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Psychics & Remote Viewers |
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Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magician James Randi raised questions about potential collusion. |
Shimshon "Shipi" Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the Israel psychic Uri Geller. Their association began when Shtrang was a thirteen-year-old boy at a government-run summer camp, where Geller, recovering from Six-Day War injuries, performed Telepathy demonstrations1.
Shtrang was mesmerized by Geller's abilities and asked if he had any other tricks. Geller insisted they were real and showed Shipi how he could bend a metal spoon by concentrating and saying, "Bend, bend, bend." This early exposure led to Geller's first paid appearance at Shipi's middle school, marking the beginning of Geller's public career1.
As Geller's career progressed, Shtrang became his assistant, often participating in his demonstrations. During Geller's testing at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by the Central Intelligence Agency, Shtrang was part of Geller's entourage. However, when the magician James Randi speculated that Shtrang helped Geller cheat, the Central Intelligence Agency denied Shtrang access to Geller during the experiments to ensure stricter controls1.
Shtrang continues to live on the compound of Geller's home in Sonning-on-Thames, England, and later in Jaffa, Israel, along with Geller's wife, Hanna (who is Shipi's sister). He has been Geller's friend and assistant for forty-eight years1.
Footnotes
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎