There are undoubtedly some unusual things in the world we live in. Plenty of unexplainable events occur, and most people generally chalk them up to just being weird phenomena. But many of these events are purposefully orchestrated by governments and organizations with varying motives. The people involved are often literally researching, poking, and prodding the boundaries of our world, including the untapped abilities of the human brain. So it was with, Christopher “Kit” Green, a man who led an extraordinary life as an expert in paranormal research.

As a young man, Green earned a Ph.D. in neurophysiology and became a medical doctor before joining the CIA in 1969. At the CIA, Kit Green held several different positions and accomplished varied assignments, including creating top-secret evaluations of the mental stability of foreign leaders and working on biological and chemical threat analyses. Green also specialized in forensic medicine and conducted analyses on the bodies of CIA agents who had died under suspicious circumstances. Green once said of his time at the CIA, “Some say I ran the weird desk.”

In 1972, Green was assigned to the psychic research program at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) where he oversaw the administration of medical tests on people with alleged extraordinary abilities. Green used CT scans to analyze the brains of individuals with extraordinary abilities and compared them to scans from the brains of average individuals.

Interestingly, the famous psychic and spoon-bending sensation Uri Gellar agreed to take part in a research program conducted at SRI in 1972, and Kit Green was personally assigned to work with him. Green was involved with Ingo Swann's remote viewing experiments. He also worked on adapting the technology of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain scanners into high-tech lie detectors. Green used fMRI to test the existence or non-existence of a telepathic connection between human test subjects at a distance. Green was allegedly involved in projects developing the technology to read people's minds and reverse-engineer alien technology. He was awarded the CIA’s highest honor - the National Intelligence Medal - for his work on a classified project from 1979 to 1983.

Individuals like Kit Green are a rare breed. Although the average person has no idea what strange things the governments and corporations of the world are doing behind closed doors, the information that has come forth over the years sheds some light on some of the strange experiments being performed. What we know of Green and his time as a researcher with the CIA confirms that he indeed “ran the weird desk.” But are there other “weird desks” out there? That’s hard to say. . . unless you’re one of our readers. Then, the answer is simple.