Venture beyond the facade of Scientology as I, Marc Hedley, guide you through the shadowy corridors of power involving A-list actor Tom Cruise and the church's hierarchy. We crack open the Tom Cruise spy files, exposing a web of internal documents and compliance reports that reveal the extraordinary influence and peculiar relationships within this secretive organization. The narrative spotlights the role of David Miscavige, Yvonne Gonzalvez, and others, painting a vivid picture of their world where personal service is paramount and the line between the religious and mundane blurs.
Strap in for a gripping account of escape and punishment that reads like a suspense novel, yet is the harsh reality for those like Yvonne, caught in Scientology's disciplinary grip. We share the emotional journeys of members who dared to deviate from the church's rigid norms, from high-ranking officials to hopeful believers like Josh Harris and Jennifer Hammon, whose personal and professional lives hang in the balance. This episode isn't just an exposé; it's a deep dive into the lives irrevocably changed by the church's favor or disfavor.
Venture beyond the facade of Scientology as I, Marc Hedley, guide you through the shadowy corridors of power involving A-list actor Tom Cruise and the church's hierarchy. We crack open the Tom Cruise spy files, exposing a web of internal documents and compliance reports that reveal the extraordinary influence and peculiar relationships within this secretive organization. The narrative spotlights the role of David Miscavige, Yvonne Gonzalvez, and others, painting a vivid picture of their world where personal service is paramount and the line between the religious and mundane blurs.
Strap in for a gripping account of escape and punishment that reads like a suspense novel, yet is the harsh reality for those like Yvonne, caught in Scientology's disciplinary grip. We share the emotional journeys of members who dared to deviate from the church's rigid norms, from high-ranking officials to hopeful believers like Josh Harris and Jennifer Hammon, whose personal and professional lives hang in the balance. This episode isn't just an exposé; it's a deep dive into the lives irrevocably changed by the church's favor or disfavor.
Welcome to the channel. I'm Mark Hedley, your host today. Welcome to another episode of the Tom Cruise spy files. In these episodes, we've been covering 40,000 internal Scientology documents that have been leaked, and in these series of videos, we're covering the ones that have to do with Tom Cruise, and as we do these, we'd like to show you some of the people that are involved before we cover the document. So let's get right into it.
Speaker 1:
In this document, we have Scientology's Tom Cruise spy files. Now, this doesn't these files, these few files we're going to cover today. They don't have that many people, but they are very random people considering what we're covering and how this is being dealt with, the situation that's going to come up. So, of course, we've got David Miscavige, chairman of the board RTC. We have Tom Cruise teen Matt and a idol. Then we've got Shelley Miscavige, who is the chairman of the board, assistant at the time, and then we've got Larisse Stuckenbrock, who is the chairman of the board communicator, and then we have a new key player today and that is the director of vehicles, golden Era productions, yvonne Gonzales. Now, these people would normally probably not have a lot to do with each other, but let's see how. How can I explain this.
Speaker 1:
In Scientology there's kind of a weird thing If you were the person that served L Ron Hubbard his meals and then he liked it and he was very fond of how you cooked or served the meals, then in the Scientology world you were the best person to do that type of thing and handle anything that had to do with that. And over the years there are L Ron Hubbard stewards or his driver or his any of these type of people. If after L Ron Hubbard passed away they were famous because they were that part, they worked for L Ron Hubbard. Even L Ron Hubbard's doctor doctor I think his name was Dr Jean Dank. Dr Dank was a very famous Scientology doctor because he was L Ron Hubbard's daughter doctor and he worked. He did a lot of, had a lot of science, very prominent Scientology patients Anyway, over the years this has now kind of transferred over to David Miscavige and David Miscavige had a van built for him in the in the early 2000s.
Speaker 1:
It was like a GMC Savannah car, like a stripped out van that was made into like a, an office limousine for him. And the person who built that was this, this woman, yvonne Gonzalez, the director of vehicles, golden air productions and there's actually some pictures. The picture that I have here, that I'm showing you today is from a series of photos where David Miscavige not Shelley Miscavige Tom Cruise, katie Holmes and I want to say there was I think there was one and it was a von Gonzales were at Laguna Seca race track, and that's the only place I've ever seen a von Photographed out in the wild with David Miss Gavage, but she was his driver. That's what she, that's why she was there. She was David Miss Gavage's driver and and she was building custom vehicles with for him, along with another gentleman named John Bruce, so who, john Bruce so, used to be in golden air productions and he was in the motor pool department and he eventually was promoted to religious technology center where he made David Miss Gavage other custom motorcycles and vehicles when he was in religious technology center working directly for Dave, and he made stuff for Tom Cruise and he made all sorts of Really fancy gifts for David Miss Gavage and Tom Cruise at the direction from the direction of David Miss Gavage.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so that's a little backdrop, and so now, when, when I read the document, hopefully it'll make a little bit more sense and I might explain it a little bit as we go. Okay, so let's get right into the document. This document is from 13 July 2005 and I found a little pocket of documents that didn't they. They just seemed odd and they didn't have anybody that I recognized in it, and I was able to kind of piece all the pieces together and then find another file from the day after this one that sort of tells what the story is. Okay, so the document is from the director of vehicles and that's gold near productions. Now that this is a very key document as well, because Religious technology center and the golden era productions they're not supposed to have any. Religious technology center is not supposed to be managing the day-to-day activities of golden era productions of the Church of Scientology International, although they 100% do that 24 7365. So this document is a bit odd in terms of the structure of Scientology organizations and anybody in Scientology who is watching this video is gonna find this completely insane.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so it's. The document is from the director of vehicles, yvonne Gonzalez, and it's being sent directly to COB Assistant RTC from 13 July 2005 and it's CC, the durr I and R ASI, and what that is is that is called the director of inspections and reports and this is for author services and I'm I'm not exactly sure why author services is being copied on this document. That's even another bizarre thing. So I'm not exactly sure what the connection is there. But then it's also CCing COB Com, which is Larissa Dickenbrock. It says read Joshua Harris, dear sir, in a phone call approximately two weeks ago. That's another weird thing. Is that somebody in religious technology center shouldn't be calling somebody in golden era productions as well? In a phone call approximately two weeks ago you told me to get Josh handled as he had turned in his resignation to Michael Dovan, and I am now reporting compliance.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so let me unpack that. If a senior Seaworth member gives a junior Seaworth member an order they have to do, they have to write up what's called a compliance report, and in a compliance report you have to say what was ordered, what was done, and then you have to show evidence of that and it's usually titled Compliance report and then you send it up and you have photos or polar Polaroids or or whatever to attach to the compliance report Polaroids or whatever to attach to prove what you ordered was done, and then there's photographic evidence of it or some kind of write up or something. Okay, so that's that now Josh Harris was Tom Cruise's driver. Okay, so what's happening? Here is this guy Josh Harris. He says I'm gonna resign.
Speaker 1:
And he wrote that to Michael Dovan, who is the executive director or the person that's running Tom Cruise's production company called Odin Productions. And so this driver guy was like peace out, I'm resigning, I'm not gonna be Tom Cruise's driver anymore. And so then I guess Michael Dovan somehow that word got from Dovan because Michael Dovan at the time and his wife I'm not, I can't remember her name right off, right off hand Andrea Dovan. Andrea Dovan and Michael Dovan were spies for Scientology, for with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise they might, they were their respective assistants and they would report up on everything that was happening with them to Scientology. So obviously Michael Dovan said, hey, this guy Resigned and and his driver was most likely trained by David Miscavige's driver. And so now COB Assistant is calling Dave's driver to tell her to handle Tom's driver, to not quit being Tom's driver.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, this is insanity in terms of Scientology. This is just a crazy, weird thing that goes on, and this is, you know, this is a Tuesday. In Scientology it says what was ordered, get Josh handled. What was done, josh has been handled so as to remain at Odin. He realized that his actions were not greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics and wants to stay at Odin, be the driver and get his exchange back in with Mr Cruz and then asked for promotion.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so again I covered Odin as the production company, the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. There's a thing in Scientology where you have the eight dynamics and essentially anything that you do that's good for Scientology will be good for all eight of your dynamics. And the dynamics are like the first dynamic is yourself and the second dynamic is your spouse or your family, and then and that's why when, when people say that's his 2D, that's his second dynamic, that's how they say, if you're in a relationship with somebody, you say this is his 2D or this is her 2D, and that 2D is relating to the dynamics, the second dynamic, anyway. So the third dynamic is like your group, and then fourth dynamic is like more people, and fifth dynamic and it goes on and plants and animals and the earth, and it goes on and on until you get to the eighth dynamic, which is the God dynamic, or the spirit and the great creator. Anyway, in Scientology, whenever you want to make a decision, you have to decide. If I do this, is it? Is it? Is it the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics? And it's sort of a short circuited computation, because if it's not good for Scientology, it won't be good for those dynamics, because anything that helps Scientology helps all of your dynamics. That's what you learn in Scientology, anyway. So it says I'll read it again now that I've explained everything inside there.
Speaker 1:
It says he realized that his actions were not greatest good for greatest number of dynamics and wants to stay at Odin, be the driver and get his exchange back in with Mr Cruz and then ask for promotion.
Speaker 1:
There's a lot of consonant. There's a lot of words missing in this sentence. I'm not exactly sure why Yvonne was writing it that way. It says he has been over this with Michael Dovan and as regards what he has qualified for at Odin, and will ask for the promotion once he feels like he has his exchange back in as well as a suitable replacement has been gotten. Okay, that's another thing.
Speaker 1:
In Scientology, in Scientology organizations or the SeaOrg or even in Scientology, run businesses. If you want to move to another post, you have to get somebody to do your post before you can be promoted. So it sounds like this guy's been being his driver for a while. He wants to get promotion and but he doesn't have somebody else that can be the driver. He has to groove in a new driver and that only then could he move off of the post of Tom Cruise driver. Wow, an exchange Exchange in Scientology if you do something for somebody, they do something back for you. It has to be an even exchange, and the way this is being worded is that this driver guy is getting a lot more from Tom Cruise than he's giving to Tom Cruise. So he needs to get his exchange back in before he can ask for a promotion. He definitely feels he can do more for Mr Cruise directly on films and has communicated this to Michael.
Speaker 1:
He really wants to ensure that whoever the driver is is qualified and can handle the motorcycles as well, and this, like I told you earlier on, at this time John Brousseau and Yvonne Gonzalez were building all these custom vehicles for Mr Cruise and for David Miscavige. So now, whoever takes over the driver in Scientology, in the Scientology world, whoever the driver is, that person's also responsible for the vehicles. So if the vehicle needs a tune up or a tire fixed or washed or waxed or cleaned out. The driver is responsible to make sure all of that happens and that the product that they're turning over to the person is a high quality vehicle that transports them to and fro. Okay, he really wants to ensure whoever the driver is is qualified and can handle the motorcycles as well. In the last 10 days he has finished Personal Values and Integrity Course. Okay, here this is a key because this is why she told a COB assistant, shelley Miscavige told Yvonne two weeks ago in a phone call you got to get this guy handled. Well, she can't really say that he's handled until he's done something and then he changes his mind and he stays the driver. So in the last 10 days he has finished the Personal Values and Integrity Course.
Speaker 1:
How to handle relationships with others course, ups and downs in life course second time and how to start a successful marriage course. He is starting the STCC this weekend. Stcc is Success Through Communication Course. Now, all of these courses, I want to say, are like 50 to $150 courses that you could go to the Celebrity Center and do and it might take you an hour or two to do each one of these. So this guy's gotten through three or four courses in the period of the two weeks and he's about to start the Success Through Communication Course this weekend.
Speaker 1:
He called this evening to tell me that he is staying at Odin. Absolutely Two days ago he still was undecided when he talked to me. He also thanked me for repeatedly telling him in the last couple of weeks that he was full of crap for wanting to leave and it was not the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics as it wasn't. Wow Okay. And then page two Based on his phone call tonight, I wanted to send this compliance and let you know he was extremely uptoned and very happy to tell me that he was staying at Odin. This is okay, much love. And then she would have signed it, yvonne, okay.
Speaker 1:
So there's so many crazy things about this. First of all, yvonne Gonzales used to be in the Religious Technology Center and her post was Inspector General MAA. So that is the master at arms. That is essentially one of the police officers within the C organization and the RTC. Maa or police officer, is the most senior police officer in all of Scientology. And remember how earlier I was telling you that DER INR ASI that's the Inspections and Reports, that's the director of the police department in a Scientology organization and each one of the police officers in that department are called MAAs. I'm not exactly sure why the chief MAA at RTC is over all the INRs because that's sort of not the way it works. But either way, let's not, we don't need to get into that.
Speaker 1:
But regardless, she she escaped from Scientology, yvonne. She blew RTC. She blow is an unauthorized departure. She blew religious technology center and escaped and when she came back to was recovered and brought back to the international headquarters. She was kicked out of religious technology center and she was put in motor pool in golden era productions, which is the lowest you can be at the international headquarters of Scientology, and golden era productions is the lowest echelon or the lowest senior organization. It's the bottom at the international headquarters and she was made the motorcycles I see and then over the years she was promoted from motorcycles I see in golden era productions to the director of vehicles, and I'm pretty sure it was because the director of vehicles went to the rehabilitation project force and so a lot of senior executives in Scientology.
Speaker 1:
Any for any Scientologists who are watching this, a guy named Jeff Weber used to be a bus driver in motor pool. Before that he was a Jeff Walker sorry, jeff Walker. He was the senior case supervisor international. He was in charge of all technology and one of the highest trained Scientology counselors in Scientology. And when he tried to escape from Scientology and was recovered back, he was assigned to the motor pool department and he was made a bus driver and I think he actually split two posts. He was the deputy deputy de-weeder when he wasn't driving a bus, so he was a bus driver slash deputy, deputy, deputy de-weeder, many deputies of de-weeders. John Eastman was made a motor pool staff member. Many people over the years were assigned to motor pool, a sort of a punishment more than anything else.
Speaker 1:
Okay, let's do the next document Now this. Evidently I don't have the document, but evidently COB assistant got Yvonne's dispatch and asks some questions and now she's answering those questions. So this is 14 July 2005, from DER vehicles to COB assistant, rtc. It says CC, der, inr, asi, cobcom and the CCIRTC, rep, hfa. Now that is the Celebrity Center, international Religious Technology Center representative, held from above. As far as I know, at this time the RTC REP at Celebrity Center might have left or escaped or got busted, because now this person is being held by the girl's name was Elsie Tucker, and for anybody who was in Scientology in the Pacific Area Command or the PAC base, elsie Tucker was the deputy inspector general for PAC, for the Pacific Area Crew or Command or whatever. I don't remember which, or it changed over the years or it's been known by different things, but it's Pacific Area is the complex of buildings that are blue in Hollywood, california, the United States of America. All those different organizations is referred to as PAC.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so that's all that and it says Rhee Joshua Harris. Dear sir, thanks very much and I'm answering your question to me concerning what Josh wants to be promoted to. Ccirtc REP. Hfa is answering you separately on the questions to her. Josh told me that he wants to be Michael Dovan's assistant, ie be a production assistant on film production under him and take this load. He feels he has experience to do this. He has been a production assistant on a number of other films, such as One Time in Mexico, terminator 2, et cetera. He is still in a 2D with Jen Hammond in the present time. She has been getting an overhaul and the RTC rep is reviewing this and getting you a report separately on her hand links.
Speaker 1:
Okay, a lot to unpack there too. Okay, remember earlier when I said 2D, there you go. He is still in a 2D with Jen Hammond. Okay, also, I don't think her name is Jen Hammond, I think her name is Jennifer Hammond, no D.
Speaker 1:
And obviously this Josh Harris guy is in a relationship with Jennifer Hammond and Jennifer Hammond, I wanna say, worked at Oden Productions as an assistant to both Gosh. I want to say she was an assistant to Katie Holmes as well as Tom Cruise. We'll have to look up on IMDB. If it's up there, I'll put it up in a picture right now and then I'll also put some pictures of what what Josh Harris but I'm pretty sure he did end up getting promoted. He is listed as a production assistant or Tom Cruise's assistant on at least three or four films, if I remember correctly. I, I this. I looked this up years and years ago when I was doing another thing about Yavon Gonzalez for a totally separate thing, and and I came across this Josh Harris guy in that as well. Okay, it says she has been getting an overhaul and the RTC rep is reviewing this. Okay, now, jennifer Hammond has a very long history with David Miscavige and Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1:
We shot a movie with Jen Hammond, mitch and I. It was a Scientology public film called the married couple and in the film the married couple the wife cheats on the husband and then they get Scientology marriage counseling and then Everything's wonderful and their marriage lives on. Well, when we were casting the film, jennifer Hammond came up as one of the actresses that was being proposed and the talent department has to do like a deep dive on this person and they have to get interrogated and all these things in order to come to the international headquarters to be filmed. And Jen Hammond went through all that. She passed all that and then we shot a whole entire movie with her called the married couple. Okay, the the film was done and I'm pretty sure it was either being edited or it was even being done, being edited and it was just about to be released at a Scientology convention or event is what we call them a Scientology event. And and I got a communication from David Miscavige. I got a dispatch like this from David Miscavige saying hey, your, your actress was on cinemax last night at 3 am In a film that I'm pretty sure she shouldn't have been in if in order to be cast in the married couple film and, sure enough, she had shot a movie called Allison is Watching, and the copy of the movie that she gave to the talent department was the R rated version of this movie, and it had to do with with a girl that worked on the streets at night and and she, when she came home to her apartment, this other girl named Allison would, would spy on her While she was doing personal activities in her room.
Speaker 1:
And this Allison girl was played by Jennifer Hammond, and After many times witnessing this other female being involved in different activities in her, in her room, she joined in those activities. In the R rated version of the film she goes in and they, they're, they're making out, and then it cuts to later on. Well, it turns out that somehow, some way, david Muscavige was watching skin a max at 3 am and he saw the, the, the, the triple X version of that film that had a very wildly different edit than the version that she had turned into the talent talent department at Golden Era Productions and and she didn't mention that when she was getting interrogated and, and so that was a bit of a was a bit of a flap. Now, the funniest thing of all is I got this dispatch from David Muscavige and I had to personally research the film many times to be able to find out what exactly the deal was that he had seen and, and I had to get a copy of the not the R rated one. I had to get a copy of the other rated one and I had to watch it because I needed to report back up to David Muscavige and and, and the funny thing is is I think it was airing it was legitimately airing on Cinemax, and I can't remember. I think I made up some whole song and dance about how I spoke with Somebody at Cinemax and it was only gonna be airing once or twice more and then they would stop their run of it. That was 100%, completely made up, and Because I knew the absurdity of this was how is it that nobody's asking?
Speaker 1:
I mean, there was a lot of people that were copied on this dispatch from David Muscavige to me and I was like, is nobody else wondering what David Muscavige is doing watching Cinemax at 3 am? Like nobody's gonna ask that question. Anyway. So David Miscavige saw Jen Hammond in this film and I wrote up the report and and she was like, oh, I didn't know, it was something. It was along the lines, like she was playing silly on it, like, oh, I just knew there was an R version, I didn't know there was another version. Well, I mean, she shot the version. So it was like, well, but she filmed it.
Speaker 1:
Anyway, scientology is not very forgiving for that type of stuff and they David Miscavige and Elron Hubbard were both very, very, very homophobic. So the fact that a science, a prominent Scientologist, who is also in a Scientology film that was shot by the C organization in Golden Era Productions, is also in one of these movies that Scientologists are not even really supposed to be watching, was a huge flap, even though the head of Scientology was watching them, right, anyway. So it says in this document this was just a few years before this, and the craziest thing of all is we thought this Jen Hammond girl, jennifer Hammond, was going to get in big trouble. We were able to salvage it and we still use during the film and that all went. But the next thing, you know, after that whole thing happened, she was working for Tom Cruise. So I don't know what happened between David Miscavige seeing her in a film and her suddenly being hired by Tom Cruise, but somehow they were all connected up after that.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so let's just do this last part. It says he is still in a 2D with Jen Hammond in present time. She has been getting an overhaul and the RTC rep is reviewing this and getting you a report separately on her hand links Okay, so I don't know if she was involved in other flaps or other things that were happening, but it seems like the RTC reps were working her over. When that means. When it says overhaul, that just means that she was being interrogated and having to do study, scientology, elron Hubbard references or policies, or she was having to do something and the RTC rep was doing that and reviewing it to see if it was done. And then it says if anything else is needed, please let me know. This is okay, much love. And then it would have just been signed, yvonne, okay, so now the crazy.
Speaker 1:
I mean this is a wild thing that the person who's responsible for checking the air on David Miscavige's tires is now also writing to the head of Scientology and his assistant, because in a lot of cases, shelly Miscavige is only writing about something that Dave asked about, or Dave wants to know about, or Dave wants handled. So if Tom Cruise heard, or Michael Doven's like, hey, my, I'm about to lose my driver. Then Dave Miscavige go hey, shelly, find out what's happening with his driver, make sure he doesn't lose him. And then this all this happens separately, but the person that checks David Miscavige's car tire air is also checking on Tom Cruise's guy, who checks his tires and his air and then reporting up on what, who's he in a relationship with and what's happening with her and what handlings are being done with her. This is like a giant, giant waste of everybody's time.
Speaker 1:
Anyway, there are, there's some more. I've I kind of found this is like opal mining. I was digging around these files and then I found these two from 2005. I was like, oh, what are these? And then, when I was digging around those, I found a whole bunch of other Odin production dispatches as well, and those are likely the next ones we're going to do, because there's all all kinds of nonsense that's happening over at Odin and they're freaking out over there about things that are missing and people are getting interrogated and it's a whole thing. So that'll likely be one of the next files we do.
Speaker 1:
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