Frank DiGiuseppe
Franklin Roosevelt DiGiuseppe was an involuntary agent of the Red Kings. While serving as a clandestine pilot in Vietnam, he came into contact with an êkimmu, which possessed him. After returning to the States, and under the influence of both drugs and his êkimmu host, Frank became obsessed with occult conspiracy theories. In early 1973, he attempted to trigger a temblor event by ritually sacrificing a busload of school children (he planned to bury them in a giant pit at Altamont). Eventually, URIEL was able to track Frank to a school bus depot in San Francisco, where he was run to ground by Roger and Mitch. Frank died when Mitch used his pyrokinetic powers to light him on fire.
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Obtained by Marshall from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Born in Martinez, California, to Armando and Helena DiGiuseppe. Armando was commercial fisherman, Helena was a housewife. He had one sibling: a brother named Ronald, five years his junior. Due to his Italian ancestry, Frank's father was prohibited from operating fishing boats in California during World War II. Deprived of his fishing boat and livelihood, Frank's father moved his family inland to Modesto, where they lived for four years.
The DiGiuseppe family returned to Pittsburg, California, after the War. Frank attended Pittsburg High School and was a member of the Civil Air Patrol. He graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1958. After that, he became a bush pilot, working in the region of northern California and southern Oregon for a few years. Eventually, he got work flying for several regional airlines.
Frank enlisted in the Air Force in 1964 and graduated as a commissioned lieutenant. In late 1964, he was assigned to reconnaissance and search and rescue missions in Vietnam. In the summer of 1966, he was detached to the 56th Fighter Wing at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base on the Laotian border. Between 1966 and 1968, Frank served in the joint CIA-USAF Steve Canyon Program. In January 1968, he was honorably discharged, and returned to California.
Starting in 1970, Frank reported to the Veterans Administration complaining of headaches and other neurological problems. Upon an initial interview, it became clear he was dealing with psychological issues having to do with his tour of duty in Vietnam. Initial therapeutic sessions seemed to focus on his disappointment and bewilderment in returning stateside and the associated culture shock with the changes happening in the Bay Area. But upon return visits, it became clear that he was dealing with “gross stress reaction” (post-traumatic stress disorder in modern-day parlance).
As time went on, Frank’s visits to his VA counselors became more and more frequent, and the physical and neurological complaints seemed to deepen into acute paranoid schizophrenia. These included feelings of constant surveillance and fear of conspiracy at the highest levels of government. It was clear during each of these later visits he did not trust the authorities treating him but came all the same because he "needed to work." He reported losing jobs as a cabbie and, eventually after he was blackballed by every Bay Area taxi company, as an itinerant auto mechanic because of his outbursts. These frequent visits ended in prescriptions for anti-psychotics (most often Thorazine) and occasional short-to-medium stays in mental hospitals associated with the VA. He stopped going to the VA in April 1972.