Thus, to perform a proper threat analysis, the CIA went to the Stanford Research Institute [0] (separated from the university in 1970) and gave them money to perform a threat analysis.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International
Later it came out that the soviets weren't actually doing psychic spying, it was something of a mis-translation - 'bio-information transfer' would have been more appropriate.
Ingo Swann was the artist who helped put this CIA program together. In the 1960's (?) Mr. Swann had done experiments with some parapsychologists in NYC, and was pretty good at getting information at a distance.
I went to two of Ingo's talks in Las Vegas (2004/2006). He said the government's intelligence agents always hated their research program with a passion, so they had to get results from the very beginning. Mr. Swann said the Government spook's work is predicated on secrecy. When humans have the ability to retrieve information at a distance there are no secrets.
When the Soviet Union went away, the spooks said, essentially, 'oh thank god we can finally get rid of this damn program'. When the first media reports came out, the CIA's official response was something like, 'we spent 25 years studying this and we're 100% sure we never got any results whatsoever.'
Ingo's website was http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/ - this now redirects somewhere else, but the old site was cooler (check archive.org?). According to Mr. Swann, four of humanity's "superpowers" are memory, imagination, intuition and the "telepathic transfer of information". They are superpowers because they "transcend space and time as one major category of activity, and energy and matter as another major category."
Put simply, for there is no other way to put it,
the superpowers of the human biomind are defined
as those indwelling faculties of our species
which can transcend space and time as one major
category of activity, and energy and matter as
another major category.
The full extent of our species faculties of
memory, for example, transcend the known laws of
matter and time, as do the faculties for human
imagination. Memory and imagination, therefore,
are among the many superpowers -- although they
have not been identified this way within the
prevailing wisdom of the Modern Age.
In addition to memory and imagination which are
universally shared by all specimens of our
species, the several formats of intuition and of
the telepathic transfer of information are also
very broadly shared.