Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft

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• CIA issues non-denial to Rep. Ryan on MK-ULTRA whole source

  In so far as our records reflect the names of the participants, there is nothing to indicate that either was in any way involved in the proj…

• Congressman Leo Ryan assassinated in Guyana whole source

  A month to the day after he received his non-denial denial from the CIA, Congressman Ryan was dead on the ground at Port Kaituma, Guyana

• Bob Houston killed after leaving Peoples Temple whole source

  his mangled body was found the next day on the tracks

• Jim Jones moves Temple funds to overseas banks whole source

  It was in that same year of 1976 that Jones began to expatriate the Temple funds to banks in Panama and Switzerland

• Jack Sarfatti receives mysterious phone calls claiming to be from spacecraft whole source

  Sarfatti had been getting calls from someone speaking in a strange, metallic voice stating that it was the voice of a computer aboard a spac…

• Puharich and Ira Einhorn meet during political turmoil whole source

  In 1968, when the political situation in the United States was in turmoil, visionaries assassinated, students rioting, and Nixon cutting sec…

• Jack Sarfatti develops contacts with scientists at Stanford Research Institute whole source

  in 1973 he began to develop contacts with other, like-minded, scientists through the Stanford Research Institute

• Mark David Chapman's summer adventure in Florida whole source

  It was the summer of 1969. Charles Manson was ordering the Tate and La Bianca killings. Jim Jones was ranting and ramping up in Ukiah, Calif…

• Mark David Chapman attends religious retreat with spiritual turning point whole source

  On October 25, 1970 Mark David Chapman had a satori of sorts. He had gone to a weekend religious retreat at the urging of a friend

• Jimi Hendrix found dead in London whole source

  on September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead of a drug overdose in the London apartment of his German girlfriend, Monika Danneman

• Mark David Chapman experiences religious conversion in Florida whole source

  when I realized that my buddies had gone through my wallet, feeling the lowest I had ever felt. I felt like nobody. Like nothing

• Chapman applies for YMCA ICCP/Abroad placement, chooses Beirut whole source

  This was in February 1975. As British researcher Fenton Bresler reveals, however, one got to choose where one was stationed

• Taxi Driver released in theaters whole source

  a film that was released in 1976 to much critical acclaim

• Arthur Bremer shoots George Wallace whole source

  Bremer had attempted his assassination of Wallace on May 15, 1972

• Goldberg and Tripp pursue Monica Lewinsky scandal under Starr investigation whole source

  In 1992, she dusted off these skills and once again began seeking sexual scandal in an effort to defeat another Democratic contender

• Moscone and Harvey Milk assassinated in San Francisco whole source

  on November 27, 1978 he lost it to a bullet

• Al and Deanna Mertle murdered in California whole source

  Al and Deanna Mertle—who had published a book about their Jonestown experience, replete with the sexual escapades and physical and mental to…

• Pat Robertson negotiates diamond deal with Mobutu whole source

  in 1992, the ADC entered into negotiations with the Zairean government of President Mobutu for the development of the diamond trade

• Skull and Bones founded at Yale whole source

  In 1833, the year after Skull & Bones was founded, another secret society was formed

• Psi Upsilon founded at Union College whole source

  In 1833, the year after Skull & Bones was founded, another secret society was formed, this time at Union College in New York. This one was c…

• Psi Upsilon Beta chapter founded at Yale whole source

  Its second, or Beta, chapter was founded at Yale University in 1840 and became known as The Fence Club in 1934

• Great Schism splits Eastern and Western churches whole source

  The split between the Eastern Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic Church took place on July 16, 1054

• Fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire whole source

  The Byzantine Empire fell to Sultan Mohammed II in 1453

• Knights Templar suppressed whole source

  the Revolt was the work of the Knights Templar, in hiding since 1307

• Christian Rosenkreutz Born whole source

  Christian Rosenkreutz was born in 1378, and lived to be 106 years old

• Fama Fraternitatis published whole source

  Published in 1614—but with manuscript copies in evidence as early as 1611—the Fama Fraternitatis was the announcement of the existence of a…

• Tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz Opened whole source

  Thus, we can conclude that the Tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz was opened in the year 1604

• Aleister Crowley dies whole source

  after the death of Crowley in 1947, the closure of the lodge in 1953

• Jack Parsons Communicates with Crowley whole source

  had been in direct communication with Alistair Crowley in the 1940s when Parsons was being considered for a leadership position with the Lod…

• Manson sends Bruce Davis to London whole source

  Bruce Davis had been sent to London by Charles Manson in November 1968

• Davis Returns from London whole source

  Davis returned from London on April 25, 1969, and then flew to London again in November that same year

• Davis Reappears at Spahn Ranch whole source

  He reappeared in February 1970 at the Spahn Ranch and then disappeared again when he was indicted for the Gary Hinman murder

• Davis Turns Himself In whole source

  only to reappear in Los Angeles in December 1970, when he turned himself in to authorities

• Anthony Gibbons imprisoned at Brayton ranch whole source

  six-year-old Anthony Gibbons, who had been imprisoned inside a packing crate on May 23 and had yet to be released a full two months later

• Tet Offensive launched in Vietnam whole source

  In January, the Tet Offensive showed America that the war in Vietnam was nowhere near over

• Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. whole source

  By April, Martin Luther King had been assassinated, and by June so had Robert F. Kennedy

• Robert Kennedy assassinated on the campaign trail whole source

  By April, Martin Luther King had been assassinated, and by June so had Robert F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon elected President whole source

  And in November, Richard M. Nixon was elected President of the United States

• Nixon orders bombing of Cambodia whole source

  And in March, less than two months after his inauguration, President Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia

• Apollo 11 Moon landing whole source

  in July of 1969—a bare two weeks before the Tate killings—American astronauts had set foot on the Moon

• Beatles release the White Album whole source

  The Beatles had come out with the White Album in 1968 (on November 22, the fifth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy)

• Disneyland's Haunted Mansion opens whole source

  That same day, Disneyland opened their Haunted House ride

• Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Anniversary whole source

  it was four-thirty in the afternoon of the same day, the twenty-fourth anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki

• Spahn Ranch raided, Manson arrested whole source

  When the Spahn Ranch was raided—seven days later on August 16, 1969—and Manson arrested on auto-theft charges

• Robert Mullen and Company founded whole source

  The Mullen Company itself had been a front for the CIA since its inception in 1959

• Gary school desegregation strike whole source

  My father had been prominent in something called the Gary School Strike in the fall of 1945

• Taxi Driver released in theaters whole source

  It is not known whether Chapman ever saw Taxi Driver, a film that was released in 1976 to much critical acclaim

• Arthur Bremer shoots George Wallace whole source

  Bremer had attempted his assassination of Wallace on May 15, 1972

• Patty Hearst kidnapped by the SLA whole source

  The SLA was a bizarre revolutionary militant group, whose claim to fame was the kidnapping of publishing heiress Patty Hearst on February 4,…

• SLA shootout with Los Angeles police whole source

  The May 17, 1974 attack was criticized by some members of the press

• SLA murders Marcus Foster whole source

  They claimed responsibility for the murder of Dr. Marcus Foster—Superintendent of the Oakland school system—in 1973

• Jim Jones buys Geary Street synagogue whole source

  He bought an old synagogue on Geary Street in late 1972, and moved his operational headquarters there in 1975

• Jim Jones Moves Headquarters whole source

  He bought an old synagogue on Geary Street in late 1972, and moved his operational headquarters there in 1975

• Ronald Reagan becomes U.S. president whole source

  interference that would be escalated once Reagan became President in 1981

• Clinton pardons Patty Hearst whole source

  In January 2001 she was pardoned by President Clinton as one of his last official acts as President