Here's something you don't see everyday: John Podesta posing in a recent photo with the author of a diabolical book of black magic, Peter Levenda.

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l to r: Tom de Longe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLonge)), Peter Levenda, John Podesta, AJ Hartley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Hartley)), unknown. Retrieved from here, without much context: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs_Notebook/comments/57vcba/dotsphoto_of_tom_delonge_john_podesta_peter/

This photo is relates to a wikileak here: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/43067 from Tom de Longe to Podesta earlier this year regarding the book Sekret Machines (pdf is available as wikileaks attachment!):

Here is the Digital copy of the Sekret Machines Novel. I know you are so busy- So I apologize in advance. I ask that you consider reading my Foreword. I wrote this as a personal letter to the youth, so they can walk with me through all of this. When you read it, you will get that same sense- a wide-eyed and respectful experience. Also, you make an invisible appearance within the text at the end. :) My Co-Author is a Distinguished Professor at the Robertson School of Shakespeare and NY Times best-selling Author.... Basically, he's really f-ing good. Elevated writing, and award-worthy if he wasn't attached to my name, too. Ha- You may actually love the book- If you like great stuff and have amazing taste. But until then, check out that foreword if you find time in all the madness. Best, Tom DeLonge TOM DELONGE | FOUNDER [email protected] | ASSISTANT:(760) 518-7801 | TO THE STARS MEDIA SAN DIEGO | 1053 S Coast Hwy 101 Encinitas, CA 92024

Link to book: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sekret-Machines-Book-1-Chasing-Shadows/Peter-Levenda/NONE/9781943272297

The bestseller praised as "an exhilarating thrill ride" that may never have you looking at the night sky the same way again, Chasing Shadows is the first book in the multimedia Sekret Machines franchise that will reveal fascinating secrets surrounding the true, well-documented events of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. Written by award-winning creator Tom DeLonge and NYTimes bestselling academic AJ Hartley in a powerful collaboration with top government advisors, as revealed by the 2016 Presidential election Clinton email Wikileaks, that keep the truth on course in this historical thriller. 2017 trade paperback edition includes a foreword by Jim Semivan, a 25-year veteran of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service and recipient of the Agency's Career Intelligence Medal.

Afterward by Levenda.

Who is Peter Levenda?

Peter Levenda is a VERY interesting fellow. http://peterlevenda.com

Here are the books he's authored:

• Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement With the Occult (1994) ISBN 978-0826414090
• Sinister Forces - The Nine: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft (Sinister Forces) (2005)
• Sinister Forces - A Warm Gun: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft (Sinister Forces) (2005)
• Allianza Malefica / Unholy Alliance: The Nazis and the Power of the Occult (2006)
• Sinister Forces - The Manson Secret: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft (Sinister Forces) (2006)
• Gates of the Necronomicon (as Simon) (2006)
• The Mao of Business: Guerrilla Trade Techniques for the New China (2007)
• Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation (2008)
• The Secret Temple: Masons, Mysteries and the Founding of America (2009)
• Tantric Temples: Eros and Magic in Java (2011)
• Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests, and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler (2012)
• The Angel And The Sorcerer (2012)
• The Dark Lord: H. P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic (2013)
• The Hitler Legacy: The Nazi Cult in Diaspora, How it was Organized, How it was Funded, and Why it remains a Threat to Global Security in the Age of Terrorism (2014)
• The Tantric Alchemist: Thomas Vaughan and the Indian Tantric Tradition (2015)
• The Lovecraft Code (2016)

I've read three of his books, the Sinister Forces series, and they are remarkable. Levenda is full of deep state secrets and really fills in a lot of gaps of interest to certain people.

He is also the alleged author of the Necronomicon. http://a.co/31BXbzJ

In the past 31 years, there has been a lot of ink—actual and virtual—spilled on the subject of the Necronomicon. Some have derided it as a clumsy hoax; others have praised it as a powerful grimoire. As the decades have passed, more information has come to light both on the book's origins and discovery, and on the information contained within its pages. The Necronomicon has been found to contain formula for spiritual trans-formation, consistent with some of the most ancient mystical processes in the world, processes that were not public knowledge when the book was first published, processes that involve communion with the stars.

In spite of all the controversy, the first edition sold out before it was published. And it has never been out of print since then. This year, the original designer of the 1977 edition and the original editor have joined forces to present a new, deluxe hardcover edition of the most feared, most reviled, and most desired occult book on the planet.

The book is somewhat controversial. Some claim it was written as a spoof. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Necronomicon. Others claim is it pure concentrated evil and an actual working book of dark magick.

The author, Simon, is described as:

Simon is a student of magic, occultism, and religion since the mid-1960s and the editor of the Necronomicon, Simon was a frequent lecturer for the famed Warlock Shop in Brooklyn and the Magickal Childe Bookstore in Manhattan for more than ten years before his sudden disappearance in 1984, speaking on topics as diverse as religion and politics, occultism and fascism, ceremonial magic, demonolatry, the Tarot, the Qabala, and Asian occult systems. He also conducted private classes for the New York City OTO during this period, with a focus on Enochian magic, "Owandering bishops," and Afro-Caribbean occult beliefs. An ordained priest of an Eastern Orthodox church, Simon has appeared on television and radio discussing such topics as exorcism, satanism, and Nazism. The media events he organized in the 1970s and 1980s -- with rock bands, ritual performances, and celebrity appearances -- helped to promote the "occult renaissance" in New York City. After decades of study in European, Asian, and Latin American cult centers, this book marks his first public appearance in more than twenty years.

Some have accused Levenda of being Simon: https://danharms.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/surprise-simon-is-peter-levenda/

This is Levenda's take on the subject:

All that said, I have never denied my role in the Necronomicon affair as tedious and repetitious as the questions have become over the decades and indeed it has been my fortune to find myself involved (if only peripherally) in some of the seminal political and religious events of the 20th century, usually by chance. I joined the ASPR (American Society for Psychical Research) when I was sixteen. I gate-crashed St. Patrick’s Cathedral during the RFK funeral in 1968 (while still a high school senior); I similarly waltzed into Colonia Dignidad eleven years later and emerged unscathed (the same could not be said for others who were not so lucky). I was involved (as a teenager) with the same church that numbered David Ferrie, Jack Martin, and Tommy Baumler among its “bishops”: some of whom were believed to have been involved in the JFK assassination. I was doing business in China during Deng Xiao Ping. I worked with one of the CIA agents who was part of E. Howard Hunt’s front operation, the Mullen Corporation. I worked for Bendix when they were training troops in Saudi Arabia, and later for a major Israeli bank sending coded traffic to Tel Aviv via telex. During the period 1968-1980 I met with members of the PLO, the IRA, the Weathermen, the Panthers, NORAID, the National Renaissance Party, the Klan, etc. I met such notables in the New Age scene as Raymond and Rosemary Buckland, Herman Slater, Ed Buczynski, and Leo Martello.

I was fortunate to have known Norman Mailer and his wife, Norris Church and many other authors, musicians, and artists over the years.

The list of my connections, friendships, and involvements is long and sometimes bizarre, I admit. The Necronomicon affair is emblematic of this strange journey. And journey it has been: I have lived and worked overseas, traveled to more than forty countries, learned some languages, did some business. Not bad for a kid who just managed to graduate high school in the Bronx in 1968 by the skin of his teeth without a dime to his name or any prospects at all. My bio may be more a credit to dumb luck and serendipitous chance than to any Machiavellian master plan, but there you are. The Necronomicon is of a piece with everything else in my life as I walk into the dark tunnels of the American spiritual experience armed with nothing more than a flickering flashlight, a pencil stub, and a sardonic sense of humor.

As Tommy Lee Jones — playing Clay Shaw — in Oliver Stone’s film JFK said: “Like all businessmen, I am accused of all things.”

For me, being Simon is just one of them! http://peterlevenda.com/?page_id=35

It doesn't look as if Podesta is very close with the dark and interesting figure, but you never know.