In the 1970s inside of government laps and behind the lock doors of classified facilities,

something strange was happening.

Nuclear scientists with top secret queue clearance began reporting flying orbs of light and disturbing poltergeist activity that tormented them in the middle of the night.

The CIA was running psychic spy programs where agents claimed they could see across continents,

sometimes across time.

Take for instance Pat Price, a former police commissioner turned elite remote viewer.

His visions were so accurate, so disturbing that some believed he had pierced the veil of national security itself.

And just as the CIA prepared to bring him deeper into

the fold, he was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Las Vegas hotel room. Was it

natural causes or something else? Then there's the famous Uri Geller, an Israeli psychic who claimed

he could bend spoons, read minds, even influence electronics with

his psychokinetic abilities. The CIA was interested, and they decided to study him.

Many saw him as a gifted prodigy, others a total fraud, and some a double agent.

In Chapter 11 of her incredible book Phenomena, author Annie Jacobs, takes us deep into the shadowy world where science, secrecy, and the paranormal collide.

And with that, let us commence the rifts and the read-through.

In the early days of the Cold War back in April 1953, CIA director Alan W. Dulles gave a now famous speech at the National

Alumni Conference of the Graduate Council of Princeton University, alerting America to the

communist's most powerful secret weapon, brain warfare. Its aim is to condition the mind so that it no

longer reacts on a free will or rational basis,

but responds to impulses implanted from the outside, Dulles declared.

To achieve this goal, Dulles said,

Communists were running single-target programs such as brainwashing of captured prisoners of war in Korea.

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