Follow-up Operation SANCTUM

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From:          <JASON> 
Sent:          Monday, December 21, 1998 10:46 PM
To:            <A-CELL>
Subject:       Follow-up Operation SANCTUM

Follow-up Operation SANCTUM, J-Cell, November 19th to 20th 1998

After wrapping up SANCTUM I decided to look further into a number of details that stood out in this case.

For the record, I want to point out that even though I suspect Agent CLOVE initiated this Op by herself, rather than on behalf of Delta Green, there were more than markers to warrant DG involvement.

Apparently, this is not a single stand-alone cult. It seems to have close links with Russian Orthodox churches and Russian/Eastern European charities, especially orphanages etc. What the old woman did to JASPER reeks of hypergeometry. I wasn’t present when it happened, but going by the injuries and the extreme measures taken by JAGGER and JASPER to neutralize her, something inexplicable must have happened to them. Also the amount of damage the old woman was able to absorb was too high to be acceptable.

In attachment I send you again a number of images taken during our Op, from which I have researched and deduced a number of details.

Please forward the following keyword to cell-leaders so they can keep an eye out for any similar groups/encounters (images attached taken from the ‘Shrine’ in the cabin)

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH/EASTERN EUROPEAN or RUSSIAN CHARITIES involving children 

Two Ops were directed at this type of group/organization. Both St Vladimir’s Church as well as the Pittsville home for Children had links to the church as well as charities.

BLACK ICONS
After extensive research regarding the iconographic image, similar to stone-age fertility goddesses, I found references to an obscure collection of comparable religious imagery, known simply as the Black Icons. As far as I can figure out, the image found in Pittsville was drawn or copied in the likeness of one of these Black Icons.

The Black Icons are a series of religious paintings done in the style of classical Russian Orthodox religious icons, depicting the story of an apostate monk who forsakes Christianity for the worship of Magna Mater.

The icons were sold to a New York auction house called, McGunn & Naughton, during the 1920s and are rumored scattered across the United States and Western Europe.

Might be worthwhile looking into finding the catalogue of other items sold in the same auction.

MAGNA MATER/CYBELE
("Great Mother"), the Roman name for Cybele, is an Anatolian mother goddess; cult was active around the 6th century BC. Uniquely in Greek religion, she had a eunuch mendicant priesthood, known as the Galli.

GALLI
The Galli castrated themselves during an ecstatic celebration called the Dies Sanguinis, or "Day of Blood", which took place on March 24.

The men encountered in Pittsville had all been castrated in a crude way. I have no doubt that the injuries done could have been inflicted during one of these celebrations, rather than clinically.

SKOPTSY
Perhaps the Galli are not the right angle to look at the castrated ones. There also was a Russian religious cult that has been persecuted throughout the 18th to 20th Century called the Skoptsy (or Skoptsi). Based in Russia, and persecuted first under the Tsarist regime, later by the Soviets, they believed in the absolution of sin through castration. They gained a lot of wealth, which they used to gather followers, by supporting the poor, buying peasants and providing shelter for orphans.
The sect was supposedly wiped out during Stalin's reign.

Note: Skoptsy comes from the outdated term 'oskopit', meaning to castrate. The term Skoptsy is not a name they use for themselves, they were known to call themselves "God's Lambs" or "White Doves". Odds that DG operatives come into contact with the word Skoptsy when bumping into any files or paperwork owned by this group is small.

KEYWORDS: BLACK ICONS – MAGNA MATER – GALLI – SKOPTSY - RUSSION ORTHODOX CHURCH and associated CHARITIES

JASON

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