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 strongest version of this theory
The government believed in psychic powers.
The sources
- 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.
- 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.
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