The Church of Scientology operates a concentration camp for high-ranking members fallen out of favor with the group

Suddenly, he says, Miscavige directed an unending fury at his own top executives, some of his most loyal and longest-serving officials in international management. And in 2004, he rounded up about 50 of these Sea Org members, locked them in a room, and then confined them to another building for three days. He then asked Brousseau to secure the CMO Int offices, and then the next day moved the executives down to it. The Hole was born.

The next time someone wonders how the unmitigated hell that is North Korea's Camp 22 got started, remind them of Scientologist and the birth of The Hole.