Freemasonry in the News

Telegraph: Michael Baigent - Obituaries - 21/06/13

Ottawa Citizen: Author Michael Baigent lost lawsuit over Da Vinci Code - 29/06/13

Masonic Press Agency of Romania: Dan Brown Launched his book in the Grand Temple of the United Grand Lodge of England - 23/05/13

Independent: The Freemasons' Code: Dan Brown reveals the message that told him the door to the lodge is open - 22/05/13

The Guardian: The freemasons who allow women to join. But why would anyone want to? - 30/04/13

The Courier: Dundee Masonic Club has licence suspended - 20/03/13

Big News Network: Why is Queen Elizabeth’s Nurse Wearing a Masonic Belt? - 08/03/13

Vigilent Citizen: Why is Queen Elizabeth’s Nurse Wearing a Masonic Belt? - 05/03/13

This is Derbyshire: Letters - Time to end the secrecy over Freemasons society - 23/01/13

The Sun - Masons shaken as £110k vanishes - 30/12/12

Daily Mail: Texas Father Carved Pentagram on Six Year Old Son's Back For Occult 'Holy Day' - 12/12/12

U.K. - Guardian Letters: Influence of Masonry among Television Program Producers at Granada TV - 10/12/12

Ex-Gay Watch: UK Therapist Misrepresents Reasons for Dismissal from Professional Body - 28/11/12

U.K. - Belfast Telegraph: Canons' comments on Masons appalling: Masons' Letter to the Editor - 24/11/12

Church House Publishing: Freemasonry and Christianity - Are they compatible? - 24/11/12

Channel 4: Nearly everyone on UK paedophile ring list is a Freemason says abuse victim [VIDEO} - 09/11/12

Daily Star: 'Care Home Paedophiles Were Masons’ - 07/11/12

ITV: North Wales police 'handed dozens of pictures of abuse' - 06/11/12

Philosophers Stone Blog: The Freemason Connection To The North Wales Child Abuse Cover Up ‘Inquiry’ - 04/11/12

Belfast Telegraph - Jimmy Savile family members target great-niece on Facebook after she speaks out about the star molesting her - 30/10/12

Telegraph - Brigadier Tony Hunter-Choat - 23/04/12

This is Glouchestershire: Call to reveal Gloucestershire councillor links to secret societies - 15/02/12

Daily Record - Ex-Cop says Masonic Network operating inside Force promoting Freemasons over Non-Freemasons - 18/09/11

Guardian - Phone-hacking scandal: Bro. Jonathan Rees obtained information using 'dark arts' - 08/06/11

Darkpolitricks.com - MP reveals Freemason involvement in News of the World phone hacking scandal - 08/06/11

ISNA - Iran says Freemasonry organization designs London Olympic Games logo - 28/02/11

Deadline News - Freemasons in legal battle over unfair dismissal and unpaid wages - 20/07/10

BBC - Rebecca magazine's web relaunch as subscription website - Among its most high profile campaigns the magazine investigated freemasons in Wales and probed the activities of prominent politicians - 09/05/10

Wales Online - Directory containing names of 13,000 Welsh freemasons published by new investigative website - 05/05/10

Freemasons For Dummies - Website-For-Freemasons complains about Magazine articles that expose hidden influence of Freemasons in government - 05/05/10

Rebecca Magazine: North Wales Tribunal lead counsel concealed his membership during 'discussion' about freemasonry declarations - 21/04/10 …

Hour - The game is afoot: Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes Movie Premiers at Freemasons Hall - 24/12/09

North Devon Journal - Devon and Cornwall Police: No record of how many police are also freemasons - 31/10/09

BBC - Can we trust Dan Brown on the Freemasons? - 17/09/09

This is Sussex - Borough Council includes Freemason Membership in Declaration of Councillor Interests - 02/09/09

Edinburgh Festivals - The Da Vinci chorus at Rosslyn - 26/08/09

This is South Devon: 'Official channels' are useless for complaints about Freemason Network in Torquay City Government - 29/07/09

This is South Devon - Torquay Freemasonry inquiry dubbed 'unacceptable' - 16/07/09

This is South Devon - Torquay Masons 'do not influence council' say Torquay Council Masons - 14/07/09

This is South Devon - Devon Councillors allege Freemason influence in committee chair appointments and planning decisions - 27/05/09

This is Local London - Freemason row: High Wycombe Mayor releases statement over Masonic Charity - 14/05/09

Northhampton Chronicle & Echo - Freemason jailed for cheating Masonic friends - 4/04/09

Court Hearing adjourned after Hospitalization of 'Royal Lodge' Freemason Accused of Molestation - 09/10/08

Masonic bosses fined £100,000 over elderly woman's death - 26/08/08

Court sentences Freemason to 2 years probation for indecent act - 16/08/08

Dukes, Freemasons, Jersey and all that sort of nonsense - The Dukes of Kent, odd factoids - 21/03/08

Questions asked at Fenland Hall - 19/03/08

Now you can log on to the online lodge - 28/01/08

Winston Churchill Quit Freemasonry Says Churchill Society

Mysterious deaths, the Marquess and the forbidden treasure - The United Grand Lodge of England's Pro-Grand Master: Spencer "Spenny" Douglas David Compton, the Marquess of Northampton

Lord Nicholas Windsor, Son of United Grand Lodge of England's Hereditary Grand Master, the Duke of Kent, to marry at the Vatican

Shrouded in secret handshakes, crafty symbols and fancy footwork - 03/01/08

Accuseds father issued threats; said he had 'friends in high places' and 'he knew Freemasons' - 04/10/07

Goat abandoned at Freemasons Hall - 02/10/07

Provincial Grand Rank Officer Jailed For Abusing Boys - 02/10/07

Recruiting for Free Mason; Secret Society is Eyeing College Students to Fill the Ranks - 28/09/07

Charges dropped against Freemason Prison Guard Abuser - 24/08/07

South Africa Apartheid Secret Society Afrikaner Broederbond extends friendly hand - 03/08/07

Freemason Ex-police chief evades jail for swindle again - 26/07/07

Masons target universities to swell numbers: 'Organisation more popularly connected with policemen, lawyers, and businessmen' - 27/05/07

Does Necropolis hold the key to Scotland Freemasonry’s secret history? - 11/05/07

British Virgin Islands Masonic police officer convicted of murder; juror dismissed for allegedly flashing him Masonic hand gestures - 05/03/07

Freemasons' secrets unveiled - 27/02/07

Belfast Masons hit by bugging - 27/02/07

Lodge Master on Voluntary U.K. Police-Freemason Disclosure Registry: 'I told them to eff off' - 14/01/07

England Parish Church described as 'Monument to Freemasonry' to close - 07/12/06

MI5's dangerous ascendancy in Northern Ireland: Refused to reveal Orange Order and Freemason membership among staff - 29/11/06

Tribunal rules Belfast Police Officer was discriminated against in promotions because he was not a Mason - 12/10/06

The Economist: Murky goings on - The Mafia, Berlusconi, Fininvest, and P2 Masonic Lodge - 29/06/06

Ex-N.A.T.O. Secretary General Lord Robertson fails in 2nd lawsuit over allegations of involvement in Dunblaine Massacre Freemasonry Cover-up

Scotland Police Officers to be asked to declare Masonic Membership over concerns of Anti-Catholic Bias and Discrimination - 03/06/06

A Magical moment for Bermuda - 02/06/06

Scottish Parliament guides accused of 'peddling Masonic myths' - Professional Tourist Guide Assn. 'most annoyed' - 29/05/06

Masons in turmoil as sacking at top shocks secret brotherhood - 05/05/06

Umberto Eco wrote in his novel Foucault’s Pendulum: “The lunatic is easily recognised. Sooner or later he brings up the Templars.” - 29/04/06

New Masonic Criminal Scandal Shocks U.K.: Perv Ring were members of same Lodge - 07/04/06

'Government should introduce a policy of disclosure for all Public Servants including the judiciary about their membership in groups such as the Freemasons' - 03/03/06

Bishop of Rochester Cathedral halts Masonic P.R. effort - 16/12/05

The Occult Tradition - 04/12/05

Shows to Explore Freemasonry - 23/11/05

Calvi Trial to Expose `Dark' Side of Italian History - 23/11/05

Freemasonry link in £93,000 gift to Tories - 20/11/05

Ulster Police Masonic & Orange Order Registry Verification Process Questioned - 14/11/05

Londonderry 'Masonic Army Base' Observation Tower dismantled - 25/10/05

Da Vinci Code breakers: Authors say Rosslyn Chapel symbols not from Knights Templars but were added by Victorian era Freemasons - 23/10/05

The case of God's Banker: Roberto Calvi the trial begins - 06/10/05

'God's Banker' murder trial opens - 06/10/05

Italy opens trial into death of "God's banker" - 06/10/05

Key facts on Roberto Calvi murder trial - 06/10/05

Question on Masonic links left Dunblane inquiry chief stunned - 05/10/05

Cayman Islands - 'A Man of Action' - 28/09/05

Grandmaster of Grand Lodge of Scotland resigns amid many questions - 15/09/05

Fifth of English Anglican Clergy believe they can be priests and members of Masonic lodges survey says - 10/09/05

Nun cites Freemasonry in bid to stop Da Vinci Code Movie Filming - 22/08/05

P2 Grand Master Lucio Gelli probed in Roberto Calvi murder - 20/07/05

Da Vinci Code author backs claims that Jesus was married with children - 17/07/05

All British MPs and Peers to be forced to declare membership of secret societies such as the Freemasons in line with police officers and judges - 12/06/05

On This Day May 26: 1981 Italian Government Resigns - 26/05/05

Parliament 'must end its dead rituals'; Sweep away 'Masonic' practices, says Puttnam - 22/05/05

London Police change Ruling on Roberto Calvi death from Suicide to Murder - 20/05/05

Trinidad - Benedict XV's Confrontation with Freemasonry; Seeking after divine signs - 22/04/05

Parliament passes comprehensive Freemasons Registry - 21/04/05

Four face trial over 1982 death of banker - 19/04/05

Four indicted in death of 'God's banker' - 19/04/05

P2 Masonic Conspiracy: Four Charged in Murder of Roberto Calvi - 18/04/05

Four indicted over 1982 murder with links to Chicago archdiocese (Print and Video) - 18/04/05

Secrets of ‘contorted’ freemason initiation to be revealed, U.K. Masons Outraged - 17/04/05

Freemasonry rolls up its trousers in public - 17/04/05

Even in Death, a Media Superstar - 16/04/05

Yorkshire Ripper Investigator to face theft charges - 13/04/05

Masons lifting the veils of secrecy, been the butt of jokes for years - 24/03/05

Freemasons dis-lodge the secrecy: Sex Offender Registeree's Out, Rolled-Up Trouser Legs In - 09/03/05

Morgan Vetoes Mason - 24/02/05

Kirkwall scroll features in new "Grail Trail" of Knights Templars - 06/02/05

Freemason King Edward VII Tombstone Engraved With A Swastika - 01/02/05

'Freemason Roy' - "Pillar of the Community" fakes divorce and tells wife for six years he is in Malaysia on business, but is actually secretly living remarried three blocks away - 30/01/05

Magistrate charged and suspended after concocting bizarre story about stolen Rolex watch on way to Freemason Lodge - 29/01/05

Mafia, masons and murder - An update on the P2 Masonic Lodge/Roberto Calvi Murder Case - 06/01/05

The enigma of Prince Charlie and the Holy Grail - 21/11/04

Row Over Vicar's Ban On Freemasons - 20/11/04

Give Him The Third Degree - 17/11/04

Clash looms between Assembly's titans - 09/09/04

Pilgrimage of the Da Vinci code-breakers - 07/08/04

I've cracked the code: it's rubbish - 06/08/04

Modern Druidism Traced to Freemasonry - 20/06/04

Norwich man to dispel myth of Freemasons - 10/06/04

Freemasonry... when everybody knows your game - 21/05/04

Brown seeks to gag football fans' group over Masonic allegations - 06/05/04

Mafia squad probe Calvi bag theft - 04/05/04

America's Christians launch assault on The Da Vinci Code - 02/05/04

Financial Irregularities and Masonic Connections swirl around West Ham Football Club - 27/04/04

British Rap Star's Lyrics stir controversy - 06/04/04

BBC under fire for song exposing Queen's Freemason Husband - 05/04/04

Senior Tory Freemason 'Law and Order' MP dumps wife of 30 years for his blonde secretary - 04/04/04

Buckingham Palace declines to comment on BBC Rap Uproar - 04/04/04

An end to the mystery of God's Banker? - 31/03/04

Scottish Masons deny recruiting scheme - 25/03/04

Welsh Assembly ruling barring Freemason barrister attacked - 22/03/04

British intelligence steps up, few oppose - 13/03/04

Welsh Counsel General quits Freemasons - 11/03/04

Calvi murder linked to missing $70m - 18/02/04

Dear Boss - 29/01/04

Kenya - Anglicans cancel former Freemason Cabinet minister's service - 22/01/04

MP urges Wales to follow England's lead on a ruling over Freemasonry - 20/01/04

Masonic councillors to be outed U.K. wide in new mandatory government regulations - 13/01/04

Who killed Calvi? - 07/12/03

Malta - The Origins of the New Age Movement - 04/12/03

London Police begin Roberto Calvi Murder Investigation - 21 years after Banker was found hanging under Black Friars Bridge - 01/10/03

Northern Ireland Police to be forced to declare Masonic Membership - 26/09/03

Freemason 'closed shop' blocked me, says barrister - 20/08/03

Birmingham City Councillors to be required to disclose Masonic Membership - 21/07/03

Archbishop of Canterbury resists picking masons for clergy posts - 16/11/02

New Archbishop of Canterbury: Masons have no place in the Church - 15/11/02

The Satanic Brotherhood with clergymen in its ranks - 15/11/02

Welsh Assembly blocks move to halt Masons Registry - 14/11/02

Family finds vindication in their campaign after Italian Coroner rules Roberto Calvi's death was murder, not suicide - 04/11/02

Scottish Parliament Committee and Municipal Standards Watchdog at odds on Mason Registry - 04/11/02

Malta - Mason secretly films then quits and publically denounces Freemasonry - 04/11/02

Scottish Parliament pushing for Mason Registry to include Judiciary - 30/10/02

Tory Freemason MP threatens to defy new Scottish registry law - 03/10/02

How to lose friends and alienate people - 23/06/02

Freemasons to challenge compulsory disclosure - 17/06/02

Fewer on the square - 28/02/02

Tycoon Black now Lord of Crossharbour - 01/11/01

Police informants to face new curbs - 20/05/01

Freemasonry's Flack - 28/05/01

General Medical Council names Freemason members: BBC Apr 21, 2001

Minister temporarily suspends military block on Freemasonry after Grand Lodge Legal Threats - 02/04/01

New evidence that Hess died with Duke of Kent in 42' plane crash - 21/04/01

Sunday Comment: Freemasons' shocking secret - 15/04/01

PR firm hired to improve Freemasons image - 21/03/01

If you want to meet dodgy car dealers, join the Masons - 20/03/01

How do you put a positive gloss on Freemasons? - 19/03/01

Have police finally solved the mystery of Noye's missing Brink's-Mat gold? - 29/02/01

Prominent Freemason Jim Davidson wins OBE; deny's alcholism, racism, and homophobia charges: BBC December 2000

U.K.: Straw threatens to police Masons - 05/11/00

U.K.: Noye faces police investigation after key witness is shot dead - 07/10/00

Professor of Freemasonry to probe murky past of Masonic Brotherhood - 01/07/00

Police Ignore Voluntary Freemasons Registry, Legislation Looming: The Guardian July 29, 2000

Police defy force with Masonic lodge - 28/06/00

Survey Shows 600 Police Service Freemasons - 04/06/00

He was a master criminal and a killer. But yesterday justice caught up with Kenneth Noye - 14/04/00

How Noye was caught - 14/04/00

Noye's circle of criminal cronies - 14/04/00

Britain's Most Infamous Villain, Worshipful Master Kenny Noye - 13/04/00

Boyz In The Hood: Squall Magazine

Anything to declare?: BBC Southern Eye Investigation March 2, 2000

The world's best-known secret society - 25/11/99

Military Launches Crackdown on Freemasons in Ranks: Daily Express, June 17, 1999

The Craft: BBC May 26, 1999

New Restrictions on "Private Societies" and the Police in Northern Ireland: Britain in USA November 4, 1998

Freemasons face appointments review: BBC October 27, 1998

Association of University Teachers, New Restrictions on Freemasonry - Summer 1998

New Judges must declare Masonic Membership: BBC March 8, 1998

Freemasons - Moral Guardians or Centre of Corruption?: BBC March 5 '98

Secrecy to get a slap on the wrist: BBC February 20, 1998

Home Affairs Committee, Freemasonry - Minutes of Evidence - February 17, 1998

'It is not difficult to ruin a man,' he said. 'And I will tell you how it is done time and again. There are more than half a million brethren under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge. Standards have been falling for twenty or thirty years. It is too easy to enter the Craft, so many men of dubious morals have joined. The secrecy and power attract such people, and when they come the decent leave. The numbers of people who would never have been considered for membership in the fifties are getting larger all the time. If only five per cent of Freemasons use - abuse - the Craft for selfish or corrupt ends it means there are 25,000 of them. The figure is much closer to twelve or thirteen per cent now.'

Christopher explained that Masonry's nationwide organization of men from most walks of life provided one of the most efficient private intelligence networks imaginable. Private information on anybody in the country could normally be accessed very rapidly through endless permutations of masonic contacts - police, magistrates, solicitors, bank managers, Post Office staff ('very useful in supplying copies of a man's mail'), doctors, government employee bosses of firms and nationalized industries etc., etc. dossier of personal data could be built up on anybody very quickly. When the major facts of an individual's life were known, areas of vulnerability would become apparent. Perhaps he is in financial difficulties; perhaps he has some social vice - if married he might 'retain a mistress' or have proclivity for visiting prostitutes; perhaps there is something in his past he wishes keep buried, some guilty secret, a criminal offence (easily obtainable through Freemason police of doubtful virtue), or other blemish on his character: all these and more could be discovered via the wide-ranging masons network of 600,000 contacts, a great many of whom were disposed to do favours for one another because that had been their prime motive for joining. Even decent Masons could often be 'conned' into providing information on the basis that 'Brother Smith needs this to help the person involved'. The adversary would even sometimes be described as a fellow Mason to the Brother from whom information was sought perhaps someone with access to his bank manager or employer. The 'good' Mason would not go to the lengths of checking with Freemasons Hall whether or not this was so. The 'target' was presented as a Brother in distress by a fellow Mason, especially a fellow Lodge member, that would be enough for any upright member of the Craft.

Sometimes this information gathering process - often involving a long chain of masonic contacts all over the country and possibly abroad - would be unnecessary. Enough would be known in advance about the adversary to initiate any desired action against him.

I asked how this 'action' might be taken.

'Solicitors are very good at it,' said Christopher. 'Get your man involved in something legal - it need not be serious - and you have him.' Solicitors, I was told, are 'past masters' at causing endless delays, generating useless paperwork, ignoring instructions, running up immense bills, misleading clients into taking decisions damaging to themselves.

Masonic police can harass, arrest on false charges, and plant evidence. 'A businessman in a small community or person in public office arrested for dealing in child pornography, for indecent exposure, or for trafficking in drugs is at the end of the line,' said Christopher. 'He will never work again. Some people have committed suicide after experiences of that kind.'

Masons can bring about the situation where credit companies and banks withdraw credit facilities from individual clients and tradesmen, said my informant. Bank can foreclose. People who rely on the telephone for their work can be cut off for long periods. Masonic employees of local authorities can arrange for a person's drains to be inspected and extensive damage to be reported, thus burdening the person with huge repair bills; workmen carrying out the job can 'find' - In reality cause - further damage. Again with regard to legal matters, a fair hearing is hard to get when a man in ordinary circumstances is in financial difficulties. If he is trying to fight a group of unprincipled Freemasons skilled in using the 'network' it will be impossible because masonic Department of Health and Social Security and Law Society officials can delay applications for Legal Aid endlessly.

'Employers, if they are Freemasons or not, can be given private information about a man who has made himself an enemy of Masonry. At worst he will be dismissed or consistently passed over for promotion.'

Christopher added, 'Masonic doctors can also be used. But for some reason doctors seem to be the least corruptible men.

'Only the fighters have any hope of beating the system once it's at work against them,' he told me. 'Most people, fighters or not, are beaten in the end, though. It's . . . you see, I ... you finish up not knowing who you can trust. You can get no help because your story sounds so paranoid that you are thought a crank, one of those nuts who think the whole world is a conspiracy against them. It is a strange phenomenon. By setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, these people can poison every part of a person's life. If they give in they go under. If they don't give in It's only putting off the day because if they fight, so much unhappiness will be brought to the people around them that there will likely come a time when even their families turn against them out of desperation. When that happens and they are without friends wherever they look, they become easy meat. The newspapers will not touch them'.

'There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.'

'Christopher'
Senior Whitehall Civil Servant and Freemason
Quoted in Stephen Knight's The Brotherhood


Further Reading

Global Freemasonry: A Certain Point Within A Circle - The Masonic 'Family'