25 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings

"The CIA has experimented with mind-control, telepathy and other parapsy-chological techniques. The agency even went so far as to hire John Mulholland, the New York magician, to help teach what Admiral Turner has called "aspects of magicians' art useful in covert operations."

--James Dale Davidson, "The CIA and the Occult"

"Governor Jerry Brown of California no longer wants us to lower our expectations but to raise them; into geosynchronous orbit, in fact. The Zen Statesman... now believes orbiting space colonies and...solar power satellites are Small enough to be Beautiful."

--Bill Birmingham...