THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE

Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.

17 April 1929

(page 17)

FRANCE EXPELS BRITISH AGENT.

Paris, April 16—The Paris Midi says Alastair [sic] Crowley, who says he was a British secret service agent during the World War, and in that capacity posed as a German propagandist, writing articles for “The Fatherland,” will be expelled from France tomorrow.

His French identity card has been taken from him by the government, amounting to technical expulsion. He said that he is unaware of any charges against him and plans to go to Brussels with the hope, however, of being able to return to Paris.

The Midi quotes Crowley as saying that as a secret British agent he sought to influence the Germans to sink American ships with the idea in mind of forcing the United States into the war on the side of the Allies.

Crowley has lived in Paris for the last six years.