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+tags:
+  - Organization
+  - Publication
+  - Netherlands
+  - Amsterdam
+  - 1970s
+  - 1980s
+  - Spartacus_Network
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+PAN (Paedo Alert News), subtitled "A Magazine about Boy-love," was a pedophile newsletter started by [[Francis Shelden]] in [[Amsterdam]] under the pen name "Frank Torey." The name PAN was a reference to the son of Hermes in Greek myth, signalling the publishing legacy Shelden continued abroad. Just as [[Hermes]] was used in North America to facilitate [[John David Norman]]'s [[Odyssey Network]], PAN was used to platform its European equivalent called [[Spartacus International]]. The first edition of PAN was published in 1979 through a publishing house owned by [[John Stamford]], a British foreign-national and defrocked Anglican priest who fled to [[Amsterdam]] in 1972 after being charged with operating a child pornography service through the mail.[^1]
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+PAN served as a communications and networking platform for the international pedophile community, with copies visible in most hotels in Thailand that made children available to customers, according to Marie-France Botte. The Spartacus guide and PAN magazine were both available at these establishments. An RTBF team was able to obtain a ten-year-old boy without problems at one PAN-recommended establishment. Contributors to PAN included [[Edward Brongersma]], the Dutch Senator who served as trustee of [[Francis Shelden]]'s offshored estate, and Fritz Bernard, a psychologist. The connection between these contributors and [[Joseph Douce]], a Belgian pastor linked to the [[Toro Bravo]] pornographers, formed part of the network tying PAN to the broader Spartacus infrastructure.[^1]
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+### Editors and Key Figures
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+PAN was edited by [[Roger Lawrence]], who used the pen name "Roger E. Hunt." Lawrence was born on 25 February 1946 and had previously edited materials for [[Spartacus International]] using the same pseudonym. He left [[Spartacus International]] in January 1986 after a dispute with [[John Stamford]] and went on to edit both PAN and BLW. In late January 1987, [[Beat Meier]], the honorary president of the [[Swiss Paedophile Association]] and publisher of the pedophile magazine LIBIDO, was caught smuggling a kidnapped three-year-old boy from Belgium into the UK with [[Roger Lawrence]]. The arrest of Meier with his Spartacus and PAN associate Lawrence led to the arrests of his [[CRIES]] associates later in March 1987, and then to those at [[UNICEF]]'s Belgian headquarters in July of that year.[^1]
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+### Footnotes
+[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.