3. B.I. File 365985, Letter to Attorney General Palmer, Washington, unsigned, 4 June 1919, from New York.
4. B.I. File 365985, June 6, 1919, Letter from “Acting Chief” to W.M. Offley, Box 241, City Hall Station, N.Y.
5. B.I. File 365985, Letter from J. Norwood, The International Magian Society, to Chief of Intelligence Bureau, Dept. Of Justice, Washington D.C., June 9, 1919.
6. Kaczynski, Richard, Perdurabo, North Atlantic Books, US, 2010, 348.
7. B.I. File 365985, Ref: JFS: MFH, from Acting Chief to JW Norwood, Secretary, The International Magian Society, 815 Republic Building, Louisville, Kentucky, June 18, 1919.
8. B.I. File, New York, 365985, pages 5–6 (Re: Aleister Crowley, Radical Activities), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell, July 8th–July 17th, 1919.
9. B.I. File, B.I., New York, 365985, page 5 (Re: Aleister Crowley, Radical Activities), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell, July 11–July 22, 1919. Called on N.Y. State Attorney General, Mr. Simon.
10. B.I. File 365985, page 2, Radical Division, N.Y. Office (Re: Aleister Crowley, Radical Activities), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell, July 17th–July 24th, 1919.
11. B.I. File, New York, 365985, pages 5–6 (Re: Aleister Crowley, Radical Activities), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell, July 18th–July 28th, 1919.
12. B.I. File 365985, page 2, Radical Division, N.Y. Office (Re: Aleister Crowley, Radical Activities), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell; July 26th–July 31st, 1919.
13. B.I. File, New York, 365985, page 2 (“Re: Aleister Crowley, Alleged Radical Activities”), Report of Frank X. O’Donnell, Oct. 1st–Oct. 10th, 1919.
14. Ibid., 848.
15. Crowley, The Hermit of Oesopus Island, August 2, 1919.
16. Copy of letter from AC (Montauk) to C. F. Russell (Detroit), July 1919; O.T.O. Archive.
17. Ibid., AC to C. F. Russell, August 11, 1919.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. END GAME
1. Crowley, Confessions, 794–95.
2. Ibid.
3. Crowley, Confessions, 842–43.
4. Ibid., 844.
5. Ibid., 845.
6. “Admits ‘O.T.O.’ Met Here Once,” Detroit Free Press, January 10, 1922; cited in Kaczynski, Panic in Detroit, The Rise and Fall of a North American Supreme Grand Council (Almost), 93.
7. YC, NS, 29.
8. YC, EE1.
9. Hereward Carrington memoir in “Haldeman-Julius pamphlet,” kindly sent to me by William Breeze.
10. Crowley, Confessions, 848.
11. See David Williams, “The Bureau of Investigation and Its Critics, 1919–1921: The Origins of Federal Political Surveillance,” The Journal of American History, vol. 68, no. 3, December 1981, 561.
12. Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation, Washington, File 365985, January 7, 1920, “Memorandum for Mr. Hoover In re ALEISTER ST. EDWARD CROWLEY” by F. E. Haynes.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Document in the DoJ/BoI Investigative Files, NARA M-1085, reel 931, doc. 313846.
16. B.I. Dept. of Justice, Washington, File 365985; Letter from W. Hurley to Mr. Burke, January 30, 1920.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. LEGACY
1. Higham, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, 46, 53.
2. Ibid., 46. The expression “the evil works of the diabolist Aleister Crowley” is biographer Charles Higham’s.
3. YC, NS 18, Letter G. J. Yorke to Birven, January 1, 1955.
4. Crowley, Magical Diary, January 2, 1920. O.T.O. Archive (ed. William Breeze).
5. YC, D1, Letter 94, AC to Raymond Radclyffe, undated.
6. YC, OSD10, Doc. 32, “Problem of Government,” undated, circa 1920–1924.
7. A copy of Russell’s letter to Goddard was kindly sent to me from O.T.O. Archive by William Breeze.
8. YC, D1, AC to Arnold Shaw, August 31, 1923.
9. YC, D1, Doc. 111, AC to W. B. Seabrook, undated, 1923.
10. YC, D, Letter AC to James Branch Cabell, September 4, 1923.
11. Starr, The Unknown God, 230.
12. Ibid., 125.
13. Starr, The Unknown God, 197, citing Leota Schneider, diary, July 17, 1933, in W. T. Smith Papers.
14. Starr, The Unknown God, 227.
15. Regarding Parsons’s scientific achievements, see K. Lattu and R. Dowling, “John W Parsons: Contributions to Rocketry 1936–1946,” 52nd International Astronomical Congress (2001); cited in Starr, The Unknown God, 254.
16. Christensen, “Scientology,” in The Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 1047.
17. Urban, “The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion,” in Bogdan and Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, 358.
18. Ibid., 336.
19. Ibid., 350, citing L. Ron Hubbard, The Philadelphia Doctorate Course, 185.
20. Ibid., citing L. Ron Hubbard, The Philadelphia Doctorate Course, 188.
21. See Crowley, The Book of Lies, 109.
22. Starr, The Unknown God, 318, citing W. T. Smith diary, December 14, 1947, W. T. Smith Papers.
23. YC, NS, 18, G. J. Yorke’s copy of Picture Post sent by Jenny Nicholson, November 16, 1955.
24. Starr, The Unknown God, 340, citing letter Motta to Germer, May 7, 1957, O.T.O. Archives.
25. O.T.O. Archives, Letter AC to Grady McMurtry, November 2, 1944.
26. YC, Royal Court Diaries, Thursday, July 30, 1936.
27. Crowley, “An Appeal to the American Republic” (first verse).
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