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"Uri Geller - Psychic Spy?" Film Claims Geller Was Mossad & CIA Agent

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We may know him for spoon bending antics and for his lengthy friendship with pop star Michael Jackson but showbiz psychic Uri Geller has seemingly had a lengthy second career as a secret agent for Mossad and the CIA, albeit one that was more Austin Powers than James Bond.

Geller was at the Sheffield Doc Fest this week for the premiere of Vikram Jayanti’s The Secret Life Of Uri Geller – Psychic Spy?, a new film that offers compelling evidence of his involvement in the shadowy world of espionage.
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From The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a-mossad-and-cia-agent-revealed-8659271.html

"Jayanti didn’t rely on Geller’s own cryptic testimony. Instead, he spoke to the high-level officials involved in recruiting and using him. These include scientists from The Stanford Research Institute as well as senior CIA operatives. Among the interviewees with first hand knowledge of Geller’s psychic spying activities are former CIA officer Kit Green, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to walk on the moon), physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff"

That lot really don't help give this story any credibility...
 
Geller himself has claimed this since at least 1987. For photos and older quotes, see his website:

http://www.uri-geller.com/gore.htm

It includes statements like:

I was as surprised as anybody else to open the 4 May 1987 issue of US News & World Report and read the following on the 'Washington Whispers' page:
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Claiborne Pell last week reserved a vault in the attic of the Capitol - a room often used to examine top-secret documents. Purpose: Assemble government officials to hear Israeli psychic Uri Geller reveal what he has divined of Soviet strategic intentions. Geller, who claims to be able to bend spoons with mental force, once briefed former President Jimmy Carter.
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Orphia Nay said:
From The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a-mossad-and-cia-agent-revealed-8659271.html

"Jayanti didn’t rely on Geller’s own cryptic testimony. Instead, he spoke to the high-level officials involved in recruiting and using him. These include scientists from The Stanford Research Institute as well as senior CIA operatives. Among the interviewees with first hand knowledge of Geller’s psychic spying activities are former CIA officer Kit Green, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to walk on the moon), physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff"

That lot really don't help give this story any credibility...
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Most intelligence agencies are willing to talk to just about anyone they believe may have information that would be of benefit.

That pool of sources can and will probably include more than a few criminals, conmen and nuts.

In the case of Geller, who I wouldn't trust to water my lawn, I don't doubt that he'd talk to anyone who'd ask, and I also don't doubt that he'd talk about who he talked to - I'll look for this documentary on Netflix, but I'm not expecting much.
 
Orphia Nay said:
"Jayanti didn’t rely on Geller’s own cryptic testimony. Instead, he spoke to the high-level officials involved in recruiting and using him. These include scientists from The Stanford Research Institute as well as senior CIA operatives. Among the interviewees with first hand knowledge of Geller’s psychic spying activities are former CIA officer Kit Green, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man to walk on the moon), physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff"

That lot really don't help give this story any credibility...
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None at all. Actually, just the opposite.
 
Orphia Nay said:
He doesn't go so far as to claim he was a Mossad or CIA agent.
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Not the CIA specifically in that link, but he promotes his meeting key Senators involved in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty talks.

Jon Ronson discusses "sarcastic" news reports about Geller's work with intelligence agencies from the 1980s and interviews Geller in the second chapter of "The Men Who Stare at Goats." According to news reports, like this, at least one of Ronson's sources was also a source for this new Geller "documentary" (aside from Geller himself).

From 1984:
PENTAGON IS SAID TO FOCUS ON ESP FOR WARTIME USE
New York Times
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
January 10, 1984
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In 1977, by this account, President Carter ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct a high-level review of psychic research behind the Iron Curtain in an attempt to assess a possible Soviet threat.
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Jimmy Carter was worried about the Soviet threat in 1976 before he was inaugurated President, according to Mr. McRae, and had a private audience with Uri Geller. The Israeli mentalist told him that the Soviet Union screened all children for paranormal powers. In 1977, Mr. McRae says, Mr. Carter ordered a high-level review of Soviet psychic research. The secret report, completed in 1978, found no evidence of a massive ''psycho-warfare'' project such as Mr. Geller had warned of, but it did find definite Soviet interest. White House officials in office during the Carter Administration say either that they had no knowledge of such Presidential concern or that they can neither confirm nor deny that it existed.
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Full: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/science/pentagon-is-said-to-focus-on-esp-for-wartime-use.html

In 1987, Uri Geller was invited to Washington by Senator Clairborne Pell, who then took Geller with him to talks during the Soviets. See Randi talk about Geller and Pell on youtube.

From 1991:
The Psychic . . . and the Skeptic Uri Geller and James Randi have fought each other for nearly 20 years. Now they're at it again.
Los Angeles Times
By MICHAEL J. YBARRA
Sep 13, 1991
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After Randi's first debunking book, Geller moved to Europe, eventually settling outside of London. In his 1987 book, "The Geller Effect," he claimed he made a fortune by dowsing for gold and diamonds, did mind-spying for the CIA, helped find the Son of Sam killer in New York and warped the drive shaft of a cruise ship.
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They have ranged from former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who first helped bring Geller to the United States, to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clairborne Pell, who took him to arms control talks with the Soviets.
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Full: http://articles.latimes.com/1991-09-13/news/vw-2279_1_uri-geller/3


From 1999:
"Uri Geller on a new bent still playing mind games"
USA Today
Nov 18, 1999
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"Johnny Carson set me up to fail," says Geller, insisting the talk- show host bombarded him with negative vibes.

Now a youthful 53 with only flecks of gray in a thicket of black hair, health nut Geller hopes to course back into the mainstream with a positivist message for the new millennium.
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And he maintains that the CIA used him to bombard the minds of KGB agents
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Find full text here:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/search.html


From 2006:
Did A Psychic Track Down Saddam?
‎Sky News
Nov 6, 2006
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Celebrity pyschic Uri Geller says the US military used a clairvoyant to find the Iraqi leader.

"You remember when they found Saddam Hussein in Iraq? A soldier walked over to a rock, lifted it and then found a trap-door and found him in there," Geller said.

"Well, I know that that soldier walked over to that rock because he got information from a 'remote viewer' from the United States."

Geller, who says he worked for the CIA during the Cold War, said his information came from a high-level source involved in US paranormal programmes.
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Full: http://news.sky.com/story/467974/did-a-psychic-track-down-saddam

From 2009:
World Renowned Uri Geller Speaks About Michael Jackson
Tommy Garrett on Jul 12, 2009
canyon-news.com
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His work with the FBI and the CIA has ranged from using mind power to erase KGB computer files to tracking serial killers.
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From 2011:
Nigeria: Uri Geller Addresses Business Executives On Positive Thinking
AllAfrica.com
By Kunle Aderinokun, 26 July 2011
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His work with the FBI and the CIA has ranged from using mind power to erase KGB computer files and track serial killers, to attend nuclear disarmament negotiations to bombard and influence delegates with positive thought waves so that they would sign the Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty.
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The CIA-Geller link is fairly old, having been promoted by Geller for quite some time.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Nothing That lot really don't helpS give this story any credibility...
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Remember seeing him in a bookstore in Tunbridge Wells - he at a desk, alone, waiting to sign his new book. Yet, even the woo loving Tunbridge Wellians, (there was a homoeopathic hospital there), seemed to fail to turn up.

A joy to watch.
 
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Remember seeing him in a bookstore in Tunbridge Wells - he at a desk, alone, waiting to sign his new book. Yet, even the woo loving Tunbridge Wellians, (there was a homoeopathic hospital there), seemed to fail to turn up.

A joy to watch.
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:D Awesome.
 
I have no idea whether Uri Geller was actually a spy or not, however I think it entirely possible that he could have been some kind of spy; not because of any supernatural heart stopping skills but simply because, as a self-proclaimed psychic who was very much in the public eye, he would very likely have gained the trust of various people in positions of power and influence.

There is a long history of psychics, magicians, alchemists, mystics, snake oil merchants and gurus being involved with espionage for this reason. Dr John Dee was a spy for Elizabeth I, Gregory Rasputin held great influence in the Russian Imperial family and even Cherie Blair was involved in some dodgy woo based shenanigans (Cheriegate).

A love of woo is something that cuts across all social and class barriers, in fact the more affluent and influential people become the more likely they are to spend money on expensive woo.

People on benefits who shop at Iceland are generally uninterested in £2,000 woo based "personal development" retreats combining colonic irrigation, tantra and shamanism as they are too busy trying to pay the rent.

Rich, bored people who do not have the usual financial worries to distract them from the inevitability of their own mortality have a tendency to spend significant revenue on all kinds of new age pseudo-spiritual guff.

They also tend to disclose personal and private information to psychics, new age healers and spiritual gurus that they would not dream of disclosing to ordinary mortals.

Geller was friendly, at one point, with Michael Jackson and various other powerful and influential people.

Whether or not he was a spy is anyone's guess, but he was certainly in a very good position to harvest compromising intelligence on influential people, as are many other psychics and woo merchants.
 
I actually read the bio of Geller by Andrija Puharich... Another name that snuggles right up to the likes of Targ and Puthoff. (Never met a woo idea he didn't like)

In that one, Geller claimed he got his "powers" from a UFO encounter.... Maybe that's why the intelligence guys wanted him.

"What was it like in the mother ship, Uri?"
 
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