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The Men Who Stare at Goats

Jon Ronson

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goa...

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The speaker mentioned a book by John Ronson which discussed the CIA's declassified efforts to study ESP and remote viewing.

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I came across a 1995 nightline with Ted Koppel. Yeah. Where the news broke that the CIA had been studying ESP and trying to do remote viewing, what Ronson was talking about in The Men Who Stare at Goa...

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The speaker mentioned a book by John Ronson which discussed the CIA's declassified efforts to study ESP and remote viewing.

"

I came across a 1995 nightline with Ted Koppel. Yeah. Where the news broke that the CIA had been studying ESP and trying to do remote viewing, what Ronson was talking about in The Men Who Stare at Goats.

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