Did Spoon Bending Psychic Work For The CIA?

[Initech]

Uri Geller rose to fame in the 1970s by staring at spoons and apparently bending them with his psychic powers.

But while he was wowing TV audiences, did he have an even more amazing career -- working as a spy for the CIA and Mossad?

A new British documentary, "The Secret Life Of Uri Geller –- Psychic Spy?," contends that Geller was recruited to work with U.S. intelligence agencies to help in a “psychic arms race” with the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.

“When Jimmy Carter was elected President, one of the first things he did was to have Uri Geller give him a four hour briefing on the Soviet psychic threat. America didn’t want a psychic gap and Uri was the go-to guy about these things,” filmmaker Vikram Jayanti told the Independent.

“Sometimes, you wonder whether Uri’s entire public career has actually been a front for his shadow world activities.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/uri-geller-documentary_n_3455410.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

Someone's seen the Matrix too many times.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. When every magician from Randi to...

Johnny Carson knew Geller was a fraud and just a stage magician who took it to a higher level, is our government really stupid enough to hire him for the "psychic arms race"?

Carson, btw, who was a well respected amateur magician, nailed Geller on his show making his tricks go bad and explaining them to the audience. I think Randi was on later that week.

[siligut]

2. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that the CIA did research on psychic phenomena

Whether Uri Geller was involved, well I don't know.

[mopinko]

3. now, if they said that st ronnie had hired him

THAT i would believe.

[liberal N proud]

4. This is an outrage...

The CIA bending spoons.

[Javaman]

5. Read the book, "Men who stare at goats".

the crappy ass movie aside, the book was excellent at talks briefly about gellers involvement.