It certainly seems like people in charge of funding decisions sometimes have very little grasp of reality:
"Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1977 ... (its) work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically see events, sites, or information from a great distance."
"The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA-commissioned review claimed that it was never useful in any intelligence operation."