Tassone fled to Djibouti, then Adan, then Djakarta, feeling God's wrath upon him wherever he went. Death stalked him, striking those around him, and he feared that at any moment he would be next. He knew well, from his biblical texts, of the wrath of a God scorned, and he moved fast, seeking protection from what he knew must inevitably come. In Nairobi he met the graceful Father Spilletto and confessed his sins; Spilletto promised to protect him and took him to Rome. It was there, in the coven in Rome, that he was indoctrinated into the dogma of Hell. The Satanists provided a sanctuary where the judgment of God did not exist. They lived for the pursuit of bodily pleasure, and Tassone shared his body with others whose pleasure matched his. They were a community of outcasts who, together, could cast out the rest. The Devil was worshipped by the desecration of God.

The coven was made up mostly of working class people, but a few were professional, highly placed men. On the outside they all led respectable lives; this was their most valuable weapon against those who worshipped God. It was their mission to create fear and turmoil, to turn men against each other until the time of the Unholy One had come; small groups called Task Forces would forage out to create chaos wherever possible. The coven in Rome took credit for much of the turmoil in Ireland, using random sabotage to polarize Catholics and Prostestants and fan the fires of religious war. Two Irish nuns, known within the coven as B'aalock and B'aalam, had orchestrated the bombings in Ireland, the one known as B'aalam having died by her own hand. Her body was found in the rubble of a marketplace explosion, the remains returned to Italy where they were buried in the hallowed ground of Cerveteri, the ancient Etruscan graveyard, known today as Cimitero di Sant'Angelo, on the outskirts of Rome.

For her devotion to the Unholy One, B'aalam was honored by being entombed beneath the Shrine of Techulca, the Etruscan Devil-God, and members of surrounding covens attended the funeral, numbering almost five thousand strong. Tassone was impressed by the ceremony, and thereafter became politically active in the coven, seeking to aggrandize himself and prove to Spilletto he was worthy of trust.

The first demonstration of this trust came in 1968 when, with another priest, Tassone was dispatched by Spilletto to Southeast Asia; there, organizing a small band of mercenaries in Communist-held Cambodia, he crossed into and disrupted the cease-fire in South Vietnam. The North blamed it on the South, the South on the North, and within days of Tassone's entrance, the hard-won peace was shattered. The coven believed it would pave the way for an all-out Communist takeover in Southeast Asia; Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, then Thailand and the Philippines as well. It was hoped that in a few short years the mere mention of the word "God" would be considered heresy throughout the entire southeastern hemisphere.