Show Rich Assassin Is Ruler of Nation Subjects in Three Continents I Now Have Nothing to toDo toDo I Do With Murder Washington One One of the rIchest men of ot Europe Is an Assassin hot ot only Is lie he an Assassin but time the lender leader of the a Assassins Assassins a million or more of them But But the A Assassins Amassing c n with Ith i a capital capitalA A have hate hn e nothing to do with Ith tion at least not now no says sa s a belle bulle bulletin Un tin of the National Geographic society from Its Washington D C 0 head headQuarter headquarters headquarters quarters Quarter that gathers g-athers up the thc threads of one of the strangest tr stories that th has to tell The The story stor of the A Assassins em embraces embraces braces three continents Asia Ash AfrIca and It spreads 0 over er nearh ten centuries It Is punctuated Ith such Euch names as Marco Polo rd 11 rdward II I of Khan I Sultan of n the Kin King Kins of Jerusalem Fatima dau daughter of Mo Mn Mohammed hammed the Aga Kinn Ihan Andree Carron MI II of mg land and the S colt On To To unravel CJ this tills ee hundred thousand and one 1 Nights ro mince one can begin n with Ith 1 t Jn in a French chateau near or travel back nearh 1 1000 years car cars to the fortress of high In the mountains 0 over overlooking overlooking er looking the Plain of l fJ Twenty three y 3 J ears after 11 IllIam the Conqueror won on the battle bittle of host hostIngs Ings one Hasan bv h hele ele clever eleer er deceit captured the time fortress of Ala AlII rant mut If It he 11 lived hived ed today could earn farn the name master mind or even en anarchist as as it a lie he became fa famous famous famous a ns as the founder of the As Assassins a As grand master of a secret society he Je schemed to free Persia from Arab domination by working through a Moslem sect called ho traced their line of filth faith to daughter of Mohammed Minority Rule With a Dagger Lacking follo followers ers In large hr e num s Tics Tic's Masan IJ turned for pouter po to the dagger He dedicated hl his sect to murder J F From rom Impregnable the Vultures Vulture's rest est r est he ordered the ling of sultans sultane caliphs I 1 Ings and cru crusaders It was always a avs s a ruler Into the dagger er was plunged For two centuries Hasan the Old Man of the Mountains and Ills hits successorS tors sorS spread terror through time the world orld The grand ma master ter ga gave e orders to grand and priors servin serving In different ills lis Kerman In Persia S ria anti and elsewhere Each had a staff stott of ot dais daisor daisor or lr Initiates who ho won von converts convert that entered the order a as adherents A chosen choren few became fidale or devotes devotees ote de s sll ll a ft desperate set of ad adventurers anti and racketeers The were ere a sort of foreign legion dra drawn dran n from man naI na I I and peoples selected for endur Inc nc for d iring and fanatical fan exalta e e tIon Marco Mirco Polo learned time the astonish astonishIng astonishing astonishIng Ing secret ecret of the Old Man Ian of the Mountain s e power pO 0 over er his In Allmut this tills mister master criminal caused to lip he made a beautiful secret garden arden crowded with roses and other flowers ers trees bearing peaches am and plums plume and tines Ines with lucious lucIons gl mountains ln their spray Into mirror pools bordered by bv gl pavilions pl This e es garden he peopled n with Ith lovely 10 eh ehn n women omen In the lie irid mountains of Per sla he lie created a paradise to serve sen e his e evil ell II designs Ine Given Taste of Paradise When trusted lid fid lis us tee retched o they the were ere drugged and carried unconscious Into ther the gar garden girden r den Awaking Aw An they the found themselves es surrounded for a fe few hours by ht all nil the beauty ind mid jO joys jOs s imaginable Im a para dice dlee Indeed But once again ln they were drugged by hy stealth and ind carried out When a reco recovered ered his Ills senses hp he found hIm himself elf In the dumber ot of the grand rand mister master It It Is true the master told the candidate you vou ou have e been In paradise Go slav slay thIs tills prInce and when hen henou vou sou return mv my an angels els will bear you vou Into paradise e W 11 Ith the bright memory memon of para p disc dlee fillIng his Ills mind e een en ls wel corned danger md tad courted tile the death th that would usher him Into paradise forever fore The drug that the grind mater master used on Ins Ills fidale was Wis Indian hemp cannabis al also o known II as hash hashIsh hashIsh hashIsh Ish and from flom the latter term tins has conic come the name which fastened on the As Assassins Conrad of Montferrat crusader fell with an A Assassins Assassin's dagger In his hie heart Immediately after he was wi Wt rec recognized king of Jeru Jerusalem so eo did na mond count of Tripoli fall PrInce later Inter rdward I or of Fn land was stabbed but recovered reco Caliphs and viziers n were ere found mur Dur murdered tiered dered Sultan organized or an ananny army anny to wipe Ipe out One mOl n nIn In when hl his army arms was as halfway half to the fortress he nn awoke ohe to find a da dagger er pinning a mt message sage to the sand ennd beside hIs Lead held Go Co no farther It warned arned Sultan r turned around and ind went ent home homp But But not even esen the the Assassins Assassins could withstand Gen Genghis Khan Khans Khan's we westward t e His Mongol legions leg captured In 12 1250 G burned Ilasi nn n Sub bah bahs s library and de destroyed tro troed ed hI Ills gar garden girden den The dispersed ed to ca India S Syria Siria rIa and Persia For sIx siz centuries the colonies sh snug snuggled ug without a c central otral leader lead r BefrIended Befriended British Then about 1830 In Kerman pros pro Inte Per hl All Shah a de of Imam Ismail rose to such prominence that lie he was wae exiled W Idle to India through Afghanistan Masan lInsan All Shah or time the Aga Aa Khan did een cerv service Ice for the F among the wild lid mountaineers mountaineer and anil upon rt re inching idling was as re rewarded lie Ill Ills liew w s 14 recognized is leader of the Tn in Indian dlan given h en the title his high hIg-h highness highness nes ness and granted i l pension penion Gradually his Ills c the Aga ahn AgaI hahn of ga tga hall became the spiritual leader leider of the 1 is maill tribes scattered the world word orld ew few stories torIes from Paris bring the strange story tory of the A Assassins don down downto downto n nto to date dite for Aga Aa Khan who ho recently married m Andree Citron Curon ron the French dressmaker and daughter of a hotel hotelkeeper keeper is none other than tinn his Ills high highness highness highness ness the Agi Aga Kinn n III knight grand nd commander of the Indian n empIre I night grand commander of the Star of India doctor of or la laws Stir Star of first class nominee for the Nobel r pence peace prize acing stable taille owner e v and hereditary leader loader of the The The A Agi I Khan I descendant of the Assassins numbers his Ills subjects at atmore atmore atmore more than a million yet let et he his has no territory Ills His residence Is hut but hl his home Is Ie PIrIe When hen he paid SG for the racing colt Hurne On Onto to add to his Ills stables some orne of that mone money canine me perhaps from the dust dusty little towns of and Mas adin In the mountains near Horns S Syria ria Of their 0 own n fl flee ee will III the un Ing Ing- of Syria send end annually one fifth of their re revenue to time tIie Agi Aga Khan one of time the lie richest men of Europe VIsits Subjects Regularly Regularly the A Agi Aga Khan visits hIs people and his journeys take him to Morocco to S ria to Zanzibar and Cast t Africa AfrIc to Persia rind and the Punjab to and Bombl Bombas The of India are known n as s a class of which hv by their de devo devotion 0 to trade tr ha have hae e been distributed far and wide hm throughout the world pay tribute to their spiritual and hered t r tiry leader It Is slid said by bs the pur pur- purchase pur-chise pur chase of small phials of niter which are shipped from Paris or no now per hips from the chateau m r i nr ar nr Chambery In Sn Savoy oy that the gl gi 1 Khan gave ga to his hie bride The water ater Is s the Aga han s bath water con considered sacred acred bs b hl Ills his people and of working cures |