CIA Stargate Project files are declassified and you can pull them yourself right now. Type the name into any search box. What you will find is a real government program, running from the 1970s to 1995, built around one question: could a trained psychic spy on Soviet missile silos from a cubicle in Washington?

What does it feel like to believe you are sitting on the next great discovery of humankind, and the thing that convinced you was a trick? Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ were physicists at the Stanford Research Institute, not experts in stage magic. Yuri Geller knew that. He walked in with a spoon-bending act in 1972 and they believed every second of it.

The program survived Geller's exposure. Other agencies picked it up. By the late 1980s, the analysts assigned to Soviet missile silos had started projecting themselves onto the moons of Saturn to look for alien bases. The CIA reviewed it in 1995 and shut it down. The files are public now. So is the answer.

Topics: CIA Stargate Project, remote viewing psychic espionage, Yuri Geller Stanford Research Institute, Cold War intelligence, conspiracy thinking

GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @theuncoverup | https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873/

Originally aired on 2026-03-11

CIA Stargate Project files are declassified and you can pull them yourself right now. Type the name into any search box. What you will find is a real government program, running from the 1970s to 1995, built around one question: could a trained psychic spy on Soviet missile silos from a cubicle in Washington?
What does it feel like to believe you are sitting on the next great discovery of humankind, and the thing that convinced you was a trick? Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ were physicists at the Stanford Research Institute, not experts in stage magic. Yuri Geller knew that. He walked in with a spoon-bending act in 1972 and they believed every second of it.
The program survived Geller's exposure. Other agencies picked it up. By the late 1980s, the analysts assigned to Soviet missile silos had started projecting themselves onto the moons of Saturn to look for alien bases. The CIA reviewed it in 1995 and shut it down. The files are public now. So is the answer.
Topics: CIA Stargate Project, remote viewing psychic espionage, Yuri Geller Stanford Research Institute, Cold War intelligence, conspiracy thinking
GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | @theuncoverup | https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873/
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-03-11

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From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane&rsquo;s signature style&mdash;thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.
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