A vanished Scientology executive voted in the last election, and other surprises

In 2017, Mike Rinder said this at his blog about Scientology’s vanished “Executive Director International,” Guillaume Lesevre:

Guillaume has been the “ED Int” since the early 80’s. I had the job of filling this position on direct orders of Hubbard and scoured the globe for the best executive — Guillaume had successfully run and expanded Scientology in Europe for years.

He became one of the people I was closest to in my time in the Sea Org. He has two beautiful daughters who were at the Int children’s ranch with my children. He abandoned them many years ago. They were shipped off to Italy and grew up with their grandparents. Guillaume doesn’t even know his two adorable grandchildren, and when one of daughters traveled to LA from Italy to meet him, he was chaperoned and forced to show her Miscavige event videos to “prove” how well things were going in Scientology.

Now Guillaume has been abandoned. He was one of the early denizens of The Hole — he and I were perpetually in trouble and we were continuously on Miscavige’s shit-list. We were two of the first people assigned to The Hole before it even had a name.

In 2012, Mike helped us put together a list of everyone he could remember who had been in “The Hole” at Int Base, other executives like him who beginning in early 2004 had become prisoners at the secretive compound.

Lesevre was one of those who, after spending years in the Hole, has not been heard from since.

A couple of years ago, an anonymous tipster claimed that Guillaume had died. On occasion, we’d check databases looking for evidence of it, but none ever turned up.

Now, our researcher friend who has done good work digging up public documents on CST and other secretive Scientology entities, took on a new challenge: He told us that he could cross-check voters records against other public documents to see who at Int Base was registered to vote, and who had actually cast a ballot in the most recent election. So we asked him to go over Mike’s list that we published at the Voice in 2012. Which of those prisoners in the Hole could he locate?

One of the surprising things he found was not only do public records indicate that the long-vanished Guillaume Lesevre is still at Int Base, but that he did vote in last November’s election. How about that. Here’s our researcher’s report…

The Hole – 21 Years Later

As previously reported, “The Hole” was born in early 2004 as David Miscavige directed his fury at his own top executives, some of his most loyal and longest-serving officials in international management. It has now been nearly 21 years since The Hole was first created in twin trailers at the Int Base, whose official address is 19625 Gilman Springs Rd, San Jacinto, CA 92583.

A total of 135 people were reported to have been in The Hole at one time or another. We investigated which of these 135 people still remain at the Int Base. We placed particular emphasis on identifying individuals from their voting history in the recent November 2024 US Elections, but used a variety of public records to help fill in the gaps. We found almost one-third likely remain at the Int Base to this day – 41 people.

Few actually show a voting history, which could be attributed to a variety of factors including the fact that many of the former prisoners in the Hole are not US citizens and would be ineligible to vote. Others have left the Sea Org altogether (by Mike Rinder’s last count in 2020, this included 20 people). Others have a minimal public records footprint and may been moved out of California and perhaps out of the country. And perhaps some simply weren’t permitted to vote for some other reason.

Notably, all of those who did vote did not leave the compound and voted by mail-in ballot.

The following is our best attempt to capture those former prisoners of the Hole who still show an address history at the Int Base. Those who voted in the last election are bolded and marked with an asterisk.

Lisa Allen (now Lisa Schroer), age 58

Jennifer Alpers (now Jennifer Rostig), age 63

Cheryl Azevedo, age 80*

David Bloomberg, age 64

Russell Bellin, age 64*

Veronique Bromberg, age 62*

Aleah Chisholm, age 50

Lise Cohee (now Lisa Landry), age 60

Amy Conley, age 55*

Richard Cruzen, age 70*

Anthony Decrescenzo, age 44*

Julia Delderfield, age 47

Tom Ford, age 70

Russell Greilich (a/k/a Grielich), age 63

David Henderson, age 73

Karen Hollander, age 72

Mark Ingber, age 78

Kristina Jensen, age 48

Charles Johnson, age 71

Andrew (Andy) Lenarcic, age 72

Guillaume Lesevre, age 75*

Jennifer (Jenny) Linson, age 58

Tammy Lundeen, age 48

Aron Mason, age 55

Carli (a/k/a Carly) McShane, age 42

Marcella (Marcy) McShane, age 72

Raymond (Ray) Mithoff, age 73*

Cathleen (Cathy) Ondreicha (a/k/a Ondreicka), age 72

James Perry, age 55

Marion Pouw, age 71

Ellen Reynolds, age 77

Wendell Reynolds, age 77

Steve Rule, age 68

Peter Schless, age 71

Anke Sutter, age 59

Fredric (Fred) Swartz, age 77

Michelle Wheelis, age 53

Kurt Weiland (a/k/a Wieland), age 69

Greg Wilhere, age 75

Marc Yager, age 63

Laurie Zern, age 71

Overall, public records indicate the current population of the Int Base may now be smaller than previously thought, and likely now only houses between 200 to 250 Sea Org staff. The average age of personnel there is now 62.

Other notable staff at the Int Base include:

Taryn Rinder (now Taryn Teutsch), age 46, daughter of the late Mike Rinder*

Mary (Clarisse) Barnett, age 68, sister of Shelly Miscavige

Thank you for that fascinating report. Some really interesting and very familiar names appear on that list. One that’s missing is Heber Jentzsch, the 89-year-old former president of the Church of Scientology. Karen de la Carriere, who was once married to Heber, told us in a podcast episode that it’s her belief Heber has been moved off the base to a nursing facility.

If you’re confused why Shelly Miscavige is not listed, please understand that Shelly was never a prisoner in The Hole. Take the time to review our annual look at what we know about Shelly’s current location: We believe that since the summer of 2005 Shelly has been located at another secretive base owned by Scientology about 60 miles away in the San Bernardino mountains.

David Miscavige himself, we believe, has not gone near Int Base for a decade or more. But we can see that his former top inner circle — names like Lesevre, Mithoff, Yager, Ingber, Wilhere — remain at the increasingly irrelevant base, wasting away.

And a few of them bothered to mail in ballots in November.

In other news, Neil Gaiman has finally broken his silence and issued a statement about the awful allegations made about him in a Tortoise Media podcast last summer and a New York magazine cover story this week. Judging by the reactions we’re seeing on social media, Gaiman’s response — that he never engaged in any non-consensual sexual act — is not going over very well.

Also, in Danny Masterson’s appeal, his attorneys once again asked for the court’s permission to submit an oversized initial appeal brief, but the court stayed firm and said that attorney Cliff Gardner will have to trim the brief to 35,500 words, and must submit it by January 29.

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