Spooky Spy Agency Tricks and Treats

BY GARY S BEKKUM
October 27, 2007

For years, America's spy agencies have been fascinated with spooky tales of psychic espionage.

Thanks to the Internet, the story is being told to the public, at least in part, since thousands of pages remain classified.

And, like previous rumors of psychic espionage programs operated by CIA, NSA, DIA, USAF, and the Navy, at a time when those programs were classified SECRET, word is getting out of a next generation effort.

The next generation of psychic spies, said to be working at the deepest level of the NSA, are alleged to be reporting interference from "an unknown extraterrestrial source." Apparently someone, or some thing, is playing tricks and treats with America's psychic spies.

The interesting detail that no one is talking about, is that the interference involves U.S. psychics accessing foreign intelligence targets.

In other words, the human spooks are being spooked to prevent them from gaining access to information about the activities of foreign nationals and their governments.

By now you are probably convinced you have entered the twilight zone and in a moment you will awaken and realize this has been a joke. Sorry, America's STAR GATE psychic spy effort may have been a joke around Washington water coolers back in the good old days of the early 1990s when the program was still classified, but nevertheless it was real and being funded to the tune of several million dollars. Even more importantly, the operational units that performed psychic spying had customers: government agencies and clients that tasked the psychics to obtain information too difficult to collect using ordinary means.

The argument that finally killed STAR GATE had less to do with the reality of the phenomena, given some peculiar statistical evidence, than the utility and unpredictability of the information provided by the psychics. After more than twenty years of government-funded effort, the vagueness of the psychic data was not deemed to be actionable intelligence.

The focus of STAR GATE, just prior to the program's demise, was to find ways of enhancing the effect. The fundamental problem was how to explain the mechanism by which the mind was able to access information at distant times and places.

Two serious problems hampered this effort: the first involved the mind itself. No one has been able to scientifically explain the functioning of consciousness, despite several recent attempts to invoke exotic physics and brain structure.

The second problem was even deeper, and remains a hotly debated topic at the edge of theoretical physics. This problem involves the intersection of Quantum Mechanics, the bizarre and spooky world of atoms, where one thing can be in two places at the same time; and Einstein's theory of the bending of space and time, General Relativity. The field of study seeking to combine these two fundamental pillars of 20th Century science is know as Quantum Gravity. The mathematical world that seeks to attack the problem from all sides comes in the form of superstring theory, loop quantum gravity, and other less known approaches.

Even without the mixture of relativity with the quantum, there are still plenty of spooky goings on at the level of the atom. Recently, Charles Tahan of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University coined the term "Spookytechnology" as the next buzz word to enter popular culture, following the oft-used nanotechnology.

"Spookytechnology" refers to real-world applications, under development right now, that utilize the weird aspects of quantum mechanics for next-generation 21st Century technologies. These include quantum computers, machines that in the words of Oxford's Dr. David Deutsch, compute using matter in other universes, to circuits built on quantum teleportation, with sights set on a next generation Internet using quantum encryption schemes that cannot be broken by ordinary physics.

We imagine going even beyond "Spookytechnology" to the next level of 22nd or 23rd Century "Star Trek" like devices, based on speculative but potentially real modifications of our understanding of the physics behind the quantum.

Dr. Anthony Valentini has proposed using an explanation of the quantum known as pilot-wave theory. The pilot-wave appears as the guiding ghost-in-the-machine of Quantum Mechanics. Valentini has shown that the statistics of ordinary quantum mechanics might be violated by special non-quantum matter, which would have very strange properties indeed. The non-quantum matter could be used (presumably by someone like the NSA) to eavesdrop on theoretically unbreakable quantum secured communications. It could even be used to exchange signals faster than the speed of light, the universal limit that defines cause and effect in our universe.

Dr. Jack Sarfatti, best described as an independent rogue physicist wielding a Ph.D in the war against mediocrity and lack of imagination in science, has gone even further than Valentini, by proposing that consciousness operates like Valentini's non-quantum matter, allowing for signals to be exchanged between different minds, "beyond space and time." He envisions our material brain acting back upon the ghostly quantum pilot wave in a strange, two-way dance from which our conscious mind emerges. Sarfatti suggests that this dance of the mind, body and spirit allows for the mind-to-mind communication reported by the psychic spy community.

Violation of the probability rules of Quantum Mechanics would succeed in taking a very spooky theory to a place that is far more spooky than most of the humans on this planet can imagine.

Thus we come back to the world of tricks and treats allegedly being played by "extraterrestrial sources."

If there is any truth to the rumor -- which incidentally was supplied by Gus Russo, a well-known investigative writer who has worked with ABC and PBS, from a source knowledgeable about the NSA -- then we can only conclude that our spooks, the new kids on the cosmic block, have attracted some pretty spooky attention from somewhere else, out there.

And apparently, they're not happy about what we're up to.

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

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Copyright (c) 2007 Gary S. Bekkum.

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