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Annotation <div><p>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’<i>Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band</i>, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.</p><p>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.</p><p>Using documents gleaned from British, American, French, and Italian archives,<i>Secret Agent 666</i>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Author<b>Richard B. Spence</b>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<i>Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly</i>(Feral House).</p></div> |
