Everything seemed to fall in with what I already knew, and my overhearing the conversation in the hallway confirmed my earlier suspicion that the motive behind the killings was to throw blame on to Berlin’s Jews. Yet somehow there still seemed to be more to it. There had been Himmler’s involvement. Was I right in thinking that their secondary motive had been the enlistment of the Reichsführer-SS as a believer in Weisthor’s powers, thereby ensuring the latter’s power-base and prospects for advancement in the SS, perhaps even at the expense of Heydrich himself?

It was a fine piece of theorizing. Now all I needed to do was prove it, and the evidence would have to be watertight if Himmler was going to allow his own personal Rasputin to be sent up for multiple murder. The more so if it was likely to reveal the Reich’s chief of police as the gullible victim of an elaborate hoax.

I started to search Weisthor’s desk, thinking that even if I did find enough to nail Weisthor and his evil scheme, I wasn’t about to make a pen-pal out of the man who was arguably the most powerful man in Germany. This was not a comfortable prospect.

It turned out that Weisthor was a meticulous man with his correspondence, and I found files of letters which included copies of those he had sent himself as well as those he had received. Sitting down at his desk I started to read them at random. If I was looking for typed-out admissions of guilt I was disappointed. Weisthor and his associates had developed that talent for euphemism that working in security or intelligence seems to encourage. These letters confirmed everything I knew, but they were so carefully phrased, and included several code-words, as to be open to more than one interpretation.

K. M. Wiligut Weisthor
Caspar-Theyss Strasse 33,
Berlin W.

To SS-Unterscharführer Otto Rahn,
Tiergartenstrasse 8a,
Berlin W.

8 July 1938

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Otto,

It is as I had suspected. The Reichsfuhrer informs me that a press embargo has been imposed by the Jew Heydrich in all matters relating to Project Krist. Without newspaper coverage there will be no legitimate way for us to know who is affected as a result of Project Krist activities. In order for us to be able to offer spiritual assistance to those who are affected, and thereby bring about our objective, we must quickly devise another means of being enabled legitimately to effect our involvement.

Have you any suggestions?

Heil Hitler,
Weisthor

Otto Rahn
Tiergartenstrasse 8a,
Berlin W.

To SS-Brigadefiihrer K. M. Weisthor

Berlin Grunewald

10 July 1938

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Brigadeführer,

I have given considerable thought to your letter and, with the assistance of SS-Hauptsturmführer Kindermann and SS-Sturmbannführer Anders, I believe that I have the solution.