Karen#1
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TONY ORTEGA
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[Heber in one of his last public appearances, the 2006 “Maiden Voyage” event]
We heard last night from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Heber Jentzsch, the longtime nominal “president” of the Church of Scientology International, died at a nursing home that he had been moved to some years ago from Scientology’s international management base near Hemet, California.
Heber was a legendary figure in Scientology, one of its most recognizable executives and well-liked by both his fellow Scientologists as well as journalists he cultivated as the church’s spokesman in the 1980s and 1990s.
But his title as president didn’t mean very much as Scientology’s actual leader, David Miscavige, ran things as “chairman of the board” of the Religious Technology Center and captain of the Sea Organization after founder L. Ron Hubbard’s death in 1986.
Karen and others had told us that beginning in the early 2000s, Miscavige reduced Heber’s role and belittled him in front of other executives, and increasingly Heber became less and less visible at events.
And then he was among the top executives who found themselves prisoners in the “SP Hole,” which Miscavige created in early 2004 for the “SPs,” or “suppressive persons” that he suspected were among his formerly most trusted aids.
Mike Rinder was a prisoner of the Hole in 2006 and 2007, and he confirmed to us that Heber was one of the inmates in the ersatz jail, which existed in a former office on the grounds of the base, which is known as either Int Base or Gold Base.
The Hole’s existence was revealed by the Tampa Bay Times in 2009, by which time Heber and others had already spent five years in confinement. But after that exposure by the press, the original circumstances of the Hole were later abandoned. After Valerie Haney escaped from Int Base in 2016, she reported that the Hole still existed in another form, and that Heber was among its inmates. She said she witnessed Heber, then about 80 years old, being forced to make videos extolling Miscavige’s leadership, and that he had to be propped upright with a board to straighten his back during the filming.
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We heard last night from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Heber Jentzsch, the longtime nominal “president” of the Church of Scientology International, died at a nursing home that he had been moved to some years ago from Scientology’s international management base near Hemet, California.
Heber was a legendary figure in Scientology, one of its most recognizable executives and well-liked by both his fellow Scientologists as well as journalists he cultivated as the church’s spokesman in the 1980s and 1990s.
But his title as president didn’t mean very much as Scientology’s actual leader, David Miscavige, ran things as “chairman of the board” of the Religious Technology Center and captain of the Sea Organization after founder L. Ron Hubbard’s death in 1986.
Karen and others had told us that beginning in the early 2000s, Miscavige reduced Heber’s role and belittled him in front of other executives, and increasingly Heber became less and less visible at events.
And then he was among the top executives who found themselves prisoners in the “SP Hole,” which Miscavige created in early 2004 for the “SPs,” or “suppressive persons” that he suspected were among his formerly most trusted aids.
Mike Rinder was a prisoner of the Hole in 2006 and 2007, and he confirmed to us that Heber was one of the inmates in the ersatz jail, which existed in a former office on the grounds of the base, which is known as either Int Base or Gold Base.
The Hole’s existence was revealed by the Tampa Bay Times in 2009, by which time Heber and others had already spent five years in confinement. But after that exposure by the press, the original circumstances of the Hole were later abandoned. After Valerie Haney escaped from Int Base in 2016, she reported that the Hole still existed in another form, and that Heber was among its inmates. She said she witnessed Heber, then about 80 years old, being forced to make videos extolling Miscavige’s leadership, and that he had to be propped upright with a board to straighten his back during the filming.
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Heber Jentzsch, 89, Scientology's longtime 'president,' dies in nursing home
We heard last night from Karen de la Carriere that her former husband, Heber Jentzsch, the longtime nominal “president” of the Church of Scientology International, died at a nursing home that he had been moved to some years ago from Scientology’s international management base near Hemet, California.
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