The US Army CID Report of Investigation of the Presidio Case

On the Presidio case of the Satanic Panic.

Victoria’s State Government is currently running an Inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups. I made a submission in a strictly personal capacity - and have subsequently corrected some errors (due to rushing to meet the Inquiry’s deadline) and provided further information.

My submission deals with my membership in the Temple of Set (1996-98; 2011-2025) and related time in the Gurdjieff Work (1990-2001). It is both a rejoinder to the Inquiry’s provided Guidance Note (scope of reference) and it describes a Sorcerer’s Apprentice failure mode that occurred in 1997-98 in the context of my early affiliation experiences. Being a rejoinder is not a dismissal of the Inquiry: peer review practices in academic publishing and grant reviews are meant to highlight different perspectives (which may be incommensurable) and to provide varied information.

A major background to my submission is the Presidio case that occurred during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and early 1990s. The Presidio case is one of several well known cases that include the McMartin case (which involved prosecutorial overreach) and the West Memphis Three (which involved prosecutorial cover-up of three innocent men who were interrogated using the now discredited Reid Technique which is designed to elicit false confessions). I first became familiar with the Presidio case in 1989-90 after seeing Evangelist Christian videos on the Satanic Panic; the Geraldo tabloid TV special on Satanism; after reading the Nevill Drury interview with Temple of Set founder Lt Col. Dr Michael A. Aquino (hereafter LTC Dr Aquino); and after getting a copy of Tim Tate’s book Children For The Devil: Ritual Abuse and Satanic Crime (London: Methuen, 1991) in which Tate concluded that Aquino was guilty of the Presidio allegations. I have subsequently dealt with the online fallout of this - including the Aquino v Electriciti.com lawsuit; the Diana Napolis (Karen ‘Curio’ Jones) cyberstalking case; the alleged Project Monarch mind control program; and the unsuccessful attempt by Dan Rightmyer (aka Alex Constantine) to get me fired from the former Disinformation website. LTC Dr Aquino and I corresponded between 1995 and 2019, primarily on either religious/initiatory/philosophical or political science topics that did not involve any disclosure of classified or Top Secret information.

For his online critics, LTC Dr Aquino lacked credibility because the United States Army HR declined to renew his contract when it came up during the Presidio investigation: the Staff Judge Advocate General Corps (hereafter SJA) claimed that he was “processed out”. This occurred during a US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) investigation: LTC Dr Aquino subsequently sued the Secretary of the Army in Aquino v Stone during which the trial Judge suppressed the CID Report of Investigation. This is usually done to protect confidential sources and methods. The CID investigation itself occurred after a San Francisco Police Department investigation led by Inspector Gary Pamfiloff and Officer Sandi (Sandra) Gallant. When I contacted the SFPD by letter from Australia in 1993 they advised that the two officers had been reassigned to other duties (the vice squad). This was because LTC Dr Aquino and his wife Lilith Aquino were successful with a formal complaint against Pamfiloff and Gallant with the SFPD. The Aquinos had discovered that Gallant - who was religiously ideologically motivated - had a side hustle on the then growing “occult cop” training seminar circuit.

This did not however work with the CID investigation. Although LTC Dr Aquino was never formally charged (Lilith was initially titled and then dropped as she is a civilian not covered by USMC’s scope) the (strategic) ambiguity about the CID investigation outcome - together with the Aquino v Stone trial Judge ruling - have led many people to conclude that LTC Dr Aquino was in fact guilty of the Presidio charges. LTC Dr Aquino denied this - funding several lawsuits; engaging for decades online; and writing the Respondent book Extreme Prejudice: The Presidio “Satanic Abuse” Scam (San Francisco: Barony of Rachane, 2015). This has not convinced many people - in part because Gallant, Rightmyer, Mae Brussell, David McGowan, Cathy O’Brien and Mark Philips, Fritz Springmeier, and others have thought otherwise. Much of this relies on three facts: LTC Dr Aquino knew the Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey; he was in the early part of his career was involved in Vietnam War era psychological operations; and as a PhD-qualified political scientist (and PSYOP career specialist) he has investigated aspects of Nazi Germany that are part of the Fascism Studies academic sub-field (and was familiar with the Central Intelligence Agency’s MKUltra behavioural modification program led by Dr Sidney Gottlieb).

Several years ago due to a MuckRock freedom of information act query, an excerpt from the CID’s Report of Investigation was released online on the ritual abuse site CAVDEF. LTC Dr Aquino did not see this before his death on 1st September 2019. I subsequently publicly lobbied on the X platform for United States President Donald Trump and former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to release the CID Report of Investigation in full as well as to declassify LTC Dr Aquino’s military record. A 2018 version of LTC Dr Aquino’s Curriculum Vitae is here. The redacted CID Report of Investigation has now appeared on the Internet Archive here. It was rumoured to be about 160 pages in length; the publicly released version is a 135-page Adobe Acrobat PDF file. It may (or may not) be possible to recover the redactions using computer document forensics as per the US Department of Justice’s Epstein file releases.

Here is an initial analysis of the CID’s Report of Investigation (hereafter CID Report).

1. The first 4 pages of the CID Report are a summary overview of the investigation scope; the specific allegations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); and a 12-point court indictment issued from a Federal Grand Jury. The CID Report redacts that the initially accused Respondent was a childcare worker named Gary Hambright at the Presidio’s Child Development Center (CDC). The CID initiated their investigation after receiving notification from the SFPD (the Pamfiloff / Gallant investigation above which the Aquinos were successful in their formal complaint with) and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which has subsequently released its ).

2. The Narrative Table of Contents is significant in disclosing the CID’s investigation; its Report of Investigation format; and the evidentiary base, sources, and methods used.

3. Captain Larry Adams-Thompson (redacted) then a United States Army Chaplain (thus plausibly ideologically religiously motivated) provided the initial allegation as the Applicant / Complainant that led the CID to investigate. On 12th August 1987, Captain Adams-Thompson alleged that his daughter Kinsey had seen LTC Dr Aquino and his wife Lilith at the PX post-office on the Presidio base, and was visibly frightened. He alleged that both LTC Dr Aquino and Lilith Aquino then got into a Red Isuzu car and left the alleged crime scene, which CID investigators later found the Aquinos never had as a registered car (CID Report, page 9), but which was a rental car (not confirmed in the CID Report to ever have been rented by them, but simply noted by the CID investigators, who ignore the plausibility here of Captain Adams-Thompson having memory errors - possibly due to either lying or making up the entire incident as a catalyst event to facilitate as Applicant ./ Complainant the CID’s formal investigation of LTC Dr Aquino as the Respondent). The following day, LTC Dr Aquino was identified in a photographic line-up. Subsequent photographic line-up identification was made on various dates in April 1989: a significant gap of 20 months (during which the Satanic Panic was growing as a moral panic on religious and social deviance). Further photograph / visual lineups used varied methods: some were contaminated by media coverage from high-profile television programs on the Satanic Panic broadcast by Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey that LTC Dr Aquino appeared on in his capacity as then High Priest of the Temple of Set.

4. Pages 7-10 of the CID Report list a number of sworn statements from the Aquinos and other sources (some now identifiable and motivated to provide adverse or false information) that indicate problems with the CID’s investigation. Further significant problems with evidence and source interviews are noted on pages 11 to 14, along with selected pre-framing of specific issues that are (ideologically motivated) Bayesian “priors” or values / worldview differences. These all don’t fit the CID’s narrative or its prosecutorial goal of convicting LTC Dr Aquino under the UCMJ (as a then Lt Col with a distinguished military career) - and so they are just ignored. There are also significant date discrepancies that affect the time window of when the alleged UCMJ offenses were claimed to have occurred. On 6th December 1988, the CID investigators attempted to narrow the time window to 14th - 18th June 1986 (Saturday to Wednesday) using a search for airline tickets. On 4th March 1989, the CID investigators then narrow the time window to either a Tuesday (17th June) or a Thursday (19th June) - with the latter date being outside the time window of the above airline tickets - where Presidio CDC children were claimed not to be under direct supervision from 12pm. This suggests the CID investigators were focusing on 17th June 1986 as the alleged UCMJ offenses date. But significant other dis-confirming evidence are just noted and then ignored by the CID formal investigation team (CID Report, pages 9, 10), including where the CID investigators rely heavily on Captain Adams-Thompson as the Applicant / Complainant and deny LTC Dr Aquino as the Respondent (framing everything in a deficit-based, negative, adversarial manner - that he had made false statements so that all of his provided evidence could be denied and thrown out or just ignored), media contaminated memories, Aquino home differences to alleged memories, and other inaccuracies about the Presidio CDC and the Fort Bragg Jubilation Day Care Center (CID Report, page 10-12). Other interviews suggested alleged assaults and murders by people other than LTC Dr Aquino which both did not fall under the UCMJ and do not appear to have actually been independently confirmed, thus highlighting that the UCMJ was likely prosecuting LTC Dr Aquino for the alleged crimes of others (CID Report, 13-14), including an attempt to shift the time window to 18th May 1986.

5. The Table of Contents of the Legal Review on CID Report page 15 is important in terms of scope; sources; methods; and evidentiary base. As this is a CID internal document it reflects the CID’s position; argumentation; and its careful selection of facts and evidence in order to build a dominant and convincing narrative. This is simply the realpolitik of what such a formal investigation does - especially when using a serious misconduct or a sexual misconduct playbook.

6. The time window for LTC Dr Aquino’s alleged offences is May to July 1986 (CID Report, page 16). As this is a CID internal Legal Review document it pre-frames the Aquinos’ sworn statements and LTC Dr Aquino’s charge against Captain Adams-Thompson in an adverse, negative way. This is to be expected: if any of this was given any credibility (or detailed in any way) then it would undermine the credibility of the CID’s own investigation. Here the CID acts in an agenda-setting function on a formal investigation that it both fully controls and that is highly confidential to go through as an accused Respondent.

7. The first significant and new (for me) evidence in the CID Report is the disclosure that the CID investigators focus on a Black Mass from LTC Dr Aquino’s time in the Church of Satan with Wayne West. The specific term used is “orchestration of the Wayne West version” (CID Report, page 16), where the CID investigators pre-frame this in order to claim that LTC Dr Aquino engaged in 1970 in the UCMJ violation of Conduct Unbecoming An Officer (this is discussed in further detail below). It is clear that this is done in part to rebut LTC Dr Aquino’s counter-claim against Captain Adams-Thompson which CID investigators frame as vexatious, and where they claim that the actual complaint against LTC Dr Aquino came from a Captain subordinate officer - in contradiction to the rest of the Report of Investigation (CID Report, page 16). These are all legal maneuvers.

8. Finding and using the Wayne West incident from 1970 is important for several reasons. It shows the CID is being selective with precursor evidence in order to build a prosecutorial case that focuses on Dr Aquino’s character: if he is a person of bad character then all of his provided evidence can be essentially thrown out or ignored, without having to be formally rebutted (which the CID investigators failed to do). It is selective in terms of UCMJ scope and use. It is selective in terms of Dr Aquino’s time in both the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set as lawfully recognised United States minority religions. It describes the Wayne West period Black Mass as being anti-Catholic Church and hence blasphemous. It ignores what both Anton LaVey and Dr Aquino have said the structure and function of a Black Mass ritual actually is (as a kind of psychological decompression or re-imprinting in order to non-coercively and symbolically free a consenting individual from a previously indoctrinated moral or religious worldview). It also omits that West was expelled from the Church of Satan and attempted to found his own First Occultic Church of Man (LTC Dr Michael A. Aquino, The Church of Satan volume 1, 2013, pages 144-146; the actual Black Mass or Missa Solemnis performed in 1970 in San Franciso at Central Grotto aka 6114 aka The Black House is outlined on page 80 in Volume I, and is detailed on pages 741-758 of Volume II – noting that it was written and performed primarily by Wayne West in his Priesthood of Mendes capacity—and not by LTC Dr Aquino who was in attendance).

9. The CID investigators thus misrepresent both the Church of Satan’s pre-1975 Priesthood of Mendes and LTC Dr Aquino’s own actual views about West as a Satanist; they cherry-pick and misrepresent evidence in its actual, original context in a minority or new religion; and they hyperfocus on anti-Catholic blasphemous themes, thus reinforcing the prevailing out-group stereotype that Satanism (in its LaVeyan Satanic or its Setian forms, as well as other lawful groups such as The Satanic Temple) are primarily criminogenic, deviant and unlawful in nature (thus overfitting the Satanic Panic narrative of criminal Satanism). Dr Aquino had provided the CID with excerpts from his (now two-volume and publicly available) Church of Satan history (which at the time of the CID investigation and when I acquired it in 1995 existed in earlier draft or document version forms which Dr Aquino made available primarily on a serious research basis). This is just one instance of the CID investigators both misrepresenting provided sources (thus reinforcing the perception that the CID formal investigation team was driven by anti-Catholic and criminal Satanism concerns via anchoring and confirmation biases) in order to cherry-pick and to pre-frame evidence, and to get the buy-in from the Staff Judge Advocate to prosecute.

10. It appears that the Aquino v Stone trial Judge’s suppression of the CID Report of Investigation was designed to protect both Federal Grand Jury evidence and the application of the legal standard for titling LTC Dr Aquino (and for initially titling and then dropping this against Lilith Aquino as a civilian); and to frame LTC Dr Aquino’s lawful Satanic religion in an adverse, deficit-based way in order to use the CID investigation’s secrecy to deny him the First Amendment right to religious freedom and Army Regulation protections (CID Report, page 17). The FBI gathered documents and conducted interviews to develop an evidentiary base which it did not share with the CID or the SJA (it was “unavailable” to them), but which was shared with the Federal Grand Jury. The CID and the SJA did not proceed with a judicial proceeding like a military court martial of LTC Dr Aquino, during which the FBI would have shared its evidentiary base. Another way to read this (not proven of course) is that there were perhaps CID and FBI turf battles or differences during the interdepartmental / law enforcement coordination process - and there may have been variances of offender risk profiling as well. Nor did the CID or the SJA refer LTC Dr Aquino or un-named, accused others (apart from Lilith Aquino) who were all not covered by the UCMJ to an appropriate civilian court for prosecution: there were discussions with the Assistant Attorney-General about the now discredited, prior SFPD investigation of Pamfiloff / Gallant.

11. This thus upholds LTC Dr Aquino’s key plaintiff argument in Aquino v Stone and in subsequent lawsuits, comments, and documents as being correct: if there was an actual case here that could stand up either to “beyond reasonable doubt” (criminal standard of proof) or to “balance of probabilities” (civil standard of proof) then the CID or the SJA likely would have made such a referral. Religion above is placed in quotation marks and it is claimed that sexual abuse is part of Satanism’s “worship procedures” - thus the CID investigators have both adopted the dominant frame during the Satanic Panic of ritual abuse (also present for Sandi Gallant in the SFPD prior investigation and reinforced in Geraldo’s Satanism special), and have interpreted it in an anti-Catholic blasphemous context. The quoted application of Glossary-4, CI, CID Regulation 195-1 (1st April 1989) is misapplied here because: (a) the above inconsistencies in the collected evidentiary base are ignored by the CID investigators in order to get their predetermined outcome; (b) much of the claimed evidence would not necessarily be admissable in a court of law; and (c) the trial Judge’s suppression of the CID Report of Investigation in full in Aquino v Stone allowed this all to be covered up - thus creating the strategic ambiguity which led to Aquino v Electricti.com and the Diana Napolis cyberstalking case.

12. This also allows the citing of the Federal statutes that LTC Dr Aquino is alleged to have broken to be self-referential for the CID (CID Report, page 18): they control the data collection and interpretation, and the Staff Judge Advocate could then arrange for LTC Dr Aquino to be “processed out” via the “soft firing” denial of an employment contract renewal - thus forcing LTC Dr Aquino to pursue Aquino v Stone as a wrongful termination / unlawful dismissal case (which the trial Judge then agreed with the CID and suppressed the Report of Investigation’s release). The CID investigators on the one hand affirm First Amendment rights of soldiers and note that these protections do not cover Federal criminal law violations, and then use a victimology approach to pre-frame that even lawful religious practices can be deemed unlawful if conducted by identified “sexual abusers” of “a particular “religion” (CID Report, page 17). What the CID is doing here is: (a) alleging that LTC Dr Aquino is a known “sexual abuser” (noting elsewhere that he was allegedly bisexual and enjoyed sadomasochistic practices - taken directly from the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant); (b) that his “religion” is not a real religion (the Wayne West incident that it was West who actually wrote and “orchestrated” is framed as anti-Catholic blasphemy - where even the Church of Satan’s then practice of naked altars as embracing carnality is framed judgmentally in a deficit-based way); and (c) thus that LTC Dr Aquino’s First Amendment rights are invalid.

13. All of this is used under CID Regulation 195-1 (1st April 1989 version - the Table of Contents from a 2001 version released in 2006 are illustrative) for the CID investigators to attempt to meet the test of “probable cause” to title LTC Dr Aquino (and to initially title and then drop this against Lilith Aquino as a civilian) (CID Report, page 17). Significantly, the CID’s investigation occurred primarily in 1989, before 1992 changes by the United States House Armed Committee to the titling standard (and the “probable cause” test) because of known problems with CID investigations. The now released CID Report of Investigation - along with its trial Judge suppression in Aquino v Stone - illustrate many of these known problems, which were responded to in 1992 and in subsequent procedural changes.

14. In particular, the selection and construction of the UCMJ statutes (Report of Investigation, page 18) are done for the CID investigators to claim that LTC Dr Aquino conspired with an un-named co-conspirator (the originally accused Presidio CDC worker Gary Hambright); that he harassed the Applicant / Complainant Captain Adams-Thompson as the Respondent in his counter-complaint; that his provided evidence was false swearing; that the Wayne West authored and enacted Black Mass in the Church of Satan which LTC Dr Aquino attended in 1970 was significant enough to be Conduct Unbecoming An Officer; and that LTC Dr Aquino and others had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and then lied about the Presidio case’s main alleged victim-survivor, Captain Adam-Thompson’s step-daughter Kinsey.

15. The majority of the media coverage and internet based rumour analysis (often with false, basic information that is really disinformation) has focused primarily on the last UCMJ charge (concerning Kinsey). It is however the others that show how the CID investigators stacked their formal investigation (by being very selective with specific charges that were brought); and where they used the adversarial nature of the CID investigation and titling process itself in order to pre-frame LTC Dr Aquino as being guilty of these UCMJ violations on a “probable cause” basis (hence the titling) that would also meet the criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt.” But this did not occur - in part because as the rest of the Report of Investigation reveals, they were unable to establish a relevant time window for the alleged UCMJ violations involving Kinsey that did involve the originally accused Gary Hambright together with LTC Dr Aquino. However, it was never independently substantiated that either Hambright or LTC Dr Aquino abducted any children from the Presidio CDC - unless this material evidence is in the heavily redacted sections of the CID Report of Investigation.

16. Hambright died of AIDS on 8th November 1989, which the CID Report factually omits (it may have been finalised earlier). If the CID ever did have any evidence that Hambright and LTC Dr Aquino either knew each-other or collaborated in any way to facilitate the alleged offences and UCMJ violations, then they are also not detailed in the entire CID Report of Investigation - unless they are in the substantive redaction sections that deal with SFPD, FBI and CID interviews, and Letterman Army Medical Center sourced therapy and medical evidence of the alleged victim-survivors (which of course would be highly confidential and very sensitive, private information).

17. The CID investigators proceed to deny LTC Dr Aquino’s sworn statements and provided evidence as being false (and hence an alleged UCMJ violation) due to very highly selective quotation (CID Report, page 28-36). They cite and then proceed to ignore specific realities that LTC Dr Aquino raises, such as the statements by Captain Adams-Thompson (a US Army Christian Chaplain—and hence someone who credibly would be ideologically religiously motivated); that the CID was in fact acting on the basis of SPFD and FBI provided statements from an un-named Captain subordinate in LTC Dr Aquino’s military chain of command; ignoring the reliance on past inadmissable hearsay evidence; that Top Secret clearance processes were extremely rigorous and required on-going disclosure for Special Access Programs and Secure Compartment Information access (such as for an SCI Facility or SCIF - LTC Dr Aquino’s SOF status as a Green Beret is potentially relevant here); that discrepancies in SPFD property searches and FBI interviews could be ignored (the first is revisited in detail in CID Report, pages 47-55, whilst the second is scoped to focus on FBI interviews and reactions about the Aquinos’ home); and where LTC Dr Aquino’s provided evidentiary base about his media interviews and religious background (in the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set) are disclosed - and then can be used against him (CID Report, pages 37-47).

18. The specific tactics the CID investigators use here include using dictionary definitions to attack Lilith Aquino for her adopted first name change; the Church of Satan’s grotto system and operative ritual structure; citing legal precedents to claim that LTC Dr Aquino as a then Captain was unethical in being at Wayne West’s authored and enacted Black Mass despite not being unlawful; mis-framing LTC Dr Aquino’s declaratory / espoused stance on ethics as really being about justifying lies; and selective quotations from LTC Dr Aquino’s Book of Coming Forth By Night (21st June 1975) and The Wewelsburg Working (19th October 1983) as likewise being primarily unethical in nature. Having denied LTC Dr Aquino’s First Amendment rights and in pre-framing his Church of Satan and Temple of Set affiliations as being unlawful (and problematic given his media profile and known US Army career trajectory), the CID investigators are able to selectively quote the above Working documents without providing any analysis or context whatsoever; and also selectively quote from his SFPD, FBI and CID interviews and provided evidence in a highly adversarial, deficit-based, negative way. An example of this is the CID’s claim “that the Devil or Set offered him the position of anti-Christ, which he accepted, finding the offer a “serene and sublime” experience” (CID Report, page 47) in discussing The Book of Coming Forth By Night, in which the CID then also proceed to delete the name of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey (who they had relied elsewhere in the CID Report of Investigation on as an informant to justify their meme that LTC Dr Aquino was “Mikey” - introduced in photo/video line-ups and interviews to pre-frame him as a “sexual abuser”) who had attained the initiatory degree of Magus.

19. This then allows the CID also to apply the standards of a major religion (Roman Catholicism) to LTC Dr Aquino; to critique the Wayne West authored and enacted Black Mass in 1970 during a period of religious, philosophical, and psychiatric change as being both anti-Catholic blasphemy and being unethical (when its actual role that LTC Dr Aquino understood was to be psychological deconditioning for non-coercive, consenting individuals - similar to the period’s embrace by others of Arthur Janov’s primal scream therapy; Charles T. Tart' and Stanley Krippner’s work on altered states of consciousness; or Michael Murphy’s Esalen Institute - all associated with the Human Potential Movement and the so-called Age of Aquarius); and thus by 1988 to also deny LTC Dr Aquino’s First Amendment rights and protections by reinforcing what are again Roman Catholic values and worldview - rather than Church of Satan or Temple of Set doctrinal, ritual, and methodological innovations (i.e. that the Black Mass is anti-Catholic blasphemy in function and criminal Satanism rather than being non-coercive, consenting, psychological deconditioning of an indoctrinated religious ideology and symbolism that the individual now wishes to free themselves of and to leave behind). This is similar in function also to how the Hays Production Code was introduced in 1934 (and lasted until 1968) supported by Roman Catholic advocacy groups in order to end the 1930-34 Pre-Code cinema period that Anton LaVey in particular was deeply influenced by (as well as 1920s-40s weird fiction and 1950s film noir). Given that this is occurring during the Satanic Panic in the late 1980s and in a period of Evangelical Christianity’s rise as a strategic voter bloc in the second Reagan administration and the first George H.W. Bush administration in the United States, this also makes the case very specific: the CID’s approach here is to pre-frame the case; the selected alleged UMCJ violations; and its sustained attacks in the CID Report of Investigation on LTC Dr Aquino as being essentially reactionary in nature - rolling back the danger of small groups like the Church of Satan circa 1970 or the Temple of Set in the 1980s as lawful minor or new religions that are both more individualistic-focused (which itself was in line with the Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and corporate raider ethic of Wall Street at the time).

20. The FBI’s initial interviews and the Letterman Army Medical Center’s child psychiatry practices are all redacted (CID Report, pages 18-20). So are medical records (CID Report, pages 20-24) as highly confidential and private information. So are an interview and documents by the CID, the FBI, and the SFPD (CID Report, 24-27). So are interviews and information provided by Captain Larry Adams-Thompson and his wife Michelle as the Applicant or Complaint in the CID’s formal investigation (CID Report, page 27). Later, relevant informants and Aquino apartment details are also either redacted or ignored as dis-confirming evidence (CID Report, pages 47-48), in which the CID investigators attempt to shift the time window of the alleged UCMJ offenses to 10th June 1986 (a Tuesday). There are several ways to interpret these redactions - which also involve attempts to corroborate with other children and with medical records (CID Report, pages 48-49). They deal with highly confidential, private and sensitive information (hence the redactions). This may be the evidence that would have successfully convicted LTC Dr Aquino (H1 or Hypothesis 1) - except that the CID notes a KTVU Channel #2 televised tour of his apartment “made any subsequent descriptions of the interior furnishings of [redacted] by children highly suspect. LTC Aquino’s action made valid and reliable corroboration of children’s allegations impossible, and greatly impeded this investigation” (CID Report, page 48).

21. This would be the Smoking Gun Test in a qualitative process tracing sense - and the CID evidently realised that they would now likely fail this test if the “probable cause” criteria for titling LTC Dr Aquino and the criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt” were actually used (due to media contamination of children’s memories from SFPD, FBI and CID interviews). The CID and FBI interviews about the Aquinos’ apartment are all redacted, and photo/video line-ups that were unsuccessful in identifying LTC Dr Aquino are also redacted (CID Report, page 48-55). Since LTC Dr Aquino denied ever visiting the Presidio CDC (CID Report, page 55), and likewise the Presidio CDC employees who were interviewed (CID Report, page 56). The CID investigators also attempted to shift the time window from 19th-21st September 1986 (Friday to Sunday - so likely only Friday would have been relevant, as the Presidio CDC might have been closed on weekends) to June-July 1986 (which then was never substantiated as a time window).

22. Alternatively, if there were specific problems with this evidence; or if it was biased, contaminated, introduced or damaged in any way (see immediately above for only several examples) - then this would undermine the CID’s formal investigation - and could if disclosed be challenged or contested in (adversarial style) court proceedings (including during the discovery phase) (H2 or Hypothesis 2). Its omission thus created strategic ambiguity which the CID was able to successfully weaponise against LTC Dr Aquino as the Presidio case’s second Respondent (noting that Gary Hambright was the first Respondent who was initially identified). LTC Dr Aquino’s role here - which the CID Report of Investigation substantiates in full - is to now be the “fall guy” or scapegoat given that the CID and SJA were unable to prosecute Hambright or others. Likewise, the CID uses a strategic denial frame to contend that LTC Dr Aquino engaged in UCMJ violations in communicating directly with Captain Adams-Thompson to request him to end his Applicant / Complainant role (CID Report, page 61). The CID’s H1 (Hypothesis 1) here is that LTC Dr Aquino was acting unlawfully - and in their own Legal Brief internal document that will portray this as such. However, if LTC Dr Aquino had been falsely accused in what would be H2 (Hypothesis 2) then this would be a very understandable action to take, in order to attempt to de-escalate matters.

23. The next two pages of the Legal Review (CID Report, pages 28-30) selectively documents and then dismisses LTC Dr Aquino’s counter-charge against Captain Larry Adams-Thompson. As this is a CID internal document this is to be expected as argumentation and rhetoric. The CID then use a variant of the discredited Reid Technique with LTC Dr Aquino concerning SFPD collected information and an FBI interview (CID Report, pages 31-32) as attempted psychological leverage. This then extends to a mischaracterisation of LTC Dr Aquino’s affiliations with the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set in relation to his military career in an adverse, deficit-based, pre-selected way, and also to critique him for not disclosing his personal financial records (CID Report, pages 32-33): this is simple self protection by the Respondent in what is often experienced as a highly prejudicial and secretive formal investigation process. Next, the CID investigators cherry-pick evidence that did not stand up to scrutiny; emphasise that Captain Larry Adams-Thompson was distressed (pre-framing and siding with the Applicant / Complainant); and then cite two media interviews that LTC Dr Aquino did with WSVN TV in Miami Florida and for a British television special (CID Report, 33-36). The CID’s tactic here is to cite the interview transcript of LTC Dr Aquino’s defence - and then just to ignore it as it does not fit their formal investigation stance or their likely predetermined outcome of him being “processed out”.

24. The CID then again cherry-picks its evidence concerning the claim that LTC Dr Aquino was known as “Mikey” (which Anton LaVey when interviewed by CID investigators agreed with when prompted as revenge payback); the mythological roots of Lilith Aquino’s chosen first name; how the Grotto system in the Church of Satan functioned prior to June 1975 (not the Temple of Set’s Pylon system); selective quotations from The Satanic Bible (1969) and The Satanic Rituals (1972) and the Black Mass; a hyperfocus on the Wayne West performed Black Mass as being anti-Catholic and blasphemous by Major Mark Harvey - thus ignoring that for LaVey and Aquino (but not for Wayne West) the Black Mass role is as an ideological deconditioning experience that is non-coercive and for consenting adults only - and thus that would relate to the individuals concerned, and not to the Bayesian “prior” of being anti-Catholic in nature (CID Report, pages 37-45). Likewise, the CID investigator’s analysis of the Book of Satan from Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible (New York: Avon Press, 1969) again focuses on anti-Catholic blasphemous elements and the use of a woman as a naked altar (CID Report, 38, 42-45) via selective quotation of material that LTC Dr Aquino provided omits that LaVey plagiarised it from Ragnar Redbeard’s Might Is Right (LTC Dr Aquino, Church of Satan Volume 1, 2013, pages 59-61; and Volume II, 2013, 783-790) or what its neo-Nietzschean / Spenglerian philosophical basis was.

25. It is very significant here also that it was Wayne West who as a former Catholic Priest and now Priesthood of Mendes initiate in the Church of Satan had significant ideological issues with what is a change in religious identity, affiliation, and worldview (in writing the Black Mass), and that the CID’s Judge Advocate Major Mick Harvey considered this to be “an indecent act” that justified LTC Dr Aquino being titled under the UCMJ for Conduct Unbecoming An Officer (CID Report, page 42). What is really happening here is that LTC Dr Aquino is being scapegoated for what is essentially a Roman Catholic fear that is mobilised in the CID formal investigation context (as befitting the entire arc of the Satanic Panic period as a now well known moral / rumour panic concerning deviance and alleged criminal behaviour). This is actually social control behaviour that minority and new religions (as well as other minority communities) face all the time: it is common to discrimination cases in the workplace that can involve the weaponisation of HR and formal complaint / formal investigation processes also for the purposes of bullying and attempted coercive control (under the guise of falsely alleging that the Respondent is engaging in this behaviour - and then stacking a self-controlled process to achieve this predetermined outcome). This antipattern is not specific to major, minor or new religions: it can involve many varied forms of self-identity and behaviour that are alleged to breach particular (often dominant) moral and ethical codes (including codes of conduct - which also ignore that for the Respondent such a formal complaint / formal investigation process involves significant risk transfer, compellance based cost transfer, often lifelong impacts, loss of opportunities, and second- and third-order impacts on others, as well as often being in fact highly coercive and deeply psychologically abusive / isolating to actually have to go through.

26. The CID then cite LTC Dr Aquino’s Wewelsburg Working on 19^th October 1983 sourced from informant Linda Blood without understanding what it actually was (this context is actually detailed in LTC Dr Aquino’s Temple of Set history in Volume I, 2^nd edition, 2016, pages 85-99): it was not about neo-Nazi worship or Holocaust denial, but rather about the institutional dangers of attempts to artificially boost phenotypic human intelligence to its cultural evolution / environment based limits, and human self-destructiveness in the specific context of elite ideological indoctrination and war initiation, which in a World War II context led directly to Nazi Germany’s disastrous Operation Barbarossa against Stalin’s Soviet Union (CID Report, pages 45-47). This finally extends to the Temple of Set and to LTC Dr Aquino’s reception of The Book of Coming Forth By Night on 21st June 1975 (CID Report, page 47): again it is clear that the CID investigators have absolutely no religious, initiatory, or philosophical understanding of what they are actually reading or what it meant (in a hermeneutic context) - which again all strengthens LTC Dr Aquino’s Plaintiff stance in Aquino v Stone that a significant part of the CID investigation was religiously ideologically motivated and pre-framed.

27. The CID investigators then cite the Pamfiloff / Gallant led SFPD raid of the Aquinos’ apartment on 14th August 1987 (CID Report, pages 37-48) but omit that: (a) it did not find any evidence of child sex abuse material (or criminal act material) that would fit a Satanic Panic or a ritual abuse pre-framing; and (b) that the Aquinos were successful with their formal complaint, and the SFPD had reassigned Pamfiloff and Gallant to the vice / gambling squad. Alleged child victim interviews are all redacted (CID Report pages, 48-55). Alleged child lineups are noted and allowed to stand - even though there was no positive identification of LTC Dr Aquino or Lilith Aquino (CID Report pages, 55-56). When it couldn’t get the answers it wanted the CID investigators then shifted the timeframe of the alleged offences to June-July 1986 (CID Report, pages, 56-57). The CID investigators then cite an alleged incident with a redacted informant who can now be identified - and who was ideologically motivated to mis-portray Dr Aquino and to make false allegations against him (CID Report, page 57). The CID investigators then use United States v Lemere 16 M.J. 682 (ACMR 1983) as a precedent for their investigation and for UMCJ titling of LTC Dr Aquino (CID Report, pages 57-58).

28. The CID investigators then note that the Applicant / Complainant Captain Larry Adams-Thompson contacted the FBI about 45 minutes after seeing LTC Dr Michael and Lilith Aquino at the PX post office on the Presidio military base on 12th August 1987 (CID Report, page 59). The CID investigators then detail the interview the next day of the Adams-Thompson’s child Kinsey - the alleged victim (CID Report, pages 59-61); follow-up interviews with Captain Adams-Thompson in 1989 (CID Report, pages 61-64). These are all redacted - as per the Smoking Gun Test noted above in qualitative process tracing that the CID was unable to meet. Their omission (like an unobservable and hidden black box) allows pattern evidence and probing to be used in qualitative process tracing instead, to critically assess and to evaluate the CID’s evidentiary base and its argumentation that the formal investigation team adopted - and then briefed the SFPD, the FBI, other law enforcement agencies, and the Staff Judge Advocate on.

29. The CID investigators then deal with SFPD released evidence from the Pamfiloff / Gallant raid of the Aquinos (CID Report, 65-66). Inspector Gary Pamfiloff of the SFPD’s Juvenile Division led the raid on the basis of criminal intelligence summarised by the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant, who had a side hustle consulting on the “occult cop” seminar and training circuit. The crime scene description is adversarial (such as the bedroom and kitchen being in disarray). They then detail crime scene analysis of a Baptist Church in Hopland, CA and a Presidio military base bunker (CID Report, page 66-68) in which murders and staged ritual abuse of children are alleged to have occurred and been witnessed by de-identified informants - but no independent verification or evidence is found. There are significant inconsistencies noted about the Baptist Church and the nearby ponds: the physical conditions of the ponds don’t match the de-identified informant testimony, and the alleged witnessed murders do not result in any recovered bodies or independent forensic corroboration. Whilst this could be a still unsolved murder case (the ritual abuse narrative of the Presidio’s bunkers fit a Satanic Panic narrative that is repeated in television programs in the United States and also the United Kingdom - thus being primarily a police or law enforcement belief about the reality of criminal Satanism and ritual abuse at the time) it is also probably more an example of the CID investigators being highly selective about their allegations and evidence - whilst stating that the allegations are not sufficient to be upheld - and then just ignoring this. Significant police and law enforcement equipment, resources, time and staff are used here in what ultimately was a fruitless search - but neither the de-identified informants nor the police and law enforcement personnel are ever held accountable.

30. The CID investigators then proceed to cite LTC Dr Aquino’s military career and his Satanic (actually now Setian) religious/initiatory/philosophical beliefs - in an adverse and deficit-based way without understanding what these actually are or mean (CID Report, pages 69-71). A significant redaction here is that the CID attempted to confirm that LTC Dr Aquino knew de-identified personnel (CID Report, page 70 - which is also repeated on page 74 for Lilith Aquino’s non-custodial interview with the CID, as a civilian she was not covered by the UCMJ - and thus the CID made a significant procedural error in originally titling her - illustrative of its “rush to judgment” approach throughout the entire formal investigation), whilst also then denying his various defences against the alleged UCMJ violations (these are framed in adversarial, deficit-based, and negative ways by the CID). The CID then attempt to shift their time window of the alleged UCMJ violations to specific dates: 2nd and 3rd September 1986, 18th May 1986 (during the ordination of a Priesthood of Set member in the Temple of Set - also noted in a CID interview in the CID Report, page 95); and 10th June 1986 (CID Report, page 71). The particular Priesthood of Set member who was ordinated is not named - and may be inferred potentially from other information sources.

31. What is of particular concern here to the CID investigators is that LTC Dr Aquino is a publicly espoused Setian (and former Satanist) who has both a media profile and whose military career is also publicly known. He is thus viewed pejoratively as a risk that cannot be managed and that needs to thus be contained / neutralised via the “processed out” employment termination outcome. This is why for example the CID focused on his media profile, such as his interview for the Australian produced documentary The Occult Experience facilitated by Nevill Drury (CID Report, page 71). The CID - like the SFPD - rely heavily on Linda Blood as a de-identified informant (CID Report, page 72). The Wayne West incident of the Black Mass in the Church of Satan is again raised (CID Report, page 72) where it is clear that the anti-Catholic blasphemy that the CID investigators are so concerned about is primarily from West, not LTC Dr Aquino. This nuance however does not fit the CID’s preferred narrative, which is then just selectively reinforced (CID Report page 73) via repetition of Wayne West. Next, the CID investigators note an interview with Lilith Aquino (CID Report, pages 73-74) which is outlined - and then just ignored as it does not fit the CID’s narrative. Instead, the CID investigators then cite the SFPD (CID Report, page 74). The CID then cite varied redacted interviewees and information sources (CID Report, pages 74-75); note a key omission (CID Report page 76); and then redact several key interviews (CID Report, pages 77-79).

32. Several interviews then cited and redacted by the CID highlight memory framing and likely media contamination from the then on-going Satanic Panic and the Geraldo Rivera Satanism special (CID Report, pages 79-80): if these are of alleged victim-survivors then this illustrates contagion effects that would potentially undermine their authenticity and reliability in order to meet the “probable cause” standard for titling LTC Dr Aquino and for the criminal standard of “beyond reasonable doubt”. Furthermore, since Baptist and non-denominational church attendance is mentioned, and there is a highly emotional salient reaction to the television broadcasts featuring LTC Dr Aquino, it is reasonable to describe this as highly aversive in nature, fitting a deviance / moral panic / rumour panic counter-frame to the CID that is also ideologically religiously motivated (counterfactually if the de-identified informants were rational atheists and scientist they might not have had such a reaction - so this involves highly symbolic and potentially aesthetic / superstitious beliefs).

33. Another alleged victim-survivor was likewise visibly frightened and did not believe school class-mates (CID Report, page 80), so what appears to be happening here are contagion-based fears that the SFPD, FBI, and CID all reinforce as LTC Dr Aquino engaging in criminal Satanism (where in fact his television appearances for Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey as the Temple of Set’s then High Priest were to factually rebut such Satanic Panic era allegations) (CID Report, page 80). Other alleged victim-survivors have inconsistencies that emerge in either their interviews or with their parents, such as being taught to lie and having reality-testing difficulties about distinguishing fact from being fantasy prone or highly imaginative (CID Report, page 81), or also experiencing alleged confirmation of LTC Dr Aquino’s identity in other cases like the alleged Fort Bragg Jubilation Child Care Center after seeing him on TV (CID Report, page 94), or in a photo/video line-up (CID Report, page 99). These are only un-redacted sections, so there may be more relevant material in the heavily redacted sections on these pages. Subsequent interviews then focus on problems with Captain Larry Adams-Thompson’s stance as Applicant / Complainant - but are again just noted and then ignored (CID Report, pages 79-83) as they do not fit the CID’s preferred narrative. The CID’s own Legal Brief as an internal document is not going to undermine its Applicant / Complainant.

34. The next interview is of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey (CID Report, pages 84-85). This is very significant as the CID redact him earlier when discussing why LTC Dr Aquino left the Church of Satan in 1975; why he conducted the Book of Coming Forth By Night Working (also known as the Santa Barbara Working) on 21st June 1975; and how he founded the Temple of Set (CID Report, page 47). The CID’s interview of LaVey is used primarily to substantiate the CID’s use of the disinformation / meme “Mikey” to describe LTC Dr Aquino - and also to use LaVey’s non-objective testimony to pre-frame LTC Dr Aquino as a “sexual abuser”. This claim - along with Linda Blood’s provided interview as informant (noted in CID Report, pages 88-89) - becomes central to the CID case-building against LTC Dr Aquino - and as a clearly non-objective source, does not stand up to objective, factual scrutiny.

35. LaVey’s provided interview testimony is summarised by the CID as follows: “Further, he advised he believes LTC AQUINO to be a very unethical individual, whom he sees as capable of committing any crime, including sexual assaults of children” and furthermore that LTC Dr Aquino was “being only a supportive member of the Church of Satan, not special or significant in any way.” On the latter point, LTC Dr Aquino edited the Church of Satan’s Cloven Hoof newsletter; had administrative access to all of its membership records; was the second highest initiate after LaVey as the only Magister Caverni in the Priesthood of Mendes; wrote two Lovecraftian themed rituals that LaVey published in The Satanic Rituals (1972); and is the only pre-1975 initiate to have provided extensive primary documentation, internal correspondence, and PhD dissertation equivalent scholarly analysis. Thus, LaVey’s stance (and that of the post-1975 Church of Satan) can easily be factually rebutted: personality and philosophical disagreements are one thing, but what LaVey attempts here is to retcon the pre-1975 history of the Church of Satan (including LTC Dr Aquino and others who made substantive original contributions). Therefore, LaVey’s first claim can likewise be factually rebutted: if LTC Dr Aquino was really as unethical as LaVey described to the CID investigators during his interview, then why was he actually in a senior administrative / initiatory role in the pre-1975 Church of Satan? If you accept this as the CID investigators did, then this leads to two further observations about the pre-1975 Church of Satan that naturally follow from it. Either LaVey did not have full control as its founder and leader - and there was a lack of internal controls. Or - in knowing that an individual was highly unethical and could undertake criminal activity - he was perfectly happy to appoint them to a senior administrative / initiatory role and to give them access to confidential designated information on the rest of the membership. Furthermore, if this was in fact true, it would also mean that LaVey was both happy during the Satanic Panic to malign others as criminal Satanists (thus playing into what was primarily Roman Catholic and Evangelical Christian originated fears that also affected the police and law enforcement communities), and also to undermine a previous mentee who was engaging in a visibly high-profile and very public defence on the Geraldo Rivera and the Oprah Winfrey televised specials about what Satanism was as a lawful, minority or new religion (as differentiated from the CID’s reliance in its Report of Investigation on a Roman Catholic-situated blasphemy and unlawful criminal Satanism stance: two very different moral / ethical stances and respective epistemic communities). Thus, subsequent claims that LaVey publicly defended lawful minority or new religious Satanism from its Satanic Panic era critics is not able to be factually substantiated - and thus must be totally dismissed. Thus, what LaVey actually shows here to the CID is that he is perfectly willing to throw anyone under the bus who he perceives might have challenged or superseded his aesthetic / image / personality-based identity as the founder and sole true arbiter of contemporary Satanism. When the CID investigators suggest that LTC Dr Aquino was connected with Fort Bragg allegations, LaVey denies it, but uses multi-level communication pragmatics techniques to anchor “Mike” and “Mikey” as mixed yet repeated memes for them, thus enabling them to engage in anchoring and confirmation biases (CID Report, page 85). LaVey was familiar with stage magic, mentalism, anthropology, sociology, personality profiling, and also had a significant media profile and interview experience. He thus was able to give the CID investigators what they wanted to hear and to use / weaponised against LTC Dr Aquino.

36. The term “Mikey” about LTC Dr Aquino is noted repetitively throughout the entire CID Report of Investigation (for example, pages 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 28, 34, 36, 58, 71, 81, and 85). It has subsequently been emphasised by LTC Dr Aquino’s critics, such as Dan Rightmyer, in often highly disparaging and emotional ways. What the CID did here was to create a meme (“Mikey”) that then unintentionally affected its interviews and photo/video line-ups - thus creating anchoring and confirmation biases that became increasingly self-referential and circular as the formal investigation proceeded, and as Satanic Panic era media coverage of both the Presidio case and of alleged criminal Satanism (and intergenerational cults and ritual abuse) all continued as a deviance-oriented moral / rumour panic. The other person noted in this interview is thus easily identifiable as per above (also see CID Report, page 57). There are a number of well known and easily identifiable here that Dr Aquino has rebutted in part in his Church of Satan history via providing pre-1975 primary documentation that LaVey declined to provide (whilst dismissing it in its entirety as simply being written by a detractor, and thus not engaging at all with what the pre-1975 historical record actually reveals - even if the provided material is itself narratively pre-framed and carefully selected). Also note that LaVey here reinforces the “Mikey” description of Captain Larry Adams-Thompson as the Applicant / Complainant as a psychological revenge stratagem that is consistent with LaVey’s own later period philosophical writings on how he likes to deal in a Lex Talionis sense with his enemies (as detailed in The Devil’s Notebook and Satan Speaks! both published by the late Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey).

37. There is a significant redaction which likewise indicates that the CID investigators knew that they had done data collection from a clearly biased source - but that this fit / stacked their preferred narrative - and thus was allowed both to stand - and to be prevented from disclosure (including in the discovery phase) to Dr Aquino as the Plaintiff in the subsequent Aquino v Stone wrongful termination / unfair dismissal lawsuit. This is also consistent with the prosecutorial overreach pattern during the Satanic Panic period with the McMartin and the West Memphis Three cases (which in the latter case focused in part on Damien Echols’ interest in magic and the occult, including Aleister Crowley).

38. Other alleged child victims are interviewed - and the details are very understandably redacted as sensitive information (CID Report, pages 86-87). Two subsequent interviews are briefly noted that in fact show that Satanic Panic era contagion effects are possibly occurring due to LTC Dr Aquino’s media profile noted above (CID Report, page 87). The CID investigators then note an important interview with Linda Blood (CID Report, pages 88-89) who LTC Dr Aquino would sue via the Warner Books publication of The New Satanists (settled out of court in Dr Michael and Lilith Aquino’s favour with a sealed record); a further source that the CID uses to corroborate Captain Larry Adams-Thompson (CID Report page 89); and with lawyer Cynthia Angel (CID Report page 90 - which Tim Tate also focused on in pages 162-64 of his book Children For The Devil) who alleges being the victim of a kidnapping that has Satanic Panic themes consistent with the Geraldo Rivera Satanism special and ritual abuse exponents.

39. The next significant CID investigator interview is with Ronald K. Barrett - the Temple of Set’s former High Priest during its difficult Xem era (CID Report, pages 90-91). Barrett - like LaVey above - is a clearly biased and non-objective informant source who also - like the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant makes sure to focus on LTC Dr Aquino’s alleged bisexuality and sado-masochistic ‘kink’ - thus reinforcing for both the SFPD and the CID that they are dealing with a dangerous and deviant individual - in a Satanic Panic narrative that also fits the McMartin and West Memphis Three cases (notably Damien Echols of the WM3), as well as Genesis P-Orridge and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth in the United Kingdom with London’s Metropolitan Police (where it was falsely alleged that his house had a non-existent basement - a foreshadowing of the later Pizzagate and QAnon period conspiracy theories - and that a ritual abuse video was actually an art music video project). The CID investigators do not note the circumstances of how and why Barrett left the Temple of Set in 1982 as this would potentially invalidate their information source’s credibility, and would also directly undermine their prosecutorial case-building against LTC Dr Aquino. The CID investigators again cite - and then proceed to ignore - what Barrett actually states about Dr Aquino and the Temple of Set - again showing that they are being highly selective with evidence and do not actually understand what they are dealing with as a lawful new / minority religious organisation.

40. The next two interviews (CID Report, page 91) deal with people who have seen LTC Dr Michael and Lilith Aquino’s apartment that was the focus of the SFPD Pamfiloff / Gallant raid in 1987. As their provided evidence contradicts or problematises what Captain Larry Adams-Thompson has raised in his interviews, the CID investigators again note - and then simply ignore - the provided material. What the CID investigators then cite (and heavily redact) are related allegations about a Fort Bragg (potentially copycat) incident (CID Report, pages 92-93). For Satanic Panic and ritual abuse exponents, this fit a pattern of widespread crime occurring on United States military bases - which would then also later inform the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories. Several parental informants of the Fort Bragg Jubilation Day Care Center are then also interviewed (CID Report, pages 94-95). The next CID interviews include a Temple of Set ordained priest and a general contractor who was renovating the Aquinos’ apartment: this provided testimony does not fit the CID preferred narrative and is thus also just noted and then discarded or ignored (CID Report, pages 95-96). LTC Dr Aquino would rely on the general contractor as part of his Plaintiff actions in the subsequent Aquino v Stone lawsuit - so as the trial Judge suppressed the CID Report of Investigation from being released, both of these interviews as dis-confirming evidence for the CID’s formal investigation were (until now) not known.

41. Photographic / audiovisual lineup and interview information with various informants is then outlined and heavily redacted by the CID investigators (CID Report, pages 97-103). LTC Dr Aquino, Lilith Aquino, and various Presidio CDC employees were profiled. In the wake of the original focus on Presidio CDC employee Gary Hambright what is clear here is that the CID investigators are likely under pressure (and potentially have fallen into anchoring and confirmation biases due both to biased interviewees and the ideologically religious material noted above which is interpreted predominantly in an anti-Catholic blasphemous rather than a LaVeyan Satanic or Setian context) to find a perpetrator. The heavy redactions here are both understandable in terms of sensitive information and sources, and in terms of a Smoking Gun Test for qualitative process tracing. Importantly, the lineups themselves are contaminated by the use of an Oprah Winfrey Show appearance of LTC Dr Aquino and Lilith Aquino, which would have been reinforced also by the Geraldo Rivera Satanism special, and other Satanic Panic era media coverage of LTC Dr Aquino. This again would facilitate likely and plausible anchoring and cognitive biases, and memory recall issues.

42. Personnel Record Checks of LTC Dr Aquino (CID Report, page 104) focus on leave, entitlement, pay, resources access, and Special Operations Forces status. This can be read in several ways. The CID investigators are conducting data collection here using US Army HR personnel management systems in attempt to triangulate LTC Dr Aquino’s timeframe in order to fit the shifting time windows noted above. There was also likely to be concern over LTC Dr Aquino’s SOF status given his publicly disclosed minority / new religious affiliation and his significant media profile during the Satanic Panic. This again can be read both in terms of deviance / moral panic work in sociology and criminology (which fits the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant and many of authors noted above who focus on the PSYOP-Satanism image nexus whilst often ignoring what this actually meant), and in terms of a cost-benefit decision to “process out” Dr Aquino from his US Army employment during a contract renewal period.

43. The CID investigators specifically focus also on the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg (a factor also in Linda Blood’s interviews and her book The New Satanists), and on how LTC Dr Aquino had SOF active status as a Reserve Officer. What the CID investigators either misunderstood or fail to check here is that LTC Dr Aquino passed the year-long rigorous Green Beret training in 1976. This oversight illustrates (as per the religious/initiatory/philosophical material noted above) some potential, basic fact-checking that the CID formal investigations team may have had about US Army HR personnel and upward career trajectories - thus strengthening the case that the CID engaged in procedural unfairness, and that this was then covered up in the Aquino v Stone wrongful dismissal / unfair termination outcome via the trial Judge’s suppression of the CID Report of Investigation in its entirety.

44. The CID formal investigation team also attempt to triangulate the shifting timeframes of the allegations against LTC Dr Aquino via air travel flight manifests and ticket timeframes; informant diaries; and property custody documents (CID Report, pages 105-106). This continues a long-running pattern noted above throughout the CID Report of Investigation and involving the formal investigation team over a significant time period: various dates are suggested, tried, and then attempted to be triangulated and validated via data collection and other information sources - but are never objectively validated. This is very significant in terms of illustrating collection methods, triangulation, and attempted validation approaches: there is both a methodological failure and an internal evaluation failure here - because the CID formal investigation team both “rushed to judgment” and had a high-risk, high-profile, and very politicised case that it could not afford to lose face on or to lose outright.

45. These major problems and methodological issues also illustrate that the CID formal investigation team is actively working with the Staff Judge Advocate (which of course would be totally expected) in terms of building a prosecutorial case in order to get their preferred outcome of LTC Dr Aquino being “processed out” of the US Army during a period of contract renewal. This would all happen in a siloed, compartmentalised fashion in which the Staff Judge Advocate and the CID formal investigation team would have internal communications. As the trial Judge in Aquino v Stone suppressed the entire CID Report of Investigation this material was a “known unknown” (nuclear strategist Herman Kahn, and later, Donald Rumsfeld) that is now disclosed. To be fair to the CID formal investigation team, the redacted medical evidence and varied informant interviews are very important. However, the varied informant interviews are highly selective - and appear to rely on several key people (some of whom were both well known at the time - and are also known now - to have their own motivations). This leaves the redacted medical evidence from the Letterman Army Medical Center as being absolutely key if the CID formal investigation team had uncovered and was able to substantiate to a “probable cause” and a “beyond reasonable doubt” criminal standard. Yet these very substantive methodological issues could not ultimately be overcome.

46. This data collection, triangulation and attempted validation is then extended to phone intercept records (a very commonly used investigation method) and to credit records (CID Report, pages 107-108). Multiple sources are used. However, nothing substantive is found - the CID investigators again simply note and then ignore this in multiple instances (a significant pattern throughout the CID Report of Investigation). Aquino v Stone again totally covered this up. What is also significant here is that the CID investigators were focused on both LTC Dr Aquino and on the Temple of Set - as per Anton LaVey, Linda Blood and other clearly biased informants - ignoring others like Ronald K. Barrett - and that fits a Satanic Panic narrative of targeting minority / new religious groups as being criminal and unlawful (also used in the McMartin and the West Memphis 3 cases).

47. Medical records from the Letterman Army Medical Center at the Presidio military base are examined, and are heavily redacted (CID Report, pages 109-110). Whilst medical records of LTC Dr Aquino might discount him, this is ignored, as is the original focus on Gary Hambright, who by now is dying of AIDS. Thus, LTC Dr Aquino can replace him as the primary Respondent in the CID’s formal investigation, and this can occur by stacking the other UCMJ alleged violations with either the Wayne West authored and enacted Black Mass from 1970 in the Church of Satan, or by framing LTC Dr Aquino’s self-defence behaviour to the CID as unethical behaviour that the CID is able to both prosecute and to judge (via making an adverse finding and recommendation to the Staff Judge Advocate in a compartmentalised, siloed, and highly confidential formal investigation process that the CID also fully controls). Instead, the CID investigators discount this likely dis-confirming evidence via noting that only outpatient records that were not original records were provided: a common tactic used in formal investigations to ignore evidence that does not fit a dominant narrative or predetermined outcome. The CID formal investigation team use a Satanic Panic era ritual abuse pre-framing here.

48. Next, the CID investigators note Attorney coordination involving alleged murders and alleged child victim-survivors of claimed abuse (CID Report, pages 111-112). The alleged murder is of “Timmy” (CID Report, page 12), which is never objectively substantiated to have ever happened at all. There are numerous potential problems here: Satanic Panic era copycat and contagion effects from media coverage; the failure to find corroborating material during searches; location identification problems; memory problems with informant testimony; fragmentary diary records; seeming disagreements between informant sources over providing potential evidence and what might occur; and Assistant District Attorney views about on-going investigations. This is all occurring at the CID formal investigation team level. In order to deal with it, the team’s coordination with the Staff Judge Advocate simply reaffirms the USMC titling of LTC Dr Aquino – and thus effectively locks in via the SJA his being “processed out” as a contract non-renewal. This is again a “known unknown” (it is how formal investigation teams coordinate with responsible decision-makers in such a context in order to ensure the prosecutorial outcome that they want is definitely achieved in high-risk, high-status cases and as a form of also protecting reputational capital) that is now publicly revealed for the first time, as the CID Report of Investigation was suppressed in the Aquino v Stone wrongful termination and unfair dismissal lawsuit. Murders (which are claimed to have been witnessed but as yet have not been independently substantiated – and are problematic when you examine the formal investigation team’s informant sources noted above) are noted in order to build the claimed evidentiary base (which could have been contested if it had been fully known at the time) so as to impel (not compel) the SJA’s decision, and to align with USMC titling processes (as per the specific legal case precedent noted above).

49. The next major significant section is the CID investigator disclosure of its coordination with local and regional police agencies (CID Report, pages 114-117). There are numerous problems here that the CID investigators note – and then ignore or just cover up. Geraldo Rivera’s Satanism special has very clearly contaminated police investigators who now have anchoring and confirmation biases that widespread ritual abuse is an actual criminogenic reality. Alleged cases, rumours, and the Bayesian “prior” of the now discredited Pamfiloff / Gallant SFPD investigation are used in order to attempt to build prosecutorial case evidence against LTC Dr Aquino. The briefings and interdepartmental coordination are all standard; what is not is that dis-confirming evidence (from telephone and property records; from informant interviews; and from alleged murders and bodies that are never independently verified, and that are subsequently revealed to be informant lies) are just ignored. Informant clarification that either their respective motivations or memories are tainted or clearly biased by newspaper and television media coverage of LTC Dr Aquino and the Satanic Panic are noted – and then just ignored by the CID investigators. Names, property, events, car records, attendance details and even Presidio CDC personnel records are all just assumed to either exist or to provide a factual evidentiary base for the Federal Grand Jury referral that the Staff Judges Advocate plausibly might have used to proceed with its termination decision on LTC Dr Aquino.

50. Satanic Panic and ritual abuse exponents point to the fact that the parents of alleged Presidio CDC victims would not allow their children to be re-interviewed as a major reason why justice did not prevail (CID Report, page 118). This concern motivated Diana Napolis in her cyberstalking against LTC Dr Aquino and others, notably Steven Spielberg and Jennifer Love-Hewitt. It is again raised by CID investigators when they gained access to SFPD interviews from the Pamfiloff / Gallant investigation, which were strengthened by the belief in both the SFPD (Gallant) and the CID (un-named investigator agents) that their literature review of the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set was avowedly anti-Catholic in its ideological orientation (CID Report, page 119) as blasphemous. This was a major factor in the CID’s decision to title LTC Dr Aquino using the USMC in relation to the Church of Satan era Wayne West facilitated Black Mass ritual above (which in fact reflected West’s ideological preferences rather than a LaVey or Aquino stance). The CID investigators confirmed their anchoring and confirmation biases via Letterman Army Medical Center provided informant testimony that focused on Catholic religious symbolism, together with claims of Satanic and Temple of Set themed graffiti on the Presidio military base—thus building up the provided evidentiary base to also be anti-Catholic in its ideological orientation (CID Report, page 119). Property records, reverse telephone number checks, person background checks, forensic analysis of provided photographic evidence, and other data collection is noted as either being unreliable or likely dis-confirming what the CID formal investigation team wants as an outcome – so it is noted and then just ignored (CID Report, pages 119-120).

51. In March 1989, the CID formal investigation team (which is coordinating with the Staff Judge Advocate) begins to pull together several other strands in order to build the prosecutorial evidentiary case that would facilitate the SJA’s termination of LTC Dr Aquino in his then US Army Lt Col role as being “processed out” as a preferred outcome. The Mendocino County allegations and Fort Bragg concerns about “criminal satanism” are both aligned (these are read as confirmations when in fact they can also be read simultaneously as being media-facilitated rumours in a moral panic context about deviant, criminal Satanism). The time window for the alleged USMC violations are narrowed to a time window of 2^nd July 1986 to 18^th July 1986 when LTC Dr Aquino is confirmed to be on leave – a shift from the original time window of May to July 1986. CID investigators check LTC Dr Aquino’s employment as a political science lecturer at San Francisco’s private Golden Gate University; conduct a check of an owned property (CID Report, pages 120-121). Redacted diary entries from an informant who claims to be a victim-survivor are noted (CID Report, pages 122-123). Telephone record checks for both Dr Aquino and the Temple of Set (CID Report, pages 123-126) appear to be inconclusive or do not substantiate the CID formal investigation team’s claims.

52. Law enforcement records focus on Cynthia Angel’s alleged kidnapping on 2^nd February 1989 in Red Bluff, California; a Santa Rosa Police Department investigation; a Ukiah Police Department investigation which involved Caroline Derryberry as an informant (CID Report, pages 126-127). Car details for Presidio CDC employees and for LTC Dr Michael and Lilith Aquino are cross-checked by CID investigators (CID Report, pages 127-129), focusing on a Red Isuzu car from Budget Rent A Car in San Francisco (also noted on CID Report, page 3). The discrepancies here call into question Captain Larry Adams-Thompson’s memory and the timeframe / rationale for his original Applicant / Complaint to the CID.

53. 27 exhibits are attached; a further 10 exhibits are noted; and a further 16 exhibits are also attached, which largely are either redacted medical records; LTC Dr Aquino’s provided responses and media interviews; SFPD interviews; and selected Temple of Set documents on Setian metaphysical philosophy and LTC Dr Aquino’s 1968-75 involvement in the Church of Satan. Source analysis is noted (CID Report, pages 132-133). Of this noted evidentiary base that informed the CID investigators, items 12, 15, 18, 19, 28, 30, 32-43, and 49 and 53 are very important, with 20 and 24 – two dissolutions of marriage in 1986 and 1987 respectively – also being intriguing (that are not mentioned elsewhere but that would likely indicate personal information that could be used to identify potential informants, and thus their motivations).

54. The CID Report’s final page and its redacted signature blocks (page 130) have some final bombshells. The CID Commander recommended termination of the formal investigation because the remaining interviewees would be primarily civilian adults not subject to the UCMJ; the three year statute of limitations had passed; the alleged kidnapping and sexual abuse had occurred prior to 15^th June 1986 (thus not fitting the CID’s revised time window of 2^nd July to 18^th July 1986 which it had narrowed from its initial time window of May to July 1986); and that the CID and the Staff Judge Advocate’s liaison with the Assistant District Attorney of San Francisco sought to revive the Pamfiloff / Gallant SFPD investigation into potential new leads. The Commander’s Report of Action about LTC Dr Aquino is noted as pending – and involved him being “processed out” according to the Staff Judge Advocate. As the SJA oversaw a CID totally controlled formal investigation process that was highly confidential to go through, this would have placed LTC Dr Aquino as a Respondent at a significant disadvantage: the CID formal investigation team clearly acted here as a prosecutor using a serious misconduct / sexual misconduct playbook, and the SJA was able to facilitate his exit. Who the CID Report of Investigation was prepared by – and who ultimately approved it (and the relevant dates concerned on the signature blocks) – are also redacted in order for the CID to protect itself in what by now was a high-risk, very politically sensitive formal investigation.

55. What is significantly missing from both this and from the preceding evidentiary list of material is anything to do with the convened Federal Grand Jury – which might plausibly also have been affected by the Geraldo Rivera and Oprah television specials on Satanism; by other Satanic Panic oriented media coverage; and by deviance, moral and rumour panic dynamics that are now very well known in criminology, sociology, political science, and organisational psychology. I’ve known about the Presidio case for about 35 years - and I didn’t even know until now that a Federal Grand Jury was even convened for this case or made the 12 recommendations that it did. That for me is a real Smoking Gun disclosure of reading the CID Report of Investigation for the first time.

None of this initial analysis above will matter to LTC Dr Aquino’s critics for several reasons:

A. I’ve corresponded with LTC Dr Aquino and have been a Temple of Set member so I’m clearly biased.

B. LTC Dr Aquino was a United States Army PSYOP officer; a Satanist; and knew about Project MKUltra—so along with his public image this justifies his villain persona.

C. LTC Dr Aquino was terminated from his full-time prestigious US Army career in 1989-90 and served in a Reserve status until 1994 when he retired—and thus the SFPD, the CID, the SJA, and the Aquino v Stone trial Judge were all correct, as were the United Kingdom investigator Tim Tate and others who believe that LTC Dr Aquino is guilty of the Presidio case allegations. For the record, I am totally against what such allegations in the SFPD, FBI, and CID documentation all details—provided that this is actually substantiated to have occurred to a criminal standard of evidence (beyond a reasonable doubt). What is not well understood (due in part to the priming effects of LTC Dr Aquino’s villain persona for many) is that such a criminal standard did not occur in the Presidio case. The strategic ambiguity here from the CID’s Report of Investigation and the Aquino v Stone trial Judge’s suppression of it is that we have not until now not had access to it (noting that it reflects the CID and the SJA stance and interpretation: it is thus meant to be a one-sided prosecutorial document in order to secure a conviction or outcome—it is not necessarily objective ‘fact’ until all necessary and sufficient evidence is considered).

The CID’s Report of Investigation clarifies the above strategic ambiguity—which affected LTC Dr Aquino until his death on 1^st September 2019—and which continues today on pro-Satanic Panic / ritual abuse sites like CAVDEF and in other information sources—including in the QAnon, Pizzagate, and conspirituality movements.

If you do honestly believe that LTC Dr Aquino is guilty to a criminal standard of evidence of the Presidio case allegations then you will need to satisfy the following necessary and sufficient criteria:

1. Given that the CID and SJA’s alleged kidnappings and sexual abuse all occurred before 15^th June 1986 (and not in the CID’s final time window of 2^nd July to 18^th July 1986, or its prior time window of 2^nd June 1986 to 18^th July 1986 when LTC Dr Aquino was confirmed to be on leave)—exactly when did they occur, where, involving whom, and for what specific crimes? If they did happen then how are you sure that LTC Dr Aquino was responsible—and not others? What you would need to show here is that LTC Dr Aquino had direct access to the alleged victim-survivors on specific dates in the CID’s ever-shifting time window; and that there was either forensic medical or other evidence that would meet “probable cause” and either “beyond reasonable doubt” (criminal standard) or “balance of probabilities” (civil standard) for legal prosecution. The CID failed to meet the first two; the third was never tried. What this means is that LTC Dr Aquino’s critics have taken the CID Report of Investigation at face value as being correct because of the CID; the SJA’s “processed out” comment cited by informant Linda Blood; and the trial Judge’s suppression of it in Aquino v Stone.

The actual CID Report of Investigation has never been (until now) critically examined and evaluated. Whilst I may not be objective here, I am trained to both a conferred PhD dissertation level and in terms of university research administration / management to undertake such an initial analysis. Nor am I simply a mouthpiece for LTC Dr Aquino: I am aware of victim-survivor “lived experience” impacts, and of secondary, tertiary, and poly victimisation dynamics. I am also able to critically evaluate the cited Church of Satan and Temple of Set material that the CID significantly mischaracterises - as well as the relevant background academic literature in multiple sub-fields. I also know how formal investigations are actually run, and what kinds of problems can arise. Finally, I am also familiar with some criminal intelligence and national security aspects of this case, including allegations by others that Top Secret level clearance Special Access Programs and Secure Compartmented Information might be involved - and the nature, role, and late Cold War era function of what that might possibly be. However, there is more than enough here in terms of what is in the CID Report of Investigation - and its many internal inconsistencies and errors - to be able to critically evaluate it - without having to go to an SAP or SCI angle.

2. Since the SJA notes that the CID has not substantiated its final preferred time window—and has shifted it several times when it did not get the confirming evidence from its data collection—this leaves a 6 week posited time period of May to 15^th June 1986. These constitute 9 of 12 claimed UCMJ violations by LTC Dr Aquino (CID Report, page 3). The other three are either perceived non-compliance with the CID and the SJA in what for the Respondent is a highly adversarial, confidential, and fully controlled process (2 claimed UCMJ violations), or the Church of Satan Black Mass that was written and performed by former Priesthood of Mendes member Wayne West in 1970 that LTC Dr Aquino attended as a then Church of Satan member—which the CID cherry-picks and alleges to be a UCMJ article 133 violation of Conduct Unbecoming An Officer in what is clearly now a biased use of this statute.

3. The CID relied on a prior SFPD investigation (Pamfiloff / Gallant) which the Aquinos were successful in dealing with via a formal complaint, and where Gallant was both ideologically religiously motivated and had Conflict of Interest concerns. The CID also relied on FBI interviews and records (which included media press clippings). Given that the SFPD investigation had major problems, why is it both necessary and sufficient to stand? Why should it do so when Gallant’s own police intelligence reports focus on identity criteria (such as LTC Dr Aquino’s alleged bisexuality and sadomasochism) that police commonly raised during the Satanic Panic period as problematic (they were raised in the West Memphis 3 and the Genesis P-Orridge / Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth cases in the United States and the United Kingdom as well), but that would not be considered as such an issue today?

4. The CID formal investigation team used informant interviews with several known people—Anton LaVey; Linda Blood; Ronald K. Barrett; and others—who were well known to have biased, grievance-motivated concerns against LTC Dr Aquino. The objectivity and reliability of this informant interview provided evidence has subsequently been challenged and rebutted. Why is it necessary and sufficient for it to be allowed to stand?

5. How can a CID formal investigation and SJA advisory be truly objective if evidence is pre-framed, cherry-picked, mischaracterised, suggested time windows are changed, Respondent provided material is misinterpreted, and all dis-confirming evidence (from varied data collection methods and sources) is noted or stated, and yet then simply discarded? How do you address the very serious biases here (which include anchoring and confirmation biases)? How do you ensure that informant interviews are not also adversely affected or contaminated by LTC Dr Aquino’s media profile; your views on what (or what is not) contemporary lawful (not criminogenic) Satanism is; or the now well known impacts of the Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey Satanism specials featuring LTC Dr Aquino, as well as other now well known and rebutted information sources?

6. How do you deal with allegations made in the CID Report that remain as yet independently unsubstantiated, such as the claims of witnessed murders and dead bodies that have never been found, or of location information that when examined either by independent investigators or from multiple source informant interviews (i.e. not simply LTC Dr Aquino) are either not plausible or are problematic? How do you deal with construct validity, accuracy, reliability, memory, and other epistemological and evidentiary base issues? Why (as per the above) are some informant sources considered more factual or reliable than others? Why (or why not)?

7. Multiple sources note that the Temple of Set does not have any child members or activities for children, and that no alleged child sex abuse or human sacrifice in rituals has feasibly occurred. Nor were alleged victim or informant descriptions of the Aquinos’ apartment. Likewise, the Ukiah Police Department focused on 18^th May 1986 during which LTC Dr Aquino inducted a Priest into the Temple of Set as an alleged date of likely sexual assault of a victim-survivor (CD Report, page 14). If this date is credible then why did the CID shift its time window to June-July 1986—and then fail to find its necessary and sufficient proof? LTC Dr Aquino has alleged that there was a top-down case against him citing Senator Jesse Helms and the Secretary of the Army Michael P.W. Stone in the Aquino v Stone lawsuit. What the CID Report of Investigation now reveals is that even if this did not occur—the CID formal investigation team conducted its case with a clear emphasis on an anti-Catholic blasphemous and criminal Satanism based narrative, citing LTC Dr Aquino’s Wewelsburg Working (along with Anton LaVey, Linda Blood, and Ronald K. Barrett’s respective provided interviews and testimonies) as well. None of LTC Dr Aquino’s provided material (including the evidence items 48, 49, 52 and 53 noted on CID Report page 132) are actually quoted in their original, appropriate religious / initiatory / philosophical context, but are rather misinterpreted via the CID’s anti-Catholic blasphemous and criminal Satanism based lens, which the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant, Linda Blood, Anton LaVey, and others are happy to comply with in order to adversely target LTC Dr Aquino—which the CID then uses to build its prosecutorial case for SJA support.

8. What evidence did the convened Federal Grand Jury consider for its 30^th September 1987 communicated 12-point indictment (noted above for the UMCJ and again highly selectively on CID Report, pages 3 and 18) that the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office decided the CID could not access? (CID Report, page 17). The CID’s Legal Brief frames this decision as a block of their case. But what appears in retrospect is that the Staff Judge’s Advocate decided on 21^st November 1988 to pursue the Presidio case against LTC Dr Aquino based on the now discredited SFPD investigation and FBI interviews and documentation (CID Report, page 3); that coordination via the SJA occurred including on 15^th May 1989 (CID Report, page 113); and then ultimately that the SJA recommends that the CID formal investigation be terminated (CID Report, page 135). A plausible interpretation of this is that the SJA felt pressured to pursue LTC Dr Aquino and tasked the CID formal investigation team to collect the required evidentiary base for a successful prosecution of UCMJ alleged violations—and when this could not be reached—engaged in a politically motivated cover-up as part of its reputation management.

9. The CID Report of Investigation has a number of significant redactions. These include: a summary of what the CID formal investigation discovered (CID Report, pages 2-3); a summary of the posited case against LTC Dr Aquino and another person (CID Report, page 6, and detailed also on pages 10-11 and 17); a key disclosure made on 10^th April 1989 (CID Report, page 14); claims of ritual activities (CID Report, page 16); FBI, Letterman Army Medical Center medical records, and FBI, SFPD, and CID interviews (CID Report, pages 18-27, and 109-110); an informant’s diary (CID Report, pages 27, 48); redacted information likely about LTC Dr Aquino and the Temple of Set (CID Report, page 32); material claimed to have been recovered in the SFPD’s raid by Pamfiloff and Gallant of the Aquinos’ apartment, and FBI concerns about the kitchen (CID Report, page 48-50, 51-54); a defence of the CID’s use of United States v Lemere 16 M.J. 682 (AMCR 1983) as a UMCJ case precent based on Respondent / Defendant erroneously delivered (and self-incriminating testimony) in that case (CID Report, page 57, 58 using a “beyond reasonable doubt” standard of criminal justice); alleged victim-survivor interviews (CID Report, 58-61); CID interviews likely of Captain Adams-Thompson (CID Report, 61-64) now recast by the CID after LTC Dr Aquino’s counter-complaint as a harassed victim (this is potentially biased and self-referential / self-justifying reasoning: the CID is not going to undermine its own Applicant / Complainant); denials by LTC Dr Aquino of knowing any specific (likely Presidio CDC) “personnel” (CID Report, page 70) also then echoed in a separate CID interview by Lilith Aquino (CID Report, page 74); redacted interviews either in full or in selected portions from informants (CID Report, pages 77-80, 82-85, 86-87); claims of Presidio CDC related abuse from an informant (CID Report, 89)—noting on the same page that Linda Blood was the likely Applicant / Complainant to the San Francisco Police Department in 1982; heavily redacted allegations of ritual abuse / torture (CID Report, pages 92-93); selected and cherry-picked themes from Captain Adams-Thompson and another informant (CID Report, page 94); interviews and photo line-ups that are contaminated by Oprah Winfrey (and likely Geraldo Rivera) Satanism special coverage featuring LTC Dr Aquino as psychological anchoring, priming, and confirmation bias (CID Report, page 97); Presidio CDC employees (CID Report, page 98) that might have substantiated other alleged perpetrators like the originally accused Gary Hambright; and redacted details from CID interviews that span 15^th March to 21^st May 1989 (CID Report, pages 99-103); which then led the Staff Judge Advocate to title LTC Dr Aquino with probable cause on 15^th May 1989 (CID Report, page 113); the California Department of Corrections in Sacramento, California on 21^st March 1989 a then new high security prison which has subsequently housed Aryan Brotherhood members (CID Report, page 116); the refusal of parents to allow the CID to re-interview their children in order to corroborate victim-survivor allegations (CID Report, page 118); the CID formal investigation team’s review of provided interview transcripts received on 26^th January 1989 (CID Report, page 119); a likely CID noting that Captain Adams-Thompson had a dissolved marriage as provided exhibit 20 (CID Report, page 121); informant provided journal diaries from 13^th and 14^th December 1988 (CID Report, 122-123); a list of alleged contacts as part of CID data collection (CID Report, page 125); a CID initiated driver’s license check made on 4^th January 1989 (CID Report, page 127); and a list of Presidio CDC and Aquinos owned cars (CID Report, pages 128-129); and Assistant Attorney General / SFPD allegation and CID Report preparation, approval and signature block redactions (CID Report, page 135). There are other relevant redactions as well – as well as provided non-redacted material – that can be further analysed.

We can now reconstruct from the redaction patterns some of what actually likely occurred in the CID formal investigation as a black box.

1. LTC Dr Aquino was a publicly known High Priest in the Temple of Set (a Setian) and a former high ranking (Magister Caverni) member of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan prior to 21^st June 1975 (when LTC Dr Aquino assumed the initiatory perspective of a Magus and Uttered the Egyptian word Xeper or “to Become” in the Book of Coming Forth By Night, or what is known as the Santa Barbara Working).

\2. In the late 1970s, a narrative arose in United States police departments of criminogenic Satanism which grew during the 1980s and early 1990s Satanic Panic. This occurred both in US police departments (such as for the SFPD’s Sandi Gallant); in the media (such as Mae Brussell and Dan Rightmyer); and in some therapeutic counselling communities as well (such as the “recovered memories” movement). There has also been a Catholic influenced portrayal of Satanism—and of the Black Mass in particular—as being both anti-Catholic and blasphemous. The actual doctrinal innovations of the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, and other lawful or minority religions as a form of cultural transmission or knowledge diffusion can thus be mis-portrayed, marginalised, ignored, or weaponised as potential misinformation / disinformation – including the targeting of known high-profile and public individuals during periods of significant change and socio-economic stress.

3. The SFPD began a formal investigation in November 1986: Gary Pamfiloff and Sandi Gallant raided the Aquinos’ home on 12^th August 1987 (CID Report, page 3) which along with FBI interviews and documents informed the CID Staff Judge Advocate’s Office on 21^st November 1988 to initiate their own CID formal investigation and to title LTC Dr Aquino.

4. Despite this, the CID formal investigation team made a number of critical mistakes. It titled Lilith Aquino as a civilian who did not fall under the UMCJ’s legal jurisdiction. Its interviews and photo line-ups were potentially contaminated by the high-profile Geraldo Rivera and Oprah Winfrey Satanism specials, and by LTC Dr Aquino’s media profile and interviews as the Temple of Set’s then High Priest. The CID formal investigation team proceeded with a Satanic Panic ritual abuse dominant narrative, drawing on an anti-Catholic blasphemous and criminal Satanism stance, and supported by cherry-picked evidence, wilfully misinterpreted evidence provided from LTC Dr Aquino as the Respondent; citing and then just ignoring data collection and informant interviews that did not fit its above narrative; attempting to link LTC Dr Aquino to others; and shifting time windows around. There is both a clear narrative arc and a posited evidentiary base for the CID formal investigation team’s stance—which are redacted in the CID Report of Investigation, but which LTC Dr Aquino was able to reconstruct for his Extreme Prejudice book (2014), including much of the redacted medical evidence and interview material. In the absence of actual medical verification that abuse occurred – and of the CID’s inability to re-interview the alleged victim-survivors, the SJA found that the case could not actually be substantiated to the required “beyond reasonable doubt” criminal evidentiary standard, and recommended that the CID formal investigation be closed. Afterwards, SFPD / FBI (and possibly CID) interviews were strategically leaked or unlawfully disclosed to others, including Dan Rightmyer. In both the SFPD and the CID formal investigations there were depictions of LTC Dr Aquino (as there were also in the McMartin; the West Memphis Three; and the Genesis P-Orridge / Temple ov Psychick Youth cases) that were meant to portray him as deviant and unlawful that today would instead be viewed credibly as police / investigator bias against minorities—who are discriminated against. LTC Dr Aquino’s critics focus on him—and on the never disclosed interviews of alleged victim-survivors (which likely can’t ever be disclosed as sensitive material)—and do not address the now revealed other interview informants who picked apart the CID formal investigation team’s case logics and predetermined outcome (i.e. they pre-scoped, cherry-picked and then sought to stack the case against LTC Dr Aquino-with the Church of Satan era 1970 incident of the Wayne West facilitated Black Mass being able to facilitate the lineball nudge or edge / positive expectancy outcome of Conduct Unbecoming An Officer under the UMCJ). You simply are not under these specific circumstances as a Respondent ever going to get a fair and objective hearing or due process—because the very people who are formally investigating you are both incentivised and have their own biases, filters, values and worldviews (which we all have), and are going to reach (or make) conclusions that benefit them (John Nash’s equilibria in game theory, made famous in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, and also by Thomas Schelling’s compellance based work on coercive bargaining; escalatory brinkmanship; and the Chicken or Staghunt games).

5. When the trial Judge suppressed in Aquino v Stone the CID’s Report of Investigation this created strategic ambiguity that directly affected LTC Dr Aquino for the rest of his life – and Lilith Aquino and others as well. The released CID’s Report of Investigation now enables this to be independently and objectively evaluated—and for this strategic ambiguity to be more factually addressed. This in turn deals with longitudinal aspects of the Aquino v Electriciti.com, Diana Napolis, QAnon, and Pizzagate matters—irrespective of where you might stand on it, or your views on what contemporary lawful religious Satanism (in the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, or other organisations such as The Satanic Temple) either are—or are not (i.e. outgroup stereotypes are allowed to diffuse in society as fear conditioning based sociological propaganda that in specific circumstances can help to also facilitate persecutory witch-hunts—as in the Salem witch trials; Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible; Reginald Rose’s play 12 Angry Men on combatting what Irving Janis has called groupthink; and in the Radiohead song and film clip Burn The Witch).

6. During his subsequent investigation for his Extreme Prejudice book, LTC Dr Aquino discovered one final repercussion. The Presidio case Applicant / Complainant for the SPFD and CID – Captain Larry Adams-Thompson – was the stepfather of the alleged victim-survivor Kinsey (her mother was Michele Adams-Thompson). LTC Dr Aquino discovered that Kinsey had to sue her now blended family parents in order to gain control of a trust that was established for a US Army payout of sexual assault that the Thompsons wanted to control—and to deny Kinsey access to (LTC Dr Aquino, Extreme Prejudice, 2014, pages 494-500). This fits a well known pattern of high-control and coercive control (Evan Stark) oriented blended families in which the step-parent (in this case the Applicant / Complainant who was also a United States Army Chaplain—and thus both financially and religiously ideologically motivated) may facilitate a risk transfer based payout using a situation-based lottery or windfall mindset. Kinsey was successful in her 2007 appeal. LTC Dr Aquino’s critics have neither addressed this outcome; nor the well documented pattern evidence that occurs in blended families (this is why the evidentiary items 20 and 24 noted in the CID Report pages 130-131 are very important in a Smoking Gun Test qualitative process tracing context against Captain Adams-Thompson—and why they are not mentioned elsewhere in the CID Report but are in fact redacted in ways that can be identified via careful text analysis); nor the fact that whilst the appellate court Judge claims that Kinsey was sexually assaulted, he is careful not to name who actually did this (Extreme Prejudice, page 494) in the provided judgment opinion. I wish her the very best in life for what ordeals she has had to bravely endure as a victim-survivor.

7. The SJA ultimately found that it could not substantiate and pursue the CID formal investigation team’s case to the required criminal evidentiary standard of “beyond reasonable doubt”. But it was able to control in a siloed, compartmentalised way the CID’s formal investigation process—and to just ignore problems which by then had surfaced with the SFPD’s own formal investigation, which the Aquinos had successfully dealt with via a formal complaint. So when LTC Dr Aquino’s contract came up for renewal, the SJA claimed (and interview informant Linda Blood subsequently cited) that he was “processed out”. This led to Aquino v Stone as a wrongful termination / unlawful dismissal case in which the trial Judge suppressed the CID’s Report of Investigation.

Now you know.

Do your own research. Reach your own independent conclusions. You do not need to agree with me. In fact, you probably won’t—and I won’t be getting into lengthy correspondence or justification about this initial analysis of the CID Report of Investigation, either. It’s just an initial analysis of what inconsistencies arise for me. You are totally free to reach your own independent conclusions that may differ from me—use argumentation, logic, and Bayesian / process tracing informed evidentiary weights / belief updating / causal inferential logics.

LTC Dr Aquino might credibly be called the Patient Zero of the subsequent Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories. The end of his high-profile US Army military career would have certainly had significant operational, doctrinal development, and training and learning based impacts—resonant with today’s so-called cancel culture.

As my old Disinformation era boss Richard Metzger used to say when we got an email that critiqued or heavily disagreed with us:

“Thanks for dropping by.”

Stay well and take care.