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The CIA and Scientology – The Remote Viewing Connection

February 22, 2008 on 5:33 pm | In church of scientology, cia, hal puthoff, ingo swann, para-scientology, remote viewing, scientology, stanford research institute | No Comments

In the early 1970’s the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored the remote viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute to investigate it’s potential use in clandestine warfare. Ingo Swann was the main remote viewer used in these experiments and the development of remote viewing, and was an experienced Scientologist who at the time had reached the highest levels of auditing available in the Church of Scientology.

It was actually Hal Puthoff, along with Russell Targ who co-founded the Remote Viewing experiments. Puthoff was also a high level Scientologist, Russell Targ was not.

Remote Viewing is considered an extra sensory perceptive ability, where a person can be trained to look at any place without using their human eyes. The CIA wanted to train people to be able to do it so that they could spy on the enemy. As you can imagine, having operatives who could perform remote viewing intelligence would put CIA in a very strong position to find out sensitive information.

In an interview for Coast to Coast AM, Swann talks about remote viewing and his experiences during the experiments and development of the discipline. Here is the first part (of 12):

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