During the 1960s-80s the CIA conceived of a wide range of unorthodox military projects to combat actual or even perceived Soviet developments. Some of these like drug experimentation and telepathy were covered under "Extreme Blue Sky" categories. It was believed that the USSR/KGB was developing hostile telepathy for information extraction and so the CIA started a similar program but with a wild spin-off: Goat Staring. When it came to light that a civilian had stared a goat to death, the CIA immediately took up a project that would produce a "death stare" for killing enemy opponents. Psychics were recruited and livestock were used as test subjects. The rationale behind this was "just in case" the USSR got there first! It is unknown how extensive the program was but at least ONE goat was stared to death. Whether this was then tested against any humans is not known but apparently the program was cancelled due to a shift towards psychic remote viewing which is claimed to have yielded better results. Remote viewing covers vast distances and valuable Intel can be gathered on strategic targets w/o leaving the US. The CIA in a claimed report to a US President (unnamed) was said to contain the message that the human mind is the most powerful weapon and someday psychic infantry would go into combat with hostile telepathic capabilities, the rifle a thing of the past!!! So far, it is obvious that that tech went nowhere...