Project Stargate: The CIA's Psychic Spy Program—That Worked

<p>The CIA handed a retired cop two coordinates off a map—no name, no country. He shut his eyes and read back the secret site&#39;s classified code name—from his couch.</p><p><br></p><p>For 23 years the CIA really trained psychic spies—but when two scientists graded the work, did the data say remote viewing worked, or fall apart?</p><p><br></p><p>I dig through declassified CIA files from Stanford Research Institute, where physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ trained Pat Price, Ingo Swann, and Joe McMoneagle.</p><p><br></p><p>I follow a cop who named a secret Soviet base from a map coordinate, an artist who swore Jupiter had a ring, and a viewer who drew a submarine the agency said couldn&#39;t exist.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics (among others):</p><ul><li>The Believer and the Skeptic: A statistician and the man who exposed Uri Geller graded twenty years of data — and agreed on everything but one word.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The Physics of It: Why distance didn&#39;t matter, and whether the real answer is precognition.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The Honest Reckoning: What survives when you go back and actually read the files.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>🔥 CONSIDER SUPPORTING + RECEIVE BONUS CONTENT</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/theswervepodcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/theswervepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>➡️ ALL PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODES</p><p>🗄️ 📁 The File Room:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/1706258" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/collection/1706258</a></p><p>🔓 🎬 The Producer Vault:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/289029" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/collection/289029</a></p><p>⏲️🙉 Early Access + Ad-Free:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/710796" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/collection/710796</a></p><p><br></p><p>👽 ALL LINKS</p><p><a href="https://beacons.ai/theswervepodcast" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://beacons.ai/theswervepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>⏰ TIMESTAMPS:</p><p>(0:00) Intro: Project Stargate</p><p>(0:53) Welcome/Pre-Amble</p><p>(3:28) I. THE KNOCK ON THE DOOR</p><p>(4:08) Project Stargate: CIA Psychic Spies</p><p>(15:00) First Declassified CIA Psychic Tests</p><p>(21:12) II. THE ONES THAT MADE THEM BELIEVE</p><p>(21:56) West Virginia Base: Remote Viewing</p><p>(28:18) Soviet Secret Base &amp; Siberian Crane</p><p>(36:18) Jupiter Ring: Real Psychic Eviden