The Secret Life of Uri Geller, BBC Two, review Uri Geller has had his fair share of criticism; many view him as nothing more than a stage musician. On a list of the 100 most annoying people in the world, his name would surely rank highly. But The Secret Life of Uri Geller (BBC Two) was another top-drawer documentary from the BBC. Now, there are two possibilities. Either the whole thing was an elaborate hoax, or it was one of the most extraordinary pieces of television I have seen this year. Let us, for the sake of argument, suspend our disbelief. In which case, I might just pour myself a calming glass of something. Because the two revelations of the documentary were a) that Uri Geller is not a shyster, and b) that he worked for the Mossad and the CIA. The programme was based on freshly declassified information, featured interviews with former intelligence personnel, and contained actual footage from CIA tests. "The camouflage for me is, hey, I'm an entertainer," said Geller in a beguiling interview. But there is another side of Uri Geller and I love that James Bondish side as much as the totally open showman. That is the dark side. The story began in the early Seventies. Geller was put through a series of double blind experiments by scientists working for the CIA, and scored almost 100 per cent success against odds of a trillion to one. Later they put him into the field; he followed KGB agents around thinking "erase, erase," and managed to wipe all the information from their floppy disks. After a period as an official secret agent in Mexico, where he used his psychic powers to protect the president from dangerous individuals - and carried an engraved silver pistol - Geller was recruited by the Mossad. There was a strong suggestion that he played a key role in the audacious hostage rescue at Entebbe in 1976. And there was a strong suggestion that he is still working for the secret services today.