Crusader Cult with HQ at USAF Academy, Colorado Springs

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GORDON DUFF: AMERICA’S DIRTY SECRET
January 26, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/26/gordon-duff-americas-dirty-sec ret/

GROUND ZERO, THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY IN COLORADO SPRINGS
HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONER
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

On 9/11, the United States Air Force failed to respond to multiple hijacking reports, as required by well-established procedure. Additionally, the NORAD defense system was placed on “stand down” for the first time in its history.

Was the command and control of America’s defenses compromised because military leaders had joined a religious cult that believed a “9/11 type” attack, a “Pearl Harbor” as it were, would justify a “holy war” coinciding with fringe interpretations of biblical prophecy?

Has an extremist cult “wormed” its way into defacto control of America’s military forces?

Controlling the military services through a “takeover” of the service academies and officer corps and, financed though moneyed special interests, achieving key control of all military oversight, both in congress and the executive branch, have religious extremists, a virtual American Taliban, become a threat to America and the world?

Through the bungling of high ranking members of a secretive “crusader cult,” headquartered at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, can we now explain the mysterious failures of the “war on terror,” the WMD hunt in Iraq and the Osama bin Laden fiasco, withholding the announcement of his death in 2001?

Many believe this cult has brought only scandal, drugs, corruption and rape to the military. Are they responsible for the condition of our current force, worn thin, nearly 40% under psychiatric treatment, powerful and often harmful medications mixed with a continual diet of right wing politics and mysterious quasi-Christian biblical prophesy.

THE DOMINIONIST THREAT

There is a controversy few Americans are aware of, one that appears to be tied to separation of church and state. It is this, for sure, but much more, more than politics, more than controlling elections. This is a controversy about the good order and discipline of the military forces of the United States, a controversy about chain of command.

It is, as will be shown, a controversy about who can make war and how we can keep those who profit from war from ending peace. It is a controversy about who controls America’s nuclear arsenal and whether the American people are in control of their own destiny or have surrendered that power to a globalist cabal, a marriage of religious extremists, banking cartels and multi-national corporations.

The Dominionists are an extremist organization, really an apocalypse cult, pro-Zionist but Antisemitic. Their core beliefs, as stated, are right out of the Middle Ages but, at heart, they are 21st century, “New World Order, all about money, all about war for profit, all about talking war while others do fighting, the suffering and the dying.

TIP OF THE SPEAR, AIMED AT THE HEART OF AMERICA

Dominionists are one of a series of politically active religious cults currently in control of the United States Air Force and the Army. They gained control though the chaplains corps years ago, led by a break-away Pentecostal sect and through the intercession of Lt. General William Boykin, who championed the politicization of the military by the GOP.


Lt. General William Boykin
Lt. General Boykin, described by one of his top aides as having “gone off the deep end” is said to talk about little but “Clash of Cultures, the destruction of “non-believers” even if it means the nuclear obliteration of the United States in the process.

Boykin is one of the army of former military pundits who harp on threats of America being invaded by Muslim hordes.

It is noted that the service academies, not only don’t teach but won’t allow discussions of the fact that Muslim nations control only 3% of the world’s military and that no Islamic nation has a deployable military force, no aircraft carriers, no troop transports, air/sea or otherwise, no long range bombers, nothing at all.

We teach everything at our military academies General Boykin believes his g-d wants cadets to know. Military reality has never been part of his repertoire.

Boykin, who believed George “W” Bush was chosen by g-d for the presidency, stating that the Supreme Court’s intercession on behalf of Bush proved conclusively that Bush had actually been “appointed by g-d.” Boykin ran special operations and secret rendition programs for the military under the direct command of Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld.

NOT CHRISTIANITY, NOT ZIONISM, NOT EVEN RELIGION AT ALL


West Point - Graduation Hat Toss
The Air Force Academy and West Point have been taken over, controlled for decades now. This means that senior officers, those responsible, not only for the management of the academies but Pentagon operations, intelligence coordination and the all-important makeup of the officer corps itself, always a politicized undertaking, has been totally corrupted.

It is now impossible to function in America’s military while holding views loyal to the constitution and its tenets of separation of church and state and civilian control. These areas of American tradition and law run contrary to covert policy.

SIFTING OUT THE GOOD

Loyal, talented and capable officers are no longer in control. The process that began in the academies has made certain of that. Those who graduate from these schools have been subjected to years of indoctrination, propaganda and systematic pressure, threats, assaults and “brain washing.”

Some survive it, strengthened by enduring hardship and injustice, keeping their religious beliefs intact, keeping their allegiance to the United States.

Many do not.

However, those who fail the ethical and moral test, who succumb to pressure, to indoctrination, are the ones chosen to rise to power in the military.

If you wonder why commanders allow torture and rape in detention centers, why troops are sent to war unfit, exhausted and drugged, why troops are exposed to depleted uranium, dangerous medical treatments, unsafe inoculations, given poisonous food and water and nothing is said, no officer ever comes forward, you now know.

Defending the United States or serving as responsible military leaders is not part of the agenda taught our officers. For our new “Talibanized” officer corps, murdering civilians in their homes in the middle of the night, our current strategy in Afghanistan, the “drone war” with its tens of thousands of women and children dead, this is their war.

They are killing “heathens” in a religious “crusade” taught to them by the Dominionist cult, whose claimed purpose is clear.

■Kill every Muslim on earth
■Destroy all human life in a nuclear apocalypse fulfilling Scofield’s interpretation of prophesy
Their real purpose, one not so public, but one clearly understandable based on what has been seen and proven:

■Undermine civil authority and overturn the Constitution, creating a theocratic military dictatorship
■Support forces within the globalist power structure in their efforts to seize the world’s national resources, gaining military control of, first Central Asia followed by North Africa, all under the guise of fighting terrorism or spreading democracy
THE PSYCHO-SEXUAL ASPECT OF MILITARY INDOCTRINATION

The pressure that members of the military are subjected to, cadets, recruits, serving military around the world, by the cult, one that controls promotions, forces soldiers and cadets in training to change religious beliefs, no Jews allowed, no Muslims, that we know for sure, has been carefully documented for years by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/

Oh, did we tell you, no Methodists, Mormons, Baptists and certainly not the 60% of Americans who choose to keep their beliefs private and avoid churches entirely, they aren’t allowed either.

Even most Evangelical Christians find themselves outside the definition of acceptable beliefs. The American military has been hijacked by a “warrior cult” the majority of whose “warriors” are little more than administrators, “Pentagon princes” and “golf course commandos.”



Cyrus Scofield - 1920
The military cult is a bizarre offshoot of “Scofieldism,” a 19th century interpretation that strays more than slightly from mainstream Christianity, believing man has an active role in creating the horrors described by John in the Book of Revelations.

Psychologists, who have studied this cult, refer to it as psycho-sexual, based on a predilection that ties nudity and domination of women to a quasi-orgasmic “apocalypse.”

Continual references are made to the rapture, a common religious heresy involving images of naked bodies floating in the air, of domination and submission and especially of torture.

Peeling things back further, past the veneer of science fiction, we find, not just politics but the old political divisions, rich against poor, rural against urban, educated professionals against the ignorant, arguments very much a part of the era of Hitler and Stalin, in fact, Dominionism fits this model very well.

SEX TORTURE IN THE MILITARY, NOT JUST FOR PRISONERS

Everyone with access to electronic or print media has seen, at least some of the photographs of prisoners being sexually abused by American troops. Not only would soldiers sexually humiliate prisoners, they would have sex in front of prisoners, a cycle of psycho-sexual depravity based on humiliation and sexual stimulation based on domination, control, submission and physical abuse.

This is what is at the heart of Dominionism, the driving force behind, not just America’s war prisons and military but its government as well.

Hear that whirring sound? That’s Sigmund Freud spinning in his grave!

RAPE IN THE MILITARY, NOT JUST FOR WOMEN

The rise of the male dominated sex cult, claiming to be “crusaders,” or “soldiers of the lord” or “fighter pilots of Christ” or one of a dozen or more dramatic sounding names, chosen to stir fears and exploit divisions, has also directly followed a startling increase in sexual assaults in the military.



West Point - Class of 1980
Stories of the undercurrent of depravity at the service academies, particularly the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and at West Point, have filled the media. In 2008 alone, reported rapes at the Air Force Academy were up by 150% according to the Huffington Post.

We have all seen the stories, not just rape but murder as well, tabloid stuff, sexual jealousy and the like. Note that these reports are from tightly controlled institutions with an “honor code” that is meant to prevent the public from learning of scandals. What is it we aren’t hearing? What kind of institutions are we sending our sons and daughters to?

The problem with the Air Force Academy is that the sex scandals coincide with religious proselytizing the cadets are subjected to.

Moreover, the patterns of sexual abuse are seen to be centered around “religious life” at the Academies with sexual abuse of cadets, both male and female, both heterosexual and homosexual abuse, both commonplace and routine.

The same “cult enforcers,” upperclassmen who have been reported as using physical assaults to proselytize for Dominionists, are also responsible for sexual assaults as well, assaults that aren’t simply “male on female” rape.

THE RAPE EPIDEMIC

Sexual assaults, in a military steeped in forced religious indoctrination, are growing by epidemic proportions each year. Religious beliefs that place women officers in a subservient position to enlisted males, not only are a factor in these criminal acts but a clear threat to military discipline and combat effectiveness as well.

Female officers candidates report that their instructors teach, as a matter of course, that women are inferior to men and are obligated by g-d to serve men at all times, even though the women are of command rank. It would be impossible to find a single instance of irresponsibility more egregious than this.

Reports of just current religious, misuse of military rank and authority, within the military number at over 20,000, according to Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Most incidents aren’t reported at all, not forced attendance at religious events, not forced conversions and, particularly, not the majority of the rapes.

WASHINGTON AND GOMORRAH

For years, the rumors have been there. The Franklin Case presented evidence of a criminal organization, tied to a major political party, that kidnapped children as sex slaves for Washington’s elite.

We are told that an American president was seen at a Republican fundraiser where a gay sex orgy involving children was going on. There was an attempt to blackmail the president over this, though there was never proof of his direct involvement in anyway. The CIA was asked to step in.

In the process, the Franklin scandal was covered up and Washington DC was allowed to descend into a hellishness of depravity, human trafficking for sex, blackmail and even murder

The military was not immune, not hardly. No activity in Washington involving government officials, lobbyists and the “rent boys” and prostitutes that service them is complete without a bevy of Pentagon “brass,” there to defend the national interest.

“National interest” is now clearly defined “below the waist.”

Wayne Madsen reported, last week, that President Obama and Emmanuel Rahm attended gay bathhouses in Chicago, a report lacking any supporting evidence, however.

Government insiders allude to George “W” Bush and a mysterious affection for a young ex-Marine. The Bush White House staff was called, “the gay mafia.”

More well substantiated, however, through a multi-year FBI investigation into foreign spying inside the Executive branch, is voluminous evidence of, not one, but several top security advisors to President Bush, filmed having “informal” sexual liaisons in public restrooms with dozens of hours of audio tapes of them outlining the encounters to friends.

We are told that, on more than one occasion, the FBI has been ordered to end national security investigations because the individuals believed spying for a certain foreign government were capable of implicating America’s highest elected officials in, not only illicit sex but a pattern of behaviors that make the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal a joke.

The rash of “accidents” around Washington over the years, cars exploding in garages, dumpster deaths, bodies found in parks, on benches and the rumors, Condit, Cheney, Rove, Rosen, are only a continuation of the Franklin Case.

PARTY TOWN, PRAYER TOWN

Friends in the Pentagon, highest levels, have told me, “I used to think that those who stayed after, that “special group” at Washington parties, headed upstairs to snort cocaine….”


Steve Rosen
The FBI tapes have been classified, the agents silenced, but in civil trials, such as the Rosen v. AIPAC defamation case, the trail of evidence, depositions from divorces of those involved for instance, describe the “Washington scene,” gay sex clubs, orgies, underage boys and girls and the highest officials, and the biggest abusers of all are the “moral majority” types that people the prayer breakfasts and are seldom seen without a flag on their lapel and a bible under their arm.

SEX WITH CHILDREN, THE PREDILECTION OF THE POWER ELITE

Washington sex parties have been talked about for decades since the virtual invasion of the capital by “big haired” preachers expecting a payoff for supporting the GOP from the pulpit. Joining them, in government were the continually moralizing neo-cons, brought to power by Newt Gingrich’s original “Tea Party” movement.

Washington has changed, no longer strippers and call girls, the army of government “executive assistants” paid to keep errant “members” out of the public eye and out of the scandal sheets.

Today’s Washington is more about money, really big money, a nation’s wealth drained into a sewer of corruption and decadence. While America’s cities decay, centers of homelessness and unemployment, Washington bustles with energy, of a sort.

Washington is a city of private sex clubs, child prostitutes, national secrets passed out like party favors, as though they were billion dollar defense contracts, a nations future, trillions, not even billions, a nation mortgaged through skyrocketing debt, with war, religion and politics no more than a backdrop.

The flavor of the month in Washington, this month and every month is children, child pornography, child sex, disposable children, America’s “missing,” the children seen on milk cartons.

We no longer even count the missing children, 2500 recently in Arizona alone, losses centered around Tucson. They aren’t runaways, not as young as 8 years old.

The rumor is organ theft rings, Mexico, Israel.

Child disappearances have always been considered local problem only, never a national one, never spoken of, never discussed, as though disappeared children was a victimless crime.

Franklin was about child kidnappings, Franklin was documented and, if anything, the sexual tastes of a nation in moral free fall, should warn us that “Franklin” is still going on.

CONCLUSION

Most Americans are led to believe that the idea of our soldiers receiving religious services is a good thing. The public is told about the teaching of values and morality, something vital during confusing wars, such as the ones America is engulfed in and has been for a decade, is part of American tradition.

What isn’t told is that the war crimes, torture, murder of civilians, has been largely the result of hatred and fear systematically instilled into members of the armed forces, a form of “brain washing” which, not only has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands to accept torture, murder and rape but has done so as part of a bizarre religious cult that is everything but Christian.

The American military contractors expelled from Afghanistan for bizarre sex parties were, not only working for companies owned by Dominionists, but were followers and adherents as well.


Minot Air Force Base
Far from “tradition,” an extremist group, more politics than religion, financed and supported by Wall Street, defense industries and the powerful Israel lobby, has taken control of most of America’s military command structure. This control has threatened America’s security, particularly in the case of the “misplaced” nuclear weapons from Minot AFB in 2007. Half a dozen hydrogen bombs attached to Cruise missiles, were stolen. The public was given one cover story, then another.

Those who took the weapons were Dominionists, a psycho-sexual religious cult that worships nuclear Armageddon. Ideation of suicide, worship of nuclear weapons and a sexual fixation with world suicide is a bad mix. Give such a group control over the largest military arsenal on earth, which is exactly what we have done, and only the worst can be expected.

[TonyGosling]

All this war and nastiness does seem to revolve around supporting the Crusader state
A re-run of failed medieval campaigns out of bitterness and hatred for all Jerusalem stands for?
Whatever floats your boat - seemingly this - sadly is what turns bankers & other cultists on
A reaction to Judeo Christianity
New & Old Testament

[ToadSlayer]

I am reading this thread at 'face value'. Even if it is only half true it is one of the most horrific stories I have ever read. The extent of religious and moral corruption and base evil it reveals, sickens my soul to the core. I pray to God that He may turn such evil into a means to exercise His judgement and Glory. Other than that, I am currently at a loss for words.

[outsider]

Let's not forget:
'Satanic subversion of the U.S. Military' by Jeffrey Steinberg:
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/satanic_subversion.htm

'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 linked 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."

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."

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."

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.

Satanic subversion of the U.S. Military by Jeffrey Steinberg

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.'

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'

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." "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."