US OFFICE OF LRH

21 May 1974

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TO:	ALL COS PAC ALL CREW PAC ALL SO PARENTS PAC D/G PAC D/G US CONTROLLER COM US
FROM:	LRH COMM US
SUBJECT:	CADET ORG

The following despatch traffic between LRH and LRH Comm US is released with the intention of communication to all concerned, LRH's intention and policies regarding the handling of Sea Org children in the PAC area.The traffic occurred during an investigation of the children scene in PAC ordered by the Commodore and done by LRH Comm US. The evaluation resulted in the establishment of the Cadet Org. However, as there have recently been upsets and ARCxs concerning the Cadet Org and its authorities and responsibilities, it is hoped that this communication will result in increased ARC and thus understanding which will further the Commodore's goals and purposes regarding the handling of the SO children in PAC. The despatches below have been communicated to the PAC COs, and they have entusiastically agreed to support these policies and work to achieve the ideal scene specified through their own efforts in their individual Orgs as well as through the combined efforts of the PAC COs Conference.

Also attached for your information are the CED programs and projects done by LRH Comm Cadet Org, Karen Spencer, and approved by Flag upon which the Cadet Org is presently operating.

"A bright idea I had was a CO Cadets and division into age groups with group leaders of each group, and a Sea Org school part time. The little shavers on Flag did wonderfully with stable nannies and tutors and really only whon they had a SO school as a special part of the action that ran on FOs. They loved it and could then be persuaded over to the three RDs. They all have made a AB and were pleased with themselves and felt superior. Even little four year olds. Their school room was all over decorated with SO and AB types of items. When that was dropped they felt out of it, gangsterism and crime came in because they were without purpose. The above bright idea is very recent, looking back over times when children have no real problem. Also people forget that exact HCO PL Ethics has to kept in especially on children. They have to be hatted. And that many need their own child MAAs, again hatted. Twice, true Suppressives, though only 5 in one case and about 6 in another absolutely ruined not only the other kids but also every effort to put it to rights and one Org also! By sheer psychotic covert violence.
I get my wins with children by treating them like people. And thoses kids there are a big asset actually. But they can be made into a big libility unless the scene is handled.
Anyway, I'd give them a full Org Board for the nursery and age groups and divisions. And you'd see some order come in to it and some reals assets come out of it.
We have the full admin tech to handle any kind of a group. So why should they be miserable and knocked about when they can have their own Org and be respected and demand respect from their eldersas well and feel proud of themselves. The kid product US is turning out is pretty strange. ..; they're so LOST. It has taken ME monthsof not working on it to have kids smile at me and be glad to see me around here, I speak of street kids, very casual. They HATE grownups around here. In Cork boys of 10 and 12 are now making up 17% of the violent crimes. So there's a lot missing in the culture these days. But then we're making a new culture so why not also grow one?
The real trick is to get them over the cause without their

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having to use naughtiness to be at covert cause. A Cadet Org could accomplish that." LRH. Despatch to LRH Comm US 25 August 1973.

"Hey Toby! I just found out why I couldn't really get the child scene up on Flag and why they got offloaded.
EVERY ORDER I PASSED DOWN CONCERNING THEM WAS PROMPTLY CROSS ORDERED AT A LOWER ECHELON BY REFFERING THE ORDER TO THE PARENT!!!!!!!
I never before had this datum. ...
This is what cost the kids FLAG. I found this in interrogating someone who had been on the lines - it never came up before it was thought to be really correct. YOW WOW! Correct, hell. It's a total offload of SO responsibility. As well as a Comm Ev offense to cross order. So this is why nothing could be handled. AND I AM CERTAIN THAT IS THE PAC WHY. It is acultural aberration.
Give me the scene, give me the scene, give me scene! I've had loses on this area and I got the why. I knowed there was catamounts in them mountings!
The only way this can backfire now is counter propaganda like 'They are costing us our chillun' or some such nonsense. When we are trying to give them a top grade A spunky be-proud-of em offspring!" LRH. Despatch to LRH Comm US 28 August 1973.

"This despatch on children and the message about them may run a bit counter to cultural or group ideas. But they have to get educated and I see no sign of any organization to do it and it would be months or a year anyway. There seems to be a fear of officials. That's understandable. But that fear could lead to pulling them in. Only offensive actions handle Officials. We must force officials to cooperate and work to handle and such scene. This makes them feel responsible and important. They don't want a 'Officials refuse to cooperate in educating children.' This will be hard at first. Also hard on the kids. But the way to handle it is special coaching after school and very solid hatting in a Cadet Org USING STUDY TECH. That makes a lot of little geniuses out of them. Also somebody is going to propose a uniform BUT CHILDREN MUST NOT WEAR ONE TO SCHOOL as they'd catch it.
Enforce the mission ordered in the message and SEE THAT IT TAKES OFF INSTANTER AND THAT PERENTAL Q and A is STEAMROLLED. This kids can be adjusted to grade easily enough. But at least a scrap of tutorig unit using study tech well be vital almost at once. So see that that get into the scene also. There's a lovely little book on study tech in a basic form. The CO has it. Copies should

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be available to every child and a unit in the Cadet Org would pound it home even if the org isn't there yet. IF YOU WROTE A PGM ON THIS ORDER AND COUNTED ITS STATS IT WOULD BRING IN THE SUNDAES. The program is of course 'Get the Study Tech on the Children.' " LRH. Despatch to LRH Comm US 15 September 1973.

"However, I have found the why of this scene. Parents bringing children into the SO dump their parents hats on the SO and the SO instead of taking responsibility dump the hat back on the parents resulting in a totally cross ordered and scrambled scene that no stable organization can be gotten into. I found for instance that everyorder I issued about children at Flag was at once referred to a parent and not one personnel to whom such an order was issued ever carried it out. This cost children Flag. It is making the trouble in Pac.
As soon as you have that why some sense can be made out of the scene and it can be advanced toward and Ideal. But no ideal was ever stated. This would be competent and well trained children who are a credit to the SO and are resources.
The tech on this is in the PL about depowering people by knocking their hats off. PTS research is beginning to reveal that the parents actions in knocking off the child's hat is a basic of PTS. The weakening results in valence shifts. The answer of course is in hatting PLs. An unhatted child is going to be a juvenile delinquent and an unproductive child is going to be miserable. Pride and sense of value are interlocked in this.
It also happens that the American way of life runs very counter to child hadling and is basis of the American trouble with this part of its culture which will of course eventually destroy the culture as it is built on children.
Thus we will have to ruddy mess if this scene is not properly handled and evaluated.
In the finance sphere this is quite a handful. The only way we can afford to handle this scene at all is to let the state share some of the burden. It is not practical at this time to try to run a self-supportive school. Under heading of resources, then, any grandious scheme would fail. The why of finances is that we are doing the only effective work in the field yet psychiatrists and psychologists who have no result are dragging in all the billions. We must therefore reserve our resources in order to apply them to shorter term expansion, defense, and, of course, taking over eventually the field and its appropriations. Reversely those children will have a role to play in this and are resources. The Industrial age looks on a child as a non-resource and so will anyone in the SO that is steeped in the culture from which they came. They are sentimentally destructive and think it is too cold blooded to look on children as a resource. The end product is that they damage the child by knocking off his hat in a dozen ways. From this we are getting our 'politicians' and adult shoes that, if you look at them, are Buster Browns. By firmly holding the line on hatting we can achieve success in the child area.
This has an awful lot to do with quarters. You do NOT want a School. We cannot afford a million of any part of it. There is alarm at putting the children in public schools as they are retarded in grade some day. I think all this can be caught up easily. It is not optimum but measured by resurce these children must go to public schools and be specially coached to get them up to grade(in which I feel the city would help) and specially coached while in school to make them competent.
By returning them to proper quarters directly after school, getting them functioning, we can overcome this liability and must. Thus there must be a whole program to get these kids into school AND FAST. The term is beginning.
The quarters you are looking for are quarters for the CADET ORG. It will be a 7 Div org headed by adults and below exec level manned by children who have actual posts. Its org board must be planned out must be standard. The cross order scene is then solved. No order to a child or about a child must be permitted to go off lines. Parents must pass any order not to the child but through the CO Cadets who may alter or cut it if off program. Any discipline hoes through the Cadet Org. They must every one of them be hatted.