Occult in Wartime

Both sides of the war, historians of the strange insist, ran magical divisions.

Wartime intelligence services took folk belief seriously as a weapon. Documented: Britain's SOE and the 'occult bureau' rumors around MI5 astrologer Louis de Wohl, hired to guess what Hitler's astrologers were telling him; Ian Fleming's role in floating astrological deception; the Nazi Ahnenerbe funding expeditions for Atlantean and Grail evidence; U.S. psychological operations using Filipino vampire (aswang) lore against Huk guerrillas in the 1950s, described in CIA officer Edward Lansdale's memoir. Magic as psyop is not a theory; it is filed procurement.