Can CIA Psychics Spy on You?

The CIA funded a program to study remote viewing after psychics demonstrated the ability to perceive and even interact with hidden objects, including top-secret military installations.

• Ingo Swann demonstrated early remote viewing capabilities, accurately describing hidden objects.

• The CIA became interested in remote viewing due to the potential compromise of national secrets.

• Pat Price's accurate description of a secret NSA facility led to widespread security concerns.

Physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff initiated a study on psychic phenomena, leading to the involvement of the CIA. The agency became interested in 'remote viewing' after psychics like Ingo Swann and Pat Price demonstrated abilities to perceive hidden locations and even access confidential information, raising national security concerns about the potential loss of secrets.

Development of Remote Viewing

• 00:00:01 Physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) began studying psychic phenomena, leading to the involvement of Ingo Swann, a self-proclaimed psychic. Swann demonstrated the ability to accurately describe remote locations and even influence a deeply buried magnetometer, leading the CIA to fund the project due to concerns that psychics could nullify national secrets by seeing 'behind cement'. This marked the beginning of official government interest in remote viewing.

• 00:01:30 Pat Price, another talented psychic, was able to accurately describe a secret NSA military installation in Sugar Grove, West Virginia, initially given coordinates for a vacation house. Price went further, describing details inside the building, including 'green filing cabinets' and their contents. This incident triggered a significant response from law enforcement agencies, highlighting the serious security implications of remote viewing and its ability to uncover classified information unknowingly.