A newly surfaced document reveals internal CIA commentary on what’s referred to as the "Black Notebook Materials"-a set of unconventional intelligence notes tied to the government’s experiments with psychic phenomena.
This wasn’t speculative fiction. These materials were formally circulated, reviewed, and archived by defense intelligence staff.
📓 What Were the Black Notebooks?
While the document doesn’t include the full "Black Notebook" itself, it offers a glimpse into the contents: raw, freeform material produced during psychic viewing experiments under military oversight.
The content, described by reviewers as "unusual" and "sometimes ambiguous", ranged from impressions of geographic locations to symbolic interpretations and emotional responses.
It’s clear the material wasn’t treated as entertainment.
CIA and military reviewers took the time to dissect and annotate it.
🧾 Key Observations From the CIA Review
The internal commentary makes several notable points:
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Perceptual Style: The source provided descriptions that lacked structure but reflected a coherent internal logic. Analysts seemed intrigued by recurring symbolic language.
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Terminology Sensitivity: The report flagged inconsistencies in terminology, with different viewers using varied metaphors or imagery to describe similar impressions.
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Follow-up Questions: Analysts expressed frustration over the lack of probing or clarification. Some responses were noted as "incomplete" or "left hanging."
Despite the skepticism, the tone isn’t dismissive.
There’s a level of methodological seriousness given to reviewing these nontraditional inputs.
🧠 Intelligence Experiments on the Fringe
This document is part of a broader pattern seen throughout CIA records from the Stargate Project era: a willingness to explore fringe methods-like remote viewing-not just as novelty, but as potential intelligence tools.
Rather than denying or ridiculing such efforts, the CIA took steps to document, catalog, and internally critique these experiments.
While the agency’s ultimate stance on the operational utility of this material remains unclear, documents like this prove that for a time, psychic impressions were at least entertained alongside more traditional collection methods.
