Uri Geller's CIA 'handler'
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Davidlpf
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I but Uri bent a few of his rules whoever his handler was.
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Does NWO Kitty's official "magic" liason know about this?
(rumor has it NWO Kitty loves magic)
(but you didn't hear that from me)
(rumor has it NWO Kitty loves magic)
(but you didn't hear that from me)
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Just who Andrija Puharich was is quite the mystery. I have gleened this info from several books:
AP was at one time a captain in the US army but was also a researcher and writer on telepathy and ESP. AP was involved with the Advisory Group on Psychological and Unconventional Warfare and gave lectures on this topic at the Pentagon in the 1950s. He met R. Gordon Wasson in 1955 and was supposedly behind the CIA's infiltration of Wasson's legendary 1956 ethnomycological expedition to Mexico in search of magic mushrooms. AP's research into ESP and telepathy is described in his 1959 book "The Sacred Mushroom".
AP was at one time a captain in the US army but was also a researcher and writer on telepathy and ESP. AP was involved with the Advisory Group on Psychological and Unconventional Warfare and gave lectures on this topic at the Pentagon in the 1950s. He met R. Gordon Wasson in 1955 and was supposedly behind the CIA's infiltration of Wasson's legendary 1956 ethnomycological expedition to Mexico in search of magic mushrooms. AP's research into ESP and telepathy is described in his 1959 book "The Sacred Mushroom".
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Scary as it is, it looks like the military did.
http://www.amazon.com/Men-Who-Stare-Goats/dp/0743241924
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I would say I was addressing the question below, in the same manner (no context, no preamble, no discussion or talking points) it was produced...
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Andrija Puharich, a CIA operative, "discovered" Uri Geller in Isreal and brought him back to the US. Once there AP let Geller move into his Ossining estate and started "studying" him.
As for AP being Geller's "handler" ... well I'm sure the CIA would not admit to that any more than it would admit to similar roles being played with Puharich's "Space Kids" by Targ and Puthoff at SRI.
As for AP being Geller's "handler" ... well I'm sure the CIA would not admit to that any more than it would admit to similar roles being played with Puharich's "Space Kids" by Targ and Puthoff at SRI.
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If Geller ever had a single CIA 'handler' as such it was probably Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green, apparently working at the time under the name Richard Kennett. A Google search on either or both names in conjunction with Geller's will pull up more info than I can be bothered to paste here!
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CIA reflections, Uri Geller and "Ron"
This is for those who doubt CIA interest in Uri Geller, or are interested in the background stories behind The Men Who Stare at Goats.
I recommend reading the CIA "Uri Geller" reflections memo:
starpod.org/CIA%20URI%20GELLER3.JPG
And today the story continues (according to Jon Ronson):
On Page 12: "... will tell you one more thing only. The man who reactivated me is ..." Uri paused, then he said, "called Ron." And that was it. ..."
Although "Ron" denied (in a private email) the alleged "reactivation" in Ronson's book.
Who is Ron?
In an article published by The American Chronicle, I wrote:
The earthly intersection leads directly to Dr. Ronald S. (Ron) Pandolfi, a former CIA analyst brought into the public limelight many years ago in a story by Jeff Gerth published by the New York Times. Pandolfi is no stranger to controversy, having produced a 1996 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that warned of the transfer of sensitive missile information from Hughes Electronic Corporation to China. Pandolfi's NIE was ultimately rejected, but questions over the politics that killed the report resulted in Pandolfi's testimony at a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
This is for those who doubt CIA interest in Uri Geller, or are interested in the background stories behind The Men Who Stare at Goats.
I recommend reading the CIA "Uri Geller" reflections memo:
starpod.org/CIA%20URI%20GELLER3.JPG
And today the story continues (according to Jon Ronson):
On Page 12: "... will tell you one more thing only. The man who reactivated me is ..." Uri paused, then he said, "called Ron." And that was it. ..."
Although "Ron" denied (in a private email) the alleged "reactivation" in Ronson's book.
Who is Ron?
In an article published by The American Chronicle, I wrote:
The earthly intersection leads directly to Dr. Ronald S. (Ron) Pandolfi, a former CIA analyst brought into the public limelight many years ago in a story by Jeff Gerth published by the New York Times. Pandolfi is no stranger to controversy, having produced a 1996 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that warned of the transfer of sensitive missile information from Hughes Electronic Corporation to China. Pandolfi's NIE was ultimately rejected, but questions over the politics that killed the report resulted in Pandolfi's testimony at a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Please do not post whole articles. See rule 4.
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