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

About this episode

Peter Levenda discusses the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and significant historical events.

Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the Secret Machines series co-written with Tom DeLong. His work draws on primary documents, national archives, and firsthand research across four continents. He is known for finding connections between subjects that most researchers treat as separate — Nazi occultism, the Kennedy assassination, CIA mind control programs, UFO phenomena, and the hidden religious networks that ran through all of it. The Sinister Forces 20th Anniversary Edition is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: The Why Files

Guest: Peter Levenda

Topics covered

• occult history
• intelligence operations
• Nazi occultism
• UFO phenomena
• CIA mind control
• hidden history

Keywords

• Peter Levenda
• Nazis
• UFOs
• occultism
• CIA
• mind control
• hidden history
• Kennedy assassination

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA

Products: Sinister Forces 20th Anniversary Edition

Books & works: Unholy Alliance, Sinister Forces trilogy, Secret Machines series

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