Paranoia and the paranormal inside the US embassy

WHAT David Gray called his “better sources of information” than American intelligence came from another world.

He was strong believer in spiritualism and thought he was getting advice from ghosts, and he passed on this information to the White House.

Shortly after arriving in Dublin in Apr 1940, Gray wrote to US president Franklin D Roosevelt about “the memories and the ghosts” in his official residence in Phoenix Park, where the late British prime minister Arthur J Balfour had lived in the 1880s. Balfour had held seances with the famous medium Geraldine Cummins of Cork. She would go into a trance and write out supposed messages from ghosts. She began holding seances for Gray.