14. The Stargate Project
What better way to spy on your enemies than to get inside their heads? See what they see and hear what they hear, without actually being near them. It may sound like something out of X-Men, but the U.S. government dabbled with the concept during the Cold War.
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In 1978, the Defense Intelligence Agency began the Stargate Project. The program trained so-called psychics in “Remote Viewing,” the practice of gathering impressions about an unseen target via ESP.
Supporters of the program credit these psychics with various feats such as locating marines kidnapped in Lebanon. However, the program was shut down after researchers failed to prove “Remote Viewing” played a significant role in such findings. Plus, they were wrong about 80 percent of the time.
The program lasted 25 years and carried a price tag of around $20 million.
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