{"product_id":"the-secret-life-of-uri-geller-cia-masterspy-9781780287614","title":"The Secret Life of Uri Geller: CIA Masterspy?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Margolis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Watkins Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Watkins Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Biography Shows Celebrity Spoon Bender, Uri Geller, Secretly Worked for U.S. Intelligence Agencies \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis authorized biography of Uri Geller tells his life story and explores recent claims about his clandestine work with the CIA and the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, during and after the Cold War. Geller is best-known for his Vegas-style act where he bends spoons, describes hidden drawings, and performs other paranormal feats. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTechnology journalist and former \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine correspondent, Jonathan Margolis, worked alongside Geller and Oscar-winning filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the book, to be published October 15th \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJayanti debuted a documentary at the Sheffield (UK) Film Festival commissioned by the BBC and entitled, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Uri Geller: Psychic Spy?\u003c\/i\u003e Jayanti directed the Muhammad Ali documentary, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Kings.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Now there is the internet and the NSA's ability to monitor massive amounts of chatter around the world,\" says Margolis. \"40 years ago, however, intelligence agencies needed to explore way-out ways of monitoring the bad guys. The people I interviewed on-the-record for the book were adamant that Uri Geller wasn't only able to gather secret information remotely and perform other espionage tasks, but was extremely good at it.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout his career, Uri Geller has courted controversy. He is known globally as an entertainer and friend of pop star, Michael Jackson, who was best man at the renewal of Geller's wedding vows. He also made millions as a psychic adviser to the oil industry, but as a paranormalist was humiliated in a 1974 appearance on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd yet there are photographs from 1987 of Geller together with Al Gore, Yuli M. Vorontsov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, and several other high ranking US officials at nuclear arms limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. What was Geller doing in these pictures? Margolis brings proof that Geller was there at the invitation of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee to influence Vorontsov's to sign the treaty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is also new testimony from a living senior former CIA official and others who worked for the Agency confirming that Geller was exhaustively laboratory tested on behalf of the CIA, and was used as an intelligence asset of the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency - and that under President Carter's presidency, using psychics in intelligence matters was known about and accepted at the White House. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Mann, publisher at large for Watkins, said: \"Uri is world-famous for mind reading and spoon bending but his work with the CIA and Mossad during the 60s and 70s as well as, it seems, in post 9\/11 times, has until now remained secret. \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Uri Geller\u003c\/i\u003e tells the real story of his extraordinary life and his alleged continuing undercover work for the West's major spy agencies.\"","brand":"Watkins Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45047924097175,"sku":"9781780287614","price":814.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781780287614.webp?v=1769221561","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-life-of-uri-geller-cia-masterspy-9781780287614","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}