Mind and Psi Research: The Government's Psychic and Mind-Control Files
The real government programs that tested psychics, remote viewing and mind control, told from the declassified files and the official evaluations.
These were real government programs. The pages tell them from the declassified files and the official evaluations, not from the legends that grew up around them.
Questions people ask about Mind and Psi Research
What was Project Stargate?
Stargate is the best-known name for the US government's research into remote viewing, the claimed ability to describe distant places with the mind. It ran from the 1970s until 1995, when it was closed after an outside review found it had never produced intelligence that was useful in practice.
What is remote viewing?
Remote viewing is the claimed ability to describe a distant or hidden target, such as a building or an object, using only the mind. The US government funded research and trained viewers for years. The official evaluation that ended the program did not find it useful for intelligence.
What was MKUltra?
MKUltra was a CIA program begun in 1953 that experimented with drugs such as LSD, hypnosis and other methods of controlling behavior, sometimes on people who did not know they were being tested. It became public through US Senate investigations in the 1970s, after many of its records had been destroyed.
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