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HCOB: Confessionals And The Non-Intererence Zone

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 8 MARCH 1982R1
REVISED 24 APRIL 1983

FSO and AOs:
Case Supervisors
Auditors
Tech/Qual
MAAs

CONFESSIONALS AND THE NON-INTERFERENCE ZONE

Refs:
HCOB 23    Dec. 71    Solo C/S Series 10 C/S Series 73 THE NO-INTERFERENCE AREA
HCOB 7 Sept. 64 II PTPs, OVERTS AND ARC BREAKS
HCOB 13 Sept. 65R OUT-TECH AND HOW TO GET IT IN
HCOB 29    Sept. 65 II THE CONTINUING OVERT ACT
HCOB 3 May 62R ARC BREAKS, MISSED WITHHOLDS
HCO PL 23 Feb. 70 QUALITY OF SERVICE
HCOB 13    Oct. 82    C/S Series 116 ETHICS AND THE C/S
HCOB 28    Sept. 82 C/S Series 115 MIXING RUNDOWNS AND REPAIRS

It has long been known that people do not make gains when audited over undisclosed overts and withholds and that a withhold missed in auditing can cause quite an adverse reaction.

Because it has not previously been specified whether Confessionals could be done during the Non-interference Zone, it tended to leave the matter open to interpretation, and a common interpretation has been that one must not do any kind of Confessional or O/W pulling during the Non-interference Zone.

But what about a case who is out-ethics and not making progress due to continuous overts and withholds or, even worse, undisclosed overts or crimes against Scientology? Such a case won’t make any progress until these are gotten off.

A person who is NCG, nattery, critical or otherwise exhibiting O/Ws or out- ethics must be handled so that he can make case gains. And must not be continued in auditing until this is done.

This applies to pre-OTs as well as pes and specifically also applies to pre-OTs on OT III; on New OT IV, OT Drug RD; on New OT V, Audited NOTs; on New OT VII, Solo NOTs—the same as it applies to any other grade or OT section.

It is a CRIME to let a pre-OT get onto an OT section in that condition in the first place. And it is also a CRIME to continue the error and not remedy the matter right away.

One would not embark on a series of Confessionals during another grade or OT section, but it is imperative that pre-OTs on these sections who have missed withholds get them off and a specific Confessional can and should be done to accomplish this.

CAUTION

A pre-OT who is running well and making case gain should not be interrupted.

And, where a person in the Non-interference Zone does need O/Ws pulled, the auditor must first obtain a C/S okay.

SUMMARY

By following these lines, you will save some pre-OTs who otherwise would not make it at all!

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

Hubbard, L. R. (1982, 8 March). Confessionals And The Non-Intererence Zone. Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1991 ed., Vol. XII p. 389-90). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc.

Notes

  1. Document studied on the Hubbard Senior Security Checker Course. ↩

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HCOB: Jokers and Degraders

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 5 FEBRUARY 19771; 2
(Also published as HCO PL, same date.)

Remimeo
EDs, COs
HESes, S/Cs
HCOs
HASes
Sec Checkers
Case Supervisors
Staff Section Officers

C/S Series 100

JOKERS AND DEGRADERS

It is an old principle that people who do not understand something occasionally make fun of it.

A recent investigation however into the backgrounds and case condition of a small handful of people who were joking about their posts and those around them showed a somewhat more sinister scene.

Each of these persons fell into one or more of the following categories:

1. Were rock slammers. (Some List 1.)

2. Were institutional type cases.

3. Were “NCG” (meaning no case gain) (the only cause of which is continuous present time overts).

4. Were severely PTS (Potential Trouble Source) (connected to rock slammers).

It might be supposed that misunderstood word phenomena could also be part of this. The rebellious student in universities is usually handled by clearing up his misunderstoods or curing his hopelessness for his future. However, the investigation did not find that any of these jokers or degraders were acting that way solely because of misunderstood words, but the possibility cannot be ruled out.

The four categories above were, however, fully verified.

All the persons investigated were found to be the subject of declining statistics, both having them and causing them. Their areas were enturbulated. At least one of the jokers was physically driving basic course students out of an org.

In some cultural areas, wit and humor are looked upon as a healthy release. However, in the case of orgs, this was not found to be the case. Intentional destruction of the org or fellow staff members was the direct purpose.

Therefore all executives, HCO personnel and Case Supervisors as well as Qual personnel and Staff Section Officers have a valuable indicator. Where they have a joker or degrader on their hands they also have one or more of the above four conditions in that person.

This opens the door to handling such people.

Properly assigned and then fully done conditions are the correct ethics handlings.

Correctly done Expanded Dianetics, which includes Confessionals and fully done PTS handlings are the case remedies.

Where ethics tech itself is not known or neglected and where there are no HCOs one can, of course, not expect the matter to be handled. And this would be too bad because the case gain and life improvement available in proper ethics handlings, when fully followed through, can be quite miraculous.

Where rock slammers have been undermining the tech and it is not fully known or used or is altered into unworkability one cannot expect Confessionals to be properly done or Expanded Dianetics to be known and properly applied.

The joker is advertising his symptoms. He is also advertising an area of the org where there is enturbulation and down statistics as well as staff members being victimized.

Therefore this is an administrative and technical indicator which cannot be overlooked and should be followed up.

Spotted, investigated and handled, this can be the beginning of an upward spiral for an organization.

Where someone is driving ethics out, tech is not likely to go in. You have to get in ethics and tech before you can begin to get in admin.

The next time you, as an executive, wonder why you are working so hard, look for the joker in the deck.

Humor is one thing. Destroyed orgs and human beings are quite something else.

It is our business to get the show on the road and get the job done.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

Notes

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 5 FEBRUARY 1977
(Also published as HCO PL, same date.)
Remimeo
EDs. COs
HESes. S/Cs
HCOs
HASes
Sec Checkers C/S Series 100
Case Supervisors
Staff Section Officers
JOKERS AND DEGRADERS
It is an old principle that people who do not understand something occasionally
make fun of it.
A recent investigation however into the backgrounds and case condition of a small
handful of people who were joking about their posts and those around them showed a
somewhat more sinister scene.
Each of these persons fell into one or more of the following categories:
1. Were rock slammers. (Some List 1.)
2. Were institutional type cases.
3. Were “NCG” (meaning no case gain) (the only cause of which is continuous
present time overts).
4. Were severely PTS (Potential Trouble Source) (connected to rock
slammers).
It might be supposed that misunderstood word phenomena could also be part of
this. The rebellious student in universities is usually handled by clearing up his misunderstoods
or curing his hopelessness for his future. However, the investigation did
not find that any of these jokers or degraders were acting that way solely because of
misunderstood words, but the possibility cannot be ruled out.
The four categories above were, however, fully verified.
All the persons investigated were found to be the subject of declining statistics,
both having them and causing them. Their areas were enturbulated. At least one of the
jokers was physically driving basic course students out of an org.
In some cultural areas, wit and humor are looked upon as a healthy release.
However, in the case of orgs, this was not found to be the case. Intentional destruction
of the org or fellow staff members was the direct purpose.
Therefore all executives, HCO personnel and Case Supervisors as well as Qual
personnel and Staff Section Officers have a valuable indicator. Where they have a joker
or degrader on their hands they also have one or more of the above four conditions in
that person.
This opens the door to handling such people.
Properly assigned and then fully done conditions are the correct ethics handlings.
Correctly done Expanded Dianetics, which includes Confessionals and fully done
PTS handlings are the case remedies.
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Where ethics tech itself is not known or neglected and where there are no HCOs
one can, of course, not expect the matter to be handled. And this would be too bad
because the case gain and life improvement available in proper ethics handlings, when
fully followed through, can be quite miraculous.
Where rock slammers have been undermining the tech and it is not fully known or
used or is altered into unworkability one cannot expect Confessionals to be properly
done or Expanded Dianetics to be known and properly applied.
The joker is advertising his symptoms. He is also advertising an area of the org
where there is enturbulation and down statistics as well as staff members being victimized.
Therefore this is an administrative and technical indicator which cannot be
overlooked and should be followed up.
Spotted, investigated and handled, this can be the beginning of an upward spiral
for an organization.
Where someone is driving ethics out, tech is not likely to go in. You have to get in
ethics and tech before you can begin to get in admin.
The next time you, as an executive, wonder why you are working so hard, look
for the joker in the deck.
Humor is one thing. Destroyed orgs and human beings are quite something else.
It is our business to get the show on the road and get the job done.
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
LRH: If
Copyright © 1977
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
292HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICESaint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, SussexHCO BULLETIN OF 5 FEBRUARY 1977(Also published as HCO PL, same date.)RemimeoEDs. COsHESes. S/Cs

HCOs

HASes

Sec Checkers C/S Series 100

Case Supervisors

Staff Section Officers

JOKERS AND DEGRADERS

It is an old principle that people who do not understand something occasionally

make fun of it.

A recent investigation however into the backgrounds and case condition of a small

handful of people who were joking about their posts and those around them showed a

somewhat more sinister scene.

Each of these persons fell into one or more of the following categories:

1. Were rock slammers. (Some List 1.)

2. Were institutional type cases.

3. Were “NCG” (meaning no case gain) (the only cause of which is continuous

present time overts).

4. Were severely PTS (Potential Trouble Source) (connected to rock

slammers).

It might be supposed that misunderstood word phenomena could also be part of

this. The rebellious student in universities is usually handled by clearing up his misunderstoods

or curing his hopelessness for his future. However, the investigation did

not find that any of these jokers or degraders were acting that way solely because of

misunderstood words, but the possibility cannot be ruled out.

The four categories above were, however, fully verified.

All the persons investigated were found to be the subject of declining statistics,

both having them and causing them. Their areas were enturbulated. At least one of the

jokers was physically driving basic course students out of an org.

In some cultural areas, wit and humor are looked upon as a healthy release.

However, in the case of orgs, this was not found to be the case. Intentional destruction

of the org or fellow staff members was the direct purpose.

Therefore all executives, HCO personnel and Case Supervisors as well as Qual

personnel and Staff Section Officers have a valuable indicator. Where they have a joker

or degrader on their hands they also have one or more of the above four conditions in

that person.

This opens the door to handling such people.

Properly assigned and then fully done conditions are the correct ethics handlings.

Correctly done Expanded Dianetics, which includes Confessionals and fully done

PTS handlings are the case remedies.

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Where ethics tech itself is not known or neglected and where there are no HCOs

one can, of course, not expect the matter to be handled. And this would be too bad

because the case gain and life improvement available in proper ethics handlings, when

fully followed through, can be quite miraculous.

Where rock slammers have been undermining the tech and it is not fully known or

used or is altered into unworkability one cannot expect Confessionals to be properly

done or Expanded Dianetics to be known and properly applied.

The joker is advertising his symptoms. He is also advertising an area of the org

where there is enturbulation and down statistics as well as staff members being victimized.

Therefore this is an administrative and technical indicator which cannot be

overlooked and should be followed up.

Spotted, investigated and handled, this can be the beginning of an upward spiral

for an organization.

Where someone is driving ethics out, tech is not likely to go in. You have to get in

ethics and tech before you can begin to get in admin.

The next time you, as an executive, wonder why you are working so hard, look

for the joker in the deck.

Humor is one thing. Destroyed orgs and human beings are quite something else.

It is our business to get the show on the road and get the job done.

L. RON HUBBARD

Founder

LRH: If

Copyright © 1977

by L. Ron Hubbard

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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HCOPL: PTS Personnel and Finance

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 MAY 1972R1; 2
Revised 27 October 1982

Remimeo
Int Finance Network for Enforcement

ETHICS

Executive Series 13R
Finance Series 12R
Personnel Series 25R

PTS PERSONNEL AND FINANCE

PTS means Potential Trouble Source. This is a person who is connected to a suppressive person, group or thing. (For further data on PTSness see HCOB 24 Nov. 65, SEARCH AND DISCOVERY, and HCO PL 27 Oct. 64, POLICIES ON PHYSICAL HEALING, INSANITY AND POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCES.)

NCG means No Case Gain despite good and sufficient auditing.

A chronically ill person, whether the person is known to be connected to a suppressive or not, is always found to have been so connected and PTS.

IT IS UNSHAKEABLE POLICY HEREAFTER THAT NO PERSON WHO IS PTS OR CHRONICALLY ILL OR WHO GETS NO CASE GAIN MAY BE ON FINANCE OR REGISTRAR LINES OR IN TOP COMMAND POSTS OR AS HAS OR ETHICS OFFICER OR MAA.

TECHNICAL FACT

A person who is connected to a suppressive person, group or thing will dramatize a “can’t-have” or an “enforced overt-have” on an org or staff members.

A “can’t-have” means just that-a depriving of substance or action or things.

An “enforced overt-have” means forcing upon another a substance, action or thing not wanted or refused by the other.

The technical fact is that a PTS person got that way because the suppressive was suppressive by depriving the other or enforcing unwanted things upon the person.

The PTS person will dramatize this characteristic in reaction to the suppression.

Therefore, a PTS person as an ED, CO, product officer, org officer, Treasury Sec, Cashier or Body Reg will run a can’t-have on the org and its staff by:

a. Refusing income,

b. Wasting income made,

c. Accepting wrong customers (like psychos) and forcing them on the org,

d. Fail to provide staff or service,

e. Advocate overt products.

HISTORICAL

When staffs went on proportionate pay in the late 1950s, so long as I ran the orgs directly the staffs made more money than before.

When I moved off these lines directly, the staffs began to receive less money personally.

At that time it seemed to me that proportionate pay served as an excuse to some in an org to run a can’t-have on the staff.

We knew that some Registrars could take money in easily and others never seemed to be able to.

The technical reason for this has just emerged in another line of research entirely.

In completing materials and search on Expanded Dianetics, I was working on the mechanism of how a PTS person remained ill.

I found suppressives became so to the person by running a “can’t-have” and “enforced overt-have.” This pinned the PTS person to the suppressive.

Working further I found that a PTS person was a robot to the suppressive. (See HCOB 10 May 72, ROBOTISM)

This research was in the direction of making people well.

Suddenly it was apparent that a PTS person, as a robot to SPs, will run “can’t-haves” and “enforced overt-haves” on others.

Checking rapidly, it was found that where finance lines were very sour a PTS person was on those lines.

RECOVERY

PTS tech, Objective Processes, PTS Rundowns, Money Processes and Expanded Dianetics will handle the condition.

However, one cannot be sure that it has been handled expertly in orgs where a money “can’t-have” has been run as its tech quality will be low due to an already existing lack of finance.

Only stats would tell if the situation has been handled fully.

Thus the policy stands. Handled or not handled, no person who is PTS or who has no case gain will be permitted in top command or any lines that influence finance.

Any org which has consistently low income should be at once suspect of having PTS or NCG persons on the key finance posts, and an immediate action should be taken to discover the PTS or NCG condition and replace such persons with those who are not connected to suppressives or who do get case gain.

Nothing in this policy letter permits any PTS person to be in an org or cancels any policy with regard to PTS.

This policy letter requires direct check, close investigation and handling of PTS or SP situations on these posts that may go undetected otherwise.

NOTHING IN THIS POLICY LETTER PERMITS ANY KEY ORG POST TO REMAIN EMPTY.

NATIONAL

As a comment on something that may impinge on orgs and might affect them, the FOREMOST reason for a failing national prosperity and inflation is a personal income tax agency. This runs a vicious can’t-have on every citizen and makes them PTS to the government. Individuals even begin to run a can’t-have on themselves and do not produce. This IS the cause of a failing national economy.

It can be a factor in an org and must be handled on the individuals so affected.

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

Revision written at the request of the Church of Scientology International

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HCOPL: Suppressives and the Administrator How to Detect SPs as an Administrator

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 OCTOBER 19671; 2

Remimeo

ETHICS

Admin Know-How Series 16

SUPPRESSIVES AND THE ADMINISTRATOR

HOW TO DETECT SPs AS AN ADMINISTRATOR

There are three areas of detection which an administrator can utilize in the detection of a suppressive person.

These are:

1. No ethics change,

2. No case change,

3. No admin change.

An SP (suppressive person) is unable to change because he cannot, himself, confront. He is badly “out of valence.”

Therefore, not being able to look at things directly, he is unable to erase them or even see what they are. Such people often have a curtain of pictures they look at instead of the universe around them.

They do not see a building. They see a picture of a building in front of the building. They are not at the point from which they view things.

Thus they are peculiar in that they can’t change.

The three principal zones in a Scientology org are:

1. Ethics,

2. Tech,

3. Admin.

We have the natural laws of these subjects, each one.

If you can get in ethics, you can get in Scientology technology. If you can get in Scientology technology, you can get in admin. If you can get all three in, you have an org and have expansion.

If you can’t get in tech, ethics is out. If you can’t get in admin, both tech and ethics are out.

The sequence of things that have to be “gotten in” to make an org is first ethics, second tech, third admin.

Where one of these goes out, the org contracts.

We have these three sciences. To really handle things, one has to be a master of all three, even to live a good personal life.

By “get in” we mean get it applied and effective.

We live in a very woggy world at this time. The wog is so out-ethics he is living in what amounts to a criminal society.

When we try to get tech in on the planet we run into the  out-ethics areas and this is the real source of our troubles where we have any. We are getting in tech before we get in ethics. It can be done (obviously, since we are doing it). But it is a heavy strain at best.

Just because we do not at once get ethics in on the planet does not mean we can’t get any tech in.

By handling small sectors, beginning with self and Scientology groups and orgs, we can continue to repeat the cycles of three—ethics, tech, admin. Gradually we enlarge the numbers we have and gradually our sphere of ethics-tech-admin expands. And we one day have ethics in on the planet, tech in on the planet, admin in on the planet.

The only stumbling block is the SP. This person (about 10 percent of the population) is unable to change. We can process them if we can get them to sit still.

But these are the hidden booby traps which make one’s life, one’s family, one’s org, one’s nation, one’s planet a rough-rough proposition.

Ninety percent of the people say, “Ethics great, tech great, admin great.” And away we go.

Ten percent say, “Horrible, horrible, horrible.” And cannot either see or change. They are the true psychotics no matter how “sane” they sound. The people in institutions are generally only their victims.

This 10 percent, one must be able to detect and weed out so they don’t contaminate areas we are bringing up in ethics, tech and admin.

Our policy is we don’t waste time on them. To cater to them is to betray 90 percent of the population. So we set them aside for another day.

We get them off lines, out of orgs and to one side.

The true character of these people is usually masked in many ways. They are expert only in deception and can take on any guise.

To listen to them one would suppose he was talking to his best friend sometimes.

Except the knife in one’s back is also driven in by them.

We have much tech to describe them.

But one does not have to be an auditor with a meter to find these people.

An administrator only needs to know the three things about them:

1. No change in ethics,

2. No change in case,

3. No change in admin.

These people have:

1. Thick ethics files,

2. Thick (or no) case files,

3. Thick, full (or no) comm baskets.

If you just dismissed anyone who had all three, you would have gotten rid of an SP.

It works this way. When you start to get in ethics, most people “learn the ropes” fast. They may have a few down conditions and chits or even Courts or Comm Evs but you see the frequency dwindles and eventually vanishes or nearly so.

When you start to get in tech on a person, it may be a hard haul for a while and then it begins to level out and get easier.

When you start to get in admin, the confusion around some person may be great but after a while the lines and policies straighten out.

None are good little angels. But 90 percent make progress in these three fields of ethics, tech and admin.

The SP does NOT make any consistent progress at all and lapses every time.

As only 10 percent of the people then are making nearly all the tough work in ethics, tech and admin, the thing to do then is to get them off the lines rather than betray 90 percent.

And the SP is detectable in ALL THREE AREAS. It needs no microscope to find out who on a staff has the seniors working so hard for so little gain.

Their ethics file is huge, their case file either doesn’t exist at all or is very fat, their comm lines are jammed, their policy is out and their stats are on the bottom eternally.

So as an administrator you can detect SPs. You better had. YOUR OWN STATS WILL BE DOWN TO THE DEGREE YOU FAIL TO DETECT THEM.

Just go to your files and look at the desks and sack whoever satisfies all three conditions above and you can’t miss and WILL be able to breathe.

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

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HCOB: The Continuing Overt Act

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 29 SEPTEMBER 19651; 2
Issue II

Remimeo
Missions
Students
BPI

All Levels

THE CONTINUING OVERT ACT

Pity the poor fellow who commits daily harmful acts.

He’ll never make it.

A criminal pilfering the cash box once a week has himself stopped cold as far as case gains are concerned.

In 1954 I counted some noses. I checked up on twenty-one cases who had never had any gains since 1950. Seventeen turned out to be criminals! The other four were beyond the reach of investigation.

That gave me my first clue.

For some years then, I watched for no-gain cases and carefully followed up those that I could.

They had major or minor criminal backgrounds.

This gave the 1959 breakthrough on the meter checks (Sec Checking).

Following it further since 1959 I have finally amassed enough histories to state:

THE PERSON WHO IS NOT GETTING CASE GAINS IS COMMITTING CONTINUING OVERTS.

While this sounds like a very good “out” for us, we assume that the auditor at least tried something sensible.

Today—the running of a pc by grades is a saving grace for merely “tough cases”. Directors of Processing are doing well with the modern graded process approach, level by level, and the D of P Washington has just told me they were cracking cases with the lowest grade processes DC had never been able to handle well before.

So, given processing by Grades (the best case approach we’ve ever had), we crack the rough ones.

But will that be all cases?

There’s still one. The case who continually commits overts before, during and after processing.

He won’t make it.

One thing helps this, however.

You have seen the Ethics Codes appear.

By putting a bit of control in the Scientology environment we have enough threat to restrain dramatization.

The phenomena is this: The reactive bank can exert stress on the pc if it is not obeyed.

Discipline must exert just a shade more stress against dramatization than the bank does. This checks the performance of the continual overt long enough to let processing bite.

Not everyone is a continuous overt committer by a thousand to one. But this phenomenon is not confined to the no-gain case.

The slow gain case is also committing overts the auditor doesn’t see.

Therefore a little discipline in the environment speeds the slow gain case, the one we’re more interested in.

The no-gain case, frankly, is one I am not panting to solve. If a fellow wants to sell his next hundred trillion for the sake of the broken toy he stole, I’m afraid I can’t be bothered. I have no contract with any Big Thetan to save the world complete.

It is enough for me to know:

1. Where bottom is, and

2. How to help speed slow gain cases.

Bottom is the chap who eats your lunch apple and says the children did it. Bottom is the fellow who sows the environment with secret suppressive acts and vicious generalities.

The slow gain case responds to a bit of “keep your nose clean, please, while I apply the thetanbooster.”

The fast gain case does his job and doesn’t give a hoot about threatened discipline if it’s fair.

And the fast gain case helps out and the fast gain case can be helped by a more orderly environment.

The good worker works more happily when bad workers see the pitfalls and desist from distracting him.

So we all win.

The no-gain case? Well, he sure doesn’t deserve any gain. One pc in a thousand. And he yaps and groans and says “Prove it works” and blames us and raises hell. He makes us think we fail.

Look down in our Saint Hill files. There are actually thousands upon thousands of Scientologists there who each one comment on how wonderful it is and how good they feel. There are a few dozen or so who howl they haven’t been helped! What a ratio! Yet I believe some on staff think we have a lot of dissatisfied people. These no-gain characters strew so much entheta around that we think we fail. Look in the Saint Hill files sometime! Those many thousands of reports continue to pour in from around the world with hurrah! Only the few dozen groan.

But long ago I closed my book on the no-gain case. Each of those few dozen no-gains tell frightening lies to little children, pour ink on shoes, say how abused they are while tearing the guts out of those unlucky enough to be around them. They are suppressive persons, every one. I know. I’ve seen them all the way down to the little clinker they call their soul. And I don’t like what I saw.

The people who come to you with wild discreditable rumors, who seek to tear people’s attention off Scientology, who chew up orgs, are suppressive persons.

Well, give them a good rock and let them suppress it!

I can’t end this HCO B without a confession. I know how to cure them rather easily.

Maybe I’ll never let it be done.

For had they had their way we would have lost our chance. It’s too near to think about.

After all, we have to earn our freedom. I don’t care much for those who didn’t help. The rest of us had to sweat a lot harder than was necessary to make it come true.

L. Ron Hubbard
Founder

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HCOPL: Suppressive Persons, Main Characteristics Of

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 AUGUST 19651; 2; 3
Issue I

SUPPRESSIVE PERSONS, MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF

It is interesting in the detection of suppressive persons that they use “policy” to prevent purpose.

In one org which went into a serious decline a suppressive person was in a high position.

Every time org personnel returned from Saint Hill and proposed that the org get going, they were told by this SP that their proposals were “against policy.”

Not one of these people, hearing this, ever alerted to a glaring fact. The SP in this case was renowned for never being able to pass a bulletin, tape or policy letter!

So how would that person have known WHAT was against policy for that person NEVER was known to pass a hat check!

So that person’s statement that “It’s against policy” was obviously false since the person was incapable of passing hat checks or bulletins and wouldn’t ever have known what any policy was, for or against anything.

Thus, we see one of the characteristics of an SP is:

1. THE NEGATION OF POLICY WITHOUT KNOWING IT AND THE USE OF “POLICY” TO PREVENT SUCCESS IN SCIENTOLOGY IS THE PRIMARY TOOL OF THE SP AGAINST ORGS.

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Dissemination is a prime target of the SP.

Magazines ordinarily have half a dozen SPs on their lines. These people write in and complain about ads. If you don’t watch it, these half dozen become “everybody” and the mag is beaten down into not advertising.

“Soft sell” is another recommendation of the SP.

And “build it quietly” and “get only decent people” are all part of this.

When somebody is demanding less reach, that person is an SP.

Therefore, we have another characteristic:

2. SPs RECOMMEND INEFFECTIVE DISSEMINATION AND FIND FAULT WITH ANY BEING DONE.

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A suppressive will try to sell off the property or buildings of an org, and in one case tried to give them away when temporarily in charge.

3. A SUPPRESSIVE WILL TRY TO GET RID OF AN ORG.

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Good staff members are a prime target for SPs. In one org where an SP got a foothold, 60% of the staff was gotten rid of and the org almost crashed.

They do it by making people too dissatisfied to produce and so make it impossible for the org to earn.

4. AN SP WILL SEEK TO UPSET AND GET RID OF THE BEST STAFF MEMBERS.

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Bad news, particularly if false, is the only comm line of the SP.

The executive who is getting bad news as a steady diet on his lines has SPs about.

5. ENTHETA IS THE SOLE STOCK IN TRADE OF THE SP.

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The triumph an SP feels in not getting rid of things the auditor has tried to ease is quite malevolent.

6. AN SP IS SATISFIED WITH AUDITING ONLY WHEN HE GETS WORSE.

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7. SPs are happy when their pcs get worse and sad when their pcs get betters.

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8. AN SP IN AN EXAMINER POST WILL ONLY DECLARE RELEASED THE BAD RESULT CASES AND WILL NOT PASS ACTUAL RELEASES BUT WILL ARC BREAK THEM.

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9. Cover invalidation is the level of an SP’s social intercourse.

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An SP can only restimulate another; he has no power of his own.

10. An SP deals only in restimulation, never easing or erasing.

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11. The persons around an SP get so restimulated they can’t detect the real SP.

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The whole rationale of the SP is built on the belief that if anyone got better, the SP would be for it as the others could overcome him then.

He is fighting a battle he once fought and never stopped fighting. He is in an incident. Present time people are mistaken by him for past, long-gone enemies.

Therefore, he never really knows what he is fighting in present time, so just fights.

12. The SP is sure everyone is against him personally and if others became more powerful they would dispose of him.

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The SP usually commits continuing overts. These are hidden.

I have had two or three SPs blow up and shout or snarl at me. When I investigated, I found, in these cases, they were committing daily crimes of some magnitude.

13. An SP commits hidden overts continuously.

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14. Back of a crime you will find SP characteristics.

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15. Because an SP uses generalities in his speech “everybody,” “they,” etc., the SP is hard to detect.

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SPs have an experiential track that is poor. SPs know how to needle and commit overts and hold others back.

When released, the SP has so little decent background experience that he or she has a very hard time.

16. Releasing an SP does not make a worthwhile person. It only makes a person who can now learn to get along in life.

“A cleared cannibal is a cleared cannibal.”

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SPs don’t get case gains. Sometimes they pretend them. They are held back by their continuing overts. If we were found by them to be decent, their past conduct would swell up and engulf them.

They are in a continual PTP of their fight with mankind. And they follow the rule that pcs with PTPs get no case gains.

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Real SPs comprise about 2½ percent of the population. By restimulating others, they make another 17½ percent into potential trouble sources. Therefore, about 20 percent of the population is Ethics type.

We must not allow this 20 percent to prevent the 80 percent from crossing the Bridge.

We are no enemy of the SP. But he can’t have friends, can he?

So we handle the SP and his PTSes and carry on with our job.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

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