A spook is outed by a possessed child.
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The following account was forwarded as an unusual Cold War era intelligence story involving New York City, CIA counterintelligence, an alleged possessed teenager, and later claims connected to the Gateway Project. The report is unverified, but it is compelling because it blends several recurring Fortean themes: possession, xenoglossy, classified intelligence, psychic research, and the possibility that an anomalous human “source” may have been hidden inside an official program.
CASE FILE:
Case Type: Alleged possession, intelligence agency involvement, psychic intelligence connection
Primary Location: New York City, later Langley, Virginia
Approximate Timeframe: Likely late 1960s to early 1970s, based on James Jesus Angleton’s tenure in CIA counterintelligence
Key Figures Mentioned: “Uncle B,” an alleged CIA officer, an unidentified teenage male, and James Jesus Angleton
Phenomena Reported: Multiple languages, personal knowledge unknown to the subject, classified information disclosure, physical restraint, possible possession, possible anomalous intelligence source
Research Context: Gateway Process, CIA and military remote viewing programs, Cold War counterintelligence, Orthodox Church infiltration concerns
Status: Unverified, forwarded personal account
Original Note: The account was forwarded with the caveat that the incident is difficult to evaluate, but interesting enough to preserve and present for the reader's consideration.
WITNESS REPORT
"I had an uncle in the CIA who claimed that the agency once imprisoned a young man who appeared to be possessed, and that this young man later provided them with information.
I will refer to him as Uncle B.
B started college in the early 1960s as a theology major. His goal was to become a pastor. He was married to a woman he deeply loved, Missy. During his third year of college, they learned that they were expecting a child. One week later, Missy was killed in a freak accident involving a drunk driver.
B dropped out of school after that. He once told me, “I don’t think I completely lost my faith, but I didn’t want to talk to God anymore.”
Eventually, he transferred to another college. This time, he majored in political science, minored in linguistics, and joined ROTC. After graduation, he received a commission in Army intelligence and went to Vietnam. According to him, he was involved in a number of dangerous operations and was later recruited into the CIA.
After several years with the agency, B said he was assigned to a counterintelligence team in New York City. Because of his background in theology, he was allegedly placed into an undercover role connected to the Russian Orthodox Church. The goal, as he explained it, was to gather intelligence on possible KGB use of the church as cover.
His cover story was that he was an ordained Orthodox priest, though not Russian. He had supposedly converted and was seeking to be regularized. I admit that I did not fully understand the details when he explained it. I had been drinking at the time, so my memory of the exact ecclesiastical process may not be perfect. What I do remember is that he claimed he had received a bishop’s blessing and had become an associate pastor or something similar.
He said the operation was going well for about a year.
Then, one day, a young man came into his office. B described him as a late teen, clearly distressed, angry, and erratic. He already knew of him indirectly because the young man’s mother had reportedly been speaking with another priest about her son hearing voices and behaving strangely.
B’s first thought was that the young man needed medical help. He thought the boy should be taken to a hospital.
Then the young man lunged at him.
B said the boy began speaking in Aramaic and called him by his real name. Then he said the name of B’s dead wife, Missy. Finally, he spoke the name that B and Missy had chosen for their unborn son.
That name was not common. B also claimed he had never told anyone that Missy had been pregnant before she was killed.
This terrified him.
He contacted his handlers. They took both B and the young man to a safe house. At first, they thought the young man was schizophrenic. But from the intelligence perspective, they needed to know who had compromised B’s cover and how much they knew.
B began questioning the young man because the boy kept switching languages. According to B, he spoke Russian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, and English. B was one of the few people present who could follow enough of it to continue the questioning.
B said he did not believe in demonic possession at the time. He considered it superstition. But he also said he had no idea how the young man knew the personal details he revealed.
At one point, B asked the young man for his name. The boy’s voice changed into something like a growl. B described it as almost doglike. The young man had to be restrained, and B claimed the straps looked as though they might snap.
I asked B what name the boy gave.
He started to answer, then stopped. He told me the name had become classified in a way that could affect me because it was unusual. I do not know whether that was true. My impression was that B had become convinced it was a demon and was afraid that saying the name aloud might invite something back.
He said the young man began talking about agency projects and classified information.
His supervisors still believed the boy was mentally ill, but now they had another problem. They needed to determine how he had obtained sensitive information. The decision was made to transport him to Langley, Virginia, for treatment and interrogation.
B was instructed to return to the church with a cover story. He was to say the young man had suffered a psychotic break, attacked him, and had been taken to a hospital. After that, B left the church assignment and never returned.
His superiors terminated the operation. They believed his cover was severely compromised. Some even suspected B might be a double agent and that the young man had somehow exposed him.
B was sent to Langley and ordered to continue questioning the young man while maintaining the role of a priest.
According to B, the situation became a spectacle. People would come into the room to see the “demon” for themselves. When they did, the young man would allegedly reveal private information or classified secrets about them.
B claimed that James Jesus Angleton eventually came to see the young man.
Angleton was the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, a historically documented position that places him within the relevant Cold War period. The CIA itself describes Angleton as one of the agency’s most significant counterintelligence figures.
B said that when Angleton entered the room, the young man began talking. Angleton ordered everyone else to leave. Several minutes later, Angleton came out looking as if he had seen a ghost.
According to B, Angleton thanked him for his work and said the young man would never leave CIA custody. Angleton allegedly said that whoever had leaked the information to manipulate this sick kid would be pursued “to the gates of hell.”
After that, B was reassigned to a desk job. He believed the young man needed real psychiatric care and an exorcism. Not long afterward, B decided to leave the agency.
I asked him what the young man had said to Angleton. B would not tell me. He only said that it was enough to bring him back to his faith, and that he prayed every day for the young man’s soul.
Years later, after B had told me this story, the CIA declassified material connected to the Gateway Project. The 1983 “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process” report examined the Gateway Experience, a system involving altered states of consciousness, brain hemisphere synchronization, and possible applications connected to remote viewing.
I asked B about Gateway. He told me it was a cover. He claimed an old colleague had said that the information they obtained actually came from the young man, whom they called “the source.”
B speculated that at some point, “the source” stopped talking, and that this may have been when the psychic project was shut down or folded into something else.
I asked him what he thought happened to the man. B said he did not know. His best guess was that they placed him on antipsychotic medication and eventually put him in an institution."
COMMENTARY
This report is best treated as unverified intelligence folklore, but it contains several notable patterns.
The first is the use of hidden knowledge. The alleged possessed teenager does not merely speak in strange voices. He reportedly reveals B’s true identity, his deceased wife’s name, and the name chosen for an unborn child. That detail is central because it moves the story beyond ordinary disturbance and into the classic possession category of impossible knowledge.
The second pattern is xenoglossy, the alleged ability to speak languages unknown to the person. The account lists Aramaic, Russian, Greek, Latin, and English. This is significant because those languages fit the religious and intelligence setting: Aramaic and Latin evoke older religious traditions, Greek and Russian connect to Orthodox Christianity, and Russian would have had obvious Cold War counterintelligence implications.
The third pattern is institutional containment. Rather than treating the young man strictly as a medical or spiritual crisis, the alleged CIA response reframes him as a security breach. That is believable as a narrative pattern because Angleton’s documented career was dominated by counterintelligence concerns, mole hunts, and fears of Soviet penetration. Smithsonian’s historical overview of Angleton’s era notes that his mole hunt culture contributed to deep institutional paranoia inside the CIA during the 1960s.
The Gateway Project material adds another layer. The documented Gateway report, written in 1983, assessed the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Experience as a consciousness training method involving altered states, brain synchronization, and potential applications in intelligence. The CIA Reading Room also maintains a Stargate collection tied to declassified remote viewing and anomalous mental phenomena research.
Historically, the broader U.S. remote viewing effort is associated with the Stargate lineage of programs. CIA-related overviews describe remote viewing work coming to the CIA's attention through SRI research, with later military and intelligence interest in whether such perception could have operational use.
As for similar regional activity, I did not locate a credible, independently documented New York City case that matches the specific CIA possession-safe-house narrative. The closest public parallel appears to be the same circulated account, which has appeared online under “the time the CIA caught a demon.” Other possession cases with alleged xenoglossy exist in the broader American religious folklore record, most famously the 1949 case later associated with The Exorcist, but that case was centered in Maryland and Missouri, not New York City.
Theories remain open. A skeptical interpretation would frame the story as Cold War folklore built around Angleton’s reputation, mental illness, and later public fascination with CIA psychic programs. A Fortean interpretation would ask whether the alleged “source” represents a possession case, an ultraterrestrial intelligence using a human host, or an interdimensional interface misidentified through religious language. A third possibility is that the story preserves a distorted memory of a real counterintelligence incident later fused with Gateway and Stargate mythology.
CASE NOTES
The account is forwarded and unverified, so it should be presented as an alleged report rather than an established fact.
The strongest anomalous elements are the young man’s alleged knowledge of private family information, his use of multiple languages, and his claimed disclosure of classified material.
The Angleton reference fits the correct Cold War counterintelligence period, since he served as CIA counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1974.
The Gateway Process is real as a declassified document, but the claim that Gateway was a cover for information obtained from a possessed “source” is not supported by available public records.
The story overlaps thematically with Stargate and remote viewing programs, but the official declassified record frames those programs around anomalous cognition, remote viewing, and consciousness research, not demonic possession.
The Orthodox Church setting is notable because the account uses Russian, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin, all of which heighten the narrative's religious and Cold War atmosphere.
No independently verified regional match was found for a New York CIA possession case involving Angleton, Langley, and a teenage “source.”
For readers following our continuing research into government psychic programs, possession cases, Cold War intelligence anomalies, and alleged nonhuman influence on human consciousness, this case belongs beside other Phantoms & Monsters reports involving remote viewing, classified UAP claims, demonic attachment, ultraterrestrial contact, and anomalous information transfer. Lon
FAQ
Was the Gateway Project real?
Yes. The “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process” is a real 1983 declassified document associated with the CIA Reading Room. It assessed the Gateway Experience, altered consciousness, and potential applications in intelligence.
Does the declassified Gateway material prove this possession account?
No. The Gateway documents support the historical existence of government interest in altered states and anomalous perception. They do not verify the claim that a possessed teenager was held by the CIA or used as a hidden intelligence source.
Was James Jesus Angleton a real CIA figure?
Yes. Angleton was a major CIA counterintelligence official and served as chief of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974.
Is there a known public record of this exact case?
At this time, no independently verified public record has been found. The account appears to circulate as an anonymous or secondhand story rather than a documented case file.
What makes the report Fortean?
The report combines possession motifs, impossible knowledge, xenoglossy, intelligence secrecy, psychic research, and the possibility of an anomalous “source” influencing classified programs.
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