The U.S. government's classified intelligence program (1978–1995) researching remote viewing — the claimed ability to perceive distant locations psychically — as an intelligence-gathering tool during the Cold War.
Institutional legitimacy by necessity: STARGATE (and its predecessors GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK) ran for nearly 20 years at significant cost, involving the CIA, DIA, and Army Intelligence. The program's existence — declassified in 1995 — revealed that the U.S. government took psychic intelligence seriously enough to fund systematic research through Stanford Research Institute (Targ & Puthoff). The declassification report (AIR, 1995) concluded the program produced no actionable intelligence, but the documented cases maintain ongoing interest in consciousness research and parapsychology.
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