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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
updated: 2026-06-12
title: Advanced Research Projects Agency
aliases:
- ARPA
tags:
- organization
- government
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While ARPA's corporate stance was not to pursue further investigations into Geller, one of its team members, psychologist [[Robert Van de Castle]], was reportedly impressed by Geller's abilities.[^1]
### Long-Horizon Research and Military Psychology
ARPA was specifically designed to sponsor projects whose results would not arrive for ten to fifteen years, providing a funding mechanism for long-horizon military science outside standard procurement budgets. Its [[Arlington, Virginia]] headquarters sat in the same building complex as the [[USARIBSS|Army Research Institute]] and other military psychological research organizations. In the psychological sciences its Cold War work concentrated on biofeedback research and early brain-weapon studies (including whether pilots' brain states could be linked to missile systems), and on the psychology of insurgent organizations, with [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] as the primary focus. The most prominent ARPA-commissioned psychological study was the [[Rand Corporation]]'s Viet Cong motivation and morale study of the early 1960s, and ARPA also sponsored [[Project Agile]], a series of Asian military-science studies that included the [[Battelle Memorial Institute]] smell-weapons research of 1966. A 1964 classified memorandum from the Director of Defense Research and Engineering placed ARPA in an integrating role for behavioral and social science research across the service branches.[^2]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
[^2]: Peter Watson, *War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology*. Basic Books, 1978.