Remote viewing was originally a classified program sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency. They turned it over to the CIA which in turn contracted with Stanford Research Institute (SRI), SAIC and AIR to test it. In about 1995 its existence was declassified. Although the skeptic community claimed the results of the testing invalidated RVing even Hyman would not go on the record as completely debunking it and he published several papers on his examination of the study as did Dr. Jessica Utts of the University of California Davis. They also issued a joint communiqie. The National Science Foundation in turn selected the negative aspects of the study and issued a statement debunking remote viewing. Shortly after it was declassified, at least one American President, Jimmy Carter, mentioned an RV project, that of rv'ers finding a crashed soviet aircraft in Zaire (Congo).
This was at Emory University.
Allegedly the inconclusive findings of the CIA contractors led the CIA to publicly state they disbanded the program and they may well have but rumours continue to surface that a nucleus of it, scaled back, remains but cannot be proven.