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CIA Psychic Experiments
Inside Project Stargate, Remote Viewing, The Gateway Process, Grill Flame, Sun Streak, and the Intelligence Community's Search for Psychic WarfareBy Michael Harrington
Length2h 2m
About this audiobook
In 1995, the CIA quietly shut down a program that, for over twenty years, had trained American soldiers to be psychic spies — and then did something almost unheard of: it opened the files.
The Declassified Files: CIA Psychic Experiments is a documentary-style history of the U.S. intelligence community's search for psychic warfare, built entirely from declassified government records, congressional testimony, and the tens of thousands of pages the CIA released to the public in 2017.
Inside two wooden buildings at Fort Meade, Maryland, a secret Army unit ran sessions against real intelligence targets: Soviet weapons facilities, kidnapped diplomats, downed aircraft, hostages in Tehran and Beirut. The program passed through four code names — Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and finally Star Gate — and three sponsoring agencies, and cost American taxpayers roughly twenty million dollars over two decades.
This book traces the full arc of that story: the Cold War anxiety that started it, the Stanford physicists who built its methodology, the famous "hits" that kept it funded, the scientists who spent twenty years arguing about whether any of it was real, and the 1995 evaluation that finally ended it.
Written in a cinematic, evidence-first style and grounded entirely in primary sources, it separates documented fact from disputed interpretation and popular myth at every turn — including the viral Gateway Process document, the true story behind the "goat-staring" legend, and what the CIA's own scientists actually concluded.
The Declassified Files: CIA Psychic Experiments is Volume I in an ongoing series exploring the real history behind declassified American intelligence programs.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Politics and Government, Spirituality and Religion
Length2 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction 7
3The Cold War and the Birth of Psychic Warfare 1
4Project Stargate 9
5Remote Viewing 19
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6The Gateway Process 31
7Project Grill Flame 39
8Sun Streak 49
9What the Declassified Documents Actually Reveal 57
10Myths vs Facts 69
11Fact: The strangest part is all true
12Conclusion: Why It Still Matters 77
13Appendix A: Program Timeline 81
14Appendix B: Glossary of Code Names 85
15Appendix C: Key Figures 87
16Notes 91
17Continue the Series
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