The Luciferian Crusade: A Collaborative Timeline

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Berra- I have just looked at the articles you have provided. They are definitely being entered into the ATL. Those events have the type of feel and atmosphere I am certainly looking for. I really like the link to Lee Harvey Oswald as a possible agent of the organization. The Yugoslavian bomb certainly was a big surprise...

I am definitely going to build some more events to add to the ATL...

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

What am I missing here?

In 30 seconds or less the idea of the ATL, is to help create a TL with a POD after c.1930, wherein an underground terrorist organization like "The Brotherhood of Nod" (Command & Conquer) and "Cobra" (G.I. Joe) exist, posing a threat to world security by 1995....

 

[Strategos' Risk]

I wonder if any of the secret history introduced in Metal Gear Solid 3 is applicable here.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I wonder if any of the secret history introduced in Metal Gear Solid 3 is applicable here.

As long as there are no major ASB events in the TL for Metal Gear Solid 3 You can add some of the events of the game to the TL. You could have the role of "Old Snake" and the "Wisemen's/ Philosophers' Committee" playing the role of a "Fifth Column" within the Soviet Union, China and United States.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the ATL, based on the latest POD additions:

c.1935- Joseph Stalin continues the institution of the Comintern, despite advice to dismantle the organization...

c.1939- According to Peter Wright, the "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" organization is founded by a group of disapointed veterans form the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

c. 1945- Martin Bormann, Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Skorzeny and Otto Strasser escape into Brazil in an effort to elude Allied forces. "Luciferian Crusade" operatives where behind most of the smuggling of of jewish refugees and weapons to Israel. It is likely people where smuggled out of the consentration camps long before the war ended. Some historical accounts, like Adams, suggest that Otto Skortzky where involved. Major General Reinhard Gehlen recruited by "Luciferian Crusade" agents in Munich...

c.1946- Soviets seize control of northern Iran, sparking Middle Eastern tension...

c.1946- Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola preaches humanity existed in a "dark age of unleashed materialistic appetites, spiritual oblivion and organised deviancy", proclaiming the need for a "Luciferian Crusade"...

c.1946- "Lucifer"-affiliated groups of former OSS and SOE operatives started using their network gained working behind German lines to take control and set up a heroin distribution network in southern Italy, targeting the US market

c.1947- Berlin Shootout (5/1); false-flag operation wherein a number of people dressed in both American and Soviet uniforms started shooting at a number of places in Berlin. 147 people, both soldiers, civilians and Lucifer agents where killed. For a moment, the world balanced on the brink of World War 3 but both sides stood down. The Berlin Shootout was largely seen as a attempt to start a armed rebellion since most of the agents where Germans and at first, the investigation stalled.

c.1948- "Luciferian Crusade" members build a nuclear reactor in Vodvojina, Yugoslavia with the aid of German scientists...

c.1949- "Luciferian Crusade" members secretly detonate a nuclear weapon, sparking concern between Soviet and American military intelligence agencies...

c.1950- St. Paul's Incident; unsuccessful attempt on the British Royal Family at Saint Paul's Cathedral by the acclaimed writer George Orwell led to the discovery of a spy ring within the British establishment. The former MI5 officer and royal art historian, Anthony Blunt, who helped Orwell place the bomb committed suicide while his long time friend and co-Luciefer agent Donald MacLean defected to Yugoslavia.

c.1951- McCarthy Hearings. Senator Joseph McCarthy had led a number of hearings of suspected communist symaptizers as chairman of HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activites), until a minor scandal destroyed his career and he retired back to Wisconsin...

c.1952- McCarthy and Colonel Eric Bell presented their findings during in front of a special group in the Senate. This was known as the Luciferian Crusade/McCarthy Hearings.

c.1954- "Luciferian Crusade" agents led by Lolita Lebrón attempt to take members of the U.S. House of Representatives as hostages in Washington D.C., police end with shootout with agents....

c.1955- Premier Konrad Adenauer orders a crackdown on suspected "Luciferian Crusade" cells in Rostock and Berlin, East Germany, sparking concern of infiltration of the Warsaw Pact...

c.1956- Suez Crisis; France and Great Britain retake the Suez Canal, relations cool with the United States in the process...

c.1957- Kim Philby Affair; MI6 officer, Kim Philby, working for Lucifer leads MI5to a member of the Lucifer board of directors, Leopold Trepper, working as a buissnessman in France.

c.1957- Death of Joseph Stalin; Historians suspect members of "Luciferian Crusade" with the death; "Luciferian Crusade" members are ordered to apply for membership in the Soviet Communist Party or offered their services to KGB...

c.1958- "Cobra" splinter faction members found a breakaway fraction. The name may come from a member only identified as "Number 5" who had a pet cobra he used to play with during meetings.

c.1959- Marshal Josip Tito ordered raids against all "Cobra" and "Lucifer" property in Yugoslavia and gave intelligence to western intelligence agencies.

c.1959- "Luciferian Crusade" agents recruit Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera into their ranks in Munich, West Germany, sparking concerns within the Soviet ranks....

c.1960- Savitri Devi Mukherji (a.k.a. Maximiani Portaz) begins preaching about the idea of a "New World Order" in Munich, West Germany...

c.1960- "Cobra" operative sneaks a bomb onboard a U2 spy plane blowing it up over the Soviet Union and stopping the improving East-West relations in the post-Stalin years. The suspected bomber, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a marine working a guard on a secret U2 airfield in Atsugi, Japan. and he later defected to the Soviet Union.

c.1960-1966- "Luciferian Crusade" leaders smuggle arms, mercenaries, etc. to the secessionist Katanga province in the newly-independent Belgian Congo

c.1962- President John F. Kennedy orders U.S. law enforcement agencies to begin an investigation into the Mafia and the international narcotics trade, threatening "Luciferian"/ "Cobra" profits...

c.1963- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" agent Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, using a "Cobra"/ "Luciferian Crusade" cover , in the form of a schoolbook depository...

c.1965- Ageria is granted independence from France, after years for fighting since 1954, becoming one of the longest conflicts of the Cold War...

c.1968- Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California by "Lucuferian Crusade" member Sirhan Sirhan after calling for an investigation into the international drug trade....

c.1972- Agha Hasan Abedi forms the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in Luxembourg, as a corporate face, laundering money for the "Luciferian Crusade"....

c.1974: Angered over India's nuclear weapons test, Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI, begins laundering money to Pakistan to finance its nuclear weapons program...

c.1975-Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal") is recruited into the "Luciferian Crusade" in Amman, Jordan....

c.1978- Iraqi Communist Party General-Secretary Aziz Muhammad launching a revolt, in resistance to Saddam Hussein,...

c.1979- Phoolan Devi of Uttar Pradesh, India is recruited into the "Luciferian Crusade", becoming one of the highest-ranked females in the group...

c.1980-1988- BCCI begins weapons purchases and sales for Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq War, laundering billions of dollars in the process...

c.1982- Italian government officials convict Father Paul Marcinkus, head of the Institute for Religious Works from 1971 to 1982, of laundering money for the "Luciferian Crusade" using the Vatican Bank in Rome, Italy....

c.1982- CIA operatives begin using BCCI as a means to launder money to different anti-communist guerilla movements worldwide...

c.1982- Ali Khavari and Parviz Hekmatjoo could certainly launch a revolt against the Iranian government...

c.1989- Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI, sells NAVSTAR information to the Soviet Union, sparking a massive intelligence coup...

c.1991- INTERPOL police officials are told Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI CEO, is helping to finance terrorist organizations, unfortunately, the same report claims that Abedi is "psychic"...

c.1992- "Luciferian Crusade" members led by Shoko Asahara obtain several nuclear weapons from the collapsing Soviet Union, including several "suitcase" bombs....

c.1994- Leaders of the "Luciferian Crusade" devour the Zapatistas of Mexico, leading the organisation to be called the "World Liberation Front"

c.1999- U.S. Justice Department officials Tom Easton and Dr. Jonathan H. Levy report "Luciferian Crusade" bank records dating c.1941-1945, during a press conference in San Francisco, California....

c.2002- During the height of the anti-globalisation movement, "Luciferian Crusade" leaders openly seize power in Many Third World and former Soviet Bloc countries such as Kazahstan, Taijikistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Mongolia, Burma, Much of africa, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Cuba, Mexico and Vietnam.

c.2003- WLF is condemned by the UN in a unanimous resolution, leading to massive tensions

 

[AMF]

Sorry I didn't come up with it earlier but I realized there's another way to create a communist organisation in the right time span. The warriors from the Spanish civil war could form it.

The ones fighting for the smaller militias, like George Orwell, where prety dissatisfied with the Stalin controlled fractions, the great irony beeing that they critizised the Stalin-supported fraction for wanting to bring democracy, western style.

Lucifer and Cobra

The unsucessful attempt on the Brittish Royal Family in 1950, by the
acclaimed writer George Orwell led to the discovery of a spy ring
within the Brittish establishment. The former MI5 officer and royal art
historian, Anthony Blunt, who helped Orwell place the bomb commited
suicide while his long time friend and co-Luciefer agent Donald MacLean
defected to Yugoslavia.

c.1950- Buckingham Palace Incident; unsucessful attempt on the Brittish Royal Family by the acclaimed writer George Orwell led to the discovery of a spy ring within the Brittish establishment. The former MI5 officer and royal art historian, Anthony Blunt, who helped Orwell place the bomb commited suicide while his long time friend and co-Luciefer agent Donald MacLean
defected to Yugoslavia.

George Orwell plant a bomb under Buckingham Palace???? That can't be the George Orwell I know, and if he is, the alien space bats must have performed a successful brain transplant. He volunteered to fight Franco in Spain and severely criticized the communists for supressing other leftist groups, and not for wanting to bring democracy. He was a socialist and a severe critic of British colonialism (having once served as a colonial policeman himself), but he also was proud of Britain's democratic institutions and the rule of law in Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

George Orwell plant a bomb under Buckingham Palace???? That can't be the George Orwell I know, and if he is, the alien space bats must have performed a successful brain transplant. He volunteered to fight Franco in Spain and severely criticized the communists for supressing other leftist groups, and not for wanting to bring democracy. He was a socialist and a severe critic of British colonialism (having once served as a colonial policeman himself), but he also was proud of Britain's democratic institutions and the rule of law in Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

Admittedly some liberties were taken with regards to the issue of George Orwell. But can you suggest someone to take his place as the person who attempts to assassinate the British Royal Family at St. Paul's Cathedral (Yes, I changed the place of the assassination!!!).

 

[Berra]

George Orwell the Mad Bomber is over the top but over the top is hard to avoid when dealing with a international crime syndicate based on fiction so I figure this should be somewhere between outright ASB and more realistic AH.

I made Orwell a mad bomber for a number of reasons that is at least realism light. Orwells health was failing making him a potential risktaker with less to lose. Further, fought in the Spanish Civil war so he is willing to risk his life as well kill people for what he belive in. And he fit the profile for a Lucifer operative the way I imagine it, ie a socialist/communist who don't follow the command of Moscow (and he have the Spanish connection). It's the same reason I put Lee Harvey Oswald in there.

And a point I didn't really make in my post, blowing up the royal family wasn't just a random act of terror. It was part of some greater plan, either to overthrow the Brittish goverment, create a revolutionary situation or provoke a war between East and West. Having a delusion that something good can come out of it is realism light.

Out of curiosity, did you read Homage to Catalonia?

 

[AMF]

Admittedly, I can't. I like the ideas discussed in this thread, but that does not mean that I like an author whom I appreciate being portrayed as a mad bomber!
No offence intended!

 

[AMF]

George Orwell the Mad Bomber is over the top but over the top is hard to avoid when dealing with a international crime syndicate based on fiction so I figure this should be somewhere between outright ASB and more realistic AH.

I made Orwell a mad bomber for a number of reasons that is at least realism light. Orwells health was failing making him a potential risktaker with less to lose. Further, fought in the Spanish Civil war so he is willing to risk his life as well kill people for what he belive in. And he fit the profile for a Lucifer operative the way I imagine it, ie a socialist/communist who don't follow the command of Moscow (and he have the Spanish connection). It's the same reason I put Lee Harvey Oswald in there.

And a point I didn't really make in my post, blowing up the royal family wasn't just a random act of terror. It was part of some greater plan, either to overthrow the Brittish goverment, create a revolutionary situation or provoke a war between East and West. Having a delusion that something good can come out of it is realism light.

Out of curiosity, did you read Homage to Catalonia?

Yes, I did, perhaps twenty years ago.

 

[Berra]

Reread it.

Anyway. I like what Bondoc did with my stuff. Maybe Angelton should get a place as anti-Lucifer crusader, just to get a few familiar faces and thus a feel for the time and some suspension of disbelif.

About my post, I ran out of inspiration when I looked forward to the 70's and 80's. The Cobra would be involved in international terrorism and drug trade. They may go into cocain in the 80's. And I figured the anti Lucifer/Cobra services would be cought up in the post Watergate intelligence scandals.

Realisticly, a group like Lucifer or Cobra can't be around for ever so having them winding down makes sence. Still, it's dull. So I was thinking....

Some counter-intelligence people speculated that the leftist groups, around 1968, would start/join a resistance movement in case of a Soviet invasion. I dubt it would be realistic if the stay behind groups started recruting leftist youth with Cobra around but I suppose they could be infiltrated.

Look at Operation Gladio, it have a lot of story potential
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

For example, I'v just read about the Turkish side today and this golden, especially the later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Guerrilla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergenekon_network

Another side I wonder about, what about the Lucifer operations behind the Iron Curtain?

 

[AMF]

Reread it.

Rather than re-reading Hommage to Catalonia from cover to cover, I would like you to tell me what I have got wrong in my first post in this thread (where I did not explicitly mention Hommage to Catalonia, but was indeed referring to events described in that book)

 

[Campbell1004]

The Templar Knights, after being persecuted by the French state go into hiding. They will re-emerge with the United States as the Free-Masons.

The Free-Masons attempt to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship behind a shadow president after Washington dies (this is often called The Second American Revolution, the silent one). They fail and the Free-Masons become a legitimate organization, the remaining Templar return to hiding.

The Templar Knights, at this point, have been so twisted beyond any recognizable form of what they were (Christian Knights). They next emerge following the First World War as the Nazi Party (Adolf Hitler is a puppet). Using Germany as their sword the Knights Templar attempt to conquer the world. Again they fail, but the Knights Templar are not discovered.

They become the CEO's and Presidents of big business, selling arms to various factions around the world and funding coups de tats in established countries.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Reread it.

Anyway. I like what Bondoc did with my stuff. Maybe Angelton should get a place as anti-Lucifer crusader, just to get a few familiar faces and thus a feel for the time and some suspension of disbelif.

About my post, I ran out of inspiration when I looked forward to the 70's and 80's. The Cobra would be involved in international terrorism and drug trade. They may go into cocain in the 80's. And I figured the anti Lucifer/Cobra services would be cought up in the post Watergate intelligence scandals.

Realisticly, a group like Lucifer or Cobra can't be around for ever so having them winding down makes sence. Still, it's dull. So I was thinking....

Some counter-intelligence people speculated that the leftist groups, around 1968, would start/join a resistance movement in case of a Soviet invasion. I dubt it would be realistic if the stay behind groups started recruting leftist youth with Cobra around but I suppose they could be infiltrated.

Look at Operation Gladio, it have a lot of story potential
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

For example, I'v just read about the Turkish side today and this golden, especially the later:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Guerrilla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergenekon_network

Another side I wonder about, what about the Lucifer operations behind the Iron Curtain?

Berra- Thanks for the vote of support!! As such, here are a few PODs that should help to put things together, based on your suggestions:

c. 1950- "Luciferian Crusade" agents Erhard Peters and Paul Lüth begin recruiting disaffected youth in Bonn and Munich into the "Luciferian Crusade";...

c.1952- Odenwald Incident; "Luciferian Crusade" agents Erhard Peters and Paul Lüth launch an abortive coup attempt in Odenwald, West Germany against Prime Minister Georg August Zinn,....

c.1953: Leonid Markizov launches an armed insurection in Vorkuta, Russia SSR; sparking concerns about the stability of the Soviet state,....

c.1953- "Luciferian Crusade" agent Otto Hallberg is arrested in Stockholm, Sweden, after attempting to foment an "international incident" along the Swedish/Finnish/Soviet borders,....

c.1954- "Luciferian Crusade" agent Kapiton Kuznetsov launches an armed insurrection against Soviet officials in Kengir, Kazahkstan SSR;...

c.1954- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton briefs President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the "threat to world security" posed by the "Luciferian Crusade" at Camp David, Maryland;....

c.1956; "Luciferian Crusade" agents Luciano Cafagna and Francesco Sirugo spark civil unrest and armed insurrection in Budapest, Hungary, after smuggling across the Italian border;...

c.1956- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright uncovers "Luciferian Crusade" covert communications in Cairo, Egypt, sparking international attention and concern,...

c.1956- "Luciferian Crusade" help launch an armed insurrection in Tblisi, Georgia SSR led by Ivan Fedyuninsky, sparking fears of infiltration of the military ranks,...

c.1958- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton warns that both CIA and KGB agencies have been compromised by "Luciferian Crusade" members, during HUAC Congressional hearings in Washington D.C.,...

c.1958- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover calls for an end to domestic investigations into the "Luciferian Crusade" after receiving a set of "incriminating photographs" with Clyde Tolson....

c.1960- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright warns that French Intelligence Services have been compromised by "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" agents in Paris, France,....

c.1962- Novocherkassk Riots; Soviet military forces raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/"Cobra" cell in Novocherkassk, Russia, killing 22 people in the process,...

c.1963- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright warns that the ranks of MI5 have been infiltrated by agents of the "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" in London, England,...

c.1964- "Luciferian Crusade" agent General Giovanni de Lorenzo launches a purge of "suspected Communists" in Rome, Italy,...

c.1966- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover resigns amidst sex scandal after photographs are sent to the Washington Post and New York Times, sparking moral outrage...

c.1967- "Luciferian Crusade" leader Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos overthrows the government in Athens, Greece; creating a refuge and base of operations for both "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" members...

c.1967- Daoxian Massacre; People's Liberation Army (PLA) raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/"Cobra" cell in Daoxian, Huna, 4,519 people are killed in the process,...

c.1969- "Cobra" agents begin recruiting radical fringe elements of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), calling for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government,...

c.1969- Haymarket Bombing; "Cobra" agents bomb the Haymarket Riot monument in Chicago, Illinois, sparking fears of further terrorist attacks,...

c.1970- "Luciferian Crusade" agent, General Lin Biao launches an abortive coup attempt against Mao Tse-tung in Lushan, China, sparking a massive political purge,....

c.1970- "Cobra" agents issue a "Declaration of War", published by the New York Times and Washington Post, after an attack on Fort Dix, New Jersey,...

c.1970- Golpe Borghese; "Conra"/ "Luciferian Crusade" members, General Junio Valerio Borghese and Stefano Delle Chiaie launch an abortive coup attempt against the government in Rome, Italy;....

c.1970- "Cobra" agent Yukio Mishima launches an abortive coup against the government in Tokyo, Japan, sparking international attention,...

c.1971- "Luciferian Crusade" agent, General Memduh Tağmaç, launches an abortive coup against the government in Ankara, Turkey,....

c.1972- Peteano Incident; "Luciferian Crusade" member General Geraldo Serravalle, sparks an international incident, claiming "Soviet incursions" in Peteano. Italy, raising international tensions,....

c.1972- Pentago Bombing; "Cobra" agents led by Bernardine Dohrn bomb the Pentagon in Washington D.C., sparking fears of further attacks on American soil,....

c.1974- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright is forced to resign after publicly wrongly accusing Prime Minister Harold Wilson of being a spy for the "Luciferian Crusade" in London, England

c.1975- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton resigns amidst reports of CIA counterintelligence operations against "Luciferian Crusade" on American soil revealed in Washington Post and New York Times,....

c.1976: West German Defense Minister Heidrun Hofer is exposed as a "Luciferian Crusade" member in Bonn, West Germany;....

c.1978- Prime Minister Aldo Moro is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" members in Rome, Italy;...

c.1978- Defense Minister Hans Otto Meyer is revealed as a "Luciferian Crusade" member in Oslo, Norway; sparking fears of compromised NATO security,...

c.1978- British Ministry of Defense led by General Sir John Hackett and Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley call for massive reforms in NATO security measures against the "Luciferian Crusade" in London, England,...

c.1980- Oktoberfest Putsch; "Cobra" agent Heinz Lembke launches an abortive attempt at a political coup against the government in Munich, West Germanty;...

c.1980- "Luciferian Crusade" agent General Kenan Evren overthrows the government in Ankara, Turkey; sparking turmoil in the region,...

c.1982- NATO counter-terrorism expert General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" members in Palermo, Italy;...

c.1990- Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti surrenders to law enforcement authorities in Rome, Italy after winning immunity from prosecution and revealing "Luciferian Crusade" infiltration of NATO governments...

c.1990- Black January; Soviet military officials raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" cell in Baku, Azerbaijan, 93 people killed in the process, sparking international attention,...

c.1997- Zurich Massacre; Michael Tabachnik leads "Luciferian Crusade" members commit mass suicide rather than risk capture by INTERPOL in Zurich, Switzerland, sparking international attention,....

c.2001- Tuncay Güney warns of "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" infiltration of the government in Ankara, Turkey, sparking international attention and concern,...

 

[Berra]

(I will get back on the Orwell issue, giving the relevant chapter(s), I have picked up the book. I will also write a rambing sequel to describe my vision on cobra and lucifer hoping somebody will find it interesting or use it to something. Besides, I like the idea that it's fuzzy what Lucifer really is.)

Lucifer, Cobra and the Cold War
People ask themself why Lucifer and Cobra managed to survive to present day dispite the billions of Dollar and Rubels (and Pound, Franc, Mark and so on) spent on intelligence and security services. As it is often said, you can never undestand Lucifer and Cobra without looking at the broader Cold War.

The Cold War was a real conflict with huge armies standing against each other, ready to attack at short notice. Rockets and bombers could launch atomic bombs capable of killing mankind many times.

Thus, most of the resources spent during the cold war was spent monitoring the other powerblock. Neither signal intelligence nor the photo recognocanse from planes and satellites provided much intelligence on a small and secretive group like Lucifer and Cobra.

In fact, the fight against Lucifer and Cobra was fought by by a few, dedicated and underapprisiated people in the west. People like Peter Wright in MI5 and Jesus Angelton in CIA. It is debated weather J Edgar Hoover of the FBI belongs in this category.

The situation was somewhat different in the Eastern Block. It was a very oppressive regime by westen standards and it had a security apparatus that covered every asspect of every persons life. Notice for example that the East German Stasi where many times larger then Gestapo dispite only covering a quater of Germany and no occupied area outside Germany.

This made it harder for both Lucifer and Cobra to operate behind the Iron Curtain. Still, they managed to operate, most likely from within the KGB and the armed forces. Knowing exactly what they did is harder then their western operations due to the secrecy but a educated guess put them as part of the following events.

Litterary millions of people fled the advancing Soviet forces or when they realized that the occupation might be permanent. A large portion of them tell about a group that helped them, at times for money. Gibbs have collected some of the stories and documents but no large scale investigation where ever done, at least by the western powers.

Stalin had Eastern Europe purged after the war and this must have hit Lucifer hard since they had connections to Tito and the jewish community since their rescue from the connsentration camps.

Dispite the persecution, they managed to survive. Most of the weapons that ended up in Israel where of Eastern European origin for example, both manufactured post war and left over from the German forces.

Hill suggest that Lucifer and Cobra where behind all the major uprisings against Sovit during Cold War. Ingall is more sceptic, stating that it's only possible to prove that Cobra where behind the Hungarian revolt in 1960 and that the strong involvment of the Vatican in 1980's Poland is a strong indication Cobra was active there. Jackson state that it's just as likely that Cobra operatives cooperated with Soviet on the matter.
Koslov suggest a major reason behind the Soviet invasion of Afganistan where intelligence reports that Cobra took control and expanded the opium production in Afganistan. That would have strengthen Cobra to much.

A hotly debated issue is the former KGB officers who joined Cobra when the Soviet Union fell. Where they already part of Cobra or did they take their know-how to somebody who needed their skill?

KGB officer is a oversimplification by the way. Soviet had dozens of agencies of interest of Cobra and the most well known ex-Soviet Cobra member is Victor Bout who worked for the Soviet airforce where he managed to get his hands on a few transport planes that he used to smuggle guns to Africa.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

I have taken the liberty of adding some more events that took place behind the Iron Curtain and in the People's Republic of China. As for attacks in the United States, I was able to piece together some "Cobra" infiltration of protest movements in the United States. I also did my best to add Peter Wright's activities from MI5 into the ATL. Hopefully, this will add to the realism...

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here is the ATL, based on the latest POD additions:

c.1935- Joseph Stalin continues the institution of the Comintern, despite advice to dismantle the organization...

c.1939- According to Peter Wright, the "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" organization is founded by a group of disapointed veterans form the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

c.1945- "Luciferian Crusade" members, recruited from the Black Dragon Society, assassinate Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki in Tokyo, Japan, after he orders the surrender of military forces to the Allies...

c. 1945- Martin Bormann, Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Skorzeny and Otto Strasser escape into Brazil in an effort to elude Allied forces. "Luciferian Crusade" operatives where behind most of the smuggling of of jewish refugees and weapons to Israel. It is likely people where smuggled out of the consentration camps long before the war ended. Some historical accounts, like Adams, suggest that Otto Skortzky where involved. Major General Reinhard Gehlen recruited by "Luciferian Crusade" agents in Munich...

c.1946- Soviets seize control of northern Iran, sparking Middle Eastern tension...

c.1946- Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola preaches humanity existed in a "dark age of unleashed materialistic appetites, spiritual oblivion and organised deviancy", proclaiming the need for a "Luciferian Crusade"...

c.1946- "Lucifer"-affiliated groups of former OSS and SOE operatives started using their network gained working behind German lines to take control and set up a heroin distribution network in southern Italy, targeting the US market

c.1947- Berlin Shootout (5/1); false-flag operation wherein a number of people dressed in both American and Soviet uniforms started shooting at a number of places in Berlin. 147 people, both soldiers, civilians and Lucifer agents where killed. For a moment, the world balanced on the brink of World War 3 but both sides stood down. The Berlin Shootout was largely seen as a attempt to start a armed rebellion since most of the agents where Germans and at first, the investigation stalled.

c.1948- "Luciferian Crusade" members build a nuclear reactor in Vodvojina, Yugoslavia with the aid of German scientists...

c.1949-Proclamation of London; Francis Parker Yockey drafts anti-American and anti-Soviet "Luciferian Crusade" manifesto as a "declaration of war" to be published by the The Times in London, England,...

c.1949- "Luciferian Crusade" members secretly detonate a nuclear weapon, sparking concern between Soviet and American military intelligence agencies...

c. 1950- "Luciferian Crusade" agents Erhard Peters and Paul Lüth begin recruiting disaffected youth in Bonn and Munich into the "Luciferian Crusade";...

c.1950- St. Paul's Incident; unsuccessful attempt on the British Royal Family at Saint Paul's Cathedral by the acclaimed writer George Orwell led to the discovery of a spy ring within the British establishment. The former MI5 officer and royal art historian, Anthony Blunt, who helped Orwell place the bomb committed suicide while his long time friend and co-Luciefer agent Donald MacLean defected to Yugoslavia.

c.1951- McCarthy Hearings. Senator Joseph McCarthy had led a number of hearings of suspected communist symaptizers as chairman of HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activites), until a minor scandal destroyed his career and he retired back to Wisconsin...

c.1952- McCarthy and Colonel Eric Bell presented their findings during in front of a special group in the Senate. This was known as the Luciferian Crusade/McCarthy Hearings.

c.1952- Odenwald Incident; "Luciferian Crusade" agents Erhard Peters and Paul Lüth launch an abortive coup attempt in Odenwald, West Germany against Prime Minister Georg August Zinn,....

c.1953: Leonid Markizov launches an armed insurection in Vorkuta, Russia SSR; sparking concerns about the stability of the Soviet state,....

c.1953- "Luciferian Crusade" agent Otto Hallberg is arrested in Stockholm, Sweden, after attempting to foment an "international incident" along the Swedish/Finnish/Soviet borders,....

c.1954- "Luciferian Crusade" agent Kapiton Kuznetsov launches an armed insurrection against Soviet officials in Kengir, Kazahkstan SSR;...

c.1954- "Luciferian Crusade" agents led by Lolita Lebrón attempt to take members of the U.S. House of Representatives as hostages in Washington D.C., police end with shootout with agents....

c.1954- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton briefs President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the "threat to world security" posed by the "Luciferian Crusade" at Camp David, Maryland;....

c.1955- Premier Konrad Adenauer orders a crackdown on suspected "Luciferian Crusade" cells in Rostock and Berlin, East Germany, sparking concern of infiltration of the Warsaw Pact...

c.1956- Suez Crisis; France and Great Britain retake the Suez Canal, relations cool with the United States in the process...

c.1956- "Luciferian Crusade" member Lieutenant Colonel Ahmad Hussein launches an abortive coup attempt against the government in Jakarta, Indonesia, sparking international attention.....

c.1957- Kim Philby Affair; MI6 officer, Kim Philby, working for Lucifer leads MI5to a member of the Lucifer board of directors, Leopold Trepper, working as a buissnessman in France.

c.1957- Death of Joseph Stalin; Historians suspect members of "Luciferian Crusade" with the death; "Luciferian Crusade" members are ordered to apply for membership in the Soviet Communist Party or offered their services to KGB...

c.1958- "Cobra" splinter faction members found a breakaway fraction. The name may come from a member only identified as "Number 5" who had a pet cobra he used to play with during meetings.

c.1958- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton warns that both CIA and KGB agencies have been compromised by "Luciferian Crusade" members, during HUAC Congressional hearings in Washington D.C.,...

c.1958- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover calls for an end to domestic investigations into the "Luciferian Crusade" after receiving a set of "incriminating photographs" with Clyde Tolson....

c.1959- Marshal Josip Tito ordered raids against all "Cobra" and "Lucifer" property in Yugoslavia and gave intelligence to western intelligence agencies.

c.1959- "Luciferian Crusade" agents recruit Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera into their ranks in Munich, West Germany, sparking concerns within the Soviet ranks....

c.1960- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright warns that French Intelligence Services have been compromised by "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" agents in Paris, France,....

c.1960- Savitri Devi Mukherji (a.k.a. Maximiani Portaz) begins preaching about the idea of a "New World Order" in Munich, West Germany...

c.1960- "Cobra" operative sneaks a bomb onboard a U2 spy plane blowing it up over the Soviet Union and stopping the improving East-West relations in the post-Stalin years. The suspected bomber, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a marine working a guard on a secret U2 airfield in Atsugi, Japan. and he later defected to the Soviet Union.

c.1960-1966- "Luciferian Crusade" leaders smuggle arms, mercenaries, etc. to the secessionist Katanga province in the newly-independent Belgian Congo

c.1962- President John F. Kennedy orders U.S. law enforcement agencies to begin an investigation into the Mafia and the international narcotics trade, threatening "Luciferian"/ "Cobra" profits...

c.1962- Novocherkassk Riots; Soviet military forces raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/"Cobra" cell in Novocherkassk, Russia, killing 22 people in the process,...

c.1963- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright warns that the ranks of MI5 have been infiltrated by agents of the "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" in London, England,...

c.1963- President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" agent Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas, using a "Cobra"/ "Luciferian Crusade" cover , in the form of a schoolbook depository...

c.1964- "Luciferian Crusade" agent General Giovanni de Lorenzo launches a purge of "suspected Communists" in Rome, Italy,...

c.1965- Ageria is granted independence from France, after years for fighting since 1954, becoming one of the longest conflicts of the Cold War...

c.1966- FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover resigns amidst sex scandal after photographs are sent to the Washington Post and New York Times, sparking moral outrage...

c.1967- "Luciferian Crusade" leader Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos overthrows the government in Athens, Greece; creating a refuge and base of operations for both "Luciferian Crusade" and "Cobra" members...

c.1967- Daoxian Massacre; People's Liberation Army (PLA) raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/"Cobra" cell in Daoxian, Huna, 4,519 people are killed in the process,...

c.1968- Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California by "Lucuferian Crusade" member Sirhan Sirhan after calling for an investigation into the international drug trade....

c.1969- "Cobra" agents begin recruiting radical fringe elements of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), calling for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government,...

c.1969- Haymarket Bombing; "Cobra" agents bomb the Haymarket Riot monument in Chicago, Illinois, sparking fears of further terrorist attacks,...

c.1970- "Luciferian Crusade" agent, General Lin Biao launches an abortive coup attempt against Mao Tse-tung in Lushan, China, sparking a massive political purge,....

c.1970- "Cobra" agents issue a "Declaration of War", published by the New York Times and Washington Post, after an attack on Fort Dix, New Jersey,...

c.1970- Golpe Borghese; "Conra"/ "Luciferian Crusade" members, General Junio Valerio Borghese and Stefano Delle Chiaie launch an abortive coup attempt against the government in Rome, Italy;....

c.1970- "Cobra" agent Yukio Mishima launches an abortive coup against the government in Tokyo, Japan, sparking international attention,...

c.1971- "Luciferian Crusade" agent, General Memduh Tağmaç, launches an abortive coup against the government in Ankara, Turkey,....

c.1972- Agha Hasan Abedi forms the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in Luxembourg, as a corporate face, laundering money for the "Luciferian Crusade"....

c.1972- Peteano Incident; "Luciferian Crusade" member General Geraldo Serravalle, sparks an international incident, claiming "Soviet incursions" in Peteano. Italy, raising international tensions,....

c.1972- Pentago Bombing; "Cobra" agents led by Bernardine Dohrn bomb the Pentagon in Washington D.C., sparking fears of further attacks on American soil,....

c.1974: Angered over India's nuclear weapons test, Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI, begins laundering money to Pakistan to finance its nuclear weapons program...

c.1974- MI5 Deputy-Director Peter Wright is forced to resign after publicly wrongly accusing Prime Minister Harold Wilson of being a spy for the "Luciferian Crusade" in London, England

c.1975- CIA Deputy-Director James J. Angleton resigns amidst reports of CIA counterintelligence operations against "Luciferian Crusade" on American soil revealed in Washington Post and New York Times,....

c.1975-Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal") is recruited into the "Luciferian Crusade" in Amman, Jordan....

c.1976: West German Defense Minister Heidrun Hofer is exposed as a "Luciferian Crusade" member in Bonn, West Germany;....

c.1978- Iraqi Communist Party General-Secretary Aziz Muhammad launching a revolt, in resistance to Saddam Hussein,...

c.1978- Prime Minister Aldo Moro is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" members in Rome, Italy;...

c.1978- Defense Minister Hans Otto Meyer is revealed as a "Luciferian Crusade" member in Oslo, Norway; sparking fears of compromised NATO security,...

c.1978- British Ministry of Defense led by General Sir John Hackett and Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley call for massive reforms in NATO security measures against the "Luciferian Crusade" in London, England,...

c.1979- Phoolan Devi of Uttar Pradesh, India is recruited into the "Luciferian Crusade", becoming one of the highest-ranked females in the group...

c.1980- Oktoberfest Putsch; "Cobra" agent Heinz Lembke launches an abortive attempt at a political coup against the government in Munich, West Germanty;...

c.1980- "Luciferian Crusade" agent General Kenan Evren overthrows the government in Ankara, Turkey; sparking turmoil in the region,...

c.1980-1988- BCCI begins weapons purchases and sales for Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq War, laundering billions of dollars in the process...

c.1982- Italian government officials convict Father Paul Marcinkus, head of the Institute for Religious Works from 1971 to 1982, of laundering money for the "Luciferian Crusade" using the Vatican Bank in Rome, Italy....

c.1982- NATO counter-terrorism expert General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is assassinated by "Luciferian Crusade" members in Palermo, Italy;...

c.1982- CIA operatives begin using BCCI as a means to launder money to different anti-communist guerilla movements worldwide...

c.1982- Ali Khavari and Parviz Hekmatjoo launch a revolt against the Iranian government in Tehran, Iran, destabilizing the government in the region...

c.1983- "Cobra" agents assassinate Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, along with 18 members of his family, in Jezan Al Chol, Iraq, sparking civil unrest and violence...

c.1986- "Cobra" assassinated Iraqi nationalist/dissident leader Dr. Ayad Habashi in Rome, Italy, sparking civil unrest and violence in Iraq,....

c.1988- "Cobra" agents assassinate Ayatollah Mehdi al-Hakim in Khartoum, Sudan, sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide....

c.1989- Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI, sells NAVSTAR information to the Soviet Union, sparking a massive intelligence coup...

c.1990- Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti surrenders to law enforcement authorities in Rome, Italy after winning immunity from prosecution and revealing "Luciferian Crusade" infiltration of NATO governments...

c.1990- Black January; Soviet military officials raid a suspected "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" cell in Baku, Azerbaijan, 93 people killed in the process, sparking international attention,...

c.1991- INTERPOL police officials are told Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI CEO, is helping to finance terrorist organizations, unfortunately, the same report claims that Abedi is "psychic"...

c.1991- "Cobra" agents Otto Ernst Remer and Herbert Schweiger begin recruitment of right-wing extremists during riots in Rostock, Dresden and Berlin, in the newly reunified Germany....

c.1992- "Luciferian Crusade" members led by Shoko Asahara obtain several nuclear weapons from the collapsing Soviet Union, including several "suitcase" bombs....

c.1993- Former President George H.W. Bush, former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and the Emir of Kuwait are assassinated by "Cobra" agents in Kuwait City, Kuwait, sparking international attention,....

c.1994- Leaders of the "Luciferian Crusade" devour the Zapatistas of Mexico, leading the organisation to be called the "World Liberation Front"

c.1994- "Cobra" agents assassinate Sheikh Talib al-Suhail al-Tamimi in Beirut, Lebanon, sparking civil unrest and violence in the region....

c.1995- Oklahoma City Bombing (4/19); "Cobra" agents Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bomb the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people,....

c.1996- Centennial Park Olympic Bombing (7/27); "Cobra" agent Eric Robert Rudolph bombs the ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, killing 2 people, injuring 111 people,....

c.1997- Zurich Massacre; Michael Tabachnik leads "Luciferian Crusade" members commit mass suicide rather than risk capture by INTERPOL in Zurich, Switzerland, sparking international attention,....

c.1999- U.S. Justice Department officials Tom Easton and Dr. Jonathan H. Levy report "Luciferian Crusade" bank records dating c.1941-1945, during a press conference in San Francisco, California....

c.2001- Tuncay Güney warns of "Luciferian Crusade"/ "Cobra" infiltration of the government in Ankara, Turkey, sparking international attention and concern,...

c.2002- During the height of the anti-globalisation movement, "Luciferian Crusade" leaders openly seize power in Many Third World and former Soviet Bloc countries such as Kazahstan, Taijikistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Mongolia, Burma, Much of africa, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Cuba, Mexico and Vietnam.

c.2003- WLF is condemned by the UN in a unanimous resolution, leading to massive tensions

c.2003- Ministry of Justice is bombed in Moscow, Russia, WLF claims responsibility in a series of Internet broadcasts....

c.2004-WLF guerillas take President Vladimir Putin hostage in Moscow, Russia in an effort to "break" international will against the organization,...

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Here, take some groups of interest (courtesy of Spycraft: World on Fire):

Org: So-called “Gehlen Organization,” an experimental agency sanctioned by the United States but run by Soviet defector Reinhard Gehlen. The Org was initially founded in 1946 and brought under the CIA’s command in 1949, at which point it focused on operations in Czechoslovakia and infiltrations of the East German government. The Org employed anyone, including former Nazi and Gestapo officers who were given false names to avoid persecution and conditioning. Org agents were called Vertrauens Mann, or “V-Men” (“trusted men”). They were identified by an alphanumeric code in which the letter denoted their area of expertise (infiltration, local surveillance, transportation, technology, counter-intelligence, and a final letter for “top agents”).

Black Dragon Society: Long-feared Japanese secret society reportedly founded in 1901 by a protégé of Mitsuru Toyama, overlord of the infamous Genyosha underworld syndicate. The Black Dragon Society promoted “Pan-Asianism,” a race hatred movement targeting Manchuria, and later China and Korea. Initially, Black Dragon operatives were inserted into military and political posts, where they discreetly promoted the society’s aims and urged military action against the society’s targets. The Black Dragons’ funds were expansive, mainly stemming from their controlling interest in the Japanese drug trade (though at their prime, they dominated nearly all crime activity in the country). The organization gained quite a reputation in the 1930s, in part because of its romantic, ruthless mystique. Members called themselves “brave knights” and Western journalists often called its leader “The Darkside Emperor.” The Black Dragons faded out of sight after Japan’s defeat at the end of World War II, but the organization is believed to persist today, maintaining strong ties with the Japanese Yakuza.

Mukhabarat (IIS): Iraqi Intelligence Service formed in 1968 as the Ba’ath Party gained control of the country. The IIS combined Iraq’s civilian and military agencies, becoming the foremost espionage organization in the country’s history. It featured two departments, one for external (foreign) spying and one for work at home. Above these departments are a collection of spymasters who, until recently, dominated Iraq’s police networks and other state institutions, including the army and social groups for youths, women, and labor. An adjunct section directed paramilitary operations. In the 1980s, the IIS was attributed with countless assassination attempts, most successful. In 1983, it murdered over ninety members of Ayatollah Al Hakim’s family, and finished the job by liquidating the Ayatollah himself in the Sudan five years later. In 1993, it even tried (and failed) to kill U.S. President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait with a car bomb. The agency was also linked to a wide range of crimes, including money laundering and arms deals. The IIS began to scale its foreign operations back in the 1990s, after which it struggled with infighting for many years. Its ultimate fate has yet to be confirmed; it may have perished in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, or — as many suspect — it might simply be lying in wait, searching for ways to liberate the country. The IIS’s name translates as “The Listening Post.” It is also known as the Department of General Intelligence of the General Directorate of Intelligence (either translates as Al-Mukhabarat Al-A’ma).

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Strategos' Risk- The organizations certainly look interesting and could provide some strategic links. If you have some PODs that would certainly make it easier to incorporate some of these groups into the ATL. The dates for the Black Dragon Society and Mukhabarat would be especially helpful to the TL.

 

[Mr_ Bondoc]

Here, take some groups of interest (courtesy of Spycraft: World on Fire):

Org: So-called “Gehlen Organization,” an experimental agency sanctioned by the United States but run by Soviet defector Reinhard Gehlen. The Org was initially founded in 1946 and brought under the CIA’s command in 1949, at which point it focused on operations in Czechoslovakia and infiltrations of the East German government. The Org employed anyone, including former Nazi and Gestapo officers who were given false names to avoid persecution and conditioning. Org agents were called Vertrauens Mann, or “V-Men” (“trusted men”). They were identified by an alphanumeric code in which the letter denoted their area of expertise (infiltration, local surveillance, transportation, technology, counter-intelligence, and a final letter for “top agents”).

Black Dragon Society: Long-feared Japanese secret society reportedly founded in 1901 by a protégé of Mitsuru Toyama, overlord of the infamous Genyosha underworld syndicate. The Black Dragon Society promoted “Pan-Asianism,” a race hatred movement targeting Manchuria, and later China and Korea. Initially, Black Dragon operatives were inserted into military and political posts, where they discreetly promoted the society’s aims and urged military action against the society’s targets. The Black Dragons’ funds were expansive, mainly stemming from their controlling interest in the Japanese drug trade (though at their prime, they dominated nearly all crime activity in the country). The organization gained quite a reputation in the 1930s, in part because of its romantic, ruthless mystique. Members called themselves “brave knights” and Western journalists often called its leader “The Darkside Emperor.” The Black Dragons faded out of sight after Japan’s defeat at the end of World War II, but the organization is believed to persist today, maintaining strong ties with the Japanese Yakuza.

Mukhabarat (IIS): Iraqi Intelligence Service formed in 1968 as the Ba’ath Party gained control of the country. The IIS combined Iraq’s civilian and military agencies, becoming the foremost espionage organization in the country’s history. It featured two departments, one for external (foreign) spying and one for work at home. Above these departments are a collection of spymasters who, until recently, dominated Iraq’s police networks and other state institutions, including the army and social groups for youths, women, and labor. An adjunct section directed paramilitary operations. In the 1980s, the IIS was attributed with countless assassination attempts, most successful. In 1983, it murdered over ninety members of Ayatollah Al Hakim’s family, and finished the job by liquidating the Ayatollah himself in the Sudan five years later. In 1993, it even tried (and failed) to kill U.S. President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait with a car bomb. The agency was also linked to a wide range of crimes, including money laundering and arms deals. The IIS began to scale its foreign operations back in the 1990s, after which it struggled with infighting for many years. Its ultimate fate has yet to be confirmed; it may have perished in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, or — as many suspect — it might simply be lying in wait, searching for ways to liberate the country. The IIS’s name translates as “The Listening Post.” It is also known as the Department of General Intelligence of the General Directorate of Intelligence (either translates as Al-Mukhabarat Al-A’ma).

Check out the latest edition of the ATL. I have added many of the dates and persons suggested. I certainly hope that it helps!!!