We already had an article on How American Intelligence Used Clairvoyants and Telepaths. But for example, this does not look like empty windbag, but a history, confirmed by documents.
The CIA on its website opened free access to the next portion of declassified documents - to about 12 million pages, including reports on UFO research and telepathy. For example, the results obtained under the Stargate program, in which the CIA "tested" Uri Geller, a famous British psychic who became famous for publicly bending tea spoons and even tablespoons, stopped arrows the Big Ben clock in London made stopped alarm clocks go around the world.
From the declassified documents it follows: Uri Geller demonstrated his abilities to the scientists from the CIA, who in August 1973 experimented with him at the Stanford Research Institute (Stanford Research Institute). The purpose of the experiments was to determine whether the subject actually possesses telepathic abilities, and whether they - these abilities - can be used for intelligence purposes.
To begin with, scientists randomly chose a word from a dictionary. The choice fell on the word "petard", which was drawn. Geller, sitting in the other room, received this information telepathically. And he said that he "sees" something cylindrical making noise. But in the end he drew not a firecracker, but a drum.
The first picture mentally sent to Geller from the CIA.
Further, the experimenters began to arbitrarily - at their discretion - draw pictures that Geller was supposed to reproduce, of course, without seeing them.
CIA Schnick drew a bunch of grapes. The "telepath" said that he "sees" a lot of some round drops. And I drew a very similar bunch - both the conceived and the reproduced had the same number of berries. There were 24 of them.
Promotional video:
Below - * transmission * from the CIA, above * reception * Geller.
The experiments continued like this for a week. Uri Geller drew many mental pictures sent to him. And he reproduced most of them correctly. At least in the story. Very similar to portrayed a dove, a kite. A little camel "pumped up" him - instead of a two-humped creature, Geller drew a horse.
CIA scientists suggested: the subject does not mechanically copy the lines of the picture "sent" to him, but reproduces it after processing the information received in the brain.
A picture sent from the CIA.
Geller drawing.
The CIA concluded that telepathy is a real phenomenon. Nevertheless, the Stargate program was closed. The experiments ended in 1998. According to the official version, the abilities of psychics disappointed the scouts.
After all, it was assumed that telepathy could be used for covert transmission of information without any technical means - just from one person to another. But the accuracy of "reception" - especially from long distances - turned out to be low. The same Geller could not draw a suspension bridge, the image of which was "transferred" to him from another city. Although he correctly reproduced the outlines of one of the elements - a curved rope.
Bridge * transferred * from the CIA.
In this form, the image of the bridge reached Geller
Another attempt was almost unsuccessful - to portray the devil. The result is a set of different items. But among them there was a trident, which was in the original picture.
The devil mentally * sent * to Geller.
Geller has only a trident left of the devil.
How can one not agree with the CIA and not believe that telepathy does exist. And Uri Geller, who has demonstrated very convincing results, owns it to some extent.
A page from a formerly classified CIA report on the results of the experiments with Uri Geller.
Killed the pig with a glance
The Daily Telegraph journalists contacted Uri Geller, who now lives in Israel. And he said that the CIA had declassified only a small part of the documents that related to his work for the secret services.
According to Geller, one of the foreign intelligence services asked him to mentally stop the pig's heart. Which he did, for some reason suggesting that the far-reaching goal of this experiment was to remotely kill Andropov, who at that time was the head of the KGB.
And during the Cold War it was "tested" in the atomic laboratory - it was checked whether it could affect the rate of a nuclear reaction. Allegedly, the Americans had the idea to telepathically influence Soviet atomic bombs in order to detonate them remotely.
Young Uri Geller: The picture was taken exactly the year he got into the CIA.
How these strange experiments ended, Geller did not say. But he said that he was not at all embarrassed by, to put it mildly, the cool attitude of the skeptics - especially when he bent spoons. They say that the image of an eccentric magician served as an excellent cover for his main activity - espionage: for the CIA and the Mossad.
And it is still not known whether Geller was joking when he bent the spoons, or in fact he acted on them with the power of thought.
For example, I never doubted for a minute that Geller was somehow fooling the audience. But now, after the declassified documents, I'm not too sure about that. Although his own stories are confusing.
Years passed, but Uri never gave up his hobby.
How did this information appear in the public domain?
The organization MuckRock, which helps anyone seeking information from the US government under the Freedom of Information Act, sued the CIA in June 2014.
MuckRock wrote in its lawsuit that the database is virtually unavailable. The CIA itself admitted that gaining access to this information is difficult and the current procedure is an obstacle for many researchers.
Initially, the CIA said it would take them 28 years to post all the documents online. In 2015, the term was reduced to six years.
The creator of the information disclosure project Glomar Disclosure, Michael Best, in 2016 decided to raise money for a project to digitize the CREST database using a crowdfunding scheme. After that, the CIA agreed to speed up the process.
Michael Best wrote on his blog: "By scanning and printing documents at the expense of the CIA, I was able to make them available to everyone, and the CIA had the financial incentive to just put the database on the Internet."
In November, the CIA announced that it would publish all the materials online, and now hundreds of thousands of declassified documents, 13 million pages long, are available to anyone on the CIA library website.