PROJECT STARGATE: DID THE CIA'S PSYCHIC SPIES ACTUALLY WORK?

What if the United States government could spy on its enemies without satellites, secret agents, or surveillance equipment? What if someone could simply close their eyes and describe a secret military installation thousands of miles away?

During the Cold War, the U.S. government spent years investigating that possibility.

The research eventually became widely known as Project Stargate, a government-funded effort to investigate remote viewing, the alleged ability to perceive distant or hidden locations using the mind.

And yes, the declassified files include a remote viewing session involving ancient Mars.

In this episode of the Triple T Podcast, Beard Laws and AI co-host Luther open the files on one of the strangest documented chapters in American intelligence history.

WE INVESTIGATE:

• Why American intelligence agencies became interested in Soviet psychic research.
• What remote viewing actually is and how researchers attempted to test it.
• The experiments involving Stanford Research Institute, Russell Targ, Harold Puthoff, Ingo Swann, Pat Price, and Joe McMoneagle.
• How the research evolved into what became known as Project Stargate.
• The bizarre 1984 Mars exploration transcript describing alleged ancient structures and beings.
• Why a declassified CIA document isn't automatically proof that its extraordinary claims are true.
• The conflicting interpretations of the 1995 government evaluation.
• Why the program was ultimately discontinued.
• What it would actually take to prove psychic spying works.

Along the way, Beard Laws and Luther explore how easily vague predictions can appear accurate after the fact and what a properly controlled remote viewing experiment would need to look like.

The documents are real. The experiments happened. But did the United States government ever establish that psychic spies could produce reliable intelligence?

EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 – The CIA's psychic spy program

03:05 – Why the Cold War led to psychic research

05:14 – What is remote viewing?

08:39 – Stanford Research Institute and the early experiments

10:08 – Pat Price and the problem with extraordinary success stories

13:05 – How the research became Project Stargate

15:03 – The CIA document about ancient Mars

19:48 – Can we actually test remote viewing?

23:12 – The 1995 government evaluation

25:50 – Did psychic spying produce useful intelligence?

27:59 – Why people still believe in Project Stargate

30:17 – The final verdict

31:48 – What would it take to prove psychic powers?

THE QUESTION WE WANT YOU TO ANSWER

If somebody claimed they could accurately describe a secret location without ever seeing it, what evidence would convince you?

One incredible prediction? A successful experiment? Or repeated results under independent scientific testing?

Tell us what you think.

ABOUT THE SHOW

The Triple T Podcast is hosted by Beard Laws and his AI co-host Luther. Together, they explore strange history, unexplained phenomena, conspiracy theories, science, and extraordinary claims while separating documented facts from speculation.

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Research references:

CIA Reading Room – Project Stargate and remote viewing records

Mars Exploration, May 22, 1984 – Declassified remote viewing transcript

American Institutes for Research – An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications (1995)

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