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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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