The U.S. Military Still Wants Psychic Marines and We’ve Got the Manual
After World War II, certain branches of the U.S. military and spy communities developed a curious interest in the occult. As journalists Jon Ronson documented in The Men Who Stare At Goats and Annie Jacobsen recently revealed in Phenomena, the Pentagon has long had an interest in harnessing the supernatural to win wars.
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the CIA recruited famous psychics such as Uri Geller and attempted to turn them into assets. Geller, his handlers alleged, used remote viewing and other techniques to help America during the Cold War. When the Army joined the effort starting in the ’70s and through the ’90s, it wanted to democratize the skills of ostensible psychics such as Gellar.
It wasn’t enough that the U.S. military had a stable of psychics, it wanted to train the ordinary soldier how to do it, too. The military reasoned that supernatural abilities were a skill which soldiers could learn just like any other. It didn’t go well.
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