CIA Files Reveal US Intelligence Used Psychics to Spy on Iran

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program was established in1975. It
involved hundreds ofcandidates who
either claimed psychic powers or were somehow determined topossess them. Of MULTIMEDIA
several hundred candidates, only six were chosen totake part infurther
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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
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atthe time, dropped a hint aboutthis program inan interview he gave 12 years
afterthe incident.

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"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 FOLLOW US
survived. Even now the debate surrounding the program is quite intense.
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"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
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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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