"Much has been written about US intelligence services conducting experiments into 'remote viewing' (the respectable modern term for second-sight or clairvoyance) but concrete facts have been thin on the ground.

A detailed account of one such experiment, conducted by Drs. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute in 1974, was released in sanitized form on the National Security Agency website. The report makes interesting reading for several reasons; first because it is so detailed, and second because its CIA author judged the experiment to be unsuccessful from a military standpoint. Yet in reality, the experiment was, if anything, too successful for comfort and provoked a panic reaction from the military authorities". Read more.