Federal Councilor Hans Brenner allegedly received more than 185,000 Swiss francs through a similar arrangement, with payments beginning in August 1950 and continuing through Januaryof this year.
A third Federal Councilor, whose name this paper is withholding pending further investigation, appears in correspondence as a reluctant participant who was coerced through direct threats against family members.
Both Councilor Lüthi and Councilor Brenner have served on committees overseeing infrastructure security and emergency response protocols, positions that provided them access to sensitive information about Switzerland’s vulnerabilities.
Councilor Lüthi did not respond to requests for comment. A representative for Councilor Brenner declined to address the specific allegations, stating only that the Councilor “categorically denies any wrongdoing.”
LAST NIGHT’S ATTACKS
The coordinated infrastructure attacks that struck Bern last night were not acts of random sabotage. They were the deliberate work of the Order of Saint Longinus, executed according to a precise timetable designed to create maximum chaos in advance of this morning’s emergency Council session.
Photographs obtained by this paper show armed men at the Hardstrasse power station at approximately 01:52 this morning, moments before explosives were detonated at the facility’s main transformer. Additional photographs document similar activity at the Bern communications hub and at a staging area in the industrial district where menand equipment were assembled before being dispatched to multiple targets.
The photographs include clear images of faces, vehicles, and license plates. Several individuals pictured have been identified as known associates or members of the Order of Saint Longinus.
One photograph shows a man identified as Graf Heinrich von Eschenbach, a member of the Order’s inner circle, at the industrial staging area at approximately 01:23 this morning. Graf von Eschenbach is a former Swiss military officer with extensive connections to our nation’s defense establishment.
The attacks followed a pattern consistent with creating the appearance of a national emergency through power outages affecting residential and commercial districts, severed communications preventing a coordinated response, and disrupted transportation services, limiting the movement of security forces. The damage, while significant, was calibrated to cause chaos rather than catastrophic destruction.
This was not an attack intended to cripple Switzerland. It was an attack intended to frighten Switzerland into surrendering its freedoms.
THE CHAMBER SESSION
The emergency session of the Federal Council scheduled for this morning was the conspiracy’s culmination.
According to internal correspondence obtained from Sternberg AG, the compromised Councilors plan to invoke Article 185 of the Federal Constitution—the emergency powers provision—citing last night’s attacks as justification for extraordinary measures.
The proposed measures, described in planning documents as “temporary security protocols,” would have included:
— Expanded authority for federal law enforcement, including powers of arrest and detention without judicial oversight.
— Restrictions on freedom of movement and assembly.
— Emergency control of communications infrastructure, including authority to suspend or censor press coverage.
— Suspension of cantonal autonomy in matters of security.
— Authorization for the Federal Council to govern by decree for an initial period of ninety days, with provisions for indefinite extension.
These measures would have effectively transformed the Swiss Confederation from a democracy into an authoritarian state controlled by Soviet interests.
“By the time anyone realized what had happened, resistance would have become treason,” one source familiar with the conspiracy explained. “Themachinery of the state would have been turned against anyone who opposed them. Switzerland would have fallen—not to invasion, but to subversion.”
THE SOVIET CONNECTION
The evidence of Soviet involvement in the conspiracy is extensive.
Bank records trace the flow of funds from accounts known to be controlled by Soviet intelligence services through a network of shell companies and intermediary institutions before reaching Order-controlled accounts in Switzerland. The routing was designed to obscure the money’s origins, but forensic analysis of transaction patterns reveals clear links to known Soviet financial operations throughout Western Europe.
Internal correspondence recovered from Sternberg AG contains multiple references to “friends in the East” and coordination with “external partners” on matters of timing and strategy. One letter, dated November 1951, discusses “our banker’s” continued cooperation and notes that “the February deadline approaches.”
A second letter, dated January 4, 1952, contains what appears to be operational intelligence regarding the movements of a Swiss intelligence official—information that was used to facilitate that individual’s capture and interrogation at an Order-controlled facility in the Alps.
The strategic logic of Soviet involvement is clear. Switzerland’s neutrality and its role as Europe’s banking center make it a prize of immense value. Control of Swiss financial institutions would give Moscow leverage over economic activity across the continent. Control of Swiss territory would provide a platform for intelligence operations throughout Western Europe.
An invasion would be costly and would trigger international rage and the likely resumption of war. Subversion offered a path to the same objective without the risks of open warfare.
HOW THE CONSPIRACY WAS UNCOVERED
