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The pattern across the methods is the same. A blind target, a person reporting impressions, and a score compared with chance. Supporters point to small statistical edges in pooled data. The mainstream view is that the edges have not replicated under tight controls, have no agreed mechanism, and have never produced a working application. That is also where the government stopped.

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Dream telepathy, at Maimonides Medical Center in the 1960s and 1970s, had a sender focus on a picture while a receiver slept. Staff woke the sleeper during rapid eye movement and collected the dream. Judges matched dreams to pictures. Those studies are the source of the claim that ESP shows up in sleep. They were small, and they were not repeated cleanly enough to settle the question.

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Micro-psychokinesis is the attempt to move matter without touching it. At the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab, people tried to push the output of a random-number generator high or low by intending it. The claimed effects were tiny, fractions of a percent, piled up over millions of trials. Other labs did not treat them as settled, and PEAR closed in 2007.

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Remote viewing, the method the Army and DIA used, is the free-response version of clairvoyance. No sender is required. The viewer describes a place from a coordinate or a sealed task, sketches it, and a blind judge matches the transcript to the real site. That is the Star Gate protocol. The 1995 review found odd lab scores and no product good enough to spy with.

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Ganzfeld is the modern telepathy setup. The receiver sits with halved ping-pong balls over the eyes, red light, and white noise in the headphones, so normal sight and sound drop out. A sender in another room watches a random picture or video. The receiver talks. A judge then ranks the real target against decoys. Hit rate by chance is 25 percent. Some meta-analyses land a few points above that. Critics say the edge depends on which studies you keep, and independent labs have not made it reliable.

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The oldest is forced choice. J. B. Rhine had people guess Zener cards, a star, a circle, waves, a cross, or a square, while the deck was hidden. Telepathy meant a sender looked at the card. Clairvoyance meant nobody looked. Precognition meant the deck was shuffled after the guess. Chance is 20 percent. Early Duke University scores were famous, and later checks found loose handling, optional stopping, and results that shrank when the controls tightened.

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Parapsychology is the study of claimed mental effects that skip ordinary senses. The methods are ordinary lab drills. The dispute is whether any of them survive a fair test.

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Remote viewing was meant to be a spy method for targets other sources could not reach. The Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency wanted a viewer in a room at Fort Meade to describe a hidden place, person, or event, using only a coordinate or a sealed tasking, with no satellite, agent, or wiretap. The assigned jobs were Soviet bases and weapons, hostages, fugitives, missing service members, and drug shipments. A second goal was to learn whether the Soviets were doing the same thing. In 1995 the CIA judged that the sessions never became reliable enough for that job and ended the program.

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The Army ran the psychic unit, and then walked away from it. From 1977 to 1985, Intelligence and Security Command kept remote viewers at Fort Meade under Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, and Center Lane, and some generals treated the sessions as real intelligence. A 1984 National Research Council review for the Army came back unfavorable, and Army funding stopped in late 1985. The Defense Intelligence Agency carried the same shop as Sun Streak and then Star Gate until 1995. Its own inspector general had already recommended killing it in 1989. Congress handed the unit to the CIA, which closed it. No public record shows the military reopened it. Veterans still defend individual sessions. The services do not.

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The CIA’s official stance is that remote viewing was not useful for intelligence, and that the files do not prove it is a real psychic ability. The agency paid for the first Stanford Research Institute tests in 1972, then dropped its own effort around 1977. In 1995 Congress moved the Defense Intelligence Agency unit, Star Gate, to the CIA. The CIA hired the American Institutes for Research to review 23 years of work. Statistician Jessica Utts said the lab scores showed a statistically significant effect. Psychologist Ray Hyman said those same scores did not prove a paranormal cause, and could be methodological error. The CIA sided with the operational finding. The reports were too vague, too ambiguous, and too often wrong to act on. It shut the program the same year and said continued use in intelligence collection was not warranted. The agency has not reopened it. The declassified record is the stance: studied, funded, judged a failure for spying, and closed.

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Remote viewing, as the government practiced it, was a scripted interview, not a trance. In the early version, one person drove to a random site while the viewer stayed in the lab and sketched it blind. Later they dropped the driver and gave the viewer only a latitude and longitude. Ingo Swann turned that into six steps: a fast pen mark for the broad shape, then raw senses, then a sketch, then details, then what the site was for, and only at the end a name or a count. Wrong guesses were written down and set aside so they would not take over. The monitor was not supposed to know the target, and the session had to start on the minute. The CIA still shut it down in 1995. The sketches were too vague, and too often wrong, to use as intelligence.

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So the post holds together only if those three stay apart. The unbelievable part is that the government really paid psychics to spy. The false part is that your gifted class was that program.

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Public-school GATE is a separate thing. It is Gifted and Talented Education, run by states and districts, with hearing tests, logic puzzles, and sometimes odd worksheets. Nothing in the declassified Star Gate files shows those classes were a CIA screen or a child experiment. Gateway is a third file, a 1983 CIA look at Monroe Institute meditation tapes, and it does not mention schools either.

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From 1972 to 1995 the CIA, the Army, and the Defense Intelligence Agency spent about $20 million trying to use remote viewing as espionage. That unit ended under the name Star Gate, worked out of Fort Meade, and was aimed at Soviet sites, hostages, fugitives, and submarines. Some sessions looked impressive after the fact. In 1995 the CIA still shut it down because the reports were too vague and too often wrong to act on.

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The headphones people remember line up with ordinary school hearing screens, which states have run since the 1960s. Code breaking, Morse, Russian words, and logic puzzles were local enrichment worksheets, not a federal protocol. The only federal gifted law, the Jacob K. Javits Act of 1988, funds research and does not pay for local GATE classes. Congress zeroed it out in fiscal 2011, then put a few million back later. That is a rounding error next to the roughly $20 million spent on remote viewing, and it was never a screening pipeline for spies.

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The mix-up is three different things. Star Gate was the Fort Meade remote viewing unit. Gateway was a separate 1983 CIA report on the Monroe Institute’s hemi-sync tapes, written by Army Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell, and it never mentions public schools. School GATE is Gifted and Talented Education, run by states and districts, with no national curriculum and no declassified file linking it to either program.

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Nothing in the declassified record makes school GATE a CIA screening pipeline. Hearing tests and guided tapes that former students remember are normal enrichment and screening, not a remote viewing protocol. The open question the government itself left hanging is narrow. Something odd showed up in some lab scores. It did not produce intelligence good enough to keep the unit open.

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In 1995 Congress moved the program to the CIA. The American Institutes for Research reviewed it. Statistician Jessica Utts said the lab effect was real and repeatable. Psychologist Ray Hyman said the same numbers did not prove a psychic cause. The CIA shut it down. The official line was that the product was too vague and wrong too often to count as actionable intelligence. A congressman had called the idea a hell of a cheap radar system. It never became one. The Men Who Stare at Goats is a loose dramatization of this world, not a documentary.

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Remote viewing meant describing a hidden person, place, or object with no normal way to know it. Sessions were aimed at Soviet sites, a submarine still under construction, hostages in Iran, fugitives, and drug shipments. One 1979 session described a very large new submarine with 18 to 20 missile tubes and a flat area at the back, due to launch in about 100 days. That sketch is often matched to the Typhoon class. Joe McMoneagle, a viewer on about 450 missions from 1978 to 1984, received the Legion of Merit for reporting on targets other sources could not cover. Angela Dellafiora Ford, asked in 1989 to find a fugitive customs agent, said Lowell, Wyoming. He was arrested about 100 miles from Lovell, Wyoming. Staff called the strangest hits eight martini results.

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It started because intelligence analysts thought the Soviets were spending real money on ESP and psychokinesis, and the fear was that if Moscow had it and Washington did not, the gap would matter. The CIA funded physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute. Early subjects included Ingo Swann, a high-level Scientologist. The work then moved through Army and Defense Intelligence Agency cover names: Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and finally Star Gate, with an operational unit at Fort Meade. About $20 million was spent. More than 40 people passed through. About 23 served as viewers. At the peak in the mid-1980s there were roughly seven full-time viewers.