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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
The book makes it 100% clear that Hawser was not a spy for the Thousand Sons. It's not that he "was possibly not one," he *definitively* was not one.
Little else is known of the Hidden Ones and the method in which they were deployed. Their commander was [[Amon]], 9th [[Chapter|Fellowship]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the legion and [[Equerry]] to [[Magnus the Red]]. Amon was noted to have trained the Hidden Ones personally.{{Fn|1}}
It is possible that the some Hidden Ones were not [[Astartes]] Scouts in the traditional sense; that is, not new recruits employed as reconnaissance troops, but a type of infiltrator far more insidious. Evidence for this comes not only from the Hidden Ones being referred to as the Scout ''Auxilia'', but also from the reasonable if misplaced but incorrect belief that [[Kasper Ansbach Hawser]] was a Hidden One of the Thousand Sons, despite being human and completely unaware of this possibility for most of his known life. Hawser's apparent alleged role was to operate as a deep-cover spy planted inside the [[Space Wolves]] legion by the Thousand Sons. A Daemon of Tzeentch, possibly The [[Changeling]], manipulated the Space Wolves into believing this disinformation, who claiming that the Thousand Sons had psychically (and perhaps sorcerously) reprogrammed his mind so that he would go to [[Fenris]] and become attached to the Space Wolves. From this position his falsely-alleged handlers in the Thousand Sons - believed to be Amon and even Magnus himself - could perceive his experiences and glean secret intelligence on the inner operations of the [[Space Wolves|Wolves of Fenris]].{{Fn|2}}
== Notes ==
It should be noted that most virtually all of the information concerning Hawser's alleged status as a Hidden One came from a [[daemon|power of the warp]] masquerading as Magistus [[Amon ]] of the Thousand Sons and that deliberately misleading the Space Wolves. Hawser - though , believed to be a Thousand Sons deep-cover spy planted within the Space Wolves by such august personages as Leman Russ, [[Fulgrim]] , and [[Constantin Valdor]] - may have in fact , was just been designed to ''appear'' as a Hidden One by spy the machinations of [[Tzeentch|Chaos]]. Therefore, while the information given about the Hidden Ones appears reliable, the fact that the only one known of currently was possibly definitively not one at all makes most of what we know about them uncertain.{{Fn|2}}
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