{"id":66235,"date":"2017-02-16T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66235"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:46:45","slug":"66235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66235","title":{"rendered":"Psychics Providing Deep Intel to the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIA Files Reveal Decades of US Intel on Iran Came from Hundreds of CIA Psychics<\/h1>\n


\nJustin Gardner
\nThe Free Thought Project<\/p>\n

In January, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) bowed to public pressure and published millions of once-classified documents online<\/a>, so people could browse them \u201cfrom the comfort of your own home.\u201d On the face of it, this is a win for transparency, but in classic bureaucratic fashion, the documents say a lot without really telling us anything useful.<\/p>\n

They are more like an amusing trip through the eccentricities and failures of a spy agency that gained immense power after WWII through virtually unlimited funding and little oversight. Assassinations, coups, drug running, torture, and economic sabotage are not the subject of these documents, but there is plenty about UFOs, a Penthouse interview that never happened, various banal diagrams, and psychics.<\/p>\n

That last subject is interesting in light of America\u2019s tumultuous history with Iran, beginning in 1953 when the US and UK overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government, installing a puppet dictator to serve western interests.<\/p>\n

US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon got their first chance to use the psychic program, initiated in 1975, after Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy and took 52 US personnel hostage.<\/p>\n

According to the Miami Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an operation code-named Grill Flame, half a dozen psychics working inside a dimly lit room in an ancient building in Fort Meade, Maryland, on more than 200 occasions tried to peer through the ether to see where the hostages were being held, how closely they were guarded and the state of their health.<\/p>\n

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Officially, the psychics worked for U.S. Army intelligence. But the documents in the CIA database make it clear their efforts were monitored \u2014 and supported \u2014 by a wide array of government intelligence agencies as well as top commanders at the Pentagon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the CIA was not dissuaded of its fascination with extrasensory mind abilities after Project Mk Ultra \u2013 which engaged in illegal human experimentation \u2013 was allegedly shut down in 1973.<\/p>\n

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The psychic program was initiated in 1975 as a \u201cforeign assessment\u201d when the CIA heard rumors that China and Russia were experimenting with psychics. The program continued for 20 years under 10 different code names \u2014 \u2018Grill Flame\u2019 ws one of them.<\/p>\n

\"psychics\"<\/p>\n

It continued despite that fact the psychics had, at best, a questionable rate of success when officials were able to compare psychic reports with information from the freed hostages in 1981. According to an Air Force colonel, only seven of the 202 psychic reports were proven correct, while 59 reports were partly or possibly correct.<\/p>\n

The degree to which this was \u2018dumb luck\u2019 is unknown, but Army officers contested the pessimistic view. They said 45 percent of the reports were partially accurate, and \u201cthat was information that could not be obtained through normal intelligence collection channels. The degree of success appears to at least equal, if not surpass, other collection methods.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe debate continues today. \u201cThe stuff that the CIA has declassified is garbage,\u201d one of the Grill Flame psychics, Joseph McMoneagle, told the Miami Herald. \u201cThey haven\u2019t declassified any of the stuff that worked.\u201d Agreed Edwin May, a physicist who oversaw parapsychology research for government intelligence agencies for 20 years: \u201cThe psychics were able to tell, in some cases, where the hostages were moved to. They were able to see the degree of their health. \u2026 If you can sit in Fort Meade and describe the health of hostages who are going to be released, so that the right doctors can be on hand, that\u2019s very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Others are more skeptical, to put it mildly. \u201cThe intelligence agencies might as well get a crystal ball out and stare into space and hope they see something,\u201d said James Randi, a former professional magician who turned his career into debunking ESP and psychics. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge waste of time and money and it doesn\u2019t help the hostages one bit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Directors of the psychic program scoured outside and inside the ranks of military intelligence officers to find people with a talent for \u201cremote viewing,\u201d or \u201cthe mental ability to see across vast distances and through walls and other obstructions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An early success of the psychic program, prior to the 1979 hostage crisis, was being able to locate a downed plane in the Central African Republic to within 15 miles. The CIA recruited a self-proclaimed psychic from California who went into a trance and wrote down latitudes and longitudes, allowing them to find the plane.<\/p>\n

But during the hostage crisis, the \u2018remote viewing\u2019 of psychics was often completely wrong, as the Miami Herald further details. Nevertheless, the program continued until 1995, employing 227 psychics and carrying out 26,000 telepathic forays.<\/p>\n

The program was shut down after an outside review found that \u201cremote viewing reports failed to produce the concrete, specific information valued in intelligence reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intelligence agencies certainly use a great deal of \u2018remote sensing\u2019 today, but this refers to satellites or high-flying aircraft scanning the earth in ever-more detailed and diverse ways. With what we know \u2013 and don\u2019t know \u2013 about the technological capabilities of US spy agencies, psychic powers, even if they have any merit, may not even measure up today.<\/p>\n

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\nhttp:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/cia-used-psychics-iran-intel\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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