Michael A. Aquino
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Lieutenant Colonel Michael A. Aquino Ph.D. | |
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 Lieutenant Colonel Aquino in military uniform | |
| Title | Ipsissimus |
| Other names | Ra-En-Set |
| Personal | |
| Born | Michael Angelo Aquino, Jr. October 16, 1946 |
| Died | November 1, 2019 (aged 73) |
| Cause of death | unknown |
| Religion | Temple of Set |
| Nationality | American |
| Home town | San Francisco, California |
| Spouse | Lilith Sinclair |
| Parents |
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| Alma mater | University of California Santa Barbara |
| Known for | Military officer, Author, Founder of the Temple of Set |
| Other names | Ra-En-Set |
| Military service | |
| Rank |  Lieutenant Colonel
Military career |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch |  PSYOP |
| Service years | 1968–2006 |
| Unit | |
| Conflict | Vietnam War |
| Awards | List of awards
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| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Temple of Set |
| Period in office |
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| Successor | James Fitzsimmons (2013) |
| Post | Ipsissimus (6th degree) |
| Website | xeper |
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Dr. Michael Angelo Aquino (born October 16, 1946) Baron of Rachane, FSA Scot, is a retired American Army officer, academic and occultist.[1] Aquino was a career officer with the US army specializing in psychological warfare, serving in the Vietnam War where he came to the rank of Lieutenant colonel.
When he returned from Vietnam the army stationed him in Kentucky and there he became a priest within the Church of Satan, but eventually became disenchanted with the leadership of Anton LaVey, and in 1975 he split from the Church of Satan and established a church of his own known as the Temple of Set.
Background[edit]
Michael Aquino was born to affluent parents in San Francisco, California. He attended high school Santa Barbara and graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1968 with a B.A. in political science. Following his deployment in Vietnam he earned his M.A. in 1976, and in 1980 Aquino was awarded a Ph.D. in political science.
He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1962, to March 1, 1963, and earned the rank of lieutenant colonel. As a young officer, Aquino served two years in Vietnam, rising from platoon leader to troop commander.[2] In 1980 Aquino, then Major serving as Research and Analysis team leader at 7th PSYOP Group in San Francisco with then-PSYOP analyst Paul E. Vallely co-authored a paper concerning the use of psychological operations entitled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory[3] which focused on the application of the 4th generation of warfare to an enemy population.
From 1980 to 1986 Aquino worked as an adjunct professor of political science at Golden Gate University. The various scandals surrounding him and his career became too much of a burden and in the 2000s he retired from public life and turned over the operations of the Temple of Set to Don Webb, and he lived in semi-retirement until his death in 2019. Aquino's cause of death is unknown, though the obituary published on the Temple of Set website[4] notes that he had been "experiencing declining health for several years".
Controversies[edit]
He has been implicated in the Presidio child abuse case of the 1980s[5][6][7][8] and the Franklin scandal; accusations that he fervently denied throughout the rest of his life, framing the day-care child abuse cases of the 80s as "witch hunts".[9][10] At the height of the "Satanic Panic" Aquino became the preeminent spokesperson for modern-day satanism, and made several controversial appearances on daytime talkshows such as Oprah! and The Arsenio Hall Show.
No charges were ultimately laid against Aquino by the U.S. Army, and the SFPD discontinued their investigation into Michael and Lilith Aquino (in regard to the Presidio case) in 1988. In 1991 Aquino filed a suit against United States Secretary of the Army Michael P.W. Stone to compel the army to amend the investigative report in order to strike both his and his wife's names from the record. While the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command deleted Mrs. Aquino's name entirely, on the ground that the identifications of her by the children interviewed were inadequate, it did not delete LTC Aquino's name, and all the child-abuse charges remained, because "the evidence of alibi offered by LTC Aquino [was] not persuasive."[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Interview with Lt Colonel Michael Aquino — Satanist & Psychological Warfare Specialist » The Event Chronicle". 16 September 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ↑ "Lt. Colonel Dr. Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D. – April 16th 2015 – Dr. J Radio Live". 20 September 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23.
- ↑ ""Major Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D. and Paul Valley: Mind War – 1980"". 22 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-09-23.
- ↑ "Michael A. Aquino". xeper.org.
- ↑ Aquino, Michael (June 13, 2014). Extreme Prejudice: The Presidio "Satanic Abuse" Scam. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1500159245. Search this book on
- ↑ https://apnews.com/b6377fb5aceb98a9b0fe99ab978213cc saved at Archive.org
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-11-mn-846-story.html saved at Archive.org
- ↑ https://educate-yourself.org/cn/The-Pedophocracy-Part-III-Dave-McGowan-aug2001.shtml
- ↑ https://konformist.com/2001/aquino.htm saved at Archive.org
- ↑ https://xeper.org/maquino/nm/PSFSummary.pdf saved at Archive.org
- ↑ "Aquino v. Stone, 957 F.2d 139 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com.
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