The Psychic Foot Soldiers: The Crazy Rulers of the World FINAL PART [Jon Ronson]

Watch on Substack: https://theofficialurban.substack.com/p/crazy-rulers-3In the final installment of the series, Jon Ronson delves into the strange history of the U.S. Army's most secret unit: a team of "psychic foot soldiers" tasked with remote viewing during the Cold War. The film reveals how, after being officially disbanded, these paranormal operatives re-emerged in the private sector and were even recruited by agencies like the FBI to help fight the War on Terror.The story takes a dark turn as it traces the origins of these programs back to the CIA's infamous MKUltra mind-control experiments of the 1950s and the suspicious death of scientist Frank Olson, who fell from a hotel window nine days after being secretly dosed with LSD. Ronson interviews Olson's son, Eric, who has spent his life proving that his father's death was not a suicide but a murder to cover up a crisis of conscience over "terminal interrogations."This episode exposes the direct line from the shadowy figures behind MKUltra, like Sidney Gottlieb, to the funding and administration of the psychic spy program. It's a world where good intentions and paranormal curiosity intersect with a dangerous history of unaccountable power.The film culminates in the tragic story of the Heaven's Gate cult, whose 1997 mass suicide was directly inspired by a psychic prediction about an alien spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet—a prediction made by a civilian remote viewing school started by a former military psychic's student. It serves as a chilling case study of what happens when these "crazy ideas" leak from their top-secret military containment and spiral out of control in the public domain.