But Stubblebine was no fool. He was a decorated combat veteran. He simply believed that the Soviet Union was light years ahead of the US in "psychotronics." Rumors abounded that the KGB had trained thousands of psychic spies. If the Reds were reading the President's mind, Stubblebine reasoned, the US needed its own battalion of super-soldiers.
Seeing distant locations using only the mind. The Men Who Stare At Goats
discusses the transition of these concepts from 1960s counterculture into military intelligence. Psychological Warfare Origins: But Stubblebine was no fool
They didn’t teach you about this in basic training. They taught you how to clean a rifle, how to dig a foxhole, how to write a last letter home in under three minutes. They did not teach you how to kill a goat with your mind. If the Reds were reading the President's mind,
Of course, for every hit, there were a thousand misses. Psychics described alien bases on Mars and claimed to have conversations with dead people. The program was eventually declassified and shuttered in 1995, with a CIA report concluding that remote viewing had "no operational value."
: An exploration of the subject matter that integrates contextual observations with academic insight, positioning it as a foundation for scholarly conversations on military history and conspiracy.
The modern myth of the "Goat Lab" began in earnest in the early 2000s, when British journalist Jon Ronson met a man named Guy Savelli. Savelli was a former Special Forces instructor with a handshake that could crush bricks and a mind that believed it could stop a heartbeat. Over coffee in a London hotel, Savelli told Ronson a story that was too absurd to be made up.