Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult by Richard B. Spence

Author:Richard B. Spence [Spence, Richard B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2008-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

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1 Details of Bacon’s case can be found in USNA, KV2/4-5. See also Landau, 88,150. For contemporary press accounts, see NYT (20 Feb. 1917), 1:7, (22 Feb. 1917, 2:5, (15 March 1917), 3:3 and (27 March 1917), 15:2.

2 Dwight Messimer, The Merchant U-Boat: The Adventures of the Deutschland, 1916-1918 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988).

3 NYT (1 Nov. 1916), 1:5 ff.

4 Ibid., (14 Nov. 1916), 2:6.

5 CAC, 754.

6 Liber LXXIII, 15 Dec. 1916.

7 Ibid., 12 Nov. 1916.

8 In 1917, Keasbey was one of the main organizers of the Peoples’ Council of America, “one of the more radical antiwar groups.” The University of Texas summarily dismissed him from its employ in July 1917. See: www.ardisnet.com/personal/DaveAllerdiceSr/Keasbey.htm.

9 Reuss, “Manifesto,” 22 Jan. 1917, in Peter Koenig (ed.), Ordo Templi Orientis: Theodor Reuss, //user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/tituals.htm

10 Liber LXXIII, 6 Oct., 1916.

11 CAC, 776.

12 Liber LXXIII, 13 Jan. 1917, p.s.

13 Ibid., 27 Dec. 1916.

14 Stephen E. Flowers, ‘Introduction,” H.H. Ewers, Strange Tales (Austin, TX: Runa-Raven Press, 2000).

15 Bis-(2-chloroethyl) sulfide.

16 Liber LXXIII, 2 Feb. 1917.

17 CAC, 855-856

18 Liber LXIII, 29 March 1917.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 CAC, 756.

22 CAC, 757.

23 For background, see Yigal Sheffy, British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918 (London: Frank Cass, 1998).

24 USNA, MID 10175, Viereck reports, 1917.

25 Ibid., 10516-474/33, In re: Hans Heinz Ewers, Enemy Alien, 26 June 1918.

26 Ibid., 10516-282, 6,7, 18 Dec. 1917.

27 Ibid., BI, OG 39583, Burleson, Postmaster General note, 8 Feb. 1918.

28 Nagler, 393, quoting BI Investigative Case Files, “British suspect list,” reel 1877, 9-19-1880-0. See also, BI 8000-2500.

29 MID, 10516-474/20, In re: Hans Heinz Ewers, 15 June 1918.

30 Ibid., /18, 15 June 1918.

31 WWP, 6/171, Wiseman to Chief, 6 Sept. 1918.

32 CAC, 754 and William Breeze.

33 WWP, 6/173, “Office Personnel,” c. March 1918.

34 Thanks again to William Breeze for this deleted excerpt.

35 Liber LXXIII, 28 Aug. 1917.

36 Ibid., 14 June 1917.

37 In Russian, Brazol.

38 Thwaites also showed no interest in investigating the affair because it threatened to expose British double agents like Reilly. See: HIA, Posol’stvo, U.S., 370/12, “Nekrassov,” 12, and USNA, DS, 861.202 11/5, Bakhmeteff to Polf, 12 Oct. 1917.

39 See: Norman Hapgood, “The Inside Story of Henry Ford’s Jew Mania,” Hearst’s International, Vol. 41 (June 1922), 14-18 and Vol. 42 (July 1922), 14-18, 106.

40 UKNA, KV2/502, Division of Special Intelligence Report #654, 26 Aug. 1917.

41 “When the Sheriff Heard about the Soprano’s Divorce!,” Athens (Ohio) Messenger (11 Sept. 1927).

42 Colin Wilson, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1987), 137.

43 CAC, 836.

44 NYT, 31 March 1918, I 16:3

45 M.I. Gaiduk, Utiug: Materialy I fakty o zagotovitel’noi deiatel’nosti russkikh vooennykh komissii v Amerike (New York, 1918), 80.

46 Ibid.

47 USNA, MID 9140-808, Re: W. Plummer, etc., 19 Sept. 1917.

48 Landau, 90.

49 NYT (13 Aug. 1920), 24:1.

50 USNA, MID 9771-56, “Irish Agitation in the United States,” 10 March 1919, 9.

51 Ibid., 6, 9.

52 Landau, 90-91

53 NYT (13 Aug. 1920), 24:1.

54 William Seabrook, Witchcraft, Its Power in the World Today (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1940), 217.

55 W. A. Swanberg, Citizen Hearst (NY: Bantam Books, 1967), 377.

56 CAC, 783

57 BI, file 365985, Agent O’Donnell Report, 30 July 1919.

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