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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.

Crowley in China

British Intelligence and the Occult

Part 1 – Aleister Crowley, agent 666 and Lord Tregedar One of those practitioners of the magical and occult arts was Aleister Crowley. Crowley is perhaps the best known ‘occult spy’ operating in the Second World War. And in fact he was already a spy long before the war. It is not surprising that through history occultism and espionage always have been linked. Undercover operations always need a veil of...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...
Wheatley-Fleming MI6 Occult

The occult dabblers of British intelligence

Part 2 – Dennis Wheatley, Crowley and Ian Fleming Adventitiously Dennis Wheatley was a dear companion of the mysterious essayist Joan Grant who composed top of the line books about reincarnation. Novels such as “The Winged Pharaoh” taking into account her own particular life in Ancient Egypt. Grant practised Rosicrucian-sort sex magic rituals with her psychiatrist spouse. She was additionally a member of the International Order of  Co-Freemasonry. (Freemasonry which...
Reinhard Gehlen BND

Der Dienst – The Service

A backstory on Reinhard Gehlen and the fear of his “Now it can be told”-bookReinhard Gehlen, founder and head of Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND, the Federal intelligence service in the days of the cold war, has enjoyed a publicity remarkable for one who, ostensibly (not to say ostentatiously), has fled the limelight. For in the days of his power he always moved in the shadows. He invariably wore dark glasses...
Bormann Martin

Martin Bormann

He plays a small role in the story about the disappearance of Otto Maier and Maier files, Martin Bormann. In May 1941 Martin Bormann was made Party Chancellor of the National Socialist Party, a position he utilized to become the Third Reich’s principal bureaucrat. He was also Hitler’s right-hand man, his personal secretary and his bookkeeper, and stood with the Führer until the end. The last incontestable sighting of Bormann...
Hess Crowley

Did Crowley interrogate Rudolf Hess?

Part 3 – Was Crowley involved in the interrogation of Rudolf Hess? Maxwell Knight from MI5, was bisexual and a friend of Lord Tregedar. Knight had a private menagerie and when Knight’s wife died in 1936, from a suspected overdose of painkillers prescribed for her bad back, bad rumors circulated … Rumors circulated that she committed suicide after participating in a magical ritual with Crowley. Some suggested that her husband...
Dashwood

The facts behind the Hell-fire club

Could it be that the London club mentioned in the Maier Files episode 2, is inspired by the Hell-fire Club? The Hell-Fire club in London is the most notorious “Satanist” organization in eighteenth-century Britain, the Hell-Fire Club was originally founded in London in 1719 by Philip, Duke of Wharton, a liberal politician and atheist who set out to ridicule the religious orthodoxies of his time by holding mock-Satanist ceremonies in...

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...

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