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Goliath Channeled by Karl Mollison 07May2019

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Goliath Channeled by Karl Mollison 07May2019

Goliath is described in the biblical Book of Samuel as a Philistine giant defeated by the young David in single combat.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath

The story signified Saul’s unfitness to rule, as Saul himself should have fought for Israel.

The phrase “David and Goliath” has taken on a more popular meaning, denoting an underdog situation, a contest where a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary.

Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. Twice a day for 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat, but Saul is afraid.

David, bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Goliath has defied the armies of God and of the reward from Saul to the one that defeats him, and accepts the challenge. Saul reluctantly agrees and offers his armor, which David declines, taking only his staff, sling and five stones from a brook.

David and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armor and javelin, David with his staff and sling. “The Philistine cursed David by his gods”, but David replies: “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that God saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is God’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

David hurls a stone from his sling and hits Goliath in the center of his forehead, Goliath falls on his face to the ground, and David cuts off his head. The Philistines flee and are pursued by the Israelites “as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron”. David puts the armor of Goliath in his own tent and takes the head to Jerusalem, and Saul sends Abner to bring the boy to him. The king asks whose son he is, and David answers, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

Some have speculated that Goliath was a victim of gigantism called acromegaly which is the most common form of gigantism – caused by benign tumor on the pituitary gland.

Andre the Giant of current day wrestling fame had it among almost all of the really tall people recorded in history.

Is that what we are going to learn?

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Frances Farmer Channeled by Karl Mollison 02Feb2019

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Frances Farmer Channeled by Karl Mollison 02Feb2019

Frances Elena Farmer September 19, 1913—August 1, 1970

Frances was an American actress and television host. She appeared in over a dozen feature films over the course of her career, though she garnered notoriety for the various sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital and subsequent mental health struggles.

In 1931, while a senior at West Seattle High School, Farmer entered and won $100 from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a writing contest sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, with her controversial essay “God Dies.”

A native of Seattle, Washington, Farmer began acting in stage productions while a student at the University of Washington. After graduating, she began performing in stock theater before signing a film contract with Paramount Pictures in 1936.

She made her film debut in Too Many Parents (1936), followed by a lead role in the musical western, Rhythm on the Range (1936). Unhappy with the opportunities given to her by the studio, Farmer returned to stock theater in 1937 before being cast in the original Broadway production of Clifford Odets’s Golden Boy, staged by New York City’s Group Theatre.

She followed this with two Broadway productions directed by Elia Kazan in 1939, but a battle with depression and binge drinking caused her to drop out of a subsequent Ernest Hemingway stage adaptation.

Farmer returned to Los Angeles, earning supporting roles in the comedy World Premiere (1941) and the film noir Among the Living (1941). In 1942, publicity of her reportedly erratic behavior began to surface, and after several arrests and committals to psychiatric institutions, Farmer was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. At the request of her family, particularly her mother, she was relocated to an institution in her home state of Washington, where she remained a patient until 1950.

Farmer attempted an acting comeback, mainly appearing as a television host in Indianapolis on her own series, Frances Farmer Presents. Her final film role was in the 1958 drama The Party Crashers, after which she spent the majority of the 1960s occasionally performing in local theater productions staged by Purdue University.

In the spring of 1970, she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, of which she died several months later, aged 56.

She has been the subject of various works, including two feature films and several books, many of which focus heavily on her time spent institutionalized, during which she claimed to have been subject to various systemic abuses. Her posthumously-released autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? (1972) details these claims significantly.

A disputed 1978 biography of her life, Shadowland, alleged that Farmer underwent a transorbital lobotomy during her institutionalization, and a 1982 biographical film based on her life depicted this event as truth, resulting in renewed interest in her life and career.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II Channeled by Karl Mollison 16Apr2019

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Kaiser Wilhelm II Channeled by Karl Mollison 16Apr2109

From httpss://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor

Kaiser Wilhelm II 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941 was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918 shortly before Germany’s defeat in World War I. He was the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe, most notably his first cousin King George V of the United Kingdom and Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, whose wife, Alexandra, was Wilhelm and George’s first cousin.

By Christina Croft About her book The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II

“For over a century Kaiser Wilhelm II has been viewed as either a madman or a warmonger who brought his country to destruction by provoking the First World War. Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies planned to have him tried as a war criminal and only the refusal of the Dutch Queen and her Government to extradite him prevented the planned tribunal from ever taking place.

Since then, though, he has largely been portrayed as guilty of the charges that were leveled against him, as the century old propaganda continued to be believed.

I am the granddaughter of an English prisoner-of-war, and, as a tiny child, I listened often as my grandmother sang sad war songs and told me of her brother who was killed fighting for the English near Ypres. As I grew older, I spent years trying to make sense of a conflict in which so many millions had died, but all I was taught left me even more confused, particularly as I began to delve deeper into the life and true character of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The more I discovered, the more I realized that virtually everything I had been told about that war was false, and that, far from being a warmonger or a madman, Kaiser Wilhelm had done his utmost to preserve peace.

Until 1914, he was described as ’The Apostle of Peace’ or the ’Peace Kaiser’ who had spent his twenty-six reign attempting to improve the lives of his people and to maintain good relations with his neighbors. Even on the eve of the war, he was desperately seeking some means to resolve the international crisis which had suddenly been blown out of all proportion following the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was the last of the European leaders to mobilize his army, and as one American commentator observed he was ’the most sorrowful man in the world’ when he realized that war could not be avoided.

From the moment hostilities began, the British Bureau of Propaganda set out to destroy his reputation, severely distorting his image and portraying him as the instigator of the war. So successful was this campaign, that even today he is widely viewed as a cruel son, a megalomaniac and a tyrant, but I believe that, contrary to all we were told, the truth is in reality quite simple, and I sincerely, with all my heart, believe that Kaiser Wilhelm II deserves a far better reputation than that with which he has been so cruelly saddled for over a century. In this book ’The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II’ I hope I have succeeded in portraying him in far fairer light.”

Now he is once again a Light Being. Did he almost prevent the first modern day global war, the war to end all wars?

First World War See Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War – by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor httpss://amzn.to/2Dp4U4n The Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley httpss://amzn.to/2X4XV7Y The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II: and the First World War by Christina Croft httpss://amzn.to/2XcUnAx The Two Edwards: How King Edward VII and Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey Fomented the First World War by Peter Hof httpss://amzn.to/2VKVwyQ and Lord Milner’s Second War: The Rhodes-Milner Secret Society; The Origin of World War I; and the Start of the New World Order by John P. Cafferky httpss://amzn.to/2IjgfqG

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Aaron Russo Channeled by Karl Mollison 09April2019

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Russo

Aaron Russo (February 14, 1943 – August 24, 2007) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943 in a Jewish family. Growing up on Long Island, Russo worked for his family’s undergarment business.

He was an American entertainment businessman, film producer and director, and political activist.

In April 1968, Russo opened the nightclub Kinetic Playground in Chicago, Illinois, originally naming it the Electric Theater. He booked numerous prominent rock groups and musicians at the club such as The Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Vanilla Fudge, Rotary Connection, and The Who.

In addition to owning his own nightclub, Russo managed several musical acts throughout the 1970s including The Manhattan Transfer and Bette Midler.

Russo then moved into producing and directing movies, six of them receiving Academy Award nominations and two receiving Golden Globe Award nominations.

His final film would be America: Freedom to Fascism, a political documentary critical of the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve System and warning about the coming of the New World Order.

Russo became involved in political issues in the early -1990s when he produced and starred in the documentary entitled Mad As Hell in which he criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the federal government’s War on Drugs, the concept of a National Identity Card, and government regulation of alternative medicine.

In January 2004, Russo declared his candidacy for the President of the United States initially as an independent but then as a Libertarian.

At the Libertarian National Convention in May 2004, Russo received 258 votes to Michael Badnarik’s 256 votes and Gary Nolan’s 246 votes, short of the majority required to receive the presidential nomination. Russo would eventually lose the nomination on the convention’s third and final ballot to Badnarik by a vote of 423–344.

On February 14, 2004, Russo gave his full endorsement to the Free State Project, saying in his letter, “I encourage my fellow Libertarians and all freedom-loving Americans to consider joining the Free State Project.”

In 2007, Russo created the political grassroots organization, Restore the Republic, to fulfill the political ambitions laid out in his final movie documentary, America: Freedom to Fascism. Regarding the organization, Russo said his goal was to “try and get the word out to the public about what’s happening to America – and give them an opportunity to try to change things”.

On August 24, 2007, Russo died at the age of 64 of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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Ludwig van Beethoven Channeled by Karl Mollison 02April2019

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven 

Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827 was a German composer and pianist. 

A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognised and influential of all composers. 

His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies; 5 piano concertos; 1 violin concerto; 32 piano sonatas; 16 string quartets; a mass, the Missa solemnis; and an opera, Fidelio. 

His career as a composer is conventionally divided into early, middle, and late periods; the “early” period is typically seen to last until 1802, the “middle” period from 1802 to 1812, and the “late” period from 1812 to his death in 1827. 

Beethoven was born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire. 

He displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At the age of 21 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying composition with Joseph Haydn and gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. 

He lived in Vienna until his death. By his late 20s his hearing began to deteriorate and by the last decade of his life he was almost completely deaf. In 1811 he gave up conducting and performing in public but continued to compose; many of his most admired works come from these last 15 years of his life, commonly known as his “late” period. 

Beethoven’s life was troubled by his encroaching loss of hearing and chronic abdominal pain since his twenties. He contemplated suicide as documented in his Heiligenstadt Testament. 

He was often irascible. Nevertheless, he had a close and devoted circle of friends all his life, thought to have been attracted by his strength of personality. Towards the end of his life, his friends competed in their efforts to help him cope with his incapacities. 

Sources show his disdain for authority and for social rank. He stopped performing at the piano if the audience chatted amongst themselves, or afforded him less than their full attention. At soirées, he refused to perform if suddenly called upon to do so. Eventually, after many confrontations, the Archduke Rudolph decreed that the usual rules of court etiquette did not apply to Beethoven. 

He was attracted to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment. In 1804, when Napoleon’s imperial ambitions became clear, Beethoven took hold of the title page of his Third Symphony and scratched the name Bonaparte out so violently that he made a hole in the paper. 

He later changed the work’s title to “Sinfonia Eroica, composta per festeggiare il sovvenire d’un grand’uom” (“Heroic Symphony, composed to celebrate the memory of a great man”), and he rededicated it to his patron, Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz, at whose palace it was first performed. 

The fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony features an elaborate choral setting of Schiller’s Ode An die Freude (“Ode to Joy”), an optimistic hymn championing the brotherhood of humanity. 

With a sobering description of Karmic causes of deafness and enduring lifetimes of love of music, the Light Being Beethoven does not fail in this channeling. Join us!

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Cecil Rhodes Channeled by Karl Mollison 19Mar2019

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From: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_roundtable_1.htm

CECIL RHODES AND HIS IMPERIAL VISION The Round Table was the product of two people: Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) and Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925).

This was not to be a living partnership, given Rhodes’s untimely death well before the Round Table was founded and their limited contacts while he was alive, but more of a posthumous association in which Milner sought to realize Rhodes’s dream of a unified British Empire.

As prominent Round Table member Leopold Amery (1873-1955) later observed, “If the vision was Rhodes’, it was Milner who over some twenty years laid securely the foundations of a system whose power … throughout the English-speaking world … would be difficult to exaggerate”.

While his claims of the Round Table’s power can be forgiven as wishful thinking, Amery by no means overstates the importance of Rhodes and Milner.

Cecil Rhodes is better known as the founder and primary owner of the famous diamond company, De Beers; as creator of the colonies of Northern and Southern Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe); and as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.

Compelled by a life-threatening heart condition to leave Britain, Rhodes had travelled in the 1870s to southern Africa where he made his fortune in the diamond-mining boom in the Kimberley region. It was there that Rhodes first demonstrated his desire for centralized control. 

In 1888 Rhodes realized his vision, collaborating with share dealer Alfred Beit and the London bankers Nathaniel M. Rothschild and Sons to buy out rival mining companies throughout the Kimberley region. The product of this collusion was a single diamond mining company, De Beers Consolidated Mines. Trans-African railway stretching from the Cape to Cairo, were for him personally costly and conspicuous failures. 

Rhodes was using the plans of others to fulfill his broader vision. As one historian observed: “Rhodes was not a thinker; he was doer. He appropriated the ideas of others rather than conceiving ideas himself.”

Significantly, the only exception to this rule was his most ambitious grand design of all: imperial federation.

This is not an accepted fact in most accounts, including in Quigley’s book where the famous British artist John Ruskin is cited as the sole source of Rhodes’s enthusiasm for imperial federation. Rhodes is said to have attended the inaugural lecture given at Oxford in 1870 by Ruskin, then Professor of Fine Arts, and to have been so inspired that he kept a copy of the lecture with him for the next 30 years, regarding it as “one of his greatest possessions” (Quigley).

The problem with this version of events is that Rhodes did not attend Oxford until September 1873, thus obviously missing Ruskin’s lecture; more importantly, as Rotberg notes, there is “absolutely no evidence…that Rhodes was ever affected by Ruskin’s popularity and the cult which helped spread his message of light, right and duty”.

There are certainly good grounds for supposing that Rhodes would have agreed with most of Ruskin’s message that Britain’s destiny, “the highest ever set before a nation”, was to make it “for all the world a source of light” by founding colonies “as far and as fast as she is able to”.18 There is, however, no single source of inspiration for Rhodes’s dream of unifying the British Empire.

See https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/ &

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes & https://spartacus-educational.com/Jstead.htm & 

https://firstworldwarhiddenhistory.wordpress.com/ & https://www.clearnfo.com/tag/cecil-rhodes/

 

 

 

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Sigmund Freud Channeled by Karl Mollison 12March2019

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

Sigmund Freud 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939 was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. 

Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austrian Empire. 

He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. 

Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. 

He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939. 

In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud’s redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. 

Freud postulated the existence of libido, a sexualised energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. 

In his later works, Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture. 

Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice, psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. 

It thus continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause. 

Nonetheless, Freud’s work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. In the words of W. H. Auden’s 1940 poetic tribute to Freud, he had created “a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives.”

 

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Elvis Presley Channeled by Karl Mollison 05Mar2019

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Elvis Presley Channeled by Karl Mollison 5Mar2019

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

Elvis Presley[a] January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977 was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”. 

Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. 

His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. 

Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. 

In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley’s classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades.

Presley’s first RCA single, “Heartbreak Hotel”, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll. 

His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, made him enormously popular—and controversial. 

In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. 

In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42. 

Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, blues, and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music. 

He won three competitive Grammys, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. 

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Viewer Questions for Creator Channeled by Karl Mollison 26Feb2019

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Viewer Questions for Creator Channeled by Karl Mollison 26Feb2019

We actually only used 6 questions in this channeling video interview because one of the questions was answered in the previous question. So here are the questions we used: 

Revised list of Viewer Questions for Creator 26Feb2019 

1) Is the story of Ezekiel’s wheel true and who were the beings that emerged from it? 

2) Who were the beings that interacted with the Dogons in Africa? 

3) Would people who were/are in an MK Ultra project such as Monarch be considered to be MAPS also? Even though they might never have been off-planet, they could have been used for violent & dark purposes here. Are those used for the Gray-Human hybrid program likely to have also been in Monarch, meaning the Earth-based program of sexual use, drug transport, assassination, & secure info transfer to politicians? If a person “washed out” from the violence by refusing to do it, would they be dropped completely or still used for sex, drug transport, & info transfer? 

4) Does this Human Freewill project encompass many other worlds? 

5) Did the Annunaki, Arcturian and/or Reptilian ET races start out as a free will project like us? 

6) If we are the only human free will project, please describe the other worlds the dark ETs have conquered? 

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Mata Hari Channeled by Karl Mollison 19Feb2019

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From https://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/matahari.htm

Mata Hari 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917 was the stage name Dutch-born Margaretha Zelle took when she became one of Paris’ most popular exotic dancers on the eve of World War I. Although details of her past are sketchy, it is believed that she was born in the Netherlands in 1876 and married a Dutch Army officer 21 years her senior when she was 18. 

She quickly bore him two children and followed him when he was assigned to Java in 1897. The marriage proved rocky. The couple returned to the Netherlands in 1902 with their daughter (their other child, a son, had died mysteriously in Java). It was reported that the family was poisoned by a servant. 

Margaretha’s husband obtained a divorce and retained custody of his daughter. 

Margaretha then made her way to Paris where she reinvented herself as an Indian temple dancer thoroughly trained in the erotic dances of the East. 

She took on the name Mata Hari and was soon luring audiences in the thousands as she performed in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid and other European capitals. She also attracted a number of highly-placed, aristocratic lovers willing to reward her handsomely for the pleasure of her company. 

With the outbreak of World War I, Mata Hari’s cross-border liaisons with German political and military figures came to the attention of the French secret police and she was placed under surveillance. 

Brought in for questioning, the French reportedly induced her to travel to neutral Spain in order to develop relationships with the German naval and army attaches in Madrid and report any intelligence back to Paris. 

In the murky world of the spy, however, the French suspected her of being a double agent. In February 1917 Mata Hari returned to Paris and immediately arrested; charged with being a German spy. Her trial in July revealed some damning evidence that the dancer was unable to adequately explain. 

She was convicted and sentenced to death. 

In the early-morning hours of October 15, Mata Hari was awakened and taken by car from her Paris prison cell to an army barracks on the city’s outskirts where she was to meet her fate.