Category: Psychic Warfare

• The Green Beret Assassination Squads

  This fringe theory claimed that the U.S. military, often specifically the Green Berets or other elite special-operations forces, experimented with psychic or parapsychological methods to kill or mentally incapacitate North Vietnamese leaders at a distance. In its strongest form, the story said specially trained military “psychic assassins” could use concentration, remote influence, or mind-directed force to kill without conventional weapons. The historical basis beneath the theory is fragmented rather than direct. The Green Berets were real and already surrounded by an aura of unconventional warfare in Vietnam, and the U.S. government later did sponsor remote-viewing and parapsychology programs beginning in the 1970s. What is not supported by the documentary record is a Vietnam-era program of Green Beret psychic kill squads operating against North Vietnamese leadership.