Lindsay Moran
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Forbidden History · Project Stargate: Did the CIA Discover Real Psychic Powers? · 29 Sep 2026
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I think some people see Project Stargate as an example of Cold War anxiety, pushing agencies to explore very unconventional and, you know, maybe meaningless or useless ideas.
But others see it as a scientific experiment that simply didn't pan out, no harm, no foul.
Other people treat it with a sense of humor because it sounds so strange compared to the more traditional tools of intelligence work.
I think for me, the most important takeaway from Project Stargate is it kind of shows how intelligence agencies really have to be open-minded in a way that sometimes they're not.
I think when intelligence agencies become closed-minded and rigid, I think that holds them back.
It holds them back from breakthroughs and different ways to collect intelligence, and it keeps them sort of out of touch with the mainstream.
So I think Project Stargate, you know, rather than something embarrassing or laughable or a waste of time, I feel like it shows us how there's this constant tension in the world of intelligence between skepticism and between imagination.
Tolkachev first tried to reach the CIA in the late 1970s, and the way he did it, it's almost comical.
He would approach American diplomats' cars in Moscow and slip notes inside them.
From a counterintelligence perspective, a walk-in is the perfect setup for a trap.
He turned into the most productive human sources that the agency had ever handled.
His contributions have been likened to billions of dollars in military advantage.
it was incredibly dangerous for him to do this.
I mean, Moscow then, and to this day, is one of the most heavily surveilled cities in the world.
The KGB monitored embassy personnel constantly, their cars, their apartments, their social contacts.
If a Soviet citizen was caught trying to pass information to an American, the consequences could have been, would have been catastrophic.
If an adversary wants to expose or compromise your officers, they can simply send someone pretending to be a defector or a volunteer spy.
And I encountered this when I was a CIA officer.
And when there was a walk-in, I always used an alias.
I would use a disguise, not an elaborate disguise, but I would definitely use a disguise before handling a walk-in.
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