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"SECRET AGENT 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult" (2008)

By Richard B. Spence

Online research notes whilst reading through the book, with links.

Here's an interview with the author Richard Spence of "Secret Agent 666":

Book has a great aesthetic quality, layout and design (not defying one of the 9 Satanic Sins!). Interestingly each chapter ends with a lists of the references instead of at the end.

The 100 Greatest Britons was a 2002 BBC TV series based on a TV poll to determine who British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history. "One of the more controversial figures to be included on the list was occultist Aleister Crowley."

Wikipedia: Aleister Crowley

Wikipedia: Sidney Reilly

'Intriguing synchronicities' between "Ace of Spies" Reilly and Aleister Crowley inspired Richard B Spence to write "Secret Agent 666".

A PDF of the Introduction to the book with references is available on the website of the publisher:

The Maier Files: British Intelligence and the Occult

NASA Microchip Names (C) - "Note: As a public outreach effort, over 1 million names were collected and placed on the STARDUST spacecraft,which will visit Comet Wild 2 in 2004."
- ALEISTER CROWLEY
- ALEISTER A CROWLEY

Wikiquote: Aleister Crowley

The Magus Was A Spy: Aleister Crowley and the Curious Connections Between Intelligence and the Occult
BY RICHARD SPENCE
(This article was published in New Dawn 105)

Noticed there is a lack of information when searching Freedom If Information websites and intelligence agency files CIA, FBI etc. There is a substantial amount of material referencing Aleister Crowley on Internet Archive:

"The practical result of this lack of documentary record is that I must rely more on circumstantial evidence and informed speculation than I would prefer... the weight of circumstantial evidence can be compelling and has sent more than one man to Death Row..."

Spence focuses on establishing known connections, possible connections in light of other evidence, and possibilities as a result of circumstances and relationships, mostly focusing on the World War One period of history, with minimal interest in Crowley's esoteric teachings.

Spence - in my understanding - points-out that the moral relativism (a pilar of Satanism) would have made Crowley ideally suited for working with intelligence agencies who of course do not operate in harmony with Natural Law (objective morality) based on truth, and right-action.

"The International" Magazine by Aleister Crowley

1917-10:
1918-01:
1918-02:
1918-03:

It was the 1898 publication of A E Waite's "The Book of Black Magic \& Pacts" that began Aleister Crowley's interest in The Occult.

The wife Annie, of Aleister's uncle Jonathan Crowley was a major influence and she was a member of "The Primrose (named after Disraeli's favourite flower) League"
which was modelled on "The Orange Order"

Through his aunt Aleister Crowley gained the patronage of Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee and Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury which helped him get into Cambridge Trinity College.

Other works by A. E. Waite include various books on Secret Societies, Freemasonry, Alchemy and Devil Worship In France:

A E Waite, in correspondence with Aleister Crowley advised him to look at the works of Karl von Eckartshausen a student of Adam Weishaupt of The Bavarian Illuminati, and in particular "The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary":

A time of a mushrooming of occult \& secret societies, in 1882 was established Society for Psychical Research - had amongst its members Arthur Balfour (of The Declaration) \& W T Stead of "The Americanisation of the World"(1901).

W T Stead's "Americanisation of The World":

In Cambridge, Crowley was enamoured with and Jacobite Succession and they were known as "British Legitimists" who considered Queen Victoria and the Saxe-Cobug-Gotha line (Windsors) imposters on the throne and wanted UK devolution.

Aleister Crowley associated closely with Neo-Jacobites who wanted Anglo-Catholicism and were for Celtic Nationalism and also The Order Of The White Rose of Lord Ashburnham

Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907
One of Crowley's aliases was a Russian nobleman "Count Vladimir Svareff"

JFC Fuller a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare wrote a book on his friend Aleister Crowley:

In Mexico, Aleister met Masonic leader Don Jesus de Medina who made Crowley a 33rd degree Mason and they started "The Lamp of Invisible Light" Don Jesus was in the same lodge as dictator Porfirio Díaz

Shortly after Crowley left for San Francisco, Porfirio Diaz granted a huge Mexican oil concession to Weetman Pearson which was handy for The British Empire converting ships to run on oil than coal.

In 1908 W Somerset Maugham published a novel about his former friend entitled "The Magician" which Aleister Crowley considered suing for libel over:

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Aleister Crowley was very fond of Guy Montagu Marston, a regular naval officer who he described in 'Confessions' as a man of high-up in the admiralty. They performed black magic rituals in 1910 at Rempstone invoking a demon which predicted war with Germany

Society for Psychical Research member Everard Feilding was another ex-Cambridge Trinity man, former naval officer, well-connected in The City of London and a Freemason, involved in Naval Intelligence Division

Guy Montagu Marston, was possibly also connected to Naval Intelligence. He was having a secret affair with his cousin Daisy, the wife of Edwyn Bevan, British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world, which could have been 'leverage' for Crowley.

London-born German-Jew Victor Benjamin Neuburg was Aleister Crowley's homosexual lover for at least 3 years and they traveled much together to North Africa as well as perform Enochian ritual magic.

1910 Crowley published "The Winged Beetle" \& dedicated a poem "The Jew of Fez" to Winston Churchill (Jew through his mother), a Freemason, \& member of
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Horatio Bottomley a "Mary Whitehouse" figure of the age, publisher of the magazine "John Bull" was along with many secret society members and Freemasons incensed by Aleister Crowley revealing secrets in "The Rosicrucian Scandal"

Aleister Crowley and his lover Leila Waddell performed Rites of Eleusis caused another public scandal where he spiked the audience's cocktails with mescaline \& turned-off the lights during the performance.

Such events raised Aleister's public profile. I guess ever since his involvement with his aunt Annie's "Primrose Club", Crowley was groomed as "a lifetime actor" with ghost-authored books as I suspect with 19th c. British Empire:

The Siege of Sidney Street led was a robbery by a gang led by Peter "The Painter" a Latvian immigrant (possible acquaintance of Crowley) which was broken-up by Home Secretary Winston Churchill who milked it for all it was worth.

Bruce Lockhart wrote in his 1932 book, Memoirs of a British Agent he supervised Moscow Art Theatre Manager Mikael Lykiardopoulos to write propaganda, with whom Crowley would have associated touring with "The Ragged Ragtime Girls".

Aleister Crowley arrived in Moscow shortly after George Gurdjieff and became acquainted with consular officials such as Charles Clive Bailey, (a descendent of Anglo-Indian Edward ?) - pages ibid

Wellington House is the more common name for Britain's secret Great War Propaganda Bureau
which featured amongst its famous authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells, GK Chesterton (an admirer of Aleister Crowley's writing)

On 24 October, 1914, Aleister Crowley boarded "The Lusitania" for New York, the ocean-liner which was later sunk on 7 May 1915 to bring the US into The Great War.

"Numerology: In numerology, the primrose is considered to be a number 5. This is characteristic of the qualities like adventure, expansiveness, vision and also constructive use of one’s freedom."

On the very same journey aboard The Lusitania as Aleister Crowley was the Bank of England director George Macaulay Booth who soon after also became Deputy Director of Munitions Supply for Britain When it sank, Lusitania was loaded!

Aleister arrived with $50 ($5000 today) \& met John Quinn "cognoscente of the art world; lawyer in NYC who fought to overturn censorship restricting literature and art from entering the US" who offered him \> $500 to purchase books shipped from England.

John Quinn had long-known British spy Claude Dansey perhaps through Sleepy Hollow Golf Club Quinn found Crowley to be a bore in letters he wrote, but had no problem funding constantly strapped-for-cash Aleister.

Given that Crowley arrived in NYC 'as an Irishman' on his papers, it would be a good-cover to get close (possibly sexually) to Irish Nationalist Roger Casement who for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a Easter Rising leader.

Casement escaped them, so Guy Gaunt took over from Quinn as Crowley's contact. Gaunt had contacts with the anti-German National Security League backed by J P Morgan Jr \& Coleman Dupont

Crowley began a relationship with high-society bicycle (the daughter of Richard Theodore Greener, the first black graduate of Harvard,
) who worked for 42 years as JPM's 'museum curator'.

Crowley befriended writer John O'Hara Cosgrave who ran Everybody's Magazine and was in frequent contact with propaganda "Wellington House". Through him Aleister got to know astrologer Evangeline Adams

Aleister was also friends with Frank I. Cobb editor of Pulitzer's newspaper The World. Crowley became established in literary and writer circles and occasionally wrote for Frank Crowninshield editor of Vanity Fair for 21 years.

Aleister Crowley contributed to pro-German publisher George Sylvester Viereck's "The Fatherland" magazine. Viereck happened to write "The House of the Vampire" (1907) one of the first known gay vampire stories.

George Sylvester Viereck's "The Fatherland":
World War One era, weekly periodical advocating "Fair Play for Germany and Austria-Hungary".

Press clippings of Viereck on archive dot org:

Aleister's 1st contribution to "The Fatherland" - funded by Heinrich Albert - Jan 13, 1915 "Honesty Is The Best Policy", page 11: Crowley claimed later that he "realised it was the HQ of German propaganda" to influence US opinion.

Kuno Meyer a leading authority on Celtic languages \& Irish Culture arrived in NYC in Nov 1914 to conduct propaganda operations for Germany. He belonged to the German branch of the same society of Churchill's "Ancient Order of Druids".

Crowley joined the Societas Rosicruciana led by George Winslow Plummer Imperator and Supreme Magus in America from 1909 to 1944, whilst Aleister gave George an honorary IX degree adept in the OTO.

Rite of Memphis-Misraim
was the proto-organisation of the OTO and it is possible through member Rudolf Steiner is how Crowley knew Russian revolutionary Ivan Narodny in New York

Viereck was a member of a German-speaking secret society Schlaraffa which had amongst its members psychologist Hugo Münsterberg Schlaraffa was associated with Sat B'hai an order of OTO.

Viereck made Crowley editor of The International and the possibility exists that Viereck was 'turned' by Aleister based on his repressed homosexuality. Viereck's close friend via Schlaraffa was 'German Crowley' Hanns Heinz Ewers

Mutual-admirers Ewers \& Crowley were both intrigued by Polish medium \& mentalist Bert Reese Ewers was very close to German ambassador Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff Ewers also knew occultist Theodor Reuss

In the 1930s Crowley became friends with author George Langelaan the author of sci-fi horror "The Fly", who also was a spy and special agent for the Allied powers as part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

Langelaan wrote in French magazine Janus, no 2, Jun-Sep 1964, that Aleister was high-up in US-German intelligence circles and had amazed them with his ability to 'predict' British wartime activities and that Crowley was responsible for the torpedoing of The Lusitania.

According to Langelaan, writer Norman Angell was a member of Union of Democratic Control and a (crypto) propaganda writer and along with Crowley tasked with enticing the US into WW1.

Karl Goetz produced a commemorative medal of the sinking of the Lusitania
as an ill-fated propaganda gesture. Britain's Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall obtained one and struck 300,000 copies sold as evidence of German barbarism.

THE ALEISTER CROWLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT AND BY ALEISTER CROWLEY

15 July 1915, New York Times: Aleister Crowley declares war on England for Irish Independence
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Strange that the British persuaded the US authorities to arrest Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln "Jew, Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British MP, German MP \& spy, Nazi collaborator \& Buddhist in China" in 1915 but not traitor Aleister Crowley.

Defence of the Realm Act 1914:

"No person shall by word of mouth or in writing spread reports likely to cause disaffection or alarm among any of His Majesty's forces or among the civilian population"

Why Aleister Crowley NOT arrested?

Czech spy Emanuel Viktor Voska claimed that on 24 July 1915, he stole Heinrich Albert's briefcase under direction of Gaunt

Interesting that Ernst Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (Major backer early-on of Adolf Hitler and Roosevelt's classmate and later advisor) through mutual friend Ewers would have been connected to Aleister Crowley.

The serendipitous shooting of Jack Morgan, son of financier - and major support of Britain - J P Morgan by Germany spy Eric Muenter took Aleister Crowley's declaration of war for Irish Independence somewhat out of the spotlight.

Crowley wrote in his diaries he knew 'Frau Alvensleben' , possibly the wife of Gustav Konstantin von Alvensleben who was a Schlaraffen, Freemason and covert supporter of Germany in the US \& also Canada which had seized his assets during WW1.

Sir William George Eden Wiseman 10th Baronet CB (1 February 1885 – 17 June 1962) was a British intelligence agent and banker, partner at American investment bank Kuhn, Loeb \& Co. from 1929 till 1960, and was Aleister Crowley's handler, replacing Gaunt.

German war propagandist Paul Carus was close to Alvensleben and showed Crowley around his city of Chicago, a hotbed of revolutionaries such as Luigi Bertoni and Emma Goldman

In The Washington Post, 26 December, 1915, Aleister Crowley gave an interview where he is described as "...a high officer of Order of the Temple of the Orient, a semi-Masonic organization which flourishes in all civilised countries..."

Society of the Atonement wanted to unite The Anglican Church with Rome whose secretary Henry Christopher Watts who worked undercover for Ministry of Information - an acquaintance of Aleister Crowley.

Arthur Raffalovich was a Tsar agent and Rothschild associate, and brother of homo icon Marc-André Raffalovich Their nephew George, a German spy paymaster gave Aleister Crowley a job on The Equinox magazine.

George Raffalovich was also a sci-fi author and possibly a relative of Rabbi Raffalovich who aided 6000 (!) jews to emigrate to a Jewish Colony Brazil in 1929

Sophie, George's aunt, and sister of Arthur and Marc-Andre Raffalovich, in 1890, married the Irish nationalist politician William O'Brien (1852–1928).
"Under Croagh Patrick" by Sophie Raffalovich O 'Brien (1904):

It's "highly likely" that the Sherlock Holmes-like Simon Iff character that Aleister Crowley wrote about was based on his experiences as a British agent after a tight-fisted Wiseman become his new handler. Simon Iff stories:

The Equinox - The Official Organ of the OTO

The Equinox Archives

German spy and turn-coat George Vaux Bacon (used invisible ink ) and was known to Crowley. He wrote the poem 'Jew': See also: on the Invisible Ink story.

Lindley Miller Keasbey (1867–1946) is yet another pro-German American connected to Aleister Crowley, who wrote to him, having an interest in setting up a branch of OTO.

Aleister Crowley's handler Wiseman worked closely with the NILI Zionist spy-ring that were operating against The Ottomans, having similar connections in NYC Jewish circles.

Images of Aleister Crowley, his art and associates
One of his lovers was an 18 year old Russian, Maria Lavroff (Lavrov), later Marie Roehling, close to Apollonaari Semenovskii who had contacts close to The Russian Provisional Government, and Gurdjieff.

Crowley may have known Boris Brasol an representative of Tsarist Russia \& also Ivan Narodny who shared an interest in the metaphysical and art with Crowley who both attended parties of Robert Winthrop Chanler

Crowley could have met Trotsky in NYC, and after the Bolshevik Revolution allegedly wrote to him to offer his help in "ridding the Earth of the scourge of Christianity" according to a 1987 book by Colin Wilson

Jewish-Russian femme-fatale spy Despina Davidovitch Storch informed on activities of Maria de Victorica and Theosophist Baroness Frieda Von Seidlitz. Circumstantially they all may have had connections to Aleister Crowley.

A E R Strath-Gordon "head of the British passport control service in New York until his retirement in 1934. For a period of time he headed British Intelligence in the United States.'" was a Theosophist, 33rd Degree Mason. Likely familiar with Crowley.

Collected PDFs of Aleister Crowley:

Aleister Crowley wrote: "Israel has corrupted the world, whether by conquest, by conversion, or by conspiracy." in "The Jewish Problem Re-Stated" (1922)

Nikola Tesla was friends with Viereck - thus connected to Aleister Crowley - and also had an interest in Theosophy the teachings of Swami Vivekananda

When Aleister Crowley returned back to England he received no charges, reprimand nor trouble from the authorities and also was given no recognition for his work in the USA. He was ignored, unlike fellow 'traitor' Trebitsch Lincoln.

"Now we hear that the trai-torous degenerate, Aleister Crowley, is anxious to sneak back to the land he has sought to defile."
from newspaper article - "Another Traitor Trounced", 10 January 1920, John Bull:
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Crowley was off to Paris soon after, meeting up with fellow occultist George Monti AKA "Count Israel" \& alleged Jesuit, linked to Catholic secret societies Sodalitium Pianum \& Hiéron du Val d'Or

Both the above Masonic Catholic groups later connected to Priory of Sion and Action Française

1923 British periodicals published hit-pieces on Crowley:

The Daily Express:
- The Truth About

John Bull:
- The King of Depravity
- A Wizard of Wickedness
- Young Wife's Story of Crowley's Abbey
- The Wickedest Man in the World

See:

The Moral Panic in England may have been used as a pretext for Mussolini to expel Crowley from Italy as Giovanni Antonio Colonna of his cabinet was connected to the Occult scene, Theosophy, Freemasonry and British Consul Gambier Macbean

French mystic René Guénon believed that Theosophists served British Intelligence.

George Makgill ran a private intel-agency
for British Empire Union and Economic League with links to Scotland Yard and MI5. He suspected Crowley of international trafficking of drugs, women and children.

From the 1920s to his last days, including associations with German occult societies and National Socialists are covered in the rest of the book. There is also far more detail \& info than the above outline.

See:

Sage of Quay™ - Gary Lachman on Aleister Crowley (Full Lecture)

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