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Enter the Psi Spies 125requirements. The military needed to know what the otherside had, how it worked, and how it was used.The units created by Thompson were secret, or “black,”organizations, consisting of only a few people and generallyoff the regular Army books. Called “skunk works,” each unitwas commanded by a lieutenant colonel and composed ofthe best and brightest officers and enlisted men from bothintelligence and Special Operations. 4Unlike the CIA, the Army was not as afraid of the politicalconsequences of failure. Unlike their civilian governmentcounterparts, military officers were not constantly lookingover their shoulders to get feedback on whether or not theiractions were politically correct.According to Mel Riley, one of the original Psi Spies, these“skunk works” units were in place prior to the creation of the U.S.Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) in 1977.Riley and the other Psi Spies declined to discuss the natureof other “skunk works” units, citing concern for nationalsecurity and their secrecy oaths. “Also, we had no contactwith them and so we couldn’t speak with any authority,” saidRiley.The original psi spy unit was one of these “skunk works”units designed to explore the use of psychic abilities for intelligencecollection purposes.“I became convinced that remote viewing was a realphenomenon, that it wasn’t a hoax,” recalled Gen. Thompson.“We didn’t know how to explain it, but we weren’t so much interestedin explaining it as in determining whether there wasany practical use to it.” 5