SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (68 page)

Pause and consider what framing Oswald for this act accomplishes, for it kills two birds with one stone. Firstly, it establishes him as a “lone nut”. Secondly, it
distances
him from his right-wing extremist connections, since he is allegedly shooting at a right-wing extremist general. This in turn would make his alleged Marxist beliefs seem more genuine.

But, asks Brussel, “Why was General Walker in such a hurry to get his information printed in Germany before anybody in Dallas ever heard about it?” Her answer is, even for Mae Brussell, somewhat unusual

Kurt-George Kiesinger had just been installed as Chancellor of West Germany and Franz-Josef Strauss as finance minister.

Kiesinger entered the radio propaganda division of Nazi Foreign Minister (Joachim) Von Ribbentrop at age 36. He was then directing a worldwide radio propaganda apparatus with 195 specialists under his supervision during the war. He was the liaison officer, coordinating his department’s work with that of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
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In other words, Brussell is implying that the change in power in West Germany was somehow linked to the assassination, and the assumption of power in the United States by Lyndon B. Johnson. But beyond this she does not speculate, and that is, for Mae Brussell, decidedly unusual.

C. The JFK Connection in Early MAJIC-12 Documents

If the Nazis were involved in the JFK assassination, then, as Lincoln Lawrence’s speculative scenario avers, one motivation of their involvement was for financing to continue their scientific projects. As for the involvement itself, as was seen in the previous chapter, there are some documents in the Cooper-Cantwheel set of MAJIC-12 classified UFO papers that indicate a connection of at least the subject of UFOs to the assassination, via the memorandum addressed to General Charles Peare Cabell, one of the CIA bigwigs sacked by Kennedy allegedly for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

General Cabell also had another connection besides that of the MAJIC-12 group and his CIA association. He was intimately involved in Operation Paperclip, and his involvement was in connection with bringing over Nazi “aviation doctors.” Lest one forget who these doctors were, these were the ones performing grizzly and barbaric medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners to study effects on humans in extreme conditions, including outer space.
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Cabell’s brother Earle was mayor of Dallas during the assassination, and was also instrumental in getting the motorcade route changed to make the detour that took Kennedy into the “kill zone” in front of the Texas School Book Depository and the Grassy Knoll. But the document itself suggests a
technological and policy
motive to the assassination may have underwritten at least the intelligence community’s involvement in it, namely, the secret development of recovered technology, the public repression of similar technological development, and the creation of appropriate policies for public manipulation. Kennedy, by threatening to smash the CIA, threatened this agenda with exposure, and that meant, in turn, exposure of Paperclip and how deeply corrupted American intelligence and defense had become. In short, Kennedy threatened – doubtless inadvertently – the whole continuing Nazi enterprise.

One may also view this in connection with the Two Space Programs Hypothesis. If indeed Kennedy was serious about limited cooperation in space with the Soviets, then this too would have threatened aspects of America’s – and perhaps the Soviets’ own version of the – secret space program with exposure.

And finally, what of all the lurking involvement not only of Nazis, but of big oil? Why this strange coalescence? If there was a continued development of the technology represented by the Bell – and the Bell and its strange effects were very
real –
then “the Brotherhood” would have had a final, crowning, motivation: they would have acted not only to continue the secret development
and hoarding of such technology for themselves
but also to maintain the reliance of everyone else on petroleum, using some of those profits to fund that continued technological development, and the suppression of any open and independent development of such technology.

So, if Bunge Corporation pocketed major financial profits from the assassination, then, clearly, this was an after-thought: “If we’re going to do this to protect our interests, why not make a little money on the affair too?”

It is in this context that two other MAJIC-12 documents should be viewed: the alleged letter from Cooper’s anonymous source indicating that President Nixon had “privatizing” the alleged UFO “study group,” giving credence to the idea that its massive intelligence operations and covert technology development, and public technology repression efforts, fell into, if were not originally
in
, independent hands.

Similarly there are hints in this letter as well as in the burned “Annex C” that not only was President Kennedy eliminated because of the threat he posed to this group and its programs, but that Secretary of War James Forrestal was murdered for similar reasons as well.

As if all this were not enough, there is yet one more strange connection between the Kennedy assassination, UFOs, advanced technology, and the Nazis. For “one of the men involved in the investigation of UFO reports in the American Northwest (in 1947) was none other than FBI special agent Guy Bannister.”
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Not only this, but Bannister – who shared a New Orleans office in 1962 with Lee Harvey Oswald’s “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” – appears to be the real origin of the FBI’s “X Files:”

A look at recently declassified FBI files for that period in 1947 show a number of telexes from Bannister, some with his initials “WGB,” all pertaining to UFO phenomena, as well as other FBI documents with the designation “Security Matter – X” or simply “SM-X,” the origin – the author supposes – of the “X Files,” which at least in 1947
did
exist at the FBI and was concerned with UFOs…
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It is, writes author Peter Levenda, “as if reality were layed like an onion, a palimpsest on which numerous events were written over each other, all on the same page. In this case, we have Operation Paperclip, UFOs, and the Kennedy assassination all written on the same sheet of onionskin parchment. Nazis, aliens, and political murder.”
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For Levenda, the conclusion, disturbing though it may be, is clear: “There is no lack of Nazi influence in and around the evcnts leading up to – and away from – the assassination.”
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D. The Magus of Ingolstadt

But where do all these spidery-thin strands lead? What, or who, might be at the center of this web?

One of the persons surely near the center, as the European newspaper articles cited by Brussell suggest, was Martin Bormann, former Nazi Party
Reichsleiter
, financial administrator both of the Party’s and Hitler’s own personal fortunes, ever-present shadow to the Führer, and mastermind of the Nazi “strategic evacuation” plans. While not suggesting that Bormann is the
only
high-ranking member of the decision-making oligarchy that conspired to murder the President, if there is a Nazi involvement, and so many disparate sources suggest there is, then Bormann surely was a
member
of the planning and decision-making level of that group. Perhaps he was its driving force; perhaps he learned of an already existing conspiracy, and in customary Bormann fashion weaseled his way into it, and utilized it for his “Nazi International’s” own interest.

But in any case, Bormann is a crucial figure, for after the beginning of actual wartime hostilities and Hitler’s ever-growing preoccupation with, and meddling in, Germany’s military operations, Bormann was left as the
de facto
day-to-day ruler of Nazi Germany, the gray eminence, the real power behind Hitler’s dark throne.

1. Bormann and Ingolstadt: A Connection to the Illuminati?

To appreciate Bormann’s significance, it is best to recall that besides his role as party leader and treasurer, he was also an SS
Obergruppenführer.
This would make Bormann – like Kammler and Mazuw – a probable member of Himmler’s “initiates” into the SS’s so-called “occult secrets and mysteries.” One has difficulty imagining the pragmatic and cynical Bormann involved in such rituals for any other purpose than to placate Himmler, and to keep an eye on his most serious rival for power.

In spite of this, Bormann, of all the leading Nazis, is the one figure that is the most shrouded in mystery and contradictions. While finding it difficult to believe that Bormann could be anything less than cynical in his approach to Himmler’s fascination with the occult – recall that it is because Bormann kept such faithful notes of Hitler’s “table talk” that we know at all that Hitler regarded Himmler’s obsession with such things as “nonsense” – it is nonetheless remotely possible that Bormann was a very high initiate into his own secret society affiliations, for he had acquired a home after the Nazi assumption of power, near the town of Ingolstadt, which remained his legal residence throughout the war.

For those who do not know the significance of Ingolstadt, it is the birthplace – on May 1, 1776 - of one of the most notorious secret societies in history: the Bavarian Illuminati of Ingolstadt University professor Adam Weishaupt. Given that Bormann’s boss at the time was one Rudolf Hess, a man known to be
steeped in and obsessed with
occult lore and secret societies of every stripe imaginable, it is difficult to believe that Bormann would not have known this aspect of the history of the town he had chosen to make home.

a. Bormann’s Manipulation of Hitler

Some have speculated that Adolf Hitler’s extraordinary power over masses, and his extraordinary charisma and skill as an orator, came from some occult influence in his life. To a certain extent, this is true, for it is known that Hitler
did
obtain the assistance of individuals, such as the rhetorician Hanussen, trained in the use of
gestures
to accompany
words
, a school of rhetoric with its own occult and esoteric associations. Beyond this, however, nothing at all is known of Hitler’s initiation into any secret society, though most scholars have speculated upon it.
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If Hitler’s evident ability to sway the masses of Germany with pageantry and brilliant rhetoric was evidence of any occult association, however, then Bormann’s evident skill in manipulating Hitler – while seemingly his servant – must be taken as the manipulation of the king by the court magician.

What was Bormann’s source of power over the man who held such power over Germany and Europe? One very plausible explanation was given by William Stevenson in his book,
The Bormann Brotherhood
.

The Jew as the source of all evil haunted Adolf Hitler, who feared that his own blood was ‘tainted.’ This led to the brutal murder of his niece and mistress (Geli Raubal). The details were lost at the time, for the Nazis were already on the march and violent killings became the order of the day. …It was only when Bormann’s disappearance became a matter for serious conjecture, and intelligence agents began to go into the ugly details, that an incredible episode in Hitler’s life came to light. This explained exactly how Martin Bormann was able to gather into his hands all the strings required to make Hitler dance to his tune.
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Like many others examining the “suicide” of Geli Raubal, Stevenson speculates that Adolf Hitler, in a fit of blind rage after Geli had threatened to expose the fact that his grandmother had born a child from Baron Rothschild of Vienna,
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had killed his niece with a pistol, and then fled the scene in panic, and appealed to Bormann for Help. Bormann assured his Führer that it would be “taken care of”. It had to be, for obviously, a murder investigation of Hitler was a considerable impediment if the Nazis were ever to assume power.

At this point, Bormann begins his rise to power, by somehow persuading the local police investigator of the murder, a man named Müller, to cover up the murder in return for favors and advances. And thus was born an alliance between Martin Bormann and one of Nazi Germany’s other “hidden powers” behind the throne, for Müller went on to become the notorious “Gestapo Müller”, making the Gestapo’s extensive files on just about everybody not only available to his immediate boss, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, but also to Bormann, who thus had up to the minute intelligence on his biggest rival and his entire department of the Nazi government. Bormann, in fact, according to Stevenson, had initiated, via Gestapo Müller, no less than
four
private and discreet investigations of Hitler’s family lines and his Jewish blood and descent, all without Hitler’s knowledge. The blackmail value that all this information would have had for Bormann was incalculable, and accounts for his ability to draw into his hands “all the strings” to make Hitler “dance to his tune”. Indeed, Stevenson’s own characterization of Bormann’s role in this regard is oddly reminiscent of the language of another man, writing in the 1920s, long before Hitler came to power.

But before that, there is something else. Gestapo Müller was
directly responsible for the blanket of security belts around SS
Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler’s “think tank” in Prague.
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In other words, Bormann, through his friend Gestapo Müller, was faultlessly well-informed about the extent and nature of Nazi secret weapons research. Indeed, he, Bormann, was the real master of it all.

But what of the language of “dancing to a tune”? What man first used such language in association with Nazis?