James Webb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_(historian) was the author of The Occult Underground and The Occult Establishment. He was a thinker of the highest magnitude. He revealed the workings of what he termed 'the Flight from Reason,' which began with Romanticism, and culminated in the New Age movement. Few have ever gotten as close to discovering the occult truth, and even fewer have managed to publicize their findings.
He is reported to have committed suicide in 1980, but I believe he may have been executed for revealing too much.
The following is an article written on his death, which concludes that he committed suicide. But I wonder if it is a cover-up piece: https://www.forteantimes.com/features/ar ... _webb.html
Perhaps the most telling excerpt from the article is this:
"At the time of his suicide, Webb had been commissioned to write a book about [Rudolf] Steiner – a task which later went to Colin Wilson. Wilson remarked that if Webb’s earlier books were anything to go by, his book on Steiner would surely have been sceptical. Considering Webb’s strange and tragic death, had he survived, I wonder if Wilson would have been right."