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This article by Miles Mathis argues that the trial and execution of Mata Hari were faked, asserting that her entire biography has been fabricated to obscure her true background. Mata Hari, born Margaretha Zelle, is presented as being from a wealthy Dutch Jewish family, with her father being an oil millionaire. Her marriage to Captain Rudolph MacLeod of the Scottish MacLeods is highlighted, linking her to Donald Trump’s mother, also a MacLeod. Rudolph MacLeod worked for the Dutch East India Company and was listed in the British peerage due to his mother, Baroness Sweerts de Landas, connecting her to other noble families like the van der Goes and Calkoens. The article traces the MacLeod lineage’s connections to Dutch nobility and the East India Company, as well as Scottish Army officers. Mata Hari’s ancestry is also detailed, with Jewish names like van der Meulen, Haitsma, and Faber on her mother’s side, and Elzinga on her father’s. The name Zelle is linked to German/Jewish nobility involved in the Protestant Reformation, referencing Matthaus Zell and Johann Geiler von Kaysersburg, suggesting an agenda to undermine Christianity.
Mata Hari allegedly began her career as an agent and performer at age 26, moving to Paris and becoming the supposed mistress of industrialist Emile Guimet, who is also presented as her handler. Guimet inherited Pechinay, a company that produced ultramarine blue, and was known for his interest in Far East art and culture. His family was French nobility, related to Baron Liebert. Mata Hari’s career transitioned to being a “courtesan” and a beard for homosexuals in Europe.
The article then focuses on her alleged espionage during World War I. She was purportedly asked to spy for the French and target Prince Wilhelm, son of the Kaiser, but the author dismisses this as impossible due to Prince Wilhelm’s homosexuality, referencing the Harden-Eulenberg Affair and suggesting the German court was largely homosexual. Other alleged female contacts of Prince Wilhelm, such as Geraldine Ferrar and Ossi Oswalda (real name Staglich), are also presented as beards. Ossi Oswalda’s husband, Baron von Koczian-Miskolczy, a Freemason, is mentioned, as well as his connection to Kaiser Wilhelm and Princess Victoria, Prince Wilhelm’s sister. Kaiser Wilhelm pardoned alleged British spies Captains Stewart and Trench when Princess Victoria married the Duke of Brunswick.
The author contends that Mata Hari’s espionage was likely for private business interests rather than the German government. When her cover was “blown,” her French handlers allegedly orchestrated a fake death to protect her, with a fabricated military trial and execution intended to deceive the Germans. Evidence cited includes the admission that there was no concrete evidence against her, her own confession to taking money from a German diplomat (seen as self-incriminating and thus unlikely for someone not complicit), her French superior Ladoux manufacturing evidence, and MI5 files proving her innocence. The article points out inconsistencies in eyewitness accounts of her execution and that photographic evidence online is from 1920s movies. The fact that her body was unclaimed, her embalmed head disappeared from a Paris museum, and trial records were classified until 2017 are also presented as suspicious.
Further evidence of a fake trial comes from the 1980s unsealing of files for American journalist Russell Warren Howe, which revealed that Mata Hari was not allowed to call witnesses for her defense, a violation of legal procedure. Testimony from Germany against her, despite her allegedly spying for France, is also deemed illogical. The author concludes that the fake trial served to confirm the reality of the war to the public and that Mata Hari was scapegoated to cover up French military failures, though the author believes this is counterproductive as it publicized French intelligence failures. The article ends by asserting the author’s interpretation of events is the most logical, unlike mainstream accounts.
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- Mata Hari
- Miles Mathis
- Margaretha Zelle
- Dutch
- Dutch Jewish
- Kelders 33
- Leeuwarden
- Captain Rudolph MacLeod
- Scottish
- MacLeods
- Donald Trump
- Dutch East India Company
- British
- Baroness Sweerts de Landas
- Sweerts de Landas Wybourgh
- Baroness Snouckaert van Schauburg
- van der Goes
- Calkoens
- Brussels
- Sweers
- Zweerts
- Zwiers
- Solomon
- Isaac Sweers
- English kings
- Amsterdam
- Bloemgracht
- Cal-Kohen
- Dutch nobility
- Scottish Army
- East India Company
- Baronets of Argyll
- Campbells
- Dukes of Argyll
- MacLeods of Skye
- Norman MacLeod
- Norman MacLeod “the Wicked Man”
- Clan MacLeod
- Murrays
- MacKenzies
- Frasers
- MacDonalds
- Leslies
- Erskines
- Stanleys
- 7th Earl of Derby
- Kohens
- Zoelle
- Zeller
- Zoeller
- Zellner
- Sellers
- Peter Sellers
- MacLeod
- van der Meulen
- Haitsma
- Faber
- Elzinga
- German
- Bavaria
- Protestant Reformation
- Luther
- Calvin
- knox
- Matthaus Zell
- Johann Geiler von Kaysersburg
- Emperor Maximilian
- Habsburg
- Eleanor of Alburquerque
- Katharine Zell
- Schutz
- Schutzjude
- Samuel Zell
- Zielonka
- Polish
- British-Dutch intelligence
- Paris
- Emile Guimet
- Far East
- Java
- Phoenician Navy
- Guimet
- Wiki France
- Pechinay
- Baron Liebert
- Napoleon
- Prussian Royal Family
- Europe
- World War I
- French
- British
- Prince Wilhelm
- Kaiser
- Harden-Eulenberg Affair
- Hitler
- American
- Geraldine Ferrar
- Ossi Oswalda
- Staglich
- Baron von Koczian-Miskolczy
- Princess von Furstenberg
- Freemason
- Iron Cross
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- 1915
- Princess Victoria
- Duke of Brunswick
- 1913
- Captains Stewart
- Trench
- Bertrand Stewart
- German prison
- Intel
- Johanna Koczian
- German movie star
- Germany
- England
- France
- Netherlands
- German diplomat
- Ladoux
- Biography Channel
- 2016
- MI5
- CIA
- British reporter Henry Wales
- firing squad
- The New Yorker
- Amazonian suit
- white gloves
- French papers
- low-cut blouse
- tricorn hat ensemble
- black velvet cloak
- sleeping kimono
- Paris Museum
- 100 years
- 2017
- state secret
- 1980s
- American journalist Russell Warren Howe
- Jack Anderson
- 1985
- French military
- WWI
- French intelligence
- mainstream