Despite the conventional profile of serial killers as lone nuts driven solely by their own internal demons, there is a compelling case to be made that many of the most prominent serial killers are intelligence assets. Countless serial killers appear to be subjects of mind control programs like those found in Project MKUltra, exhibiting telltale qualities such as early childhood abuse, dissociative disorders, pedophilia, and connections to known or suspected intelligence fronts (like the military, prisons, mental hospitals, and cults). Many of these murders, far from being random killings, are actually targeted assassinations or clean-up operations on behalf of various criminal enterprises (like murder-for-hire, drug trafficking, or sex rings), which the killers are often associated with. Other murders have no political motive, but fit the profile of Satanic cult killings or a domestic version of the Phoenix Program aimed at terrorizing the public into submission. While this is no doubt a controversial position to take on serial killers, there is often an astounding number of common elements in serial killer cases pointing to some kind of government / intelligence involvement. The “serial killer” presented to the public is often a fall-guy taking responsibility for group actions or (on rarer occasions) an entirely innocent patsy.

Programmed to Kill subjects

Building off the research of Mae Brussell, Maury Terry, and Dave Emory, Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan was the first major work to explore the idea of mind-controlled serial killers. He chronicled some of the most famous serial killers and grouped them into thematic categories. Below is the evidence of official government complicity and/or mind control for the serial killers profiled in McGowan’s book:

Prostitution rings

• Marc Dutroux – the head of a Belgian child kidnapping ring with elite clients that was partially exposed in the Dutroux affair
• Emile Louis – apparently framed for the murders of women in the French city of Auxerre who were actually killed by a group of high-ranking local men
• Patrice Alegre – leader of a drug and prostitution network (that involved minors) with elite clients in the French city of Toulouse
• Wayne Williams – the designated patsy for the Atlanta child murders, who was involved in the pedophile and Satanic cult operations as a photographer but not the murders, Williams showed tentative signs of being under mind control; a prosecution witness testified under cross examination that he had a “split personality”; Williams’ journal from 1992 mentioned he received CIA training at age 18 from a paramilitary camp near Atlanta, and an extremely likely suspect for this training would have been Mitch WerBell III

Mexican cult killers

Archetypal lone nuts

Others who are suspected of being in this group, but with less substantial evidence, include:

• “Monster of Florence” – at various times, these killings have been linked to a Satanic cult led by the wealthy and powerful or Operation Gladio
• Richard Speck – him single-handedly subduing six women, then cutting a sheet into strips and tying them up one by one while the rest did nothing to resist, is highly implausible, but not totally impossible; until his alibi for the night of the murders is confirmed definitively, it can’t be ruled out that Speck was guilty all by himself, even though a fair amount of compelling evidence points to him being a fall-guy
• Charles Whitman – the “Texas Tower Sniper” behind a mass shooting at the University of Texas in Austin; his note that he left the night before, when he killed his wife and mother, revealed he was facing an urge (of unknown origin) to kill, though later reports would indicate he had a brain tumor

Northern California

Superstars

Next generation

Collectors

Patsies and assassins

Other likely subjects

After Programmed to Kill was published, researchers have discovered other serial killers who fit the same profile described in McGowan’s book:

• Ed Gein
• Patrick Kearney (the Freeway Killer)
• Gerard John Schaefer Jr.
• Kenneth McKenna a.k.a. “Mad Dog”
• Robert Charles Browne
• Philip Arthur Thompson
• Dean Corll
• Randy Kraft (the Scorecard Killer and the Freeway Killer)
• Thomas Creech
• Gary Addison Taylor
• Bernard Hunwick
• Golden State Killer (i.e. the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker)
• Oakland County Child Killer, abbv. “OCCK”
• Rodney Alcala (the Dating Game Killer)
• William Bonin (the Freeway Killer)
• Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris (the Toolbox Killers)
• Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer)
• Andre Rand (the “Cropsey” killer)
• Larry Eyler (the Highway Murderer)
• John Joubert – abductor and murderer of boys in Maine and Nebraska; radar technician at Offutt AFB, which is a key center for government mind control programs and the Franklin child sex ring; made possibly ritualistic carvings on both of his Nebraska victims
• David Parker Ray (the Toy Box Killer)
• Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer)
• Robert Pickton
• Joel Rifkin
• Aileen Wuornos
• Derrick Todd Lee
• Long Island Serial Killer
• Miranda Barbour (the Craigslist Killer)

References

External links

Books and resources

• The Family by Ed Sanders (1971) – deleted Ch.5 on the Process Church, deleted Ch.10 on the Solar Lodge of the O.T.O.
• The Ultimate Evil by Maury Terry (1989)
• The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam & Beyond by Maury Terry (1999)
• Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan (2004) – based on his earlier series; 2014 interview that gives his mother’s affirmation of McMartin
• Sinister Forces—The Nine: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (2005)
• Sinister Forces—A Warm Gun: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (2005)
• Sinister Forces—The Manson Secret: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda (2006)
• Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by Dave McGowan (2014)
• Programmed To Kill/Satanic Cover-Up series on Youtube by LOLFIELDANDLOVE
  • Ed Opperman interview in 2017 with the person who runs the channel

Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole

• Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story by Max Call (1985)
• Third Coast, “The Life and Deaths of Henry Lee Lucas” by Nan Cuba, 1985/07
• Attorney General of Texas (Jim Mattox), “LUCAS REPORT”, 1986/04
• The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas by Mike Cox (1991)
• Henry Lee Lucas: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by Joel Norris (1991)
• They Call Me Sister Clemmie: The Henry Lee Lucas Story by Clementine Schroeder (1993)
• Crime Library, “Henry Lee Lucas: Deadly Drifter” by Patrick Bellamy: chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, …, 17
  • “[After killing his mother] Henry was later picked up by police in Toledo, Ohio and returned to Michigan and charged with second-degree murder. Despite assuring police that he had acted in self-defence, he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20-40 years in the State Prison of Southern Michigan.”
  • “Henry’s would later describe his time in South Michigan as a “nightmare that would not end.” Almost from the time he was imprisoned, he complained of hearing “voices” in his head that taunted him day and night. The prison’s psychologists interviewed him in an attempt to settle him down. Lucas talked freely about the voices inside his head, including his mother’s. “She wanted me to commit suicide for what I done to her,” he told them. He blamed his destructive and undisciplined behaviour on her influence. Weeks later, Henry wrote a letter to his sister telling her that he couldn’t stand it any more and was going to kill himself.Some time later he made good on his threats and slashed his wrists and stomach with a razor blade on two separate occasions. Jail staff thwarted both attempts and he was transferred to Iona State Mental hospital for treatment. What followed were four-and-a-half years of drug and shock therapy, both of which only succeeded in making Henry meaner and more prone to violence. At one stage he told the doctors that if he were released he would definitely kill again.” – it is actually Ionia State Hospital
  • “After a brief stop over in Virginia, to visit his half-brother Harry Waugh, Lucas arrived at his destination. While in Shreveport, Henry was offered the job of driving a car to Los Angeles but declined after he became convinced that he would be working for the Mafia. […]”
  • “What disturbed the investigators most was that Lucas told the story without any emotion or remorse, as though he were describing an incident that someone else was responsible for.”
• Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton entry for Lucas
• Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton entry for Toole
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram (from Associated Press), “Lucas’ murder convictions”, 1998/06/16
• The Pylon, “True Crime Blacksburg: The Henry Lee Lucas Story”, 2016/10/31 – cross-checks claims in Max Call’s book
• Robert Kenner, The Confession Killer, 2019
• FBI documents on Henry Lee Lucas
• Lucas task force documents sent by Bob Prince in 2021
• Contemporaneous news articles
  • UPI, “A man charged in the death of an 80-year-old…”, 1983/06/21
  • Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Law officers to pool knowledge on Lucas”, 1983/09/28
  • New York Times, “2 SUSPECTS’ STORIES OF KILLINGS CULLED”, 1983/11/04
  • Austin American-Statesman, “Toole recounts ‘routine’ of killings”, 1983/12/11
  • UPI, “Sheriff Jim Boutwell, under questioning by defense attorneys, today…”, 1984/04/04
  • Washington Post, “The Dark Journey of Henry Lucas”, 1984/10/10
  • Shreveport Journal, “Henry Lee Lucas / The life and travels of a vagabond killer”, 1985/01/28
  • Chicago Tribune, “SERIAL KILLER RECOUNTS GRISLY TRAIL ACROSS U.S.”, 1985/03/24
  • Los Angeles Times, “Attorney General Linked Him to Killings : Lucas Likely Innocent in 2 State Deaths”, 1985/04/14 – murders in Riverside County CA
  • Washington Post, “The Killer Who Recanted”, 1985/04/15
  • Texas Monthly, “The Henry Lee Lucas Show”, 1985/06 – on p.116: “Lucas recently told a radio evangelist that he had been pressured to recant his confessions. Does that mean the body count is back up to 360? Stay tuned.”
  • D Magazine, “THE TWO FACES OF HENRY LEE LUCAS” by Nan Cuba and Dr. Joel Norris, 1985/10: “For a year and a half Lucas and many law enforcement officials claimed he was the most prodigious killer in history, with as many as 3,000* victims. Then Dallas Times Herald reporter Hugh Aynesworth cried hoax, Lucas decided he didn’t want to be put to death by the state and Attorney General Jim Mattox helped start a grand jury investigation in McLennan County. During those days, Lucas told reporters, “I didn’t kill nobody excepting Mom,” but privately he said that he suspected he had been captured by a death cult and that McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell and others were forcing him to deny the truth.”
  • UPI, “Lucas’s ‘last trial’ opens in El Paso”, 1986/09/07
  • Deseret News, “DID SERIAL KILLER LIE ABOUT 600 SLAYINGS?”, 1990/05/17
  • Serial Killer Magazine page with excerpts from Lucas’s trials
• Law enforcement documents
  • Texas Rangers case synopses
    • …
    • Report no. 18
    • …
  • California Department of Justice report published 1984/09/10 on their investigation of Henry Lee Lucas
• Early life of Lucas
  • From p.257 of Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths and Mass Murderers by Christopher Berry-Dee, it’s said that Lucas was incarcerated at Chillicothe prison in Ohio, just as Charles Manson was and Thomas Creech later would be: “On May 28, 1956, with the very real chance of being brought down by dogs, or a bullet in the back, Lucas and a fellow convict escaped from an outside road repair detail. They stole a car and sped off for Ohio. When they ran out of gas, they stole another vehicle and crossed the state line into Michigan. Interstate flight and auto theft across a State line are federal offences, and State Troopers arrested them in Toledo in July, after which, Henry started a 13-month term at the Ohio Federal State Reformatory at Chillicothe. After his federal term had expired, he was returned in shackles to the Virginia State Penitentiary to complete his original sentence. He was back on the streets in September 1959.”
• Mental institutions that Lucas had stayed in
  • UPI, “A man charged in the death of an 80-year-old…”, 1983/06/21: “According to the weapons indictment, Lucas was convicted in March 1960 of stabbing his mother to death in Lenawee County, Mich. McGaugaty said Lucas, who received a 20-years sentence for the murder of his mother, spent part of his sentence in a Michigan mental institution before he was returned to prison and released in 1975. […] Lucas, who has a fifth grade education, said he had been held in Ionia Michicagn State Hospital for the criminally insane for six years. He also said he spent three weeks in a Princeton, W. Va. mental institution. ‘They turned me lose and told me to go back home. They said, ‘you are all right,” he said.”
  • Ionia State Hospital
    • As first observed by Jimmy Falun Gong of the Programmed to Chill podcast, an MKUltra subproject was run on “sexual psychopaths” at Ionia, possibly overlapping the time that Lucas was there
    • Detroit Free Press, “CIA Drug Subjects At Ionia Hunted”, 1977/08/06 (OCR): “The CIA is attempting to locate 142 mental patients from the former Ionia State Hospital who were the subjects of experimentation with LSD and marijuana derivatives in a CIA-sponsored program. The experiments, revealed in documents released this week by the CIA, were conducted from 1957 to 1960 on patients classified as sexual psychopaths under a now-repealed law. Patients at the hospital never were told of the experiments, in which the subjects were given the drugs while being interrogated by doctors. “We’re trying to locate the victims to inform them and advise them of their rights and possibly make restitution,” a CIA spokesman said Friday. All those judged criminally insane were once sent to the Ionia State Hospital, which was run by the Department of Corrections. The program under which sexual psychopaths were committed without trial ended in the late 1960s, and the hospital was closed in 1975. One of the drug program researchers, Dr. John G. Haarer, said Friday that the CIA had not told him it was about to release information on the experiments. Dr. Haarer, now a general practitioner in Sarasota, Fla., said the victims of the experiments were committed and selected “through legal channels.” He identified Dr. Perry Robertson, now deceased, as the chief researcher. […] RECORDS OF the Department of Mental Health show that Haarer was medical superintendent of the hospital during two years when the experiments were conducted. CIA documents indicate that subjects were selected from those committed through the Detroit Recorder’s Court psychiatric clinic and that some state judges may have been informed of the program.”
    • Note that Lucas claimed to have been doing marijuana and LSD, the same drugs used in the Ionia experiments, while staying at the Hobbs NM home of William Gray (which was likely a safehouse for Hand of Death members per Lucas’s description)
  • Mental hospital in Princeton WV or Bluefield WV
    • Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Lucas tale is gory whodunit on grand scale”, 1985/08/25 (pages 1, 15): “JOHN NOYES JR., a student at Jackson State University, was vacuuming his car on the morning of March 25, 1979, at a carwash alongside Interstate 20 in Jackson, Miss. He was shot to death, apparently by someone traveling the interstate […] now the case is off the cleared list — as it turns out Lucas was been in a Bluefield, W.Va., mental hospital when the killing took place.”
• Early life of Toole
  • Sondra London, “The Devil’s Child”, 1991
  • Ted Drake album of drawings and letters sent by Ottis Toole from Florida State Prison
• Hand of Death cult allegations
  • From p.295-296 of The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh: Book Two: Finding the Victim by Arthur Jay Harris (2016): “[…] Further, Lucas and Toole apparently had told others at the time of doing Satanic things in South Florida. In 1996, Phil Mundy asked Frieda and Frank’s older sister Sarah Patterson if she knew whether Ottis had taken trips to Dade or Broward. Yes, she said, “They was talking about that they was having some worshipping thing, devil worshipping groups down in that area.” She said Lucas spoke about it too.”
  • Hollywood Police Department interview of Henry Lee Lucas on 1983/12/06 (File 40 of Vol. VIII of the Florida state attorney’s Adam Walsh case file)
    • “Q. Who‘s Jack Smart?A. He’s one of my friends out there in California which I knowed before. I got in touch with him and we went from there, from Beaumont down into Henley and he give us an apartment down there at his house.Q. What part of California is that?

      A. Uh I guess you’d have to say it’s next to Riverside, California. It’s in the Riverside area.

      Q. How old a guy is Jack Smart?

      A. He’s about fifty I imagine, somewhere around fifty.

      Q. What kind of business is he in?

      A. He has a part-time antique place there, he sells antiques and stuff. He’s one of the members of the cult up there and I lived out there with him until, I went there in February and lived with him until about the last of May.

      Q. February of ’82?

      A. ’82 yea. I lived with him up until about May of, last of May of ’82, so he asked me come out here and take care of his mother-in-law for him cause she was givin him quite a bit of trouble and stuff like that. Well he actually sent me out here to kill her was what he was doin.” (p.13-14)

    • “Q. Who would you meet in Miami? (inaudible)A. Ah Don Meredith down there is one of the guys meeting.Q. Where does he live?

      A. He lives two places. He lives in ah, out in Shrevesport, Louisiana and he lives in Miami, Florida. Which one is his real residence I don’t know. I know he’s got a house out here in Shrevesport, Louisiana, but ah…

      Q. How old is Don Meredith?

      A. The last time I saw him he’s about 53. That’s the last time I saw him.

      Q. How long ago would that have been?

      A. May of ’81.

      Q. What does he do for a living?

      A. He runs an antique place, he runs hot car, ah in other words he runs hot cars cross country, he has people go pick cars up and run ’em into California for him and they sell ’em into Mexico. That’s a pretty good business as far as stealing cars.

      Q. He’s also affiliated with the cult though?

      A. Yeah he’s ah, he’s the head ah, ah, I guess you call him. He’s the one there wears the robe with the hands.

      Q. That cult, that’s called the Hands of Death?

      A. Yeah it’s the Hands of the Devil is what it is. Everybody that’s in the organization just calls it the Hands of Death.” (p.29-30)

    • “A. I’ve had Colorado tell me that he’s [Toole] told that he’s killed this one out there and that one out there. He’s – it’s possible, I mean he’s mentioned about five here and using other passports and stuff and using different names on there.Q. Would he ever fly?A. I’ve never known him to fly. I’ve known him to travel by car or a train but I haven’t known him to fly. He said he’s flown all over ah, from what he’s told me on the tape up there.” (p.66)
    • “A. Oh yeah we’ve picked ’em up out of shopping centers too. Ah you know stores. I mean it just ain’t a few of ’em, there’s quite a few kids cross country, you figure me and OTTIS have been in ah, well together and alone we’ve been in 36 states, ah we’ve been in Canada, we’ve been in Alaska and we’ve been in Switzerland, we’ve been in Old Mexico, ah there’s alot of places there we’ve had kids and ah well he can’t say, unless he’s got the mixed up with them times why it wasn’t possible.” (p.83)
  • FD-302 of the 1984/03/27 FBI interview of Ottis Toole about the cult (unredacted version in File 4 of Vol. IX of the Florida state attorney’s Adam Walsh case file)
  • Brownsville Herald, “Killer Lucas claims he’s member of a death cult”, 1984/04/23: “Skeptical investigators are checking mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas’s claim that he killed some of his victims because he belonged to a cult that required human sacrifice. In an interview published in Sunday’s editions of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the 47-year-old drifter, who contends he killed 360 people, said the organization — called “The Hands of Death” — has hundreds of members roaming the country. “I belonged to a cult,” Lucas said. “It was a devil’s organization. For initiation you would have to go out and kill a person.” […] Sister Clemmie, a Catholic lay worker who asked that her last name not be used, said she had heard from two prisoners in the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown about the cult before she met Lucas. She said in both cases, the prisoners told her they could not convert to Christianity because they feared reprisals from the cult. […] [Lucas] said the cult killed on contract and performed ritual crucifixions of animals and humans. “They were supposed to bring the devil back to life,” Lucas said. Lucas said he was first approached by the cult in Shreveport, La., after learning that a “companion” already belonged, and later joined the cult after a failed attempt to reunite with his family. Lucas did not name his companion, but said he “participated in it worse than I did. He would eat human flesh and drink human blood.” However, Lucas was known to have traveled with Ottis Elwood Toole, who was scheduled to go on trial today in Jacksonville, Fla., on homicide charges, and who investigators said has also mentioned a cult. Boutwell said Toole has told authorities of eating human flesh on more than one occasion. Texas Ranger Sgt. Bob Prince, who is involved in the investigation, said authorities were skeptical of the cult claims but were investigating nonetheless.”
  • Shreveport Journal, “‘Hands of Death’: Organized satanic killers of 8,000? Or the product of a vivid imagination?”, 1984/04/27: “Most local lawmen say they have no reason to believe such an organization exists and generally discount the Lucas account. But a federal agent formerly stationed in Shreveport says the FBI is investigating claims the “Hands of Death” may be responsible for as many as 8,000 homicides in the United States. The agent, who demanded strict anonymity in return for his comments, said the agency was investigating reports of the cult’s activities. But he admitted, “The whole thing could turn out to be a total hoax.” […] Lucas told Gail Reeves, a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that he was approached by a man while he was waiting to cross a bridge in Shreveport and was asked to join the cult. “He told me he had been ‘screened’ by the cult, that Ottis was already a member and that they had been watching him (Lucas).” […] Bossier Parish lawmen have said Lucas is a “solid suspect” in the January 1981 slaying of a still unidentified girl whose body was found in north Bossier Parish, and Bossier City police “have not ruled out” Lucas and/or Toole as possible suspects in several killings. […] The 36-year-old Toole is scheduled to go on trial Monday for the arson-murder of a man in Florida. In October 1983, Toole reportedly told Calcasieu Parish sheriff’s deputies interviewing him in connection with the stabbing death of Katherine Corbello Martin that he was a member of a satanic cult that had trained with other cult members in the Florida Everglades. Both Lucas and Toole have been indicted in the slaying of 19-year-old Northeast Louisiana co-ed Kathy Whorton of Bastrop. In addition to the Corbello Martin slaying, Toole has been charged in Ouachita Parish with the slaying of 17-year-old Sherry Alford of Swartz. Bossier Parish Chief Deputy Larry Deen said investigators had turned up no evidence of the cult other than in Lucas and Toole’s statements. Shreveport Chief of Detectives Maj. Robert Merolla said, “We investigated the story and we could find no evidence of the cult here.””
  • Austin American-Statesman, “Lucas can’t promise he won’t kill again”, 1984/05/01 (pages 1, 7): “He told of a devil-worshiping Cult that he said inspired him to commit many of his murders, […] He says the cult is called the Hands of Death and has “hundreds” of members across the United States. He says the cult has met in the Everglades and on beaches. He says it kills animals and humans in order to reincarnate the devil. He said cult members wear tattoos: a scorpion for kidnappers, a snake for members who have done crucifixions, and a flame, cross and hand design for “pure killers.” LUCAS SAID he once had all three types of tattoos on his hand, but they have since worn off. Rangers said authorities are investigating Lucas’ statements about the cult, but declined to say whether they have found evidence to verify it exists.”
  • FD-302 of the 1984/05/14 FBI interview of Henry Lee Lucas about the cult (unredacted version in File 4 of Vol. IX of the Florida state attorney’s Adam Walsh case file)
    • p.2: “LUCAS recalled that the warehouse was in the warehouse district of Miami and could be found by following the road which goes to the pier area of Miami. At a point where this road crosses a beach, the warehouse could be found by following the beach south to the third warehouse on the right-hand side. LUCAS stated that there are two roads going to the pier area in Miami, one going to an island and the other not going to an island. LUCAS stated that the road which does not go to an island is the road that crosses the beach described above. LUCAS described the warehouse as an old one which stores different types of equipment to be shipped over seas. LUCAS said that some stolen merchandise is also handled by METRIC. LUCAS added that he believes that the road going to the pier area that he described above is the first road that crosses the Everglades once you arrive in Miami but that it should be followed east towards the ocean.”
    • p.4: “LUCAS advised that he was given specific assignments by METRIC on behalf of the cult on occasion. Once TOOLE called LUCAS from San Antonio, Texas and asked LUCAS to travel from Maryland to San Antonio since he had an assignment to kill two millionaires in Bastrop, Texas. LUCAS traveled to San Antonio and met TOOLE and they traveled to the home of the two millionaires. LUCAS said that he waited outside while TOOLE killed the man and his wife after which they loaded their bodies in a van and LUCAS and TOOLE drove to Reno, Nevada where they dumped the bodies in the desert nearby. LUCAS advised that an unknown lady in Houston, Texas had hired the “Hands of Death” to commit the killings and the assignment had been given to TOOLE. LUCAS said that he and TOOLE got $5,000 each for the murder. LUCAS used his $5,000 to purchase a travel trailer.”
      • Evidently refers to the 1976/01/27 disappearance of John Whatley and Faye Whatley
    • p.5: “LUCAS also stated that he received an assignment once from METRIC to kill President CARTER. This assignment was given in 1979 and LUCAS followed CARTER to several different locations in Washington, D.C. and once to Palm Springs, California but did not kill CARTER although he had several opportunities to shoot him. LUCAS understood that he was given the assignment because of various laws that were being passed that the “Hands of Death” organization did not want passed.”
      • See the alleged May 5, 1979 plot to assassinate Jimmy Carter during a speech in Los Angeles, attested to by a drifter named Raymond Lee Harvey who implicated three Latino men, one of whom went by “Julio” but turned out to be an illegal Mexican immigrant named Osvaldo Espinoza Ortiz and another one of whom indeed rented a hotel at the claimed location under the claimed name of Umberto Camacho
        • Cincinnati Enquirer, “Sanity Test Given To Suspect Held In Carter Death Plot”, 1979/05/17: “A court-appointed psychiatrist has examined Raymond L. Harvey to determine whether the former mental patient is competent to stand trial on charges of scheming to kill President Carter 11 days ago. Federal authorities would not disclose results of the examination by Dr. Seymour Pollack, but they must choose between indicting Harvey by today, proceeding with a preliminary hearing or dismissing charges against him. The 35-year-old transient, who claims to have spent half his life in mental institutions and attempted suicide 10 to 12 times, was arrested holding a starter’s pistol and 70 rounds of blank ammunition just before the President was to speak at a Cinco de Mayo gathering here. Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Etra requested appointment of Pollack after Harvey told the Federal Bureau of Investigation of his mental history.”
        • Miami Herald, “Long Probe Into Plot To Assassinate Carter Ends With 2 Released”, 1979/05/31: “Harvey, 35, a native of Ohio who was declared mentally deranged at the age of 6 and was institutionalized for 20 years, has lived for several years in the Skid Row section of downtown Los Angeles.”
        • Given that Harvey was an Ohio native and spent over half of his life in mental institutions, it is worth asking if he ever spent time at Chillicothe (where Charles Manson, Henry Lee Lucas, and Thomas Creech all spent time) or other Ohio mental institutions that possibly ran parallel programs
    • p.5: “LUCAS also said that the death squads in El Salvador are being set up by the “Hands of Death” organization out of Miami. When asked how he knew this, LUCAS replied that he knows because they are being set up out of Miami and guns are being sent to the death squads from Miami. LUCAS said that the death squads have been in existence long before the United States was aware of it and that he once was even asked to go to El Salvador to join the squads and kill people. LUCAS said that he refused but did take assignments to go to Spain and Canada where he committed some killings.”
      • Presence in Canada
        • On 1982/01/02, police in British Columbia ran a NCIC inquiry on Lucas (p.204 of the Mattox report)
        • On 1982/10/02, police in Sussex, New Brunswick ran a NCIC inquiry on Toole (p.218 of the Mattox report)
        • On 1982/10/26, police in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ran a NCIC inquiry on Lucas (p.220 of the Mattox report)
        • On 1983/02/04, police in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ran a NCIC inquiry on Lucas (p.222 of the Mattox report)
        • On 1983/02/19, police in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan ran a NCIC inquiry on Lucas (p.223 of the Mattox report)
    • p.5-6: “LUCAS added that he has also been involved in a lot of kidnappings in which he has kidnapped people “to order.” LUCAS explained that he was told by METRIC to kidnap a person of a specific age, height, weight, hair color and take them through El Paso to a location outside of Monterey, Mexico. LUCAS said that children were sometimes kidnapped and taken to Mexico for adoption purposes and older women were kidnapped and taken to Mexico for prostitution purposes. LUCAS said that METRIC normally gives him his assignments and he last saw METRIC in 1981 in Miami. LUCAS said that METRIC used to live in Shreveport, Louisiana but he has since disappeared from the area. LUCAS explained that he was recently taken by the Shreveport Police Department around Shreveport and he pointed out the house where METRIC had lived but they determined that METRIC had left the area.”
    • p.6: “JACK SMART
      Hemet, California
      Race: White
      Sex: Male
      Height: 6’2”
      Weight: 170-180
      Age: Late 40s
      Miscellaneous: Sells antique furniture and is married to OBEARA SMARTLUCAS stated that SMART asked LUCAS in late 1979 to transport marijuana for the organization and LUCAS did so. Later on, he also transported “Angel dust” and cocaine. LUCAS advised that SMART has assisted him in killings in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California as well as in the desert near Palm Springs on an Indian reservation near Beaumont, California. LUCAS has provided all of this information to California authorities but they have been unable to find any bodies. […]”
      • Note that Jack Smart was the husband to one of Kate Rich’s daughters Obera Smart, who gave Lucas a place to stay in Hemet CA for several months at the start of 1982. Smart and his wife would claim that Lucas stayed with them this entire time, though Lucas is tied to multiple murders during that period including one (that of Barbara Begley) where multiple eyewitnesses implicate him. As such, the Smarts are clearly giving Lucas a fake alibi for murder, which strongly supports his claim of Jack Smart (as well as Kate Rich and some of her family members) being in the cult.
      • TODO: Could Philip Arthur Thompson be a member of the cult? Lucas places cult members in Riverside County CA (including on Indian reservations there) smuggling drugs and performing contract murders, which PAT did on the Cabazon reservation. Lucas claims that the cult ran El Salvador’s death squads, for whom PAT was “attempting to get together a million-dollar bankroll for a shipment of automatic weapons”. And PAT was, per a statement Valerie McDonald made to a close friend, involved in “Satanistic” activities with his friends at a San Francisco apartment he managed in 1980.
    • p.6-7: “[…] LUCAS advised that JACK’s brother, TONY SMART, is also a member.TONY SMART
      San Jacinto, California
      Race: White
      Sex: Male
      Occupation: Retired – following an injury he sustained after a fall while working as a sand blasterTONY SMART has accompanied JACK SMART and LUCAS on several killings in California as well. LUCAS stated that TONY SMART’s residence can be located by traveling on Interstate 10 to the Hemet exit and follow the road towards Hemet until you arrive at a blinking light. From there go left to a stop sign and take a right until you come to a four way stop. At the four way stop go straight through and the first trailer park on the right-hand side of the road is the one where SMART has his trailer. The trailer park is run by SMART’s father and SMART’s trailer is the third trailer on the right-hand side as you go in the first entrance. LUCAS described SMART’s trailer as being gold and yellow in color. LUCAS was last there on September 30, 1982.”
    • p.7: “BILL and DEBBIE SMITH
      Poplar Bluff, MissouriLUCAS stated that he met them in California in 1981 and traveled with them for a time. LUCAS was able to get BILL SMITH to kill some people on the road. LUCAS stated that BILL has a tattoo of a scorpion on his right arm above his wrist. LUCAS believes that the Poplar Bluff Police Department traced BILL and DEBBIE SMITH but they did not confess to being members of the cult.”
    • p.7: “RAY DILLON
      Suburbs near Washington, D.C.
      Race: White
      Sex: Male
      Height: 6′
      Weight: 190-200
      Age: Late 40s
      Hair: Blondish gray