What happens when an award-winning, veteran reporter begins to investigate the U.S. military's psychic warfare operations?

Ask Jim Marrs.

As the author of the New York Times bestseller Crossfire, one of two books principally utilized by director Oliver Stone in writing the script for the film JFK, Marrs is an expert at uncovering connections among complex governmental games-players.

Now, three years after embarking on a new odyssey into the rarified realm of "remote viewing," Jim Marrs is going public with the contents of his new book, The Enigma Files: The True Story of America's Psychic Warfare Program. In it, he reveals astonishing details of how CIA and military psychic espionage operations have confirmed, beyond a shadow of doubt, the human mind's ability to transfer itself, anywhere in space and time, to read and communicate detailed information from even the most unimaginable locations.

According to Marrs, the "psi-spies" not only succeeded in gaining access to classified Soviet files through psychic means, but verified the existence of UFOs as intelligently piloted alien spacecraft. Nor did they stop there ...

Has Jim Marrs suddenly lost the skeptical approach and critical abilities that won him the Aviation/Aerospace Writers Association's National Writing Award, Freedom magazine's 1993 Human Rights Leadership Award, and the 1991 Newsmaker of the Year Award from the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists?

Or has he provided the public with enough information to start making use of "remote viewing" and verify its practicality through their own efforts?

You be the judge.

Jim Marrs is well known to many residents of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, having formerly reported for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he worked his way up from the police beat to investigative work on special assignments, including trips to Europe and the Middle East. It was that background that put him into a unique position to interview many of the central figures in the JFK assassination.

What was it, though, that led Marrs into investigating psychic espionage?

"I was attending one of Dr. Rima Laibow's TREAT conferences," he said, "and I met a certain individual who, in the talk he gave, spoke with unusual certainty and authority on the subject of UFOs."

Upon further inquiry, Marrs learned that this gentleman had been a government "psi-spy," part of an operation code-named GRILL FLAME. That project developed out of research into remote viewing initially conducted at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by Drs. Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ.

"As it happened, I found out that a number of ex psy-spies had formed a company called 'Psi-Tech,'" Marrs said. "I got in touch with them, and found that they were interested in seeing a book on this subject for the general public."

Marrs realizes that the stories told to him by his interviewees — which include accounts of remote viewing of the Cydonia region of the planet Mars — might sound to a reasonably skeptical individual like tabloid magazine fantasies.

Ironically, the October 10, 1995, edition of The National Examiner ran a small headline that read "CIA USES PSYCHICS TO STEAL FOREIGN SECRETS."

According to Russell Targ, Ph.D., that article was correct in quoting him as saying that the CIA had recently released to him documents which verify that his research at SRI was funded by the CIA. He also asserted that about 20 percent of the article was "pure fiction," particularly its mention of what Targ referred to as a "space howitzer" which presumably was designed to send U.S. missiles into a space-time warp.

As it happened, this tabloid news story, mixing fact and non-fact, appeared about two months after Jim Marrs received news from his publisher, Harmony Books (a subsidiary of Random House), that they were canceling publication of The Enigma Files.

According to Targ, the Examiner article was sparked by an interview in the London Evening Standard with journalist Jim Schnabel, who has also written a just-published expose of psychic espionage. Schnabel, curiously, is known to EV director Cheyenne Turner as a debunker of the crop circle phenomenon, as well as alien abductions.

Is Marrs' book, The Enigma Files, now itself subject to a disinformation campaign? Have the players in the game of psychic espionage decided to jump ship and expose as many of their secrets as possible? Or is Marrs the tool of advanced beings who wish to help humanity evolve beyond the limits of space and time?

You be the judge.

— Ed Conroy