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This site claims that:

Modern examples of clairvoyance are well known among mediums. Remote Viewing and clairvoyance have been used by the CIA and by the police when seeking missing persons

Is this claim true?

Fizz
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The Masked Rebel
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  • Other sources making similar claims: [1](https://youtu.be/L811nO601sg), [2](https://youtu.be/VQcHY2DUDd8), [3](https://youtu.be/hBl0cwyn5GY), [4](https://youtu.be/zgyYms376Mg), [5](https://youtu.be/XMKE-vv5zSQ). –  Feb 01 '21 at 14:51
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    Well the CIA doesn't use psychics to find missing purposes, [because the CIA does not have any law enforcement ability](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency). – DenisS Feb 01 '21 at 15:19
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    Does [this](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/43797/did-the-cia-conclude-that-uri-geller-had-psychic-powers/43798#43798) answer your question with regards to the CIA? Every claim that I've seen with regards to the CIA goes back to project STARGATE in some fashion. – DenisS Feb 01 '21 at 15:31
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    @DenisS Partly. What about the police in terms of missing persons. – The Masked Rebel Feb 01 '21 at 15:48
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    @TheMaskedRebel if you search our site for "police psychics" you'll get a bunch of questions already asked on the site – DenisS Feb 01 '21 at 15:49
  • This tends to tangle up the [Stargate Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project) and [The Men who Stare at Goats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats) both of which involved other pars of the US intelligence and defense community – Henry Feb 01 '21 at 16:30
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    Such a wishy-washy claim. That they were *used* isn't evidence that they *work*. But related questions: [It isn't prevalent in the USA](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19495/does-any-police-emergancy-services-department-in-the-us-uk-australia-canada-empl) and [Scotland Yard doesn't use them](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10253/did-christopher-robinson-provide-psychic-information-that-was-successfully-used). – Oddthinking Feb 01 '21 at 17:18
  • @DenisS: (1) what their charter says and what they have in fact done is far from identical, and (2) many non-law enforcement organizations have participated in searching for missing persons for various persons (private investigators do this frequently, for example). – Jayson Virissimo Feb 01 '21 at 21:27
  • A page on the CIA’s own website comes up as the first result when I search: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080025-7.pdf. :p – Laurel Feb 01 '21 at 21:49
  • @Laurel the press cutting in your link ends with *"There is no indication that they have stopped, **and no reason why they would**"*. – Weather Vane Feb 01 '21 at 22:20
  • "used by the CIA and by the police when seeking missing persons" can be parsed as "used by the CIA [for whatever purposes] and by the police when seeking missing persons". It doesn't really claim that *the CIA* used it to find it missing persons. – Fizz Feb 02 '21 at 02:16

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