A Review of
"The Psychic Arms Race Had Several Funding Channels"
Washington Post article
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The article begins with examples of the Pentagon's use of "psychics", taken from a CIA report on the U.S. military's secret project "STARGATE".
The article reports the CIA's conclusions: that the project never really produced substantial results and that it should no longer be funded by the federal government.
The article states that, while the program has enthusiastic support of various Pentagon officials, no U.S. offical was really prepared to support it in an official capacity. The authors showed that the CIA fends questions about the project off to the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), which will not make an official comment. The civilian contractor who has been connected with the project will not make a statement without official permission to do so.
The article then concerns itself with the last two or three waning years of the project when only three "psychics" were involved, and deals with the managerial complaints they had, which, the article states, led to their transfer to the CIA, the resultant CIA study and report, and the final recommendation for cancellation of the project.
A study made in 1987 by the National Research Council is also cited. This study, which the article erroneously labels "an exhaustive study", found no merit in the use of paranormal phenomena for intelligence gathering purposes. The article then delineates the support which the project received, in spite of that report.
The writers then touch on selection of some of the personnel, in particular, CW4 Joseph McMoneagle, who now runs Intuitive Intelligence Applications in Nellysford, VA.
The article ends with examples of CRV tasking given and answers received which would indicate, in spite of the CIA's and National Research Council's reports, that the proficiency of the project personnel was to be considered "successful". The examples give the name of the tasking agencies, the cited tasking, the CRVer's answer, and the subsequent actual situational findings, which confirmed the CRVer's success.