Helping Michel Snoeck

At 20:50 2006-11-24, you wrote:

Dear Michel, I stumbled on your site while doing some
research.

What got me there is your comments on the Cramming
Series.

Indeed serious outpoints exists.

I believe I may know some information that you seek.

About Authorship of bulletins: To make a long story
short LRH was a busy Man. His tendency to micromanage
everything and to literally run all of Scientology
management and Orgs took a tremendous amount of his
time. So starting from about 1971, he would give
briefings and orders and get the bulletins written by
others. Sometimes the instructions were rather general
such as “Revise Cramming Series so and so”. “There
should be a sign…” Sometimes he would dictate
virtually the entire Bulletin, or other times (in
particular for checklists or longer compilations or
for checksheets) he would give a general order. The
task of the RTRC Unit (LRH Research and Compilation
Unit) was then to write the issue complety in
accordance to all written HCOBS, orders, advices and
other points.  This was a very complex task and
required a lot of work. At any rate final approval was
ALWAYS GIVEN by LRH.  His actual handwritten signature
was required on the document to allow it be printed
and the a copy of the first mimeo run was ALWAYS SNET
TO HIM by messenger who was always waiting in mimeo.
(I worked in Mimeo Flag myself, before I became a Flag
auditor).

From 1971 onward over 50% of the bulletins were
written that way. From 1973 onward 90%, and from 1976
onward everything was recorded on a dictaphone. Only
access to the original recordings would tell what were
his actual words. To make things more complicated,
these dictaphone tapes can be a hodge podge of 20 or
more subjects. For example, on a tape he starts by
telling someting about NOTs, then the next section is
about letter writing, how to run a course, then orders
to the Flag Bureaux, Instructions about his clothing
and room requirements, data on the cramming series,
more data on NOTs, etc.  There is a literal mountain
of those tapes in existence. Some of them have even
been destroyed for various reasons. (mainly legal
worries).

So depending on the viewpoint, LRH did write or didnt
write those. This is where common sense and most
important, knowledge of fundamentals becomes
important, because anything that is correct will align
with the tech. For example posting up a slogan in an
appropriate location: “CRAMMING IS THE KEY…”  seem
to me to be a good idea, whoever wrote it. NOBODY but
LRH would have ever originated such anyway. Policy on
tech lines has always put Inventing tech as the worst
possible heresy. Contributions by others were mainly
at the level of explanations, compilations and
technical details, never at the level of fundamentals.

There is an actual confidential COLRHED (Central
Office of LRH Executive Directive) named “HOW TO WRITE
AN LRH ISSUE”. I have read it during my days at Flag.

One of the thing that is a the top of the list of
Priorities of anything published or revised bearing
LRH signature is to “remove what may prove to be an
embarassment to LRH”.  The idea is that an admission
of any error or mistake, no matter how small or
insignificant would undermine LRH. This idea is
applied with a vengeance by current leadership of the
Church and scapegoats are continually located to
explain any contradiction or faux-pas. Also the
criteria for “embarassment” has been tremendously been
raised higher over the years to the point that the
name of any Scientologist has been deleted from tapes
or bulletins, lest they later be declared or some
such, or if further experience demonstrates that a
revision of the bulletin is necessary.

This has gone as far as removing minor stumbles or
flubs in LRH auditing demo tapes. Even some
acknowledgements have been altered from later
revisions to “make them sound better” and more in
alignment with more recent HCOBs.

If you are looking for LRH materials there is a huge
amount of it  floating around in the Scientology
underground. All written Scientology materials ever
published are available in digital format. Over 2000
lectures exist in MP3 format, many made from old reel
to reel tapes. Hundreds of copies of those exist as
there are thousands of people in those underground
movements.

Best Regards

Pierre Ethier

Class XII