At CIA headquarters in a secure communications room, Director Gregory Judd paces while awaiting word from Prague. He worries that Gessner’s detailed video confession has exposed too much about their top-secret facility, and he hopes the damage can be contained.

As he waits, Judd reflects that Threshold has shaped his career for decades. He recalls being shown a drawing of a Siberian construction site that matched a later satellite photo, and learning the drawing came from Ingo Swann “remote viewing” the location despite never leaving the United States.

Judd remembers how the CIA took the threat seriously after Soviet émigré August Stern described an accurate Soviet psi-intelligence facility and its successful remote viewing of a U.S. site. The CIA launched its own program under a Stanford-linked think tank, cycling through early code names before becoming Project Stargate in 1977, with remote viewers like Swann, Pat Price, and Joseph McMoneagle producing startling intelligence successes.

He recalls Stargate’s growth and a closed-door congressional demonstration that rattled lawmakers, followed by the 1995 public “admission” that Stargate was defunct and a failure—an intentional cover story meant to quell scrutiny and discourage adversaries. Unauthorized books by retired participants drew little serious attention because the true accounts sounded too unbelievable to most readers.

Judd then remembers renewed exposure in 2015, including a Newsweek article quoting retired manager Brian Buzby affirming Stargate worked, and renewed public conspiracy interest that was uncomfortably accurate. Under the cover of Stargate’s supposed failure, remote viewing continued in secret, enabling the creation of a more secure and technologically advanced successor: Project Threshold.

A voice on the communications system announces a connection, pulling Judd back to the present. Judd authorizes the link, and the screen shifts from the CIA seal to the defiant face of Ambassador Heide Nagel, flanked by two U.S. Marines.