It's well documented that both the Soviets and the CIA spent a lot of time and money chasing mind control and ESP back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. The experiments with LSD that were made famous by Ken Kesey were actually part of the program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
In the end neither government ever saw any evidence of mind control, ESP or other paranormal phenomenon.