{"id":416,"date":"2009-05-11T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-05-14T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:38:22","slug":"cia-and-parapsychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"CIA and Parapsychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cialogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-417\" title=\"cialogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cialogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 1961, a purchase order came from the CIA for Betty Humphrey&#8217;s \u201cHandbook of Tests in Parapsychology,\u201d a set of ESP cards and record sheets, and the entire set of the Journal of Parapsychology (Betty Humphrey was one of the lab scientists). \u00a0According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/74.125.47.132\/search?q=cache:NHZlMMOP1OcJ:www.scientificexploration.org\/journal\/jse_13_1_kress.pdf+cia+parapsychology&amp;cd=5&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=safari\">this report<\/a>, they contacted a parapsychology laboratory at Oxford the same year.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t write a lot about the CIA&#8217;s involvement with parapsychology, so much has been written about it already. \u00a0I was just struck by something as mundane as a purchase order coming from a place like the CIA for something as extraordinary as ESP cards. But\u00a0I did find and write about an 1957 (!) CIA remote viewing experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1961, a purchase order came from the CIA for Betty Humphrey&#8217;s \u201cHandbook of Tests in Parapsychology,\u201d a set of ESP cards and record sheets, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-6I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}