Episode 3: Project Stargate

The Government Paid Psychics to Spy on the Soviet Union for 23 Years. Here's What They Found.

In 1974 the CIA handed a retired police commissioner named Pat Price a piece of paper with nothing on it but geographic coordinates. He closed his eyes — and described the interior of a secret Soviet weapons laboratory in Siberia with enough accuracy to trigger a formal Congressional investigation into whether classified information had been leaked to the researchers.

No leak was found.

This is a true story. The documents are on the CIA's own website.
Project Stargate was a classified US government program that ran from 1972 to 1995, funded by the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, investigating whether trained individuals could perceive distant locations, objects, and events using only the mind — a practice called remote viewing. It cost twenty million dollars. It involved physicists at Stanford Research Institute, military intelligence officers at Fort Meade, and a consciousness research institute in rural Virginia whose founder had been spontaneously leaving his body since the 1950s.

In this episode we cover the Cold War paranoia that launched the program, the key remote viewers whose sessions became the stuff of legend, the CIA's classified analysis of the Monroe Institute's Gateway consciousness program, and what the science actually showed when the program was declassified in 1995. We also ask the question underneath all of it: what is the human mind actually capable of — when we stop assuming we already know the answer?

Every detail in this episode is sourced from declassified government documents and verified reporting. Make of it what you will.

Sources:
CIA FOIA Reading Room — cia.gov/readingroom (search: Stargate)
"Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" — Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell, declassified CIA document
"Reading the Enemy's Mind" by Paul H. Smith — firsthand Stargate participant account
"Journeys Out of the Body" by Robert Monroe, 1971
Federation of American Scientists — irp.fas.org/program/collect/stargate.htm
Documentary: "Third Eye Spies" (2019, available on Amazon Prime

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