9/11 and The Men Who Stare at Goats Part Two

(STARpod.org) -- "Remember that the crazy people are not always to be found on the outside. Sometimes the crazy people are deeply embedded on the inside. Not even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist has ever thought to invent a scenario in which a crack team of Special Forces soldiers and major generals secretly try to walk through their walls and stare goats to death." -- Jon Ronson, from The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Buried inside the craziness of the hidden psychic government uncovered by Jon Ronson are the "eight martini" reports. For those in the know, "eight martini" results from psychic dabbling are so mind blowing that the rational brain requires at least eight martinis worth of alcohol to recover.

It was Norm, not the affable character from TV's "Cheers" bar, but a CIA operations person who went on national television, alongside current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, to express his own opinion of the "eight martini results."

Black magic at CIA?

As ABC News icon Ted Koppel revealed to America, our intelligence services had been experimenting with psychic warfare for decades. Why?

Robert Gates and Norm both expressed the opinion that the phenomena, which apparently had exhibited some level of reality (at least to the satisfaction of the researchers and intelligence persons who had been involved) would be best developed outside of the Intelligence Community.

This seemed to leave open the possibility of "contracted research" or even private intelligence operations.

Is there a "Black Water" ESPionage Service?

By the end of his book, Jon Ronson was wondering if the CIA revelation had been intended to distract attention away from on-going psychic wars, buried in the deepest black-budget operations of the Bush War on Terror.

Ronson wondered "whether Tom Ridge's Department of Homeland Security" had "ever issued a non-specific warning of a future terrorist attack based on intelligence provided by a psychic."

He wrote:

"I know that almost every former psychic spy from the old Fort Meade unit received a telephone call from the intelligence services in the weeks that followed 9/11. They were told that if they had any psychic visions of future terrorist attacks they shouldn't hesitate to inform the authorities."

Following 9/11, psychics who had worked with the government, or had been privately trained by the former psychic spies, began to have visions of nuclear terrorism.

Mushroom clouds kept appearing over American cities -- and London too -- and the reports were well known among members of the government's psychic community.

Shortly after, we learned that Ron, the man who allegedly reactivated Uri Geller for the War on Terror, had moved to MASINT, an intelligence specialty uniquely qualified to hunt down the signatures of nuclear weapons.

At least that was what we were being led to believe.

Ron's friend Dan Smith was more forthcoming.

Ron, he assured me, was actually involved in operations, not the scientific research arm of CIA, and even the outing of Ron in the New York Times had been used as a cover for this role.

Operations suggested counterintelligence was, at the very least, a possible motive.

I had learned how the paranormal operations were closely related to alternative physics and the never-ending search for new weapons by military contractors. It seemed reasonable to assume, post 9/11, that the need for an expanded effort might include taking advantage of all the Internet chat between former government researchers, CIA officers, USAF intelligence types, foreign nationals, and the odd psychic or two.

Like Uri Geller.

Ronson wrote that he had been directed to the one man who admitted he could stare a goat to death, by Colonel John B. Alexander, the leading advocate of non-lethal weapons.

This lead took Ronson to a civilian martial arts instructor named Guy Savelli, and revealed another counterintelligence scheme to infiltrate al Qaeda operatives who had been contacting Savelli about his alleged abilities.

Ronson called it an "al Qaeda paranormal sting operation" in his book. Ronson told Savelli, the man who stared at goats, "You're bait."

Savelli kept Ronson in the loop as the plot developed.

On July 15, 2004, Ronson received a phone call from Savelli, who revealed that he had been contacted by Fort Bragg. They wanted Savelli to show them how to stare an animal to death.

Savelli told Ronson, "I am taking a hamster out there and I'm going to blow their minds with it."

Days later Savelli called again, "They're trying to get what I'm doing classified."

Savelli goes on to explain this will involve more than staring a hamster to death.

"Think of what you can do just by staring. You can confuse people to the point where they'll give you all sorts of information."

On July 23rd, 2004, Ronson received one last call from Savelli.

He told Ronson, "If the enemy knows we have this power, it'll scare the shit out of them."

He then added, "I'm going to tell them all about you tomorrow."

That was the last time Ronson heard from Savelli.

On Friday, August 7th, 2009, I received the following from Ron, in response to my email "Dan Smith intends to drop by the White House to visit with you":

"Dan is welcome any time. We need to catch up on what he learned about hamsters ... Dan knows that I am the White House hamster guy. He may have added things up and concluded that hamsters are aliens."

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