Mulder, it's me - sorry for the long silence. I haven't had a chance to let you know that I was followed on the drive back from Wheeling and thought I'd better stay out of touch temporarily. However, I'm satisfied this account at DoJ is still secure.

>you know. My sources tell me that Manson's secret grand finale was unexpectedly aborted when he *somehow* ended up knocking himself out with a real bottle instead of the prop.<

That's also my understanding. (Whether that was an ironic reference to the controlling interest Seagram's distillery now has in Manson's record label is open to conjecture.) I was able to secure fragments of the real bottle, but the handler wore gloves and the only prints were Manson's. (They're very odd, by the way - you'll enjoy them. The last time I saw a set like them, they'd come off an artifact from Tunguska. I'll send a scan if your line is still secured.) I was hoping to find the prop bottle as well, but that's vanished, probably with whoever did the swap.

>enough, I thought I saw our Millennium Group associate, Frank Black, sneaking out the back door after the show. I have no idea what he was doing there.<

We need to keep in mind that the Millennium Group has several agendas concerning Mr. Manson. As you'll recall from that e-mail message I got from Black, they were trying to put us off the scent by downplaying and ridiculing this case - sure proof that they're onto something they don't want us to learn. Do they want to apprehend Manson themselves? Is he pivotal in some apocalyptic scheme only Black is really on to? He tried to convince me that the Group's not really interested in him because he's not been associated with any serial killings as yet - but you and I both know their real interests are more esoteric than that.

If the only way they could foil the Dayton Working was to send Black to do some simple cat-burglary, I don't doubt they would. If we find him I'll bet we'll find that prop bottle.

>Skinner is waiting for your final report.<

I've got something I can send him, but I'll stress that there are too many loose ends to consider this one closed.

>http://www.meninblack.com/Volume2/haarp.html<

"meninblack.com"? Mulder, your friends are as subtle as a flying mallet.

>It's about the U.S. military's HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program)<
>Also, there was a copy of Manson's tour schedule with the March 4 date in Anchorage circled (which is a short distance away from the HAARP site at Gakona).<
It seems possible that somebody is trying to tell us there's a connection between the hidden purpose of the HAARP Project, the events of Armageddon<

Let's see if I can get this down concisely. We have proof that Manson is not 100% human; we have the blood sample showing unmistakable Zetan elements. We know that he's recently taken to styling himself the Antichrist, and predicting the Apocalypse, which has gotten fundamentalist Christians as well as the Millennium Group on his case (I'm sure of it). We know he has impressive psychic abilities (a classic "mind reader"). He's also a student of Crowley and the medieval "magicians" whose ideas trace down to apocalyptic "workings" performed as recently as 1946 - their idea being to bring outside forces into the world. In the Enochian Watchtower scenario which his handwritten notes on that manuscript referenced, this implied that the date of Armageddon is not set by God, but in fact hinges on when a person with the ability to perform the opening ritual shall come to the peak of his/her skills.

We can tentatively conclude that at least three groups of people - the Millennium Group, the theoretical Kabbalistic wizards headed by Bronfman [see my theory below],and the Christian Right - believe, or fear, that Manson is that person. (What is it about this one skinny rock-and-roll kid, Mulder?)
And now someone's trying to tell us that he's being tied into the HAARP project - essentially a high-tech means to cause the same end.

Where do your aliens come in? Doesn't it throw a pretty weird variable into this equation if the person invoved isn't a human being? You know how much trouble I have with the Reticulan theory, but there's that blood sample of his - that's undeniable. Still, what possible interest could they have in fullfilling a human prophecy? Or is that just a mask for it?

Are all of these consortia manipulating Manson against each other? Is he a pawn? Or could he know more than we've guessed, and be actually managing them?

(I wish I could shake off the strange feeling I have about him. It reminds me of that encounter we had with the child stigmatic; you remember the case. The same sense that it actually has something to do with me --with my beliefs. I wish I knew what he got from reading my mind besides my e-mail address. But I'm probably too tired to think about this now...)

>And what did you find out about the connection between The Consortium and his record label?<

That was the simplest part of this maze. Edgar Bronfman, head of the World Jewish Congress (and rumored to be an adept at Kabbalah, the ancient Hebrew mystical system), also incidentally owns the Seagrams distillery and its multibillion-dollar fortune. He's turned to the Consortium on several occasions to put pressure on ranking officials in the interest of international Jewish rights; it was probably as a return favor to them that he delivered evidence exposing U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim as a Nazi war criminal. It "just so happened" that when pressure from censorship advocates in Congress forced the Time-Warner conglomerate to divest itself of its interests in nothing/Interscope [Manson's label], Bronfman - of all unlikely people - materialized to buy the shares. It also "just so happened" that Manson suddenly became interested in studying the Kabbalah, as you mentioned at the beginning of this case. Now: What caused Bronfman, a respected social activist with no holdings in the entertainment industry whatever, to suddenly take an interest in a marginal record label with a very unsavory reputation? I'll try to guess what you'd say: maybe he secretly represents some cabal (hm..) of Hebrew mystics who foresee a young Kabbalistic adept taking a central role in the battle of Armageddon, as long as he's trained well and sheltered from his enemies in the meantime.

Well, if that's *not* it, I frankly can't think what it *can* be. This whole thing is as far out of character for Bronfman as yelling "seig heil" at a boardmeeting.

I'll look forward to hearing any ideas you have once you've read this. It seems more impenetrable the more I look into it.

Are you planning to go to Anchorage? I've got a hunch we'd have a good chance of running into our friend Frank Black there. He might even know who tailed my car from West Virginia.

Let me know, ASAP. I'll be at this address.

--Scully