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aliases	category	tags	summary	location	relations	created	updated
Ron Robertson Ronald Robertson Mr. Robertson	Intelligence & Government	Person AEC Security LawrenceLivermore UriGeller Psychokinesis	Atomic Energy Commission security officer at Livermore who, as quoted in 1976, wondered whether a psychic could trigger a nuclear weapon, and who in Jacobsen's account called the CIA's Kit Green after Geller's tests.	Livermore, California	type with start role fn employed_by Atomic Energy Commission 1974 security officer assigned to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (title and dates as given by Geller, 1986, and Jacobsen, 2017) 1	2026-05-22	2026-10-05

Ron Robertson is named as a security officer of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in two published accounts of the laboratory's 1974 to 1975 sessions with Uri Geller: the Time correspondent John L. Wilhelm's The Search for Superman (1976), as characterized by Geller, and Annie Jacobsen's Phenomena (2017).¹²

The 1976 quotation

In The Geller Effect (1986), Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair wrote: "While I was being tested at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the security men there, Ron Robertson of the Atomic Energy Commission, wondered if somebody like me could trigger a nuclear explosion or, worse still, a malfunction. 'All it takes is the ability to move one-eighth of an ounce a quarter of an inch at a distance of one foot,' John Wilhelm quoted him as saying." The passage adds that Wilhelm mentioned reports of unexplained bomb explosions aboard American ships in the Vietnam area and noted that Geller had moved a one-twentieth-of-an-ounce weight on a pan balance at the Stanford Research Institute. Geller then wrote that "some time later" he was taken to a high-security installation in another country where someone with no connection to the Livermore scientists asked him to do what Robertson had in mind, with real, unarmed warheads hidden behind a screen.²

The October 1974 telephone call

A CIA staff report filed with a Reuters item of November 4, 1974 records that its writer received a telephone call "on 23 October" from a "Security Officer" of the AEC at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, who said the laboratory had "just spent two days in the laboratory testing Geller" with forty AEC scientists having spent a month designing the experiments. The document does not name the caller and says the information came "anecdotally" from a security officer who was not an experimenter.³

Jacobsen's account, 1975

Jacobsen places the tests in the winter of 1975 in a laboratory adjacent to Livermore, in an old wooden World War II barracks, with high-quality lasers fired at a target and magnetic computer program cards placed in a lead container, and writes that the Atomic Energy Commission assigned Robertson "to oversee national security issues between itself, Livermore, and CIA"; she quotes Green that the tests were moved off-site because of "ongoing security issues," Geller being a foreign national whose possible role with the Mossad was unresolved. After the second day, she writes, Robertson telephoned Kit Green at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters to report that several nuclear weapons engineers had seen "items flying across the room. Lights flashing. A six-inch ball of light, rolling down the hallway," and that one scientist reported a flying orb; Green privately thought the reports sounded like "poltergeist events" and began to investigate whether the scientists were hallucinating.¹

Jim Schnabel's Remote Viewers (1997) tells the sequence differently: the Livermore group, led by a physicist he calls Peter Crane, began unofficial after-hours tests in late 1974, and it was Crane who telephoned the CIA analyst Schnabel calls "Richard Kennett," whom the Grey Lodge Occult Review identified as Kit Green.⁴

Footnotes

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1. Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (Little, Brown, 2017), pp. 178-180. ↩︎

2. Uri Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair, The Geller Effect (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), chapter on scientific research, citing John Wilhelm, The Search for Superman (New York: Pocket Books, 1976). PDF at http://www.mbdodd.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/the_geller_effect_-_uri_geller_and_guy_lyon_playfair.pdf. ↩︎

3. CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010023-0, archive.org item cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0, https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0/cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0_djvu.txt. ↩︎

4. Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers (Dell, 1997), as excerpted in Rudy Havenstein, "Dr. Green and the Goblins of Langley," July 11, 2025, https://rudy.substack.com/p/dr-green-and-the-goblins-of-langley, quoting Grey Lodge Occult Review 1, no. 5: "The names Richard Kennett, Peter Crane, Mike Russo and Don Kurtis which appear below are pseudonyms employed by Mr. Schnabel." ↩︎