[HN Gopher] How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a...
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       How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a macabre
       surgical arms race
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-03-06 11:35 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ncmncm wrote:
       | "...the United States took these paranormal possibilities
       | seriously."
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       | Common belief that this happened is a result of a very successful
       | propaganda exercise by an ongoing US psychological warfare
       | program.
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       | To be clear, the program does not and _never did_ try to use ESP
       | for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they had.
       | 
       | This is explored in Jon Ronson's terrifying "Men Who Stare at
       | Goats". The same program probably drummed up support for the
       | disastrous Iraq invasion and created the prisoner torture
       | protocols. It is probably now running the UFO/Tictacs hoax,
       | possibly as a readiness exercise.
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       | We don't know what other operations against the public have run
       | or are running now. Iraq was not a disaster for everyone: it
       | transferred $5T from the public to waiting pockets. Secrecy
       | generates corruption.
        
         | donaldo wrote:
         | Source that it was a psyop?
        
         | Judgmentality wrote:
         | > To be clear, the program does not and never did try to use
         | ESP for spying. Instead, they convinced Americans that they
         | had.
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         | This is not how I remember "Men Who Stare at Goats" and I don't
         | think it's true regardless.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
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         | You could argue MKUltra also bleeds over into this territory,
         | but that's a murkier argument.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
         | 
         | And just to add it as a reference:
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
        
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