Thursday, August 23, 2007

If only Fox Mulder worked for the CIA and not the FBI...

Yesterday, a two-year old secret document was declassified and released to the public which criticized former CIA director George Tenet and the top leadership in the spy agency of a mess of bureucratic red tape and budgeting snafus that failed to prepare the United States for the threat of al-Qaeda prior to the events of September 11th. Well, apparently the CIA did have knowledge of the terrorist plot straight from their own experiments in remote viewing and psychics, as you can see from this post in Wired.

But those pre-cogs hidden away in some secret spy room at Langley aren't the only ones that foresaw an attack on the World Trade Center. If you recall the pilot episode for The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off from The X-Files, the writers of that show didn't think flying a plane into the the Twin Towers was that farfetched either:



Obviously, mere coincidence, but kind of spooky if you let your mind wander and allow your paranoid side a chance to take over.

2 comments:

Dutch said...

When did that show air? I'm betting that the attack was planned before that show was made. That's pretty freaky.

And I'm surprised that Remote Viewing is being talked about. The CIA and military scrapped the program in the late 80's, even though it produced some amazing results. Some of the old instructors went into the private sector and apparently teach how to do it.

Wander said...

Did you know that in the film "Enemy Of The State" (1998) the bill the Senator is killing other Senators to get passed is almost identical to the Patriot Act when it is discussed in the film? The evil Senator played by Jon Voight is shown in one scene on a computer display to have the birthday 9/11/1940. And his character discusses the possibility of a major terrorist attack on New York.
Coincidence? I don't know, the attacks on the towers looked like it could have been from a Jerry Bruckhiemer film.