Quantum of Strangeness: Intelligence Community was shaken, not stirred

Weird science has infected American intelligence efforts past and present.

I created STARstream Research and the website STARpod.org to explore the range of government involvement in fringe research and the men who chase ephemeral dreams beyond human understanding.

My networking with numerous persons in the scientific and intelligence community has provided me with a tantalizing glimpse into a hidden world of strangeness, where quantum theory morphs into minds, machines, and madness.

The public is familiar with covert government strangeness from fictional TV and film productions like "The X-Files," "Fringe," and the current production by George Clooney of "The Men Who Stare at Goats."

What follows is not fiction, but a true story of the unreal.

Over the past decade, the NSA (National Security Agency) faced numerous challenges, including accusations of illegally monitoring American citizens in the ramped up War on Terror.

Author James Bamford has written three popular books about NSA including his recent "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America."

As proclaimed by the liner notes to Bamford's book, "the NSA's lack of oversight, and billions in post-9/11 dollars have combined to give the agency an almost Orwellian ability to eavesdrop."

Author Gus Russo, who recently emailed me about meeting with Bamford, knows a source familiar with an exotic NSA deep-black collection capability that reaches deep inside the enemy's mind.

Russo is best know for his exploration of the connection between Cuban intelligence and the JFK assassination, as well as his research into organized crime.

According to Russo, an undisclosed source he trusts told him that NSA has been involved in the psychic spy business.

Furthermore, according to Russo's source, not only is NSA currently involved in fringe science involving mind-bending psychic intelligence collection, but their their psychics have run into a mental firewall.

Specifically Russo mentioned "an unknown extraterrestrial source."

The last publicly known psychic spy effort was run by the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) and was nicknamed STAR GATE. STAR GATE was the last in a long series of efforts conducted by various United States intelligence agencies and military services.

Reports of an extraterrestrial problem related to persons of interest with alleged mental powers is nothing new.

DIA psychic spies often reported encounters with otherworldly beings and even described alien bases in the solar system.

And yes, I have the documents, provided by CIA under the Freedom of Information Act.

According to official US government documents, NSA had also been involved in the nascent effort to develop powers of the mind for intelligence purposes.

It is not unthinkable that the NSA program survived the 1995 CIA effort to shut down secret government programs into psychic warfare, which included a research program conducted by SRI International and SAIC, both leading defense contractors.

With all of the post 9/11 spying, I wondered about the alleged NSA psychics, and mused whether they might have been tasked against US nationals.

Perhaps one day there will be an investigation of government files related to unethical and intrusive psychic spying.

Tales of a psychic war conducted from east to west, and to the moon and back, continue to emerge.

The 1995 CIA declassification of STAR GATE revealed Defense Intelligence Agency collection efforts, which included trips to the former Soviet Union to gather information on Russian psychic projects.

SAIC, a major government defense contractor, explored anomalous mental phenomena in the 1990s as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency STAR GATE project.

Strangeness often follows those who risk belief in the use of otherworldly phenomena.

A Russian partner of Ed May, the senior psychic researcher at SAIC, who had accompanied May to Russia, was struck and killed by a train in June 2001, shortly before the events of 9/11.

In August of 2001, British psychic Chris Robinson reported a nightmare of planes crashing into tall buildings. At the time Robinson was being studied by academics at the University of Arizona who were interested in his claim of precognitive dreaming.

Robinson's nightmares continued until they were finally realized in this world on September 11th.

Robinson later claimed to have been contacted by American intelligence about his predictive ability, a claim which resonates with reports other psychics gave to British author Jon Ronson.

Early in my personal investigation, I asked myself why hard-nosed intelligence agencies would continue to be interested in fringe science.

One answer can be found in an article by Ken Kress, who had worked for CIA on early psychic research efforts at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s.

"Two new assertions are offered from my experiences. First, intelligence often deals with initially unevaluated information sources that eventually may be proven highly important. This modus operandi makes intelligence services intrinsically susceptible to the seductive claims of psychics. Second, complicating an already difficult evaluation of alleged psychic abilities, some of the most interesting practitioners had personal objectives quite different than scientific discovery or national security."

After examining thousands of pages of government documents on the fringe, I have concluded there is an intimate relationship between the worlds of psychics, spies, and UFO phenomenology, and at the core of that intersection is the so-called alien abduction/contact phenomena.

The age of the Internet has brought to light some of the connections binding persons of psychic interest with persons known to be involved with various intelligence agencies, including CIA, DIA, NSA and the USAF OSI.

Ask the "usual suspects" or "persons of interest" and one name that is frequently mentioned is "Ron."

As reported in numerous articles and blogs across the Internet, "Ron" is well known for his association with the "real-life X-files" intrigue surrounding the U.S. government and allegations of reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology.

Jon Ronson is the author of the darkly humorous book "The Men Who Stare at Goats," now the inspiration for the new George Clooney production by the same name.

In his book Ronson claims he first heard of "Ron" from world-famous psychic Uri Geller at a private meeting shortly after the attacks of 9/11.

In Ronson's non-fiction book, Uri tells Ronson that "the man who reactivated me [presumably to use psychic powers in the war on terror] is called Ron."

In an interesting twist, Ron, who some claim was involved in the CIA killing of the DIA STAR GATE psychic program, is also known, thanks to the book by Jon Ronson, as the man behind the next generation of U.S. government psychic spying.

In response to an email request for clarification, "Ron" explicitly denied Ronson's claim:

"As I never activated or reactivated Uri, all such claims are false. Of course Uri might perceive he was reactivated via some mental process as he is a self proclaimed mentalist."

Dan Smith, one of Ron's associates in the private sector, wrote to us that "Ron" has "left his present job for an undisclosed location, a couple of weeks ago."

Ron's real career as CIA analyst was revealed in the 1990s in a series of articles by Jeff Gerth, published by the New York Times.

"Ron" is Ronald S. Pandolfi, an intelligence person of interest to investigators of government cover-up of the paranormal and UFOs.

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.

More recently Pandolfi was also cited on line in a MITRE document, as the CIA liason to the National Intelligence Council. The subject of MITRE document involved passive radar, an indirect means of detecting and identifying flying objects.

Many within UFO community identify Pandolfi with government interest in obtaining extraterrestrial technology.

Less is known about Pandolfi's interest in anomalous mental phenomena, the US government's preferred description of inexplicable psychic powers.

Pandolfi wrote to me that ""Neither Price [an early psychic viewer for the CIA] nor any other person ever associated with [psychic spy] Remote Viewing at any time or with any agency ever provided any data of any intelligence value. It was for this reason that all aspects of the project were terminated."

Pandolfi admits he was the source behind the leaking of the now infamous "spies, lies, and polygraph tape" email messages to the moderators of a popular Internet forum. The messages were concerned with the possibility that a foreign intelligence service might be using UFO stories to cover-up collection of American secrets.

One of the more interesting (and down to earth) aspects emerging from tales of "spies, lies and polygraph tape" is the strange behavior exhibited by well-placed persons from the intelligence community in the nooks and crannies of the Internet UFO underground.

As with all things spy related, nothing is truly as it appears.

Files released by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirm the UFO phenomenon (also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) was studied covertly for years.

Other MoD files obtained by independent UK investigator and self-professed psychic phenomenologist "Daz" Smith confirmed British interest in exotic phenomena for intelligence collection, including "remote viewing" and Russian research into "biological morphic fields."

Whether or not there is any reality to the phenomena in question, there is no longer any question of government interest and covert investigations.

The "X-files" are real.

And, I suspect, the Internet-based spy game is just as real.

Which brings me back to the home of James Bond, 007: MI6, and their mission to "collect secret foreign intelligence in support of the British Government's policies and objectives."

I was informed that our investigative source who had traveled from the UK to Washington D.C. had been accused of an association with MI6.

Meetings planned with former intelligence persons of interest soon evaporated as a result of the rumor. Based upon the MoD files in my possession, it appears not unreasonable to suspect some level of interest from MI6 over the spy games being played in the United States, and notably across the planet via the Internet.

Most of the key players from the American spy trade are also known for having an interest in UFOs and the psychic spy programs.

And based upon leaked email messages, at least some of those persons were concerned about the intense interest in the UFO subject exhibited by British nationals.

As noted by the UK's MoD UAP [UFO] executive summary, "The relevance of plasma and magnetic fields to UAP were an unexpected feature of the study. It is recommended that further investigation should be into the applicability of various characteristics of plasmas in novel military applications. With respect to the possibility of the use of

plasmas for military applications, such as target radar signature control and antennas, it is noted that the implications have already been briefed to the relevant MoD technology managers."

It is plausible that the real interest of the American I.C. in the UFO phenomena is concerned with plasma technology and unmanned aerial vehicles, like drones.

Some of Joe Firmage's International Space Sciences Organization research from 1999-2000 had been concerned with UFOs and exotic plasma physics shared among international researchers.

The truth is, as always, a bit more complicated.

One of Pandolfi's mentors, who remains a high-level advisor to the Intelligence Community, suggests there is much more to the strangeness.

Although I am not quite prepared to reveal the details, sources in the U.S. and China have confirmed to me interest in a "next-generation" of experiments intended to test quantum mind: the idea that human consciousness is affected by quantum weirdness.

Meanwhile, Michael B. Mensky at the P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, has been working on an idea that turns the old quantum mind model (of Stuart Hameroff and physicist Sir Roger Penrose) on its head.

Mensky claims his model explains the ability of the human mind "(in the state of sleep, trance or meditation, when the explicit consciousness is disabled) to obtain information from all alternative classical realities (Everett's [many parallel] worlds) and select the favorable realities."

Mensky seems to believe that the human mind is a "trans-universe" phenomenon that narrows the vast alternatives (thought to exist by many modern physicists) in order to select a desirable world.

As Mensky explains in his abstract, "The brain serves as an interface between the body and consciousness, but the most profound level of consciousness is not a function of brain."

Mensky's idea fits rather neatly into the metaphysical world view of psychic remote viewing.

Mensky claims that "the principal feature of consciousness (of human and, more generally, of any living being) is its ability, overcoming the separation of the alternatives, to follow each of them up to the distant time moment in the future, find what alternatives provide survival and choose these alternatives excluding the rest. The evolution of living matter is thus determined not only by causes, but also by the goals, first of all by the goals of survival and improvement of the quality of life."

Is the government still using psychic spies to "find what alternatives provide survival and choose these alternatives excluding the rest?"

In other words, can information from a possible future be used to help prevent the next 9/11?

Based upon more than ten years of research, if I had to wager on a guess, my answer would be "almost certainly, yes."

I am convinced that in the world of intelligence some of the spies were at the very least shaken by their experience of impossible things, if not stirred to acquire actionable psychic intelligence.

From the investigative files of STARpod.org -- News and Intelligence for the 21st Century, and Beyond.

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