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Don’t for heaven’s sake mistake alter-is by somebody as evidence of a hidden line.

In Scientology we say “If it isn’t written, it isn’t true.” That applies to orders. Somebody says “Ron said to _____“ and on a veteran staff you hear the rejoinder “Let’s see it.”  I’ve had raw meat walk into an org and say “Ron said I was to have 25 hours of auditing.” And in the raw meat days of orgs, they sometimes were given it. So we have learned the hard way – “If it isn’t written, it wasn’t said.”

And that applies to anybody’s orders, not just mine.

And on tech and policy, it’s equally true. If it isn’t in an HCOB or an HCO PL or recorded on a tape in my voice, it isn’t tech or policy.

Next time you hear a pretended order or a squirrel process attributed to me, say “if it isn’t written or recorded, it isn’t true.”


– L. Ron Hubbard –
HCOB 16 April 65 Issue 1 – The “Hidden Data Line”