There is all manner of legal type letters, government letters, accounting notices, assessments and such and phone calls received by persons in the org and this Pol Ltr FORBIDS it being routed all over the org to anyone and everyone.

In a SEC ED neither an Advisory Committee nor a Secretary may order another division than their own.

An Executive Secretary may issue a SEC ED that crosses divisions but only those divisions directly under that Executive Secretary (HCO Exec Sec SEC EDs may only order the two HCO divisions, Org Exec Sec SEC EDs may only order the four [org] divisions).

I don't care who it is addressed to, or who is being called for if it looks or sounds lawyer or legal or tax or T & C Planning or Council or anything like legal or government IT MAY NOT BE ROUTED TO ITS ADDRESSEE but must FIRST go to the Legal Officer only.

The Advisory Council SEC EDs may order HCO and Org Divisions at the same time.

Anyone found holding or receiving or finding any legal or tax or planning matter or letter or phone call without its being routed first and at once to the Legal Officer will be reported at once to Ethics and Ethics is to hold a hearing.

Advisory Councils, in approving the text of SEC EDs before passing them on to the LRH Communicator for an okay to issue should be very careful to see that no AdComm issues SEC EDs to other divisions than their own.

The Legal Officer is hereby authorized to have a clerk. The clerk is to keep legal files and is to receive all such legal matters, letters, summonses, etc.

The LRH Communicator in authorizing the issue of a SEC ED, should be careful that this policy letter is not violated.

The Legal Clerk may then Xerox a copy and send the copy only to the addressee. But must keep the original and must show it to the Legal Officer before even a copy is sent.

No SEC ED of any kind may be issued unless it has been authorized by the LRH Communicator and any violation of issue authority should be reported to the LRH Communicator WW who is to refer it to the AdCouncil WW for action.

ALL OUTGOING MAIL to attorneys, tax cruds, the alleged government, the Council, etc. AND A FULL RECORD OF EVERY VERBAL CONFERENCE ON SUCH MATTERS must be sent to the Legal Officer BEFORE MAILING or before being held binding and must not be sealed or ratified before so sending it to the Legal Officer.

SEC EDs improperly issued have no validity and need not be obeyed and may not be used for hearings or Comm Evs.

NO STENO may mail a legal type letter or get it signed unless it is FIRST SENT TO THE LEGAL OFFICER FOR OK.

Without that okay it may not be signed or mailed.

The meaning of the word SEC ED is "Secretarial to the Executive Director". The word "Secretarial" applies to the signature meaning it is signed as official by a person other than LRH personally. It is the written initials in the lower left hand corner that are "secretarial".

No officer, executive or person in the organization may make legal contacts or commitments or arrangements that are not approved by the Legal Officer.

The system came into use to accommodate cable orders originally. By being sealed and initialled by an official person like a notary public in the org, the validity of the order was attested as a valid order of LRH.

Any phone or Telex operator receiving a request from an Executive for a legal or government outgoing connection must route it instead to the Legal Officer.

Approval by an Advisory Council or an Exec Sec and authorization by the LRH Communicator for issue are now both required before the secretarial official in HCO (usually the HCO Steno) may seal, initial and issue the order. It is this person who requires that the Adcouncil or an Exec Sec and the LRH Communicator's initials appear on the original copy before she may type, seal and initial and then publish a SEC ED.

RECEPTION MUST ROUTE ALL LEGAL TYPE BODIES ONLY TO THE LEGAL OFFICER AND TO NOBODY ELSE EVER.

The HCO Steno may not issue any SEC ED today which does not have the initials of the Adcouncil or an Exec Sec and the initials of the LRH Communicator on it or unless it is in the handwriting of LRH or has come off the telex or through the mails from WW and is a valid communication from proper persons there. The LRH Communicator WW must be the transmitting authority from WW and must initial any despatch or telex before transmission that is to become a SEC ED at the other end. The HCO Steno must look for this before issuing. Her guide is that if the LRH Communicator's initials are not on it she may not issue it, excepting only it being in the handwriting of LRH or personally transmitted by him.

SEC EDs are fast orders and have top priority in transmission and execution. They take precedence over all other orders both in transmission speed and execution.

Note: The government is so dispersed it mails anyone's mail to anybody (absolute fact) and the most dangerous notices may get sent to the most unlikely places and parts of the org. In the recent accountancy emergency it was conclusively proven that a suppressive always selects wrong targets and that includes wrong addressees. The most vital notices were being sent to anyone whose name was handy.

The priority of SEC EDs is as follows:

LRH Personally written or personally sent

• SEC ED Adcouncil WW

The purpose of the Legal Officer is to help LRH handle every legal, government, suit, accounting and tax contact or action for the organization and by himself or employed representative, to protect the organization and its people from harm and to bring the greatest possible confusion and loss to its enemies.

This purpose can only be carried out if every piece of mail incoming and outgoing that has to do with legal matters, tax matters, Town and Country Planning matters, government matters, solicitor matters of any kind passes through his hands and is fitted by him into the tactics and strategy agreed upon or formulated by the Legal Section.

The Legal Officer may not take direct orders from anyone but myself, Policy Letters and SEC EDs, and obstructing him in the performance of his duty is a crime and must be followed by a Committee of Evidence.

The penalty for not complying with a SEC ED is a misdemeanor and must result in an Executive Ethics Hearing or an Ethics Hearing.

If Executive Secretaries in an area fail to respond to WW SEC EDs, they are usually scheduled for early removal by WW.

SEC EDs have the virtue of making orders known and setting them on file where they can be referred to by other than the recipient.

The only answers to a SEC ED if one isn't going to do it are:

• 1. An immediate petition to LRH on SEC EDs issued by LRH personally or

If this step is lacking and it is found that a SEC ED has not been complied with, then an Executive Ethics Hearing or an Ethics Hearing MUST follow when the non-compliance is discovered.

Every single major danger condition at Saint Hill in 1965 was found to have had as its source the non-compliance with a SEC ED.

If this policy seems unduly harsh then add up that fact. Some of these danger conditions involved day and night work by top brass.

And every one of them would have been prevented had Ethics had this attitude toward non-compliance with a SEC ED. The cost of these non-compliances ran above Ј10,000 and they threatened the very existence of Scientology. And each one would have been prevented had SEC EDs been complied with. From this, one should regard non-compliance with a SEC ED without instantly petitioning or filing a chit for job endangerment as something one does just before taking the arsenic.

The only thing that holds down the size of Scientology today is simply non-compliance. The only thing that makes trouble is non-compliance.

The SEC ED system is designed to make orders public and get them complied with fast.

Conversely, if the order wasn't in a SEC ED or Policy Letter, it does not have Ethics force - that is to say one can't be seriously tried for it.

All current projects and programmes should be in SEC EDs so people know what they are. Those written in despatches only are written in sand.

SEC EDs can be confidential and of limited issue.

SEC EDs expire one year from their date of issue if not sooner by reason of their text.

If a SEC ED is to be preserved beyond a year it must be converted into a Policy Letter by sending it to LRH.

The Director of Inspection and Reports is responsible for routinely checking the SEC ED file for non-compliances and when found must forward the matter to Ethics for prompt action.