Andrija Puharich, the CIA "mystic"

             Inventor of an Implantable "miniature tooth radio"

One of the savants who did the most to fill the heads of naive seekers with
addled metascientific proselytizing was Andrija Puharich, the CIA "mystic"
who discovered Uri Geller, the Cyprus-born Israeli "psychic." Puharich was
born in 1918. He received a medical degree from Northwestern University in
1947. Upon graduation, he developed a slavish interest in clairvoyance and
dabbled in theories for electronically enhancing and synthesizing psychic
abilities. He joined the Army and took part in "parapsychology" experiments.
The Washington Post repo Puharich also worked in the Army's Chemical and
Biological Warfare Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and has "lectured the
Army, Air Force and Navy on possibilities for mind warfare. Expert in
hypnotism as well as microelectronics."

Puharich is the inventor of an implantable, "miniature tooth radio," sold to
the CIA."88 He admits to involvement in "LSD work for the CIA in 1954."
(Biological warfare researcher Frank Olsen, injected with a massive dose of
MDA, a potent hallucinogen, plummeted 12 stories and was killed in an
operation run by agents from Ft. Detrick at New York's Statler Hotel in
November 1953.) Immediately upon his ostensible release from the service,
Puharich established a laboratory to study clairvoyance. He was also the
founder of the I firm (recalling the J.B. Rhine/Medtronics combination).

In his books, Puharich echoed the schizoid Blavatsky efflux of his fellow
mind control operators. Uri Geller ("tested" and approved by Targ and
Puthoff at SRI) had profound mental abilities "beamed to him," Puharich
claimed, from a distant galaxy. The source of the radio signal that allowed
Geller to bend silverware was an extraterrestrial race known as the
Hoovians, under the command of a powerful alien council he called "The
Nine." Most impressive was Geller's ability to teleport himself across great
distances in the wink of an eye and dematerialize small objects. Puharich
complained that the E.T.s buzzed him in flying saucers and left obnoxious
mess New York complex, Puharich put together a cult of "Gellerings" called
the "Space Kids," twenty adolescents from seven countries supposedly graced
with the same abilities as Uri Geller. They claimed to be of "alien" origin.
A 14-year-old participant reports his suspicions were aroused when he was
asked to take part in a remote viewing exercise - to spy on the Kremlin,
among other sensitive political targets.

From Virtual Government, by Alex Constantine