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@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ On July 17 and October 11, 1918, [[William Johnson]], an assistant to the New Yo
 
 In his statement of October 11, 1918, as summarized by Agent [[Frank X. O'Donnell]] of the Bureau of Investigation, Crowley said he had earlier tried to become associated with the British Secret Service, "detailing his dealings with Commodore Gaunt [[Guy Gaunt]] of the British Intelligence Office but admitted that he never succeeded in obtaining any official recognition." He described Reuss, the head of the Order, as an "out and out German" who had left England with the German ambassador and was reported to be running the [[Continental Times]] in [[Berlin]], and said that the Order's funds were deposited with the [[Title Guarantee and Trust Company]] in New York and had come through the law firm of [[Lord, Day and Lord]] from the sale of his property in [[Scotland]].[^14]
 
-On September 6, 1939 Crowley wrote a letter applying for employment, addressed to an unknown recipient, in which he stated that at the end of 1914 he had gone to [[New York]], where he saw "Captain (later) Commodore Gaunt R.N.," to whom he "reported directly or indirectly until the Armistice"; that his work was to supply Viereck, [[Hugo Münsterberg]] and Count [[Johann von Bernstorff]] "with false information, and to wreck their propaganda by inducing them to commit psychological blunders"; that afterward he "was able to work directly for their Department of Justice, principally in discovering spy activities"; and that "In 1927 I began work for the [[Special Branch]], this time to watch and report on Communist activities, especially in Berlin, where I lived almost continuously for three years." An undated draft memorandum enclosed with it states that he had pretended to be a "rebel Irishman," that he confided the secret only to Gaunt and the Hon. [[Everard Feilding]], that Lieutenant Colonel [[John Carter]], then head of the Special Branch, had investigated and vindicated his conduct after he was publicly attacked on his return, and that on the outbreak of the war in 1939 he offered his services to the [[Naval Intelligence Department]], which refused.[^15]
+On September 6, 1939 Crowley wrote a letter applying for employment, addressed to an unknown recipient, in which he stated that at the end of 1914 he had gone to [[New York City|New York]], where he saw "Captain (later) Commodore Gaunt R.N.," to whom he "reported directly or indirectly until the Armistice"; that his work was to supply Viereck, [[Hugo Münsterberg]] and Count [[Johann von Bernstorff]] "with false information, and to wreck their propaganda by inducing them to commit psychological blunders"; that afterward he "was able to work directly for their Department of Justice, principally in discovering spy activities"; and that "In 1927 I began work for the [[Special Branch]], this time to watch and report on Communist activities, especially in Berlin, where I lived almost continuously for three years." An undated draft memorandum enclosed with it states that he had pretended to be a "rebel Irishman," that he confided the secret only to Gaunt and the Hon. [[Everard Feilding]], that Lieutenant Colonel [[John Carter]], then head of the Special Branch, had investigated and vindicated his conduct after he was publicly attacked on his return, and that on the outbreak of the war in 1939 he offered his services to the [[Naval Intelligence Department]], which refused.[^15]
 
 Reports by Agent O'Donnell of July 8 to 19, 1919 (case 365985, radical activities, opened after an anonymous letter forwarded on June 6, 1919) reproduce a confidential report from the "British Secret Service Bureau" dated July 8, 1919. It states that he had "claimed to be on a British Mission," that "He has never been in the army," that "His claim has also been that he joined up with Viereck in order to obtain information for the British government. This is of course absurd," and that in July 1915 he, [[Leila Waddell]] and others went to the [[Statue of Liberty]], described themselves as the "Secret Revolutionary Committee of Public Safety of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic," and he tore up his passport and renounced allegiance to the "alien tyrant." A further extract from a British file in the New York Attorney General's papers, reported July 18, 1919, states: "Crowley has never had anything whatever to do with any British official in this country. His offers of service have always been rejected, and he has been regarded as a harmless neurotic."[^16] A memorandum for [[J. Edgar Hoover]] dated January 7, 1920, signed [[T. E. Haynes]], summarizes the file and quotes a letter that Crowley wrote to [[J. W. Norwood]] of the [[International Magian Society]] in [[Louisville]]: "I was employed by the Secret Service, my main object being to bring America into the War, my main method to get the Germans to make asses of themselves by increasing their frightfulness until even the Americans kicked." It adds that British Military Intelligence denied that he was a member of the British Mission and stated that he would be detained if he returned to England.[^17]