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Uri and the spooks.
« on: March 11, 2017, 10:07:47 AM »
I was listening to a radio prog this morning, and UI thought it was April Fools day. Apparently not. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/uri-geller-cia-wanted-turn-weapon/ Discuss.....
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2017, 06:25:46 PM »
Uri Gellar is a conjuror who pretends to have psychic powers. You really can't believe anything he says.
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2017, 06:31:14 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on March 11, 2017, 06:25:46 PM
Uri Gellar is a conjuror who pretends to have psychic powers. You really can't believe anything he says.

- The CIA seemed to - but, hey, thst's America for you!
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2017, 06:47:21 PM »
Wonder if he is trying to flog a book.
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2017, 07:08:19 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on March 11, 2017, 06:47:21 PM
Wonder if he is trying to flog a book.
That generally turns out to be the bottom line, doesn't it? :)
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2017, 12:43:57 AM »
Quote from: Anchorman on March 11, 2017, 06:31:14 PM
- The CIA seemed to - but, hey, thst's America for you!
Wait a minute. Have he CIA confirmed his story? If a known liar says the CIA came to him for help without any substantiating evidence, is there any reason to believe he is not lying about that as well?
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2017, 08:27:13 AM »
Significant percentage of Americans are gullible idiots is hardly headline news.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00791r000100480003-3

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APPENDIX I
EXPERIMENTS - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973
OBEJCTIVE
The objective of this group of experimental sessions was to
verify Geller's apparent paranormal perception under carefully
controlled conditions with the goal of understanding the physical
and psychological variables underlying such ability.
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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2017, 08:13:04 PM »
In the 70's apparently mind control was all the rage, lots of security services in the USA and USSR  investigated it.

They seemed  to come to the conclusion, finally  it was nonsense.

Not really surprising they wanted to test Uri Geller with all the publicity he was getting.

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Re: Uri and the spooks.
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2017, 08:48:08 PM »
Quote from: Rose on March 13, 2017, 08:13:04 PM
In the 70's apparently mind control was all the rage, lots of security services in the USA and USSR  investigated it.

They seemed  to come to the conclusion, finally  it was nonsense.

Not really surprising they wanted to test Uri Geller with all the publicity he was getting.

The paper Squeaky Voice was referencing seems to suggest there was something to Gellar['s powers. Of course, we do not know if the conditions were as tight as the paper describes. I suspect they weren't really equipped to deal with cheating.
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