Phenomena
Subtitle: the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis
By: Annie Jacobsen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780316349369
Subjects: Military research; Psychokinesis; Parapsychology; Extrasensory perception; Psychological warfare; History
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: the early days.; title: The supernatural --; title: The Puharich theory --; title: Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army --; title: Quasi science --; title: The Soviet threat -- -- Part II: the CIA years.; title: The enigma of Uri Geller --; title: The man on the moon --; title: The physicist and the psychic --; title: Skeptics versus CIA --; title: Remote viewing --; title: The unconscious --; title: Submarines -- -- Part III: the Defense Department years.; title: Paraphysics --; title: Psychic soldiers --; title: Qigong and the mystery of H. S. Tsien --; title: Killers and kidnappers --; title: Consciousness --; title: Psychic training --; title: The woman with the third eye --; title: The end of an era --; title: Hostages and drugs --; title: Downfall -- -- Part IV: the modern era.; title: Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy --; title: The scientists and the skeptics --; title: The psychic and the astronaut.