Adam Finnegan wrote that his mentor John Loftus "was the first to expose the Lyme disease connection to
biological warfare, in 1982". [https://
Loftus is a former military intelligence officer, Nazi hunter, and
president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. [https://
Loftus claims that he is an Irish Catholic, but he even wrote a
column called "Spyview" for a Haredi Jewish
magazine called Ami, so I don't know if he is a crypto-Jew or just a
particularly hardcore shabbos goy. An old bio of Loftus said: "As a young U.S. Army officer, John Loftus helped train
Israelis on a covert operation that turned the tide of battle in the
1973 Yom Kippur War." [https://
Wikipedia says: "The Office of Special
Investigations historian David Marwell described Loftus' book The
Belarus Secret as 'the worst kind of amateur
history.'[6]
Vital Zayka, a fellow of the Center for Jewish History in New York City,
accused Loftus of falsification.[7] The
Israeli historian and Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff described the book as
controversial and referred to Charles R. Allen Jr.'s review in Jewish
Currents, in which Allen joined the active criticism of Loftus and named
him a fraud and a liar.[8]" [https://
Loftus said that the publisher of his book The Belarus
Secret was a former high-level CIA agent who had a Q clearance, and
who taught him about the history of biowarfare. [https://
Loftus coauthored two of his three best-known books with the Jew Mark
Aarons, whose father was the head of the Communist Party of Australia,
and whose brother, grandfather, and great-grandparents were also
prominent members of the party. [https://
Loftus used to organize an annual conference in DC called The
Intelligence Summit, whose advisory council included two former heads of
the CIA and senior officials of the Mossad. [https://
A financial sponsor of The Intelligence Summit was the Israeli
gangster Michael Cherney, who organized a similar conference in Israel
called the Jerusalem Summit. Cherney has been denied a visa to the
United States since 1999 because of his involvement with the Russian
Jewish mafia. In 1999 the Intepol issued an international arrest warrant
against Cherney for money laundering and organized crime. [https://
Joel van der Reijden wrote this about Finnegan's mentor: "Other very obvious neocons - hardcore Zionists, in fact -
that have appeared on Coast to Coast AM are Robert Spencer and John
Loftus. Spencer runs the anti-Islamic outfit Jihad Watch and sits on the
advisory board of the Intelligence Summit. [...] Loftus is tied to the highest levels of Israeli
and Zionist political and intelligence circles. Former CIA directors
James Woolsey and John Deutch sat on the board of his Intelligence
Summit until 2006, when very obvious Russian mafia ties to the Summit's
long-term financier, Russian Zionist oligarch Michael Cherney, were made
public. Woolsey and Deutch should have known about these ties, because
since the late 1990s Cherney has been repeatedly and convincingly linked
to the powerful Russian-Zionist Solntsevskaya mafia and its allies.
These allies also include the primary Rothschild partner in Russia, Oleg
Deripaska, as well as the Israeli state, which prevented a KGB/FSB-ran
assassination against Cherney in 1995. In 2003 Cherney also founded the
Jerusalem Summit, which sponsored at least two small meetings between
Israeli officials and American neocons. At the first meeting in 2003
Richard Perle and Coast to Coast's Frank Gaffney were present, along
with Ehud Olmert and Benyamin Netanyahu. That's two visitors of Coast to
Coast AM with clear ties to Michael Cherney: John Loftus and Frank
Gaffney. Basically, inviting either of these two men is the same as
giving voice to propaganda of the CIA, MI6, Mossad, Russian-Zionist
oligarchs and the Russian-Zionist Solntsevskaya mafia all at
once." [https://
In the book The Secret War Against the Jews, Loftus and
Aarons included a chapter about Robert Maxwell, where they praised
Maxwell's various exploits and admired his clever "con artistry". They wrote that Maxwell saved
Israel from defeat in 1948 because he supplied Israel with arms from
Czechoslovakia, and that "this one act alone made
Robert Maxwell a great man, one whose memory will be forever revered as
one of Israel's founding heroes." [https://
Adam Finnegan works as a "marketing media
coordinator" for Trine Day Books, which published his book. Trine
Day was founded by Kris Millegan, whose father was a high-level CIA
agent. Millegan says that he started studying conspiracy topics after
his father told him about the covert operations he had been involved in.
[https://
The first two guests on Finnegan's YouTube channel were Bruce de
Torres and Daniel Estulin. [https://
TNT Radio is now defunct, but it seemed like some kind of a
Russian-backed disinformation operation. [yt.
Trine Day has also published 4 books by Peter Levenda, who was the
anonymous author of the satanist book Simon Necronomicon. He later had a
key role in the Blink-182 guy's UFO disinformation operation, along with
the so-called former intelligence officers Jim Semivan, Luis Elizondo,
Chris Mellon, and Hal Puthoff. Levenda is a member of the Association of
Former Intelligence Officers, and he has been allowed to present
conspiracy theories about Nazis on mainstream TV, just like Loftus.
[https://
John Loftus was a frequent guest on the radio show of Dave Emory, who
is a leftist conspiracy theorist who finds Nazis hiding under every
rock. [https://
Dave Emory called himself a "Brussel
sprout", because he was a disciple of the leftist conspiracy
theorist Mae Brussell. Brussel's father was Rabbi Edgar Magnin, who was
a spiritual leader of Hollywood Jews, who referred to himself as a "Jewmanist", and who delivered the prayer at
Nixon's inauguration. In 1936 he was calling for an "international war" to "teach
humanity the value of kindness and common sense". [https://
In 2004 after Lab 257 came out, Dave Emory did a radio show
about the book where he said Lyme disease was caused by a Nazi
biowarfare agent created by Erich Traub, and he has also done several
other shows about Erich Traub. [https://
One of the main topics Dave Emory discussed on his radio show was how
HIV was a bioweapon, and he also promoted the work of Len Horowitz and
Alan Cantwell, who both said that HIV was a bioweapon created by the
Americans. [https://
Nick claims that HIV is a recombinant virus that includes components
of the visna virus. Variations of his visna recombination theory had
earlier been presented by John Seale, Robert Strecker, Jakob Segal, and
Alan Cantwell. Nick has been unable to answer me which parts of the
genome of HIV come from visna, and I have shown him plots which
demonstrate that no part of the genome of HIV is closer to visna than to
SIV. [https://
Len Horowitz was knighted by an American order that claims to be
descended from the Russian branch of the Knights of Malta: [http://
The order was founded in 1956 by Charles Pichel, and it was known as
the "Shickshinny Knights of Malta", because
it was based in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. [https://
Horowitz claimed that HIV was created by Robert Gallo's group at the
National Cancer Institute, but that the NCI took over Fort Detrick. His
theory is reminiscent of the KGB's disinformation campaign about how HIV
was created at Fort Detrick. [hiv.
In 1992, the former Stasi disinformation officer Günter Bohnsack
admitted that the story that HIV was created at Fort Detrick was an
active measure initiated by Moscow, but the three people he credited for
popularizing the story were Jakob Segal, Stephan Heym, and Johannes
Mario Simmel, who were all Jews. The main star of the campaign was the
communist Jew Jakob Segal, who had previously supplied the Stasi with
intelligence on western nuclear research, and who once suggested his
supervising officer at the Stasi to stage a car accident to kill a
scientist. Segal claimed that HIV was a genomic recombinant of the
STLV-I and visna viruses, even though he was a hardcore Lysenkoist who
had earlier continued to support Lysenko's view that genes did not exist
even after Lysenko himself had abandoned it. Segal's books were
published by the publishing house of the Marxist-Leninist Party of
Germany. The director of the publishing house coauthored a book with
Segal, and he went on a speaking tour in Africa promoting Segal's theory
together with the Communist Party of South Africa. Segal was interviewed
in the West German press by the Jewish journalist Stefan Heym, who was a
close friend of Segal. Heym was earlier the editor-in-chief of the
German-language newspaper of Communist Party USA. He served in the US
Army's psychological warfare unit called the Ritchie Boys, which was led
by the Jew Hans Habe, who established numerous newspapers in Germany
after the war after the German press was dismantled. Heym was an editor
of one of the newspapers, which was largely staffed by Jews who had
served in the psychological warfare division of the US Army. Heym wrote
the script for a propaganda radio play which included the earliest
reference of any kind I have found of Josef Mengele being an evil doctor
at Auschwitz. The Stasi disinformation officer Bohnsack also said that
the Stasi supplied material about HIV to the Jewish fiction writer
Johannes Mario Simmel, who wrote a popular novel about the theory that
HIV was created at Fort Detrick. [hiv.
Jakob Segal's theory that HIV was created at Fort Detrick is
reminiscent of the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was created at Fort Detrick,
whose main proponent was George Webb. In February 2020, the CBS aired a
report about Webb's theory on the program 60 Minutes, but similarly in
1987, the CBS aired a report about Segal's theory by the 60 Minutes host
Dan Rather. Segal said that HIV was a hybrid of the HTLV-1 and visna
viruses, but Webb also said that SARS-CoV-2 was a hybrid of three
viruses. Segal was registered as a Stasi informant, but according to
Trish the Dish who used to do videos with Webb, Webb had acquired a
level 3 certification at the Department of Homeland Security (and the name of DHS is reminiscent of Stasi which is
short for "state security" in German).
[yt.
Webb's theory that SARS-CoV-2 was created by Sina Bavari's team at
Fort Detrick was also promoted by Mark Kulacz, who did his alt media
debut on a channel that was launched by the son of a high-level FBI
agent together with George Webb. [https://
When I searched BitChute and AltCensored for "Sina Bavari", all results were videos posted by
Housatonic. [https://
George Webb started promoting Finnegan's book soon after the book was
published. [https://
In the book The Belarus Secret which was later republished by Trine Day under the title America's Nazi Secret, Loftus claimed that about 50,000 Jews were killed in a secret Belarusian Holocaust. Loftus wrote that after he was hired by the Office of Special Investigations, which was the DoJ's Nazi hunting division, his "security clearances were upgraded above Top Secret (Q, SI, COSMIC)", and he wrote that at the OSI, "security clearances were raised - my own was three access levels above Top Secret - to permit inspection of the secret records of the various intelligence services". Loftus claimed that "I was the first person in forty years to review the classified archives of U.S. intelligence", and that he spent almost two years browsing files in twenty vaults buried underground, where he found the memoirs of a Jew named Sol Schiadow, who described a secret Holocaust of Jews in Belarus:
I spent weeks in underground vaults, learning the intricacies of long-forgotten intelligence operations, and then systematically retrieving the records from their dusty containers. It took years to reassemble all the documents, many of which had never even been translated. But there was one document that I could not forget: the memoir of Solomon Schiadow, who had survived the Byelorussian holocaust. Whenever I felt frustrated by a dead end or an uncooperative agency, I would remember what he had written, and feel renewed determination to keep on, sifting through the files for traces of the men who had committed the atrocities he recorded.
Sol's story was described in more detail in the book The Secret
War Against the Jews, where his last name was written as "Schnadow" and not "Schiadow". In the book, Loftus and Aarons wrote
that even though Sol's exploits were not recorded by history books, he
was the only survivor of a Polish horseback invasion into Nazi Germany,
and probably the first Jewish soldier to invade Nazi Germany. During his
invasion, Sol supposedly went partially bald because his hair stuck to
dried blood in his helmet (which does not seem
physically plausible): [https://
Three days after Germany attacked Poland with tanks and airplanes, Shnadow's unit counterattacked on horseback. The unit actually fought its way across the frontier and penetrated the Third Reich. Shnadow was probably the first Jewish soldier to invade Nazi Germany. The incident did not make it into the history books, however, because he was the only survivor. The German army caught the little band of Polish cavalrymen in an artillery ambush, followed by a machine gun attack. Shnadow's horse was blown to the ground, pinning him beneath it. In seconds the battle was over. The brave Polish cavalry surrendered. Then the German infantry moved in to take its revenge.
First, the Germans shot the prisoners of war and then the Polish wounded. Shnadow could hear the footsteps as the executioners approached. He could only lie there helplessly and close his eyes as the shots came closer. A German soldier looked down at him, covered from head to toe with the blood of his horse. "This one's dead," the soldier muttered, and moved on. For seven hours Shnadow lay still amid the corpses, waiting for the Germans to finish their killing and leave. When darkness came, he struggled from beneath the horse and threw off his helmet. To his amazement, all the hair on the top of his head was stuck to the dried blood in the helmet. He was alive, but partially bald.
Shnadow changed his uniform for some clothes he had stolen and snuck back across the border into Poland, the only survivor of the first raid on the Third Reich.
Apparently Sol's hair never grew back, because a few pages later when Loftus and Aarons described events that took place several years later in 1945, they wrote that Sol managed to avoid capture by the Soviets because of his baldness: "The soldiers ran right past. The Soviets were looking for a young soldier with hair, not a balding refugee. Making him lose his hair was the only favor the Nazis had done for him."
According to Loftus and Aarons, the main person responsible for the Belarusian Holocaust was Stanislaw Stankievich, who developed a novel "sardine method" which economically enabled killing a double layer of Jews with one bullet:
The SS had asked whether Stankievich could massacre every one of the eight thousand Jews in Borisov in a single day, without any German help. Stankievich thought it over and said that it could be done. He threw a wild party for his police force, to get them properly drunk for the work that was to come.
The raid began at 3:00 A.M. on October 20. It was all very systematic. The Jews were shuttled out one hundred at a time to a road near the airport where long ditches had been dug. There they were forced to undress and made to lie on top of each other, head to toe. Stankievich's idea was to shoot through a double row of bodies to save ammunition. It was his own unique contribution to the horrors of the Holocaust. Of course, if the Jew on top was shot through the heart, the one on the bottom was only wounded. The police were told to cover the wounded with a thin layer of dirt and then suffocate them beneath another double layer of bodies. It went on all day: a layer of dirt, a double layer of bodies, another layer of dirt, and so on. Stankievich was very proud of his system. He called it the "sardine method."
After the war the worst part of the atrocities was discovered: The bodies of the smallest children had no wounds. Apparently, to save the price of a bullet, Stankievich buried the babies alive.
The Holocaust literature is full of stories of crafty Jews who managed to escape from a gas chamber, so in similar fashion, Loftus told that some of the Belarusian Jews managed to cleverly dig themselves out of mass graves: "The mass graves were overfilled, and some of the victims, who had only been wounded, dug themselves out." However the clumsiness of the "sardine method" appears to have inspired the invention of gas chambers: "The massacres nauseated the Germans because the methods were considered clumsy. There were complaints back to Berlin about wounded Jews crawling out of graves alive. [...] Eichmann's diary noted that he was revolted by the brutal method of killing in the Belarus region and ordered experiments with poison gas as a more 'humane' alternative." Loftus didn't cite any source for Eichmann's diary, because no such diary entry exists. Loftus and Aarons also wrote: "Because the gas vans and the liquidation squad simply could not keep up with the huge numbers of Jews to be killed, Eichmann conceived of poison gas as an alternative. Partly in revulsion against the cruel methods of Stankievich and his colleagues, and partly as an efficiency measure, he brought the gas chamber into use."
Out of about 4,000 Jews in his town, Sol is supposed to have been the only survivor, who was spared because he falsely said he was a bricklayer, and the Nazis needed bricklayers to work at a concentration camp. When Sol was at the concentration camp, "the young White Russian trainees tried to outdo each other in cruelty", so that "A baby was thrown in the air and caught with a pitchfork. A young man was tied to a horse, drenched with kerosene, and then he and the animal were burned alive. One guard took a butcher knife and carved out human organs while the victim was still alive."
According to Loftus and Aarons, Sol then led the escape of 125 Jews from the concentration camp:
Shnadow and four others decided to plan a breakout. It was madness, but there was no other choice. Shnadow said that if even one of them lived to be a witness, to tell what the Nazis had done, it would be worth it. The last 125 Jews were marked for death anyway. Under the noses of the SS, they dug a tunnel out of the stable leading to the fence. The blacksmith's shop made a pair of wire cutters. Time was running out. Soon the fence would be electrified.
That night Shnadow led the breakout. His job was to kill the closest guard and cut the wires. But the guard already was dead drunk, and the heavy snowfall muffled their escape. In one of the worst blizzards of the season, the last Jews in the camp made their escape into the night. It was dawn before the guards realized what had happened. The Germans thought it a poor reflection on White Russian efficiency that Jews could escape from a school for camp guards. Stankievich ordered a massive manhunt and captured one of the inmates. Before he was tortured to death, he revealed who had planned the breakout. Stankievich put a price of 10,000 marks on Shnadow's head.
In The Belarus Secret, Loftus wrote that Sol himself dug the tunnel: "This little Jewish barber dug a tunnel under a Nazi concentration camp and led the last hundred Jews in a breakout. The Nazis put out a reward of 10,000 marks on Sol's head."
Loftus and Aarons wrote that afterwards when Sol had moved to the United States, he happened to give a copy of his memoirs to the FBI, but the memoirs remained buried in the FBI's archives until Loftus discovered the memoirs in 1979:
Years passed, and then one day the FBI visited Shadow and showed him a photograph of an alleged White Russian war criminal. Shadow gave the FBI agents a copy of his memoirs, but told them he was quite sure that the man in the photo had never been in Koldychevo. It was all rather puzzling. Shnadow went back to work at his barbershop and thought no more about the visit.
Shnadow's story was hidden for many years, until one of the authors found a copy of his memoirs in a classified FBI file. In 1979, John Loftus was one the first attorneys assigned to the Justice Department's Nazi hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations. By luck of the draw, he had been assigned to review the White Russian cases, the crimes of men from Belarus.
Both The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the
Jews said that Sol's name was Solomon, but his name is Saul on his
gravestone and in his obituary. [https://
I also found a photo of the Bielski Brigade where one person was
identified as "Sholem Sniadowicz (Saul Schnadow)". [https://
When I googled for "Sholem Shnadovitch",
there were only a couple of results, but one of them was an entry at
openlibrary.org for a 39-page booklet published in 1960 titled "Reminiscences of my experiences in World War II".
[https://
But anyway, I don't remember Loftus saying anywhere that Sol's memoirs had been published before Loftus supposedly discovered them in the underground vaults. Loftus wrote that in 1979 he "stumbled across Sol's papers" three decades after Sol had handed out the memoirs to the FBI, so presumably Sol would've already written the memoirs around 1949. Of course it's possible that Sol would've given a manuscript of the book to the FBI and he would've later published the memoirs, or that he would've printed more copies of the memoirs in the 1960s.
A newsletter of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from 2003 says
they had received a donation of the "wartime memoirs
of Sholem Shnadovitch of Ostrolenko, Poland". [https://
In 1986 New Jersey Jewish News published photos from a dinner party
held by the Lawyers Division of the United Jewish Appeal, where the
featured speaker was John Loftus, and another person at the event was
Sol Schnadow: [https://
In 1991 the same newspaper published an obituary of a
Holocaust-surviving barber called Saul Schnadow, who was a "member of the South Orange Avenue Masonic Lodge"
(which was one of the few things mentioned in his
short obituary, so his freemasonry might have been a somewhat
significant aspect of his life): [https://
Loftus claimed that the headquarters of the Belarus Nazi network were
in South River, New Jersey, which is only about 40 km away from the
Masonic lodge. [https://
Before Adam Finnegan started his Substack, his articles were
published on platform called One Great Work Network, whose logo features
an eye in a pyramid. The "creator and
curator" of One Great Work Network is Mark Passio, who is a
former priest in the Church of Satan. [https://
Finnegan is one of 35 authors who have more than 50 posts on the
platform, along with people like these: [https://
Kris Nelson is "one of the developers that helped
to make the OGWN site", but he did a presentation about
empowerment where he discussed the "two pillars of
enlightenment" and "Phoenix purification by
fire". [https://
Finnegan wrote an article titled "Introducing...
The One Great Work Network Mystery School: Ending Slavery, One Mind at A
Time", where he wrote that his website Garden of Great Work was
"a larger network of initiates and those devoted to
the larger journey of discovering and serving Truth, both within and in
the world of objective reality, to discover what is, from what is not,
and to reshape oneself continuously to be in line with Truth and the
spiritual homeostasis of what the great Occult Initiate Mark Passio of
What On Earth is Happening referred to as 'Natural
Law'". [https://
In 2020 he wrote on his website that he "started
up the Garden of Great Work, my site of education for the teachings of
Truth and Natural Law in the occult traditions and contribution to
modern day Mystery Schools, which I will be working with soon".
[https://
A copyright notice at the bottom of his website said "©2020 by Sol Invictus". Sol Invictus is equated
with Mithras, and also the dark sun Saturn that Finnegan identifies
with. Sol Invictus is also one of the five holidays celebrated by The
Satanic Temple, which is owned and managed by a Jew called Cevin Soling.
[https://
Finnegan wrote that the "Fixation of Fire"
is "the attachment of oneself to their Drive or
sense of purpose, symbolized by fire, as something comparable to a
passion", which becomes "a service in the
Great Work". [https://
I found an obituary of an Anthony Passio Jr. from Philadelphia, who
"served in the United States Army as a Green Beret,
Special Forces". He died of cancer on May 11th 2024, and he was
the husband of Patricia Tartaglia-Passio and the "father of Ronald Tartaglia, Lori Ribecchi (Daniel), Dina Valentino (Dino), Mark Passio, and Eric Tartaglia (Shawnna)". [https://
It's not exactly surprising that the leader of a satanist cult would
be the son of a Green Beret. Just like Passio, Michael Aquino was also a
priest in LaVey's church before he founded his own satanic movement.
Aquino was a Green Beret at the 7th Psychological Operations Group at
Fort Bragg, where he coauthored the essay "From
PSYOP To Mind War" with his supervising officer Paul Vallely, who
was a member of the advisory council of Finnegan's mentor's intelligence
conference. [https://
The central tenet of Passio's cult seems to be to follow what he
calls "natural law", but in one of his
presentations he equated natural law with the teachings of the Kabbalah:
"Kabbalah: powerful, powerful tradition, about the
reception of natural law. And that's what it means, reception. It is
about the reception of the divine light." [https://
Mark Passio looks like a rabbi, but I think he's just an Italian:
Mark Passio was appointed as a priest in the Church of Satan by
Blanche Barton, who was Anton LaVey's girlfriend and who became the high
priestess of the church after LaVey died. [https://
Anton LaVey's daughter said that his biography credited to Blanche
Barton was "apparently ghostwritten by LaVey
himself". [https://
The biography said that around 1949 when LaVey studied criminology in San Francisco, LaVey recalled: "There were two main rendezvous spots in San Francisco, a Jewish Community Center and a Workers' Collective downtown, where fellows would come in off the boat and went right down to meet contacts in the library of one of these places. I would be hired to play for a fashion show or variety show, then I'd get through and go right down to the docks where crates of guns were being loaded onto ships to Israel. Many of the guns were ones that had been 'liberated' during the war by American soldiers and were slated as DEWAT [deactivated war trophies]. But before they had a chance to be officially deactivated they were cosmolined up and sent to Israel. They'd wind up in a crate marked 'menorahs' or something - mostly German MP 40's and P-38's, but even Japanese Nambus, anything could get their hands on. Afterwards, I'd get letters of praise from the fashion show organizers saying how much I'd added to their presentation; little did they know what I'd been doing after their show." Then LaVey recalled: "I felt a culmination of that whole episode in my life many years later, shortly after The Satanic Bible came out. I met with Assaf Dayan, actor son of Israel's legendary Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and he was glowing about the book, agreed with every [sic] in it. He said it was exactly the philosophy they practiced, were forced to practice, in modern Israel. He extended an invitation for me to stay at his family home in Tel Aviv whenever I wished."
In 2021 Loftus wrote: [https://
In early 1981, my literary agent approached Ashbell Green, a former CIA/OPC [Office of Policy Coordination] agent who was a senior editor at Alfred Knopf Publishing. My agent gave Ashbell a one-page book proposal from me, in which I proposed writing a book on the history of OPC's classified employment of Nazi war criminals, which manuscript would have to be submitted to the US government for pre-publication review.
Ash gave me a book contract and a $20,000 advance. I worked on the book throughout the summer and fall of 1981 and completed the manuscript on or about December 7, 1981. I then submitted it to the CIA Pre-Publication Review Board. When CIA censorship was completed, I called Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes to say that I had a story for him.
In the introduction to America's Nazi Secret, Loftus wrote:
[https://
Many years ago, when I first submitted the manuscript of this book for censorship, one of my CIA reviewers grumbled that I had more of an institutional memory than they did. It is really not surprising, since I had studied the classified archives of the twenty-two other US intelligence agencies who had spied on the early CIA.
Then again, I had help. My editor at Knopf Publishers, the legendary and recently retired Ashbell Green, had himself been one the old OPC hands. If memory serves, his Master's thesis was on the Hungarian Nazi movement. He was not one of the Nazi recruiters, but had heard enough to know that the story about the Nazi connection had to be told.
One evening Ashbell was at a dinner party with a number of old friends from OPC who were complaining about "that terrible book, The Belarus Secret." A bit chagrined, Ashbell announced that he was the editor of that terrible book. The stunned silence was finally broken by the hostess who looked sternly at Ashbell and said: "You know the worst thing about that terrible book? It's all true."
The OPC was the CIA's covert operation wing. Wikipedia says that the
OPC's first action was "to influence the Italian
election of 1948, a policy success which demonstrated that
psychological/political warfare could be the key to winning the Cold
War". [https://
However I didn't find any source apart from Loftus which said that
Ashbel Green worked in intelligence, and Grok said: "The 'former CIA/OPC agent'
detail stems from John Loftus's personal recollection and has not been
independently substantiated in biographical, historical, or archival
sources." OPC only existed from 1948 to 1952. Wikipedia says that
Ashbel Green graduated from high school in 1945, "served in the Navy Reserve from 1946 to 1948",
"received a bachelor's in 1950 from Columbia
College" where he was a "president of WKCR
radio and was on the staff Spectator", and he "earned a master's from Columbia University in East
European history in 1952". [https://
The 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen wrote that when they did the show
about Loftus's story, one of the Nazis they interviewed lived in Bronx
and another worked at Radio Free Europe: "I had
carefully cultivated a source who gave me top-secret documents that laid
out the details of the operation. I convinced a former member of the
Justice Department's unit that prosecuted Nazis to become a
whistleblower and go on camera about the smuggling operations. And I
located some of the Nazis, one living a few miles from the 60 Minutes
offices in the Bronx, and another working at Radio Free Europe."
[https://
Grok said: "U.S. authorities (INS, later OSI) accused Latvian immigrant Vilis
Hāzners (b. 1905, Waffen-SS major) of
concealing his WWII role when entering the U.S. in 1956. He allegedly
served in Latvian auxiliary police/Schutzmannschaft under Nazi control,
directing/participating in arrests, beatings, ghetto internments, and
atrocities against Riga's Jews - including identifying victims for
extermination, herding them into the Grand Synagogue (burned with people inside in 1941), and other
persecutions causing hundreds to thousands of deaths. Eyewitnesses (Israeli survivors) testified in 1977-1979
hearings. Defenders claimed charges were Soviet/KGB propaganda; he
admitted Latvian Legion service but denied crimes. On Feb. 27, 1980,
Judge Anthony DeGaeto ruled against deportation, finding insufficient
evidence that Hāzners concealed material facts or participated in the
Holocaust - criticizing INS handling and witness credibility. The
government appealed, but the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed it
in 1981 for lack of clear proof." The accusations against Hāzners
were based on a pamphlet by Paulis Ducmanis, who himself later admitted
that the accusations were false. [https://
There's only one paragraph about Lyme disease in the preface to
America's Nazi Secret, and there's a long footnote about Lyme
disease in The Secret War Against the Jews. I didn't find Erich
Traub mentioned in either book. The preface to America's Nazi
Secret speaks of "Nazi germ warfare
scientists" but doesn't explicitly name Erich Traub. At Google
Books the earliest book that matched "erich traub" lyme was
from 2007, and it referred to the book Lab 257. [https://
In the preface to America's Nazi Secret, the paragraph about Lyme disease comes right after a paragraph where Loftus suggested that Israel's Arab neighbors were manufacturing Nazi nerve gas, and that Mengele tested poison gas on Auschwitz inmates and "traded the test records to British intelligence in return for his freedom":
It is an irony that one of Israel's Arab neighbors is reported to be manufacturing Nazi nerve gas. Sarin is cheaper than atomic bombs and almost as deadly. Wonder where the Arabs got the Nazi nerve gas formula? A British document mentions a post-war interview with a man named "Mengele" as a Nazi adjutant in charge of research on poison gas weapons. It is almost certain that Dr. Joseph Mengele experimented with Sarin on Auschwitz inmates and then traded the test records to British intelligence in return for his freedom. The actual inventor of Nazi nerve gas emigrated to the United States and died recently in Florida.
Even more disturbing are the records of the Nazi germ warfare scientists who came to America. They experimented with poison ticks dropped from planes to spread rare diseases. I received some information suggesting that the US tested some of these poison ticks on the Plum Island artillery range off the coast of Connecticut during the early 1950s. I explored the old spies' hypothesis that the poison ticks were the source of the Lyme disease spirochete, and that migrating waterfowl were the vectors that carried the ticks from Plum Island all up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Most of the germ warfare records have been shredded, but there is a top secret US document confirming that "clandestine attacks on crops and animals" took place at this time. The Lyme disease outbreak in America was monitored secretly under the cover of a New England health study.
I didn't find any other reference to Lyme disease in the book. The
single paragraph above is also quoted in the book Lab 257,
which is where Finnegan said he learned about Loftus's theory. [https://
In The Secret War Against the Jews, there's a long footnote where Loftus and Aarons presented Rachel Verdon's theory that Lyme disease was brought to America by a Soviet fur ship:
Rachel Verdon has been collecting declassified records of Soviet research on Nazi toxins. She has compiled a frightening and formidable amount of documentation. Although the evidence is still incomplete, there is reason to believe that the Soviet military discovered that ticks, fleas, and lice could be systematically infected and then secretly dispersed throughout an enemy population. There are some indications that the Soviets used the "insect vector" on their own dissident Moslem populations.
According to our sources, they tried it on an American population as well. Vernon has found some intriguing circumstantial evidence to support this claim. In the late 1940s, the Soviet ship Elberus delivered a load of furs and skins to the port of New York. Shortly afterward an epidemic of an unknown disease similar to rickettsial pox broke out in New York City. It was traced to a form of insect rarely seen in the United States but common in the Soviet Union.
According to our sources, the U.S. government threw a top-secret classification over the entire episode and immediately began to study the Soviet insect vectors on Plum Island off the coast of Connecticut. That, the old spies say, is how Lyme disease began to spread. The government quietly commissioned a study of the New England population, using the unwitting Muscular Sclerosis Society as a cover. When no indications of epidemic infections in humans or animals were found, the whole study was quietly scrapped.
What the government did not know was that Lyme disease can be dormant for several years and later may have reacted with common vaccines in a most unfortunate manner. While the Lyme disease story cannot be corroborated, Vernon has confirmed that a top-secret U.S. study labeled "Clandestine Attacks on Crops and Animals" once existed, but all copies have been destroyed. One of the participants in the study, Leo Alexander, has been identified as a U.S. intelligence expert on Nazi medical experiments on human beings. To this day, the Department of Agriculture Research Station on Plum Island is closed to human visitors. Still, it may all be a coincidence.
It's convenient how the sources cited are "old spies say" or "according to our sources" or a study that "once existed, but all copies have been destroyed".
In the book Loftus and Aarons also cited FOIA documents obtained by Rachel Verdon several times.
In 2006 Rachel Verdon self-published a book titled "Lyme disease and the SS Elbrus: Collaboration Between the
Nazis and Communists in Chemical and Biological Warfare". [https://
Rachel Verdon did not mention Erich Traub in the book, but she claimed that a German chemist called Henry Tolkmith was actually Josef Mengele, and that he was somehow a key witness to the Nazi-Soviet collaboration to create Lyme disease, and that he monitored the spread of Lyme disease in the United States. Grok said:
Verdon claims Tolkmith was an I.G. Farben chemist brought to America via Operation Paperclip and hired by Dow Chemical to work on pesticides, poison gas, and organophosphorus compounds. She asserts his real identity was Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz "Angel of Death," whose expertise in tick-borne nervous system diseases (including Lyme and multiple sclerosis) made him valuable to both East and West during the Cold War.
Tolkmith/Mengele is portrayed as a protected "Dragon Returnee" who may have served U.S. agencies (Defense or Health Department) in tracking Lyme disease and related conditions, as part of postwar coverups that ignored Nazi-Soviet collaborations.
Verdon sought Tolkmith as a "historical witness" to the long-term Nazi-Soviet pact to spread tick-borne plagues via Soviet fur shipments (e.g., on the SS Elbrus), which she says infested U.S. ports and undermined democracies through chronic illness.
Suspicions stemmed from inconsistencies in his Paperclip files (conflicting descriptions, double U.S./USSR sightings). During Verdon's interview at his Florida home, he denied dossier photos were of himinterpreted as proof of identity theft (possibly involving his brother Karl). She notes he died soon after. Later editions cite new photos (e.g., Karl Hoecker Album) as confirming the images depict Mengele, solidifying his U.S. role in Lyme "tracking."
Rachel Verdon wrote that she was "directed to the
attention of Ipatieff by members of the United Jewish Appeal in
Washington, DC, citing a January 26, 1996 edition of 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo' featuring a January 1927
reprint of front page headlines on Vladimir Ipatieff 'Chemical Warfare Chief of the Soviet Union'
collaborating with the Germans in 'strangulating
gases'". Loftus was also based in DC, and he spoke at
several events organized by United Jewish Appeal between at least 1985
and 2003. [https://
In 2012 Rachel Verdon self-published a book where she said 9/11 was
financed by underground Nazis in the ODESSA network. [https://
In 2022 Rachel Verdon was interviewed on YouTube by Tino Struckmann.
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At time 18:07 she said about Lyme disease that "It wasn't really man-made. It's been here for thousands of years. There's even records of Lyme, uh, 200 years ago, up in the Great Lakes, that my doctor Paul Lavoie uncovered. But it wasn't rampant, because the rats weren't rampant, okay. I mean, an occasional deer would get it, an occasional fur trapper would get it, but - you know, and they could live through it and get over it too. So that's uh, Lyme has been here, I think, easily since the first shipping came in from Russia, okay." I don't understand why at first she said Lyme has been in America for thousands of years, but then she said it's been in America since the first shipping came in from Russia.
At time 23:21 she said that the German army had a unit called "Waffen Pruf 9" that had been stationed in Russia in 1926-1933 until it was called back to Germany, even though Stalin killed off "everybody that's witness to this" (which presumably is meant to explain why the "Waffen Pruf 9" group is not recorded in history books, and the only references to the group I found came from her). She said that between the wars when Germans were forbidden to work on chemical and biological warfare because of the Versailles treaty, they went to Russia instead, where they had a program to parachute contaminated rats all over the steppe and tundra. But then in order to cover up their tracks, in 1940 Hitler sent Waffen Pruf 9 back to Russia on a "decontamination mission" where "Joseph Mengele was brought with them to be put into the gas and smoke unit".
At time 42:32 in order to explain why Mengele lived with Tolkmith's wife after Mengele had adopted Tolkmith's identity, she said: "Maybe the real Tolkmith died at Dyhernfurth, and he gave his wife Valentine to Mengele, who was also a poison gas expert and a biological warfare expert. And, uh, and said, 'Get my wife out of here. Get, you know, beat it back to, you know, West Germany, get rat lined out.' That's what I think happened. But I can't prove it."