Bohemian Grove leak: bohemian grove camp roster shows 2023 names
An independent journalist published the full 2023 retreat member list for the Bohemian Grove, a men-only society, and the released file identifies around 2, 200 people. The bohemian grove membership list, obtained by Daniel Boguslaw, names a mix of Bay Area pooh-bahs and national figures.
Who appears on Bohemian Grove
The list includes Paul Pelosi, Jimmy Buffett, Conan O’Brien, Michael, and Eric Schmidt as members of the ultra-secretive, men-only Bohemian Grove society as recently as 2023. It also names documentarian Ken Burns, actor Jim Belushi, Henry Kissinger, Mike, and Charles Koch among the roughly 2, 200 people listed. The published roster contains many, many Bay Area pooh-bahs and “rich people you’ve never heard of, ” and it lists politicians and other figures—unclear in the provided context how that sentence would have continued because the article text ends abruptly.
How the list was obtained
Daniel Boguslaw obtained the Bohemian Grove camp membership list for 2023 and published it Wednesday on Substack. Boguslaw said he obtained the list in 2024 by pestering a San Francisco club member. “I went to this person’s office for a week straight, ” Boguslaw said. He had driven to the Bay Area from Massachusetts after getting his hands on a 2017 attendance list, he said, and stayed in a Tenderloin single-room-occupancy hotel while he hounded the local member. Weeks passed and he found longer-term lodging in West Oakland. One night, while he was drinking at Eli’s Mile High Club, a courier appeared with two manila envelopes. Inside was the 2023 camp membership list.
Past attempts to enter the grove
Since the 1980s, journalists have tried to get inside the Bohemian Grove campground in Monte Rio in Sonoma County by posing as waiters, lost hikers, and guests. San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones was the first to succeed, publishing an inside scoop in 1981 that described the club as the place where “men who make decisions that affect us all gather quietly. ” Alex Jones famously managed to film a ceremony at the grove that fueled conspiracy theories for decades. Vanity Fair reporter Alex Shoumatoff was arrested after posing as a member in 2008. In 2018, Outside magazine reporter Chris Colin was threatened by Bohemian Grove security simply for kayaking up to the high water line of the compound’s beach along the Russian River.
Club response and membership scope
This list of 2023 camp members does not necessarily represent the full membership to the club, which meets at a building in San Francisco. Bohemian Club spokesperson Sam Singer said the club is private and does not disclose its list of members or guests.
Publication drama and reactions
Boguslaw said his story was supposed to run in The Intercept, but the outlet got cold feet, he said. The Intercept did not respond to a request for comment. “They spiked it in this really stupid way, ” he said. “They were so freaked out. ” Boguslaw also referenced an earlier episode in 1991 when People magazine reportedly killed a story about Bohemian Grove by San Francisco bureau chief Dirk Mathison, who had hiked into the secretive compound; the article says Mathison was recognized by an executive from Time Warner, the magazine’s parent company, who promptly axed his story. Boguslaw said he is not worried about blowback: “I’m confident in my reporting, and I’d like to see them try to fuck with me, ” he said.
The published 2023 camp membership list, as released by Boguslaw, names around 2, 200 people and includes both well-known figures and many less familiar members. The original article text ends mid-sentence with the fragment "ma, " leaving part of the final thought unclear in the provided context.
Closing: The released roster and Boguslaw’s account place the 2023 Bohemian Grove camp list in public view and renew attention to past efforts by journalists to penetrate the Monte Rio compound and the club’s long-standing insistence on privacy.
