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OEC Volume 1: HCO to the READER: Scientology OEC Volume 1: HCO TO THE READER: Scientology is a religious philosophy containing pastoral counseling procedures in- tended to assist an individual to gain greater knowledge of self. The Mission of the Church of Scientology is a simple one – to help the individual acheive greater self-confidence and per- sonal integrity, thereby enabling him to really trust and respect himself and his fellow man. The attainment of the benefits and goals of Scientology requires each individual’s positive participation, as only through his own efforts can he achieve these. This is part of the religious literature and works of the Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. It is presented to the reader as part of the record of his personal research into Life, and should be construed only as a written report of such research and not as a statement of claims made by the Church or the author. Scientology and its sub-study, Dianetics, as practiced by the Church, address only the spiritual side of Man. Although the Church, as are all churches, is free to engage in spiritual healing, it does not, as its primary goal is increased knowledge and personal integrity for all. For this reason, the Church does not wish to accept individuals who desire treatment of physi- cal illness or insanity, but refers these to qualified specialists in other organizations who deal in these matters. The Hubbard Electrometer is a religious artifact used in the Church confessional. It, in itself, does nothing, and is used by Ministers only, to assist parishioners in locating areas of spiritual distress or travail. We hope the reading of this book is only the first stage of a personal voyage of dis- covery into the positive and effective religion of Scientology. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Church of Scientology YOUR POST A post in a Scientology Organization isn’t a job. It’s a trust and a crusade. We’re free men and women – probably the last free men and women on Earth. Re- member, we’ll have to come back to Earth some day no matter what “happens” to us. If we don’t do a good job now we may never get another chance. Yes, I’m sure that’s the way it is. So we have an organization, we have a field we must support, we have a chance. That’s more than we had last time night’s curtain began to fall on freedom. So we’re using that chance. An organization such as ours is our best chance to get the most done. So we’re doing it! L. RON HUBBARD HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 FEBRUARY 1970 Issue II Remimeo HCO MAKES THE ORG When you look over the flow lines of a 7 or 9 Division Org Board, you will see that it flows from left to right. Division One – HCO – HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE in Scientology Orgs – has the major functions of: (Org Form Dept 1 (Routing (Personnel (Communications Dept 2 (Address (Transport (Inspection Dept 3 (Reports (OIC) (Ethics These essentially create the org and hold it there. When they are missing as functions actively and continually pursued, then there is no flow, no production, no income, no org. There is only a group of individuals floundering around everyone wearing all the hats. Strike out HCO or fail to form it up and, in solid practice, soon there is no org. The HCO Area Sec is responsible for “hats” and hat folders, org boards, personnel as- signments, personnel procurement and readying personnel for posts, routing of bodies through the shop and routing forms for them. She is responsible for internal and external communica- tion and for transport of people and goods as well as vehicles. She is responsible for inspect- ing the org, comm lines, posts and activities, for compiling the stats and posting them in OIC and for Ethics being in in the org and all Ethics actions. This is a big hat and an important one. In a medium sized org of up to 30 staff, HCO usually has a reception who holds Dept 1, a Communicator and an Ethics Officer, who also does inspection and reports. With the HCO Area Sec. this is a 4 person HCO. In a 30 person org, there would be 20 Admin person- nel. HCO has about a fifth of these as above just to operate the org. Address, as the numbers in CF increase, gets another staff member in Dept 2, making 5 in HCO. When you consider that Div 2 (Dissemination Division), also part of the HCO Exec Sec Area, needs people on Registration, Letter Registration, CF filing, mimeo, publications, it is obvious that the HCO ES has the lion’s share of Admin personnel, 10 or 11 of the 30 staff. When you add the two non-tech Exec Secs, an LRH Comm in Div 7 to hold also Es- tate with a cleaner or two, put two people in Finance, and one in Tech Services, you wind up with about 4 in the Public Divisions, which is about right. The Public Division 4 usually operate as an all hands team but are posted with a PES and 1 man to cover each Division’s functions. If an org is not laid out this way by HCO then it will probably fall on its head. Long, grim experience has told us this. 1 AND IT IS HCO THAT LAYS THE PATTERN. HCO, in other words, PUTS AN ORG THERE AND KEEPS IT MANNED AND WORKING. The org isn’t laid out by the Exec Secs. It is laid out by the HCO Area Sec. Where orgs have been too short sighted to keep HCO in and functioning, they have troubles – low pay, out finance and generally fall apart. The biggest job in an org is to get a competent HCO there and keep it there. In an org with an active LRH Comm, it is usually his job to see there is an HCO there and operating. If he neglects this he always falls on his head. He cannot do any part of his job without an operating and competent HCO there. An LRH Comm has a primary duty of report- ing a missing or incompetent HCO direct to the LRH Comm Worldwide. LRH Comms have been removed in disgrace for letting HCOs vanish without reporting and raising the roof. The HCO Area Secretary is an important person in the org. She requires in actual fact, a letter of appointment signed by the Founder. The post is that important. Who puts HCO there? This is the first business of an Executive Council. An EC that fails to put an HCO there and keep it there, functioning and competent, is going to fail. They should choose their HCO Area Sec. man up the Division, in keeping with their numbers on staff and Tech-Admin ratio, and get an official letter of appointment for her signed by the Founder and get on with it. Few people realize that HCO is actually a separate company. It is the worldwide comm network of Dianetics and Scientology. As its finances and personnel are meshed in with the rest of the org, its identity does not stay visible. But note it is still called HCO and the rest of the Divisions are called “the Organization” and it is divided off on the Org Board. HCO owns all the addresses in all orgs. It, not the orgs, leases the copyrights and marks of Dianetics and Scientology. The services of HCO are great. When these are absent or diminished, the whole org will fail. When upper management bodies do not concentrate on putting HCO there and con- tinuing it, they will soon have a bad situation on their hands internally. If there is no start to the flow lines of the org, there will be no flow lines very very soon. Experience has shown us this time after time. An EC which has no operating HCO will find itself trying to be an HCO with only HCO duties. The answer is to put an HCO there. A good one that does its job, headed by an HCO Area Sec who wants to get the show on the road. L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jz.ei.cden Copyright (c) 1970 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [The example given on page 1 is modified by HCO P/L 10 June 1970, Public Divi- sions and Tech Admin Ratio, Volume 6 – page 35, which gives the Tech Admin ratio for the three Public Divisions.] 2 L. Ron Hubbard FOUNDER Mary Sue Hubbard CONTROLLER _ _ HCO THE GUARDIAN WW _ _ HCO CO EXEC SEC 1 HCO DIVISION I HCO AREA SECRETARY EXECUTIVE | DIVISION 9 HCO AREA SEC. SEC. DIVISION 9 SEC. | | RECOGNITION COMMUNICATION PERCEPTION Department I Department 2 Department 3 SOURCE EXISTENCE CONDITIONS POPULATIONS ORIEN I Department 28 Department 27 Department 26 Department 25 DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF Dep. ROUTING & COMMUNICATIONS INSPECTIONS & PERSONNEL REPORTS OFFICE OF LRH OFFICE OF HCO OFFICE OF OFFICE OF DEPART EXEC SEC ORG EXEC SEC PUBLIC PROM EXEC SEC Director of Director of Director of Routing Communications Inspections & Office of LRH Office of HCO Office of Org Office of Public and Personnel Direr Co-ordinator Exec SecExec SecExec SecProm Co-ordinator Co-ordinator Co-ordinator rice Guardian [This Org Board outline reflects the December ‘66 development of raising Division 1 and Division 5 one inch higher than the other Divisions (Volume 1 – page 81), the December ‘69 move of Appearances to Division 6 (Volume 6 – page 125), and the October ‘67 introduc- tion of the Public Divisions (Volume 0 – page 252, Volume 6 – page 7).
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