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Re:What were the creepiest declassified documents of the las... by lostgame on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:53PM (#21917026)
And you don't think they've replaced it with a similar program?

I personally think telling the public the program was shut down and didn't have great results could easily be a red herring.

Truth be told - if there was a lot of success from Psyops programs, and you were the US military, would you want a lot of people to know?

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Re:What were the creepiest declassified documents of the las... by Fnoord on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:01PM (#21917068)
Doesn't matter what I think; only thing which matters is if there is proof of such, or clues which lead to a hypothesis that such exists. Feel free to share such.

The way it went in history is that the US started with it to bait the USSR into spending money into a worthless project (which succeeded). Then, the US replied to that with "what if it is real?" There was still a lot of belief in "the paranormal" back then; nowadays we know much more about the techniques behind paranormal scam artists.

I've seen various documentaries on these programs (including about remote viewing and Ingo Swann [1], a scientologist), and from my memory the results of these programs were lackluster. Sure, there were some hits, as there are hits with cold reading and guessing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann

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