Espionage History Archive
In his analysis of the modern world, French Traditionalist thinker René Guénon noted that the true masters of revolutions, materialism and secularism were not actually ends in themselves, but only the initial phases in the occult processing of society. The ultimate end of the secret elites, Guénon believed, was the destruction of sacred tradition and the enthronement of infernal forces in a new counter-religion. With the experience of the Bolshevik Revolution and early-period Soviet intelligence’s forays into the realms of the esoteric, we have a powerful example of Guénon’s thesis in action.
and
, connoisseurs of cryptography and ancient poisons, hypnotists and psychics, telepaths and clairvoyants – who
wasn’t
brought in to work in the OGPU [Unified State Political Directorate] Special Department directed by one of Lenin’s closest colleagues,
. The Special Department was consulted by luminary of Soviet psychiatry academic
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