Psi Spies: The true story of America’s psychic warfare programme
Jim Marrs
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b
I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for some reason) about 9-11 and its aftermath was a sorry collection of conspiracy theories and sloppy thinking. But this isn’t bad, mostly reporting of official material and interviews.
It is Marrs’ misfortune to have had this book’s publication in 1995 ‘suppressed’, as he puts it without explanation. Had it appeared then it would have been very striking, the first item in the literature on the US military’s remote viewing experiments. Thirteen years on, we’ve seen most of this already, for example in the accounts by former US military remote viewers, of which I’ve read a couple, but also in Jim Schnabel’s 1997 Remote Viewers, which covers very similar ground to Marrs, and in a chapter in Armen Victorian’s Mind Controllers. Of the two book-length accounts I prefer Schnabel; but if that is no longer available, Marrs’ version of the material would do. For the basic information there is nothing much to chose between them.