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- ↑ Lachman, Gary (2003). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius. The Disinformation Company. ISBN 0-9713942-3-7 . Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ↑ Жак Бержье, Луи Повель
- 1 2 "The seven heads of the Green Dragon" (about "Les Sept têtes du Dragon Vert" book by Teddy Legrand)
- ↑ Hitler et les sociétés secrètes : Enquête sur les sources occultes du nazisme
- ↑ Михаил Бурлешин «Зелёный Дракон Тибета»