Fred Starr is the clarinetist playing at the Gypsy Jazz Club on Alex Jones’ film. I was at that time one of the (who knows how many) women Fred would “disappear with” from time to time. He’s a very secretive, compartmentalizing fellow. I had reason to believe he was an equal-opportunity lover who didn’t sexually discriminate, which was one of the reasons I broke it off. Another was all those other women, who include his wife. Milan Kundera said in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” that, unlike the wife, the mistress has the advantage of knowing her lover’s secrets. But Tomas is not as complex as this man.

I had done some research for Fred one year on Trotsky’s time in Mexico, and sent him a box of bound documents, which he took with him to Boys Camp to read. As a result, the actor John Gavin, who was in attendance, performed a campy skit, along with other actors, on Trotsky’s murder. Very funny, I was told.

Besides actors, some movie producers and filmmakers attended during that time (1996-2001). Fred liked to drop names to try to impress me, but he was fairly tight-lipped about Boys Camp. He considers David Rockefeller his “surrogate father, and he knows Henry Kissinger fairly well. Several years ago he gave Kissinger a guided tour of Central Asia. Maybe that’s a double entendre? At any rate, Fred is the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (SAIS, Johns Hopkins) and created the University of Central Asia for “HH” Aga Khan.

Now that I know more about what Bohemian Grove is, it’s clearer why everything is kept under wraps. In my opinion it has less to do with the recreational sex that goes on than the fact that, when not engaging in all the frivolity, policy makers are there discussing and perhaps making policy, as well as other decisions, all at a super-secretive boys club. Clearly there’s a lot more to Bohemian Grove than a bunch of guys hanging out under the redwoods drinking beer. Since government officials attend, the public should at the very least be given an annual Who’s Who of Bohemian Grove attendees and transcripts of the lectures presented there.