40 Targets and the Army's War on Psychic Boredom
Kept secret until 2003, a report on the Army's attempt to replicate psychic spying shows a desperate struggle to turn subjective guesses into hard intelligence
By June Hargrove ·
Kept secret until 2003, a report on the Army's attempt to replicate psychic spying shows a desperate struggle to turn subjective guesses into hard intelligence
By June Hargrove ·
Kept secret for eleven years, a final report shows the Army's effort to turn subjective psychic 'responses' into a mathematical probability list for targeting unknown sites.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Kept secret until 2000, a 1989 report details the attempt to use hypnotic trance to sharpen psychic spies, exposing the cost of treating the human mind as a radio receiver.
By June Hargrove ·
Decades after the experiments, a technical summary suggests the search for psychic intelligence was a failure, even as the hunger for its results drove more funding into the shadows.
By Eleanor Voss ·
US intelligence spent two decades using "empaths" to spy on Soviet minds in a secret effort that failed to rescue a kidnapped general or provide data to guide a single operation.
By June Hargrove ·
High-ranking military brass and doctors fought to hide "primitive and naive" psychic research behind a label that would keep Senator William Proxmire off their backs.
By June Hargrove ·
Subterfuge and cover masked an automated facility beaming data to a space device, though the identity of SOURCE RV-101 and the site's coordinates remain blank.
By June Hargrove ·
For decades, the DIA hid a plan to treat the human mind as a logistical tool, training Army personnel to perceive unseen targets alongside satellites and spies.
By Miriam Adler ·
Hidden for 20 years, an officer's attempt to map the soul became the CIA's most requested file after a missing page led readers to believe the government censored the best parts.
By June Hargrove ·