Scientology Int. base

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Scientology Int. base
Scientology Int. base
Data
place Riverside County, California, north of San Jacinto or Hemet
Client Church of Scientology
Construction year from 1978
Floor space 2,100,000 m²
Coordinates 33 ° 50 '2.5 "  N , 116 ° 59' 10.9"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 50 '2.5 "  N , 116 ° 59' 10.9"  W.

The Scientology Int. Base (also known as Gold Base ) is the international headquarters of the Scientology organization. It is located approximately 160 km east of Los Angeles , north of San Jacinto , Riverside County , California. Around 50 buildings are located on a property that is secured with cameras, motion detectors and armouring.

An average of 750 Sea Org members live and work in different areas on the site . Scientology officials said employees worked eight hours a day and were provided with clothing, medical care, food and lodging. Former employees have reported harsh working and living conditions, with their working day starting at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week and lasting through midnight, with very often only a weekly pay of $ 13 or $ 14.

The house that was intended for L. Ron Hubbard and was built according to his ideas is also on the premises . The Victorian-style building ("Bonnie View"), which was built for around 9.4 million dollars, was never inhabited by him, but is kept ready for his reincarnation expected by Scientologists .

Terrain and structures

Fence reinforced with steel spikes from Scientology Int. base

The site covers an area of ​​2.1 km 2 and is outside the municipality of San Jacinto. It is on Gilman Springs Road, which divides it in two. Two underground pedestrian tunnels connect the two properties. Both areas are surrounded by wire fences with iron spikes or NATO barbed wire attached to both sides. There is a motion detector every 6.1 meters, which is coupled to a headlight system. There are five entrances, three in the south of the complex and two in the north.

Motion detector and lighting system

The majority of the buildings are built in a pseudo- Scottish Highland style.

The south side of the Int. Base . The blue-roofed accommodation of the employees can be seen on the right, the buildings of the Golden Era Production buildings on the left. Sports facilities and the lake can be seen in the foreground.

To the east of Cine Castle is The Garage , which previously served as a public gas station and is now the so-called Motor Pool Gold and maintenance facilities, which u. a. are responsible for construction work, houses. After the turn of the millennium, a makeshift shower was set up in the building for inmates of "The Hole", a punishment facility at the base.

The neighboring building is called Massacre Canyon Inn (known as MCI), dates back to the time of the previous owner and is now used as a staff canteen . The roll call area of ​​the facility is in front of the building. The Sea Org staff of the Base have three times a day in a so-called pattern compete.

Adjacent to the MCI are two buildings known as the Upper and Lower Lodge that house Golden Era Production facilities. The building opposite, the tavern , is a VIP restaurant for actors etc., if they are visiting the Int. Complete base . Marc Headley, a former employee, said that the interior was modeled on the motif of the knights of the round table , including a sword stuck in a stone and standing at the entrance to the restaurant.

Further to the east are numerous buildings, all of which are used by Golden Era Production . In the so-called Building 36 z. B. the Scientology E-Meter built in the HEM ( Hubbard E-Meter Manufactoring ).

Immediately next to it is the main entrance on the south side, where the control center of the security forces is also located. It is known as Station One or Main Booth . The facility's security guards are coordinated from here. B. A fire breaks out, someone tries to break into the premises, protests are made in front of it or in the event of an employee attempting to escape.

Employee accommodation ( Staff Berthing )

A few hundred meters east of the entrance are the accommodations for the employees ( Staff Berthing ), which can accommodate up to 1,000 people. Each building bears the name of a Scottish clan and its coat of arms adorns it. An underground pedestrian tunnel connects the south with the north side.

At the eastern end are the G-Units , VIP quarters with their own tennis court and rose garden. From Tom Cruise is reported that he studied here at the end of the 80s, beginning lived the 90s and Scientology courses.

The rest of the south side consists of open terrain with a lake, a private sports facility owned by David Miscavige, and various sports facilities for basketball , volleyball and baseball , which have not been used since 2008. The water of the lake was described by Marc Headley as "very nauseating" - "Dead animals were in the water, which mainly consisted of mud." After 2000 the lake was used for punitive measures. According to Janet Reitman, David Miscavige decreed that dozens of Scientology executives had to gather in the middle of the night by the lake or the swimming pool (north side) and, even in freezing temperatures, had to jump into the water in full gear or were pushed into the water while Miscavige watched the goings-on . The Scientology Organization confirmed these practices in 2009, calling them "ecclesiastical justice," which dealt with poor work performance.

The Purification Center is located between the lake and the staff accommodation . In the immediate vicinity is the now overgrown sand circle of the so-called "running program" . This was in connection with the cleaning rundown, but was also used for punitive actions. Vicky Aznaran, former President of Scientology's Religious Technology Center (RTC), was ordered in 1982 to walk around the tree in the center of the circle of sand between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. every day. She was allowed to take a 10-minute break every half hour for 120 days, as well as a 30-minute break for lunch and dinner. It had previously rejected a plan to reorganize the Scientology organization's finances.

The north side with Bonnie View , the RTC building, the Star of California and the villas below

The international management of the Scientology organization and that of the Gold Base are located on the north side of the site . Bonnie View , the former mansion of L. Ron Hubbard, also occupies a prominent place.

The villa stands on a hill and offers panoramic views over the San Jactino Valley. Costing $ 9.4 million according to the property's records, it has a rooftop pool and its own movie theater. Hubbard died long before it was completed. According to statements from former employees, it is expected that he will inhabit them after his reincarnation. It is partly used as a museum and otherwise houses his property. The house is still kept ready, just as if he were to move in tomorrow.

Bonnie View , L. Ron Hubbard's mansion

Lawrence Wright said:

“Toothbrushes are available in Hubbard's personal bathroom, and there are a pair of Thom McAn sandals by the shower. [...] The empty residence is looked after by permanent domestic staff. The housekeepers do Hubbard's laundry regularly and make sure the house passes his White Glove Inspection . His cars are fully fueled in the garage, the ignition keys are in the ignition. On his bedside table is a novel by Louis L'Amour ; there is a bookmark in the middle. The dining table is set for one person. ""

In the neighborhood of the Hubbard mansion is the RTC Bulding , the headquarters of the Religious Technology Center directed by David Miscavige , the current leader of the Scientology organization. The 4,200 m 2 large building ( Building 50 ), which was completed in 2004 had cost 70 million US dollars. Tom De Vocht took over the work when its construction was way ahead of schedule and had blown all budgets. Lawrence Wright wrote:

“Miscavige instructed De Vocht to come to the Gold Base and take over the construction management. [...] By then, $ 47 million had been put into the new center - that was just under $ 11,000 per square meter. Only the best materials were used, including cold-rolled steel and anigré, an extremely hard precious wood from Africa. The building had been completed several times, but each time different parts were torn out again because they did not meet Miscavige's standards. […] De Vocht found that there were no construction drawings, only sketches of the desired result. The gypsum plastering of the outer walls had already been torn up because the whole building was almost 3 centimeters inclined. The walls were not connected to the floors. Even a slight earthquake (the Gold Base is not far from the San Andreas Fault) could bring the entire structure to collapse. De Vocht recommended that the building be torn down and rebuilt from scratch, but Miscavige declined. "

De Vocht rebuilt the building from the inside, and when the building budget grew to $ 60 million, Miscavige asked for more changes and wasn't happy with the landscaping either - Wright:

"The Gold Base is in the desert, but Miscavige wanted it to look like the building was in the middle of a forest."

Three villas, which still come from the original development, face Bonnie View . They are known as the Upper , Middle and Lower Villa and are used as domicile for Miscavige and other top officials. A replica of the Star of California sailing ship was built next to the villas and is mainly used for events.

Various management buildings of the Int. Base . "The Hole" was in the two trailers with white roofs.

Further management buildings are right next to it. You will u. a. used for various book edits in The Ranchos , for employee training in the former Hotel Del Sol and other activities within the Golden Era Productions .

One of these houses, known as Studio One , houses the LRH [L. Ron Hubbard] Music Studio Complex with state-of-the-art recording technology. Headley described them as representative rooms to which musicians were repeatedly invited so that they could make their recordings there. To the north of this there is another recording studio called Studio Two .

Two extra-wide trailers were provisionally used by the Central Marketing Unit (CMU) and other technical departments of Golden Era Productions . The trailers standing near the street were then taken over by the Commodore's Messenger Organization and the International Exec Strata ( Exec Strata ) before they became known as "The Hole" from 2004 onwards. Up to 100 Scientology leaders have been imprisoned there in inhumane conditions. Another building called The Spa houses the Qualification Division of the Int. Base .

In the far west of the northern part there is an area in the area that is physically separated from the rest of the facility by a fence. A building called OGH ( Old Gilman House , named after the family who lived in it) is the center of this area. It is used to detain employees under guard and / or to prepare them for their "dismissal" ( offloading or expulsion ). It has been reported that some people live here permanently because they were forbidden to leave the base .

Sniper bunker

On the hill above is a camouflaged sniper bunker , known as the Eagle , from which the entire area and the adjacent areas can be overlooked. From this bunker , security staff u. a. took down the license plates of the cars that stayed nearby for too long. According to Headley, the post was recently equipped with "powerful, remote-controlled infrared cameras."

Golf course

The Golden Era Golf Course is located east of the south side and outside the fenced area. It was rebuilt between 1988 and 1991 as a 9-hole course on an earlier golf course . It was open to the public between 1991 and 2007, but has since been run as a private golf course and only played at charity and other events. Scientology base staff are not permitted to use it.

history

View of Gilman's Relief Hot Springs , 1920

The area around the Int. Base was first settled at the end of the 19th century. A Sidney Branch bought a piece of land north of San Jacinto that had hot springs. He built a resort called Relief Hot Springs , which he sold to brothers W. Earl, Grant and Forest Gilman in 1913. The Gilmans first changed the name to Gilman Relief Hot Springs and later to Gilman Hot Springs .

In 1978 the Gilman Hot Springs Resort went bankrupt and the Scientology organization bought the property. The selling price of 2.7 million dollars to by a Scottish Highland Quietude Club have been paid in cash. Richard Hoag, counsel for the club to have said when purchasing that the resort had been bought to realize a housing project. The money for the purchase was made available by the November 1, 1978 Private Trust, for which Hoag acted as trustee. According to former Scientology associate Silvia Garritano, “L. Ron Hubbard intended to disguise the purchase of Gilman Hot Springs as the Hoag Scholarship Foundation. The idea was to convince local business people that Hoag owned the area and that Hoag was leading a project to train young people on economic issues. "

The sign at the entrance did not indicate Scientology. In the fall of 1979 one of them stated that it was owned by the Western States Scientific Communications Association , while another in April 1980 indicated a "Massacre Canyon Development Co. - Future sites condominiums and homes" . A man named Dan Pook met with local civic movements to present the proposed housing project on the site. In March 1980 he told the residents that "apartments, single-family houses and mobile homes" were planned on this . In retrospect, it turned out that Dan Pook was a public relations worker for the Scientology organization who told "short stories" about Scientology's plans.

The Whispering Wind Ranch , Creston, California, after Hubbard's death from the Church of Spiritual Technology has been adopted.

The strict secrecy was due to the current difficulties of the time. The Scientology organization was embroiled in a major scandal that also affected Hubbard personally. His wife, Mary Sue, and a number of senior Scientology officials had been arrested by the FBI the previous year and charged with Operation Snow White for building a spy network against the United States government. Hubbard was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator and initially fled to an estate in La Quinta, the code name of which "W" stood for winter quarters. Gilman Hot Springs was code-named "S" for summer quarters.

The La Quinta property was given up in March 1978 and Hubbard moved to an apartment complex in Hemet, code name "X". His personal collaborators, known as Commodore's Messengers , drove back and forth between "S" and "X". In doing so, they avoided being persecuted by using methods against them - they frequently changed locations, used secret meeting places, used aliases, and so on. Nobody was allowed to drive directly from one place to another and they sometimes had to take detours that were up to 120 km.

Hubbard was at the center of this security system that was supposed to warn him if a stranger would show up. The individual employees were trained to deny any knowledge of him and to have an escape vehicle ready at all times that was ready to go. Gilman Hot Springs' existence has also been kept secret from other Scientologists. Employees who worked on the base were not allowed to make phone calls or send letters directly. If they were given permission to make a phone call, they had to say they were calling from Clearwater, Florida, where Scientology operates the Flag Land Base .

Hubbard only works in Gilman Hot Springs , but never lived there and in February 1980 he moved from Hemet with Annie and Patrick Broeker to Whispering Wind Ranch , where he hid until his death in January 1986.

The Int. Base is created

In February 1980, Riverside Press-Enterprise reporter Dick Lyneis had a journalistic coup when he reported that Hubbard lived in Hemet and worked in Gilman Hot Springs . The exposure caused him to flee Hemet and put the base in an uproar. Scientology spokesman at the time, Robert Vaughn Young, was supposed to smooth things over and opted for what Scientology calls "Acceptable Truth". Young turned a small film and audio facility into what was known as the Golden Era Studios , the base's “true” alignment . was presented. The transformation happened practically overnight:

“The system was converted during the night and into the early hours of the morning. The window covers have been removed and everything has been cleaned. The equipment and tables have been rearranged to disguise certain activities and make others visible. Tapes, rolls of film, scripts and costumes were laid out to make it clear what was being worked on. Many international management employees have been sent away to reduce the number of staff. "

“The next day, the" Scottish Highland Quietude Club "became the Golden Era Studios . A media tour was immediately scheduled. The audio production wasn't ready to go, but I got people to tailor costumes or work on artwork. We had a makeshift studio set up when the tour came on. When asked about the 'international management', I said yes, they are responsible for the distribution of films and tapes worldwide. Nobody noticed that I hadn't answered the actual question and instead drew attention to the film and tape production. "

“The news about it was then perfect. The story of the Riverside Press-Enterprise had continued. Gilman Hot Springs was no longer referred to as Scientology headquarters, but was just a production facility for films and tapes. "

Security Guard Scientology Int. base

After the scandal was over, the international management staff returned to the base and have stayed there ever since. The strict security measures also remained. The Boston Globe reported that “curious and unannounced visitors are quickly surrounded by security guards, photographed, and asked for ID before being asked to leave. In addition, the license plates of your car are noted. "

Following the imprisonment of Mary Sue Hubbard, a power struggle broke out within the Scientology hierarchy that was won by the Commodore's Messenger Organization , a group of young Scientology workers - many of them teenagers, some as low as 10 years old - who run the Scientology organization took over in late 1981. In the same year, a department called the All Clear Unit was set up under the direction of 21-year-old David Miscavige to "clear everything up" for Hubbard so that he could leave his secret haven. In 1982, a replica of a three-master ship from the 19th century, the Star of California, was erected on the site and presented to Hubbard, who was interested in nautical activities, as a gift. The cost of this was $ 500,000, which the Scientology organization only achieved because it used its own staff on the construction, who were paid less than $ 20 for a 100-hour week.

In February 1988, the Scientology organization received approval to rebuild the former golf course despite resistance from local residents. At the same time, plans were announced to build additional studios, offices, storage rooms, residential buildings and leisure facilities and to renovate the existing 35 buildings. Since 1998 the Scientology organization has spent at least $ 45 million to build dozens of houses around the Int. Buying up base and land. According to the April 2011 release of the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper . published graphic, she owns almost all of the land within a distance of 3.73 km along Gilman Spring Road.

Demonstrations and controversy

Anti-Scientology demonstrations have been going on since 1997, which brought a lawsuit from the organization to one of the demonstrators, Keith Henson. The proposed injunction was rejected by the court and Judge Stephen D. Cunnison of Riverside Superior Court ruled that Henson was entitled to exercise his right to freedom of expression. Commenting on Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon, he said, “You have no situation here where the defendant prevented people from getting in. This is not a situation like an abortion clinic. ” Moxon had argued that the one-man demonstrations by Henson endangered the safety of road users and Golden Era employees . Henson was subsequently sentenced to 180 days in prison for misconduct that occurred outside of the demonstration on the Scientology site.

Demonstrators outside the Int. Base , January 2009

Members of Anonymous demonstrated in November 2008. The demonstration took place outside the Int Base. held, but clashes between protesters and security guards who were filmed. While giant loudspeakers played a background noise over the demonstration, Scientology security guards attacked a demonstrator, threw him to the ground and kicked another. Before the Sheriff's Deputies they justified this by saying that one of them had previously been bitten by a demonstrator and that this was to be regarded as an unauthorized entry into a private property.

The Scientology organization has since tried to influence the authorities to prevent or hinder demonstrations. In December 2008, Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone accused the Anonymous demonstrators of “discriminating against Jews, Christians and the black community, promoting juvenile suicide, and being terrorists.” The county supervisors. then approved a Scientology motion, supported by Stone, that demonstrators must stay around 90 meters (300 feet) outside the property in the future. Stone had not disclosed at the time that his support fund had received a $ 5,400 donation from a law firm representing Scientology and another $ 600 donation from the Scientology Int. Public relations department . Base. After this was exposed, Stone was fined $ 16,000 by the California Fair Political Practices Commission . The distance that the protesters had to keep was then reduced to 9.1 meters and then to 3 meters as the Riverside Count Supervisors. had noticed that otherwise they would contradict their own practice of saying.

In 2009, Scientology officials began lobbying for the closure of Gilman Spring Road, which is used by around 17,000 cars every day. The application was classified by the San Jacinto Council as "to be rejected under all circumstances" . Scientology required him to bypass the Int Base , but the Riverside County Board of Supervisors postponed a decision indefinitely after it was discussed in January 2011.

Life in the Int. base

At the bottom

The Scientology Organization holds with respect to those persons who are in the Int. Base want to work, strict guidelines. Many of those who work there are the children of highly placed Scientologists. According to writer Janet Reitman, anyone who wants to work and live in base has to be a member of the Sea Org . After that, they have to take a series of IQ tests and a battery of leadership, personality and security tests. If it is found that that person's family has ties to government agencies or the media, or that family members or friends have left Scientology in a dispute, they will not be allowed to work there.

Once accepted, they are not allowed to reveal the details of the base or to discuss their jobs or activities with anyone outside of it - even if they are other members of the Sea Org . They are forbidden to use public transport or taxis. You are only allowed to travel with special Scientology buses or with the private cars of an approved employee. After Claire and Marc Headley, who founded the Int. Have left base , employees stationed there are generally only allowed to leave the premises if they are permitted to do so by a "supervisor". The daily working time is at least 16 hours, on Sunday this is shorter. Communication with the outside world is cut off. Internet and mobile phones are prohibited, mails are censored and can only be sent via the internal mail system. Employees' passports are kept in a locked filing cabinet. Telephones can only be used if a corresponding request has been made beforehand. Security employees then listen in on the phone call.

Very few employees are allowed to drive their own car. Regardless of the fact that they need a driver's license and insurance, they have to attend a so-called "Car School" of Scientology for a month, even if they already know how to drive a car. Driving is also prohibited if one is classified as a “source of problems” (PTS - Potential Trouble Source ) or represents any other safety risk.

Other former members described that until the end of the 1990s, all employees of the Int. Base five cards had been issued: a pay card , a card for accommodation, a meal card, a social card and a bonus card. If you failed to achieve your production goal, either individually or in a group, one or more of these cards was withheld as a punishment. Without a meal card you had to eat rice and beans until you got them back. Losing your accommodation card meant you had to spend the night outdoors or in the office. A confiscated Pay Card means you have no money, a withheld social card means no free time and without a bonus card you would not get any bonuses. Sometimes a card was "drawn" from an entire department. B. meant dozens of people slept under their office desks. If you lost all cards, you were assigned to the “ Pig's Berthing” . Here you had to watch where you could find a place to sleep and eat leftovers.

Regular payment is on Friday and is $ 50 per week. This amount is only symbolic, the actual payment is often only 13 or 14 dollars, according to Lawrence Wright.

Demonstration against the practices of the Sea Org

Claire Headley describe that employees in constant fear life before that someone called a "Knowledge Report" ( Knowledge Report ) written on them. If you come to the center of such a report, it means that you will be interrogated and have to apologize. Or that one has to publicly admit one's "crimes" against Scientology.

Food is essential, and Marc Headley, who was involved in the financial planning, reported that it spent 75 cents per employee in 2005 - a lot less than what is available for prison inmates in California. Unmarried employees live in dormitories, while married couples share a two-bed apartment. Many are reported to have held the Int. Base no longer left.

In a statement, the Scientology organization compared the conditions that exist at the base "with a monastery or a seminar, only much more comfortable" .

In the mid-1980s, women with children under 6 years of age were banned from joining the Sea Org because the organization no longer wanted to take responsibility for young children. In 1986 a directive was passed prohibiting members of the Sea Org from having children because they were seen as "impairing productivity" . Former workers reported that they had been forced to terminate pregnancy under this directive. According to Claire Headley, 60 to 80 percent of women had at least one abortion. Janet Reitman comments:

“If a pregnant woman refused, she would be separated from her husband, assigned hard manual tasks and given sec checks (interrogations with the help of the e-meter - literally: security checks). If she continued to refuse an abortion, she was thrown 'in shame' from base - alone. "

The Scientology organization distanced itself from such practices, saying that these women are not considered "inferior beings" ( degraded beings ).

The Tampa Bay Times reported that dozens of employees tried to flee the base , some of them multiple times. However, they were repeatedly captured and brought back by the "pursuit team" (also: blow team ) of the Sea Org . The chances of an escape are not great as the terrain is in the desert, there is only one road in each direction and the surrounding area consists of mountains and parched land full of scrub and snakes that make it difficult to move across country. Lawrence Wright described how a successful refugee, Guy White, did it:

“Every evening he took a walk along the fence, each time a little further and always had a small snack with him for the German shepherds. One night he jumped over the fence, but the dogs gave him away and began to bark. He had to leave the street when he saw the lights of the blow team chasing him. He ran through the undergrowth for hours, bleeding and with torn clothes, until he made it to Hemet, where he knocked on the door of a bowling alley. He told the person who opened the door in broken Spanish that he had been involved in an accident. "

Whenever someone escapes or "blows", according to Janet Reitman, a special "blow protocol" is activated in order to recapture him. The various records on the person are combed through to find out where they can turn. Family or friends from outside are marked as goals. The blow teams monitor bus stations, train stations, airports and hotels in the vicinity. Another method was to pose as a sick relative and then call hotels and airports to find out if the fugitive had checked in or lived there. Even if the companies are actually not allowed to give out such information, attempts are made to obtain it. You work your way through to the top of the company. In one case, the vice president of an airline was flattered into giving information about a person. Gary Morehead, who worked as head of the base's security unit in the 1990s, recalled the example of an executive who fled in 1992. She was known to be a baseball fan and Morehead caught him a week later in the parking lot of the San Francisco Giants ballpark . When all efforts failed, they moved on to monitoring the residences of the family and friends of the refugee, Morehead said. Scanners were used to eavesdrop on cordless telephones and cell phones.

The captured fugitives were reported to have faced isolation, interrogation and punishment once captured and returned to the facility. According to Wright, most prisoners do not try to defend themselves, knowing full well that they had to spend months or years in the prison camp before they were allowed to return to the everyday ( good standing ) of the base .

The Scientology organization said in a statement that the base that "would provide ideal conditions of a professional and spiritual growth" , without being exposed to the distractions of city life. She denied that there was a "blow protocol".

At the top

David Miscavige , the current leader of the Scientology organization

In contrast to the ordinary co-workers, life for David Miscavige or Celebrity Scientologists is much more comfortable. Most employees are not allowed to own a car, while Miscavige has a fleet of Yamaha- branded motorcycles that includes a Mazda Miata Roadster , a Range Rover SUV , a BMW M6 and an armored GMC that has been adapted as a mobile office.

According to Claire Headley, who was in charge of Miscavige's finances between 2000 and 2004, Miscavige's weekly meal expenses were between $ 3,000 and $ 20,000. Fresh products from Canada or the east coast of the USA were flown in. His villa is said to have a sound system worth $ 150,000. According to Wright, Miscavige loves dogs and has up to five of them. They wear a bespoke Sea Org uniform and all hold the rank of captain. The employees are obliged to salute the dogs when they come by.

Every April 30th, employees are invited to purchase a birthday present for Miscavige. One year it was $ 70,000 donated to buy a motorcycle, in another year he was given diving equipment or high-end cameras. Former Scientology organization spokesman Tommy Davis said that "from the staff's point of view, this would be the least they could do to show their affection."

One of the most prominent visitors to the Int. Base is the Scientologist and actor Tom Cruise , who first visited her in August 1989 to have breakfast with Miscavige on board the ship replica of the Star of California . He persuaded Cruise to do his Scientology degree at base , and Cruise began flying the helicopter back and forth between Los Angeles and Gilman Hot Springs every weekend. The actor got his own VIP area south of the facility and his own chef, Sinar Parman, who was formerly L. Ron Hubbard's chef. The area for Cruise was renovated in 1990 and filled with balloons on one occasion to please Nicole Kidman , who was then married to Cruise. A tennis court was set up for $ 200,000 in case the couple felt the need to play a game.

Wright wrote that when Miscavige heard that Cruise dreamed of walking through a meadow of wild flowers with Kidman, Miscavige dispatched staff to create one in the desert. This idea failed and could only be realized with simple grass. Heavy rain then made the "meadow" disappear and Miscavige accused the entire base of having destroyed this romantic idea and ordered all employees to clean up in order to achieve the intended state in 16-hour day shifts. Former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder contradicted the Los Angeles Times story , saying that "the planting of wildflowers never took place and may have been a misinterpreted version of the cleanup after the 1990 mudslide". Cattle himself fled 18 months later.

According to Jeff Hawkins, the former Marketing Director of the Scientology organization, steps were taken to ensure that Cruise did not see what was happening elsewhere on the base . He told KESQ-TV: “The staff were forbidden to speak to him. He [Cruise] was allowed tours, but I orchestrated them. Walkie-talkies then said: 'He's going into the building' or 'He's going into that building'. Certain employees were ordered there to give him predetermined answers. "

literature

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