Carter Roy

She can control physical objects using only her mind.

We're not just talking about rumors either.

There is footage going around.

It looks like if she concentrates hard enough, she can move random items across a table.

She can even stop a frog's heart.

A U.S.

intelligence report concludes that, while the Soviets haven't perfected psychic warfare yet, they could be well on their way.

They could be putting these powers to use against their enemies, like the U.S., within a decade.

Silly or not, that's all the Defense Department needs to hear.

They decide they can't let the enemy outpace us.

By 1972, they're already funding experiments into psychoenergetics at Stanford Research Institute.

SRI in turn recruits well-known psychics like Uri Geller and Ingo Swann.

And that is more or less how we start down the path to Project Sunstreak.

Step one, abscond with Nazi diaries.

Step two, get into a war of one-upsmanship with the Soviets.

Step three, scare each other into a race to be the first to turn psychics into spies.

Project Sunstreak has a few predecessors.

These research initiatives change agencies and code names over the years.

There's Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, and Center Lane.

Not bad name-wise.