Cleve Backster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Introduced polygraph or "lie-detector" tests, worked in the CIA. Later performed experiments and theorized "plant perception".
Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1924
Place of Birth: Lafayette Township, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 24-Jun-2013
Profession: botanist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Cleve Backster
- Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Backster Jr.
- (February 27, 1924 – June 24, 2013) was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the 1960s which led to his claim of "primary perception" where he claimed that plants "feel pain" and have extrasensory perception (ESP), which was widely reported in the media but was rejected by the scientific community.
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