It's hard to understand what is and is not really going on here.
On the one hand this stuff is so obviously easy to dismiss. Then on the
other...
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Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release,
documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford
Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena
as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence
collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus
involvement of the intelligence community in the investigation of so-
called parapsychological or psi phenomena. Presented here by the
program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985) is the early history
of the program, including discussion of some of the first, now
declassified, results that drove early interest.
http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html
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Which brings up an uncomfortable point if one where to actually think
about it but since few do....
The point is any advances in this type of uhh thing would be snatched up
and spun, one way or another, by the military or some extension of the
military/CIA-ish.
On Sept 10, 2001 the US Defense Sec. announced that the US military could
not account for 2.3 trillion dollars in expenditures.
2.3 trillion dollars.... let's let this sink in for a while... moving on..
I am not saying that they plowed all or part of this money into some
psychic program but they certainly could have and no one would be any the
wiser. If this seems silly, absurd or, my favorite, 'unthinkable', see:
$2,000,000,000,000.00. How 'thinkable' it that!?