[ExI] psi yet again

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Tue Jun 29 19:29:35 UTC 2010


On 6/29/2010 12:12 PM, BillK wrote:

> That's why the CIA cancelled their remote viewing experiments.

They weren't experiments, mostly; they were tasked, military-funded 
operations. The most regretable aspect of STAR GATE is that the military 
and intel communities funding it were not interested in research; they 
wanted operational results and they wanted them *now*. They got enough 
to keep funding the program for two decades.

> They had no way of knowing whether the guesses provided any useful
> intelligence unless an agent on the spot went and checked. And if you
> have an agent on the spot anyway,---- who needs a remote viewer?

There's some truth in this, except that you're missing the sometimes 
critical value in having a fairly exact place to send your agents on the 
(general) spot, knowing what to look for. Details on how this worked are 
available in a number of reports on STAR GATE and its predecessors (see 
below).

Why the program was shut down is a rather complicated matter; in part it 
was due to program leaders and well trained RVers being moved on to 
other posts (you're not allowed to stay in one post in the military), 
their replacement by people who increasingly didn't follow the 
procedures worked out by earlier RV specialists, resistance by high 
placed Xian officers who stated their revulsion to this work which was 
clearly Satanic in origin (!) (but extropes have been keeping an eye on 
the dangerous infiltration of US armed forces by Xian fundamentalists, 
right?##), the collapse of the USSR, and finally because the results 
were less profitable than the use of emergent advanced technologies.

None of this means that "CIA proved psi doesn't exist"; it means that 
CIA were tasked to shut down the program for motives that included all 
the above, while admitting that there was indeed an anomalous ability 
that had been utilized by the RVers. My friend Dr. Edwin May, the 
scientific director of STAR GATE, is working on a detailed history of 
the program even as we speak. Meanwhile, there are the AIR review 
reports, and books by military remote viewers such as Joe McMoneagle and 
Paul Smith (Smith's READING THE ENEMY'S MIND is rather good).

Damien Broderick
## "We're Dealing with a Christian Taliban" 
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