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In this category you will find all manner of spy and espionage articles related to the Maier files Series. A coverage of espionage and intelligence organizations plus corresponding topics.

A Verdict With No Verdict

February 20, 2014. Kyiv calls it Bloody Thursday. By the end of that morning, dozens of people lay dead on Instytutska Street — protesters and police both — in the worst single day of violence the Maidan produced. Within days, Ukraine’s new prosecutor’s office had an answer. President Viktor Yanukovych and his Berkut special police unit were responsible. The transitional government said so publicly before the ballistics were in. What...

The Word They Finally Used

On April 26, we wrote about the Nord Stream investigation under a title we meant literally and ironically at once. Two courts had just issued opposite rulings on the same act of sabotage. A prime minister had declared the matter finished in four words on social media. Germany’s own foreign infrastructure had been destroyed, and the alliance built to respond to exactly that kind of attack had said nothing. We...

D-Day: Hitler Was Right — and Nobody Wants to Explain Why

Six weeks before the Normandy landing, German E-boats intercepted the Allied invasion rehearsal off the Devon coast. Four of five troop transports were torpedoed. Hundreds of soldiers and sailors died. From the water, the E-boats recovered a dead American officer whose uniform contained readable invasion plans. The plans confirmed Normandy as the target. The rehearsal was called Operation Tiger. What happened to it — and what happened to the intelligence...

The Problem Has Been Removed

This article is part of an ongoing investigation into the occult and intelligence networks that operated across national boundaries during and after the Second World War. It follows our recent pieces on Rudolf von Sebottendorf and the Thule Society. It should be read alongside our existing articles on Rudolf Hess and British intelligence’s documented use of occult operatives. There is a phrase that appears in a British intelligence memo dated...

The silence between the lines: What Gehlen didn’t say about the Eastern defeat

Notice how some memoirs reveal more by what they omit than what they include… The general who knew too much When Reinhard Gehlen published his memoirs “Der Dienst” in 1971, observers familiar with wartime intelligence operations raised their eyebrows. Here was the man who had served as Chief of Foreign Armies East from April 1, 1942 — arguably one of the most critical intelligence positions in the Third Reich —...

The Crippled Offensive: How the Doppelgänger Front Sabotaged Barbarossa in the Field

Part II of the series “Verrat an der Ostfront — The Lost Victory 1941–42” When the divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the frontier on 22 June 1941, they carried with them not only the weight of an immense military gamble, but the burden of errors that were no accidents and oversights that defy simple explanation. The first weeks of Barbarossa have often been described as a triumph of operational genius...

The Doppelgänger Front: How Germany Entered the East Already Divided

Part I of the series “Verrat an der Ostfront — The Lost Victory 1941–42” History often hides its deepest fractures behind the noise of marching armies. From a distance, nations appear unified, purposeful, moving like singular organisms toward their fate. Yet, as Friedrich Georg’s Verrat an der Ostfront reveals with quiet, merciless precision, the Germany that prepared for the great struggle in the East was no such organism. It was...

Klaus Fuchs: The Enigmatic Spy Who Shaped the Nuclear Age

The story of Klaus Fuchs is a tale that seamlessly weaves together elements of mystery, espionage, and scientific genius. Arrested in 1950 for leaking atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, Fuchs was initially branded a traitor by the British press. Fleet Street’s sensational headlines claimed he had sold the secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians, but as the dust of hysteria settled, the true nature of Fuchs’s espionage...

THE ART OF BETRAYAL, THE SECRET HISTORY OF MI6

A former MI6 officer, one of the few to have risen to become ‘C’ or Chief of the Service, takes pleasure in recounting a story. Framed by a collection of John le Carré’s novels on the bookshelves behind him, he tells it with a boyish smile and a playful twinkle in the eye which suggests a mischievousness not entirely lost to age. The story concerns a young officer making his...

The true story of Dusko Popov a World War 2 spy

The true story of Dusko Popov. He knew he’d have to kill him. It was late July 1943. In a luxury villa salon on Portugal’s Riviera, British double agent Dusko Popov waited for his German controller, Major Ludovico von Karsthoff. By now his Abwehr minder had more than enough evidence to believe Dusko was doubling for the Allies. British Colonel Tar Robertson had warned him not to return. How would...

Richard Sorge, Stalin’s master agent

Richard Sorge was a bad man who became a great spy – indeed one of the greatest spies who ever lived. The espionage network that he built in pre-war Tokyo put him at just one degree of separation from the highest echelons of power in Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Sorge’s best friend, employer and unwitting informant Eugen Ott, German ambassador to Japan, spoke regularly to Hitler. Sorge’s top...

Aleister Crowley – Secret Agent 666

Aleister Crowley is, few would argue, the father of modern occultism, neopaganism, and New Age spirituality. Today’s Thelemites (avowed followers of Crowley and his spiritual doctrine of Thelema) far outnumber the small cadre he recruited in his lifetime. His motto “Do What Thou Wilt” has had a subtle and profound influence on modern culture. While some still fear and loathe him, Aleister Crowley inspires fascination, even admiration, in others. Crowley’s...

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