Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

132PSI SpiesOne of the biggest reasons I think Lt. Atwaterwanted me in there on this program was that wewanted someone he could command. Being a younglieutenant, he was on the bottom of the totem pole comparedto all those GSs and everybody else outrankedhim. I was someone he could boss around and feel important.But we worked together all right.Out of the original six Psi Spies, three were part-timers. “Itboiled down to three of us, outside Col. Watt and Capt.Atwater,” said Riley. “We wore various hats, one day as viewers,one day as monitors, and so forth, but the core group wasmyself, Ken Bell, and Warrant Officer Joseph McMoneagle.” 6McMoneagle, a soft-spoken intellectual who entered theArmy after graduating from an all-male Catholic school inMiami, had experienced several spontaneous out-of-bodyepisodes following a near-death experience outside anAustrian restaurant in 1970. “They interviewed some3,000 people and winnowed it down to a final six,” recalledMcMoneagle. “We were sent out and tested at SRI International.As a result, I became Remote Viewer 001.” 7Following his retirement from the Army in 1984,McMoneagle wrote a book about his remote viewing experiencesentitled Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, andSpace Through Remote Viewing.Riley recalled that the first Psi Spies used an old leathercouch that once belonged to a general. “We just sort of requisitionedthis because we couldn’t get one through channels.There’d be too many questions,” he said. He added that earlyon, the GRILL FLAME unit was linked with the SRI researchers