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Gold Base, the Scientology compound in Gilman Hot Springs, California. It includes Bonnie View (center rear), awaiting Hubbard’s anticipated
return from other realms; the management building (to its right), which houses David Miscavige’s offices; and staff apartments (right front).
Brennan says that after the beating, the three executives were held as prisoners on the
base. 3 They were assigned lowly tasks and Sea Org members spat on them whenever
they passed. Later, one of the three men approached Brennan, in tears, worried about
what might happen to him. “He had to have great courage just to speak to me, because
they were not allowed to speak unless spoken to,” Brennan recalled. “I had Hubbard’s
orders in my hand to spit on him. I couldn’t do it.”
In December 1982, David Miscavige married Michele “Shelly” Barnett, a slight blonde,
twenty-one years old. She had been one of the early Commodore’s Messengers on the
Apollo. She was quiet, petite, and younger than most of the other Messengers at the time
—about twelve when she joined—and a bit overshadowed by the older girls. “She was a
sweet, innocent thing thrown into chaos,” one of her shipmates recalled.
John Brousseau was married to Shelly’s older sister, Clarisse, and one day he proposed
that the two couples go shing. Miscavige had never been. They drove up to Lake
Hemet, a glacial lake in the mountains above Gold Base. It was a beautiful spring day,
the sun was glinting o the water, a mild breeze was blowing, the wildowers were out,
and birds were singing. Everyone was dressed in shorts or jeans. They had brought
sandwiches and sodas for a picnic.
Brousseau baited the poles with salmon eggs, and then showed the others how to cast.
He said to just let the line sink to the bottom and then sit back and wait. Maybe a trout
would take a bite.
Brousseau recalls looking over at Miscavige ve minutes later. He was visibly
shaking, his veins were bulging. “You got to be kidding me!” he said. “This is it? You
just sit here and fucking wait?”
Brousseau said that was the general idea.
“I can’t stand it!” Brousseau remembers Miscavige saying. “I feel like jumping in and