    Satanic Subversion of the U.S. Military

    by Jeffrey Steinberg
    Executive Intelligence Review

    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  Colo nel" 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 wit h  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
    Intelli gence  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" s
    ocial 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 t he 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."

    http://www.geocities.com/lord_visionary/satanic_subversion.htm

    From PsyOp to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory, 1980
    http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/MindWar.pdf

    Psychological Operations: The Ethical Dimension
    http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/PSYOPEthics.pdf

    The Church of Satan PDF A lengthy history of the Church of Satan
    (9.4 Mb)http://www.xeper.org/maquino/nm/COS.pdf

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    http://www.wiolawapress.com/2shapeshi/2shapeshi_mindwarlogo4001.jpg

    Text of $1m. judgement awarded to Mind Control victim:

    In the United States District Court For the District of Nebraska

    Paul A. Bonacci, Plaintiff          4:CV91-3037 vs Lawrence E.
    King, Defendant     Memorandum of Decision Filed February 22, 1999

    On February 27, 1998, I found that default judgment should be
    entered against the defendant Lawrence E. King in favor of the
    plaintiff, Paul A. Bonacci. A trial on the issue of the damages due
    the plaintiff by that defendant was had on February 5, 1999.

    Two counts are alleged against the defendant: King in the
    complaint. Count V alleges a conspiracy with public officers to
    deprive the plaintiff of his civil rights, designed to continue to
    subject the plaintiff to emotional abuse and to prevent him from
    informing authorities of criminal conduct.  Count VIII charges
    battery, false imprisonment, infliction of emotional distress,
    negligence and cons piracy to deprive the plaintiff of civil
    rights.  Between December 1980 and 1988, the complaint alleges, the
    defendant King continually subjected the plaintiff to repeated
    sexual assaults, false imprisonments, infliction of extreme
    emotional distress, organized and directed satanic rituals, forced
    the plaintiff to "scavenge" for children to be a part of the
    defendant King's sexual abuse and pornography ring, forced the
    plaintiff to engage in numerous masochistic orgies with other minor
    children. The defendant King's default has made those allegations
    true against him. The issue now is the relief to be granted
    monetarily.

    The now uncontradicted evidence is that the plaintiff has suffered
    much. He has suffered burns, broken fingers, beating of the head
    and face and other indignities by the wrongful actions of the
    defendant King. In addition to the misery of going through the
    experiences just related over a period of eight years, the
    plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the present time.
    He is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many
    as fourteen distinct personalities aside from his primary
    personality. He has given up a desired military career and received
    threats on his life. He suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams,
    has difficulty in holding a job, is fearful that others are
    following him, fears getting killed, has depressing flashbacks, and
    is verbally violent on occasion, all in connection with the
    multiple personality disorder and caused by the wrongful activities
    of the defendant King.

    Almost certainly the defendant King has little remaining financial
    resources, but a fair judgment to compensate the plaintiff is
    necessary. For the sixteen years since the abuse of the plaintiff
    began I conclude that a fair compensation for the damages he has
    suffered is $800,000. A punitive damage award also is justified, bu
    t the amount needs to be limited because of the small effect that
    such a judgment would have on the defendant King, given his
    financial condition and presence in prison. I deem the punitive
    damage award of $200,000 to be adequate.  Dated February 19, 1999.
    By the Court /s/Warren Urborn United States Senior District Judge