Nixon's Parsh (Was: Whatever happened to... Pirate Prentice?)

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

This story has always amazed me. It's almost too eerie
for prime time parody. Does anyone know if this top secret
psychic/esp program has ever been "fictionalized" for
the tube? Now that the C.I.A., et. al., are being recon-
structed and resurrected by several of the major players 
in the Military-Industrial-Academic-Media Infra-structure,
as "serious" good guys, the intelligence community is
being portrayed with enough gravity to be able to deal
with such lighter-than-air themes in ways other than
farcical.

Speaking of which, it's telling (to use a familiar pynchonoid
expression) to compare the tubal portrayal of spy-dom
during the hippie era- e.g., "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" and 
"Get Smart" (action/comedy/spoof) with what is currently- 
in these very patriotic times- being served up for delectation
on the couch. U.N.C.L.E started off as Bond-lite for tv- originally
more action than comedy- whilst with GS, probably the better 
of the two, things had come to be almost pure spoof of the entire 
spy genre, tv or film- obviously an evolution of the form.

Ironically, GS would probably have handled an "ESP Wing" in
a more entertaining way by not taking itself too seriously.
In fact, they may have done that script and I'm just not
recalling it. Little did we know, that all the while we were
laughing at agent 99 and Max, the C.I.A. was being very
serious, and looking out for our very own psychic security.

All of which makes me wonder at how good the view from
the top of the 100' Nixon Monument is- looking out
from the College of the Surf into the future- our current
present. He can see the car, no doubt, but can he tell
what model it is?

respectfully
 


In a message dated 1/5/04 11:05:05 AM, pynchonoid at yahoo.com writes:

<< Published on: 2003-12-28

Psychic spies knew of raid

By Henry Cuningham
Military editor

As Delta Force was trying to rescue U.S. hostages in
Iran in 1980, a psychic spy monitoring the operation
from the United States reported an explosion.

The National Security Council received the report 48
seconds before getting an electronic call about the
fatal explosion at the site known as Desert One, said
Joseph W. McMoneagle. He started working as a psychic
spy in the 1970s.

McMoneagle and Lyn Buchanan, who also worked on the
once-secret project, describe the incident in books as
"remote viewers." The controversial $20 million
CIA-military program was known as the Stargate
Project. It ended in 1995.... >>