"Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters"

[Ralf Anders]

The International Order of St. Hubertus.

I did some research today on Emilio de Mistura who, as I suspected, turned out to be the father of Staffan de Mistura.

Connaisseurs of the "Langemann-Papers" will know that I am talking about one of the most important agents of the BND in the 60s, active in Rome, the Vatican, Vietnam and, it turns out, the US. Reinhard Gehlen once called him his "best man".

In Heigl/Saupes book on the Langemann scandal, "Operation EVA", I stumbled across the following (my quick translation):

"De Mistura also built up links to the US with the help of the BND. He did so using the International Order of St. Hubertus who had been operating across the world since 1695 under the guise of a hunter's association. The North American section, to which mainly Californians belong, included two persons who were connected to the BND (...)"

These were, for the sake of completeness, Karl U. Weber, honorary consul of Austria in San Francisco, and Daniel E. London, vice president of Western Hotels Company International.