By Joel Levy

Investigating the key societies, spies, labeled tasks, cults, and pacts that managed the destinies of countries and empires, this historic exposé unearths the conspiracies that experience replaced the process background. From the soiled dealings of the Louisiana buy and the Iran-Contra affair to the malicious program and the learn race to the moon, this exam proves that a lot of worldwide background may be traced on to categorised plots and shadowy figures. those precise money owed of espionage and mystery businesses express the main points essential to paint an entire photograph of the past.

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To make sure there were witnesses? According to a reputed confidant of Monteagle, he was actually expecting the letter. The official version records that Monteagle sent the letter directly to Cecil, despite the lateness of the hour. What it doesn’t record was that much of the rest of the Privy Council were conveniently in attendance at Cecil’s, including the Lord Admiral, the Lord Chamberlain and the Earls Northampton and Worcester. This group of august personages apparently failed to understand the fairly obvious meaning of the letter and ‘had’ to show it to the King.

By  there were enough Lodges in London alone for four of them to get together to form a Grand Lodge. By this time senior Masons already included noblemen, a tradition that was to continue in Britain where several royal princes have served as Grand Masters. Not surprisingly this lends weight to arguments that Freemasonry is a club for the elite, although one of its principals is that initiates start off equal, whatever their status in the ‘outside’ world.  million in North America. For them Freemasonry probably offers a combination of men’s club, the chance to explore areas of spirituality outside of their normal purview, a bit of theatre, the thrill of being ‘in’ on a secret and the opportunity to do some networking.

The Allies, and in particular the Americans, were turning their thoughts to the likely shape of post-war  Secret History Book 23/9/04 4:08 pm Page 38 SECRET HISTORY geopolitics and concluding that the communists might prove to be as great a danger as the Nazis. As early as , William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services, soon to become the CIA, was pressing his government to establish a route whereby useful Nazis could come over to America. Some prominent Nazi intelligence officials were thinking along similar lines, planning to surrender to the Americans, believing accurately that they would offer the least hostile reception and might even welcome their aid against the communists.

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