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His advocacy also had limits: the program's credibility within mainstream Army intelligence was not enhanced by its association with a commander known for attempting to walk through walls. Officers who might otherwise have engaged with the remote viewing program's results distanced themselves from it to avoid association with what they considered an embarrassingly unconventional command climate.
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The sources differ on how and when his INSCOM command ended. [[Jim Schnabel]] wrote in [[The Independent]] of August 27, 1995 that Stubblebine "retired from the Army in 1984," and that "the fatal blow to his career came in 1983," when an INSCOM staff officer visited the [[Monroe Institute]]; Schnabel attributed that account to unnamed former colleagues and to [[Ed Dames]].[^1] A [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] addendum to a memorandum for the record dated December 10, 1985 lists "Stubblebine, Albert MG (Ret.)" as commanding general of INSCOM from May 1981 to June 1984.[^2] The [[Gasconade County Republican]] of [[Owensville, Missouri]] reported on May 16, 1984, in a local item on a retirement ceremony whose honoree appears to be a person named Huff, that "Major Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III, Commanding General, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Arlington Hall Station, Va." presided and spoke; the ceremony date is not given in the portion read.[^3] The project manager's records place the decision of his successor, [[Harry Soyster]], to discontinue Center Lane on July 13, 1984 (see below).[^4] The departure has also been described as a relief from command in 1984 followed by retirement from the Army; no source for that wording is identified. After his departure, the program continued but lost some of its most senior Army champion. The DIA subsequently took over primary program management.
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The sources differ on how and when his INSCOM command ended. [[Jim Schnabel]] wrote in [[The Independent]] of August 27, 1995 that Stubblebine "retired from the Army in 1984," and that "the fatal blow to his career came in 1983," when an INSCOM staff officer visited the [[Monroe Institute]]; Schnabel attributed that account to unnamed former colleagues and to [[Ed Dames]].[^1] A [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] addendum to a memorandum for the record dated December 10, 1985 lists "Stubblebine, Albert MG (Ret.)" as commanding general of INSCOM from May 1981 to June 1984.[^2] The [[Gasconade County Republican]] of [[Owensville, Missouri]] reported on May 16, 1984, in a local item on a retirement ceremony whose honoree appears to be a person named Huff, that "Major Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III, Commanding General, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Arlington Hall Station, Va." presided and spoke.[^3] The project manager's records place the decision of his successor, [[Harry Soyster]], to discontinue Center Lane on July 13, 1984 (see below).[^4] The departure has also been described as a relief from command in 1984 followed by retirement from the Army; no source for that wording is identified. After his departure, the program continued but lost some of its most senior Army champion. The DIA subsequently took over primary program management.
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### The Record
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi," The Independent (London), Sunday Review, August 27, 1995, pp. 10-13, FBIS transcription CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00791r000200090001-7.
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[^2]: "Addendum to MFR, dtd 10 Dec 85," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700030001-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001700030001-1.
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[^3]: "[Headline not captured]," Gasconade County Republican (Owensville, Mo.), May 16, 1984, p. 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/1124021519/ (local item on a retirement ceremony; ceremony date not captured).
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[^3]: Gasconade County Republican (Owensville, Mo.), May 16, 1984, p. 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/1124021519/ (local item on a retirement ceremony).
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[^4]: Jachim, Robert J., memorandum "Briefing for MG A.N. Stubblebine III," October 8, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220022-7; Buzby, Brian, memoranda "CENTER LANE Briefing for CG, USAINSCOM," August 29, 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220011-9), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983," December 6, 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984," January 17, 1984 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2); letter of the ACSI to Stubblebine, "CENTER LANE," April 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220002-9). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8; the scan's table columns are reflowed by OCR and some dates are uncertain. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^5]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^6]: Memorandum for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981," July 1, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^1]: SALT speaker pages: https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/anthony-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/avi-loeb ; https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/garry-nolan
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[^2]: SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, Form ADV Part 1A, annual amendment printed March 31, 2026, CRD 148152, SEC file 801-71056, Schedule A and Section 7.B.(1) (Private Fund Reporting). https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/148152 (PDF stored as data/K2/adv148152.pdf).
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[^3]: SALT, "About," https://www.salt.org/about
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[^4]: ForkLog, "FTX Ventures to acquire a stake in SkyBridge Capital," September 9, 2022, https://forklog.com/en/ftx-ventures-to-acquire-a-stake-in-skybridge-capital/ (quoting the press release; the original release was not located).
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[^4]: ForkLog, "FTX Ventures to acquire a stake in SkyBridge Capital," September 9, 2022, https://forklog.com/en/ftx-ventures-to-acquire-a-stake-in-skybridge-capital/ (quoting the press release).
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[^5]: FTX Trading Ltd. et al. v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC et al., Adv. Pro. No. 24-50209 (JTD), In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Complaint, Doc. 1, filed November 8, 2024, paras. 1 to 4. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.1.0_1.pdf ; Doc. 30, Defendants' Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Compel Arbitration and to Dismiss and/or Stay, filed January 29, 2025, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.30.0.pdf ; Doc. 52, Plaintiff's Memorandum of Law in Opposition, filed April 8, 2025, in the caption of which the plaintiff is "FTX Recovery Trust," https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.194806/gov.uscourts.deb.194806.52.0.pdf
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[^6]: In re FTX Trading Ltd., No. 22-11068 (Bankr. D. Del.), Doc. 574 (creditor matrix), p. 102 of 116. Doc. 574 filed January 25, 2023, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.188450/gov.uscourts.deb.188450.574.0.pdf ; the entry carries no street address, amount or claim type.
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[^7]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 (secondary, citing LinkedIn and the Daily Mail); Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/
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[^1]: Huntington Library, "Ben R. Rich papers, 1940-1995," Online Archive of California, biographical note, series descriptions and acquisition note (gift of Michael and Karen Rich, July 15, 2008), https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5rqx/admin/
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[^2]: Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), acknowledgments and chapters on Have Blue, the Skunk Works name, Paradise Ranch, the U-2 and Blackbird, from the Internet Archive text of a scanned copy, https://archive.org/details/skunk-works-apersonal-memoir-of-my-years-at-lockheed-ben-rrich (line references 44 to 52, 129, 180 to 200, 800 to 810, 1040 to 1056, 1440 to 1456, 2428 to 2456, 2912 to 2950, 4725 to 4745, 5825 and 7757).
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[^3]: "Ben Rich," in National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes, Volume 8 (Washington: National Academies Press, 1996), https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/5427/chapter/39 (chapter listed; page text not rendered in the copy opened). The 1989 Collier Trophy and Department of Defense Medal are as stated by Merlin (note 4).
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[^3]: "Ben Rich," in National Academy of Engineering, Memorial Tributes, Volume 8 (Washington: National Academies Press, 1996), https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/5427/chapter/39. The 1989 Collier Trophy and Department of Defense Medal are as stated by Merlin (note 4).
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[^4]: Peter W. Merlin, "Taking E.T. Home: Birth of a Modern Myth," SUNlite 5, no. 6 (November-December 2013), pp. 16 to 19, https://web.archive.org/web/20150321193509/home.comcast.net/~tprinty/UFO/SUNlite5_6.pdf (Merlin thanks the Huntington Library for access to the Rich papers). The Harzan and Keller statements are as reported by Merlin from the interviews of 2012 and 2013.
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[^5]: Roy J. Harris Jr., "The Skunk Works: Hush-Hush Projects Often Emerge There," The Wall Street Journal, October 13, 1980, CIA-RDP90-00806R000100660006-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00806r000100660006-2
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[^6]: "EWD NOTES 10/16/02," paper-clipped letter of Will Miller to Eric Davis, April 25, 2002, pp. 3 to 4, https://documents2.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wilsonleak.pdf (provenance and authorship of the notes unverified).
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[[Bill O'Donnell]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In May 1973, he inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret [[NSA]] facility near Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], to [[Richard Kennett]]. Kennett had asked O'Donnell for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that, if a drawing or photograph were shown later, O'Donnell would be able to confirm. O'Donnell, unaware of the true purpose, provided the precise coordinates of his summer cabin, which happened to be near the highly classified NSA site.[^1]
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[[Bill O'Donnell]] was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] officer. In May 1973, he inadvertently provided the coordinates for a secret [[NSA]] facility near Sugar Grove, [[West Virginia]], to [[Kit Green]]. Green had asked O'Donnell for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that, if a drawing or photograph were shown later, O'Donnell would be able to confirm. O'Donnell, unaware of the true purpose, provided the precise coordinates of his summer cabin, which happened to be near the highly classified NSA site.[^1]
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This incident, where [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]] accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. It led to a hostile security investigation, as the psychics' remote viewing data was accurate enough to suggest a massive leakage of top-secret information. O'Donnell initially dismissed the psychics' descriptions as "bullshit" because they didn't match his cabin, but later realized the true implications when Kennett discovered the secret military installation nearby.[^1]
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This incident, where [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]] accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. It led to a hostile security investigation, as the psychics' remote viewing data was accurate enough to suggest a massive leakage of top-secret information. O'Donnell initially dismissed the psychics' descriptions as "bullshit" because they didn't match his cabin, but later realized the true implications when Green discovered the secret military installation nearby.[^1]
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American Cosmic is dedicated to "[[Tyler D.]]," a pseudonymous figure whom Pasulka describes as one of the "most intelligent and successful people" she had met, a former aeronautical engineer who "worked on almost every space shuttle that was ever launched" and later a wealthy entrepreneur. As [[Nathaniel Rich]] summarizes Pasulka's account, after selling a biomedical device Tyler was stopped at an airport by federal agents who asked whether he wanted to return to the space program in a "very special" office, which Rich writes was "presumably located within" the [[White Sands Test Facility]] in [[New Mexico]], where he was assigned a desk beside a square room wrapped in concrete and metal. Tyler took Pasulka to a purported crash site in the New Mexico desert in the company of a second figure she called "James Master," who had analyzed an alleged artifact for a documentary and said two men in suits afterward asked him what he had really found.[^3]
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In Encounters, Pasulka identifies "James Master" as the Stanford immunologist [[Garry Nolan]].[^3] The identity of Tyler D. has not been given in the sources opened. Encounters also introduces "[[Gray Man]]," described as the head of a laboratory for a major research agency.[^3]
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In Encounters, Pasulka identifies "James Master" as the Stanford immunologist [[Garry Nolan]].[^3] Encounters also introduces "[[Gray Man]]," described as the head of a laboratory for a major research agency.[^3]
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Nolan co-founded the [[Sol Foundation]] with [[Peter Skafish]] and was introduced in 2023 as its "Executive Director of the Board." He said that because of his Stanford position he could not hold an officer role in an outside company and took no salary.[^10] The foundation's 2024 Form 990 lists him as a director at zero hours and zero compensation, and the [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] master file gives his Redwood City address as the care-of address for the organization's records.[^10][^11] The foundation's website, read October 3, 2026, lists him as "Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Board."[^12] The November 2023 symposium was hosted by the Nolan Laboratory and the Stanford School of Medicine.[^13] He signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], listing his chair as the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professorship in Pathology.[^14]
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In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^15] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named by [[Avi Loeb]] among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that Loeb leads.[^16] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^17]
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In Encounters (2023), [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] identified the figure she had called "James Master" in American Cosmic, a "world leading scientist" who had analyzed an alleged artifact, as Nolan.[^15] In June 2026 Nolan, Skafish and [[Tim Gallaudet]] were named by [[Avi Loeb]] among twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that Loeb leads.[^16] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it.[^17]
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The [[Federal Election Commission]] database lists contributions from a Garry Nolan of Redwood City, California who gives Stanford as his employer: $250 to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 campaign committee on April 7, 2016, $2,900 to [[Mike Levin]]'s congressional campaign on March 22, 2021, and small amounts through [[ActBlue]] to other Democratic candidates, most recently on October 28, 2024.[^18]
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[^5]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Info Memo U-10-2552CE to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, 2010. https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/AAWSAP/U-10-2552CE-IM-ATL.pdf
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[^6]: Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API, schedule A; Searchlight Leadership Fund is committee C00327395 (sponsor candidate S6NV00028, Harry Reid) and Friends for Harry Reid committee C00204370. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/
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[^7]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico,* December 16, 2017. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 (full text read through https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111); Bender, "The Hidden History of How Washington Embraced UFOs," *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900
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[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 11 to 15 (Reid indexed at pp. 11 and 13 to 14; Bigelow at p. 15). Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
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[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 11 to 15 (Reid indexed at pp. 11 and 13 to 14; Bigelow at p. 15).
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[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Foreword by Christopher Mellon, dated May 16, 2024, pp. xiii to xxii (the Reid passage near p. xv).
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[^10]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 88 to 89.
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[^11]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 209 to 210 and the photograph section (caption beginning "Official letter from former Senate Majority Leader and AATIP sponsor Harry Reid").
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[^1]: "Background on Moore/Shandera/Friedman," UFO BBS file UFO1876, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1876.ufo (promotional text for *UFO Cover-Up? Live!*).
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[^2]: "E B E's," part 5, UFO BBS file UFO1024, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo (author not identified in the copy consulted).
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[^2]: "E B E's," part 5, UFO BBS file UFO1024, http://textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo.
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[^3]: William L. Moore and Jaime H. Shandera, *The MJ-12 Documents: An Analytical Report* (Fund for UFO Research, 1990), "Introduction," p. 3; "The Aquarius Teletype," p. 9, http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/The-MJ-12-Documents-An-Analytical-Report-Excerpts.pdf (scanned excerpt, read as page images).
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[^4]: Moore and Shandera, *MJ-12 Documents*, "The MJ-12 Documents (Dec. 1984)," p. 29, same excerpt.
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[^5]: Moore and Shandera, *MJ-12 Documents*, "The Cutler-Twining Memo (Jul. 1985)," pp. 61 to 62, same excerpt.
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[^2]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 5 to 14. Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
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[^2]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 5 to 14.
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[^3]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 71 to 73.
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[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 143, 147 and 186 (Interloper at pp. 143 and 186; the term UAP at p. 186).
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[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 211 and 223 (task force and first director at p. 223).
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[^1]: "W. Lee Rawls, Justice Department official and Senate aide," obituary, *The Washington Post,* December 2010; Princeton Alumni Weekly memorial, Class of 1966; "Lee Rawls, Former Chief of Staff to FBI Director Mueller, Dies," *Tickle the Wire,* December 2010. The three obituaries agree on the career; none was opened in full, and the biographical details rest on their summaries.
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[^1]: "W. Lee Rawls, Justice Department official and Senate aide," obituary, *The Washington Post,* December 2010; Princeton Alumni Weekly memorial, Class of 1966; "Lee Rawls, Former Chief of Staff to FBI Director Mueller, Dies," *Tickle the Wire,* December 2010. The three obituaries agree on the career.
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[^2]: Friedman, Alan. *Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq,* Bantam, 1993, pp. 193-194.
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[^3]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair,* H. Rept. 102-857, September 10, 1992, correspondence of May and July 1991. https://archive.org/details/InslawAffairInvestigativeReport
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summary: "Mike Russo was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who, along with other Livermore personnel, experienced a series of bizarre, hallucination-inducing phenomena after their involvement with Uri Geller."
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summary: "Mike Russo is the pseudonym Jim Schnabel gave a Lawrence Livermore physicist who, with other Livermore personnel, experienced apparitions after the group's involvement with Uri Geller."
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Mike Russo was a physicist at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] (LLNL) who, along with other Livermore personnel, experienced a series of bizarre, hallucination-inducing phenomena after their involvement with [[Uri Geller]]. These apparitions included hovering, monochrome flying saucers and strange animals, such as large raven-like birds.[^1]
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Mike Russo is the pseudonym [[Jim Schnabel]] gave a physicist at [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] (LLNL) in *[[Remote Viewers]]* (1997).[^2] In Schnabel's account he and other Livermore personnel experienced a series of bizarre, hallucination-inducing phenomena after their involvement with [[Uri Geller]]. These apparitions included hovering, monochrome flying saucers and strange animals, such as large raven-like birds.[^1]
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Russo and others began to seriously question their sanity due to these experiences. He was part of the group that met with [[Richard Kennett]] of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to discuss the unsettling events. Russo also complained about a telephone call from a strange metallic voice that demanded the Livermore group cease its research activities with Geller, after which the apparitions faded away.[^1]
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Russo and others began to seriously question their sanity due to these experiences. He was part of the group that met with [[Kit Green]] of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] to discuss the unsettling events. Russo also complained about a telephone call from a strange metallic voice that demanded the Livermore group cease its research activities with Geller, after which the apparitions faded away.[^1]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Havenstein, Rudy. "Dr. Green and the Goblins of Langley." Substack, July 11, 2025, https://rudy.substack.com/p/dr-green-and-the-goblins-of-langley, quoting *Grey Lodge Occult Review* 1, no. 5: "The names Richard Kennett, Peter Crane, Mike Russo and Don Kurtis which appear below are pseudonyms employed by Mr. Schnabel."
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[^1]: Stanford Research Institute, "Project SCANATE, Exploratory Research in Remote Viewing," 1973, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100480002-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part one, executive summary, SRI Project 3183, covering January 1974 to February 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100420001-1. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, 153 pp., CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "An Analysis of a Remote Viewing Experiment of URDF-3," report of the four sessions of July 9 to 15, 1974, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200240001-0, cited by Kress as the work of Dr. Stillman of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, December 4, 1975. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Review of Perceptual Augmentation Techniques," unsigned review of SRI progress reports 1 to 3, c. August 1974, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200230001-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Brandwein, David S., Director, Office of Technical Service, memoranda "Stanford Research Institute Parapsychology Research," February 20, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020001-9), and "OTS Support to Research in Parapsychology," October 7, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020016-3); memorandum for the record, "Briefing for House Permanent Select Committee re OTS Involvement in ESP Research," OTS memo 287-77, November 17, 1977 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020020-8); memorandum for the record, "Discussions with OTS on the SRI Project," June 22, 1974 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110016-8). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607, read in the CIA Reading Room copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000100220001-8 on archive.org. Targ, Russell. "Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s: A Memoir," *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 77-88, reprinted from Targ and Katra, *Mind-to-Mind* (1996); read in a Wayback Machine copy of the journal's PDF.
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[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^901]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0. Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. *Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing,* Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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Skafish signed the November 12, 2024 letter to Congress urging passage of the review-board provisions of the [[Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act]], identifying himself as "Co-Founder, Sol Foundation; Sociocultural Anthropologist; Researcher; Author." The signers included Garry Nolan, [[Avi Loeb]], [[John B. Alexander]], [[Christopher Mellon]], [[Tim Gallaudet]], [[Luis Elizondo]], [[Diana Walsh Pasulka]] and [[Yuan Fung]] of the [[UAP Disclosure Fund]].[^9]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that an interagency UAP Governance Board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council.[^10] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^11]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave [[DefenseScoop]] a list of twelve members of a "UAP Science Advisory Council" that included Skafish, listed under anthropology, with Nolan, Gallaudet, [[Michael Shermer]], [[Ben Lamm]] and others. An official of the [[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]] told DefenseScoop that an interagency UAP Governance Board is supported by outside advisory groups including the council.[^10] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it.[^11]
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Ronald Pandolfi is described in the files of the White House [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] on [[Laurance Rockefeller]]'s UFO initiative, in a [[Congressional Research Service]] chronology and in *The [[New York Times]]* as a scientist or analyst of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], and he figures in the 1998 congressional inquiry into [[Hughes Electronics]] and [[China]]. The sources opened do not state his CIA office or title; an office-level description (including the [[Office of Scientific and Weapons Research]]) was not found in any opened source and is not asserted here.
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Ronald Pandolfi is described in the files of the White House [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] on [[Laurance Rockefeller]]'s UFO initiative, in a [[Congressional Research Service]] chronology and in *The [[New York Times]]* as a scientist or analyst of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], and he figures in the 1998 congressional inquiry into [[Hughes Electronics]] and [[China]].
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[^4]: Congressional Research Service, "China: Possible Missile Technology Transfers under U.S. Satellite Export Policy: Actions and Chronology," report 98-485 F, entries for April 1996 and September 1998, https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-485F.html (Shelby statement of September 2000 at note 77); and CRS report RL30220, https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/19990608_RL30220_8a89fcc3410f43e494c171a03c54353429cabd96.html.
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[^5]: U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, *Report* (Cox Report), 1999, section "Issues" on CIA and Hughes, https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1999_r/cox/appbod.htm.
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[^6]: Gerth, Jeff. "Old Concerns Over Data Transfer to China Get New Attention," *The New York Times,* December 7, 1998, reproduced at https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/pandolfi-ron/.
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[^7]: "CIA being investigated for information given to Hughes," *The Kansas City Star* (Washington Post wire), December 5, 1998, p. A10, https://www.newspapers.com/image/685529422/. Byline not visible in the view read.
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[^7]: "CIA being investigated for information given to Hughes," *The Kansas City Star* (Washington Post wire), December 5, 1998, p. A10, https://www.newspapers.com/image/685529422/.
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[^8]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* reproduced at http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source for the code name.
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[^9]: "E B E's," UFO BBS files UFO1024 and UFO1030, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo; Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men,* 2010, PDF at https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. Text searches of those files and of the book for "Pandolfi" returned no matches.
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[^9]: "E B E's," UFO BBS files UFO1024 and UFO1030, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1024.ufo; Pilkington, Mark. *Mirage Men,* 2010, PDF at https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf.
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[^10]: Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, section on EarthTech, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^11]: Basterfield, Keith. "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" December 21, 2016, quoting Vallee, *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* p. 480 (the quoted note refers to Alexander's February 2011 book), https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. For Shannon's list, Loose Threads Report p. 15.
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[^12]: Oechsler, Bob, *Alien Update,* as quoted in Elizondo and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, p. 47, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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