Remote
Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies
by Jim Schnabel
Remote viewing is the term used to define out-of-body
perception of people and events at a distance from the viewer. There is
no question this government and others spent considerable time and money
investigating the possible use of such techniques in gaining otherwise
impossible to obtain information. What is questionable is whether this
and other similar books are just more disinformation by these same intelligence
agencies. There is some evidence that the primary use of remote viewing
was as a "cover" for other more insidious experiments involving brain implants
and remote mind control technologies. This should be read as "part of the
puzzle" and not as necessarily the entire truth on the subject. But it
does show the government's never-ending fascination and involvement with
"mental" technologies and their collusion with psychiatric types to master
control of the human mind (for their own purposes and schemes).
Reviews
Synopsis
For the first time, this explosive exposé
reveals the Pentagon's use of psychic spies - a true life version of The
X-Files ! Under code names like Sun Streak and Star Gate, the U.S. government's
remote viewers went on psychic spying missions around the world. Top intelligence
personnel gave their full support to the training and development of these
top-secret psychic forces who could read minds, and even look back in time
and into the future.
Synopsis
Recounts the contributions of psychics to
America's victory in the Cold War, detailing their spying missions around
the world in the service of the Pentagon and the CIA, assignments that
involved mind-reading, telling the future, and other psychic abilities.
From the Publisher
Remote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon's
attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These
psychic spies, or "remote viewers," were able to infiltrate any target,
elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For twenty years, the
government selected civilian and military personnel for psychic ability,
trained them, and put them to work, full-time, at taxpayers' expense, against
real intelligence targets. The results were so astonishing that the program
soon involved more than a dozen separate agencies, including the CIA, the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the FBI, the
National Security Agency, the Secret Service, the Navy, the Army, the Air
Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the US Customs
Service, the US Special Forces Command, and at least one Pentagon drug-interaction
task force. Most of this material is still officially classified.
After three years of research, with access
to numerous sources in the intelligence community - including the remote
viewers themselves - science writer Jim Schnabel reveals for the first
time the secret details of the strangest chapter in the history of espionage.
Customer Comments
relaxjustdoit.com from Way
Out West, February 24, 1999
Excellent!
Remote viewing is a term created to try
to legitimize one more method of psychic ability to the scientific world-
to be able to pass muster with bean counters for funding. I have read both
Schnabels and McMoneagles books - Schnabels was by far the more enjoyable.
Great psychics do not always make great writers. Schnabels book is not
a feature on McMoneagle - though he is prominent in the first third of
the book. I much preferred this book to McMoneagles. Schnabel has done
an excellent job - I could hardly put the book down. Personally I prefer
to enjoy the stories rather then to dissect the science- but then I come
to the subject as one who has enjoyed many paranormal experiences. I don't
care how it works any more than I care how my car runs - it's the experience
that's mindblowing.
grflanner@aol.com from Grand
Rapids, MI, October 10, 1998
More CIA misinformation by a former CIA
employee
Jim Schnabel is a member of the CIA's strategic
writing staff. He has no books published in the US except for this one.
His others never made it out of the UK (as they should not have).... It
is indeed factual, however, most of the interviews never occurred - they
were simply constructed from slivers of information and bits of phone conversations.
He makes "tongue-in-cheek" references to former members of the remote viewing
unit, portraying them in anything but a flattering light. Be cautious about
this book - those who recommend it come from and are still part of the
intelligence community. Be careful
A reader from Berkeley,
CA, October 1, 1998
Professional, comprehensive, and mind-boggling.
. .
This is a very complete and comprehensive
description of a very interesting phenomenon: the ability, by an unknown
mechanism, people have to perceive surroundings at distant locations (and,
occasionally, at different times). The ability is thought to be an innate
human one that certain individuals (traditionally called 'psychics') possess
in greater degree.
Schnabel's book provides such an abundance
of detail, from a range of sources and programs, that one quickly moves
from skeptical questioning of the remote viewing phenomenon to a consideration
of its implications: If remote viewing is genuine, then the world is a
very different place than I thought it was.
The documentation is sound and compelling:
both interviews and a comprehensive bibliography are cited throughout the
book.
This book will appeal to anyone who has high
standards of evidence as well as a sense of adventure.
SpookyDG@aol.com from United
States, June 12, 1998
Best book on the subject of remote-viewing!
The history and techniques of remote-viewing
are all detailed in this incredible account of America's Cold War psychic
spies. The stories of how the RV team at Fort Meade successfully used this
incredible "cheap radar system" to penetrate US and Russian secret projects
are simply shocking. The laws of science may have to be re-examined after
reading this book. This convincing collection of true stories shows the
reader that maybe there is really something here!
A reader from Chevy Chase,
Maryland, September 27, 1997
Great journalist meets weird subject
Jim Schnabel, an experienced science writer,
has managed to come up with the story everyone else missed: the CIA's and
Pentagon's long and hair-raising dabbling with the paranormal.
There is no hype here, and no hidden agenda.
Unlike all other authors on this subject, Schnabel is an outsider looking
in. He has no motive other than telling it like it is -- or was. The story
he recounts is stranger than fiction but so believable, unputdownable,
and impeccably annotated (unlike all other books on this subject) that
you can't help wondering why this one hasn't been a blockbuster yet. Buy
it before it becomes a collector's item.
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