Secret Agent 666
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Secret Agent 666

Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

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eBook - ePub

Secret Agent 666

Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

About this book

Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.

Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.

Using documents gleaned from British, American, French, and Italian archives, Secret Agent 666 sensationally reveals that Crowley played a major role in the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, and the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess.

Author Richard B. Spence argues that Crowley—in his own unconventional way—was a patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask his role as a secret agent.

The verification of the Great Beast's participation in the twentieth century's most astounding government plots will likely blow the minds of history buff s and occult aficionados alike.

Author Richard B. Spence can be seen on various documentaries on the History Channel and is a consultant for Washington, DC's International Spy Museum. He is also the author of Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly (Feral House).

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Information

Publisher
Feral House
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781932595338
eBook ISBN
9781932595598

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction: Six Degrees of Aleister Crowley
  7. Prologue: The Doomed Ship
  8. Chapter One: God, Country, King and Lodge
  9. Chapter Two: The Moveable Beast
  10. Chapter Thre: An Irishman in New York
  11. Chapter Four: Sleeping with the Enemy
  12. Chapter Five: Return to the Lusitania
  13. Chapter Six: A Party at the Statue of Liberty
  14. Chapter Seven: There and Back Again
  15. Chapter Eight: Shifting Sands
  16. Chapter Nine: The Wandering Magician
  17. Chapter Ten: American End Game
  18. Chapter Eleven: The Unwelcome Guest
  19. Chapter Twelve: Into the Reich
  20. Chapter Thirten: A Small Circle of Friends
  21. Chapter Fourten: That Old Black Magick
  22. Epilogue
  23. Index