I'm not sure which is more bizarre, the investigation or the beliefs:
The bizarre high-level decision saw Scotland Yard’s finest
infiltrating rallies and meetings of George King's secretive ‘space
society’ amid fears it was a front for Russian spies.
The former London cabbie claimed he could communicate with an alien called Aetherius, who was orbiting Mars.
In another of his freakish outbursts he warned the public that space travellers from Venus were already living among them.
However,
it has now emerged that detectives from the Metropolitan Police feared
his zany antics may have been an elaborate front for Soviet moles.
They
launched a five-year surveillance operation into his activities, which
was revealed for the first time today after Scotland Yard unsealed top
secret documents.
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They suspected that his bizarre antics were all part of a Communist
plot to overthrow democracy and stop Britain becoming a nuclear power.
Top
secret files reveal that police launched their probe after the now
defunct Empire News newspaper picked up King's anti-nuclear rhetoric and
linked his UFO society to Moscow.
The paper handed over copies
of the society's Cosmic Voice newsletter to detectives, in which the
cult leader wrote that aliens had appealed to him to stop nuclear
experimentation.
Special branch agents tailed Aetherius Society founder George King for five years | UK | News | Daily Express
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