| ISBN |
9780316349352 (paperback) |
| Name |
Jacobsen, Annie author. |
| Title |
Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. Government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen. |
| Edition |
First Back Bay edition. |
| Published |
New York : Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2018. |
| ©2017. |
| Description |
527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 21 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE EARLY DAYS -- ch. One The Supernatural -- ch. Two The Puharich Theory -- ch. Three Skeptics, Charlatans, and the U.S. Army -- ch. Four Quasi Science -- ch. Five The Soviet Threat -- pt. II THE CIA YEARS -- ch. Six The Enigma of Uri Geller -- ch. Seven The Man on the Moon -- ch. Eight The Physicist and the Psychic -- ch. Nine Skeptics versus CIA -- ch. Ten Remote Viewing -- ch. Eleven The Unconscious -- ch. Twelve Submarines -- pt. III THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT YEARS -- ch. Thirteen Paraphysics -- ch. Fourteen Psychic Soldiers -- ch. Fifteen Qigong and the Mystery of H. S. Tsien -- ch. Sixteen Killers and Kidnappers -- ch. Seventeen Consciousness -- ch. Eighteen Psychic Training -- ch. Nineteen The Woman with the Third Eye -- ch. Twenty The End of an Era -- ch. Twenty-One Hostages and Drugs -- ch. Twenty-Two Downfall -- pt. IV THE MODERN ERA -- ch. Twenty-Three Intuition, Premonition, and Synthetic Telepathy -- ch. Twenty-Four The Scientists and the Skeptics -- ch. Twenty-Five The Psychic and the Astronaut. |
| Summary |
For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army - and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists, analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics themselves. |
| Subjects |
Extrasensory perception -- History -- United States -- 20th century |
| Psychokinesis -- History -- United States -- 20th century |
| Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century |
| National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century |
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