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Notes
THE ILLUMINATI
1 Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 264–340).
2 An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences, Albert G. Mackey, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., 1900.
3 Angels and Demons , Dan Brown, Transworld, 2000.
4 Proof of the Illuminati, Seth Payson and Benedict Williamson. Originally printed by Samuel Etheridge, 1802; Invisible Press, 2003.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism , Volume III, Abbé Augustin Barruel, 1797.
10 Although the Illuminati dropped off the political map at this point, Payson is at pains to point out that yet another secret society, this time calling itself the German Union, picked up where the Illuminati left off.
11 ‘Skull and Bones,’ www.CBSNews.com, June 13, 2004.
12 ‘Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory,’ Jonathan Duffy, BBC News Online Magazine, www.news.bbc.co.uk, June 3, 2004.
13 Ibid.
14 ‘Problem, Reaction, Solution,’ David Icke, www.propagandamatrix.com.
ARGENTEUM ASTRUM
1 Interestingly, Crowley was not alone in his rebellion against the Plymouth Brethren as a young child, for another famous deserter was the literary critic and writer Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), who wrote a wonderful memoir of his experiences called Father and Son (1907).
2 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, Jonathan Cape, 1969.
3 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, op. cit.
4 Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, Lawrence Sutin, St Martin’s Press, 2002.
5 The World’s Tragedy, Aleister Crowley (1910), Falcon Press (AZ), 1985.
6 Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, op. cit.
7 1909 Diary (typescript), Victor Neuberg, OTO (Order of the Temple of the Orient) Archives.
8 The Looking Glass, October 29, 1910.
9 Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges, ed. Sandy Sturges, Simon & Schuster, 1990.
10 Magick in Theory and Practice, Aleister Crowley, 1930; various subsequent reprints.
11 Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, op. cit.
12 ‘A Book for Burning,’ Sunday Express, November 19, 1922.
THE THULE SOCIETY
1 Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Alan Bullock, Penguin, 1962.
2 The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule, Joanna Kavenna, Viking, 2005.
3 Ibid.
4 Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë, Penguin, 1994.
5 Mein Kampf (English translation by James Murphy), Hutchinson, 1940.
6 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
7 www.thirdreich.net.
8 A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.
9 Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, Lucete Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel, William Morrow, 1991.
9 Himmler’s Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition into Tibet, Christoper Hale, Bantam, 2004.
10 Ibid.
11 www.unexplained-mysterious.com.
MUTI
1 ‘Magic Medicine Murders Bedevil South Africa,’ Michael Dynes, The Times, October 4, 2003.
2 ‘Human flesh on sale in London,’ Antony Barnett, Paul Harris and Tony Thompson, the Observer, November 3, 2002.
3 Black Britain: Nobody’s Child, BBC 2, April 2, 2002.
4 Ibid.
5 The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, Polygon, 1998.
6 www.news.bbc.co.uk.
7 ‘Trafficking and sexual exploitation,’ www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html.
8 ‘Where were their eyes as this boy bled?,’ Steve Boggan, The Times, August 17, 2004.
9 ‘Missing: the mystery of 300 boys who have disappeared from school,’ Steven Morris and Rosie Cowan, the Guardian, May 14, 2005.
10 Ibid.
THE TONG
1 Tongs, Gangs and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America, Peter Huston, Paladin Press, 1995.
2 Ibid.
3 The Barbary Coast, Herbert Asbury, Old Town Books, 1933.
4 Triad Societies in Hong Kong, W.P. Morgan, Government of Hong Kong, 1960.
5 ‘300 Sightseers See Chinatown Murder,’ New York Times, November 22,1920.
6 The Chinese Experience in America, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, Indiana University Press, 1986.
7 The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act, 1882.
8 Tongs, Gangs and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America, op. cit.
KU KLUX KLAN
1 Malcolm X: The Autobiography, Malcolm X (with Alex Hayley), Ballantine, 1965.
2 Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan, David M. Chalmers, Duke University Press (NC), 1987.
3 ‘In Darkest Louisiana,’ Leonard L. Cline, Nation, 116 (1923).
4 Extract taken from an article in the Klan’s national magazine and used in Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan, op. cit.
5 Intimidation, Reprisal and Violence in the South’s Radical Crisis, American Friends’ Service Committee et al., 1959.
6 Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan, op. cit.
7 Convictions were gained several years later.
8 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, op. cit.
ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE
1 ‘Interpol joins Swiss in Solar Temple murder inquiry,’ Edward Luce in Granges-sur-Salvan, Claire Trevena in Toronto, and John Mullin, the Guardian, October 6, 1994.
2 www.religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/solartemp.html.
3 ‘Lured by the cult,’ The Times (London), April 18, 2001.
4 Ibid.
5 ‘Conductor tells court how New Age Guru inspired doomsday cult,’ AFP, April 26, 2001.
6 Ibid.
7 ‘Conductor not guilty in doomsday cult deaths, French court finds,’ Globe and Mail (Canada), June 26, 2001.
8 ‘Solar Temple cult worries rise as millennium nears,’ Patrick White, Reuters, April 26, 1999.
9 ‘Geneva seeks to temper influence of cults,’ SwissInfo (Switzerland), November 3, 2001.
THE HASHISHIM
1 Extract from the report of Gerhard, vice dominus of Strasbourg, quoted in Chronicon Slavorum (1172-1209) by Arnold of Lübeck, ed.W.Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschictsquellen, 1907.
2 The Book of Marco Polo, translated and edited Sir Henry Yule, 1903.
3 Autobiographical fragment preserved by historians and here taken from The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Bernard Lewis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
4 The Assassins: Holy Killers of Islam, Edward Burman, Aquarian Press, 1987.
5 The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, op. cit.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Chronicon Slavorum, op. cit.
THE MAU MAU
1 State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, Fred Majdalany, Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
2 Ibid.
3 From an interview broadcast in Channel 4’s ‘Secret History’ series, How Britain Crushed the Mau Mau Rebellion.
4 State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, op. cit.
5 Ke
nya, A. Marshall MacPhee, Praeger, 1968.
6 State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, op. cit.
7 Facts on File: World News Digest with Index, reports for 1953, Facts on File.
8 Kenya, op. cit.
9 State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau, op. cit.
AUM SHINRIKYO
1 ‘A Lingering Nightmare,’ Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times, March 18, 2005.
2 www.crimelibrary.com.
3 www.guardianunlimited.com.
ODESSA
1 The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina, Uki Goñi, Granta, 2002.
2 Así Hablaba Juan Perón , Eugenio P. Rom, Peña Lillo Editor (Buenos Aires), 1980.
3 The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina , op. cit.
4 Priebke’s statement at 209 POW Camp, Afragola, August 28, 1946, Primetime, ABC Television; 1994. El Ultimo Nazi, Elena Llorente and Martino Rigacci, Sudamericana, 1998; Priebke interview, La Nación (Argentina), April 12, 1998.
5 Priebke interview in Odessa al Sur, Jorge Camarasa, Planeta (Argentina), 1995.
6 Dieter Wisliceny’s testimony at Nuremberg, January 3, 1946.
7 The House on Garibaldi Street, Isser Harel, Viking, 1975.
8 The House on Garibaldi Street, op. cit.
9 La Razón (Argentina), December 23, 1960.
THE SOCIALIST PATIENTS COLLECTIVE
1 Bringing the War Home, Jeremy Varon, University of California Press, 2004.
2 Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Group), Stefan Aust, Hoffman & Campe (Germany), 1985.
3 Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, Jillian Becker, Lippincott, 1977.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 ‘Die Rote Armee aufbauen,’833.
7 Bringing the War Home , op. cit.
THE THUGS
1 The History of India as told by its own historians , Sir H. M. Elliot, New Delhi, 1996.
2 Children of Kali, Kevin Rushby, Constable & Robinson, 2002.
3 Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain (1897), Dover Publications, 1989.
4 Although Kali is a Hindu deity, there were also Muslim Thugs roaming the country, committing murder as well.
5 Thug, or A Million Murders, Colonel James L. Sleeman, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1933.
6 Ibid.
7 Children of Kali , op. cit.
THE CAMORRA
1 La Camorra: Notizie storiche raccolte e documentate per cura di Marco Monnier, Marco Monnier, G. Barbera (Florence), 1863.
2 Ibid.
3 See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime, Tom Behan, I. B.Tauris, 2002.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Rapporto sulla camorra della Commisione antimafia, L’Unità (Rome), 1994.
8 Il Manifesto (Rome), 22 September 1994.
9 See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime, op. cit.
10 Commissione Parlamentare di inchiesta sul fenomeno della mafia e sulle associazioni criminalis similari, Audizione di Pasquale Galasso 17 settembre 1993, Camera dei Deputati (Rome) 1993.
THE HELL FIRE CLUB
1 The Hell Fire Club, Daniel P. Mannix, Four Square, 1961.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
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