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...subconscious, operating solely on a stimulus-response basis. It records engrams, or painful memories, which are subject to constant re-stimulation. These engross carry an electrical charge, which is removed by the auditing process. An essential fixture of auditing is the E-meter, a crude form of lie detector with two tin cans, attached by wires to a meter. The pre-clear holds the cans in his hands and the meter measures electrical resistance, based supposedly upon the charge of certain memories, but in fact based simply on galvanic skin response (how tightly one squeezes, sweating, etc.) The auditor skillfully...
...billion year contract. Security Checks, recently abolished, used to be required before gaining access to upper level material. In the March 6, 1970 issue of the L. A. Free Press, former Scientologist William Burroughs mentions his twenty-three hour ordeal of a Security Check, carried out on a lie detector-at Burrough's expense! He also describes the penalties for crimes against Scientology: "a student must wear a gray rag around his arm, may not bathe, shave or change clothes, must remain on the premises, must perform manual work, deliver a paralyzing blow to the enemy, admit his errors...
...Dynamite Detector. One result of the crime and violence is that companies supplying guards, watchdogs, alarms, surveillance devices and identification systems can barely keep up with the demand. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that the number of detective agencies and protective services has grown by 40% since 1965, to more than 3,000. In the sluggish mid-February stock market, a $15 million issue of stock in Brink's, the armored-car company, sold easily and rose to a 10% premium. Pinkerton's, which has the largest U.S. private detective force, reported that 1969 revenues increased...
...employees and reported revenues last year of $2,100,000. Spreading out, I.B.I, has already sold franchises in Miami and Minneapolis. Like many security companies, it goes in for all varieties of protection -uniformed guards, undercover detectives, police dogs, electronic alarms, armored cars and lie-detector service. It also has a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to teach security techniques to 250 trainees, many of whom were hard-core unemployed...
Golden Tube. The target of the chromatographic detective work performed by the bomb sniffer is the vapor from a chemical called ethylene glycol dinitrate (EGDN), one of the principal components of emissions given off by dynamite. With the aid of a small internal fan, the detector samples air in the vicinity of a suspect object and passes the vapors over a modern equivalent of Tsvett's limestone-a rough gold-plated copper surface that has a special affinity for EGDN. As the molecules adhere to it, their concentration increases. The special surface is then heated...