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Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen

by Jacobsen, Annie.

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Parapsychology -- Military aspects -- United States.

Extrasensory perception.

Remote viewing (Parapsychology)

Military research -- United States -- History.

9780316349369 (hc.)

viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index

Part I: the early days. The supernatural -- The Puharich theory -- Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army -- Quasi science -- The Soviet threat -- Part II: the CIA years. The enigma of Uri Geller -- The man on the moon -- The physicist and the psychic -- Skeptics versus CIA -- Remote viewing -- The unconscious -- Submarines -- Part III: the Defense Department years. Paraphysics -- Psychic soldiers -- Qigong and the mystery of H. S. Tsien -- Killers and kidnappers -- Consciousness -- Psychic training -- The woman with the third eye -- The end of an era -- Hostages and drugs -- Downfall -- Part IV: the modern era. Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy -- The scientists and the skeptics -- The psychic and the astronaut

For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The story of these radical, controversial programs and how far governments will go in the name of national security--Provided by publisher.

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