The Gist

Psychic Spies and the CIA

Why the government spent millions researching remote viewing, but finally abandoned the project in the 1990s.

The story of former Pentagon scientists researching extrasensory perception, or ESP.

DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

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