Satanic Subversion of the U.S.
Military
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On February 5, 1999, in U.S.
District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, an extraordinary hearing occurred in
Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King, a civil action in which the plaintiff
charged that he had been ritualistically abused by the defendant, as part
of a nationwide pedophile ring liked to powerful political figures in
Washington and to elements of the U.S. military and intelligence
establishment. Three weeks later, on February 27, Judge Warren K. Urbom
ordered King, who is currently in Federal prison, to pay $1 million in
damages to Bonacci, in what Bonacci's attorney John DeCamp said was a
clear signal that "the evidence presented was credible."
During the February 5 hearing, Noreen Gosch stunned the court with sworn
testimony linking U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Aquino (ret.) to the
nationwide pedophile ring. Her son, Johnny, then 12 years old, was
kidnapped off the streets of West Des Moines, Iowa on September 5, 1982,
while he was doing his early-morning newspaper deliveries. Since his
kidnapping, she has devoted all of her time and resources to finding her
son, and to exposing the dangers that millions of children in American
face from this hideous, literally Satanic underground of ritualistic
deviants.
"We have investigated, we have talked to so far 35 victims of this said
organization that took my son and is responsible for what happened to
Paul, and they can verify everything that has happened," she told the
court.
"What this story involves is an elaborate function, I will say, that was
an offshoot of a government program. The MK-Ultra program was developed in
the 1950s by the CIA. It was used to help spy on other countries during
the Cold War because they felt that the other countries were spying on us.
"It was very successful. They could do it very well." [1]
Then, the Aquino bombshell: "Well, then there was a man by the name of
Michael Aquino. He was in the military. He had top Pentagon clearances. He
was a pedophile. He was a Satanist. He's founded the Temple of Set. And he
was a close friend of Anton LaVey. The two of them were very active in
ritualistic sexual abuse. And they deferred funding from this government
program to use [in] this experimentation on children.
"Where they deliberately split off the personalities of these children
into multiples, so that when they're questioned or put under oath or
questioned under lie detector, that unless the operator knows how to
question a multiple-personality disorder, they turn up with no evidence."
[2]
She continued: "They used these kids to sexually compromise politicians or
anyone else they wish to have control of. This sounds so far out and so
bizarre I had trouble accepting it in the beginning myself until I was
presented with the data. We have the proof. In black and white."
Under questioning from DeCamp, Gosch reported: "I know that Michael Aquino
has been in Iowa. I know that Michael Aquino has been to Offutt Air Force
Base [a Strategic Air Command base, near Omaha, which was linked to King's
activities]. I know that he has had contact with many of these children."
Paul Bonacci, who was simultaneously a victim and a member of the
nationwide pedophile crime syndicate, has subsequently identified Aquino
as the man who ordered the kidnapping of Johnny Gosch. In his February 5
testimony, Bonacci referred to the mastermind of the Gosch abduction as
"the Colonel." [3]
A second witness who testified at the February 5 hearing, Rusty Nelson,
was King's personal photographer. He later described to EIR another
incident which linked King to Aquino, while the Army special forces
officer was still on active reserve duty. Some time in the late 1980s,
Nelson was with King at a posh hotel in downtown Minneapolis, when he
personally saw King turn over a suitcase full of cash and bearer-bonds to
"the Colonel," who he later positively identified as Aquino. According to
Nelson, King told him that the suitcase of cash and bonds was earmarked
for the Nicaraguan Contras, and that "the Colonel" was part of the covert
Contra support apparatus, otherwise associated with Lt. Col. Oliver North,
Vice President George Bush, and the "secret parallel government" that they
ran from the White House.
Just who is Lt. Col. Michael Aquino (ret.), and what does the evidence
revealed in a Nebraska court hearing say about the current state of
affairs inside the U.S. military? Is the Aquino case some kind of weird
aberration that slipped off the Pentagon radar screen? Not in the least.
Aquino, Satan and the
U.S. military
Throughout much of the 1980s,
Aquino was at the center of a controversy involving the Pentagon's
acquiescence to outright Satanic practices inside the military services.
Aquino was also a prime suspect in a series of pedophile scandals
involving the sexual abuse of hundreds of children, including the children
of military personnel serving at the Presidio U.S. Army station in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Furthermore, even as Aquino was being investigated by
Army Criminal Investigation Division officers for involvement in the
pedophile cases, he was retaining highest-level security clearances, and
was involved in pioneering work in military psychological operations ("psy-ops").
On August 14, 1987, San Francisco police raided Aquino's Russian Hill
home, which he shared with his wife Lilith. The raid was in response to
allegations that the house had been the scene of a brutal rape of a
four-year-old girl. The principal suspect in the rape, a Baptist minister
named Gary Hambright, was indicted in September 1987 on charges that he
committed "lewd and lascivious acts" with six boys and four girls, ranging
in age from three to seven years, during September-October 1986. At the
time of the alleged sex crimes, Hambright was employed at a child care
center on the U.S. Army base at Presidio. At the time of Hambright's
indictment, the San Francisco police charged that he was involved in at
least 58 separate incidents of child sexual abuse.
According to an article in the October 30, 1987 San Francisco Examiner,
one of the victims had identified Aquino and his wife as participants in
the child rape. According to the victim, the Aquinos had filmed scenes of
the child being fondled by Hambright in a bathtub. The child's description
of the house, which was also the headquarters of Aquino's Satanic Temple
of Set, was so detailed, that police were able to obtain a search warrant.
During the raid, they confiscated 38 videotapes, photo negatives, and
other evidence that the home had been the hub of a pedophile ring,
operating in and around U.S. military bases.
Aquino and his wife were never indicted in the incident. Aquino claimed
that he had been in Washington at the time, enrolled in a year-long
reserve officers course at the National Defense University, although he
did admit that he made frequent visits back to the Bay Area and to his
church/home. The public flap over the Hambright indictment did prompt the
U.S. Army to transfer Aquino from the Presidio, where he was the deputy
director of reserve training, to the U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Center in
St. Louis.
On April 19, 1988, the ten-count indictment against Hambright was dropped
by U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello, on the grounds that, while there was
clear evidence of child abuse (six of the children contracted the venereal
disease, chlamydia), there was insufficient evidence to link Hambright (or
the Aquinos) to the crimes. Parents of several of the victims charged that
Russoniello's actions proved that "the Federal system has broken down in
not being able to protect the rights of citizens age three to eight."
Russoniello would later be implicated in efforts to cover up the links
between the Nicaraguan Contras and South American cocaine-trafficking
organizations, raising deeper questions about whether the decision not to
prosecute Hambright and Aquino had "national security implications."
Indeed, on April 22, 1989, the U.S. Army sent letters to the parents of at
least 56 of the children believed to have been molested by Hambright,
urging them to have their children tested for the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV), because Hambright, a former daycare center worker, was
reported to be a carrier.
On May 13, 1989, the San Jose Mercury reported that Aquino and his wife
had been recently questioned by Army investigators about charges of child
molestation by the couple in two northern California counties, Sonoma and
Mendocino. A 9-year-old girl in Santa Rosa, California, and an 11-year-old
boy in Fort Bragg, also in California, separately identified Aquino as the
rapist in a series of 1985 incidents, after they had seen him on
television.
Softies on Satan
When the San Francisco
Chronicle contacted Army officials at the Presidio to find out if Aquino's
security clearances had been lifted as the result of the pedophile
investigations, the reporters were referred to the Pentagon, where Army
spokesman Maj. Greg Rixon told them, "The question is whether he is
trustworthy or can do the job. There is nothing that would indicate in
this case that there is any problem we should be concerned about."
Indeed, the Pentagon had already given its de facto blessings to Aquino's
long-standing public association with the Church of Satan and his own
successor "church," the Temple of Set. This, despite the fact that
Aquino's Satanic activities involved overt support for neo-Nazi movements
in the United States and Europe. On October 10, 1983, while traveling in
West Germany on "official NATO business," Aquino had staged a Satanic
"working" at the Wewelsburg Castle in Bavaria. Aquino wrote a lengthy
account of the ritual, in which he invoked Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler:
"As the Wewelsburg was conceived by Heinrich Himmler to be the 'Mittelpunkt
der Welt' ('Middle of the World'), and as the focus of the Hall of the
Dead was to be the Gate of that Center, to summon the Powers of Darkness
at their most powerful locus."
As early as April 1978, the U.S. Army had circulated A Handbook for
Chaplains "to facilitate the provision of religious activities." Both the
Church of Satan and the Temple of Set were listed among the "other"
religions to be tolerated inside the U.S. military. A section of the
handbook dealing with Satanism stated, "Often confused with witchcraft,
Satanism is the worship of Satan (also known as Baphomet or Lucifer).
Classical Satanism, often involving 'black masses,' human sacrifices, and
other sacrilegious or illegal acts, is now rare. Modern Satanism is based
on both the knowledge of ritual magick and the 'anti-establishment' mood
of the 1960s. It is related to classical Satanism more in image than
substance, and generally focuses on 'rational self-interest with
ritualistic trappings.' [4]
No so fast! In 1982, the Temple of Set fissured over the issue of Aquino's
emphasis on Nazism. One leader, Ronald K. Barrett, shortly after his
expulsion, wrote that Aquino had "taken the Temple of Set in an explicitly
Satanic direction, with strong overtones of German National Socialist Nazi
occultism ... One fatality has occurred within the Temple membership
during the period covered May 1982-July 1983."
The handbook quoted "Nine Satanic Statements" from the Church of Satan,
without comment. "Statement Seven," as quoted in the handbook, read,
"Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often
worse than those that walk on all fours, who, because of his 'divine and
intellectual development' has become the most vicious animal of all."
From 'psy-ops' to 'mindwars'
[5]
Aquino's steady rise up the
hierarchy of the Satanic world closely paralleled his career advances
inside the U.S. military. According to an official biography circulated by
the Temple of Set, "Dr. Aquino is High Priest and chief executive officer
of the Temple of Set, the nation's principal Satanic church, in which he
holds the degree of Ipissimus VI. He joined the original Church of Satan
in 1969, becoming one of its chief officials by 1975 when the Temple of
Set was founded. In his secular profession he is a Lieutenant Colonel,
Military Intelligence, U.S. Army, and is qualified as a Special-Forces
officer, Civil Affairs officer, and Defense Attaché. He is a graduate of
the Command and General Staff College, the National Defense University and
the Defense Intelligence College, and the State Departments' Foreign
Service Institute."
Indeed, a more detailed curriculum vitae that Aquino provided to EIR,
dated March 1989, claimed that he had gotten his doctorate at the
University of California at Santa Barbara in 1980, with his dissertation
on "The Neutron Bomb." He listed 16 separate military schools that he
attended during 1968-87, including advanced courses in "Psychological
Operations" at the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, and "Strategic Intelligence" at the Defense Intelligence
College, at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.
Aquino was deeply involved in what has been called the "revolution in
military affairs" ("RMA"), the introduction of the most kooky "Third
Wave," "New Age" ideas into military long-range planning, which introduced
such notions as "information warfare" and "cyber-warfare" into the
Pentagon's lexicon.
In the early 1980s, at the same time that Heidi and Alvin Toffler were
spinning their Tavistock "Third Wave" utopian claptrap to some top Air
Force brass, Aquino and another U.S. Army colonel, Paul Vallely, were
co-authoring an article for Military Review. Although the article was
never published in the journal, the piece was widely circulated among
military planners, and was distributed by Aquino's Temple of Set. The
article, titled "From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory,"
endorsed some of the ideas published in a 1980 Military Review article by
Lt. Col. John Alexander, an affiliate of the Stanford Research Institute,
a hotbed of Tavistock Institute and Frankfurt School "New Age" social
engineering.
Aquino and Vallely called for an explicitly Nietzschean form of warfare,
which they dubbed "mindwar." [6] "Like the sword Excalibur," they wrote,
"we have but to reach out and seize this tool; and it can transform the
world for us if we have but the courage and the integrity to guide
civilization with it. If we do not accept Excalibur, then we relinquish
our ability to inspire foreign cultures with our morality. If they then
devise moralities unsatisfactory to us, we have no choice but to fight
them on a more brutish level."
And what is "mindwar?" "The term is harsh and fear-inspiring," Aquino
wrote. "And it should be: It is a term of attack and victory-not one of
rationalization and coaxing and conciliation. The enemy may be offended by
it; that is quite all right as long as he is defeated by it. A definition
is offered: Mindwar is the deliberate, aggressive convincing of all
participants in a war that we will win that war."
For Aquino, "mindwar" is a permanent state of strategic psychological
warfare against the populations of friend and foe nations alike. "In its
strategic context, mindwar must reach out to friends, enemies and neutrals
alike across the globe ... through the media possessed by the United
States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the
face of the Earth. These media are, of course, the electronic
media-television and radio. State of the art developments in satellite
communication, video recording techniques, and laser and optical
transmission of broadcasts make possible a penetration of the minds of the
world such as would have been inconceivable just a few years ago." Above
all else, Aquino argues, mindwar must target the population of the United
States, "by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by
explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national
interest. ... Rather it states a whole truth that, if it does not now
exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States."
This is a crazy world. What can be done? Amazingly, we have been mislead. We have been taught that
we can control government by voting. The founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Amschel Bauer,
told the secret of controlling the government of a nation over 200 years ago. He said, "Permit me
to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Get the picture?
Your freedom hinges first on the nation's banks and money system. Freedom is connected with Debt Elimination for each individual. Not only does
this end personal debt, it places the people first in line as creditors to the National Debt ahead
of the banks. They don't wish for you to know this. It has to do with recognizing WHO you really
are in A
New Beginning: A Practical Course in Miracles, an informational study.
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