The following is taken from File 18 Newsletter Vol. II #87-1, dated February 22, 1987, ite

The following is taken from File 18 Newsletter Vol. II #87-1,
dated February 22, 1987, item 14:

 F18> 14.  THE SEVEN W.I.C.C.A. LETTERS:  The Witches
 F18> International Coven Council Associate, a coalition of
 F18> witches formed to try to establish unity and co-
 F18> ordination between diverse groups of witches and to
 F18> reconcile White, Gray, and Black Witchcraft
 F18> movements, established a comprehensive list of goals
 F18> in their 1981 W.I.C.C.A. Convention in Mexico.  Dep.
 F18> Dave Gaerin, San Diego S.O. originall developed the
 F18> information which was then used as the basis for an
 F18> article in the PASSPORT MAGAZINE SPECIAL EDITION,
 F18> herein quoted:  "...They clearly and boldly outline
 F18> the seriousness of their intentions.
 F18> 1. To bring about the covens, both black and white
 F18>    magic, into one and have the arctress to govern
 F18>    all--ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 2. To bring about personal debts causing discord and
 F18>    disharmony within families--ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 3. To remove or educate "new age youth" by:
 F18>    a. infiltrating boys'/girls' clubs and big
 F18>       sister/brother programs
 F18>    b. infiltrating schools, having prayers removed,
 F18>       having teachers teach about drugs, sex,
 F18>       freedoms
 F18>    c. instigating and promoting rebellion against
 F18>       parents and all authority
 F18>    d. promoting equal rights for youth--ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 4. To gain access to all people's backgrounds and
 F18>    vital information by:
 F18>    a. use of computers
 F18>    b. convenience
 F18>    c. infiltration--ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 5. To have laws changed to benefit our ways, such as:
 F18>    a. removing children from home environment and
 F18>       placing them in our foster homes
 F18>    b. mandatory placement of childrenn in our daycare
 F18>       centers
 F18>    c. increased taxes
 F18>    d. open drug and pornography market to everyone--
 F18>       NOT YET ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 6. To destroy government agencies by:
 F18>    a. overspending
 F18>    b. public opinion
 F18>    c. being on the offensive always, opposing,
 F18>       demonstrating, demoralizing--NOT YET
 F18>       ACCOMPLISHED;
 F18> 7. (The seventh letter was not revealed until the
 F18>    Summer Solstice, June 21, 1986.  Dep. Gaerin has
 F18>    been able to determine part of this letter,
 F18>    namely, that covens are sanctioned to abduct and
 F18>    sacrifice human adults or children on the 24th. of
 F18>    each month for the next eleven years, at which
 F18>    time they expect to be in complete control.  This
 F18>    amounts to new and unifying emphasis on blood-
 F18>    letting rituals.)
 F18>      Peter Michas, a Christian pastor and expert in
 F18> the area of Satanism and heavy metal music, says that
 F18> goals five and six have since been accomplished, at
 F18> least to a satisfactory degree, and that goal seven
 F18> has been "announced" to the public on the album
 F18> covers of popular Satanic heavy metal bands such as
 F18> Ozzy Osborne.  By placing together bits of
 F18> information from different album covers, Michas says
 F18> that the seventh goal is to be a tremendous increase
 F18> of blatant Satanic activity over the next thirteen
 F18> years, culminating in the physical reign of Satan on
 F18> earth on June 21, 1999..."

It's my understanding that many scholars and journalists and cops have tried
to get Gaerin to produce his documentation, but that he has refused to respond
to any requests.  (Those of you closer to San Diego: you try it and let us
know what happens.)  Even some anti-occult lecturers have denounced this
forgery; in THE EDGE OF EVIL Jerry Johnston points out that the grammar is not
just bad but inconsistent, as if a teenager had written part of it and then a
paranoid adult added to it to make it sound worse.  There is not one shred of
evidence that the Witches International Coven Council Authority ever existed,
let alone met in Mexico.

I would like to point out that this is just a variant form on a story we're
all quite familiar with.  In 1977, John W. Todd went on a barnstorming tour of
churches all over the country, warning people that Witches were part of the
Bavarian Illuminati and trying to take over the world.  In his lecture
(available here at 1:100/523 as JTC.ARC), he repeatedly claimed that Ray
Buckland, the Chief Witch in America, was this country's "real" ruler behind
the scenes.  (For those of you who don't know, Ray Buckland, along with Isaac
Bonewits and Gavin Frost, investigated Todd in 1976 when he was claiming to be
a Witch persecuted by the police for his religion.  They found out that he was
using a mock coven as a cover for drug-dealing, including trading drugs to
under-aged girls for sexual favors.  They turned their evidence over to the
cops.  Funny thing: as soon as he got out of jail, he went out on the road
denouncing these three men as high-ranking Illuminati.)  According to Todd, he
hosted a meeting in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 where Dr. Buckland opened up
the Six Letters smuggled over from Illuminati Headquarters in England via
diplomatic courier pouch.  The first four, Todd claimed, were "routine"
instructions to pay off various politicians and religious leaders.  The fifth
was supposedly an Eight Year Plan to take over the world, and the sixth was
notification to all the covens that the Illuminati had "found" the Son of
Lucifer who was going to rule the world when the Plan was carried out.

Todd was later revealed to be (at the very least) a mentally unbalanced man,
if not an out-right con man and fraud.  Virtually every single Protestant
organization in the country denounced and disowned him and his stories, and
only Jack Chick still defends him.  (For full details, obtain JTCFACTS.ARC
from here at 1:100/523.)

A local cult-cop, Sgt. Jim Mantle, has been waving around as "proof" that the
W.I.C.C.A. exists a few newsletters from the Church and School of Wicca, and
anything else he can find that uses the word Wicca in it.  (And some of you
thought that Wicca was a safer, calmer alternative to the word "Witchcraft."
See what that kind of thinking gets you?)  He and several other Witch-Hunters
have been giving copies of the Passport Magazine Special Edition excerpted
above to local school officials, pastors, news agencies, businesses that deal
with the public, and community organizations--producing a rising level of
hysteria.