At the end of last year, the CIA opened access to another portion of declassified documents on its website. In total, almost 12 million pages were in the public domain. Among these reports are data on UFO research and telepathy.
This is how the public learned, for example, about the results of the Stargate program, in which the CIA "tested" Uri Geller, the famous British psychic, famous for publicly bending tea and even tablespoons with his eyes, stopping the hands of the Big Ben "In London, made stopped alarm clocks go around the world.
Geller also showed these abilities to scientists from the CIA. The experiments took place in August 1973 at the Stanford Research Institute. Scientists wanted to find out 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.
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.
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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. The camel gave him a bit of a boost - Geller drew a horse instead.
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. This can only mean one thing: telepathy is a real phenomenon, the CIA decided.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is still no answer to the question: was Geller tricking when he bent the spoons, or really influenced them with the power of thought. However, if earlier there were almost no doubts that he was simply fooling the public, then in the light of the declassified documents, there was less confidence in this.