29 Mar 2024
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CIA files reveal US intelligence used Psychics to spy on Iran

Sputnik- Declassified CIA documents reveal that US intelligence has gone as far as using supposedly telepathic individuals to gather intelligence, including the hostage situation during the takeover of US embassy in Iran.

If you haven't purchased yourself a cap made oftinfoil, it might be the right time todo so, asthe CIA's dabbling withthe paranormal is now official. According toa batch ofdeclassified CIA documents, the US intelligence agency used a team ofpsychics togather intelligence aboutoperations withoutbeing physically present atany ofthem.
According tothe documents, the program was established in1975. It involved hundreds ofcandidates who either claimed psychic powers or were somehow determined topossess them. Of several hundred candidates, only six were chosen totake part infurther operations.


For several years, the program, codenamed "Grill Flame," was more aboutresearch and accumulating theory behindthe paranormal abilities. But its star turn came in1979, when Grill Flame was brought into help search fora missing US Navy plane.


The operation was a success, asthe psychics were able topinpoint the location ofthe plane withan error margin ofabout 15 miles. Jimmy Carter, US president atthe time, dropped a hint aboutthis program inan interview he gave 12 years afterthe incident.


"We had a plane go downin the Central African Republic a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it," he said, even withsatellite photography. "So the director ofthe CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman inCalifornia that claimed tohave supernatural capabilities. And she went ina trance, and she wrote downlatitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite overthat latitude and longitude, and there was the plane."


However, subsequent operations seem tohave less success. One ofthe worst failures was the Iranian US embassy hostage situation the same year. According tothe documents, the telepaths repeatedly failed toprovide accurate information throughoutthe whole situation starting frominitial stages ofconflict and upuntil the hostages were separated and scattered acrossthe country. The locations they guessed atwere sometimes hundreds ofmiles wide ofthe mark.


Interestingly, while the Iranian operation was a failure forGrill Flame, the program continued for14 years. It changed names and changed supervisors, butit survived. Even now the debate surrounding the program is quite intense.


"The psychics were just asgood asother human intelligence sources," said Edwin May, a physicist who worked withGrill Flame. "And, unfortunately, they were just asbad. Human beings are notoriously horrible atsecond World War-type spying, standing outthere withbinoculars, counting tanks. There are all kinds ofbiases that can creep in."


May oversaw parapsychology research forgovernment intelligence agencies for20 years.


"Mostly atthe beginning, we were doing foreign assessment that is, what the other side was doing," May told reporters. "We'd get a report that China or Russia was experimenting withpsychics who claimed tobe able todo this or that, and our job was tojudge whether this was possibly true and if so, what threat was it tous."


"The psychics were able totell, insome cases, where the hostages were moved to. They were able tosee the degree oftheir health," he said. "If you can sit inFort Meade and describe the health ofhostages who are going tobe released, so that the right doctors can be onhand, that's very helpful."


There might be one possible explanation towhy the program survived so long.


"The stuff that the CIA has declassified is garbage," one ofthe Grill Flame psychics, Joseph McMoneagle, said inan interview. "They haven't declassified any ofthe stuff that worked."


The program was officially shut downin 1995, afteran outsideaudit commissioned bythe CIA concluded that "remote viewing reports failed toproduce the concrete, specific information valued inintelligence reporting."


 
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