Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]][^1]. Schellenberg conveyed to astrologer [[Wilhelm Wulff]] that mystical belief systems were "a suitable vehicle for the propagation of political concepts and for the political control of a nation"[^1]. ### Footnotes [^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.