Inside the Cold War Program Where the U.S. Tested Psychics Abilities

Beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies investigated the existence of ‘remote viewing.’ Those files are now declassified.

BY VICTORIA SALVES, EDITORIAL FELLOW

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If you’re looking forward to reading the government’s soon-to-be-declassified files on aliens and UFO’s, then here’s a little something to hold you over: declassified files on psychics.

For about two decades, beginning in the 1970s, U.S. government intelligence agencies, including the CIA, investigated the existence of psychic abilities, in particular a phenomenon called “remote viewing,”........

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