PSI Spies
Today is somewhat different. We have a guest-post from best-selling author Jim Marrs, who discusses his new book, PSI Spies: The True Story of America’s Psychic Warfare Program. Readers will be interested to know that the book covers both UFOs and Crop Circles. And here’s Jim…
America’s PSI Spies Penetrate the Kremlin:
The Secret History of Remote Viewing
By Jim Marrs
At the height of the Cold War an American intelligence officer prowled the hallways of the Kremlin in Moscow. Creeping up a staircase at the center of Soviet Russia’s most secret intelligence operations, he suddenly froze when he saw a Soviet soldier on guard. Holding his breath, he slipped past the guard, who showed no reaction. Reaching his destination, the American passed through a locked doorway and began to study the maps on the walls.
He was no ordinary spy. Unseen by the guard, he had literally passed through a locked door because he was one of America’s PSI Spies––military men trained in the use of a psychic technique known as remote viewing.
The PSI spy was able to penetrate the Kremlin with his mind, while his body lay on a cot in an obscure wood-framed building on the grounds of Fort Meade, Maryland. As he practiced a skill called “bi-location”, physically he was in one place while mentally he was on the other side of the planet.
Previously known as clairvoyance, remote viewing is the ability to perceive people, places and things beyond the reach of our normal five senses. In one of the most rigorous and secret scientific investigations in history, it has been discovered that most humans can develop this skill that, scientists have found, is confined by neither time nor distance.
Despite extensive scientific study and operational use over a quarter of a century and through four separate White House administrations, few Americans know the true story of the remote viewing as it was studied and used by tax-supported government agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the United States Army. Begun as an experimental response to psychic research that was being conducted behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s, the use of secret remote viewing by both the East and the West may have helped end the Cold War. Remote viewing of distant planets has been verified by NASA space missions, and it may have explained the mysterious loss of both the Soviet Phobos II in 1989 and the U.S. Mars Observer in 1993; contact with these craft was lost as they entered orbit around the planet Mars.
I reveal the history and the discoveries of the U.S. Army’s formerly Top Secret remote viewing unit in my new book from Career Press/New Page Books entitled PSI Spies: The True Story of America’s Psychic Warfare Program. The book traces the history of remote viewing from the Cold War all the way back to the Bible, detailing research results from Stanford Research Institute proving that unlimited by time and space, remote viewing is available to everyone.
At one time a closely guarded government secret, the truth about remote viewing has filtered into some aware segments of the public where it continues to attract fascination and interest. Today, several former military viewers are currently teaching the skill, while others reveal the details in books, articles and in public appearances. Some PSI entrepreneurs even advertise psychic readings reportedly accomplished by remote viewing.
As one of the first non-government researchers to study remote viewing, I have examined the transition from Top Secret government project to public fad, interviewing many members of the original PSI Spies unit as well as people connected to the unit as supervisors or consultants. First studied by the CIA in the 1970s, remote viewing as a psychic technology for espionage was used by U.S. Army, which formed a small unit of viewers who spied for America during the Cold War and later. Overseen at the time by hundreds of people in oversight committees and by congressional supervisors, the study and use of the extraordinary psychic program has been described as “the most severely monitored scientific experiment in history.”
Gaining covert knowledge about a variety of government and military activities around the world, the soldiers turned psychic spies were asked to stop a Soviet plot to kill President Ronald Reagan by mentally prowling the halls of the Kremlin, and in later years they probed Iraq’s hidden weapons sites in preparation for the 1991 Gulf War. Lyn Buchanan, former training officer for the PSI Spies, has described how it feels to lose integration with our material plane as he mentally steps into the trajectory of a particle beam weapon. From insights into our future to the mysteries of UFOs and crop circles, no subject has been immune to penetration by the military remote viewers.
About the author:
An award-winning Texas journalist and author, Jim Marrs served in Military Intelligence with the U.S. Army before becoming an independent journalist/author, and he worked for and owned several Texas newspapers. His in-depth overview of the UFO phenomenon in the book, Alien Agenda, has been cited as the best-selling non-fiction book on UFOs in the world, having been translated into several languages. Marrs is also the author of the New York Times best-sellers, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK; and Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. He is a frequent guest on nationwide radio talk show programs and has appeared on major TV networks, and on Good Morning America, Geraldo, Larry King and the Today Show, among others.
Prior to the recent publication of PSI Spies: The True Story of America’s Psychic Warfare Program, Marrs’ latest book was The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty.
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Sep 20 2007 
September 20th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I have to admit I was not that interested about remote-viewing, but after all these articles and the interview with Vallee, I’m begining to change my mind.
It’s interesting to note Vallee regretted the fact that the remote-viewing experiments were turned too “mission-oriented” too quickly by the CIA, without finishing the preliminary science neede to establish the basic characteristics of this phenomenon.
It’s interesting that for him, there was a simmilarity between remote-viewing and the computer sciences. That part of the interview was a bit difficult to follow, but apparently he thought there was a simmilarity with what is known as “virtual memory” in a computer system.
Maybe there’s even a link between remote-viewing and internet “hyperlinks”, who knows
PS: I would like to know if these experiments were later mixed with the use of some sort of drugs. We know that the ignestion of peyote or ayahuasca creates this perception of OBE experiences. Did the CIA use also some types of drugs to “sharpen” the skills of its psy-spies?
September 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
RPJ:
I’ll be seeing Jim next thursday so I’ll ask him re the drug/peyote angle.
Nick
September 20th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Well Andrija Puharich was the CIA’s man for psychedelics and channelling information. Puharich invented some microchip mind-control device that is similar to the Hemi-Sync technology used by remote viewers. It’s “Stargate Conspiracy” stuff via Prince and Picknett’s book.
The hang-up of Jim Marrs and his reptilian-remote viewing connection is kundalini, a la Gurdjieff:
“In reality Kundalini is the power of imagination, the power of fantasy, which takes the place of a real function….Kundalini can act in all centers and with its help all the centers can be satisifed with the imaginary instead of the real.” (p. 220, In Search of the Miraculous”)
So then what is real? Only pure consciousness as formless awareness.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Drew:
The FBI declassified to me a file on its research into ESP way back in the 50s. They reference Puharich, and reveal how the FBI was quite excited about the idea of psychic spying, but gave up when they became disillusioned with it in the late 50s.
I wrote a chapter on this in the most recent published issue of “The Anomalist.”
September 20th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Drew:
I meant that to mean the FBI file dated from the 50s - not that it was declassified to me in the 50s! LOL.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Jim Marrs:
Did you also include in your book the fact that the military RV experiment was a complete flop since the whole entire goal of the RV program was to see if RV had “any utility for intelligence collection” (AN EVALUATION OF REMOTE VIEWING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, by Michael D Mumford, Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin, pg E4-5)? In 22 years of study, it had (and still has) absolutely no utility…
“In no case had the information provided ever been used to guide intelligence operations” (AN EVALUATION OF REMOTE VIEWING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS by M. D. Mumford, A. M. Rose and D. Goslin, published by AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH, pg E4)
How about the fact that the RV experiment by the military was unpromising, flawed, could prove nor disprove anything, and the data obtained was sloppy, vague, and could only be supported by a lot of wishful thinking…
“As mandated by Congress, CIA is reviewing available information and past research programs concerning parapsychological phenomena, mainly ‘Remote Viewing’ to determine whether they might have any utility for intelligence collection. - CIA sponsored research on this subject in the 1970s — At that time, the program, always considered speculative and controversial, was determined to be unpromising” (CIA STATEMENT ON ‘REMOTE VIEWING’, by the CIA Public Affairs Office, 6 September 1995)
“It is unclear whether the observed effects can unambiguously be attributed to the paranormal ability of the remote viewers as opposed to characteristics of the judges or of the target or some other characteristic of the methods was used. Use of the same remote viewers, the same judge, and the same target photographs makes it impossible to identify their independent effects” (AN EVALUATION OF REMOTE VIEWING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS by M. D. Mumford, A. M. Rose and D. Goslin, published by AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH, pg E3)
“The information provided was inconsistent, inaccurate with regard to specifics, and required substantial subjective interpretation” (AN EVALUATION OF REMOTE VIEWING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS by M. D. Mumford, A. M. Rose and D. Goslin, published by AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH, pg E4)
September 20th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Sage, actually that was Vallee’s position, in the sense that it was proven a lot of the time the data gathered by the remote viewers had a lot of “noise” coming from the subjective imagination of the test subjects.
That’s why he regretted the CIA rushed to see if there was any intelligence advantage to be gained by the use of remote-viewing, without finishing first the preliminary science to pick out “the wheat from the chaff” if you will, and then obviously the CIA grew disenchanted because the remote-viewing experience showed a lot of inconsistences and wasn’t as 100% reliable as satellite imaging.
I’m with you in wondering: well, if the NSA is still using remote-viewing, why haven’t they turned up with Osama’s location or something? It would be a valid question.
But from what I heard of Vallee’s interview, he was convinced there was something worth studying in this phenomenon, and I admit it has spiked my interest.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
I’ve got a lot of respect for Mr Vallee, but when he mentioned Ingo Swann, I looked up Mr Swann & found that he made the claim that he used his remote viewing skills to see aliens & bases on the dark side of the moon….I don’t know Jacques, are you sure about this stuff??
p.s. I still don’t get these comments in my email
p.s. II Mini Book Review of An American Demonology: pretty good, enjoyable read, I recommend it…I’ll have to read Edward Ruppelts book, I discounted it because it seemed so old fashioned, but now it seems interesting….
September 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
Nick that’s a fascinating connection. I just read Thomas Rafetto’s new book: Bringing Down the Mob. He wrote America Mafia. This new one has fascinating information on FBI-CIA-mob connections. Now I’m reading the book on Gary Webb, published by Nation Books.
Oh and then today I’m getting Supermob by Gus Russo….
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:47 am
This topic really does seem to be the flavour of the month.
Interesting to note that according to one well informed source, RV was considered ’successful’ enough to be transplanted entirely from the CIA and the services directly into an even more secret and impenetrable host - the NSA.
So it will be interesting to read Jim Marrs’ offering on the subject. I will be especially interested to read Jim’s explanation of how Remote Viewing, “may have explained the mysterious loss of both the Soviet Phobos II in 1989 and the U.S. Mars Observer in 1993;”. That will make fascinating reading.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Sage,
You really are a master of the status quo; a disciple of the ‘official story’, aren’t you?
You cite pedigreed ‘experts’ and official CIA statements, as if that has never been used to cover what’s really being done.
On clearance levels above yours, this is a practice known as ‘perception management’ and it is quite effective, as your positions on many topics so beautifully illustrate.
Ask anyone who’s actually worked in or around the CIA, and they’ll be familiar with an unofficial but standard practice of “lie, deny and counter-accuse”.
It is part of effective operational security to deny what is actually being done, for the very fact that it works on most people. Another tactic is to just have no comment. The US government has used both tactics throughout the history of things like remote viewing and UFOs, yet more evidence comes to light that indicates government involvement in the very development and application of these things.
Another thing that must be considered here is the possibility that these experts were part of the management of the perception of adversaries, casting reasonable doubt into the minds of the opposition intelligence analysts as to whether the US really did use remote viewing or didn’t, for how long, and to what level of success. It is also quite possible that such ‘expert’ conclusions were filed all throughout the program so that when it came to light, culpable deniability as to the extent of its success was provided.
They say the greatest thing the Devil ever did was to convince people he doesn’t exist. Someone may be convinced you have a royal flush in your hands at the poker table, but they can’t know for certain until you play your cards. Deniability is a useful tool.
Especially when there are so many people, such as yourself, who will cease all consideration of a possibility the moment a pedigreed ‘expert’ states it cannot be. I suppose it makes you feel more comfortable when others do your deciding for you.
Once again, your ‘Secret’ clearance proves that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. You see, the evidence that proves you’re wrong about remote viewing is truly above your clearance level. You don’t have the need to know, so you clearly don’t.
Remote viewing, indeed, does work. Effectively. In spite of what the ‘experts’ have written or been told. And it will go on working and being used whether you believe it or not. That’s the part I love.
By the way, in this crowd, you’re probably going to come off as a disinfo/debunker/perception management agent of the government because your perceptions and opinions appear to be so laughably 1955. I do wonder what your agenda is here, because I’ve seen your positions on two topics so far and you seem to find them silly and unreal. So why are you here?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an honest question. I’m sincerely curious and amused. I’m not saying you should go away. On the contrary. Your perspective is colorful and provocative, as one hopes to find on blogs. But I am genuinely asking myself, Why is he here? Is there a reason beyond what’s stated? Is it simply an axe to grind? That would be interesting.
Certainly, there is some reason you hold your positions that UFOs and remote viewing must be debunked.
Do tell…
February 9th, 2008 at 1:13 am
According to McMoneagle, anything that alters consciousness is not conducive to effective remote viewing. He was answering the same question about the drugs and their potential in this.
It reminds me of what Lilly told Leary regarding the use of LSD in sensory deprivation tank sessions as opposed to not using it (or anything else): that his most intense and amazing results came from the years of research exploring the mind UNALTERED by substance.
Not that certain substances don’t open things up, the difference is that if you learn to open it up WITHOUT the substances (including mushrooms) you GAIN the benefit of self control which makes you a better observer of and more effectively interactive with the associated phenomena.
By the way, read this book:
http://www.lulu.com/content/2019934