'Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God': The Jean Brousseau interview

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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This story was first published at The Village Voice in two parts, on July 28 and 29, 2012. We consider it one of our most important stories ever about Scientology, and we decided to find room for it here at our Substack so it will have an ad-free archival home. When we published it originally, JB was going by a previous spelling of his name, but a few years ago he announced that he preferred the French-Canadian spelling of “Jean,” and so we have made that change. — T.O.

I’ve spoken to Jean Brousseau numerous times over the past couple of years. In 2011, I reported about the photographs he smuggled out of Scientology’s International Base east of Los Angeles which documented the work he did customizing a motorcycle, a Ford Excursion, and an airplane hangar for Tom Cruise while working for pennies an hour as a member of Scientology’s “Sea Org.”

More recently, it was Brousseau who helped me understand why Sea Org members believe that Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife Shelly was “disappeared” to a secret base in the mountains above Los Angeles.

But until now, I’ve never told Brousseau’s entire story as a 32-year member of Scientology and the last person to escape from the International Base who is talking publicly about it.

In some ways, Brousseau’s tale is one of the most remarkable to come out of the secretive organization, and one that parallels so much of Scientology’s own development and controversies.

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'Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God': The Jean Brousseau interview

This story was first published at The Village Voice in two parts, on July 28 and 29, 2012.

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[TheSneakster]

Just a reminder, John Brousseau left the Gold Base, the Sea Org, and Scientology in 2010.

Does T.C. still worship David Miscavige like a god now (fifteen years later) ? IIRC, D.M. has destroyed numerous former BFF's when they became a threat to his power and position. I don't think he can attempt to destroy T.C. without unacceptable public consequences, though.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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D.M. has destroyed numerous former BFF's when they became a threat to his power and position. I don't think he can attempt to destroy T.C. without unacceptable public consequences, though.

That would be a "MAD" attack on both sides. . .

(AI prompted): Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a military doctrine where two nuclear-armed
powers deter each other from launching a nuclear attack because the first strike would inevitably
lead to the attacker's own destruction through a devastating retaliation. This theory holds that a
full-scale nuclear war is prevented because neither side would initiate a strike, knowing that
the opposing force could survive the initial attack and retaliate with massive force.


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