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A bombshell this morning from former Scientology spokesman Mike Rinder: He claims that a man known nationally as a TSA whistleblower has told others that he was hired to be a security guard to keep Scientology leader David Miscavige s wife Shelly from escaping a remote mountain compound near Lake Arrowhead, California.
The vanishing of Shelly Miscavige hawaii cruises small ship in 2005 (with a brief reappearance in 2007) has been one of Scientology s most disturbing mysteries in recent years, and something we ve been paying considerable hawaii cruises small ship attention to.
Our sources tell us that Shelly has been living at Scientology s CST headquarters compound near Lake Arrowhead, and now Rinder, at his blog , is claiming hawaii cruises small ship that there s evidence she was not only there, but that armed security was hired to make sure she didn t leave.
We ve reported previously that eyewitnesses tell us Shelly vanished from Scientology s International Base near Hemet, California after arguing with her husband in August 2005. A man who used to work at the base, John Brousseau, told us he subsequently saw mail for Shelly being forwarded to the CST compound near Lake Arrowhead, a secluded compound that many longtime members of the church weren t even aware of.
A map of Southern hawaii cruises small ship California showing the locations of Scientology s administrative headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, the International Headquarters 90 miles east near the town of Hemet (and home to The Hole ), and CST s secretive headquarters near Lake Arrowhead to the north, where Shelly Miscavige is believed to be living and working.
The Church hawaii cruises small ship of Spiritual Technology (CST) is Scientology s most secretive entity, and was created in the church s organizational restructuring of the early 1980s. CST owns and operates numerous remote compounds in California, New Mexico, and Wyoming, most of which feature bomb-proof underground vaults for the storing of archival copies hawaii cruises small ship of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard s writings and lectures to ensure that his work survives a nuclear attack. Of CST s various compounds, the one near Lake Arrowhead is considered its headquarters, and it contains a vault as well as numerous buildings for the preparation of Hubbard archives. Scientologists call the compound by several different names, including Rimforest, Twin Peaks, Mile High, and Rim of the World but almost none of the church s members (past or present) has ever actually hawaii cruises small ship been there. The first CST employee to give a press interview was Dylan Gill, who talked to us at the Voice about his experience in 2012.
The new Vanity Fair Hollywood issue just hitting newsstands contains an excellent piece by Ned Zeman which describe s Shelly hawaii cruises small ship s background, including her childhood as one of L. Ron Hubbard s messengers on the ship Apollo as Hubbard ran Scientology from the Mediterranean and Atlantic in the early 1970s. hawaii cruises small ship Michele Shelly Barnett eventually married David Miscavige, the man who would take over the church once Hubbard died in 1986.
But Shelly was not only the wife of Scientology s leader, she was a top church executive in her own right, and in 2004 she was entrusted hawaii cruises small ship with helping hawaii cruises small ship find a new girlfriend for actor Tom Cruise, holding auditions for actresses that were really tryouts to be Cruise s next love interest.
In November 2006, actress Leah Remini first noticed that Shelly was missing when she didn t appear at the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes hawaii cruises small ship in Italy, where David Miscavige was Cruise s best man. Remini complained about Shelly hawaii cruises small ship s absence, and was reportedly told by then-spokesman Tommy Davis that she didn t have the fucking rank to ask about Shelly.
In the summer of 2007, two years after she first vanished, Shelly Miscavige was allowed to attend the funeral of her father, but in the presence of a church handler. She then went back into seclusion, and hasn t been seen by church members or the public since.
After Leah Remini ditched Scientology last summer, she filed a missing-person report about Shelly hawaii cruises small ship with the LAPD on Monday, August 5. We broke the news about that report on the morning of Thursday, August 8, and by that afternoon the LAPD was telling reporters that it had checked on Shelly and had closed the case. An LAPD lieutenant told us his detectives had personally talked with Shelly, but when we asked if that conversation occurred in the presence of church officials, he told us that information was confidential.
hawaii cruises small ship Our sources assure us that ever since she first vanished in 2005, Shelly has been at the CST headquarters compound near Lake Arrowhead, where she lives with perhaps one or two dozen other people who rarely leave the highly guarded location.
Now, Mike Rinder hawaii cruises small ship is adding more credence to that notion with what he says is an account by a man named Robert MacLean, who reportedly said he was hired as part of a security hawaii cruises small ship detail whose job it was to make sure Shelly didn t escape from the CST compound. Rinder describes MacLean s account to a mutual friend
He claimed the company also provided armed security for executives of the church when traveling and at the Hemet property. He and the company he worked for were licensed hawaii cruises small ship to carry firearms. At the Arrowhead property, they carried semi-auto assault rifles and semi-auto side arms.
He stated the detail was stationed across the road from the Church property at Rim of the World in a rented cabin/house. He said, “I guarded Shelly that Miscavige guy’s wife. For about six months I worked up there. She was there. Never had any contact with her, but we were told she was there and that she was the reason hawaii cruises small ship we were there.”
“Everyone hated that detail. 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week and you just sat there. Nothing hawaii cruises small ship would ever happen. A few vehicles would come and go throughout the week; the guard shack would alert us via radio. But it was really a boring assignment. But the pay was good; ya took the assignment because of the hours and the extra overtime.”
MacLean has already hawaii cruises small ship made the news . In 2003, he was an air marshal who blew the whistle on what he said were staffing cuts that were putting passenger safety at risk. Appearing in silhouette on MSNBC, MacLean said that the suits air marshals had to wear could give them away. The TSA fired him in 2006 after an investigation hawaii cruises small ship into his leaks.
Rinder says MacLean told his friend that he was ready to go public with his story of working for Scientology, and Rinder tried to convince MacLean to tell his story to Vanity Fair . But after Zeman checked out MacLean s credentials, Rinder says, MacLean stopped returning his calls. We re going to be reaching out to MacLean hawaii cruises small ship to see if he ll confirm Rinder s account.
It puts the lie to the church assertion that Shelly hawaii cruises small ship is somehow doing what she wants working for the church. The church hired armed PI s and rented the house across the street from the entrance to CST Mile High property to watch for Shelly hawaii cruises small ship trying to escape (and perhaps someone arriving to try and break her out). The property is VERY well guarded already. The main gate has a security booth. There are cameras everywhere and razor wire fences. But still, Miscavige hawaii cruises small ship was so concerned about her somehow escaping his clutches that all his internal security precautions were backed up with hired armed security personnel to watch the watchers.
If he s right, Rinder s bombshell throws the LAPD s visit with Shelly into serious question. But will MacLean back him up? Even Rinder admits that Scientology can be very persuasive about keeping its current and former employees quiet.
MacLean: I never witnessed nor do I have any knowledge of wrongdoing hawaii cruises small ship or criminal activity associated with current or former members or officials of the Church of Scientology. There is one item that is true: most ALL security work is extremely boring.
The Bunker: We already know that Scientology spends millions on security. That s not the question. But outside security for the CST compound is unusual. So again, I m wondering how long you worked there and which year it was.
My comment already addressed all of the pertinent facts. With all due respect sir, you are barking up the wrong tree in the wrong orchard. I really hope that you are not attempting to use my very public 10-year case with the Transportation Security hawaii cruises small ship Administration (TSA) — which has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court — as a means to further an agenda hawaii cruises small ship regarding a your dispute. Your grievance should hawaii cruises small ship brought before the civil court system or prosecutors.
He is saying a lot without addressing the point that he was heard talking about providing security for Scientology outside its CST compound, where he reportedly said he was told that Shelly Miscavige was being held.
And finally, a bizarre little story out of Israel , claiming that a couple of Scientologist lecturers were kicked out of a business seminar after their association with Scientology was revealed. No names on the two culprits we d be interested to learn their identities.
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From what I read over at Mike s blog and copied to here is that Robert was informed that Shelly was the client being guarded. He never had contact with her but that was the assignment there. All the rest is conjecture. If you