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🧵The Secret War Over Psi: Inside GRILL FLAME, the CIA’s Hidden Psychic Spy Program (1979)

In 1979, deep inside U.S. intelligence, a war was brewing.

Not a war of bullets or bombs but of minds, visions, and the desperate fight to control the narrative.

This is the story of GRILL FLAME, and how the CIA tried to keep psychic warfare from blowing up in their face.👇

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GRILL FLAME was the codename for the U.S. military’s remote viewing program.
In theory it was a way to spy using nothing but consciousness.
In reality it was a political nightmare wrapped in classified memos and anxious meetings.

The CIA was involved, so was the DoD and they were scared.

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On October 30, 1979, a closed-door meeting was held.
Participants included top scientists from SRI, intelligence officials, and Pentagon R&D insiders.

The question on the table...

“How do we keep this from blowing up in our faces?”

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The room was tense, they believed in what they were doing, but they also knew how it would look.

Psychic spies, astral projection, reading minds from a locked vault.
To the press and Congress, it could all be seen as a joke, or worse, a scandal.

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They even referenced the infamous Golden Fleece Award, a mock prize given to wasteful government programs.
“We must not get caught with our pants down like NASA did with the biorhythms business.”

They were terrified of becoming late night comedy fodder.

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To survive, they needed a cover strategy, so they came up with a solution. Stop calling it “intelligence” and start calling it R&D.

If it’s research, it’s protected, but if it’s ops, it’s accountable.
This simple semantic pivot could keep Congress out of their hair.

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Behind closed doors, everyone wanted the results,
but no one wanted their fingerprints on it.
“Nobody wants to say they’re sponsoring this. Yet everybody wants the results.”
It was intelligence catnip, without the risk of satellites or moles.

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The science was led by names like Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI.
But even inside the room, doubts festered.
They debated methodology, they worried about oversight.
They even feared fellow agencies turning on them if things got too hot.

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The CIA’s position was to be involved, but stay deniable.
If the press caught wind of this, the whole program could collapse under the weight of public mockery.

But they also knew that the Soviets were doing it too,
and that changed everything!

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The paranoia was real. They knew Congress might kill it. They also knew journalists were sniffing around, but they also knew the stakes.
If psi was real, and the Soviets figured it out first, the U.S. would be left behind in a totally new kind of arms race.

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What emerges from the 1979 document is crystal clear.
GRILL FLAME was a battleground, not just of minds, but of narratives.
It was a war between belief and skepticism, truth and ridicule.
Between what’s possible and what’s politically survivable.

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So, the plan was simple, keep it quiet and call it research. Avoid scandals and get results.

If it works great, if it fails, pretend it never happened.
That’s how psychic warfare became a shadow war within U.S. intelligence itself.

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GRILL FLAME would later evolve into STARGATE, but by then, the damage was done.
Decades of missed potential and buried breakthroughs, and enough secrecy to fuel a thousand conspiracy theories.

All because they feared being laughed at.

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They weren’t scared of psychics or politics.
They were scared of YOU finding out.

That’s why the most powerful weapon they tried to hide, was the mind itself.

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