Peter Levenda, author of Sinister Forces and co-author of The Secret Machines trilogy, argues that the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations are linked by a pattern of bizarre synchronicities that point to a non-human intelligence or “control system” manipulating human history, rather than mere human conspiracy.
The Lincoln-Kennedy synchronicities form a statistically improbable cluster that suggests a deeper coordinating force
Lincoln elected 1860, Kennedy 1960; both succeeded by Johnsons (Andrew and Lyndon); both elected to Congress in ‘47 (1847/1947); both died on a Friday
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who warned him not to go to the theater; Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas
Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and was caught in a warehouse; Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was caught in a theater
Levenda cites precognition researcher Dr. Julia Mossbridge: the number of connective points exceeds statistical chance, indicating significance beyond coincidence
The Kennedy assassination connects directly to UFO/NHI researchers and experiencers through Ruth Paine and Arthur Young
Ruth Paine housed Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina, got Oswald his job at the Texas School Book Depository
Paine’s father-in-law was Arthur Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter, who abandoned engineering to study the paranormal
Young was part of “The Nine,” a 1950s group led by Andrija Puharich (who brought Uri Geller to the U.S.) that claimed contact with non-human intelligence predicting they would “change the course of history”
Allen Dulles, former CIA director fired by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs, cut off Paine’s testimony when she mentioned visiting Young
Key figures in the New Orleans Kennedy investigation (Garrison probe) had prior UFO/Men in Black roles
Guy Banister ran the detective agency used by Oswald for Fair Play for Cuba; in 1947 he reported directly to Hoover on UFO sightings in the Pacific Northwest, doing “Men in Black” work
Fred Crisman, another Garrison suspect, was central to the 1947 Maury Island affair (crashed UFO, Air Force plane explosion retrieving debris) and knew Kenneth Arnold (who coined “flying saucer”)
Crisman and Banister knew each other from 1947 UFO work; both later appear in the Kennedy assassination orbit
Clay Shaw called Crisman when arrested — linking the UFO and assassination networks directly
The phenomenon manifests as a “control system” (Vallee/Keel) that manipulates consciousness and appears in culturally coded forms
Sightings shift across eras: airships, flying saucers, cigars, orbs, triangles — “they show up where they want to show up… whatever they wanted to appear to be”
The phenomenon may not be extraterrestrial in the hardware sense but a consciousness-manipulating force that reads cultural expectations and projects back angels, demons, grays, Nordics
Levenda’s own 2020s sighting in South Florida: silent, stationary triangle over his car that vanished instantly without acceleration — he emphasizes the experiencer’s rational mind cycles through conventional explanations before accepting the anomalous
Nazi occultism, Paperclip, and the possible survival of Hitler form a substrate for post-war intelligence and UFO programs
The Horten brothers’ Nazi disc prototype (scalloped trailing edge) matches Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 drawing — suggesting Roswell may have been a crashed Nazi craft via Paperclip, not alien
Soviet capture of Berlin yielded contradictory eyewitness accounts of Hitler’s death; dental evidence (two sets of dentures made weeks before the fall) and a female skull in the KGB archive cast doubt on the suicide narrative
Walter Hewel (“Surabaya Wally”), one of the last to leave the bunker, had spent the interwar years building the Nazi Party in Indonesia — a potential escape route with submarine traffic, uranium shipments, and no U.S. intelligence presence
Post-war West German embassy in Indonesia staffed by former Nazis; Hjalmar Schacht (Hitler’s finance minister) worked with Sukarno on an Islamic anti-communist banking bloc; 40 tons of Nazi gold shipped to Macau/Jakarta in the 1950s
CIA mind-control programs (Bluebird, Artichoke, MK-Ultra) sought to weaponize consciousness using brutal, unethical methods
Began 1950 after Korean War “brainwashing” fears; aimed to create assassins who would kill on command and forget, selectively erase and implant memories
Dr. Ewen Cameron (head of World Psychiatric Association) ran CIA-funded Montreal experiments on unwitting patients: psychic driving (looped audio during sleep), massive LSD doses, sensory deprivation — “brutalized them in the name of science”
Frank Olson, CIA scientist, dosed unknowingly with LSD, fell from a hotel window under handler supervision — family won lawsuit against CIA
CIA hypnotized a secretary to pick up a gun, enter another office, and pull the trigger (unloaded) — proving programmable assassination was achievable
Helms and Gottlieb shredded documents ahead of 1977 Church Committee; financial records survived to trace funding
Military ran parallel programs on troops with impunity; Phoenix Program in Vietnam used staged “demon attacks” and loudspeaker psyops to manipulate village consciousness
Government “disclosure” is a narrative-control operation, not transparency
The “Majestic 12” documents appear authentic but were likely planted to create a controllable origin story, then debunked to discredit the UFO community
Officials speak of “angels and demons” without defining terms — a Eurocentric, Christian-coded framework that can be weaponized against any group labeled “demonic” (political opponents, minorities, etc.)
No treaty with NHI is possible; the phenomenon operates independently of human agreements
Governments likely possess more data but not better understanding — they exploit the phenomenon for Cold War confusion (muddy waters, test secret craft, blame UFOs)
Consciousness is the battlefield; defense requires inner work, not external authority
The “invasion” already happened — it is the manipulation of consciousness itself, potentially culminating in a shared induced dream across humanity
Defense: strengthen individual consciousness through therapy, self-knowledge, spiritual/psychological maturity — “figure out who the monster is in your own unconscious mind” (Regardie)
Without this, probing the phenomenon (or using psychedelics/occult techniques) surfaces buried trauma and susceptibility to manipulation
Levenda’s Men in Black encounters (1990 Rhode Island, 2000s Singapore) demonstrate real-time consciousness interference: a name (DeVilbiss) plucked from his memory, a woman reappearing years later across the world — the second encounter felt like “hi, we’re still here”
The binary Cold War mindset (anti-communist vs. anti-Nazi) hardened U.S. intelligence into alliances with former Nazis and against domestic dissent
Paperclip brought hundreds of Nazi scientists; Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt objected, but anti-communism won
Congress split: some wanted to pursue Nazis in Argentina; hardliners blocked it because Nazis were “anti-communist like us”
Soviet and Chinese programs studied the paranormal scientifically while banning religion — a separation the U.S. still struggles with due to politicized religion
Tsien Hsue-shen (JPL co-founder, Crowley associate) was stripped of clearance in the Red Scare, fled to China, built their space program and paranormal research
Levenda’s trajectory reflects the phenomenon’s reach: from draft-resisting teen in a Bronx church linked to Garrison’s suspects, to Indonesia researcher, to author targeted by anomalous encounters
Joined a church in 1968 that was a front for intelligence activities connected to the New Orleans assassination milieu
Lived in Indonesia during the Suharto transition, interviewed Islamic militants, encountered Hitler-escape narratives and Nazi gold trails
Maintains that rigorous, open-minded research (reading, travel, talking to all sides) combined with internal discernment is the only way through the noise
