Center Lane's code-breaking training plan
A 1984 Army memo describes training remote viewers to choose between binary alternatives because sponsors asked whether psychics could compromise cipher systems.
1984 CE · 39.11, -76.74 · status: official
The account
The INSCOM Center Lane Project's training plan of 22 October 1984 says collection had stopped in September 1984 ahead of transfer to DIA, while viewers continued Ingo Swann's coordinate training under an SRI subcontract (p.1-2). It describes ARDBA (Abstract Referents Discrimination of Binary Alternatives), begun because two sponsors asked whether viewers could compromise existing cryptographic systems; a pilot would try to decode a random number sequence sealed in an envelope (p.2). A later note says the binary trainees exceeded chance, without figures (p.3).
The sceptical view
No results, statistics or outcome of the pilot are given in the record, and nothing shows that any code was ever broken this way.