Claiborne de Borda Pell GCC GCM (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was an American politician and writer who served as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997. He was the sponsor of the 1972 bill that reformed the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, which provides financial aid funding to American college students; the grant was given Pell’s name in 1980 in honor of his work in education legislation. A member of the Democratic Party, Pell remains the longest serving U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.
Senator from Rhode Island.
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Club of Rome.
Along with Charlie Rose, Pell is one of Washington’s biggest supporters of psychic research.
In 1988 he introduced a bill to get government funding for the new age group the National Committee on Human Resources (Al Gore was a co-sponsor).
On the advisory board of the International Association of Near-Death Studies, and on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Human Potential Foundation.
1987, was given a demonstration by Uri Geller.
James “The Amazing” Randi was supposedly able to duplicate his feats using trickery.
Geller claims to have helped Pell during one election campaign by beaming positive energy at him.
For seven years employed C.B. Scott Jones as an aide. (Gardner, Martin, “Clairborne Pell: The Senator from Outer Space”, Skeptical Inquirer, March/April 1996)
Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Pell was a close friend of BCCI figure Clark Clifford.
(Truell, Peter and Gurwin, Larry, False Profits, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, pg. 240)
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