Psychics join the manhunt

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 11/11/2001

[Pokey78]

US intelligence agencies are recruiting psychics to help predict future attacks and to find Osama Bin Laden. The recruits, known as "remote viewers", claim to be able to visualise happenings in distant places by using paranormal powers.

The US government established a remote viewing programme, known as Stargate, in the 1970s in an attempt to utilise the skills claimed by psychics to combat communism. The programme, at the Stanford Research Institute in California, was shut down in 1995 after the end of the cold war.

Now, however, US intelligence agencies are reactivating some of their old paranormal spies.

Prudence Calabrese, whose Transdimensional Systems employs 14 remote viewers, confirmed that the FBI had asked the company to predict likely targets of future terrorist attacks.

"Our reports suggest a sports stadium could be a likely target," she said.

The FBI and CIA refused to comment but confirmed investigators have been told to "think out of the box".

Angela Thompson-Smith and Lyn Buchanan, former members of Stargate, said that they, too, had been approached.

[Pokey78]

Art Bell will LOVE this!

[Joe 6-pack]

"Our reports suggest a sports stadium could be a likely target," she said."

So did Thomas Harris, the author of Black Sunday, 25 years ago. Harris later authored "Silence of the Lambs"...

[stands2reason]

Time to sic SCICOP on their butts!

[waxhaw]

I'm not a "remote viewer" yet I also can "see" a sports stadium as a very probable target. An even more probable target is Los Angeles, specifically Hollywood... I suspect OBL salivates at the thought of destroying the center of America's "culture".

[Puck from Michigan]

Why don't they just call the psychic hotline?

[Gimlet]

Psychics!!!! Why are we messing with the devil to find the devil? This is pathetic. I pray this is not true.

[Libloather]

How many psychics were accurate on 9-11? Hire them. Minimum wage...

[Slyfox]

How come none of the remote viewers or the telephone psychics knew that Bin Laden was going to 'bomb' us?

[Senator Pardek]

Good grief - why not dowsing or tarot cards?

This is the direct result of secret budgets. I'd rather they spend the money on lap dances (which they probably are, anyway).

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

"Our reports suggest a sports stadium could be a likely target," she said.

LOL! They get paid for this?

[JENINMO]

Frankly, other than the innocents, what loss would Hollyweird be?

[Pokey78]

[Senator Pardek]

A free tarot reading? Now that's the kind of cost cutting I'd like to see the GOP get around to!!!

[dennisw]

Art Bell will LOVE this!

Calling Colonel Ed Dames! .......Colonel Ed Dames!...Report for duty!

[Sabertooth]

How many psychics were accurate on 9-11? Hire them. Minimum wage...

As Federal employees, of course. Wouldn't want to fire any hard-working psychics just because they couldn't see the future.

Would "prophetic blindness" qualify as a disability?

[GOPJ]

They're trying to think outside the box. This situation is so bad, every idea must be in play.

[GreenHornet]

Miss Cleo may not be able to tell us Osama Bin Laden's location, but she'll be able to tell us which of his wives are cheating on him, who the real fathers of his sons are, and what really happened between him and his camel.

[AntiScumbag]

no psychic has ever predicted that some state attorney general was about to sue for fraud, or that his or her own bankruptcy was imminent

but, that's close enough for gubmint work

[TADSLOS]

I see a cave, no, lots of caves with lots of entrances and passageways...WHAM!! I see a blinding flash, now a mushroom cloud..No wait, I see a pile of rocks now and...dust, just dust...

[TightSqueeze]

Why are we messing with the devil to find the devil?

What's next mind expanding drugs --- The Horror!