#Parsons

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People (1)

Aleister Crowley English occultist who headed the Ordo Templi Orientis from 1921 to 1947, wrote for German propaganda journals in New York in 1915 and claimed to have done so for British intelligence.

Organizations (2)

Agape Lodge California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis, named in 1935 under Wilfred Talbot Smith and led from 1943 by Jack Parsons, whose Pasadena house drew FBI and Army counterintelligence inquiries.
Ordo Templi Orientis Occult fraternal order headed by Aleister Crowley from 1921 to 1947, investigated by federal agents in 1919 and the 1940s, and plaintiff in the 1985 federal judgment on its name and Crowley's copyrights.