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Re:How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a maca... by Judgmentality on Sunday March 07, 2021 @04:01PM (#26379726)
> 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

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Re:How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a maca... by ncmncm on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:15PM (#26381738)
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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