DIRTY NEEDLE

an erratic agitation of an E-Meter needle which is ragged, jerky, ticking, not sweeping and tends to be persistent. See the book E-Meter Essentials by L. Ron Hubbard for further information. —Academy Level III Glossary

an erratic agitation of an E-Meter needle which is ragged, jerky, ticking, not sweeping and tends to be persistent. See the book E-Meter Essentials by L. Ron Hubbard for further information.an erratic agitation of an E-Meter needle which is ragged, jerky, ticking, not sweeping, and tends to be persistent. A dirty needle indicates that a person has withholds he does not wish known. A dirty needle, a rock slam, a high TA, a low one-we've narrowed the field.an erratic agitation of an E-Meter needle which is ragged, jerky, tieking, not sweeping and tends to be persistent. See the book E-Meter Essentials by L. Ron Hubbard for further information. Sometime in the session you got a clean needle, it's flowing along here very neatly and very nicely and smoothly-clean needle, everything going fine - and all of a sudden you got a dirty needle. -ARC Breaks and the Comm Cycle (24 July 63) an erratic agitation of the needle in an E-Meter. It is ragged, jerky, ticking, not sweeping and tends to be persistent. It is not limited in size.

1. symbol D.N.—erratic agitation of the needle which covers less than a quarter of an inch of the E-meter dial and tends to be persistent. (HCOB 8 Nov 62)2. ragged, jerky, ticking needle, not sweeping. (HC()B 15 May 69)3. a dirty needle is any needle which departs from the appearance of a clean needle. (SH Spec 224, 6212C13)4. a dirty needle is only a little, tiny persistent rock slam. (SH Spec 184, 6208C14)5. one that jerks, tips, dances, halts, is stuck or has any random action on it with the auditor sitting looking at it doing nothing. (HCOB 30 Dec 62)