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2025-07-23	2025-07-23	Christopher O. Bird	person author CIA	Christopher O. Bird was an American author and alleged CIA operative, known for co-authoring "The Secret Life of Plants."

Christopher O. Bird was an American author and alleged Central Intelligence Agency 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. ↩︎