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Stargate and the psychic spies

The government really did pay psychics.

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The strongest version of this theory

The government believed in psychic powers.

MKULTRA funded at least one subproject on the “analysis of extrasensory perception”. [2] For more than twenty years afterward, the CIA and the military paid people to try to see Soviet sites with their minds. [1]

The sources

  1. CIA: Ask Molly: Did CIA Really Study Psychic Powers? ↗

    CIA’s own short history of its remote-viewing research, 1972–1977, and the 1995 review.

  2. US Senate — Project MKULTRA, joint hearing, August 3, 1977 ↗

    173-page official scan. Prepared statements, questions and answers are distinguished; Appendix A reprints the relevant Church Committee investigation. Printed page numbers differ from PDF page indices.

What happened

Research, an evaluation, the end.

The CIA says it did not conduct its own research into psychic phenomena “until the summer of 1972”, and ended it in 1977. The Defense Intelligence Agency continued the work under names including GRILL FLAME. [1]

In the mid-1990s the program went back to the CIA, which commissioned the American Institutes for Research to evaluate it. The CIA summarizes the September 1995 report’s conclusion: “enough accurate remote viewing experiences existed to defy randomness, but that the phenomenon was too unreliable, inconsistent, and sporadic to be useful for intelligence purposes.” The CIA decided not to continue. [1][2]

The sources

  1. CIA: Ask Molly: Did CIA Really Study Psychic Powers? ↗

    CIA’s own short history of its remote-viewing research, 1972–1977, and the 1995 review.

  2. American Institutes for Research: An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications (September 1995) ↗

    The independent evaluation that led to STAR GATE’s termination. Includes Jessica Utts’s and Ray Hyman’s opposing assessments.

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