FORMER TOP ADMINISTRATOR REVEALS: CIA SECRETLY USES PSYCHICS & MEDIUMS

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Former Top Administrator Reveals:
CIA Secretly Uses Psychics &
Mediums
ment with the supernatural
began 15 years ago - after
the agency's best double
agent had been caught and
killed by the Russians.
"The CIA had a very suc-
cessful but short-lived agent
named Olag Penkovsky, a
Russian KGB colonel," re-
called Marchetti, who served
as executive assistant to the
deputy director of the CIA be-
fore retiring in 1969.
The Russian agent lasted
little more than a year before
he was arrested, tried and ex-
ecuted by the Soviets,
"After he was killed, some-
body said, 'Why don't we try
and contact him?' That's how
they got involved with medi-
ums," Marchetti revealed.
The success or failure of ef-
forts to contact Penkovsky is
still a closely guarded secret.
But it is believed that the ex-
periment expanded into a
full-scale program.
They began to contact our
own dead agents, as well as
dead agents from the other
side," said Marchetti.
Marchetti said that at one
point word flashed through
the agency that contact had
been made with the famous
Major Popov, a Russian agent
who disappeared in the 1950s.
As far back as the 1950s, the
6 CIA-RDP96 0.07.0. 0200080025-7,,,
By EDWARD TROPEANO
In a secret program
more incredible than the
wildest James Bond mov-
ie, the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) has been us-
ing mediums to try to con-
tact dead agents from both
sides of the Iron Curtain,
says a former top CIA ad-
ministrator.
And in other mind-boggling
experiments, he says, the
agency has also used psy-
chics to try to probe the minds
of Russian leaders.
Victor Marchetti, a 14-year
former CIA official, told The
ENQUIRER that the bizarre
story of the CIA's involve-
agency was using psychics to
try to find out what Kremlin
leaders were thinking and
planning, Marchetti said.
Once, the CIA "even looked
for sets of identical twins in
Russia - because they sup-
posedly had the power to read
each other's minds," claimed
Marchetti.
"To the best of my knowl-
edge, they did, in fact,
stumble across a set of twins
where one defected - al-
though I don't know what
happened."
The CIA refuses to com-
ment on the alleged pro-
grams, but Marchetti says:
"There is no indication that
they have stopped, and no
reason why they would."
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