How successful was SCANATE? The CIA was satisfied with the results. When they contracted an independent intelligence expert to evaluate the project, he concluded that SCANATE demonstrated ESP officiently well to justify considering practical applications. He cautioned, however, that ESP was not sufficiently reliable to replace traditional methods of intelligence gathering, although it could supplement and guide them. More than this is difficult to say, since the official report on the project remains under a top-secret classification. As we noted in chapter 5, parapsychologists are continuing to do remote-viewing experiments, but these are mostly in the nature of pure science, devoid of any immediate utility. Yet, almost by definition, remote viewing implies practical applications just as soon as he method is sufficiently reliable. Perhaps the parties who are inerested in practical applications of remote viewing are simply waitng for parapsychologists to refine the technique, or maybe they have already determined that it is useful but too important to leave in the hands of scientists outside of their agencies.
After SCANATE, remote viewing for both the Navy and the CIA continued for some years at SRI, until the researchers left for other positions. Parapsychology continues at SRI under the supervision of physicist Edwin May, and its scope has broadened beyond remote viewing to include "electronic perturbation techniques" (PK to the rest of us) and intuitive decision making (precognition). Its funding continues to come from unspecified government sources, at times as much as a couple of million dollars a year. Like many controversial topics, however, parapsychology is not always in favor in Washington.
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