STARGATE — Remote Viewing Program Files
Central Intelligence Agency / DIA
2017 (CREST release)
1972–1995
Two decades of government-funded psychic espionage research, including session transcripts in which subjects attempted to describe Soviet facilities from a windowless room in Maryland.
Why it was classified
Admitting the intelligence community spent public money on parapsychology was, in the words of one internal review, an institutional embarrassment risk.
Why it matters
The final evaluation found no operationally useful intelligence — a rare declassified example of a program being honestly graded a failure.