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10

Magick in Theory and Practice
, Aleister Crowley, 1930; various subsequent reprints.

11

Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley
, op. cit.

12

‘A Book for Burning,’
Sunday Express
, November 19, 1922.

THE THULE SOCIETY

1

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
, Alan Bullock, Penguin, 1962.

2

The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
, Joanna Kavenna, Viking, 2005.

3

Ibid.

4

Jane Eyre
(1847), Charlotte Brontë, Penguin, 1994.

5

Mein Kampf
(English translation by James Murphy), Hutchinson, 1940.

6

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
.

7
www.thirdreich.net
.

8

A History of the Jews
, Paul Johnson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.

9

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
, Lucete Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel, William Morrow, 1991.

9

Himmler’s Crusade: The True Story of the 1938 Nazi Expedition into Tibet
, Christoper Hale, Bantam, 2004.

10

Ibid.

11

www.unexplained-mysterious.com
.

MUTI

1

‘Magic Medicine Murders Bedevil South Africa,’ Michael Dynes,
The Times
, October 4, 2003.

2

‘Human flesh on sale in London,’ Antony Barnett, Paul Harris and Tony Thompson, the
Observer
, November 3, 2002.

3

Black Britain: Nobody’s Child
, BBC 2, April 2, 2002.

4

Ibid.

5

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
, Alexander McCall Smith, Polygon, 1998.

6

www.news.bbc.co.uk
.

7

‘Trafficking and sexual exploitation,’
www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html
.

8

‘Where were their eyes as this boy bled?,’ Steve Boggan,
The Times
, August 17, 2004.

9

‘Missing: the mystery of 300 boys who have disappeared from school,’ Steven Morris and Rosie Cowan, the
Guardian
, May 14, 2005.

10

Ibid.

THE TONG

1

Tongs, Gangs and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America
, Peter Huston, Paladin Press, 1995.

2

Ibid.

3

The Barbary Coast
, Herbert Asbury, Old Town Books, 1933.

4

Triad Societies in Hong Kong
, W.P. Morgan, Government of Hong Kong, 1960.

5

‘300 Sightseers See Chinatown Murder,’
New York Times
, November 22,1920.

6

The Chinese Experience in America
, Shih-shan Henry Tsai, Indiana University Press, 1986.

7

The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act, 1882.

8

Tongs, Gangs and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America
, op. cit.

KU KLUX KLAN

1

Malcolm X: The Autobiography
, Malcolm X (with Alex Hayley), Ballantine, 1965.

2

Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan
, David M. Chalmers, Duke University Press (NC), 1987.

3

‘In Darkest Louisiana,’ Leonard L. Cline,
Nation
, 116 (1923).

4

Extract taken from an article in the Klan’s national magazine and used in
Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan
, op. cit.

5

Intimidation, Reprisal and Violence in the South’s Radical Crisis
, American Friends’ Service Committee
et al.
, 1959.

6

Hooded Americanism: The History of Ku Klux Klan
, op. cit.

7

Convictions were gained several years later.

8

Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
, op. cit.

ORDER OF THE SOLAR TEMPLE

1

‘Interpol joins Swiss in Solar Temple murder inquiry,’ Edward Luce in Granges-sur-Salvan, Claire Trevena in Toronto, and John Mullin, the
Guardian
, October 6, 1994.

2

www.religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/solartemp.html
.

3

‘Lured by the cult,’
The Times
(London), April 18, 2001.

4

Ibid.

5

‘Conductor tells court how New Age Guru inspired doomsday cult,’ AFP, April 26, 2001.

6

Ibid.

7

‘Conductor not guilty in doomsday cult deaths, French court finds,’
Globe and Mail
(Canada), June 26, 2001.

8

‘Solar Temple cult worries rise as millennium nears,’ Patrick White, Reuters, April 26, 1999.

9

‘Geneva seeks to temper influence of cults,’ SwissInfo (Switzerland), November 3, 2001.

THE HASHISHIM

1

Extract from the report of Gerhard,
vice dominus
of Strasbourg, quoted in
Chronicon Slavorum
(1172-1209) by Arnold of Lübeck, ed.W.Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschictsquellen, 1907.

2

The Book of Marco Polo
, translated and edited Sir Henry Yule, 1903.

3

Autobiographical fragment preserved by historians and here taken from The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Bernard Lewis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.

4

The Assassins: Holy Killers of Islam
, Edward Burman, Aquarian Press, 1987.

5

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
, op. cit.

6

Ibid.

7

Ibid.

8

Ibid.

9

Ibid.

10

Ibid.

11

Chronicon Slavorum
, op. cit.

THE MAU MAU

1

State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau
, Fred Majdalany, Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

2

Ibid.

3

From an interview broadcast in Channel 4’s ‘Secret History’ series,
How Britain Crushed the Mau Mau Rebellion.

4

State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau
, op. cit.

5

Kenya
, A. Marshall MacPhee, Praeger, 1968.

6
State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau
, op. cit.

7

Facts on File: World News Digest with Index
, reports for 1953, Facts on File.

8

Kenya
, op. cit.

9

State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau
, op. cit.

AUM SHINRIKYO

1

‘A Lingering Nightmare,’ Richard Lloyd Parry,
The Times
, March 18, 2005.

2

www.crimelibrary.com
.

3

www.guardianunlimited.com
.

ODESSA

1

The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
, Uki Goñi, Granta, 2002.

2

Así Hablaba Juan Perón
, Eugenio P. Rom, Peña Lillo Editor (Buenos Aires), 1980.

3
The Real Odessa: How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
, op. cit.

4

Priebke’s statement at 209 POW Camp, Afragola, August 28, 1946,
Primetime
, ABC Television; 1994.
El Ultimo Nazi
, Elena Llorente and Martino Rigacci, Sudamericana, 1998; Priebke interview,
La Nación
(Argentina), April 12, 1998.

5

Priebke interview in
Odessa al Sur
, Jorge Camarasa, Planeta (Argentina), 1995.

6

Dieter Wisliceny’s testimony at Nuremberg, January 3, 1946.

7

The House on Garibaldi Street
, Isser Harel, Viking, 1975.

8

The House on Garibaldi Street
, op. cit.

9

La Razón
(Argentina), December 23, 1960.

THE SOCIALIST PATIENTS COLLECTIVE

1

Bringing the War Home
, Jeremy Varon, University of California Press, 2004.

2
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Group
), Stefan Aust, Hoffman & Campe (Germany), 1985.

3

Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Gang
, Jillian Becker, Lippincott, 1977.

4

Ibid.

5

Ibid.

6

‘Die Rote Armee aufbauen,’
833
.

7

Bringing the War Home
, op. cit.

THE THUGS

1

The History of India as told by its own historians
, Sir H. M. Elliot, New Delhi, 1996.

2
Children of Kali
, Kevin Rushby, Constable & Robinson, 2002.

3

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
, Mark Twain (1897), Dover Publications, 1989.

4

Although Kali is a Hindu deity, there were also Muslim Thugs roaming the country, committing murder as well.

5

Thug, or A Million Murders
, Colonel James L. Sleeman, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1933.

6

Ibid.

7
Children of Kali
, op. cit.

THE CAMORRA

1

La Camorra: Notizie storiche raccolte e documentate per cura di Marco Monnier
, Marco Monnier, G. Barbera (Florence), 1863.

2

Ibid.

3

See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime
, Tom Behan, I. B.Tauris, 2002.

4

Ibid.

5

Ibid.

6

Ibid.

7

Rapporto sulla camorra della Commisione antimafia
, L’Unità (Rome), 1994.

8

Il Manifesto
(Rome), 22 September 1994.

9

See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime
, op. cit.

10

Commissione Parlamentare di inchiesta sul fenomeno della mafia e sulle associazioni criminalis similari,
Audizione di Pasquale Galasso 17 settembre 1993
, Camera dei Deputati (Rome) 1993.

THE HELL FIRE CLUB

1

The Hell Fire Club
, Daniel P. Mannix, Four Square, 1961.

2

Ibid.

3

Ibid.

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