Scientology Int. Base

Vorlage:ScientologySeries The Gold Base is a 500 acre parcel and the headquarters of Golden Era Productions, the media division of the Church of Scientology, located at 19625 Highway 79, Gilman Hot Springs, California 92583, near Hemet. Part of the Base borders U.S. Department of Defense property.

About the Base

Gold Base produces the E-Meters the Church of Scientology uses and sells to practitioners. It has film and sound facilities and produces the films used in and sold by the Church. It is staffed by members of the Sea Organization from the Religious Technology Center, the Commodore's Messenger Organization International and Golden Era Productions. David Miscavige and other top leaders of the church live on the Base.

The Gold Base is also referred to as the "Int Base".

In an article published in the LA Weekly, Gale Holland wrote that there are critics of the Church of Scientology who say that Gold Base "houses the church's highly secretive security apparatus". There are motion sensors every several feet and mounted video surveillance cameras. Former Scientology security officer Andre Tabayoyon has testified in court that the Gold Base is illegally stockpiling weapons and ammunition. His wife also swore in her affidavit that Sea Org women were forced to have abortions against their will.

Currently, most base personnel live in Hemet at the Vista Gardens Apartments or the Kirby Apartments and commute by base-owned bus.

Scientology also maintains the Trementina Base in New Mexico as a high-tech archive of Hubbard's spoken and written words, with similar archives located in Petrolia, California and Crestline, California.

Features

Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:

• Upper Villas - where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists and celebrities stay.
• BonnieView - the home for L. Ron Hubbard when he returns in his next life.
• Staff berthing - four buildings where staff live.
• CMO Int - Commodore's Messengers Organization International. CMO Int has the function of establishing and running all management units under Church of Scientology International (CSI)'s control.
• OGH buildings - Old Gilman House. Probably used for auditing or solo auditing.
• RTC building - where Religious Technology Center is headquartered.
• Del Sol - auditing rooms for staff.
• Qual Gold - Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control".

Gold Base also has recreational facilities, including a running track, basketball, volleyball, and soccer facilities, an exercise building, a waterslide, a small lake with a training ship (the Laissez-Faire), two beaches, and a golf course.

Picketing at Gold Base

Henson picketed the secretive, and allegedly heavily-armed, Gold Base compound to protest the deaths of a Scientologist, Stacy Moxon Meyer, and a non-Scientologist, Ashlee Shaner.

Meyer, the daughter of lead Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon, died in an accident in an underground electrical vault at the Gold Base at about the same time that picketers aboveground were protesting the previous death of Ashlee Shaner. Shaner died in an auto accident on the road fronting Gold Base when a contractor working for the Church was moving a piece of construction equipment across the highway after dusk without adequate lighting.

External links

• ScientologyToday: Golden Era Productions
• Satellite photograph of "Gold base", Gilman Hot Springs, California
• Similar Satellite photograph with key to features
• L.A. Times article discussing the Gold Base