9/11 and The Men Who Stare at Goats

(STARpod.org) -- Although the horrific images of 9/11 are burned into the minds of most Americans, few are aware of the strangeness linking those fateful events to Jon Ronson's book, and the new film starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey.

What, you may ask, is the connection between the events of 9/11, and "The Men Who Stare at Goats?"

Or, for that matter, what exactly is a man who stares at goats?

Knowing that many would question the reality of government agents tasked to stop the heart of a goat -- a bizarre demonstration of psychic assassination -- Ronson explains to the incredulous reader:

"This is a true story."

(The fictional film version is an adventure comedy, based upon the real story told in Ronson's book.)

One man, who has been known to stare at cutlery, not goats, is the famous psychic paranormalist Uri Geller.

It was (according to Ronson) Uri Geller, who set Ronson "on the trail that led to the goats."

And, I should add, it was Ronson's expose' of Geller's revelation that finally tied together, at least in my own mind, several threads connecting Geller to the CIA.

(For more information please see my series "Knowing the Future" and CIA's STAR GATE documents at the STARpod.org website.)

Geller allegedly told Ronson, "If you repeat what I am about to tell you, I will deny it."

According to Ronson, it was Geller who let the "catfish" out of the bag, when he told Ronson that he had been reactivated as a psychic spy in the war on terror, by a man named Ron.

Plausible and deniable. Of course.

"Ah, Ron," I thought out loud, "Yes, of course. I know who Ron is. That enigmatic guy from CIA that his buddy Dan Smith always writes about.

Physicist Jack Sarfatti claimed Ron had dropped by to visit him in San Francisco, accompanied by an armed military escort.

Sarfatti also claimed Ron had been asking questions about physicist Hal Puthoff, the government's former number one psychic researcher, and Bob Bigelow, the billionaire who had funded paranormal research.

But why would Ron want anyone to stare at a goat?

True, Ron did on a rare occasion send a brief and typically witty email to a rather extensive list of persons known to have interest in the esoteric realms. Little was known of Ron's true purpose, or, for that matter, if he worked at CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology as an analyst, the back story that had been conveniently provided by The New York Times; or was he "operational" as Smith would later claim.

One person who had played a key role in guiding Jon Ronson to the poor goats, animals awaiting various misfortunes courtesy of Special Forces at "goat lab," was non-lethal weapons advocate Colonel John B. Alexander, who advises the government on various defense related issues.

Colonel Alexander is also well known for his interest in psychic phenomena.

When Ronson asked Alexander about Ron, he stared into space waiting for another question.

The other psychic spies interviewed also acknowledged knowing Ron, but would say little else.

It did seem that every stone Ronson uncovered would lead to another associate of Sarfatti's email list.

Indeed, as I had learned over several years time, that kind of "meaningful coincidence" is woven by numerous threads penetrating the government and military scientific establishment.

And, as it turned out, so was the 9/11 connection.

Ronson quickly suspected that the psychic spies and the men who stared at goats were "back, and fighting the War on Terror."

The history of US government involvement in the paranormal spans decades and spy agencies, military services, and secret research programs.

All along, one objective had been clear: they wanted to establish "operational" programs to "read the enemy's mind," "remote view enemy targets," "see into the future," and, perhaps, "stare the occasional unlucky goat to death."

For years, government psychics had warned of airplanes under the control of terrorists being used as weapons of mass destruction, by crashing into buildings.

One vision of the future, a suicide attack using a Learjet packed with explosives against the U.S. Capitol Building, had been predicted by a group of military psychics in 1983.

This warning was played out fifteen years later as an exercise involving "a scenario in which a group of terrorists commandeered a Learjet on the ground in Atlanta, loaded it with explosives, and flew it toward a target in Washington, D.C.," according to the 9/11 Commission Report.

Unfortunately, although the Intelligence Community was largely aware of the dangers, as John Gannon, another former CIA man would admit to CBS News, the threat was largely ignored.

In August of 2001, Professor Gary E.R. Schwartz, who had also appeared from time to time on Jack Sarfatti's email discussions of the mind, psyche, and consciousness -- as had Uri Geller, Dan Smith, myself, and the elusive Ron -- was testing Chris Robinson at the University of Arizona.

For many years, Robinson had claimed that images from his dreams, when properly interpreted, were able to predict events in the future.

Shortly after arriving in Arizona, Robinson, a citizen of the United Kingdom, reported to Schwartz that his dreams were filled with terrible visions of airplanes crashing into tall buildings.

Neither Schwartz nor Robinson were aware that similar visions had haunted one of the Defense Intelligence Agency's psychic spies in the mid-1980s.

The DIA wanted to know if terrorists were a near-future threat, and tasked their mental spies accordingly (although the psychics were "blind" to their targets and would usually only be provided sealed envelopes directing them to the items of concern).

One of the psychics lapsed into a panic attack: she had a relative at the Pentagon, another in New York City, and visions of an air attack taking place in both locations.

One of her visions concerned a building full of people collapsing after being struck from the air by "a large object."

She added, "something to do with an airplane."

Details concerning a ceremony to honor those who had lost their lives protecting the White House added additional emotional impact to the vision.

But this was 1986: Ronald Reagan was the President and the perceived threat was interpreted as coming from Libya in response to U.S. actions (which had been partially guided by input from America's psychic spies).

In 1995, CIA, empowered by congressional mandate, pulled the power cord out from under the DIA program, nicknamed STAR GATE. The warnings were forgotten until after 9/11, when CIA released roughly two-thirds of the psychic spy files under the Freedom of Information Act.

On September 11, 2001, three hijacked airplanes were turned into missiles and destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and severely damaged the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

A fourth plane, piloted by a terrorist with a name that military psychics had predicted would sound like "Jerry, Gerard, or Geraldo," crashed into a field, thanks to the efforts of passengers who attempted to retake the cockpit. The fallen heroes were later honored at the White House in a ceremony that reflected the 1986 vision of the DIA's psychic spy.

It was this man, Ziad Jarrah, who had set out that fateful morning believing he would crash into the U.S. Capitol Building.

"Ziad was like Luke Skywalker," Bert Rodriguez told Jon Ronson, when Ronson visited US 1 Fitness Center in Dania Beach, Florida, where Jarrah had trained in martial arts.

In the paranormal war on terror, it was Jarrah who was most closely identified "by the force."

In part two, Jon Ronson explores post 9/11 psychic warnings, including new visions of mushroom clouds over America, and I examine the psychic war as a counterintelligence operation.

For additional information including government documents please visit STARpod.org.