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January 23, 1719: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI decreed the union of the lordships of Vaduz and Schellenberg, elevating them to the Imperial Principality of Liechtenstein. Purchased by the Liechtenstein family in 1699 and 1713, this new territory became an immediate member state of the Holy Roman Empire. Occupied by both French and Russian troops during the Napoleonic Wars, it became a sovereign state in 1806 after the Holy Roman Empire dissolved and joined the German Confederation in 1815. Liechtenstein became fully independent in 1866 when the Confederation dissolved.

Now there's a tiny double landlocked country in the Alps you rarely ever hear anything about.

Europe in the Age of Absolutism: a continent ruled over by emperors and kings, princes and dukes. Among them, the Princes of Liechtenstein, blessed with extreme wealth, but lacking the right to vote at the Imperial Diet, the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire. Although Emperor Ferdinand II (1587-1637) had elevated Prince Karl von Liechtenstein to the rank of Imperial Prince in 1620, the privilege of representation at the Imperial Diet was reserved for those in possession of territory classed as 'immediate' to the Empire (i.e. self-governing under the Emperor). However, the sundry estates held by the Princely House in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Austria were not subject to the Emperor's jurisdiction, but formed part of the Habsburg kingdom instead.

Purchase of the lordship of Schellenberg

The 17th century was one of the most difficult periods in the history of what was to become the Principality of Liechtenstein. The spread of the plague claimed many lives, the Thirty Years' War brought famine, and more than three hundred people were condemned to death and executed during witch-hunts.

At that time, the lands in question were ruled over by the counts of Hohenems, whose actions hastened the area's economic decline. Writing in the 19th century, historian Peter Kaiser described the despotic rule of Count Ferdinand Carl von Hohenems as follows:

"With a propensity for profligacy, tyranny and violence, he showed scant regard for the law, preferring to follow the moods of his impetuous and passionate temperament."

1719: Schellenberg and Vaduz unite to form a Principality

Following its purchase of the lordship of Schellenberg and the county of Vaduz, the Princely House of Liechtenstein possessed two small territories with imperial immediacy. Nevertheless, it took another few years before they were united. The main reason was a change of ownership within the House of Liechtenstein: Prince Joseph Wenzel, who had inherited Schellenberg and Vaduz while still a minor, was given the lordship of Rumburg in exchange, and Prince Anton Florian became the owner of the landed estates acquired from the nobility of Hohenems. This change of hands led to another ceremony of homage on 5 September 1718 – and yet again the Prince failed to attend.

How the Principality of Liechtenstein came into being

In 2000, shortcomings in banking regulatory oversight resulted in concerns about the use of financial institutions for money laundering. However, Liechtenstein implemented anti-money laundering legislation and a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the USA that went into effect in 2003. So, the USA controls the money laundering.


The only country flag that has a crown. Liechtenstein is a monarchy headed by the prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, reigning since 1989. He also has a interest in UFOs and has financed research into UFOs for decades. This became public through the diaries of Jacques Vallée, whom Hans-Adam had invited to his castle. Isn't that special!


Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (born Sophie Elisabeth Marie Gabrielle Herzogin in Bayern born a member of the House of Wittelsbach, with the courtesy title of Duchess in Bavaria, and second in line for the Jacobite succession...the line through which Jacobites believe that the crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland should have descended, applying male preference primogeniture, since the deposition of James II and VII in 1688 and his death in 1701. These "special" inbred privileged noble bloodlines are nothing good.

Vaduz Castle: 12th-century 130-room home of Liechtenstein’s Royal Family, one of Europe's oldest noble lineages.


Translated from French:

Hans-Adam II and his fad for UFOs: the ruler of Liechtenstein funds research on extraterrestrials.

In this time of coronavirus, some Liechtensteinians must be wondering what their sovereign is thinking at the moment. Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, still Head of State of the Principality even though his son has been regent since 2004, most certainly has his own theory on the matter. Are we being experimented on by extraterrestrials? Few people know it, but Prince Hans-Adam II is a ufology enthusiast, convinced of having witnessed the passage of a flying saucer when he was little. The richest ruler on the European continent has funded (and perhaps still funds) international UFO research.

It is the French ufologist and computer scientist Jacques Vallée who recounts in detail in his memoirs his meeting with the sovereign, who lives in Vienna today, since his son, the hereditary prince Aloïs has assumed the functions of regent, and this since 2004.

Jacques Vallée recounts precisely in one of his many logbooks, which he kept in the 80s and 90s, one or other meetings with the Prince, who had invited him to the castle of Vaduz. “As soon as we arrived, there were people to welcome us. Prince Hans-Adam appeared wearing an open blue shirt and beige pants. We had lunch in the small dining room with the family: the prince's wife, his sister, two of his children. Coffee was served in a lounge. The conversation on various paranormal topics began over lunch and continued late into the afternoon ,” reads his diary for Saturday, November 4, 1989. This diary, in which the Prince is mentioned, is titled Forbidden Science 3: The Trail of Hidden Truth.

Jacques Vallée knows Prince Hans-Adam well, and he also knows several anecdotes about him. The first concerns the first time the Prince was confronted with the supernatural. It was another ufologist, Dick Haines, who told Jacques Vallée what his friend Hans-Adam had told him. Still a child, Hans-Adam would have seen a flying saucer land in the gardens of the castle of Vaduz, then he would have left and would have flown away towards Switzerland.

Since then, Prince Hans-Adam has been fascinated by extraterrestrial life and is convinced of what he has seen. He would have confided to Jacques Vallée himself, that one of his aunts also witnessed the appearance of a UFO in Munich in the 1950s. Finally, another cousin also reported to the Prince having seen a UFO, if we are to believe the memoirs of the computer scientist, written in 1989. Jacques Vallée transcribed with precision other remarks made by the prince concerning a secret intelligence: "It is as if humanity periodically rose towards a peak of enlightenment and wisdom, then fell back into bloody wars and anarchy ,” Hans-Adam is said to have explained during Jacques Vallée’s stay in Vaduz.

Jacques Vallée also reports that Prince Hans-Adam is close to Robert Bigelow. Robert Bigelow, 75, is an aerospace entrepreneur. The Prince of Liechtenstein would have used his services and through him would have ordered "a study of 200,000 dollars to determine how many Americans had been abducted by extraterrestrials" , can be read on Swiss Info.

According to Jacques Vallée, if one reads his logbooks, the goal of Prince Hans-Adam is in particular to “Finding new sources of energy and propulsion. The prince therefore believes that UFOs come from distant planets and are controlled by technologically very advanced extraterrestrials."

These beliefs are obviously very embarrassing for Prince Hans-Adam, as the princely family is extremely Catholic. However, Jacques Vallée goes so far as to quote in his logbook the almost conspiratorial remarks of the prince: “There is an extraterrestrial power which monitors and controls the efforts of humanity to conquer space. (…) A race of genetically degenerate extraterrestrials visits the Earth to abduct healthy humans to be able to heal themselves”.

Several international studies or research are presumed to have been partly funded by the Prince. Testimonies from ufologists, scientists, anonymous people, and sometimes eccentrics, make it possible to go back to the supposed financing of Prince Hans-Adam. Thus, Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein would be one of the patrons of the Recollections of Roswell project.

Histoires Royales

Starting in January 1997, Colonel Alexander became a key and influential force on Coast to Coast AM, largely because of his INSCOM background that revolved around psi and remote viewing research. Also guests financed and affiliated with apparent Opus Dei intimate Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein, a relative of Otto von Habsburg, were invited to Coast to Coast AM, most notably alien abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, whose "Intruders" Foundation and related projects appear to have been financed by both Hans Adam and Robert Bigelow. Unsurprisingly, Colonel Alexander and General Bert Stubblebine were friendly with Hans Adam (not to mention Bigelow), no later than the early 1990s, before any of them had ever appeared on Coast to Coast.

Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics

Prince Hans-Adam II sponsored UFO research

Very interesting 1999 email thread about Laurance Rockefeller and Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein bankrolling the entire UFO/parapsychology research movement...

Re: Questions only an Insider of HPF could answer

Vallee got hired as a UFO consultant for Laurance Rockefeller but apparently bowed out “when he saw where Laurance and John Mack were going.”

Trump Deal with Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Undervisited Liechtenstein is Europe’s best-kept secret

The United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands have kings, including the principalities of Liechtenstein and Monaco.

As of January 23, 2026, the only countries not participating in the World Health Organization are the United States, Liechtenstein, the Cook Islands, Niue "The Rock" self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand, and Taiwan.

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"Far more luxurious surroundings are available for use during periods when the Congressmen do not have to take cover." 1961 "Talking Paper" re: the Greenbrier Bunker. Obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Now on the Internet Archive




President Nixon January 23, 1973 10:01pm EST: “...we today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.”




Between the 1960s and the 1980s, under the guise of "countering Communism," the CIA infiltrated Christian movements all over Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called "Liberation Theology" (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to better their lives), because this doctrine apparently was "Communist."

It funded and assisted the explosive growth of a whole new form of Christianity, which you recognize today as Prosperity Gospel, and it pumped millions of dollars into pushing it all over the Global South as part of its Cold War effort. This new doctrine ignored any kind of collectivism and encouraged people to see their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic issues that can be measured with specific individual outcomes, such as economic "blessing."

It was the perfect capitalist trojan horse because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national issue and rather as an individual responsibility, which meant they did not need to organise into pressure groups, political movements, trade unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entities that the US government considered "Leftist" or "Communist." It succeeded wildly, and turned the world's poorest people in Sub Saharan Africa into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists without capital.

And in case you're wondering whether this means that all your mega pastors in Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria are US government-funded industry plants, the answer is simple: do a 1-minute Google search and find out where they all gained their theology degree or pastor training. There's your answer.

Anyway this is all on open record on the FOIA section of the CIA's own website, but the oyibos have convinced you that "Africans don't read," and you have internalized your own false stereotype, so you definitely won't read regardless.


CIA and Missionaries: Half a Loaf

CIA Covert Action Information Bulletin Number 18: The CIA and Religion

Blowback of the gods: the U.S. government's covert use of religion as a tool of foreign policy in the Cold War

Liberation Theology: Religion, Reform, and Revolution (CIA Directorate of Intelligence Research Paper)

One of the ways the CIA accomplished this was by infiltrating one of the Vatican's intelligence orgs, Pro Deo. The CIA used assets like Time-Life magnate Henry Luce to covertly fund the group from the 1950s onward. Memo from Charles Douglas Jackson, who was an executive at Time-Life and a spook. Jackson headed the CIA front National Committee for a Free Europe...



A letter in the Eisenhower Archives confirms Luce and a Fr. Felix Morlion met at least once in 1956. In it, Jackson reports to CIA director Allen Dulles on Morlion's (Father M.) ties to a group known as Pro Deo. Dulles appears wary. The letters are Jackson's effort to convince agency-connected donors like Luce to privately fund Pro Deo—a Vatican-aligned intelligence org. In another to Dulles he mentions Morlion states he has been appointed to head Pro Deo by the Dominican order.


C.D. Jackson letter to Allen Dulles

Jackson worked to manipulate perception of Pro Deo so that by 1957 all of the primary stakeholders were on the same page. In an April 1957 letter to Luce, Jackson notes that Harry Carman, former dean of Columbia College, will be involved.

While it may seem like these letters indicate Pro Deo was a recent development, Morlion had been running the group since the 1930s. It had OSS backing during WWII, and Morlion was a close associate of Wild Bill Donovan.



Although Pro Deo was anti-Nazi during WWII, it existed in a network of Vatican groups that felt differently. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, for example, worked with the Red Cross to create fake passports for Nazis fleeing in the ratlines >> From the Archives: Let the pope keep the kingdom and the glory — the CIA wants the power

Donovan used Pro Deo to spy on the Vatican at the same time the U.S. worked with the Holy See to aid war criminals like Klaus Barbie. A Catholic priest, Rev. Stefano Dragonovich, helped Barbie get his travel papers.
VATICAN IS REPORTED TO HAVE FURNISHED AID TO FLEEING NAZIS

And, of course, all that the OSS/CIA touched in the aftermath of WWII eventually became a cudgel against communism. In the 1960s, Pro Deo's International University for Social Studies was used as a weapon against Liberation theology in Latin America.


Pro Deo Pamplet, and more declassified documents on Pro Deo, including letters from Father Felix Morlion

Father Felix Morlion, the head of Pro Deo, saw the org as an explicitly anticommunist force in the Catholic Church. By that time, Morlion saw Pro Deo as a tool for the "social implementation of Christian Doctrine" in the "counter-offensive against Communist infiltration." Christianity as a CIA psyop.

This is all interesting in light of the fact that Henry Luce's wife, Clare Boothe Luce, was the US special envoy to Italy between 1953 and 1956, the same period in which Henry was working with Jackson and the CIA to support Pro Deo.

Clare Booth Luce was an avid anti-communist like her husband. Richard Nixon appointed her to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in 1973, and Gerald Ford renewed that three years later.

Henry Luce denied agency involvement up to his death in 1967. A decade later, The New York Times revealed the Agency had placed its agents in newspapers going back to the fifties. Luce is portrayed as an unwitting victim.

But Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein disputed that in his famous article, "The CIA and the Media", in Rolling Stone, where he argues that Time and Newsweek were known vehicles for Agency cover.

Muckraker journo Drew Pearson also recalled another Luce property, Life, as a CIA vehicle. In "Diaries, 1949-1959" (p. 461, July 5), Pearson states Life "is always pulling chestnuts out of the fire for the CIA."

Around 12:45 minute mark, Gore Vidal had stated that in his 1990 speech to the Nation magazine about Henry Luce:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-UoRlQ_5U

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought “Wild” Bill Donovan when he launched a secret new program under the Office of Strategic Services. His recruits, in turn, believed an American victory would help them protect their foreign ministries and expand the kingdom of God.

In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spycraft and faith in World War II. Sutton shows how missionaries, though acutely aware of the conflict between their faith and their role as secret agents, nonetheless played an outsize part in the war, carrying out bombings and assassinations. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy.

Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7p6EPpufro

Two of my cousins, one a genealogist, the other a linguist were Christian "missionaries" for a number of years back in 80s-90s over in Uganda, Kenya, Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia. They never talked much about it (I didn't belong to their church) other than always traveling with a PMC unit who were not nice people. Ha.


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