NEW: It took four years but I just got some newly declassified CIA reports studying the Soviet Union's use of "black magic", telepathic mind control and "psychotronic generators" – devices they said turned people into psychics and let them move objects with their minds. #FOIA 
CIA originally denied the request, refusing to confirm or deny the existence of the records by citing "intelligence sources and methods" but we won't read too much into that
It probably doesn't need to be said, but:
"ESP investigators who are working on a project that has such [military] application very often disappear from the scene. They are not incarcerated but are evidently sent off to secret areas to continue their research." #FOIA
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Since people are digging this, I'll thread in some of my related work using docs out of CIA's vault, starting with the fear that Soviets might use psychic nukes to blast a city through time muckrock.com/news/archives/…
That time the Senate worried CIA's psychic programs were part of mind control efforts muckrock.com/news/archives/…
That time NSA called for a global registry of psychics muckrock.com/news/archives/…
The video that helped convince CIA psychics were real muckrock.com/news/archives/…
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