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

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: 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. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never-before-seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. A riveting investigation into how far governments will go in the name of national security.-- adapted from dust jacket.
    • Content Notes:
      1. Early days. The supernatural -- Puharich theory -- Skeptics, charlatans, & the U.S. Army -- Quasi science -- Soviet threat -- 2. 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 -- 3. Defense Department years. Paraphysics -- Psychic soldiers -- Qigong and the mytery of H. S. Tsien -- Killers and kidnappers -- Consciousness -- The woman with the third eye -- End of an era -- Hostages and drugs -- Downfall -- 4. Modern era. Intuition, premonition, & synthetic telepathy -- The scientists and the skeptics -- The psychic and the astronaut.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index.
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    • ISBN:
      9780316349369
      0316349364
    • Accession Number:
      953598602
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1003647