GOVERNMENT ARCHIVE
Ask Molly: Did CIA Really Study Psychic Powers?
CIA's public-facing historical summary of its interest in ESP, remote viewing, the 1972 research start, DIA handoff, 1995 AIR review, and later declassification of records.
NEUTRALEvidence tier 12021
Key findings
- CIA says its early interest in paranormal phenomena goes back to early agency history.
- The public summary states that CIA began its own remote-viewing research in 1972.
- The summary says CIA did not restore the program after the 1995 review because the phenomenon was judged too unreliable for intelligence use.
- The page points readers to the declassified Reading Room collection and Kenneth Kress's Studies in Intelligence article.
Critical context
Use this as an official orientation page, not as proof that remote viewing is reliable. It is valuable because it states the agency's own public history and caveats.
Protocol lesson for Go Remote Viewing
The platform should echo the same distinction: interesting historical record, but only current locked trials and score ledgers count as platform evidence.
Preservation copy
Rights: PUBLIC DOMAIN
Preservation copy: CIA's public historical account says the agency studied remote viewing and related psychic phenomena, began formal remote-viewing work in the 1970s, later transferred work, and did not continue the program after the 1995 review. GRV preserves this plain-text orientation so the public history is still discoverable while the source link remains the authoritative page.
This is a public-facing government history summary. GRV uses it for context while preserving the caveat that official interest is not proof of reliability.