Chapter 17 "Documentation: U.S. Army Intelligence Connection with Satanic Church" Summary and Analysis

Unlike all other chapters in the text, Chapter seventeen begins without a chapter-title page. The chapter is comprised of newspaper and magazine clippings and other declassified or public documents—a composition that is unique among the proper chapters but is used extensively in the appendices; Cooper presents virtually no editorial commentary. The chapter demonstrates that one Michael A. Aquino, an officer in the United States military, is a publicly-avowed practitioner within the congregation of an organized Satanic church known as the Temple of Set. The chapter includes some letters of objection that a known Satan-worshipper should be allowed to be a military officer in good standing. The military response is that Aquino's performance is acceptable and public law forbids the...