James Schnabel

For twenty—two years, from 1972 to 1994, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government agencies were involved in efforts to discover if ESP could be used as a spy tool. The government's interest was sparked by news leaked or smuggled out of the secretive Soviet Union that the USSR was doing advanced research with ESP and in fact might be using ESP to spy on the United States and other Western countries. There was fear that the Soviet Union was even able to affect Western military efforts through mental power.

In the following article the author describes two incidents involving one of the U.S. program's most successful "psychic spies," Joe McMoneagle. McMoneagle was "a bullnecked army warrant officer" who had had a near—death experience (he was "dead" for a short period of...