Peter Levenda
Peter Levenda is an American author and researcher specializing in the intersection of occultism, Nazism, and post-war political history.
Published works
Levenda's major works include:
- Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult (1995, revised 2002) — based on archival research at the U.S. National Archives, where he discovered captured German records including Ahnenerbe microfilms.
- Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler
- The Hitler Legacy: The Nazi Cult in Diaspora
- The three-volume Sinister Forces trilogy, examining occultism, politics, and American history including mind control.
- The non-fiction Sekret Machines series, co-authored with Tom DeLonge for To the Stars Academy.
Research areas
Levenda's research and testimony are documented in the relevant subject articles:
- Ahnenerbe: His documentation of the 1938 SS Tibet expedition, Bruno Beger's skull measurements, the 108-volume Kanjur scripture, and the captured Ahnenerbe microfilms at the U.S. National Archives.
- Operation Paperclip: His tracing of American corporate entanglement with Nazi Germany — IBM, Standard Oil, AT&T — and the Trading with the Enemy Act actions against Prescott Bush's interests.
- Business Plot: His documentation of the planned military coup against Franklin D. Roosevelt, the role of right-wing generals and industrialists, and the Bush family's organization of German eugenics scientists' attendance at a 1938 New York conference.
- Bank for International Settlements: His argument that the BIS — established by Hjalmar Schacht — functioned as a Nazi slush fund to launder seized gold, with an American director reassuring Wall Street investors as late as 1943.
- Operation Highjump: His analysis of the scale and timing of the post-war Antarctic expedition as possibly related to intelligence concerning Nazi activity in the region.
- Maury Island incident: His documentation of the network linking the 1947 Maury Island UFO debris incident to Guy Banister and through Banister to the Kennedy assassination.
- Sekret Machines: His collaboration with Tom DeLonge beginning in late 2014.
UFO secrecy thesis
Levenda argues that UFO-related secrecy functions as a global "fight club" — an unspoken international compact among nations that have recovered crashed craft: "if we are in possession of it and they're in possession of it too, then there is an agreement between countries that says, we're not going to talk about this."
Occult roots of the Third Reich
In Part 1 of his 2015 Forum Borealis interview, Levenda addressed whether National Socialist ideology was genuinely rooted in magical and occult currents, tracing connections to Theosophy, the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and examining ideological tensions between Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, and others in the top echelon of the Reich. The interview also served as a brief obituary for academic historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, author of The Occult Roots of Nazism.
Personal UAP sightings
Levenda witnessed a cigar-shaped UAP while living in Malaysia, broadcast on national television at the time. In December 2019 he observed a silent, motionless triangle of lights in Florida that instantaneously shifted position without acceleration before vanishing, which he reported to Tom DeLonge.