The three psychics were employed for roughly the last five years by the DIA at Fort Meade until June, when the CIA took over the secret paranormal research program, according to Ray Hyman, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oregon who co-wrote the CIA-sponsored probe.Īs many as six of the "remote viewers" served on the government's payroll at one time during the two decades in which the "Stargate" program has been underway, Hyman said. A Defense Intelligence Agency summary of its accomplishments - obtained yesterday by The Washington Post - asserts that the government-funded psychics helped unmask a major Soviet submarine program in 1979 and discern the function of key buildings in foreign countries, among other tasks. CIA officials said they have concluded that no more public funds should be spent on it.īut Pentagon officials involved in the paranormal program have defended it as an occasionally useful source of valuable military tips. The agency was told by Congress to take over the secret program from the Pentagon last summer and decided to take a close look at what it was getting into. The effort, which cost $11 million from the mid-1980s to the early '90s, was of uncertain value, according to a study conducted recently for the CIA. hostages held by foreign kidnappers, responded by concentrating intensely and then "visualized" the answer through an alleged parapsychological phenomenon known as "remote viewing," officials said. The trio, when asked about such matters as the location of U.S. military for years has been posing some of its toughest questions to a trio of citizens with suspected paranormal powers who were located at a Maryland military base, U.S.
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