HCO EXECUTIVE LETTERS

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Definitions

1. blue paper, green ink. Meant for every org. Remimeo or non-remimeo as specified. Purpose: carry advices, how to do things, short term projects, requests for data, information, reports on the states of things in general or some activity in particular or how some extreme condition was caused or how some extreme condition is progressing. (HCO PL 13 Jun 69)

2. the normal comm line from the Executive Director to Assn/Org Secs and HCO Secs or department heads in orgs is the HCO Executive Letter of date. This is on legal size blue paper, is mimeographed and is headed to: from: subject: reference: with numbered paragraphs. It is always sent general non-remimeo and goes to all orgs even when addressed only to one org or even to a person in that org. It may also be meant for every org. HCO Executive Director uses these rather than individual dispatches in answering requests for instructions from some org officer so that these rundowns are available to everyone rather than just the querying person. The purpose is to save the repeating of similar orders or advices, in numerous places by separate dispatches which, received by only one person and having no publishing system thereby lose technology and data. (HCO PL 22 Feb 65 III)

3. this will now be on white paper with blue ink, using the old Info Letter flash mark to make SEC EDs easier to identify. (HCO PL 8 May 65 II)

4. from L. Ron Hubbard, usually a direct executive order or a request for a report or data or news or merely information. It is not policy but should be answered if any answer is requested. It is blue ink on green paper. (HCO PL 5 Mar 65 II)

5. an HCO Executive Letter is mimeoed at Saint Hill only, blue ink on green paper. By definition it is a letter from Ron or the Organization Supervisor addressed personally to a Continental or Area Chief (Continental Director or Assn Secretary) but which is of interest to other organizations. As such communications are often retyped for other orgs, it is easier to mimeo them. They contain interpretations of policy and comments on projects which do not otherwise have a channel of issue. (HCO PL 1 Apr 64, New Mimeo Line HCO Executive Letter)