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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 JANUARY 1968
(Reissued from LRH SECED 56 INT June 14, 1965)
Remimeo
BPI
POLITICS. FREEDOM FROM
1. I hereby declare Scientology to be non-political and non-ideological.
2. Politics and ideology may be no part of any decision to train or
process
individuals, and any such interrogation shall cease to be a part of any
application for
training, processing or membership.
3. This does not change any policy relating to suppressive persons. It
does
delete any words in any form which seek to bring about a statement of
political
allegiance or antagonism.
4. It must be kept in mind and brought forward emphatically that
Scientology
does not work in the absence of official control and no matter who
sought to use its
principles, has uniformly failed in the hands of non-Scientologists and
organizations
not controlled by the Central Organizations of Scientology or myself.
5. The reason for this declaration is the consistent disaster visited
upon her
"allies" by the United States government and the efforts of that
government since
1955, stepped up since 1963, to seize Scientology in the United States
rather than
forbid or stop it and the role played by the United States in inspiring
the Victorian
State attacks in Australia. Scientology technology is no longer offered
to the United
States government in any effort to assist her in political ends. Our
participation
extends only to our willingness to process U.S. officials as individuals
unconnected
with their political aims, if as individuals they are not debarred by
other existing
policies relating to treating the insane or our Ethics system.
6. All statements attacking any political entity or ideology are hereby
withdrawn and cancelled in any lectures or literature.
7. Scientologists may be members of any political group on this planet
without
restraint only so long as these individuals or that group do not attempt
to seize
Scientology for their own warlike ends and so make it unworkable or
distasteful by
invidious connection.
8. Scientology is for a free people and is itself on this date declared
free of any
political connection or allegiance of any kind whatever.
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
LRH:jp.rd
Copyright � 1968
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED