Psychic Spies: Any Truth in 'Men Who Stare at Goats?' -- ABC News
Movie, Book Claim Military Officers Dabbled in the Paranormal
Major Paul H. Smith calls it his "Men in Black" moment.
It was 1983 and he was working as a Middle East analyst at Fort Meade, Md., when a fellow intelligence officer approached him with a highly-classified, so-called "black project."
They couldn't tell him what it was. They just said that as an intelligent, accomplished, open-minded and creative person, he fit the profile.
Intrigued, Smith agreed to take the tests thrown at him. And when the results confirmed his competence for the top-secret task, he was invited to try his hand at a new mission: To uncover details about places and activities around the world without stepping off of a U.S. military base.
"We're basically asking you to become
They couldn't tell him what it was. They just said that as an intelligent, accomplished, open-minded and creative person, he fit the profile.
Intrigued, Smith agreed to take the tests thrown at him. And when the results confirmed his competence for the top-secret task, he was invited to try his hand at a new mission: To uncover details about places and activities around the world without stepping off of a U.S. military base.
"We're basically asking you to become a psychic spy," Smith, now retired, said he was told.
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My Comment: The Americans may have extensively studied this field of interest .... it pales when compared to what the Russians were doing.
Intrigued, Smith agreed to take the tests thrown at him. And when the results confirmed his competence for the top-secret task, he was invited to try his hand at a new mission: To uncover details about places and activities around the world without stepping off of a U.S. military base.
"We're basically asking you to become a psychic spy," Smith, now retired, said he was told.
Read more ....
My Comment: The Americans may have extensively studied this field of interest .... it pales when compared to what the Russians were doing.