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Sec Check
A Sec Check - short for "Security Check" - is a specific form of auditing devised by L Ron Hubbard in 1959 for the purposes of "making sure they're using the tech correctly," to repair any possible damage done during a questional incident (such as a confrontation with a critic), and to remedy "the compulsion or obsession to commit actions which the person feels much be kept secret." In other words, it's a specific form of auditing to ensure someone is still entirely committed to Scientology and has not deviated at all from the rules and policies of the organization. Sec Checks are often referred to in the Scientology justice system as "Integrity Processing" or "Confessional Auditing."
Whenever someone reaches the OT levels, they must go through these Sec Checks every six months at the flag landbase in Clearwater, Florida. Just as with regular auditing, throughout the process the individual holds onto the cans connected to an E-meter, which is operated by an auditor.
Sec Check questioning was devised by L Ron Hubbard, who wrote a variety of question lists for various circumstances. Nearly every list contains very long, detailed, and often explicit subjects, wherein you're asked in a variety of ways whether you've committed any crimes or sexual perversions. Many also include questions which are quite racially charged. In these instances, the way you answer the question is almost as important as what you say. Should the tone of your reaction seem suspicious, or if the E-meter gauge reacts in any way to your response, you can end up having to face the same question being asked repeatedly, each time more forcefully than the last. Or if yout flat out answer badly, you will be declared to have failed the Sec Check, and you must repeat it for as long as it takes to force the proper answers out of you.
Just as with normal auditing, all of your responses - no matter how incriminating - are documented and stored in your file.
The first of these is known as the "Johannesburg Security Check," which was described by Hubbard as, "the roughest security check in Scientology." Among Hubbard's list of primarily crime-related questions is the question, "Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?"
The Johannesburg Sec Check was later revised into what became "The Only Valid Security Check." Additional questions included, "Have you ever practice cannibalism?", "Have you ever practiced sex with children?", "Have you ever killed or crippled animals for pleasure?", and "Have you ever had unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard?"
The longest sec check is the "Whole Track Security Check," which consists of literally hundreds of questions devised to take stock of the subject's entire "time track," which includes all their past lives. It includes such questions as, "Have you ever smothered a baby?", "Have you ever enslaved a population?", "Have you ever torn out someone's tongue?", and "Have you ever eaten a human body?"
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of these long and graphic interrogations is the fact that children are subjected to sec checks as well. The childrens sec check was issued by Hubbard in the HCO Bulletin of September 21, 1961. It's a list of 99 questions intended for children aged 6 to 12. The questions include, "What has somebody told you not to tell?", "Have you ever decided you didn't like some member of your family?", "Have you ever pretended to be sick?", "Have you ever made yourself sick or hurt yourself to make somebody sorry?", and "Have you ever almost not gotten away with something?"
Many individuals object to the very existence of these sec checks, likening them to forced interrogation. In fact, in 1960, Hubbard sent a bulletin to South African auditors, which was titled "Interrogation - How to read an E-Meter on a silent subject." In it, Hubbard describes how the Sec Checks can be used as an interrogation tool on involuntary subjects. He states, "When the subject placed on a meter will not talk but can be made to hold the cans (or can be held while the cans are strapped to the soles or placed under the armpit), it is still possible to obtain full information from the subject." Hubbard concluded by saying, "The end product is the discovery of a terrorist, usually paid, usually a criminal, often trained abroad." In my own opinion, such directives being issued a church doctrine are conclusive evidence of the paranoid nature of both Hubbard and the organizations he created. The fact that any is subjected to such interrogation, including children, is truly appalling.
Detailed Information & Additional Resources:
• Xenu-Directory: Security Check
• Wikipedia: Sec Checks
• Xenu-Directory: Affidavit of Howard Schomer, denied necessities during sec check
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