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Spooks hiding behind plants. That checks out! Great analysis.

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Joe Davies's avatar

Always good articles.

I've seen Backster being credited with introducing Ingo Swann to Hal Puthoff. Like most people, I thought they'd met directly through scientology. Swann was involved with the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship who were also linked to parapsychology in the later 1960s (SFF explored ESP and religion). I wonder if Cleve Backster attended, or was involved, with SFF? Spit balling here. The Fellowship, at the time, represented apparently common ground for all three. To be clear, I only know because I stumbled onto them a few months ago. I made some notes and haven't spent time exploring.

Digression: Backster, Puthoff, Buchanan, Alexander, Swann were all at the IRVA "PK Party" conference in 2002 so the whole gang was there apart from Pat Price. The images are online and I found them during some crossover research into CB Scott Jones and Puthoff. Some of those many foundations involved links to Russia and China during the Cold War and I wondered if they were front channels for spy games.

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