How Project Star Gate Worked

# Project Stargate Summary

Josh and Chuck dive into Project Stargate, a bizarre Cold War-era CIA program that spent twenty million dollars over two decades trying to harness remote viewing as an intelligence tool. The show explores how the government recruited people claiming psychic abilities to spy on Soviet installations using nothing but coordinates and concentration, featuring wild success stories that sound incredible but don't actually hold up under scrutiny. It's a fascinating look at how fear of falling behind the Russians kept funding a program that ultimately produced mountains of useless data, anecdotal claims, and the kind of pseudoscientific mess that actually makes intelligence analysts' jobs harder rather than easier.