MESSAGES REGARDING REMOTE VIEWING
FOR THE GLORY OF OUR SPECIES
by Ingo Swann
Message 2 (10Dec95)

In late October 1971, I and a colleague were in Washington. This was still a time when no one wanted a psychic anywhere near their official premises. So we met in bars and pizza parlors (the Pizza Parlor Conferences on Psychic Warfare). On this occasion there were six spooks*(see footnote 1). But one seemed very important because when he opened his mouth to talk, everyone else shut up immediately. Actually, he didn't say much, but when he did it was always with a pointed question.

"Mr. Swann," he said, "If you were going to set up a threat analysis program to match what the Soviets are up to, what would you do?"

After gathering my wits, I responded: "Well, there would be two major options, both of which should be pursued. If --they-- are really interested, they would be trying to locate and recruit psychics on a broad scale, to test and experiment with them." (It was known at this time that the KGB was undertaking such a recruitment, from as far away as Tibet and Mongolia where shamans and monks with powers were located and dragged to Russia by force.)

"But if you follow this option, you will be dealing with American citizens who can't be dragged and forced. You will have to convince them to work on your behalf, and most psychics I know don't like the intelligence community. But this should somehow be followed up.

"The second option is to institute a broad inquiry into the nature and processes involved, at least regarding psi perceptions which would be amenable to psychic spying, psychic penetration. To do this, you must assume one thing that's not been assumed before. You must assume that psi potentials are broadly a human species thing, and thus generally available everywhere.

"If this is so, then there must be psi constants involved, constants that can be harnessed if they can be identified. If these constants are revealed and understood, then you can assume that the Soviets are probably looking for them, too. Both options should be followed to see where they lead."

The 'conference' then removed to a quite nice bar in Laurel just outside of Washington proper. There the chief spook took me aside and asked if I ever received a security clearance. "Yes, in the Army -- S and TS."**(see footnote 2) "OK," he responded, "do you mind if we got it reactivated?"***(see footnote 3)

This was my --second-- message, quite spontaneous.

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FOOTNOTES

1. "Spook": Within the intelligence community, agents, especially agents whose primary purpose is to deal with other agents or potential agents are often called "spooks". These agents usually work in pairs, and are often referred to by people within the community as "suits", because of their usually immaculate dress code.
   
   
2. "S" and "TS": There are four and only four security classifications within the U.S.: "U", which stands for "Unclassified", "C", which stands for "CONFIDENTIAL", "S", which stands for "SECRET", and "T", which stands for "TOP SECRET". It is customary to write the full words for C, S, and T in all capital letters.
   
   To clear up a popular misconception, a person holding even a TOP SECRET clearance does not have access to everything. Within each classification there are "compartments" which specialize the information according to "need to know" requirements - which is the REAL criteria for a person's access to classified material. For example, a person who is working on a project dealing with one certain foreign country may hold a TOP SECRET clearance and thereby be given access to all information dealing with his/her certain project. But in spite of his/her clearance level, no access will be granted to even CONFIDENTIAL level material for other projects, unless his/her job has a specific and provable "need to know" for the information. Therefore, having even a TOP SECRET clearance doesn't grant a person access to all classified information, but only to that information required to perform his/her job.
   
   
3. Reactivated: A person can "hold a clearance", which means that he/she has passed a Background Investigation ("BI") to see whether he/she is a security risk or not, and has subsequently been granted a >>>clearance RATING<<< for access to a certain level (C,S,T) of information. The rating does not give that person actual access to anything. The clearance is "activated" when the person starts working on the project for which the clearance is granted, and is said to be "inactive" when the person is not working. In fact, for many projects, the person must be "read off" the project, even to go on a week's vacation or a doctor's visit where he/she may be anesthetized. The person is then "read back on" when he/she returns. It is called "reading off and on" because the person is required EACH TIME to read a full list of ALL the stringent requirements and directives governing access, and then must sign an affidavit stating full understanding of what they have read, and a willingness to accept full responsibility for understanding and following those requirements and directives. The lists usually go on and on in legalistic jargon for pages.
   
   Therefore, to ask if a person would mind having his clearance "reactivated" is "spook-speak" for offering him a job.

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