LONDON – So desperate were British intelligence agents to locate al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and information about future terrorist attacks that they recruited psychics and palm readers who usually offer their services on the Internet.

When MI5's new chief, Jonathan Evans, who took over the service yesterday – April 1 or April Fool’s Day – he quickly disbanded the program.

He dismissed the project as having "no intelligence value."

Before it was canceled, the palmists had been told to see how hand-reading could be adapted to uncover more of the personalities of bin Laden and his senior commanders.

A memo one palmist wrote to his controller said: "Each society has a particular vision of masculinity and femininity. It is those differences that can help determine their attitudes to mass murder."

In all, 24 British psychics and palmists worked for several weeks in a program that was based on the Stargate paranormal espionage program run by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

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