I've seen rumors that the CIA was into this stuff for years and years. Being officially an intelligence agency, any useful information they can get is valuable

I've seen rumors that the CIA was into this stuff for years and years. Being officially an intelligence agency, any useful information they can get is valuable to them, even if its only to confirm another source. From what Ive seen and read elsewhere, the "remote viewing" that occult groups claim to be able to practice might be a smokescreen. The larger occult groups tend to keep very good independent historical records, and their "mediums" are just people who have an encyclopedic knowledge of this history. Thus, when intel agent So-and-So goes to The Society of Whatever-It-Is and consults them, the whole "remote viewing" thing is a way for one intel agency to protect thier real sources while giving out whatever info they see fit. This is just a theory of mine, but its more plausible than thier official explanation.