Here’s a link to it, it includes a lot of information on Norman and many others who were operating. -
Protection of children against sexual exploitation : hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, Chicago, Ill.-May 27, 1977, Washington, D.C.-June 16, 1977 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Hey guys, I read through all of this and thought I should post a summary here so you don't have to spend that much time looking through it yourself
Full disclosure, I have been working on a crime fiction book on human trafficking in the 60's and 70's, it is pretty much written, if anyone wants a free copy send me a DM and that will be no problem
Anyways, here is what stood out in that article to me, the book I wrote has a lot to do with New Orleans so that is why they are included:
NORMAN STUFF
I opposed certain boy-sex schemes I knew about such as Father Bud Yermyle's Welcome Wagon deal, the political-motives of Guy Strait and his pushing of sex with very young boys, the "cadet" rackets of the Oddysy Foundation, and others.
Delta Project had 35,000 to 45,000 members across the nation, the Don Program, can hire a "cadet", $50 a month, then rent out to others in their area, and Norman would get a cut
Norman also had the Cross Country Program where you could fly somewhere for a quick encounter, but got shut down quickly when he got arrested in Illinois
John Norman has had similar projects before. He has set up John Norman Odyssey Foundation out of Dallas, Tex, He has set up the Oonquest Agency out of San Diego, Demalco International out of San Diego, and he set up Sex 2 publications out of St. Louis, Mo.
When he was in the Cook County Jail he published a newsletter called the John Norman Newsletter. This was to get in]nates to give him money for his cause for setting up these type of foundations so that he could get up his bail money to get out on the outside and get new clientele for his operation.
I think that is what happened and about that very time was the time that the Illinois obscenity law was thought by many to be unconstitutional and ultimately several months ago, about a year ago, it was declared unconstitutional. Therefore, the individuals felt more secure in selling this type of material openly. (my note, this also perfectly coincides with Norman showing up in Chicago)
I believe the only type of material that I had ever seen in the past always seemed to be and appeared to be of foreign origin^ but in the last 18 months I was talking about there is a proliferation of what appear to be more domestic type of material.
I would like to read one statement by John Norman describing himself. "I am a nonviolent person, who has never found it necessary to force anyone to do anything, but I am persuasive, and I have a certain charm for young people."
When you enrolled as part of the Delta Project, did you have direct communication with him ?
Mr. Lehman. I did receive all his newsletters and publications, but my only communications were with his partner, Phil Paski. That was over the telephone.
Norman keeps his own files on anyone who will subscribe to him. He has had them for years. He has a system set up that he will send them a membership card. The membership card has a little star on it. It might be red. It might be blue. It changes from time to time. If it is red, it means he is a member. He gets Norman's pamphlets. If it is blue — I am just throwing out different colors right now — but if it is blue, that means he not only gets pamphlets, but he has contacted him by telephone and has shown an interest in making arrangements to meet a young individual. Another color is used if the individual has indeed used a child on occasion for a weekend or what have you. Another color, final color, would be used if a person has either set up a dormitorv or has an apartment building, and is letting children stay there between their tours back and forth to the other individuals.
He related to me when John Norman was arrested out there, they confiscated 40,000 index cards (clients)
Mr. Lehman. Yes. These cards were then forwarded to the State Department in "Washington. I have since contacted the State Department in Washington to see if I could get a copy of his files, and the files are no longer there. I don't know if they ever received them or not. They just told me that they didn't have the files.
We asked the State Department to check into it and they say that they shredded the 35,000 cards in 1974 because they couldn't find any use for them. They didn't pertain to their department.
the first question they asked was, "Why us? "Why not the Justice Department?" The State Department took some time to investigate and their response to us was yes, that they had indeed received the cards, and the information they received with the cards had been shredded and destroyed. Apparently the reason was because they could find no passport fraud violation. That was the response we received. (from William Minitz)
There was also some information there that some passports were issued for taking a boy across the seas and into another country. (norman)
These lists are both from Norman: essentially, the Dallas 35,000 as well as the 5,000 here locally; is that correct?
When I was in Los Angeles talking to police officials there, they were very familiar with Mr. Norman. I might add that Mr. Strait, who testified before you today, was very familiar with Mr. Norman. Mr. Norman has been operating this kind of situation since the fifties. He went by various names: Evan Goodwin, Allen Hitchcock. John Shanks, John Norman, the Odyssey Foundation, Hasting Foundation, and Epic International. The Delta Project was set up and in operation in Illinois when Mr. Norman was arrested.
Hundreds of cards for cadets
Mr. Norman corresponded with people all over the country. These people all know each other. They become privy to information that one of the main people arrested, charged, and convicted in New Orleans was in one of Mr. Norman's address book
There have also been suggestions that even in the Houston situation, there were boys brought in that were subsequently murdered.
Ms. Sneed. Well, in Dallas, for instance, they were investigating John Norman as a possible solicitor for these boys that were among the 27 boys that were found murdered in Texas.
Looks like 3 Norman lists, 35k (Dallas), 10k, and 5k
A few years ago in Houston, the police investigated the case of a man who first had sex with runaway boys, then killed them and buried the bodies. Altogether, twenty-seven bodies were recovered. The Houston police say they know nothing about such films, but a man in Los Angeles told us he had recently viewed a film showing the actual murders.
The probe led police to the discovery that Norman has a long career of sexual abuse of children. Norman, who came to the Chicago area in mid-1973 from Dallas, has a record of 13 arrests for sex offenses going back to 1954.
The Delta Project was only the latest of a series of organizations he set up to supply boy prostitutes to male customers around the country, police said.
Earlier, they said, his operation had gone by such names as the Norman Foundation, Epic International, and the Odyssey Foundation. Ironically, Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber of New York City, heads a national movement to prevent child abuse and neglect, called Odyssey Institute. She is an outspoken foe of child
.
Dallas police told Sgt. Ronald Kelly, head of the Area 6 youth division, that they have information associating Norman with the ring that helped transport to Texas the 27 boys murdered in Houston in 1973 in a widely publicized sex and sadism case.
The clandestine newsletter is known as Hermes. Police said the principal figures in its publication are Elden Gale [Rusty] Wake 40, an employee of Trinity College in Lake Forest ; Patrick Townson, a Chicago man who operates a citizens band radio information show for homosexuals and is connected with the Gay News and Events newspaper, and David Berta, who along with Townson was involved in Norman's operation.
But police said they could take no action against the Hermes operation in the absence of an Illinois obscenity law. The law was declared unconstitutional by a federal court last year.
The Lake County state's attorney's office has identified Wake as an employee of a children's home and two children's camps between 1964 and 1968.
Unknown to jail officials, they said, Norman used the jail's printing facilities to send out three "newsletters" about the project to homosexual clients throughout the country and to people who answered his advertisements in gay publications.
Norman told his readers that "Delta-Dorms" were being established around the country. "Each is a private residence where one of our sustaining members acts as a 'don' for two to four 'cadets'. . . . The nature of the relationship between cadet and sponsor is left entirely to the two of them."
Officials of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services said Bell has been in and out of orphanages and foster homes since he was 6.
They said Bell was one of several hundred Chicago children sent to foster homes* in Texas between 1952 and 1973 by the department.
A scandal blew up in 1973 when it was reported that some of the children had been stripped, beaten, and kept in solitary confinement for infractions of rules in the homes.
As an indication of the close links that exist among child sex abusers, police said the address book of John Norman, now in the Illinois state prison at Pontiac, contained the name of Raymond Woodall.
GROUP HOMES
more homes in Washington State and New York State, possibly District of Columbia, Nebraska, Iowa, Vermont, California, Pennsylvania
Pornographers in at least five states — Michigan, New Jersey, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida — have used or have attempted to use federal, state and county funds to establish foster homes and child care camps for their operations
Richards told police all four of these organizations were fronts for homosexual activity involving boys and all were set up as tax dodges.
Police said leaders of the organizations drew up plans to obtain federal, state and county funds for child care homes they planned to establish for homosexual and pornographic purposes.
A letter to Richards from Dyer Grossman, a New York teacher and officer of the four organizations, said counties would pay up to $150 per month per boy, states would pay up to $400, and federal agencies up to $700.
NEW ORLEANS
Kids in New Orleans were often sent to Florida, the New Orleans guys started up with other plans in mind, they were also voluntary probation officers, they would find troubled kids, go to their parents, and recommend them to go to a special school, parents would say no money and they would give scholarship, there were 6 or 7 schools in Florida but they only abused at 1
New Orleans and LA had huge numbers of runaways cuz of weather
Boys Farm in Tennessee received federal funds
The discovery of similar photographs prompted police in New Orleans to bring charges against seventeen men who were molesting boys in a Boy Scout troop with the connivance of the scoutmaster. (had no idea it was 17)
Nineteen men have been charged with multiple counts of crimes against nature, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years on each count. Among them are two Boston-area millionaires and a California millionaire alleged to have flown to New Orleans to have sex with the boys. Police investigation of the case extended into 34 states.
Among those arrested were Richard C. .Jacobs of Arlington, Mass.. millionaire president of the Jet Spray Corp. and a former part-owner of the New England Patriots football team; Robert B. Mailers, a California millionaire; and Hugh Scott Mellor of Brighton, Mass., millionaire president of a real estate holding company.
They said Halvorsen and Woodall went to New Orleans from Coral Gables, Fla., where they had worked as maintenance men for the Adelphi Academies, identified by Florida police as a former male prostitution front that was recently sold to legitimate operators.
Peter Bradford, formerly a co-owner of the Adelphi Academies, is among the 19 men charged in New Orleans.
In 1974, Halvorsen and Woodall organized Boy Scout Troop 137 with about 40 boys as members.
New Orleans District Att. Harry Connick said the Scout leaders also drew up applications for state and federal money to establish and operate homes for boys, but had not carried through with these plans.
Sgt. Tony Raimondo of the Coral Gables police said evidence shows that Halvorsen went to a number of mothers in New Orleans and recruited six boys for the Adelphi Academies.
As an indication of the close links that exist among child sex abusers, police said the address book of John Norman, now in the Illinois state prison at Pontiac, contained the name of Raymond Woodall.
A police search of Halvorsen's files turned up the name of Rev. Claudius Ira [Bud] Vermilye Jr.
Police seized a list of more than 270 "active sponsors'' of the farm. (Tennessee)
RANDOM
Only laws (Mann Act) were about girls/women, nothing about male prostitutes
Only 4 units in the country (Houston, Chicago, LA, New Orleans)
Strait had 1200 customers of his newsletter, thought 3 other guys making
, Ames, a guy named Jerry, and an unnamed man in the Northeast, the latter the only one not caught by this hearing
Person would mail Strait, then 'send him back a letter together with a form wherein he would have to swear that he was not a police officer or a member of the Communist Party and that he was over 21 years of age'
had an undercover guy help develop the film
sold for $100 a piece, had ordered 2000, thought could get rid of 10k to 20k
Always making it sound like the kids were never forced and wanted to do it
Police estimate Strait made $5 million to $7 million from his business, which is still in operation.
Richards said would send out photos of models then people who received would want to meet, mentions Sheldon (along with Grossman and Keller?) and said he had around 600 buyers
Better Life was main organization in mid 70s, The leader is a man named Barry Wright, which may be an alias. However, an associate told me twice that his real name was Wayne Smith, the same man who runs the Mail-0-Matic operations in Rocky Mount. Their address is a Beverly Hills, Calif., post office box. The magazine is printed by the Broad Street Journal in Colorado
they all had a number like I did, BL 147
maybe 12 prints would be maybe $10, Anywhere from $75 to $200 for a 200-foot reel
I had a girlie studio called Photo Arts studio. I just used girls there from college. But the funny thing about it is that you can make more money with young male models.
I believe that 90 percent of the business is handled by the U.S. mail
Richards said Strait's newsletter and pics still getting mailed out after he was imprisoned, now called F & F Distributors
They belonged to Big Brothers and the Boy Scouts, which, of course, is a No. 1 area for a Boy Lover to be working in that field.
Richards was molested by a baby sitter
From what other areas of the world are they coming ?
Ms. Sneed. Belgium. Countries like Belgium were listed. Other places in Europe were listed. I believe the Philippines was listed. We know that some of these people who were arrested in New Orleans for having participated in a Boy Scout operation were wanted throughout the world on buggering charges.
They are also advertisements for traveling sex shows that might be coded like a magic act» that is, ''My assistant and I would like to come visit with you."
"We knew the authorities had no idea how widespread we were and how vast we were. We just wanted to make sure that these people were sincere and had money."
right now in California where young children are transported from Mexico into the confines of a car. I am not talking about the trunk of a car — these cars are specially constructed to put children inside the body of the car. They are driven across the border, driven to Los Angeles and the method is to drop them off in a garage. Then the boys are extracted from the car. ($750-$1500)
Lieutenant Martin estimates that in Los Angeles alone about 30,000 children that they know of are involved in prostitution and
.
I might point out that there is a journal known as Where the Young Boys Are — Where the Young Ones Are — published in California. The journal sold for $5 a copy. They sold 70,000 copies. This journal does nothing but specifically point out where you can find young children in every State of the Union
Neighborhood children that were recruited as prospective models might be taken to a camp by this very nice neighbor who the family trusted and thought was a very nice individual. Then a tradeoff would take place in which another person would have been contacted before the trip. He would be there at the camp and then the child would be out of sight for a while. This man would in effect test him out. If the boy complained to his parents that in fact something had happened, the nice neighbor would say, "Gee. that's just terrible. I didn't know what happened.
1 lost sight of him for a while. I think it's horrible."
Movies definitely being made in LA
Robin Lloyd, author of "For Money or Love : Boy Prostitution in America," found 264 different magazines depicting sexual acts between children, or between children and adults, being sold in adult bookstores throughout the country.
Although the various
and child prostitution operations extend across the nation, police say there is no single organization running them. But the adults involved maintain contact through newsletters and exchanges of children.
"It seems to be like spider webs strung out all over the nation,"
most child material now on the market is produced in the United States, shipped to Scandinavia, and then shipped back to America to give the impression it was made in Europe
In California, the maximum sentence for child abuse is only two years, and in 40 arrest cases in Los Angeles since September authorities have obtained just one conviction.
With the help of his partner, he incorporated as a tax exempt-front known as Brother Paul's Children's Mission.
Senator Culver. Who is Francis Sheldon?
Mr. Richards. He was a friend of mine. He paid for my office
Children in Michigan have been sexually abused at a summer camp on an island owned by a millionaire pedophile who is now in flight from Federal prosecution.
Shelden's name also appears among "sponsors" of the Boys Farm in Tennessee.
another homosexual network involving the Church of the New Revelation of Kearny, N.J., the Ocean Living Institute of New Jersey, Brother Paul's Children's Mission on North Fox Island, Mich., and the Educational Foundation for Youth of Illinois.
