Pc’s Name ________________ Date __________

This check is to be given by HGC Admin on interviewing applicant. It is a pre- processing Security Check. Follow directions exactly. If any question still produces instant read after clearing any midway reads, report this fact to the D of P before permitting pc to proceed with other testing or auditing. Write down on a dispatch paper the questions that produced instant reads and give them to the auditor prior to the pc’s first session (excepting only questions 1, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16 or 17 which must be referred to D of P first. If pc is still accepted after this, give these questions to the auditor as well as any others producing instant read).

Use a standard organization approved or manufactured E-Meter such as the British Mark IV.

Make certain, by can squeeze, that the instrument is plugged in and adjusted. Use the meter strictly in accordance with the manual E-Meter Essentials.

Read only instant reactions. Do not use latent reactions of the needle. If the needle reacts within a 1/5th or 1/10th of a second after the question is asked, it is an instant read. This is valid. If it reacts 1/2 to 1 second after the question, this is invalid. Explore only instant reads on any check. Ignore all latent reads.

It should take only 10 or 20 minutes to give this check. If it takes longer you are doing something wrong.

All you do is put the applicant on the meter and read the questions to him with sensitivity set high ( 1 dial or more drop for can squeeze).

Keep the needle near center of dial. Don’t adjust it while asking a question. Don’t ask a question if it is uncentered.

If you get no reaction go on to next question.

If you get a reaction, compartment the question (reading it word by word and phrase by phrase), and see if any one word or any one phrase falls rather than the question as a whole. Clear each word or phrase that reads on the needle. Then read the whole question. If it is the whole question that reacts, it is a flunk.

Don’t clear flunks. (Note: Do not inform pc it is a flunk. This is not an employment security check.) Just go on to next question.

The person being checked does not have to answer anything verbally.

The person giving the check does not have to find out or get off any withhold as this is not a processing check.

A needle reaction must be clearly established to be a reaction to the question before it can be a flunk.

The Tone Arm action is ignored. Rising needle is ignored.

The Auditor’s Code is ignored. Processing is ignored.

You’ll find the main trouble with giving this check is that it is so easy to give that people will try to complicate it.

If a person is guilty of or has charge on any part of this check, the person will react on that exact question, providing the question is put to the person directly (not his shadow).

There are no nul questions to be given to the pc applicant. The following statement is read to the pc applicant:

“This is a Pre-Processing Check I am giving you. These are E-Meter electrodes. This is a very modern instrument developed after ten years of research. You do not have to speak or answer if you do not want to. It makes no difference.

“Here is the first question:

1. Have you ever had electric shock treatment?
2. Are you a pervert?
3. Do you knowingly intend to cause disorder here?
4. Are you here knowingly to prove Scientology doesn’t work?
5. Are you under a doctor’s care?
6. Are you suffering from any secret illness?
7. Have you ever been placed in the care of a psychiatrist?
8. Have you ever been classified as legally insane?
9. Are you planning harmful acts to yourself or others?
10. Are you guilty of any major crime in this lifetime?
11. Have you been sent here knowingly to injure Scientology?
12. Are you or have you ever been a Communist?
13. Are you addicted to drugs?
14. Have you falsified the statement of personal history given to the Consultant?
15. Are you wanted in this country by the police?
16. Are you closely affiliated to any person or organization violently opposed to L. Ron Hubbard or Scientology?
17. Are you supposed to go insane?”

The interrogator should now smooth out any ARC breaks caused, by asking and clearing: “Has anything I have done here upset you?”

Note: If the pc applicant is accepted, write down all the questions that didn’t clear after clearing midway reads, give them to the auditor (or if two auditors or more, the security check auditor) and instruct him to place those exact questions in the security check form at or very near the beginning of the sec check. The pc applicant is not to be informed of any special action on this. These questions are to be cleared, then, as part of the processing check in the same way as other sec check (processing) questions.

If any question continues to react, in accordance with instructions given in “Directions” above, refer this to the D of P for his decision. In the event D of P cannot make a decision easily (due to any doubt as to whether policy would be violated on the acceptance of the pc), he is to refer the matter to the Organization Secretary and HCO Area Sec. If policy would be violated by the acceptance of a pc and the D of P still wants to have the pc audited, he must advise L. Ron Hubbard at once. The D of P should be well advised as to policy however, and only refer cases where there is more likelihood of doing good than doing harm by having the pc audited at the HGC. Similarly the HGC Admin, on asking the sec check questions, should not make a practice of referring matters to the D of P, but only when the questions mentioned above are in fact still reacting. It will be found that this will apply to a minority of applicants.

HGC Admin sign here on completion of interrogation: __________

Auditor sign here on receipt of any reacting questions: __________

D of P sign here: Pc has been accepted: __________ Pc has not been accepted: __________ Reason if not accepted:

Note: Send completed form to Saint Hill with first week’s auditor’s reports. If pc applicant was not accepted, file in HGC unless required by L. Ron Hubbard.