Peter Levenda - The Nine

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Sinister Forces

A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft

Book One :

The Nine

Peter Levenda

T RINE D AY W ALTERVILLE , O REGON

S INISTER F ORCES A G RIMOIRE OF A MERICAN P OLITICAL W ITCHCRAFT : T HE N INE

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Sinister ForcesA Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: The Nine / Peter Levenda ; with forward by Jim Hougan 1st ed.

1. Political CorruptionUnited States. 2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

MK-ULTRAOperation BLUEBIRD. 3. Behavior ModicficationUnited States.

4. OccultismUnited StatesHistory. 5. CrimeSerial KillersCharles Manson

Son of Sam. 6. Secret SocietiesUnited States. 1. Title

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For Rose

One cannot coerce the Spiritual: if one attempts to enter into the Light without preparation, one always faces the trials and dangers of Darkness. At the very least, an enforced entry into initiation will drive the illegal entrant insane.

David Ovason, The Zelator

T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

F OREWORD

BY J IM H OUGAN

J ust when the 20th Century went amok, and why, is difficult to say, but the creation of the CIA would seem to have been, at the very least, a contributing factor.

Born in the septic afterglow of World War II, and in keen anticipation of its successor, WW III (a/k/a the Big One), the Agency was shaped, in part, by transformative events that had taken place earlier in the century. These were the efflorescence of psychiatry as an important medical practice, and a turn-of-the-century occult revival that reached a crescendo in the 1920s.

Taken together, these events conspired toward unforeseen ends, not the least of which was the conversion of the American heartland into a laboratory experiment in psychological warfare.

As Peter Levenda, the author of this extraordinary and deeply scary book, points out, the term is a translation of a German word, Weltansschauungskrieg (literally, world-view warfare). By way of example, one battle in this war got under way in 1953, when the Central Intelligence Agency convened a prestigious group of scientists (watch out, dear Reader, whenever you see that phrase) to discuss the problem of UFOs. There were waves of sightings at the time, and people, in and out of government, were getting nervous about them. Meeting behind closed doors, with CIA security guards at the ready, the so-called Robertson Panel (named for Dr. H.P. Robertson, a physicist and weapons expert at Caltech) studied the Tremonton sightings and other films of lights in the sky, and listened patiently to the reports of experts from the private sector, the Air Force and Navy.

Soon, it became apparent that the experts were in disagreement. Some claimed that the lights could be explained in terms of natural phenomena (e.g., sunlight on the wings of sea-gulls). Others, such as the Navys Photo- Interpretation Laboratory, insisted that, on careful study, the same objects appeared to be self-luminous, and therefore intelligently guided.

So it was a question of seagulls or rockets or spaceships. Or something.

No matter. Since the experts could not agree on the meaning of the evidence in front of them, the scientific problem was redefined in political terms. Whatever was zipping around in the skies over America, it hadnt killed anyone (at least not yet, at least not directly). So there didnt appear to be a military threat.

Or was there?

The question arose as to what might happen if the Soviets tried to exploit the phenomenon, preying on the superstitions and weaknesses of the man in the street. A War of the Worlds panic might easily result. Mass hysteria would set in, and emergency reporting channels would be overloaded. Air-defense intelligence sources would be compromised.

The Reds could walk right in! If not to Washington, then West Berlin. Something had to be done.

It was decided, therefore, that the subject had to be debunked. That is to say, UFOs needed to be made intellectually disreputable in the hope that they would eventually become unthinkable. In this way, the problem (if not the lights themselves) would be made to disappear.

So it was that a covert operation was mounted, with the Ozzie & Harriet world of Middle America as its target. Celebrities such as Arthur Godfrey were enlisted to make fun of the subject and ridicule those who were interested in it. UFO watchdog groups, such as Wisconsins Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), were placed under surveillance and infiltrated. The Jam Handy Organization, which produced World War II films for the American Army, was retained, along with the Walt Disney organization. Journalists working for Life and the Saturday Evening Post were dragged into the fray, as was the Navys Special Devices Center on Long Island.

It took a while, but UFOs eventually became a kind of in-joke among those who hoped to be taken seriously. To raise the issue in public was to invite ridicule and trigger snickers. By 1960, curiosity about mysterious lights in the sky was regarded by many as evidence of mental instability. While an expression of interest in the subject would not be enough to get you committed, neither would it enhance your resume.

Other psy-ops followed, at home and abroad. Levenda discusses many of them, including Gen. Edward Lansdales manipulation of the vampire myth in the Philippines, and the CIAs scheme to eliminate Fidel Castro by persuading his constituents that he was, in fact, el Anticristo .

The JFK assassination was, of course, a focal-point in the world-view war waged by the CIA. Just as the Agency conspired to make curiosity about flying saucers a litmus test for an addled mind, excessive interest in the Presidents murder was made to seem ghoulish and trivial. For a journalist or historian to write critically about either subject was professional suicide.

Eventually, psy-ops like these combined to redefine the parameters of acceptable discourse in America. Principal among the notions placed beyond the Pale was the practice and theory of conspiracismwhich soon came to include criticism of mainstream reportage. More than a matter of seeing cabals behind every murder, it was a way of thinking, a stance toward the networks, the press and the feds. Anyone who looked too deeply into events, or who asked too many questions, was dismissed as a conspiracy-theorist. (This, after MK-ULTRA, Iran-Contra, BCCI and the destruction of the World Trade Centers.)

In some ways, it is as if the century itself has been encrypted, so that if an historian would be honest, he must also become an investigator reporter. Failing that, we ar e left at the mercy of ambitious academicians and journalists, stenographers to power who are themselves complicit in an astonishing string of cover-ups and atrocities that stretch from Dealey Plaza to Watergate, Waco to 9-11. Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian poet and film director who was stomped to death by a street-hustler in 1975 (unless, as some insist, he was beaten to death by a gang of fascists) understood. Fascinated by the 20th Century vectors of politics and violence, Pasolini despaired of the way in which the age has been encrypted. Writing in Corriere della Sera, a left-wing newspaper, he declared,