Declassified files reveal CIA carried out secret psychic experiments on Uri Geller and got him to to PREDICT an agent’s drawings from the next room – and the results will bend your mind
Creepy 'Stargate' programme aimed to find out whether humans could use psychic powers as weapon or spy tool
URI GELLER was subjected to a series of bizarre secret experiments that aimed to weaponize psychic abilities, CIA documents reveal.
The Israeli - famed for his apparent ability to bend spoons with his mind - was taken to Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s to have his psychic abilities investigated.
A newly released cache of CIA documents reveals UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the "Stargate programme", which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.
The project was the codename for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA).
It aimed to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena to be used by the military and intelligence services.
The Stargate programme inspired the 2009 film The Men Who Stare At Goats starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor.
Some of the files surround the weird investigation and reveal how Geller was probed during a week-long series of tests.
During these experiments he was asked to sit in a sealed and monitored room.
One of the tests involved drawings. A word was selected at random from a dictionary.
The first word selected was "fuse". A firecracker was then drawn by someone outside the locked room.
The picture was then taped to the wall outside Geller's cell and he was told via intercom the drawing was finished.
The CIA documents say: "His almost immediate response was that he saw a 'cylinder with noise coming out of it'.
"His drawing to correspond with it was a drum, along with a number of cylindrical-looking objects."
The second word chosen was "bunch" and a scientist drew a bunch of grapes.
"He then talked about 'purple circles'.
"Finally, he said that he was quite sure that he had the picture. His drawing was indeed a bunch of grapes."
The researchers concluded Uri "demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner".
In 2013 Uri Geller has lifted the lid on his secret past as a SPY — and told how his spoon-bending antics were just a cover.
The TV magician has revealed details of his years as an operative for the both
the CIA and Israel’s feared Mossad agency during the Cold War.
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