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[andrew_jorgensen]

I learn from one of the new Agitators that Jon Ronson, author of the amusing romp with terrorists Them, has come out with a new book about bizarre US military projects.

One operation details President Clinton's order for a Psychic Spying Unit to find the Loch Ness monster using telepathy. The operation cost 15 million pounds, which in today's dollars translates into over $28 million.

Though, to be fair, the dollar was much, much stronger during the Clinton administration.

I am reminded of the advertisement the CIA ran in my college newspaper for its summer internship program. It listed fields of experience they were interested in: philosophy was not one of these. "Remote viewing," on the other hand, was. I remember thinking at the time that remote viewing was something abstrusely technical, involving perhaps satellites or ultrasound or thermal imaging; certainly something you could major in only at CalTech or MIT. Little did I know that remote viewing was actually out in Uri Gellar territory. I know that some people have trouble accepting the softer side of the CIA as presented by Alias, but maybe there's something to the fascination with all the Rambaldi stuff. Maybe that's the true secret of the post-William Colby, pre-Porter Goss CIA; it was just a bunch of crystal-swinging, incense-burning new-agers . . .

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[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Though, to be fair, the dollar was much, much stronger during the Clinton administration.

So glad you're back posting..

I finished a book about a month ago now on the Grail etc., and effects of certain myths/beliefs on politics (that wasn't actually the theme of the book but it was was I got out of it.) Now you got me thinking on astrologers.. precedents go pretty far back, I think. *smile*

[rahael.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine's flatmate is a civil servant to a very ordinary and mundane government department. However, it is suspected he's actually a spy since he was once caught burning documents in the kitchen sink, is a fluent speaker of Arabic, and also gets lots of mail from all over the world.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Well that settles it then: he's no spy. Everyone knows that one thing the US/UK intelligence apparatus doesn't have is fluent speakers of Arabic.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Errr, wait, whose spy?

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

Lol. "Stubblebine was relieved of his position after he started to believe he could levitate and pass through walls.

He frequently sported black eyes and bruises because of his habit of running at walls full tilt - with no success."

They should have uniforms, maybe catsuits with a big PsySpy logo, or maybe just an intertwined "PS." And a pulsing brain in a jar to send them off on missions.