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Chapter 5 Enter the Psi Spies By 1976, the work done at SRI was being discussed in Washington, particularly in the top circles of the intelligence community. SRI funding had shifted from the CIA to the Department of Defense. Pressure to produce intelligence during the Cold War was severe. Adding remote viewing to the U.S. intelligence arsenal was “a tactic of desperation,” according to some within the Psi Spies.1 They said the officers who sought to create a unit of Psi Spies faced almost insurmountable obstacles. They were up against much more than simple conservatism. They were running counter to existing belief systems and facing narrowmindedness, fear of the phenomenon, fear of embarrassment or ostracism, and political and professional suicide, not to mention professional jealousy.
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