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Podcast: PRETEND
Episode: The Psychic Spy (featuring Uri Geller)
Description: In 2017, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released more than 12 million pages of declassified documents online. Some of these documents pertained to the self-proclaimed psychic spy Uri Geller. The documents revealed a CIA funded study at the Stanford Research Institute revolving around psychokinesis. Psychokinesis is the ability for someone to move objects with the power of their minds. Why in the world would the CIA, arguably the world’s most elite spy agency, want to study psychics?I interviewed Uri Geller about his time at the Stanford Research Institute. We spo...