Ruth Montgomery

Ruth Shick Montgomery was an American journalist. In 1943 she became the first woman reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Daily News, and she later wrote a syndicated column for Hearst and United Press International. She was president of the Women's National Press Club in 1950 and retired from journalism in 1969.

She then became better known as a writer on psychic subjects. A Gift of Prophecy (1965), about the psychic Jeane Dixon, sold millions of copies, and her later books promoted ideas about reincarnation, spirit communication and 'walk-ins', souls she claimed could take over living bodies. These are claims of belief, not established findings.

In June 1960 she wrote a New York Journal-American column, 'Spying by Mind-Reading', reporting that Army intelligence was experimenting with telepathy. The FBI kept the clipping in its file on extra-sensory perception. The FBI's summary says it found no scientific support for such claims and did not pursue them.