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“The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a mostly fictional but humorous account, loosely based on the eponymous book, of the U.S. governments research and operational program in psychic espionage and remote influencing. The movies’ characters are fictional compilations of some of the real people who worked in the program including Lyn Buchanan and General Bert Stubblebine. The perspective of the movie also seemed to reflect Jim Schnabel’s book and TV documentary Remote Viewers–The Secret History of Americas Psychic Spies. (Lyn did, in fact, cause military computers to crash but it was at a NATO conference and not at Area 51 as the movie portrayed. And military computers all over the world were allegedly affected including those Eastern Bloc. See his book The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as told by a “Psychic Spy” for the U.S. Military.) Not much is shown in the way of coordinate remote viewing but the movie certainly captured the flavor of the RV experience in style, if not in fact. The movie also did a good job, in my view, of portraying the conflict within the military over the existence of the remote viewing unit.   The government remote viewers were certainly no way as weird or “far out” as the movie characters but a lot of the top brass certainly saw them that way. The “New Earth Army,” as the RV unit is called in the movie,  is probably the way many of the more traditionally minded military officers and Pentagon officials thought of the viewing unit. (Though one of the viewers in the government RV unit told me that the unit’s channellers were sometimes frightenly accurate with their target descriptions.)