<p><b>Was a controversial psychic the West’s secret weapon in the Cold War superpower mind games of the 1970s?<br></b><br>For forty years Uri Geller has been regarded as a show business character, perhaps even a charlatan. But compelling evidence coming to light from declassified documents and retired CIA agents and scientists suggests that he was very much ‘the real thing’, exhaustively tested and validated by some of the world’s leading scientific minds.<br><br>Geller’s proven powers led him to be given a succession of highly classified espionage roles, known only at the highest levels of the intelligence community. Investigating and activating Geller’s bizarre, <i>X-Files</i>-type phenomena was to seriously disturb many scientists who worked with him, turning their rational belief system upside down, forcing them to re-evaluate parapsychology.<br><br>In <i>The Secret Life of Uri Geller,</i> Jonathan Margolis recounts some of the strangest episodes in modern history – and reveals how today, Geller is still regarded by spying agencies as an asset in the war on terror. </p>