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Iron Curtain there'd be no need to risk the lives of human agents. |
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The CIA sent representatives to a parapsychology conference in Virginia last December. Besides the usual spoon bending which professional magicians have debunked as a fairly simple trick there was serious discussion of remote viewing. In fact, the CIA is now seriously pondering the possibility of raising "psychic shields" to keep Soviet remote viewers away from our secrets. |
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I asked my skeptical associates Dale Van Atta and Joseph Spear to find out how remote viewing has become almost universally accepted in the intelligence community. They gained access to top-secret briefings on the subject. This is what they learned: |
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The CIA's latest remote viewing project was code-named "Grill Flame," and was carried out in part by two respected academics: Harold Puthoff, formally with the National Security Agency, and Russell Targ, formally with Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California. |
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Puthoff and Targ conducted at least two tests that produced astonishing results. They gave one psychic the latitude and longitude of a remote location, and told him to project his mind there and describe the scene. He described an airfield, complete with details including a large gantry and crane at one end of the field. |
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The CIA was impressed, but critical. There was indeed an airfield at the map coordinates the psychic had been given. The site was the Soviet's ultra-secret nuclear testing area at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. But, there was no gantry or crane there. |
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Still, it had been a while since any U.S. spy satellites had taken a picture of the Semipalatinsk base. So, the CIA waited for the next set of photos and sure enough, there was the gantry and crane, just as the psychic had described them. No one in the U.S. intelligence agencies had known the equipment was there, so the information couldn't have been leaked to him. |
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The second test involved a Soviet Tu-95 "Backfire" bomber, which the CIA knew had crashed somewhere in Africa. They were eager to find it before the Soviets did, so they could take photographs and perhaps purloin secret gear from the wreckage. So one of project Grill Flame's remote viewers was asked to locate the downed bomber. He gave the CIA the location within several miles of the actual wreckage. |
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