Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You
episodePreviously titled “Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 2, 2026
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Today I'm talking with Peter Levenda.
He's the author of more than 20 books. Unholy Alliance, The Sinister Forces Trilogy, The Secret Machine series with Tom DeLonge. The guy's been investigating the dark intersections of occultism, intelligence operations, hidden history, CIA for over 50 years. He's been investigating the CIA for 50 years, and he's still alive? It's either very impressive or very suspicious. And it started when he was 17. He dressed up as a fake Orthodox priest. He talked his way past the Secret Service and snuck into Bobby Kennedy's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The stunt dropped him into an underground world that he never climbed out of. Yeah, he's lucky he didn't end up in a duffel bag he couldn't climb out of.
Peter has some of the most mind-blowing stories I have ever heard. CIA fronts disguised as churches, Nazi colonies in Chile, classified documents on SS expeditions to Tibet, a possible escape room for Hitler that nobody was looking at. We cover a lot of ground. The assassination connections, the Council of Nine, consciousness, a men in black encounter that takes a turn that I never expected, and the theory about Hitler that actually shook me. I mean, seriously, I had to stop the show for a minute to process it, but we kept the camera rolling. Let's go to the basement.
Peter, welcome to the basement. Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here. My typical process with a guest is do a little reading, do some prep, get to know the material, and then just chat. Rarely do I refer to notes. I keep them around, but rarely do I use them. Today, this is the only way I can keep up with you. Sorry about that. No, no. I love it. But if you catch me just fumbling through pages, that's me just trying to... Because there's so many names, so many connections. Yeah. It was bewildering to me. I mean, when I started this, I thought I'd have a handle on it. It got out of control real fast. Too many names cross-referenced with too many other events, too many other people. So it made it... I had to do it.
And people argue with me sometimes, how come you don't give us, you know, an analysis? Tell us what you're really, you know, what's really going on. Give us your, you know, your analysis. I said, I can't do that. In the first place, it would be wrong, right? What I want to do in Sinister Forces... was to give you this data and say, you tell me, you know, what do you think this is? I'm not gonna tell you the Kennedy assassination is a perfect example. You know, I hesitated to write about that, because everybody writes about the Kennedy assassination. But for me, it's not just what we think it is. It's something deeper. And I wanted to say, look at all of this stuff. Look at all these weird coincidences, these synchronicities that multiply like crazy around the assassination.
I'm not going to go and tell you Oswald acted alone or Oswald was part of a conspiracy. I'm going to say there's another thing happening here. There's something else going on. Take a look at this. You tell me what this means. And if you're so literal-minded that you think it means it's a conspiracy of a bunch of guys in a back room smoking cigars and saying, let's kill Kennedy, It's, you know, there could be that. But there's something a lot deeper going on. Yes. Because it happened. And it happened in a certain way, in a certain time, in a certain place. All of these things meant something deeper than what we're looking at. So what I wanted to present was the data and say, look, open your eyes and look.
There's a UFO connection. What? What? Right? Look at it. I mean, Jacques Vallée pointed it out back in 1963. Yes. Valet said, wait a minute, you know, Kennedy just got shot. There's something weird going on. There's some violent eruption, a volcanic eruption underneath our society, under our daily lives that we don't even suspect it exists until it erupts. And he says, kind of like the UFO phenomenon as well, right? These things are somehow talking to each other. Yes, they are. And that was inspirational, too.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–4:17
2
How does the conversation evolve into the topic of occultism and intelligence?
4:17–1:00:41
3
What mysterious connections did Peter Levenda uncover with the Russian Orthodox Church?
1:00:41–1:02:04
4
What was the significance of Colonia Dignidad in Peter Levenda's research?
1:02:04–1:59:00
5
What role did the Tula Society play in Nazi occultism?
1:59:00–1:59:51
6
How did Hitler's involvement with occult societies impact his leadership?
1:59:51–2:59:56
7
What theories exist about Hitler's escape from Berlin?
2:59:56–3:06:05
8
How does Peter Levenda connect consciousness to UFO phenomena?
3:06:05–4:08:37
Speakers
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