AIDE

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Definitions

1. an aide in a bureau (Flag, CLOs, OTLs, Org Liaison Office) is defined as the bureaux specialist and leading officer for that division, internal and external, in all its functions. Aide is the title of a Flag Staff Officer on Flag. "Assistant aide" is the title in a CLO. The org equivalent in duties and hat is a divisional secretary. In the case of an aide it is understood that the person aided is the Commodore. In the case of an assistant aide, the person aided is the Flag aide. (CBO 52)

2. an aide has a certain exact part of the functions of the org board to handle and keep going in all Scn, SO and Scn orgs. They could be considered the head of a division or function of a planet-wide org board. When that part of the planet-wide org board declines or is in trouble, it is the aide who is held responsible. Similarly, when the area is upstat it is the aide who is commended. (FO 2945)

3. an aide, by definition, has to be an expert on the Data Series and how to conduct investigations. Otherwise an aide will consistently operate on "whys" derived from a dispatch line. The bulk of an aide's duties should consist of discovering, tracing, finding the data about and the real whys of situations and then getting ideas to handle them and programming and handling them. The remaining time at the disposal of an aide should be spent in implementing programs that have already been released to handle things and getting them in fully and completely. (FO 3064)

4. the duties of an aide and an assistant aide could be broken down roughly into the following categories: (1) assistance to the Commodore, (2) assistance to their FB and CLO seniors, (3) administrative duties (including dispatches), (4) evaluations, (5) programming, (6) implementation of existing programs including logging compliances, (7) conference duties, (8) executive responsibility to juniors, (9) inspections and assistance in the nearby service org on those functions which apply to their post so as to maintain and continue familiarity with the existing scene. (FO 3064)

5. an aide in the Flag Bureaux is required to do the following evaluations each week using the data available in the Data Bureau and applying the technology of the Data Series: (a) each branch of their own bureau at Flag based on the international stat of Scn organizations (plus franchise for CS-6), (b) each branch of their own bureau at Flag for Sea Org organizations based on the international Sea Org stat, (c) each assistant aide in CLOs covering their division or activity, (d) their divisional continental stat for each continental area. (FO 3064)

6. it is clearly the function of aides and assistant aides to manage their opposite numbered divisions over the world. (FO 2474)

7. there are now six aides to the Commodore. These are: CS-1, CS-2, CS-3, CS-4, CS-5, CS-6. (FO 795)

8. the primary purpose of a Commodore's Staff Aide is to forward the actions and targets established by the Commodore and to assist him in accomplishing these. The next important purpose is to assist the Commodore in the planning and establishment of actions and targets. (CS Order 71)

9. Aide is the title of a Flag Staff Officer on Flag who aids LRH with respect to a particular division, bureau, or zone of activity. (BTB 12 Apr 72R)

10. International Secretary. (HCO PL 7 Mar 72)