For those with a deep interest, the large trove of recently declassified materials, some of which we covered on site, has now hit book form:
"Why the United States Government Embraced the Occult
A new book chronicles decades of extravagant attempts to weaponize psychic powers.
BY COLIN DICKEY
April 26, 2017
In 1952, the U.S. Army asked Duke University to help them develop a program to determine if dogs were psychic. Specifically, they wondered, could dogs use extrasensory perception (ESP)? To this end, researchers carried out a series of 48 tests on a beach in Northern California to see if dogs could locate underwater explosives. At first, the results pleased the scientists, who concluded that there was “no known way in which the dogs could have located the under-water mines except by extrasensory perception.”