement is impeded.

In the vast majority of cases, the antagonism is rooted in false information about Scientology and providing the true data ends the matter. As a last resort, when all attempts to sort out such situations have failed, the Scientologist may decide to disconnect from the person until the antagonism ceases.

A person who disconnects is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person. This is one of the most fundamental rights of man. Members of other religions have exercised it down the ages when confronted by those who persistently opposed the practice of their faiths. Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Amish practice “shunning”—a form of disconnection—and their right to do so has been upheld by courts across the country. Certain Orthodox Jewish congregations practice an extreme form of disconnection in which a mock funeral is held for apostate members. Disconnection in Scientology is neither new nor strange in the annals of religion.

Notes

  1. Authentic Information & Answers to Questions About Scientology: What is “disconnection”? (n.d.). authenticscientology.org. Retrieved 18 May 2010 from http://www.authenticscientology.org/page40.htm. ↩

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HCOB: PTSness and Disconnection

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 10 SEPTEMBER 19831

Remimeo
HCOs
E/O Hats
MAA Hats
Tech
Qual
All Staff
PTS/SP Course

PTSness AND DISCONNECTION

Refs:

Tape: 6505C18 “Organization and Ethics”

Tape: 6506C08 “Handling the PTS”

HCO PL 7 Mar. 65RA I Rev. 10.9.83 SUPPRESSIVE ACTS, SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS

Tape: 6608C02 “Suppressives and GAEs”

Tape: 6608C25 “The Antisocial Personality”

HCOB 27 Sept. 66 THE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, THE ANTI-SCIENTOLOGIST

HCOB 24 Apr. 72 C/S Series 79 ExDn Series 5 PTS INTERVIEWS

HCO PL 3 May 72R Rev. 18.12.77 Exec Series 12 ETHICS AND EXECUTIVES

HCOB 10 Aug. 73 PTS HANDLING

HCOB 29 Dec. 78 THE SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN, A MAGICAL NEW RUNDOWN

HCOB 31 Dec. 78 I OUTLINE OF PTS HANDLING

HCOB 31 Dec. 78 II EDUCATING THE POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, THE FIRST STEP TOWARD HANDLING: PTS C/S-l

HCO PL 5 Apr. 72RD Rev. 10.9.83 PTS TYPE A HANDLING

HCOB 8 Mar. 83 HANDLING PTS SITUATIONS

THEORY

Perhaps the most fundamental right of any being is the right to communicate. Without this freedom, other rights deteriorate.

Communication, however, is a two-way flow. If one has the right to communicate, then one must also have the right to not receive communication from another. It is this latter corollary of the right to communicate that gives us our right to privacy.

These rights are so basic that governments have written them into laws—witness the American Bill of Rights.

However, groups have always regulated these rights to one degree or another. For with the freedom to communicate come certain agreements and responsibilities.

An example of this is a marriage: In a monogamous society, the agreement is that one will be married to only one person at one time. That agreement extends to having second dynamic relations with one’s spouse and no one else. Thus, should wife Shirley establish a 2D type of communication line with someone other than her husband Pete, it is a violation of the agreement and postulates of the marriage. Pete has the right to insist that either this communication cease or that the marriage will cease.

HANDLE OR DISCONNECT

In the HCOBs on PTS tech you’ll see the phrase “handle or disconnect.” It means simply that.

The term “handle” most commonly means, when used in relation to PTS tech, to smooth out a situation with another person by applying the tech of communication.

The term “disconnection” is defined as a self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not going to be connected to another. It is a severing of a communication line.

The basic principle of handle or disconnect exists in any group and ours is no different.

It is much like trying to deal with a criminal. If he will not handle, the society resorts to the only other solution: It “disconnects” the criminal from the society. In other words, they remove the guy from society and put him in a prison because he won’t HANDLE his problem or otherwise cease to commit criminal acts against others.

It’s the same sort of situation that husband Pete is faced with in the example mentioned above. The optimum solution is to handle the situation with wife Shirley and her violations of their group (marriage) agreements. But if Pete cannot handle the situation, he is left with no other choice but to disconnect (sever the marriage communication lines if only by separation). To do otherwise would be disastrous, for he is connected to someone antagonistic to the original agreements, postulates and responsibilities of the group (the marriage).

A Scientologist can become PTS by reason of being connected to someone that is antagonistic to Scientology or its tenets. In order to resolve the PTS condition he either HANDLES the other person’s antagonism (as covered in the materials on PTS handling) or, as a last resort when all attempts to handle have failed, he disconnects from the person. He is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person.

With our tech of handle or disconnect, we are, in actual fact, doing nothing different than any society or group or marriage down through thousands of years.

LOST TECH

Earlier, disconnection as a condition was cancelled. It had been abused by a few individuals who’d failed to handle situations which could have been handled and who lazily or criminally disconnected, thereby creating situations even worse than the original because it was the wrong action.

Secondly, there were those who could survive only by living on our lines—they wanted to continue to be connected to Scientologists (see the HCOBs on the characteristics of an SP). Thus, they screamed to high heaven if anyone dared to apply the tech of “handle or disconnect.”

This put Scientologists at a disadvantage.

We cannot afford to deny Scientologists that basic freedom that is granted to everyone else: the right to choose whom one wishes to communicate with or not communicate with. It’s bad enough that there are governments trying, through the use of force, to prevent people from disconnecting from them (witness those who want to leave Russia but can’t!).

The bare fact is that disconnection is a vital tool in handling PTSness and can be very effective when used correctly.

Therefore, the tech of disconnection is hereby restored to use, in the hands of those persons thoroughly and standardly trained in PTS/SP tech.

HANDLING ANTAGONISTIC SOURCES

In the great majority of cases, where a person has some family member or close associate who appears antagonistic to his getting better through Scientology, it is not really a matter of the antagonistic source wanting the PTS to not get better. It is most commonly a lack of correct information about Scientology that causes the problem or upset. In such a case, simply having the PTS disconnect would not help matters and would actually be a nonconfront of the situation. It is quite common that the PTS has a low confront on the terminal and situation. This isn’t hard to understand when one looks at these facts:

a. To be PTS in the first place, the PTS must have committed overts against the antagonistic source; and

b. When one has committed overts, his confront and responsibility drop.

When an Ethics Officer finds that a Scientologist is PTS to a family member, he does not recommend that the person disconnect from the antagonistic source. The E/O’s advice to the Scientologist is to handle.

The handling for such a situation is to educate him in the tech of PTSness and suppression, and then skillfully and firmly guide the PTS through the steps needed to restore good communication with the antagonistic source. This eventually dissolves the situation by bringing about an understanding on the part of the antagonistic source as to what Scientology is and why the PTS person is interested and involved in it. Of course, when this is accomplished you no longer have a PTS at all—and you may very well find a new Scientologist on your hands!

The actual steps and procedure of this sort of handling are well covered in the materials listed at the beginning of this HCOB.

WHEN DISCONNECTION IS USED

An Ethics Officer can encounter a situation where someone is factually connected to a suppressive person, in present time. This is a person whose normal operating basis is one of making others smaller, less able, less powerful. He does not want anyone to get better, at all.

In truth, an SP is absolutely, completely terrified of anyone becoming more powerful.

In such an instance the PTS isn’t going to get anywhere trying to “handle” the person. The answer is to sever the connection.

HOW TO DISCONNECT

How a disconnection is done depends on the circumstances.

Example: The pc lives next door to, say, a psychiatric clinic and feels PTS due to this environment. The remedy is simple—the pc can move to another apartment in another location. He need not write any sort of “disconnection letter” to the psychiatric clinic. He simply changes his environment—which is, in effect, a disconnection from the suppressive environment.

Example: A pc is connected to a person or group that has been declared suppressive by HCO in a published Ethics Order. He should disconnect and, if he wants to inform the SP of the fact, he may write a letter of disconnection. Such a letter would be very straightforward. It would state the fact of the disconnection and the reason for it. It would not be misemotional or accusative, since this would only serve to stir up further antagonism. The letter would be inspected by the Ethics Officer before it was sent and copies kept for the PTS person’s own ethics file and pc folder. No attempt would be made to establish communication with the declared SP “to clear matters up” or to seek to reform the SP. The SP’s reform is strictly in the hands of HCO. The PTS simply disconnects.

Example: One discovers that an employee at his place of business is an SP—he steals money, drives away customers, wipes out other employees and will not correct no matter what you do. The handling is very simple—the PTS fires him and that’s the end of it right there!

To fail or refuse to disconnect from a suppressive person not only denies the PTS case gain, it is also supportive of the suppressive—in itself a Suppressive Act. And it must be so labeled. (Ref: HCO PL 23 Dec. 65RA, SUPPRESSIVE ACTS, SUPPRESSION OF SCIENTOLOGY AND SCIENTOLOGISTS)

SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN

There is of course another technical way to handle PTSes and that is to get them through all problems they have had with the terminal involved and the PTSness will disappear (Ref: HCOB 29 Dec. 78, THE SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN, A MAGICAL NEW RUNDOWN). But it still requires that during the handling the person disconnects.

SUMMARY

The technology of disconnection is essential in the handling of PTSes. It can and has saved lives and untold trouble and upset. It must be preserved and used correctly.

Nothing in this HCOB shall ever or under any circumstances justify any violations of the laws of the land. Any such offense shall subject the offender to penalties described by law as well as to ethics and justice actions.

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

Notes

  1. Document studied on the How to Confront and Shatter Suppression PTS/SP Course. (2001 ed.) ↩

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HCOB: Outline of PTS Handling

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 31 DECEMBER 1978RB1

Issue I
Revised 28 October 2000

Remimeo
HCO
Tech
Qual
C/Ses
Auditors
Ethics Officers
De-PTSers
PTS/SP Checksheet

OUTLINE OF PTS HANDLING

Refs:

HCOB 31 Dec. 78RA II Rev. 21.3.89 EDUCATING THE POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, THE FIRST STEP TOWARD HANDLING: PTS C/S-l

HCO PL 5 Apr. 72RD Rev. 10.9.83 PTS TYPE A HANDLING

HCOB 24 Apr. 72 I C/S Series 79 ExDn Series 5 PTS INTERVIEWS

HCOB 20 Oct. 76 II PTS HANDLING

HCOB 8 Mar. 83 HANDLING PTS SITUATIONS

HCOB 16 Apr. 82 MORE ON PTS HANDLING

HCOB 10 Sept. 83 PTSness AND DISCONNECTION

HCOB 24 Nov. 65 SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

HCOB 9 Dec. 71RD Rev. 28.3.89 PTS RUNDOWN, AUDITED

HCOB 20 Jan.72R Rev. 8.12.78  PTS RUNDOWN ADDITION

HCOB 3 June 72RA Rev. 8.12.78 PTS RUNDOWN, FINAL STEP

HCOB 29 Dec. 78R Rev. 20.12.83 THE SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN, A MAGICAL NEW RUNDOWN

HCOB 30 Dec. 78R Rev. 6.1.79 SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN PROBLEMS PROCESSES

HCOB 21 May 85 C/S Series 121 FPRD Series 11 TWO TYPES OF PTSes

PTS situations can arise at any time during a person’s Scientology auditing or training program and must be handled speedily and well to get the person back on his course of auditing or training. Many preclears new to Scientology require PTS handling as one of their first actions.

Auditing or training must not be continued over an unhandled PTS situation, as processing or study under the duress of suppression will not produce results.

You do not go on hoping or ignore it or call it something else or do any other action except handle. Handling PTSness is too easy to allow for any justification or excuse for not doing so, and the steps given below lay out the many handlings which can be used to bring about a full resolution of all PTSness in all pes.

EDUCATION

A person who is PTS is often the last person to suspect it. He may have become temporarily or momentarily so. And he may have become so very slightly. Or he may be very PTS and have been so for a long time. But he is nevertheless PTS and we must educate him into the subject.

PTS C/S-l

The PTS C/S-l, given in HCOB 31 Dec. 78RA II, EDUCATING THE POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, THE FIRST STEP TOWARD HANDLING: PTS C/S-l, must be done before any other PTS handling is begun.

This action sets a person up to understand his PTS situation and the mechanics of it. A thorough PTS C/S-l is the basis of all successful PTS handling.

PTS INTERVIEW

A metered PTS interview per HCOB 24 Apr. 72 I, C/S Series 79, ExDn Series 5, PTS INTERVIEWS, or a “10 August handling” per HCOB 10 Aug. 73, PTS HANDLING, done by an auditor in session or an MAA, De-PTSer, D of P or SSO will, in most cases, assist the person to spot the antagonistic or SP element. Once spotted, the potential trouble source must be assisted in working out a handling for that terminal, per HCO PL 5 Apr. 72RD, PTS TYPE A HANDLING. (Or more rarely, the PTS may need to disconnect from that person.)

(If any difficulty is encountered on this step, or if the SP cannot easily be found, the preclear or student is probably not PTS Type I and should be turned over to an auditor qualified to handle Type II PTS situations with more advanced PTS tech.)

HANDLING

Once the antagonistic terminal has been located, a handling is done to move the PTS person from effect to slight gentle cause over his situation. This handling is done per a program which will include whatever is needed to accomplish the result, and will, of course, vary depending on the person and his circumstances.

When the antagonistic person exists in present time, in the physical universe (as opposed to a past life SP item), a good roads, good weather approach to the antagonistic terminal is usually what is needed. The handling must be agreed upon by the potential trouble source and the person assisting him and must be tailored to put the person at cause over his particular situation.

Handling may include coaching him along to see how he himself actually precipitated the PTS condition in the first place by not applying or by misapplying Scientology basics to his life and relationship with the now antagonistic terminal, per HCO PL 5 Apr. 72RD, PTS TYPE A HANDLING.

Additional refs:

HCOB 10 Aug. 73 PTS HANDLING

HCOB 24 Apr. 72 I C/S Series 79 ExDn Series 5 PTS INTERVIEWS

HCOB 24 Nov. 65 SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Book: The Problems of Work Chapter 6, “Affinity, Reality and Communication”

HCOB 8 Mar. 83 HANDLING PTS SITUATIONS

HCOB 10 Sept. 83 PTSness AND DISCONNECTION

WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY?

It quite often happens that the persons antagonistic to the preclear have no real concept of what Scientology is. This can also be true of a very new Scientologist who then misinforms others.

The book What Is Scientology? is a very useful tool. The preclear can send a copy of it to persons antagonistic to him and it will give them hope that the person will respond better to life or if they are antagonistic to Scientology can show them what they’re being antagonistic to.

Recommendations that the PTS person obtain and use this book (or anyone else who wants to inform his friends or get them on the right road, as the book was not written for the purpose of de-PTSing people) should be made by the interviewing officer. The book was specially priced so it would be more generally available despite the high cost of publishing. It is a large and imposing book and contains the true answers to all the questions people might ask and so saves the PTS person or any other person a great deal of explanation time.

It is quite a formidable weapon when used in that fashion besides being a good book that Scientologists should own in its own right.

BOOKS, TAPES AND FILMS

Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, and other basic books, tapes and films (particularly the film “Introduction to Scientology”) are very useful tools. The preclear can send a copy of a book or tape to the antagonistic person. Or he can bring the person in to the local org to listen to a tape play or see a film.

HOW TO HANDLE FALSE DATA AND LIES

In some cases antagonism stems from false data or outright lies that the antagonistic person has heard or read.

The handling for this is based on the datum that truth must exist before lies, and truth blows the lie away as it is later on the chain.

The handling for a person who has false data on Scientology is to fill in any vacuum of missing data with factual data about Scientology and to prove any lies, rumors and false data encountered to be false.

Any lies are disproven by documenting the truth. For example, if the lie is that “Scientology is not a religion,” this can be proven to be false with court decisions or documents clearly stating that Scientology is a religion. (The tech of handling such is covered in HCO PL 11 May 71 II, PR Series 7, BLACK PR, and HCO PL 21 Nov. 72, PR Series 18, HOW TO HANDLE BLACK PROPAGANDA.) Packs of such current materials can be obtained through one’s local Ethics Officer or the Director of Special Affairs in your org.

The truth blows the lie away. And the source of the lie is rendered unbelievable and any other utterances by that source will then be discarded.

CAN WE EVER BE FRIENDS?

Extraordinary successes in handling PTS situations with the “Can We Ever Be Friends?” cassette and booklet occur when these are used. Parents, friends, relatives of Scientologists, who, due to misunderstoods or misinformation thought they were opposed to Scientology and its aims have discovered, after listening to this cassette, that they are in full agreement with it and now give Scientology their support.

The results available with this cassette cannot be underestimated. It can be used by itself when communication has really broken down between the two terminals or in conjunction with other PTS handling.

DISCONNECTION

In the rare cases where disconnection is validly indicated in order to handle the person’s PTSness, the disconnection is done exactly per HCOB 10 Sept. 83, PTSness AND DISCONNECTION.

PROGRAM

As a result of interview and the various actions connected with it as given above and in the referenced issues, the interviewer must give the person a program to be done by the person. If the person does not do the program or report his actions on it, or the program results in no real change in the situation the interviewing officer must require the person to have auditing on the subject. (Ruds can be flown and/or a PTS RD must be given by a qualified auditor in the HGC.)

Clears and OTs can have ruds flown and can do all the PTS RD except engram handling.

This is usually followed by a Suppressed Person RD.

RUDIMENTS

Flying ruds and overts Triple or Quad Flow on the antagonistic terminal is often done to “get ruds in” and enable the PTS Type A person to better confront the PTS situation he is faced with. With a better confront of the situation he is, obviously, better prepared to carry out the handling steps of his program successfully. This would, of course, be done only in session by a qualified auditor when so ordered by the Case Supervisor.

The above describes the use of rudiments in handling PTS Type A situations. Note that in cases where a PTS Rundown is needed rudiments alone are never used as a substitute for the full rundown.

PTS/SP COURSE

Refs:

HCO PL 20 Oct. 76RA PTS DATA

Rev. 25.8.87 HCOB 20 Oct. 76II PTS HANDLING

HCO PL 30 Jan. 83 Esto Series 46 KSW Series 28 YOUR POST AND LIFE

A full and complete PTS handling would consist of getting the person through his PTSness and then getting him through the PTS/SP Course. This must be included as part of the handling, as otherwise the person will never learn the full mechanics that had been wrecking his life.

With the knowledge of PTS/SP technical data under his belt, a person can be at cause over suppressives and is far less likely to become PTS to anyone in the future.

THE PTS RUNDOWN

Refs:

HCOB 9 Dec. 71RD Rev. 28.3.89 PTS RUNDOWN, AUDITED

HCOB 20 Jan. 72R Rev. 8.12.78 PTS RUNDOWN ADDITION

HCOB 17 Apr. 72R C/S Series 76 Rev. 20.12.83 C/Sing A PTS RUNDOWN

HCOB 3 June 72RA Rev. 8.12.78 PTS RUNDOWN, FINAL STEP

The PTS Rundown is done when preclears who have had standard, successful PTS handlings roller-coaster at a later date, become ill, slump after making gains or continue to find additional terminals they are PTS to.

Or it is done when the person doesn’t brighten up with standard PTS A handling, or when he isn’t sure of the SP or can’t name any SP at all.

The exceptions are:

1. That the R3RA steps of the PTS RD would not be run on Clears and OTs (though they may be given the remaining steps of the PTS RD), and

2. Audited actions to handle PTSness would not be done on those in the No-Interference Zone. (Ref: HCOB 23 Dec. 71RB, C/S Series 73, Solo C/S Series 10, THE NO-INTERFERENCE AREA CLARIFIED AND RE-ENFORCED)

Note: Although the PTS RD contains R3RA steps and New Era Dianetics has been repositioned above Grades 0-IV on the new, streamlined Grade Chart, this does NOT limit the PTS RD to those at the level of NED in their processing. When a person has a PTS condition to be handled, it is not a matter of whether the person is up to the level of NED on the Grade Chart but a matter of handling the condition terminatedly, as the person may not be otherwise audited or trained over PTSness. (Ref: HCOB 27 July 76, PTS RUNDOWN AND VITAL INFO RD POSITION CORRECTED) This does not preclude the fact that proper setup for the action must be done, per the four points of breakdown of the PTS Rundown listed in HCOB 9 Dec. 71RD, PTS RUNDOWN, AUDITED.

The PTS Rundown is run to the end phenomena of a pc who is getting and keeping case gains and never again roller-coasters.

SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN

Refs:

HCOB 29 Dec. 78R THE SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN

Rev. 20.12.83 A MAGICAL NEW RUNDOWN

HCOB 30 Dec. 78R SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN

Rev. 6.1.79 PROBLEMS PROCESSES

If after the PTS Rundown, the person feels fine but the persons suppressing him are still making trouble, then the PTS person must have a Suppressed Person Rundown.

The Suppressed Person Rundown can produce the wondrous result of changing the disposition of an antagonistic terminal at a distance, by auditing the PTS preclear. Where this terminal was antagonistic, invalidative, hostile or downright suppressive, he can suddenly have a change of heart and seek to make peace with the PTS pc.

The end phenomena of this handling is a miraculous restoration of communication between the estranged terminals originated by the formerly antagonistic person. (Ref: HCOB 29 Dec. 78R, THE SUPPRESSED PERSON RUNDOWN, A MAGICAL NEW RUNDOWN)

The Suppressed Person Rundown is done after a PTS C/S-l has been done, the antagonistic terminal has been located and handlings have been done on that terminal, and after the PTS Rundown has been done.

It is not done in the No-Interference Area. (Ref: HCOB 23 Dec. 71RB, C/S Series 73, Solo C/S Series 10, THE NO-INTERFERENCE AREA CLARIFIED AND RE-ENFORCED)

Note that this rundown is for USE, even after the pc himself has been handled as a case, as this rundown handles the other person, the SP or antagonistic person, and the pc’s relationship to him in the real physical universe. Where the SP or antagonistic person exists in present time, this rundown is done on a one-for-one basis. In such cases, you use it no matter how successful the PTS handling was.

REST, QUIET AND A SAFE ENVIRONMENT

Rest, quiet and a safe environment must be provided for a person who has become PTS Type III.

“In this case the Type IPs apparent SP is spread all over the world and is often more than all the people there are—for the person sometimes has ghosts about him or demons and they are just more apparent SPs but imaginary as beings as well.”

“But, removed from apparent SPs, kept in a quiet surroundings, not pestered or threatened or put in fear, the person comes up to Type II and a Search and Discovery should end the matter.” (HCOB 24 Nov. 65, SEARCH AND DISCOVERY)

SUMMARY

Thus, any full and complete PTS handling consists of:

1. Education (PTS C/S-l),

2. PTS interview (discovering to what or whom he is PTS),

3. Handling (or in rare cases disconnection, if warranted),

4. PTS/SP Course (can be started earlier),

5. PTS Rundown (if needed),

6. Suppressed Person Rundown (if needed).

These are powerful and precision tools. With them we can handle our PTS students, preclears and staffs and get resounding one-for-one successes.

I am counting on you to do this.

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

Revision assisted by LRH Technical Research and Compilations

Notes

  1. Document studied on the How to Confront and Shatter Suppression PTS/SP Course. (2001 ed.) ↩

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HCOPL: Confidential, Handling Disconnections

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 SEPTEMBER 19731

General Non-Remimeo
HASes
A/Gs
Ethics Officers
Qual Secs
CSes
Ds of P

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 HCOB 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 the 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 has no other choice but 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, with copies of all earlier correspondence and attested handlings and send to the A/G 2, 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 CSW3 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
for
Capt. Mary Sue Hubbard, CS-G
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

Notes

  1. Document studied on Confidential GO Intelligence Course. PDF format. ↩
  2. A/G: Assistant Guardian ↩
  3. CSW: Completed Staff Work. A type of written request for approval. ↩