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The CIA Came to Stanford and Asked Me to Investigate Psychic Powers

From The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · May 14, 2026

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The CIA Came to Stanford and Asked Me to Investigate Psychic Powers

UFO Roundtable: CIA Physicist Proves Aliens Exist · May 14, 2026 Government

In the 1970s, the CIA approached quantum physicist Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute with $50-60k and a simple request: find out if ESP is real, and hopefully confirm it isn't. What followed was a two-decade, multi-million-dollar classified program that trained Army intelligence officers to remote-view Soviet secrets.