> CIA: Hey Mr. Seer, please look into Mars a million years back in this coordinates.
> Seer: Oh, I see a pyramid and aliens and shit.
> CIA: Awesome. Here is a check for your services.
Edit: The actual transcript here https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788...
... is this a serious interview? How does something like this even happen?
Edit:
> MON: (I think that he's losing his ability to move accurately, but he is attracted to things that are interesting, so we're going to go with his own, we're going to let him go ahead and explore what seems to be interesting to him rather than move on the targets indicated here.)*
I'm not sure if I'm shocked or confused...
Is this a continuation of the Remove Viewing programs as discussed in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'?
For real, I am astonished and confused by this.
Almost guaranteed they're still doing experiments like this.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project#Closure_(1995...
I personally think telling the public the program was shut down and didn't have great results could easily be a red herring.
Truth be told - if there was a lot of success from Psyops programs, and you were the US military, would you want a lot of people to know?
The way it went in history is that the US started with it to bait the USSR into spending money into a worthless project (which succeeded). Then, the US replied to that with "what if it is real?" There was still a lot of belief in "the paranormal" back then; nowadays we know much more about the techniques behind paranormal scam artists.
I've seen various documentaries on these programs (including about remote viewing and Ingo Swann [1], a scientologist), and from my memory the results of these programs were lackluster. Sure, there were some hits, as there are hits with cold reading and guessing.