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born: 1928-05-11
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 1996
location: Boston, Massachusetts
summary: American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life
  of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
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[Christopher O. Bird](/people/christopher-o-bird/) was an American author and alleged [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) operative. He is known for co-authoring the 1973 bestselling book, *[The Secret Life of Plants](/sources/the-secret-life-of-plants/)*, which popularized the controversial experiments of [Cleve Backster](/people/cleve-backster/) on plant sentience.[^1]

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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.