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category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
tags:
  - Person
  - RemoteViewer
summary: "American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments."
born: 1928-05-11
died: 1996
location: "Boston, Massachusetts"
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[[Christopher O. Bird]] was an American author and alleged [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operative. He is known for co-authoring the 1973 bestselling book, *[[The Secret Life of Plants]]*, which popularized the controversial experiments of [[Cleve Backster]] on plant sentience.[^1]

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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.