PAN Magazine

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

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

Editors and Key Figures

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