Who is AVC International?

The Authorization, Verification, and Correction International is a branch in Scientology under the Religious Technology Center. It was mentioned in Frank Oliver's testimony as being that organization within Scientology that can alter the "tech" or scriptures. Kendrick Moxon when questioned by the judge claimed not to know who was on it but that he would find out.

This seems to be quite an important division of Scientology because it decides what is the Tech and what isn't. It apparently has the power and authority to ALTER the tech. So, you might say, it's the Official Squirrel Group in Scientology :)

Anyway, if anyone has any information on this group I'd like to see it.

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rom David Mayo's affidavit of May 1, 1987:

8. Plaintiffs stated in an Executive Directive, SO ED 2445 INT, dated February 13, 1984, "Cancellation Of All Telexes, Despatches, Cramming Orders And Verbal Tech Issued by David Mayo," p 2, # 4, that, "In 1980 Mayo tried to position himself as the source of LRH's miraculous tech breakthrough of Solo NOTs in a long lecture that he gave. He then issued the transcript of it as a Flag Information Letter and ordered people to study it, as a 'reference'" I recognize this document as an official document of the CSI issued on blue paper with blue ink and carrying the following CSI designation

CSI:AVC:RM: iw

(A true and correct copy is attached as Exhibit "C" )

* * * Who is on this board/committee/whatever it is? What policy gives them authority to alter the tech?

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From: exesso96@yahoo.com (Lulu Belle)
Subject: Re: Who is AVC International?
Date: 3 Oct 2002 04:00:09 -0700
Message-ID: <7db3d0ad.0210030300.2a1bdcba@posting.google.com>

Jeff Jacobsen <cultxpt@primenet.com> wrote in message news:<kvpnpugi656d6pjjb73mjh0m1h92p8jf2a@4ax.com>...

> The Authorization, Verification, and Correction International is a
> branch in Scientology under the Religious Technology Center. It was
> mentioned in Frank Oliver's testimony as being that organization
> within Scientology that can alter the "tech" or scriptures. Kendrick
> Moxon when questioned by the judge claimed not to know who was on it
> but that he would find out.
> This seems to be quite an important division of Scientology because
> it decides what is the Tech and what isn't. It apparently has the
> power and authority to ALTER the tech. So, you might say, it's the
> Official Squirrel Group in Scientology :)
> Anyway, if anyone has any information on this group I'd like to see
> it.

The purpose of AVC, as I've always understood it, is to review materials, policies, etc. and to OK or not OK them as to whether or not they are "on source." It's basically a policing function.

AVC reviews a lot of stuff besides just "tech." All telexes go through them that go to or from the orgs to see if they are "on policy" orders that are going on "correct lines." They are also supposed to ensure that orgs are not receiving offlines orders, and will actually mointor things like lower org staff coming into management org spaces and talking to management terminals, for instance, or a management terminal calling a lower org staff member on the phone, or orders coming in via the merc (this is sort of a Scientology managment e-mail system) rather than on telex lines, which is how they are supposed to be issued.

There is an AVC Promo I/A (Issue Authority) who approves all promo pieces from Flag or from the uplines promo org before they get printed and distributed. In smaller orgs, this function is usually handled by an LRH Comm.

Any issue or anything that is supposed to be for any distribution whatsoever that's written by an org - I'm not talking about HCO PLs or HCOBs here - is supposed to be approved by AVC. This includes: programs, marketing issues/programs, evals, ethics orders, declares, comm evs, boards of review, boards if investigation, SPDs (Scientology Policy Directives), SO EDs (Sea Organization Executive Directives), etc. etc. There are some things that can be approved locally by an LRH Comm, but, for the most part, this stuff is supposed to go through AVC.

AVC Int is an office in RTC. Last I knew the post was being held by Mariette Lindsteen. There is an AVC Flag post also - I think they are the ones that handle most of the telex traffic and some of the local policing stuff, like orgs talking directly to management terminals without going through "correct channels."

The org that actually researches and writes or rewrites or complies policies, to my knowledge, is RTRC. This is short for "LRH Technical Research and Compilation" (or something like that). I don't know where this office is located on the org board these days, but it used to be in CMO Int under Senior C/S Int. They put the stuff together, and it goes through AVC where it gets approved.

Whetehr or not they actually get all this stuff from LRH advices or notes or things he's written or whether it comes from someplace else is another subject which I don't know a whole lot about. This is just a rough overview of who and what AVC is and what it's function is.

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