Spycraft and Synesthesia

Synesthete Spy by Carrie C. Firman

It’s the stuff of thrilling novels and films.

In clandestine facilities, selected personnel “remote viewed” distant targets and helped the United States Army and defense intelligence agencies with national security. They reportedly spotted downed airplanes in distant countries, checked on our hostages abroad, and provided other actionable data.

So far the best remote viewers have been synesthetes.

Nuclear physicist Dr. Edwin C. May was a scientist on the Central Intelligence Agency’s psychic spy program, “Star Gate,” from 1975 onward, and then program director from 1985 to 1995. He has served this nation for decades as one of the top researchers in psi phenomena. He says the top three remote viewers in the country — including legendary Legion of Merit honoree and United States Army veteran Joseph McMoneagle — all are synesthetes.

Now, at his own private Laboratories for Fundamental Research, https://www.lfr.org, they are further exploring this issue.

Remote viewing, according to http://www.irva.org/ is a “mental faculty that allows a perceiver (a ‘viewer’) to describe or give details about a target that is inaccessible to normal senses due to distance, time, or shielding.”

For example, they explain, a viewer might be asked to describe a location on the other side of the…