A few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the British government under Tony Blair hatched a secret plan. If successful, it would completely transform the fight against Al-Qaeda.
While public attention focused on Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) embarked on a bizarre series of experiments to find out if psychic powers really exist. Could it use clairvoyance to track down Osama Bin Laden?
The story may sound like a crazy conspiracy theory, or a ‘Stranger Things’ spin-off. But declassified documents show just how seriously this idea was taken by the government – and how much they wanted to believe the bullshit that ‘psychics’ told them.
