' BEATINGS ', SNIPER NESTS and a PUNISHMENT BLOCK CALLED ' The HOLE ': Inside SCIENTOLOGY's strict Sea Org organisation which Suri Cruise faced joining and which DROVE her PARENTS APART ..

Scientology headquarters set in isolated, arid foothills 90 miles from LA

Members 'banned from having children and paid $50 a week'

Sea Org investigated by FBI looking into human trafficking

It has been investigated by FBI agents looking into human trafficking and one member claimed he was locked in a ship’s hold for 18 hours a day with no food.

Holmes is also said to have been alarmed at her daughter being pushed into an academy partly paid for by Will Smith which acts as a feeder to a school popular with Scientologists.

And according to interviews with former Scientologists and former Sea Org members, her fears appear to be well founded.

Sea Org is the Scientologist equivalent of a religious order and is thought to be around 6,000 strong.

In recent years ex-members including Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis have spoken out about the brutal regime which operates inside.

The one billion year pledge is supposedly to ‘symbolise their eternal commitment to the religion' but is made by children as young as 10, something Haggis likened to the treatment of ‘child slaves in Haiti’, he has told the New Yorker.

Members are paid just $50 a week and banned from leaving their base or they are tracked down by a special team who use emotional pressure or physical force to make them come back.

They can also involve manual labour, wearing black clothes to mark you out from everybody else - and can go on for years.

Then there are the alleged beatings at the hands of leaders and The Hole, two trailers which can hold up to 100 people forced to do group confessions all night.

In one episode detailed in an piece in the New Yorker, those put in The Hole were told that they had to play a game of musical chairs and only the person who won would be allowed to stay

There is also a golf course, accommodation blocks, education buildings and the $9.4million mansion which former members claim was built for the return of Hubbard, who died in 1986.

The school which supposedly alarmed Holmes was the New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas, California, which has received a $1.2million from Smith as a donation..

His wife Jada Pinkett-Smith has denied it is a Scientology school and said that it would be ‘straight evil’ to suggest she was putting money into a education establishment which also sought to convert children to any religion.

Donation: Will Smith, with wife Jada, gave $1.2million to the New Village Leadership Academy

But while it is secular, multiple reports across media organisations in the US and the UK claim it does have ties to Scientology and uses ‘study technology’, which was created by Hubbard.

It also feeds into the $42,000 a year Delphian School in Oregon where as many as half the pupils are Scientologists, the Independent reported.

Among the pupils there are Connor and Isabella Cruise, 17 and 19, Cruise’s children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.

Marty Rathbun, a former senior executive in Scientology told the Independent: ‘Suri is coming to an age where she gets educated enough to get locked into the faith.

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