The Men Who Stare at Goats: America's Psychic Spies

americanchronicle - by Gary S. Bekkum - It may seem incredible: much of the story behind the new feature film The Men Who Stare at Goats is based upon secret U.S. government programs to turn paranormal phenomena into operational intelligence.

Now, thanks to a Congressional mandate that took the Central Intelligence Agency by the hand and directed them to release twenty-five years worth of previously hidden documents, the truth about the men who stare at goats, psychic spies and psychokinetic "Jedi warriors" is available for all to see.

I have posted a selection of documents taken from 89,900 pages released a few years ago, including one briefing document for The Secretary of the Army that states:

"We are no longer confined to remote viewing [a kind of psychic long-distance perception] as our principle tool and will now develop and use telepathic and psychokinetic skills. An important application of our new Mission Statement will be the development of countermeasure capabilities."

When Jon Ronson began writing his book about high level fascination with "high strangeness" in 2001, I had already been heavily researching the topic for five years.

It wasn't Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appearing on ABC News Nightline in 1995 (as the former Director of the CIA), along with CIA operations officer "Norm," and Dr. Ed May, head of "STAR GATE" intelligence research that set me on this quest, when they confessed to the existence of the psychic spies.

My own "considerable interest" was fueled by on-going discussions of new scientific revelations and speculations growing from "quantum mind" research in the 1990s.

By 1999, it was apparent that many persons previously involved with past programs, or currently involved in the U.S. and U.K. intelligence gathering apparatus, were following along as well. When Jon Ronson wrote about his post-9/11 revelation from former CIA psychic Uri Geller, which expanded into his exploration of men, goats, and hapless hamsters -- I knew I was on the right track.

Exploring the back story to The Men Who Stare at Goats was the logical next page to uncovering the involvement of intelligence persons in the alternative propulsion community (a politically correct way of referring to scientists attempting to reverse engineer alleged alien technology).

I wrote a brief overview of the journey in a series called Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence, available at the STARpod.org website. Along the way I had been joined by seasoned defense industry professions Nick Cook, of Janes Defence Weekly, and Sharon Weinberger, author of Imaginary Weapons.

As strange as Jon Ronson's Men Who Stare at Goats may seem to the uninitiated, the truth before the legends of the goat staring government psychics gets even more bizarre, with tales of government extraterrestrial contacts in 1947, 1983, and 1992. This "core story" is passed among past and present intelligence officials and government consultants: many who hold very senior positions in the Intelligence Community.

It's turned into a wild ride, with CIA officers, foreign nationals, "forum operatives," a physicist from the Mideast who wants to build worm holes that might someday deliver weapons of mass destruction, the "rich and strange," religious authors who see government paranormal efforts as collusion with the devil, serious journalists, and the like coming together in the new medium of the World Wide Web even as the intelligence community developed new tools to access the Internet for intelligence collection.

For more on this story, and to view actual government real-life X-files, please visit:

www.STARpod.org

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