The Shadow Knows: Thomas Drake, NSA, and SECRET Psychic Espionage
American Intelligence monitored use of
paranormal phenomena for spying since the 1950s. Are they still in the business
of recruiting psychics? And why was former NSA Senior Official Thomas Drake
working with UK 'psychic spy' Chris Robinson?
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(STARpod.org) -- Why is the US Justice Department pursuing the Thomas Drake
whistle-blower case under the Espionage Act? And why did Thomas Drake work with
UK 'psychic spy' Christopher Robinson for seven years?
In the United States of America v. Thomas Andrews Drake, Defendant, Drake is
identified as the Chief of the Change Leadership and Communications Office in
the Signals Intelligence Directorate at the National Security Agency, later
transferring to Technical Leader in the Directorate of Engineering.
Drake is under indictment for five counts of Retaining Classified Information,
Obstruction of Justice, and Making a False Statement, concerning his
whistle-blowing over NSA waste and mismanagement related to NSA monitoring of US
citizens.
NSA provides Signals Intelligence to US policy makers and military forces.
Drake is indicted under the espionage act -- but he is not accused of passing
secrets -- only the improper handling of classified information he had access to
as an employee at NSA with TOP SECRET clearance.
According to an NSA-related source to author Gus Russo, NSA Signals Intelligence
includes the use of paranormal phenomena.
Exploitation of paranormal phenomena for intelligence purposes is nothing new.
In December 1963, the late Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, then
Deputy Director for Plans, wrote a memo concerning the application of paranormal
science for operational intelligence purposes.
"Recently, reports from various sources on life science research in the Soviet
Union have been called to my attention," wrote Helms, "These reports indicate a
current preoccupation by an important sector of Soviet biological science with
cybernetics, telepathy, hypnosis, and related subjects."
Helms then noted that a small group in CIA Technical Services Division had been
monitoring the situation for ten years, pushing American intelligence interest
in paranormal activities back to at least 1953.
Helms identified areas where he believed paranormal phenomena might be
applicable for "operational applications" for the clandestine services -- "agent
communication, interrogation, telemetry, and in the general area of control of
human behavior."
By the early 1970s, CIA was clandestinely funding research into the use of
persons with self-proclaimed 'psychic powers' -- notably three talented
individuals who had demonstrated an unexplained ability to collect information
without the use of ordinary senses. Those individuals -- Uri Geller, Pat Price,
and Ingo Swann -- would be tested by CIA , and eventually Price and Swann were
tasked against real-world targets in the Soviet Union.
During one CIA experiment, Ingo Swann and Pat Price were tasked to 'remote view'
a secret NSA installation. According to an article for CIA's 'Studies in
Intelligence' by Ken Kress, who worked with the psychics, "Pat Price provided a
list of program titles associated with current and past activities, including
one of extreme sensitivity. Also, the codename of the site was provided. Other
information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate."
NSA had expressed "considerable interest" in the CIA's psychic research. With
Price, it had transformed into a matter of US national security.
Shortly after the
tasking, Price would suddenly die and Swann would later claim to have been
contacted by a mysterious leader of a black operation.
In the early 1990s, the Defense Intelligence Agency had taken control of
paranormal research and tasked SAIC, a top ten US defense contractor, to uncover
the secrets behind paranormal phenomena.
Dr. Ed May was placed in charge of STAR GATE research at SAIC, and by 1994 was
reporting a potential 'breakthrough' according to SAIC reports commissioned for
the US government.
Then, unexpectedly, Congress and the CIA intervened, moving the DIA program to
CIA where it was summarily killed and partially declassified.
Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Congress directed project researchers
to reach out and connect with their foreign counterparts in the paranormal
field. Records suggest that DIA had resisted the request for information
sharing, eventually loosing control of the program. CIA then moved to explain to
the public why the psychic spy programs existed in the first place, tapping
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, appearing as a former Director of Central
Intelligence, for ABC News popular "Nightline' program with Ted Koppel.
Appearing next to Gates, was an unidentified CIA official who had tasked DoD
psychics, and Dr. Ed May, who defended the research.
In 1998, I contacted a Chinese researcher in Beijing, who shared an interest in
the theory behind faster-than-light-speed communication. Our discussion,
conducted over the Internet, was only one of countless discussions then taking
place concerning 'future technologies' that might emerge from a better
understanding of the quantum nature of our universe. My Chinese friend, who was
eventually contacted in Beijing by a former CIA analyst to discuss experiments
involving an fMRI machine, believes he can prove the existence of a mind-to-mind
communication channel.
According to STAR GATE documents, released by CIA in 2004, foreign activities in
the paranormal and alternative science fields were no longer viewed as an
immediate threat to US interests, but CIA would continue to monitor foreign
developments, nonetheless.
In 2001, Dr. May's Russian research associate Larissa Vilenskya, who had
accompanied him to the Former Soviet Union to collect intelligence for the DIA
at SAIC, walked in front of a train and was killed. The incident was reported to
be an accident by authorities.
One of the researchers participating in our on-line discussions was Dr. Gary E.
R. Schwartz of the University of Arizona. Shortly after, Dr. Schwartz was
contacted by Chris Robinson, the UK psychic who was known for predicting terror
attacks in Britain.
By the time Robinson arrived in the US in August 2001 to participate in a series
of informal tests devised by Schwartz and his colleagues, he was suffering from
a series of nightmares about airplanes striking the tall buildings in New York
City, according to interviews with Robinson and Schwartz in the documentary
"Premonition Man."
When I asked Robinson about his US intelligence contacts, he wrote to me, "Many
people from many agencies contacted me after 9/11. I think they kept it
compartmentalized."
Among the many contacts was Thomas Drake, the Senior NSA Official. At the time,
Robinson claims to have been unaware that Drake worked for the NSA.
In the early 1970s, according to US government memos, CIA faced a similar
situation in approaching psychic Uri Geller. One memo presented various ideas of
how to approach Geller, including a cover story where CIA agents would, "with
appropriate backstopping," pass themselves off as "NIH officials."
According to Robinson, who has come forward concerning his work with Drake --
Robinson's story about knowing Drake has been vetted -- intelligence contacts in
the US were interested in his methods, in addition to tasking against targets,
such as the secret location of Saddam Hussein after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Gus Russo's source identified NSA research affiliations with Johns Hopkins and
The Monroe Institute.
The real-life business of the government's X-files remains hidden in
plain sight. The government claims "we can neither confirm nor deny"
that documents exist showing extraterrestrial objects have been
tracked as they enter the Earth's air space. Meanwhile a handful of
very high ranking intelligence officials play out spy games on the
Internet about reverse engineering alien technology and a former CIA
Deputy Director for Intelligence is implicated in the sordid affair.
The core of this story involves high level government intelligence
persons and SERPO, a "soap opera" about US government contact with
an extraterrestrial alien intelligence.
Knowing the Future
TO THE MOON AND BACK, WITH
LOVE
Secrets of the CORE STORY of
Extraterrestrial Alien Contact
His name is Ingo Swann. In the 1970s, he was one of America's secret
weapons brought to bear against the Soviet Union: a psychic spy,
personally tested by the CIA. In the 1980s, Swann held a TOP SECRET
clearance, and was instrumental in training Army and Defense
Intelligence Agency personnel. Swann's psychic methods were a key
component in the mind-war arsenal of the USAF, the Army, the Navy,
the Defense Intelligence Agency, and many others, hidden deep inside
compartments of the government.
A few years later Swann wrote one of the most bizarre accounts in
the history of the paranormal was effort, now documented by CIA
sanctioned release of the once super-secret programs known as STAR
GATE. According to Swann, a super-secret group led by a mysterious
"Mr. Axelrod" (his real name remains a closely held secret) put him
mind-to-mind and face-to-face against an extraterrestrial avatar in
human form.
The story of extraterrestrial human-mind to alien-mind telepathy,
dangerous personal encounters, and a near-death experience of coming
under laser fire from an extraterrestrial vehicle somewhere in the
northern wilderness of Alaska, sounds like pages torn from a science
fiction novel.
From the world of psychic spies, paranormal goat killers, and Skinwalkers
haunting remote regions of Utah, something wicked and wacky this way comes.
Drawn from the files of the private intelligence source STARstream Research:
A real-life tall-tale of espionage. At the core, a confrontation at CIA HQ
between a former CIA official and officers of the United States Air Force.
Twenty years later, the game continues where disturbing worlds collide. The
heart of the matter: a US Government UFO Working Group, dark secrets kept in
the shadows under the guise of counter-intelligence operations of the United
States Air Force, and decades-old rumors of extraterrestrial contact with
"something not of this world." The Official's concern: hidden within tales
of "Real Life X-Files" a potentially dangerous viral marketing scheme,
possibly intended to elicit real classified information from past and
present intelligence officers.
Stranger still, government files prove that the US government spent
decades exploring the paranormal psychic spying, in an effort to "know the
future" and beat the Russians, in a race to obtain technologies from beyond
our world.
This book is a collection of articles and materials originally published
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the "Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape" blog. This is the first time they have
been made available in print. Included in this volume is the popular article
"To the Moon and Back, With Love," the story of CIA psychic Ingo Swann's
extraterrestrial encounters.
Also included in this volume: The sixteen part mini-book "Knowing the
Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence," about the race
to obtain "alien" technologies.
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