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‘ * . i Saad i U.S. Departmer. uy Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation In Reply, Please Refer to . Kansas City, Missouri File No. July 2, 1982 THE COVENANT, THE SWORD, THE ARM OF THE LORD (CSA) The following information regarding the group known as The Covenant, The Sword, The Arm of the Lord (CSA), has been developed through information obtained from numerous newspaper articles in community and law enforcement sources: The CSA is a group of approximately 90 to 120 men, women, and children, with the majority being of teen to mid-20s in age. The CSA was founded in 1970 and settled on a farm in Elijah, Missouri. In 1976, the founder, Jim Ellison, a 41 year old, stocky, 5'10", white male, bought a secluded 220 acre farm from the Campus Crusade For Christ. The farm is now the group's settlement known as Zarephath-Horeb, and is located on the Arkansas-Missouri border approximately seven miles southwest of Pontiac, Missouri, bordered by Bull Shoals Lake and private property owners in Missouri. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. / ALL NOR 4 CONTAINED HEREN, ‘CL US stl a / S70 a - 7. df , . ; ENCLOSURE