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Grill Flame - The Army's First Psychic Spy Unit
The Codename They Tried to BuryBy Steve Miller
Length1h 24m
About this audiobook
In 1978, frightened by reports of Soviet psychic research, the U.S. Army quietly created GRILL FLAME, a secret unit of soldiers trained to spy with their minds. From a windowless room at Fort Meade, they targeted Soviet shipyards and the American hostages in Tehran, and searched for General Dozier, kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Verona. Drawing on declassified CIA and Army documents, this book reveals how the program was born on verbal orders, why it was hidden behind a meaningless codename, and how it survived budget cuts by changing its name, until history finally caught up with it.
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Rating★★★★ 4.5 (11)
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GenreHistory
Length1 hr 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note to the Reader
2Prologue: The Windowless Room
3Chapter 1: The Fear from the East
4Chapter 2: California Origins
5Chapter 3: Gondola Wish
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6Chapter 4: Birth of a Codename
7Chapter 5: Choosing the Six
8Chapter 6: Learning to See
9Chapter 7: The First Mission
10Chapter 8: Four Hundred and Forty-Four Days
11Chapter 9: The Building by the White Sea
12Chapter 10: Verona, December 1981
13Chapter 11: Generals, Gateways and Bent Spoons
14Chapter 12: Cutting the Flame
15Chapter 13: After the Flame
16Chapter 14: Weighing the Evidence
17Epilogue: The Codename That Would Not Stay Buried
18Appendix A: Chronology
19Appendix B: Glossary
20Sources and Further Reading
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