FILE 18 NEWSLETTER
CONFIDENTIAL. RESTRICTED ACCESS INFORMATION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT USE
ONLY. Edited By: Lieutenant Larry Jones, Boise Police Department, 7200
Barrister Drive, Boise, Idaho, 83704.
Business Phone (208) 377-6748, 6722; Emergency Phone (208) 377-6790
MAY 2, 1986
1. INTRODUCTION - The topic area of the File 18 Newsletter will
include information on cults, sects and deviant movements - C/S/DM -
(political and religious), found in the United States. Emphasis will
be placed on those which present aggravated law enforcement problems
or potential threats.
This newsletter is an attempt to establish inter-jurisdictional
networking to facilitate the sharing of intelligence and investigative
data about C/S/DM activities in your jurisdiction and throughout the
nation. Preliminary indications are that all of us have these problem
groups operating in our particular locales. Each File 18 Newsletter
recipient is expected to handle this information with discretion; to
identify interested officers in other jurisdictions and submit their
contact information to the Editor for inclusion on the mailing list;
to share C/S/DM intelligence and requests for assistance with the
Newsletter readers; and to carefully restrict leakage of this
information to the news media until it can/should be released
appropriately.
2. C/S/DM SEMINAR - The Institute of Police Technology and Management
(I.P.T.M.), in Jacksonville, Florida, hosted their first C/S/DM
Seminar on March 5 and 6. Thirty-four participants agreed that the
presentation was exceptional, but too short. I.P.T.M. has scheduled a
three-day repeat on July 29-31, 1986, at a cost of $295 per
participant. The primary instructor is Mr. James McCarthy, Sanctuary
Institute, P.O. Box 4591, Boulder, Colorado, 80306. He is a wealth of
information, re: any C/S/DM topic; his phone (303) 443-1486. Contact
I.P.T.M. to get on their mailing list at: University of North Florida,
4567 St. John's Bluff Road, S., Jacksonville, Florida, 32216, phone
(904) 646-2722.
3. RITUAL DEATHS IN U.S. - Dr. Al Carlisle, Utah State Prison System,
gave a training segment on ritual homicides at the Homicide
Investigation Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 27-28, 1986. He
estimated that between 40,000 - 60,000 ritual homicides per year occur
in the United States. Dr. Carlisle based this estimate upon the
number of satan worshippers believed to be at the level of 'worship',
multiplied by the number of such occurrences common in a calendar
year. He estimated that as many as 600 such deaths may occur in the
Las Vegas area alone. Dr. Carlisle stipulated that this statistic is
not verifiable due to the in-grown secrecy of such ritual groups. The
Editor contacted Mike Warnke Ministries to get a second opinion.
(Warkne, an ex-satanist priest, is now a Christian Evangelist. His
book THE SATAN SELLER is very informative). Mr. Larry Nelson,
Research Consultant for Warnke Ministries (158 North Third Street,
P.O. Box 1075, Danville, Kentucky, 40422), informed the Editor that -
realizing it is difficult to substantiate - Carlisle's statistics
seemed to be a reasonable estimate!
Policemen are a very skeptical breed. Forty thousand bodies is a lot
to hide! However, we KNOW some ritually murdered corpses are located
every year. We can ASSUME others have been successfully disposed of.
If only 1/10th of Dr. Carlisle's estimate is accurate, law enforcement
has a major problem to confront. It is not necessary that we actually
believe all this satan stuff. It is only necessary that we realize
that psychopaths out there DO believe it and act accordingly.
Viewed in conjunction with the number of untraceable people
(transients, prostitutes, runaways), in this country who could drop
out of sight unnoticed, Dr. Carlisle's statistic becomes a little more
possible. (NOTE: Ritual murders in satanic worship generally involve
mutilation, mayhem and sexual assault, culminating in the heart being
cut out of a living victim strapped to an alter. Heavy drug use and
sexual orgies are not uncommon. Victims may be male or female,
newborn infants through the elderly. Cannibalism of blood and body
parts is often involved.)
4. TELETYPES - Law enforcement agencies are efficiently tied together by
NLETS. Please utilize this system for general information releases
and requests for information from other jurisdictions. Long-distance
telephones and letters should be utilized for sensitive information or
lengthy reports.
Shortly after the Editor sent the nationwise intelligence alert about
'Walpurgisnacht' (April 30th), I received interested responses from
dozens of jurisdictions.0 Most said they weren't aware anyone else
had knowledge of circumstances similar to those they had encountered.
It should be noted, however, that I also received inquiries from
private citizens and the news media, so there is some leakage in the
system or among its official users. Be sensitive to that as you
compose TXT's.
5. EDUCATION - Organized police training segments concerning C/S/DM
material are almost non-existent. It is a new area. As we educate
ourselves, the tie-ins between such groups and reported crimes become
more apparent. Please formally and informally share what you learn
about C/S/DM with fellow officers, administrators, juvenile officers,
persons crime detectives, etc. Increased awareness and tracking of
persons involved in these movements will ultimately aid in solving
some heavy crimes.
6. FUTURE NEWSLETTER TOPICS - This issue has been primarily concerned
with satanic worship activities due to the timely nature of the April
30th satanic holiday. Future File 18 Newsletters will discuss orther
religious and political groups which are identified by you or
otherwise seem to be of special police interest.
7. LOCAL NOTES - We have received information about an Easter satanic
revel in the Maine woods, a sacrificed infant in Connecticut, a
reformed warlock (male witch) in Massachusetts who had 300+ members in
his coven, a New Mexico murder of a father by his teenage son because
Dad had taken away the boy's satanic bible. Do you know of other
incidents about which you could document information and share with
File 18 readers?
Muskogee, Oklahoma, also reported ritual happenings in their area;
Portales, (New Mexico) Police Department found mutilated animals with
satanic signs near the "Grove" area; Holmdel Twp. (New Jersey)
Narcotics Agents found a flyer advertising a black mass, apparently
for recruitment of members.
SIGNS & SYMBOLS -
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the Editor.
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