Maurice Jack Fogel (7 July 1911 – 30 October 1981) was a British magician and mentalist.

[1] In 1948, on the BBC radio Fogel made the claim that he could read peoples minds.

This intrigued the journalist Arthur Helliwell who wanted to discover his methods.

He found that Fogel's mind reading acts were all based on trickery, he relied on information about members of his audience before the show started.

Although Fogel managed to fool some people into believing he could perform genuine telepathy, the majority of his audience knew he was a showman.