SEC ED

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Definitions

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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)