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"...the United States took these paranormal possibilities seriously."

Common belief that this happened is a result of a very successful propaganda exercise by an ongoing US psychological warfare program.

To be clear, the program does not and never did try to use ESP for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they had.

This is explored in Jon Ronson's terrifying "Men Who Stare at Goats". The same program probably drummed up support for the disastrous Iraq invasion and created the prisoner torture protocols. It is probably now running the UFO/Tictacs hoax, possibly as a readiness exercise.

We don't know what other operations against the public have run or are running now. Iraq was not a disaster for everyone: it transferred $5T from the public to waiting pockets. Secrecy generates corruption.

Source that it was a psyop?
You may read the book cited right there.
> To be clear, the program does not and never did try to use ESP for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they had.

This is not how I remember "Men Who Stare at Goats" and I don't think it's true regardless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project

You could argue MKUltra also bleeds over into this territory, but that's a murkier argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

And just to add it as a reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats

It is time for you to re-read Men, then, and pay closer attention.

MK-ULTRA is the umbrella for the disinformation campaign. But almost everything we think we know about it is what they published themselves. There is no evidence it was ever terminated. Jon Ronson reported evidence he found that it was still on.

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