The CIA believes everything

The Wikipedia page on James Vicary (The "inventor" of Subliminal advertising) mentions that the CIA investigated subliminal advertising and found it to be somewhat useful. After reading the source I found that the report is more skeptical than presented but it did tickle something in my brain; the CIA was (is?) interested in so much bunk! I've compiled an incomplete list of some pseudo-science the CIA was involved in. Lest you think they were just doing their duty and investigating all possible ways to get an edge, I will quote some of their findings where they seemingly 'fell for it'List of involvementsUri GellerAfter experimenting with him for eight days the CIA concludedAs a result of Geller's success in this experimental period, we consider that he has demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner.sourceDowsingMaybe prof. Calculus was right after all! From the Discussions and conclusions section of a study on dowsing.This is the third year in which a computer-assisted search experiment has provided evidence that psychic functioning may be of some use in meeting the military requirement of searching for hidden or lost targets. Although such functioning is not completely predictable, it appears to be robust enough, when selected subjects are used, to significantly reduce the average search time from what it would be if randomly located starting points were used."Interesting" theories of consciousness (Do your own research!)In a 30 page document investigating the "Gateway experience" and hemi-sync, one can find all kinds of great paragraphs. Here's a choice quote.According to the theories of Karl Pribram, a neuroscientist at Stanford University and David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London, the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal hologram by the medium of energy exchange thereby deducing meaning and achieving the state which we call consciousnessRobert Monroe was the inventor of Hemi-