Executives must have and use an “Order Board”.

In Scientology if it is not written it is not true. That’s a major policy.

It applies to all.

Every order an Executive issues must be in writing.

He does this on a Clip Board. There is a sheaf of paper on it of his Division’s colour. It has a sheet of pencil carbon and a ball-point slipped through the top of the clip. It can have a hook on the back to slip on a belt for persons walking about. This is the Order Board.

Even when one gives a verbal order it is also written down.

The executive keeps no copies of his orders. This is done by the Department of Inspection and Reports.

The original is handed to the person being ordered. The other is sent to the Inspection section of the Department of Inspection and Reports. If one is away from his Comm station, the carbons are left on the Order Board until one returns, when the copies are all sent to Inspection.

The carbon of an order is sent to Inspection because it is obviously a carbon copy and an order. It is not otherwise designated.

An original sent through the Comm Lines is obviously an original order as it is not a carbon. It is simply delivered to the addressee’s basket.

The person receiving the order does it, says he has (or couldn’t) on the original order he received and sends it TO INSPECTION. However even if he sends it to his issuing superior the Communicator sends it to Inspection only.

Inspection has a Time Machine. This is a series of baskets advanced one basket every morning.

A carbon of an order is placed in today’s basket.

When the original comes in, the carbon is dug out of the basket (by date and colour flash) and original and carbon are clipped together and routed to the issuing executive.

Orders not complied with in one week of course fall off the Time Machine by appearing in the basket being emptied today. (It was filled one week ago and advanced once each day.)

A copy is made of the order and it is sent to Ethics for filing in the staff member’s Ethics folder and counts as a report against the staff member.

The carbon is returned to issuing Executive to show his order has not been complied with, so that he can handle the situation. No report from the Executive is required in this instance as a copy is already in Ethics.

The Executive should investigate or ask Ethics to do so if the matter is of considerable importance.

If an original is returned to Inspection which has no carbon, it is copied and held and the copy is sent to the Executive with a “Sir, there is a lost carbon of your order. Did you fail to turn one in?” This disciplines a forgetful executive. When Inspection receives the answer it attaches the original to it and sends it back to the Executive.

A junior may report a verbal order to Ethics as it places his statistics and job in danger by leaving it open to have it said the order was otherwise.

If something requires more than two weeks to do it is a project and cannot be ordered without clearance from the Office of LRH Design and Planning Authority section. If a project has been okayed it has a number and its number must be put on the order as Project Number

Inspections file projects in their own files. This is also Time Machined by one month’s emptying of a file drawer or one year’s emptying of a file drawer. Projects run only for one month or one year and must be routinely inspected by Inspections which then reports to the Office of LRH with any progress or lack of it.

Orders marked Urgent by an Executive are entered into a one day time machine and handled in one day as described above for one week.

[Added to by HCO P/L 19 February 1972, Order Board and Time Machine Addendum, in the 1972 Year Book.]