A leaked roster of 2,200 Bohemian Grove members

what do Paul Pelosi, Jimmy Buffett, Conan O’Brien, Michael Bloombergand Eric Schmidt have in frequent? They have been all members of the ultra-secretive, men-only Bohemian Grove society as not too long ago as 2023.

We know this as a result of unbiased journalist Daniel Boguslaw obtained the Bohemian Grove camp membership listing for that 12 months and published it Wednesday on Substack (opens in new tab). In doing so, Boguslaw joins the rarified ranks of reporters who’ve succeeded in shedding mild on the world’s most secretive redwood grove. Reached for remark, one membership member confirmed it’s a actual membership listing from 2023.

Since the Eighties, journalists have been making an attempt to get contained in the Bohemian Grove campground in Monte Rio in Sonoma County by posing as waiters, misplaced hikers, and company. San Francisco-based journal Mother Jones was the primary to succeed, publishing an inside scoop (opens in new tab) in 1981 that described the membership because the place the place “men who make decisions that affect us all gather quietly.” Alex Jones famously managed to movie a ceremony on the grove that fueled conspiracy theories for many years. Vanity Fair reporter Alex Shoumatoff was arrested (opens in new tab) after posing as a member in 2008. And in 2018, Outside journal reporter Chris Colin was threatened by Bohemian Grove security (opens in new tab) merely for kayaking as much as the excessive water line of the compound’s seaside alongside the Russian River.

Boguslaw did not pull any of these methods. He obtained the listing in 2024 by pestering a San Francisco membership member.

“I went to this person’s office for a week straight,” Boguslaw stated. He had pushed to the Bay Area from Massachusetts after getting his fingers on a 2017 attendance listing, he stated, and stayed in a Tenderloin single-room-occupancy resort whereas he hounded the native member.

Weeks handed, and he discovered longer-term lodging in West Oakland. One evening, whereas he was ingesting at Eli’s Mile High Club, a courier appeared with two manila envelopes.

Inside was the 2023 camp membership listing. This doesn’t essentially signify the complete membership to the membership, which meets at a constructing in San Francisco. Bohemian Club spokesperson Sam Singer stated the membership is non-public and doesn’t disclose its listing of members or company.

Boguslaw’s story was purported to run in The Intercept, however the outlet obtained chilly ft, he stated. The Intercept didn’t reply to a request for remark.

“They spiked it in this really stupid way,” he stated. “They were so freaked out.”

This, too, has an extended custom. In 1991, People journal reportedly killed (opens in new tab) a narrative about Bohemian Grove by San Francisco bureau chief Dirk Mathisonwho had hiked into the key compound. He was acknowledged by an govt from Time Warner, the journal’s guardian firm, who promptly advised his story.

Boguslaw is not frightened about blowback. “I’m confident in my reporting, and I’d like to see them try to fuck with me,” he stated.

The 2023 camp membership listing (printed under) incorporates round 2,200 individuals, many of whom should not well-known. As far as celebrities go, you have obtained Florida man Jimmy Buffett, they might doc Ken Burnsand the actor Jim Belushi. Henry Kissinger, to utterly nobody’s shock, was a member. Then there are the famously wealthy individuals: Mike Bloomberg and Charles Kochspecifically.

But most members are wealthy individuals you have by no means heard of, politicians you have perhaps seen on CSPAN, and a smattering of scientists and cultural figures thrown in to make good on the “Bohemian” half of the group’s identify. Perhaps unsurprising for a boys membership crammed with highly effective American elites, the most typical first names to seem are John (128 instances), Robert (115), William (85), James (84), and David (75).

Here, we spotlight the Bohemian Grove members with the strongest San Francisco ties, damaged down by business. There are notably fewer tech business individuals than one might need anticipated. This is a listing of previous cash and energy. The names are divided into “camps,” which a supply tells us are like fraternities; individuals in the identical camp celebration collectively throughout visits to the compound.

We reached out to some of these individuals for remark; none responded. It’s towards the foundations of the membership to debate members, their company or any club-related actions with the press. But should you’re on this listing and need to share your ideas on this leak, please get in contact.

Carlos Bea (Tarry Town)choose on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based mostly in San Francisco.

Paul Pelosi (Stowaway)enterprise capitalist and husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Longtime San Francisco resident and businessman.

Bobby Inman (Hillside)retired four-star admiral and former NSA director; important ties to the Bay protection Area and intelligence neighborhood.

Edwin Meese III (Caveman)US lawyer basic below Reagan; fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

Sam Singer (Interlude)president of PR and disaster communications agency Singer Associates; you’ve represented purchasers together with Gary TanChevron, BART, and, we realized in the present day, the Bohemian Club.

Eric Schmidt (Aviary)former Google CEO and govt chairman of Alphabet; CEO of aerospace manufacturing firm Relativity Space. Among the richest individuals on the earth.

Brook H. Byers (Hill Billies)senior companion at Kleiner Perkins; early Silicon Valley investor in biotech firms and longtime Stanford University benefactor.

Riley and Gary Bechtel (Mandalay and Care Less), billionaire heirs to the Bechtel fortune who celebration in numerous camps whereas on the Grove, apparently.

Tim and William Draper (Hill Billies and Hualapai), father-and-son buyers, who additionally celebration in numerous camps in El Rio.

Robert, John, and William Fisher (Hill Billies, Midway, Owl’s Nest), brothers whose dad and mom, Doris and Donald, based Gap Inc. in San Francisco in 1969. They additionally celebration individually at camp.

Richard Kovacevich (Mandalay)former CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo & Company, headquartered in San Francisco.

Charles Johnson (Mandalay), cofounder and former chairman of Franklin Templeton Investments, headquartered in San Mateo.

Rupert Johnson Jr. (Owl’s Nest)vice chairman of Franklin Templeton Investments, based mostly in San Mateo.

Haig Mardikian (Caveman), real-estate-investing son of chef-turned-developer George Mardikian.

Mario Rosatti (Tie Binders)senior companion at Silicon Valley legislation agency Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Charles Desmarais (Dragon)former SF Chronicle artwork critic and former San Francisco Art Institute president.

John Berggruen (Uplifters), proprietor of Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.

Nion McEvoy (Poison Oak)CEO of Chronicle Books in San Francisco.

Peter Steinhart (Shoestring)San Francisco-based naturalist and author for Audubon Magazine.

Robert Michael Mondavi Jr. and Michael Mondavi (Santa Barbara and Midway), sons of Robert Mondavi, whose namesake Napa vineyard helped remodel California wine into a world powerhouse.

John Haig Mardikian (Caveman), grandson of son of chef-turned-developer George Mardikian.

Karl Deisseroth (Silverado Squatters), Stanford neuroscientist greatest identified for his work on optogenetics.

Robert Tjian (Hill Billies)former president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; biochemist and professor at UC Berkeley.

Stanley Prusiner (Silverado Squatters)Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who found prions; director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF.

Alexei Filippenko (Sundodgers)astronomer and distinguished professor at UC Berkeley.

David Patterson (Sons of Toil)pioneering pc scientist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley; Turing Award winner and Google distinguished engineer.

As The Standard continues to undergo the leaked listing, we are going to replace our story with different notable Bay Area figures. Probably their names might be John, David, or Robert.