CIA Psychic Program Insider: Angela Ford on Remote Viewing, ESP & the Afterlife

Overview

Angela Ford (a self-described former U.S. government “remote viewer”) appears on Steve Stanulus’s podcast Bulletproof. She discusses her background, claims about psychic abilities, alleged intelligence work, her views on the afterlife, and personal experiences—including UFO sightings. The episode also includes a brief, forward-looking “prediction” for Steve, framed as an intuitive/psychic reading.

Origins of Ford’s abilities

• Early experiences (around age five or six): Ford says she discovered her abilities very early, describing childhood out-of-body experiences—feeling she could “come out of [her] body,” move through spaces, and sometimes even look down at her physical body.
• Dreams that felt predictive: She claims her childhood dreams sometimes seemed to come true, including dreams involving world affairs.
• Family support: Ford says her mother didn’t discourage her paranormal interests, reportedly reading Edgar Cayce materials and following paranormal/reincarnation beliefs.
• Belief that ability is genetic: She argues her psychic ability is genetic, citing family members (a twin sister, an aunt, cousins) and a grandfather who supposedly earned money doing tarot readings and a bird-reading.
• Intelligence-community-style reinforcement (as she recounts it): Ford also says she was told by a genetics-oriented intelligence figure that psychic talent runs in families.

Psychic ability as universal—and trainable

• Everyone has some ability: Ford claims everyone has some form of ability, though people may suppress it due to fear or lack of acceptance.
• Brain specialization (her model): She suggests the brain may specialize in different talents. She links her psychic tendencies to a “bottom right side” of the brain, while describing scientists/musicians as more tied to a different region (e.g., left frontal lobe). (This is presented as her belief/model.)
• Learnable through practice: She maintains that remote viewing and related skills can be learned through practice, meditation, and exercises.

Out-of-body and the afterlife (heaven/“levels”)

• Religious and spirit-writing blend: Ford describes her afterlife understanding as rooted in Catholic ideas, later expanded through “spirit writing.”
• Automatic writing after her father died: After her father died, she says she began automatic writing (spirit writing) and received information that:
  • the dead reunite with family and friends
  • there is a life review
  • people are part of a “karma group”
  • there are different “levels” of existence, sometimes framed as “heaven and hell”
• No permanent annihilation: She claims even for morally extreme individuals (she mentions Hitler), the outcome is not permanent destruction but a place of lower vibration (“hell” in a Catholic-like framing).
• Reincarnation: She says she believes in reincarnation, portraying it as returning with the same karma group but in different roles (e.g., “brother instead of father”).

Transition into intelligence work (CIA/DOD-era remote viewing)

• Cold War framing: Ford asserts that U.S. intelligence investigated psychic phenomena during Cold War-era programs. She frames this as:
  • a successor to earlier experiments (she references MK Ultra, claiming the CIA used LSD trials)
  • a more constrained approach under Pentagon oversight
• Why remote viewing (as she describes it): She says remote viewing was preferred because it was supposedly governed by rules meant to reduce “mind control” or interference:
  • the viewer would only remote view
  • they would not hypnotize or “touch minds”
  • the work would operate under legal/human-rights oversight
• Soviet comparison: She also claims the U.S. believed the Soviet Union had a stronger “parapsychology” program and sought comparable capabilities.

What remote viewing is (as she claims it was done)

• Basic method: Ford defines remote viewing as placing an image/picture into an envelope and having the viewer describe it without knowing the contents.
• “Blind” protocol (as described):
  • the remote viewer shouldn’t be cued by anyone who knows the target
  • a third party handles tasking
  • the viewer records impressions via writing and drawings after a meditation-like process
• “Clean” vs. less controlled approaches: She distinguishes “clean” remote viewing from methods she portrays as less controlled—such as open questioning with a monitor present.

Disputes over methodology inside the program

• Initial training + standardized method: Ford claims she joined a government program trained around her existing automatic-writing strengths, but was later told she had a “bad habit” and needed a more standardized method.
• Coordinate remote viewing: She says SRI and an associated researcher (Ingo Swann is named) helped develop a coordinate remote viewing approach using technical/scientific language.
• Internal conflict: Ford portrays disagreement within leadership:
  • some favored the coordinate/technical method because it sounded more acceptable to policymakers
  • she implies she didn’t fully adopt it as her primary method
  • later, when management changed, she says she was allowed to use automatic writing again

Claimed casework: hostages and targets

Ford shares multiple “case stories” in which she says her psychic input was used:

• Terry Anderson: She says she was involved in tasking where the target was Anderson held in Lebanon. She claims she described enough for her team to believe she had contact with the target.
• Hostage Po Hill: Ford describes impressions she associates with Hill, including feeling his “throat hurts.” She says this later aligned with information about throat cancer after Hill was released.
• From impressions to action (as she recounts it):
  • She claims Defense Intelligence Agency analysts had limited conventional collection in Lebanon (citing lack of workable signals intelligence and imagery due to terrain).
  • She says her boss brought remote viewing to headquarters, and analysts asked what else she could provide.
• Lieutenant Colonel Higgins (Marine): Ford reports a vivid claim:
  • she points to a location based on a “target picture”
  • she says personnel dismissed it (“just trees” / “doesn’t make sense”)
  • later, she claims a hostage release/debrief confirmed a structure at that location, believed to be where Higgins was held

“Dark entities,” ethics, and boundaries

• Not tied to the government work (as she claims): Ford says the most intense “dark side” issues weren’t associated with the government remote-viewing targets themselves (she says those targets were on Earth).
• Lifelong awareness (as described):
  • she says she can feel “dark energies” in people
  • she portrays Earth as dual—positive and negative—connected to cosmic spiritual conflict (referencing angels and “bad angels” in a broad mythic sense)
• Fear reduction: She emphasizes dissipation—claiming these energies/entities can fade over time and that familiarity reduces fear.

Personal experiences outside intelligence (UFOs)

Ford says she had two UFO encounters:

1. Around age 12–13: She describes a UFO “swooshed over” during daylight near dusk, prompting her to shout so adults would notice.
2. 2010: She describes a larger, white-appearing object that lasted longer and “stayed with her,” leaving a lasting impression. - She says she didn’t treat the events as a deep psychic “download,” but reports a lingering sense that such objects “have been here before.” - She also states she believes UFO/alien phenomena are worth exploring, and expresses the view that intelligent life could live among humans—something she says she doesn’t find shocking.

Psychic “prediction” segment (for Steve)

Ford is asked to pick up something that could happen after a stated date (Steve says Nov. 26, 2025). She offers a personal reading that includes:

• Endings: she calls it a year of ending a “9-year cycle,” including “weeding” away what Steve doesn’t want
• Possible new family addition: she suggests timing around August, implying a birth or another kind of “addition,” based on her wording
• Work/life changes: she notes Steve is no longer a cop and now does private investigations, describing him as pulled in multiple directions
• Creative output: she references writing/entertainment themes
• Astrology ties: she links Steve’s traits to an astrology framework (Scorpio/Sagittarius boundary) and reiterates associations between certain signs and investigative/psychic tendencies

Presenters / contributors

• Steve Stanulus (host)
• Angela Ford (guest; former remote viewer/psychic per her claims)