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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

                  Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex


                      HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 MAY 1961


                         (Reissued on 21 June 1967)

Remimeo
All Staff
Tech Hats
Qual Hats

                   A MESSAGE TO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES
                              AND ALL ORG STAFF
                               QUALITY COUNTS


    Clearing is now in the reach of every Scientologist.

    Excellent Auditor training is now in the reach of every Academy.

    And these are the only things in the long run that will count.

    When I see an Organization staff panting after  newspaper  publicity  or
going mad
on the subject of dissemination, and at the same time turning in to  me  bad
results and
poor student quality, I know somebody has their targets mixed up.

    Quality is the only thing  that  counts.  If  quality  in  training  and
processing is not
given  first  rank  and  constant  priority  by  Secretaries  or   Executive
Secretaries, then all
the administration in the world will not make  the  grade  for  any  Central
Org.

    Deliver the goods. That's a crude way to put it. But if you want  a  new
and better
civilization you won't get it by advertising or worrying what  people  think
of you. You
will get it only by releasing and clearing people and sending them out  into
the society
to get the show on the road in all branches  of  human  activity,  including
Scientology.

    I know we have been a long  time  without  clearing  people.  But  we're
clearing them
now. What does it take to clear people? It takes highly skilled and  tightly
supervised
auditing. It takes good technology. It takes good technical application.

    If you'll forget about how easy it is to mob students all up in a  class
and actually
confront each student as an individual, make sure he knows  every  essential
step he has
to know, make sure all his questions  get  answered,  you'll  have  auditors
that can audit.

    Will you please put attention on raising technical  skill  in  the  HGC,
releasing
people, clearing people, and on the quality of training in  the  Academy  to
the end of
getting every student capable of all the steps necessary to release people.

    I have made the grade technically in the field  of  research.  Now  it's
time to drop
all the booboo's and nonsense. All you have to do in an Org is  release  and
clear people
and turn out auditors who can release people and keep in  contact  with  the
public and
treat them well and you're over the top.

    This morning I received a cable from an Org. An  urgent  cable.  Did  it
say, "How do
you assess for a Pre-Hav level" or something sensible?  No,  it  didn't.  It
said, "Send us
some biographical data for a newspaper article." I spit. That Org  is  doing
the lousiest
job possible in Technical and is all worked  up  to  get  publicity.  What's
this? Do they
think a society in this shape will approve Scientology into power? Hell  no!
And to hell
with this society. We're making a  new  one.  So  let's  skip  the  approval
button from a lot
of wogs and settle down to work to make new people and better  people.  Then
maybe
you'll have a society.

    Right here and right now this policy is laid down in  concrete  with  an
atomic
branding iron: THE FIRST AND PRIMARY GOAL OF AN ORGANIZATION IS
DELIVERING THE FOREMOST TECHNICAL QUALITY THAT CAN BE
DELIVERED IN ITS AREA.

    All right. I've made my technical target bang in the bull's eye. You can
release and
clear. You can train auditors well. Well, Christ! Let's do  it,  do  it,  do
it!



                                               L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ph.jp.rd     Founder
Copyright ©1961, 1967
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED