1. Continental
Liaison Offices have become
Flag Operations Liaison Offices.
(FBDL 191R) 2. the
Sea Org office of a continent that manages that continent.
(HCO PL 9 Mar 72 I) 3. to relieve
orgs from the burden of receiving orders from many
different bosses (some say there are as many as 29
senior bodies) a new
command channel pattern is
set up. A
central authority for each
area has been established which channels all orders in one
channel to the
org. These are called Continental
Liaison Offices.
(LRH ED 130 INT) 4. a continental
liaison office is in
charge of its continental areas. It has direct
communication with
orgs. Has or will have
Finance Banking Officers and
Bureaux Liaison Officers in each
org. The first duty of a continental
liaison office is to observe and get those observations into its own continental
information center (
CIC) and observations and reports and
lists of its own activities to
Flag. What are these activities? They are:
(a) to observe,
(b) to
send observations by users,
orgs and the publics to
Flag,
(c) to push in
Flag programs and
projects,
(d) to find the why (reasons) that any
Flag program or
project is not going in in an
org or
franchise or
public and
remedy that why so the
Flag program or
project does go in,
(e) keep itself
set up and
operating on the pattern planned for its
establishment by
Flag,
(f)
handle sudden emergencies. Those are the total duties of a continental
liaison office. They are also the duties of an
OTL in
respect to its
CLO.
(HCO PL 22 Jul 71) 5. the
major purpose of a
CLO or
OTL is to make
Flag planning become an
actuality in
orgs,
franchises and thereby the various publics.
(HCO PL 22 Jul 71) 6. a
command and
communication and
knowledge relay point of
Flag.
(CBO 134) 7. Sea Org Continental
Liaison Offices (CLOs) are the
senior Sea Org offices in the continents where they exist. They are
data liaison offices between
Flag and SO
orgs, stationships and OTLs, and get
Flag orders carried out in their areas. They
originate only by
authority of
Flag.
(FO 2608) 8. a
liaison office is depended upon to see that
data is supplied to
Flag. Current
contemporary data to
Flag is a
valuable final product of a
CLO.
(CBO 75) 9. a continental
liaison office implements, makes take
place, makes known, makes occur
Flag management policies and programs. It keeps
Flag informed. A
CLO acts to
handle counterpolicy situations. A
CLO acts to keep
stats up and the
area cool and the
orgs smooth.
(FBDL 12) Abbr. CLO.