Clausewitz Association

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### Purpose

Providing policy advocacy and research to the United States government on anomalous topics

### Affiliations

 Department of Defense* Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office

	+ Preternatural Investigation Branch

 QuantaReal

The **Clausewitz Association** is a North American confidential think tank and research group that was created in the late 1940s from scientists commissioned by the United States government for the study of "paranormal and preternatural phenomena". This was done following the analysis of information taken from German parapsychologists such as Erwin Gollwitzer after the Second World War, in addition to pre-existent bodies of parapsychological research such as those from American parapsychologist Martin Gruer. Unlike normal think tanks, the Clausewitz Association collates its data entirely away from the public eye in order to minimize the possibility of public hysteria or paranoia related to its findings, and instead shares information with organizations such as the Department of Defense's Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office.

Due to the historicity of the Clausewitz Association, their current functionality in policy advocacy, and their contributions to government research projects, some that even serve within the PIB and ARIO speculate that the association itself (rather than Congress or other government supervisory bodies) controls the direction of preternatural research in the United States. The existence of the group is barely known to the public, but its name has been implicated in several conspiracies from government leaks over the decades.

## History

### Creation

The origins of the Clausewitz Association lie in the success of Operation Paperclip in bringing German scientists to the United States following the end of the Second World War. Important preternatural researchers and parapsychologists - namely Dr. Johannes Clausewitz and Dr. Erwin Gollwitzer - were given immunity from their involvement with the Nazi party in exchange for an indefinite commitment towards communicating to the American government their past, present, and future research on the paranormal and supernatural. In turn, the two figureheads of German paranormal research formed an "association of likeminded parapsychologists and researchers of the preternatural" in 1947 that would provide both fraternity and commonality to a field racked with the dread and suspicion of what may lie beyond true reality.

### Growth and contributions

The Clausewitz Association was indirectly responsible for the formation of the Anomalous Research and Intelligence Office (then named the *Supernatural Phenomena Task Force*) within the Department of Defense in 1948; the group was also indirectly responsible for the creation of the Preternatural Investigation Branch subdivision of the ARIO in 1954. This was due to Dr. Gollwitzer's direct contributions to the scientific foundation to the government organizations, with his work assisting government scientists in rationalizing and analyzing anomalous phenomena relating to the functions of cryptids and portals.

The association took an advisory role during the start of the Kaufmann Initiative in 1961, with such an mission being the exploration of the Other as a result of the Mullins Experiment of 1960 yielding a spatiotemporally stable portal to the alternate dimension. However, with the 1964 disaster that resulted in the reshuffling of the Other's spaces, the Clausewitz Association became directly involved in the creation of a new assisting research body. Originally called Omnius, QuantaReal would be formed in 1965 under the control of two association members, Jochen Morgenthau and Robert Straussler, and would significantly boost anomalous research for decades to come.

## Structure

The Clausewitz Association has no real internal structure; instead, it functions as an assembly of preternatural scientists and researchers working in government, academic, civilian, and corporate circles alike, allowing for the dissemination of research between mutually affiliated organizations and members.