The Truth About CIA Paranormal Research into UFOs and Psychic Abilities

A Suppliment to an Interview with Ex-CIA Analyst Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green

This month, Dr Christopher C. Green, a former analyst at the CIA's Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence, provided LoveToKnow a rare and exclusive interview. In this interview, Dr. Green publicly expresses some of his frustration regarding the fact that although he did serve as the "Keeper of the Weird" for the CIA from 1970 up through 1985, but insists those activities barely accounted for 10% of his overall role at the Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence.

Dr. Green responds in the interview, "Overall, I never spent more than 10% of my time on the subjects across any given period of weeks or a month. However, it has resulted in 90% of what is thought to be known about me!"

Dr. Green's CIA Career

Dr. Green's professional career is impressive by anyone's standards. According to his signed Curriculum Vita, he was a graduate of Northwestern University in 1962, followed by his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1969.

In 1969, he went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. By the end of his career with the agency in 1985, he was reporting directly to the Director of the Agency as a Senior Division Analyst with the newly formed Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence.

CIA UFO and Paranormal Research

Concerning the CIA's paranormal work, Dr. Green's Curriculum Vitae does not reflect significant efforts devoted to "the Weird Desk." However, Dr. Green was awarded the President's National Intelligence Medal, in 1985, for his work on a classified project from 1979-1983. This means that the most substantial influence Dr. Green had in the Intelligence community took place after 1979 within the Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence. The project was completely unrelated to the CIA's previous foray into parapsychology.

The project is now declassified, and Dr. Green describes his award for this project vaguely: