Declassified CIA Files Show How The U.S. Uses Psychics To Spy On Other Countries
By Alexa Erikson
Back in January, public pressure forced the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to publish
millions of once-classified documents online, giving people the opportunity to browse the
documents from home for the first time.
However, written in complicated jargon, the documents proved to be of little use, other
than for exposing a spy agency�s failure to produce viable research amidst unlimited
funding and no real leadership following WWII.
Among the jargon is a bit about psychics. U.S. intelligence agencies and the Pentagon
were given the opportunity to implement a 1975 psychic program in response to Iranian
revolutionaries seizing the U.S. embassy and taking 52 American personnel hostage.
The Miami Herald notes:
In an operation code-named Grill Flame, half a dozen psychics working inside a dimly lit
room in an ancient building in Fort Meade, Maryland, on more than 200 occasions tried
to peer through the ether to see where the hostages were being held, how closely they
were guarded and the state of their health.
Officially, the psychics worked for U.S. Army intelligence. But the documents in the CIA
database make it clear their efforts were monitored � and supported � by a wide
array of government intelligence agencies as well as top commanders at the Pentagon.
They were even consulted before the super-secret U.S. military raid that attempted to free
the hostages in April 1980, which ended in disaster when a plane and a helicopter collided
at a desert staging area.
In 1973, the CIA�s Project Mk Ultra was shut down for allegations of illegal human
experimentation. But this setback did little to stop the agency from moving forward with
the psychic program in 1975, claiming it was a �foreign assessment.� The 20-year program
had 10 different code names, including �Grill Flame.�
The amount of time the program went on is shocking considering psychics had so little
success, according to officials who had measured psychic reports with information from the
freed hostages of 1981. In fact, an Air Force colonel noted that just seven of 202 psychic
reports revealed accuracy, and 59 reports were partially or possibly correct.
Army officers, on the other hand, claimed 45% of the reports were partially accurate,
and �that was information that could not be obtained through normal intelligence collection
channels. The degree of success appears to at least equal, if not surpass, other collection
methods.�
�The stuff that the CIA has declassified is garbage. They haven�t declassified any
of the stuff that worked,� Grill Flame psychic Joseph McMoneagle told the Miami Herald.
And Edwin May, a physicist who oversaw parapsychology research for government intelligence agencies
for 20 years, supported McMoneagle�s dismay, saying, �The psychics were able to tell,
in some cases, where the hostages were moved to. They were able to see the degree of their
health. � If you can sit in Fort Meade and describe the health of hostages who are going
to be released, so that the right doctors can be on hand, that�s very helpful.�
Some were straight up skeptical, however. �The intelligence agencies might as well
get a crystal ball out and stare into space and hope they see something,� noted James
Randi, who specialized in debunking ESP and psychics. �It�s a huge waste of time and
money and it doesn�t help the hostages one bit.�
Directors of the psychic program searched for people with the ability for �remote
viewing,� or �the mental ability to see across vast distances and through walls and
other obstructions,� but psychics brought on board for the hostage crisis had failed
to execute their tasks. Their remote viewing was shown in reports to be completely wrong,
incapable of producing concrete and specific information of value. Despite the reports,
the program continued until 1995, employing 227 psychics and executing 26,000 telepathic
strikes.
The program was finally shut down, but only after an outside review concluded that �remote
viewing reports failed to produce the concrete, specific information valued in
intelligence reporting.�
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