The American government has used people with psychic abilities for at least several decades.
The Stargate Project is the code name for the CIA-funded program. It was launched following intelligence reports that the Soviet Union was researching psychic abilities, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) reported.
The Stargate project, which changed several codenames from 1972 to 1995, used far-seeing, an extrasensory ability to see objects at a distance.
The program started in 1972 at the Stanford Research Institute. It was originally called SCANATE. The institute selected people with special abilities and conducted trainings with them. The minimum accuracy of the information they received had to be 65%. Presumably, after training, this level could be even higher.
As it developed in 1979, the project was merged with the military intelligence program. The new group, located in Fort Meade, Maryland, employed military personnel and civilians with psychic abilities.
By 1983, the program was expanding, and a series of instructions were developed, according to which anyone can theoretically develop the ability for foresight. By 1984, Stargate had conducted hundreds of experiments in this area.
The success rate of the program is a matter of controversy. The program is believed to have successfully completed several missions, including locating the site of the Soviet nuclear test at Semipalatinsk in 1974 and the sunken Tu-95 a few kilometers from its crash site in Africa.
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Officer Joe McMonegle said he left the Special Intelligence Unit after receiving the Legion of Honor for providing information on 150 objects that would have been impossible to detect normally.
The project continued to operate until the mid-90s, when some infrastructure problems arose. The American Research Institute analyzed the program in 1995 and, after weighing its pros and cons, recommended that it be closed.
Documents related to the Stargate project are currently declassified and open to the public at the US National Archives and Records Administration.