1. Secretarial Executive Directive.
(HCO PL 7 May 65) 2. Secretarial Executive Director.
(HCO PL 22 Feb 65 III) 3. LRH EDs were earlier called
SEC EDs.
(HCO PL 24 Sept 70R) 4. now named "
Executive Directives" or EDs.
(HCO PL 1 Sept 66R) 5. Secretarily signed
order of the
Executive Director, expiring one year from date of
issue.
(HCO PL 13 Feb 66 II) 6. the meaning of the
word SEC
ED is
Secretarial to the
Executive Director. The
word "
Secretarial" applies to the signature meaning it is signed as official by a person other than
LRH personally. It is the written initials in the lower
left-
hand corner that are "
Secretarial." The system came into
use to accommodate
cable orders originally. By being sealed and initialed by an official person like a notary
public in the
org, the
validity of the
order was attested as a valid
order of
LRH.
(HCO PL 3 Feb 66 V) 7. they will be on blue paper with blue ink. The initials SEC
ED always precede a SEC
ED number. All
personnel orders will not also appear in SEC
ED form. (
HCO PL 8 May 65
II) S.
Secretarial Executive Directives are explicit
temporary urgent orders. It is desirable that a SEC
ED is broadly distributed to a
staff and that
SEC EDs of
broad interest be distributed internationally.
(HCO PL 7 May 65) 9. Secretarial Executive Director orders apply mainly to
personnel or
local conditions, expire in one year if not stated to expire earlier, may only last one year in any
event.
Policy letters apply broadly to all
orgs and Scientologists without exception.
(HCO PL 5 Mar 65 II) 10. the
Executive Director comm.
lines now
include Secretarial Executive Director in all
orgs including
Saint Hill. This consists of a
note or
cable typed out by the
HCO Steno (or
Communicator where no
HCO Steno exists or by the
HCO Area Secretary where no
communicator exists). It is sealed with the
corporation seal in the lower
left-
hand corner over the signature of the
HCO personnel typing it. It is headed "
Secretarial Executive Director." It is on blue paper. The signature of the
Executive Director or the
Acting Executive Director is typed below the
message. Date and
subject are included. Each SEC
ED is numbered by the issuing
Executive Director. The exact text of the
note or
cable is duplicated without additions or deletions. This is never a
mimeographed item. The original sealed SEC
ED, with the
note or
cable, goes to
HCO files. A
copy is immediately
posted on the
staff bulletin board by the
HCO personnel who typed it and signed and sealed it. Another
copy goes to the
org /
Assn Sec. Another
copy goes to the
HCO Area Sec.
SEC EDs are high speed,
urgent communications having the
force of
policy and require instant
emergency compliance. The SEC
ED is the high
velocity comm line used to
change personnel, to
handle emergencies or to make
limited time policies or to
handle personnel conflicts or
chronic slumps. All
SEC EDs expire fully one year from date of
issue but are kept on record although no longer in
force. The subjects of
SEC EDs are not
general in application to all
orgs but only to the
particular org to which they are addressed.
(HCO PL 22 Feb 65 III) 11. Secretarial Executive Director (numbered),
green ink on blue paper. By
LRH. Distributed as designated. This is in
effect a reissue of
Assn Secretary or
HCO Continental Orders after
review by
LRH. Designed to confirm, consolidate or end disputes or differences between
HCO Continental or
Area Sec and
HASI Assn Secs.
(HCO PL 4 Feb 61) 12. a
hat is not a
hat anymore in a
Central Organization unless it's
Secretarial Executive Director on blue paper, black ink, with a
corporation seal on every valid
copy. When a
Secretarial Executive Director is issued, it is published on the
bulletin board and
given to the persons to whom it applies. Now this means
Secretarial Executive Director operates as the
Secretary to the
Advisory Committee or
Advisory Council. The
Secretarial Executive Director operates as
Secretary to the
board or any other
committee action or
board action that takes
place. This person, who is really the
HCO Steno, turns up as the Recording
Secretary, prepares the
minutes and sends them to their proper places for signature. That's one
action. The other
action this person takes is to collect
old hats. If there's any new
hat write-up, the
Secretarial Executive Director issues it. If there are any changes that take
place in the
organization by its orders,
Secretarial Executive Director changes them. So you get, in essence,
hat preparation and write-up the issuance of
general orders for the
local organizations through the
Secretarial Executive Director. Now, you get
HCO Secretarial Letters. Very seldom will you get anything that says "
Secretarial Executive Director for
Washington D.C. only" because if its going
wrong in one
place, it's going
wrong someplace else too. But you do get incidental orders to that
effect, so they can't be excluded. Instead of that you get an
HCO Secretarial Letter. Now this
HCO Secretarial Letter arrives in a
central operation and is converted by
Secretarial Executive Director, after being viewed by the
HCO Secretary. It is converted, and it says: "
Secretarial Executive Director,
HASI,
Johannesburg." She types it all up. They are never
mimeographed unless they are for the whole
staff or something. She puts a
copy on the
board, she puts a
copy to the persons to, and that's it. She's issued it. Now, these are all policies. These things are basically policies. They are
hats, and so on. They may have particularities, but they definitely have
lots of policies connected with them.
(5812C29)