Title:
Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen.
ISBN:
9780316349369
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Part I: the early days. Supernatural -- Puharich theory -- Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army -- Quasi science -- Soviet threat -- Part II: the CIA years. Enigma of Uri Geller -- Man on the moon -- Physicist and the psychic -- Skeptics versus CIA -- Remote viewing -- Unconscious -- Submarines -- Part III: the Defense Department years. Paraphysics -- Psychic soldiers -- Qigong and the mystery of H. S. Tsien -- Killers and kidnappers -- Consciousness -- Psychic training -- Woman with the third eye -- End of an era -- Hostages and drugs -- Downfall -- Part IV: the modern era. Intuition, premonition, and synthetic telepathy -- Scientists and the skeptics -- Psychic and the astronaut.
Summary:
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.-- adapted from dust jacket.
OCLC Number:
ocn953598602
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
