The CIA Just released some declassified documents

[RedGajin]

I found one on evolution:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000400010003-0.pdf

who tf cares about evolution did you not even notice theres a document about GHOSTS right under it??

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[Juncoph]

also, the alleged predictions seriously look like generic pretend-psychic predictions



How to predict an event like a psychic:

1. Have a little bit more than a layman's understanding of the subject you're going to predict
2. Pick obviously likely option
3. Say you did it with your mind


examples:

It's going to rain in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Monday, or

Badspot will ban someone.


funny how there's next to no credible evidence outside the CIA for this stuff, by the way

not once through history has there ever been a warlord who used remote vision to build an empire, or a highwayman predicting vulnerable caravans.

outright magic is more convincing than this pseudoscientific crackpot scheme

[Lego lad]

psycho mantis is real

[elm]

I do agree that this could be potentially fake, but 13 million pages of faked content = why? lol

[kongo]

Ned's declassified is better

too late punk

did they release Ned's School Survival Guide though?

[Juncoph]

I do agree that this could be potentially fake, but 13 million pages of faked content = why? lol

i didn't say it was all completely fake

i said that remote viewing is bullstuff and an extremely small portion of the CIA saying "maybe it's not bullstuff" does not make it non-bullstuff

[The Resonte!]

I do agree that this could be potentially fake, but 13 million pages of faked content = why? lol

bureaucracy

[Whackin]

heh, you mean the chaos emeralds

[Juncoph]

heh, you mean the chaos emeralds

forget, i didn't think of this

[Ipquarx]

Here's what happened and why they're being (partially) declassified. (I say partially because there are a lot of pages in those that are still not released.)

A long time ago, some people in the CIA were like "Well, nobody we trust has done a comprehensive review of the possibility of psychic powers... I mean, it's pretty unlikely, but let's humor them."

They then went on to run *multiple* projects trying to prove the existence of psychic powers. I think there was even one isolated incident that almost convinced them, but they failed to get any results that couldn't be chalked up to random chance. They have to make the initial slides look moderately convincing to get funding from the CIA, but the results speak for themselves if you care to look through them. That is to say, it's very convincing. Very convincing that no such powers exist.

[Juncoph]

Here's what happened and why they're being (partially) declassified. (I say partially because there are a lot of pages in those that are still not released.)

A long time ago, some people in the CIA were like "Well, nobody we trust has done a comprehensive review of the possibility of psychic powers... I mean, it's pretty unlikely, but let's humor them."

They then went on to run *multiple* projects trying to prove the existence of psychic powers. I think there was even one isolated incident that almost convinced them, but they failed to get any results that couldn't be chalked up to random chance. They have to make the initial slides look moderately convincing to get funding from the CIA, but the results speak for themselves if you care to look through them. That is to say, it's very convincing. Very convincing that no such powers exist.

thank you

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

can you imagine being the CIA dude who has to investigate whether or not magic is real?

[elm]

can you imagine being the CIA dude who has to investigate whether or not magic is real?

Sounds like a dream job to me, get payed sick cash to study magical powers.... where do I sign up?

*removes tinfoil hat

[beachbum111111]

can you imagine being the CIA dude who has to investigate whether or not magic is real?

What about the poor forgeter who has to spy on /pol/ and find out whether meme magic is real?

[Frankie²]

also, the alleged predictions seriously look like generic pretend-psychic predictions

[img]http://puu.sh/ts5og/fb246bb7b4.jpg[/img ]

How to predict an event like a psychic:

1. Have a little bit more than a layman's understanding of the subject you're going to predict
2. Pick obviously likely option
3. Say you did it with your mind


examples:

It's going to rain in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Monday, or

Badspot will ban someone.


funny how there's next to no credible evidence outside the CIA for this stuff, by the way

sometimes (by that i mean a lot of the time) intel is really stuffty and you don't have much to go off of. and a lot of times these kinds of reports are made for people who know jack stuff about the subject at hand.