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Robert Van de Castle	Person Psychologist

Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to Stanford Research Institute to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA. Their conclusion, later reported in Time magazine, was that anyone who believed in Geller's powers was falling for the "ridiculous"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. ↩︎