I remember seeing "R Advices" appear in about 1979 while at FOLO EUS. I was on the post of Flag Rep EUS and had all the Flag Reps in the Class IV orgs under me. Also, I hat the hat of "filtering" ANY order that was sent down into an org on any channel. Thus, all orders from the CO FLEUS to EDs of orgs, and from the LRH Comm FLEUS to the LRH Comms of the orgs, passed through me.
My job was to make sure that the orders were in alignment with and did no contradict or distract from the TOP RON ADVICES of the time period.
Now, I was never told that he had gone off the lines due to legal reasons, and that he was still covertly running all of Scientology. We were all told the PR story that Hubbard wanted some free time to do "upper level research" and that management was finally picking up the ball wearing the hat that he had been wearing for so long running Sceintology. Some might have known the truth, for example in the CMO at FOLO, but us regular Sea Org staff were
never told that. We were told that Ron REALLY WAS off the lines, and that out of the goodness of his big caring heart that he wrote these
advices to HELP US ALL expand our orgs.
There were 6 or 7 telexes that were stapled to a piece of paper. They were each signed L=R (love = Ron). They weren't very long, and there was one for Div 6, one for HCO, one for the Exec division, etc. These were re-written as programs, and at the time Org EDs were being pushed HARD to write MINI-PROGRAMS to get every point of every advice implemented.
The Org Flag Reps were ordered (via programs) to walk with the ED through the org, do quick observations, and to ON THE SPOT write a mini-program that would implement a point of the appropriate
advice. I was in an org a few years later as a Flag Rep, and the ED HATED it that I had to basically follow her around making sure she did her job. Both of us with clipboards in hand!
There must be somebody out there who remembers or even has COPIES of these "advices"?
When I was posted in the FSC office on Flag in 1984, there was also at least one advice for the FSO. There may have been more, but these were kept on TOP management lines ONLY, and pushed down the appropriate section of the appropriate org. There was one that was relayed to all regges, because it was used as a "reg tool" on Flag. It basically stated:
Get those Clears up through OT III now. Get the OT IIIs up through NOTs. Get the NOTs comps onto OT VII. And, get them all paid for OT VIII, IX and X. They are going to have to come back no matter how high they get, so light a fire under them NOW.
I always remember the line that "they will have to come back no matter what". It was clear that one would NOT be "free of the cycle of pain and death" at these high OT levels, but also, that one NEEDED the additional levels to do so (THAT was implied and NOT said).
These were all signed "L=R".
I remember being on telex lines at FOLO EUS in 1977-78 and while I wasn't supposed to know this, I had a friend in the telex room, and also, sometimes the telex operator would FORGET to "decode" some of the telexes. They were all sent in complex code for security reasons and each telex room had the "key to the code". There were names like "king", "queen", "princess" and others used for Hubbard, Mary Sue, Jane Kember and others. It was kept quiet and hidden that Hubbard was relaying orders.
There was also a fellow on a post called RONY (relay org NY?) and his job was to get stuff to Hubbard - fruit from Florida and all sorts of things. Again the regular staff were NEVER told anything about where he was. But this ONE GUY knew.:confused2:
Secrecy in the Sea Org was and is just like the CIA. It is multi-layered and compartmentalized. And different segments within the organization are fed different PR stories. The truth is that most staff had no idea what was REALLY going on. That is as true today as it was then.
