Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells

Levenda, inspired by Jacques Vallée, posits that the Kennedy assassination was not merely a political conspiracy but part of a deeper, 'volcanic eruption' of societal forces, similar to the UFO phenomenon, suggesting a profound, underlying synchronicity of events.

Jacques Vallée pointed out a 'weird' connection between the assassination and UFO phenomena in 1963, suggesting a deeper, violent eruption beneath society that we don't suspect until it occurs.

A reader's insight helped Levenda connect a Nazi war criminal in Indonesia to a financial account used to funnel 20 tons of Nazi gold into Jakarta. This gold was intended to support Sukarno's 'revolutionary fund' for non-aligned nations, opposing the established IMF.

A reader connected specific numbers and an address from Levenda's books, revealing a Nazi war criminal opened an account in Jakarta to funnel Nazi gold. 20 tons of Nazi gold from Portugal ended up in Jakarta for Sukarno's non-aligned nation fund.

Following Sukarno's deposition and the civil war in Indonesia, West German embassies and consulates were staffed by former SS members. These individuals used Nazi gold to finance operations against Sukarno's government, falsely painting him as a communist.

West German embassies and consulates in Indonesia were staffed by former SS members, who used Nazi gold to finance the overthrow of Sukarno's government by labeling him a communist, despite CIA assessments to the contrary.

During WWII, many Ukrainians allied with Nazis to escape Soviet control. Post-war, an entire Ukrainian SS division, including families, was brought to New Jersey, where they established churches and cemeteries, some burying prominent Nazi Ukrainians.

An entire Ukrainian SS division, who allied with Nazis to escape Soviet control, was brought to New Jersey after the war, establishing churches and cemeteries for 'famous Nazi Ukrainians'.

Levenda's involvement with the American Orthodox Catholic Church revealed it was a front for intelligence operations, with its incorporation papers signed by a CIA and an FBI agent. The church facilitated covert activities, including consecrating bishops for political purposes in foreign nations.

Propheta, the bishop of the American Orthodox Catholic Church, stated that a CIA agent and an FBI agent incorporated his church, providing protection. The church consecrated a Nigerian 'holy prophet' bishop to support the Nigerian regime against Biafran Christians.

Levenda encountered famous wrestler Antonyino Rocca at a meeting, who openly discussed his work for the CIA in the Middle East, including flying unapproved Phantom jets to Israel via Luxembourg and dealing with casualties in Lebanon.

Antonyino Rocca, a famous wrestler, told Levenda and others at a synagogue meeting about working for the CIA in the Middle East, including flying Phantom jets to Israel that were unapproved by Congress and dealing with two agents killed in Lebanon.

In 1979, Peter Levenda visited Colonia Dignidad, a secluded German compound in Chile, which he discovered was a heavily funded Nazi cult operating with significant autonomy. Local Chilean authorities warned him of its danger, its disregard for Chilean law, and its history of children disappearing, later confirmed to be linked to the leader, Paul Schaefer, a pedophile.

Levenda's personal account of being stopped, interrogated in German by Schaefer and his men, and then being told by Germans in Chile that he was 'no longer welcome in this country' and must leave immediately. This was followed by Chilean military stops and US agents meeting him at Miami airport, confirming the colony's far-reaching influence. News of a German parliamentary vote on Nazi war crimes prosecutions coincided with his trip, suggesting his visit was perceived as a political provocation.

Levenda argues that Nazi occultism, including the SS Ahnenerbe's expeditions to Tibet and Antarctica, was not a 'kooky side alley' but a central, driving force behind the Third Reich's political and military ambitions. He states the Nazi party was a 'complete cult' aiming to 'rewrite history completely from a Nazi racist eugenicist point of view.'

His findings at the National Archives included captured German documents detailing SS expeditions to Tibet (seeking 'Shambala') and Antarctica, and research into runes for a 'runic yoga.' He also found 1930s newspaper articles and film footage of SS 'archaeologists' in Tibet with swastika flags. Hitler's personal interest in Wagner and occult literature further supports this.

The 1947 Mory Island UFO incident, where a boat was hit by debris from a UFO, killing a dog and injuring a boy, involved Fred Chrisman (port master) and was investigated by FBI agent Guy Banister. Decades later, both Chrisman and Banister, along with David Ferry and Jack Martin, were linked to Lee Harvey Oswald and the alleged New Orleans plot to assassinate JFK, all connected through right-wing, anti-communist, and strange religious organizations.

Air Force intelligence officers investigating Mory Island died when their B-25 exploded. Reporter Tom Mel, who obtained a transcript of their meeting, also died mysteriously. Guy Banister, who tracked UFOs for J. Edgar Hoover (documented in 'X-Files'), later ran a detective agency in New Orleans where Oswald was associated. Chrisman, like Ferry and Martin, was involved in the same 'weird church' and right-wing circles, forming a direct, documented link between early UFO phenomena and the JFK assassination narrative.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a defector to Minsk who returned with a Russian wife (niece of a GRU colonel) and a State Department loan, was strategically placed. Ruth Payne, who helped him secure a job at the Texas School Book Depository, was the daughter-in-law of Arthur Young (Bell helicopter inventor turned occultist) and connected to Andrea Puharic's Round Table Foundation, an institute for paranormal research with deep intelligence ties and attendees like Alan Dulles' mistress.

Oswald's wife was connected to Soviet military intelligence. Ruth Payne, a Quaker, hosted Oswald's family and facilitated his employment. Her familial and social connections to Arthur Young and Andrea Puharic's Round Table Foundation, a group of 'blue blood Americans' and intelligence figures studying the paranormal, suggest Oswald was a pawn in a much larger, occult-tinged intelligence game.

In the early 1950s, a group of nine prominent individuals, including members of the Astor and DuPont families, held seances with an Indian medium. This medium channeled entities who identified themselves as "the nine" and claimed to be in a UFO in "low Earth orbit," directing planetary events. These entities communicated scientific answers and expressed an intent to "change the course of history."

The guest, Peter Levenda, states that transcripts of these sessions were published by Puharic (one of the participants), and the identities and backgrounds of the attendees are known. Puharic himself, a military figure, later brought Uri Geller to SRI, where Geller also channeled "the nine." The host notes the timing coincides with significant UFO events in 1952.

Levenda's research into the JFK assassination uncovered direct links to this "nine" entity phenomenon and broader UFO connections. Figures like Ruth Payne, who housed Lee Harvey Oswald, were connected to this "other world" of paranormal and UFO interests. Oswald himself was involved with "weird people" and UFO connections in New Orleans.

Levenda states that finding these UFO connections within the assassination research was what drew him into UFO studies, despite not being a UFO researcher previously. He frames it as a direct "plug into this whole world."

Levenda recounts two personal "Men in Black" (MIB) experiences: a surveillance incident in Rhode Island involving two old cars and strange individuals asking for a specific, obscure company name he had recently encountered, and a later encounter in Singapore where one of the women from the Rhode Island incident tapped him on the shoulder, smiled, and waved. He initially thought them sloppy agents but, after the Singapore incident and discussions with UFO researcher Timothy Good, concluded they were not government agents but part of a non-human intelligence phenomenon.

The specific details of the two-car team, the obscure "Dilbus" name (which had a personal, almost psychic, connection to Levenda), and the impossible coincidence of the woman appearing in Singapore years later. Timothy Good's advice on how "they" acknowledge presence in public places supports this interpretation.

Levenda presents a detailed case for Hitler's escape, challenging the official narrative. Key points include contradictory eyewitness accounts of his death, the impracticality of his cremation, the later discovery of a female skull attributed to Hitler, and the suspicious acquisition of two sets of dentures for both Hitler and Eva Braun just before Berlin fell. His research uncovered a previously unknown "rat line" to Indonesia, facilitated by Hitler's close friend Walter Havl, who had established Nazi party offices there. He found records of a wanted Nazi war criminal, George Anton Poch, who lived and died in Indonesia, bore a striking resemblance to a young Hitler, had a passport with an Austrian birth year matching Hitler's, and kept a diary in Gabelsberger shorthand (Eva Braun's specialty) detailing his escape and Nazi ideology. Poch's movements and the clandestine nature of his life in Indonesia, including his "happiness" during the 1965 massacres, further fuel the theory.

Conflicting Soviet accounts, the Connecticut state archaeologist's finding that the "Hitler skull" was female, the dentist's testimony about two sets of dentures, Hanna Reitsch's flight, Walter Havl's history in Indonesia, Himmler's "friendship circle" connections to Indonesia, German U-boat presence and cemetery in Bandung, the Indonesian doctor's testimony about "Dolph," Levenda's personal observation of Poch's photo and grave (missing dates, annual foreign visitors), and the contents of Poch's diary and passport. The contact with Hela Poke's niece confirms the couple's identities and their escape.

Levenda argues that consciousness is the interface for understanding phenomena previously dismissed as delusion or religious experience. Modern technology (cameras, radar) now records events like UFOs changing direction or materializing/dematerializing (e.g., Tic Tacs), forcing a re-evaluation. These are not just technological events but consciousness problems, challenging our perception of reality.

UFOs appearing and disappearing, splitting into multiple craft, turning off missile bases, and imitating attacks; the historical dismissal of religious experiences as delusion versus current technological recording of such events.

The primary reason for government non-disclosure is not the possession of alien bodies or flying saucers, but rather the inability of governments to understand, defend against, or control these phenomena. Disclosing this lack of sovereignty and capability would undermine their legitimacy and expose them as unable to protect their citizens from an existential threat.

UFOs turning off missile bases, imitating missile attacks; the inability to 'bomb their cities' because their location, nature, or even existence of cities is unknown.

Levenda proposes that human society, from its earliest developments like building cities, charting stars, and pursuing medicine and immortality, is a 'cargo cult.' This means our entire civilization is a long-term, ritualistic response to an ancient, non-technological 'wake up' event where an external intelligence provided foundational knowledge or impetus, much like islanders built airstrips to attract 'cargo' after seeing planes.

The sudden global shift from hunter-gatherer societies to building cities, temples, and charting stars (e.g., Sumerians tracking Venus's 8-year cycle) without clear internal motivation; the modern drive for immortality and off-planet travel.

Levenda asserts that true understanding of esoteric or paranormal phenomena cannot be achieved solely through reading documents or intellectualizing. It requires direct, personal experience, akin to the biblical concept of 'faith without good works is dead.' He encourages engaging with the phenomena, even if not recommending dangerous practices.

The analogy of 'faith without good works is dead'; the idea that 'one impulse from a vernal wood will teach you more of man... than all the sages can'; the ineffectiveness of merely releasing remote viewing documents without people actively practicing it.