Ben Kissel

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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

It literally ended up as fucking New York City garbage.

That's awesome.

In 1979.

Just more shit in the street.

Now, from what I can tell, the 1970s truly were the last time that Anton LaVey had any fun with the Church of Satan.

In 1980, the FBI and the Secret Service raided the Church of Satan's black house on Halloween, choosing the date, I'm sure, in an attempt to catch LaVey doing something dirty.

But the FBI did have a reason for being there, because an informant had told the FBI that Anton LaVey was involved in a plot to murder Senator Ted Kennedy.

Yeah.

Well, from what I can tell, LeVay was supposed to be the go-between on the murder, delivering eight kilos of hash to a Chicago mafia boss as payment for the hit on Senator Kennedy.

The informant said that he himself was a member of the Church of Satan.

and he was actually planning to instigate a gunfight during the handoff that would have resulted in LeVay's death, and hopefully in the death of the mobsters as well.

And when the smoke cleared, the informant said that he was going to walk away with the drugs and walk straight into the Church of Satan to become its new leader.

But, possibly to get out of some other charge, the details are unclear, the informant was coming to the FBI with all of this information instead.

All of this information was, of course, utter and total horseshit.

Not even a single ounce of it was true.

It's a great story.

It's a really great story.

But the authorities, having no idea what actually happened inside the Church of Satan... Of course not.

They think it's evil.

They think he's evil.

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