HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
37 Fitzroy Street, London, W.1

HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 AUGUST 1960
Re-issued from Sthil

Assn Secs
HCO Secs

DEPT OF GOVT AFFAIRS

(Cancels any previous directions to set up a Special Zone Dept)
(This Policy Letter is mandatory all Central Organizations

            There shall be established on a board level and outside the structure of the Central
Org and HCO but under the board of HASI Ltd, a new department to be called " The
Department of Government Affairs".

            More and more, as governments disintegrate under the threat of atomic war and
communism, central organizations have had to give high executive time to govern-
mental affairs to the great loss of the organizations themselves. The enturbulence
entered into Scientology activities by legal matters, tax matters, and matters of
assisting governments to maintain stability, has sapped our time and fixed our
attention to our own loss.

            Now to remedy this situation, I wish to contain and cordon, in a military sense,
this incursion and to prohibit utterly and completely such entrance (of these matters
or our own project for governments) into Central Org or HCO comm lines. In other
words, Central Orgs and HCOs are run by, for and as Scientology service and activity
units and the special Department of Government Affairs shall handle other matters and
specifically deny such non-Scientology matters entrance into organizational comm
lines.

            All contracts, filings with the government, all tax reports and their preparation,
corporation minutes, annual meetings, legal papers, suits against and by the
corporation, whether HASI Ltd or HCO Ltd, all legal investigatory work and
detectives, all contacts with government agents, bureaus and departments, all assistance
to governments, messages to governments, handling answers from governments or
courts shall be cared for by the Department, whether to advance or protect
Scientology or its corporations by government or legal channels.

            The object of the Department is to broaden the impact of Scientology upon
governments and other organizations and is to conduct itself so as to make the name
and repute of Scientology better and more forceful. Therefore defensive tactics are
frowned upon in the department. We are not trying to make the Central Orgs and
HCOs "be good". We are trying to make their reach more secure and effective. Only
attacks resolve threats.

            In the face of danger from Govts or courts there are only two errors one can
make: (a) do nothing and (b) defend. The right things to do with any threat are to (1)
Find out if we want to play the offered game or not, (2) If not, to derail the offered
game with a feint or attack upon the most vulnerable point. which can be disclosed in
the enemy ranks, (3) Make enough threat or clamor to cause the enemy to quail, (4)
Don't try to get any money out of it, (5) Make every attack by us also sell Scientology
and (6) Win. If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any
organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to
sue for peace. Peace is bought with an exchange of advantage, so make the advantage
and then settle. Don't ever defend. Always attack. Don't ever do nothing. Unexpected
attacks in the rear of the enemy's front ranks work best.

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            The goal of the Department is to bring the government and hostile philosophies or
societies into a state of complete compliance with the goals of Scientology. This is
done by high level ability to control and in its absence by low level ability to
overwhelm. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies. Scientology is the only
game on Earth where everybody wins. There is no overt in bringing good order.

             The offices of the Department, so far as is possible, should be so situated as to
bring no government traffic into the main avenues, comm lines or halls of the Central

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            Organization or HCO or so as to divert it to the maximum extent from said avenues,
comm lines and halls.

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