Project Ultra

In 1947, just after the end of the second World War, the Central Intelligence Agency began a search for, and counter to, the then-perceived Soviet menace of psychic warfare. The belief was that the Soviets had gained strategic advantage over the U.S. intelligence services by employing psychics in what was known as "remote viewing," the ability of the psychic to accurately describe events distantly removed from him.

My name is Victor Williams. In 1947 I was read into the National Secret Servi...