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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Remote Viewing]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[STARGATE PROJECT]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Albert Stubblebine]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Claiborne Pell]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Robert Jachim]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Sun Streak]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[SCANATE]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Charlie Rose]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Edwin May]]
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- 2026-09-22T0005 · [[Jessica Utts]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[San Diego]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Bay of Pigs]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[ECHELON]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Project Monarch]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Domestic Contact Service]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[William Sargant]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Rolando Otero]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Ricky Ross]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Guillermo Novo]]
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- 2026-09-22T0000 · [[Eugene Propper]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Ronald McIntyre]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Nilo Floody]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Angela Dellafiora]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Vernon Walters]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Héctor Orozco]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Ricardo Morales Navarrete]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Russell Targ]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Dale Graff]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Joe McMoneagle]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[Robert Gates]]
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- 2026-09-21T2359 · [[John B. Alexander]]
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- 2026-09-21T2356 · [[Ingo Swann]]
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- 2026-09-21T2356 · [[Kenneth A. Kress]]
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- 2026-09-21T2356 · [[David Brandwein]]
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- 2026-09-21T2356 · [[David Brandwein]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Mel Riley]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Psychoenergetics]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Extrasensory Perception]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Jack Vorona]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Lyn Buchanan]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Frederick Atwater]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Ed Dames]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Brian Buzby]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Rob Cowart]]
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- 2026-09-21T2353 · [[Sun Streak]]
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- 2026-09-21T2352 · [[_NOTES_SRI_era_1972_85]]
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- 2026-09-21T2351 · [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[George H.W. Bush]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Harry Soyster]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[William Odom]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Lincoln D. Faurer]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Robert Jachim]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Malcolm Wallop]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Center Lane]]
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- 2026-09-21T2350 · [[Brian Buzby]]
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- 2026-09-21T2347 · [[_NOTES_Sun_Streak_operations]]
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- 2026-09-21T2347 · [[_NOTES_INSCOM_chronology_and_Congress]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Edmund Thompson]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Robert Keenan]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Kenneth A. Kress]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Hal Puthoff]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[George H.W. Bush]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Jack Vorona]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Angela Dellafiora]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Charlie Rose]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[John B. Alexander]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Jim Channon]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[First Earth Battalion]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Project Deep Quest]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[Jessica Utts]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]
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- 2026-09-21T2336 · [[STARGATE PROJECT]]
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- 2026-09-21T2329 · [[Andrija Puharich]]
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- 2026-09-21T2329 · [[Uri Geller]]
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- 2026-09-21T2328 · [[Albert Stubblebine]]
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- 2026-09-21T2328 · [[Monroe Institute]]
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- 2026-09-21T2328 · [[Robert Monroe]]
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- 2026-09-21T2328 · [[Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Future Enterprises]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[David Morehouse]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Murray Watt]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Frederick Atwater]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Office of Technical Service]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Peter Maris]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Norm Everheart]]
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- 2026-09-21T2325 · [[Nick Clancy]]
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- 2026-09-21T2323 · [[Dale Graff]]
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- 2026-09-21T2323 · [[Jim Channon]]
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- 2026-09-21T2323 · [[First Earth Battalion]]
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- 2026-09-21T2317 · [[_NOTES_Parallel_psi_programs]]
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- 2026-09-21T2317 · [[_NOTES_Stargate_people]]
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- 2026-09-21T2317 · [[_backup_STARGATE_PROJECT_pre_rewrite]]
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- 2026-09-21T2316 · [[_NOTES_Stargate_program_documents]]
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- 2026-09-21T2314 · [[Edwin May]]
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- 2026-09-21T2314 · [[Ray Hyman]]
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- 2026-09-21T2314 · [[American Institutes for Research]]
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- 2026-09-21T2314 · [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]
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- 2026-09-21T2310 · [[_NOTES_Stargate_AIR_and_science]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Vernon Walters]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Héctor Orozco]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Raúl Iturriaga Neumann]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Cuban Nationalist Movement]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Nilo Floody]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[DINA]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Ronald McIntyre]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Rolando Mosqueira]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Michael Townley]]
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- 2026-09-21T2259 · [[Armando Fernandez Larios]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[Eugene Propper]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[Rolando Otero]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[Guillermo Novo]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[René Riveros]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[Ronald McIntyre]]
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- 2026-09-21T2255 · [[Nilo Floody]]
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- 2026-09-21T2252 · [[_NOTES_Causa_Contreras_Espinoza_1991]]
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- 2026-09-21T2139 · [[Mariana Callejas]]
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- 2026-09-21T2139 · [[Pedro Espinoza]]
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- 2026-09-21T2139 · [[Manuel Contreras]]
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- 2026-09-21T2139 · [[Audio Intelligence Devices]]
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- 2026-09-21T2134 · [[Ricardo Morales Navarrete]]
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- 2026-09-21T2134 · [[Jose Dionisio Suarez]]
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- 2026-09-21T2134 · [[Rolando Mosqueira]]
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- 2026-09-21T2134 · [[René Riveros]]
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- 2026-09-21T2134 · [[Héctor Orozco]]
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- 2026-09-21T2129 · [[Domestic Contact Service]]
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- 2026-09-21T2129 · [[Justin Gleichauf]]
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- 2026-09-21T2129 · [[Wackenhut Corporation]]
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- 2026-09-21T2129 · [[Bruce Berckmans]]
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- 2026-09-21T2125 · [[Tom Clines]]
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- 2026-09-21T2125 · [[Bruce Berckmans]]
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- 2026-09-21T2122 · [[_NOTES_DCS_Wackenhut_full_read]]
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- 2026-09-21T2122 · [[Audio Intelligence Devices]]
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- 2026-09-21T2121 · [[_NOTES_Audio_Intelligence_Devices]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[Alvin Ross]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[Ignacio Novo]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[Felipe Rivero]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[Sherman Kaminsky]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[Ricky Ross]]
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- 2026-09-21T2111 · [[San Diego]]
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- 2026-09-21T2106 · [[Robert Scherrer]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Ricardo Cañete]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Orlando Letelier]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Sherman Kaminsky]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Ricardo Cañete]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Justin Gleichauf]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Ignacio Novo]]
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- 2026-09-21T2105 · [[Felipe Rivero]]
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- 2026-09-21T2048 · [[William Walter]]
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Angela Dellafiora, later Ford, was a civilian analyst on Latin America at [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who joined the DIA's remote-viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]], then called [[Sun Streak]], in early 1986, and stayed until the program closed in 1995. She worked by automatic writing in a trance, attributing the results to figures she called George, Dr. Einstein, and Maurice.[^4]
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Angela Dellafiora, later Ford, was a civilian analyst on [[Latin America]] at [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] who joined the DIA's remote-viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]], then called [[Sun Streak]], in early 1986, and stayed until the program closed in 1995. She worked by automatic writing in a trance, attributing the results to figures she called George, Dr. Einstein, and Maurice.[^4]
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summary: "INSCOM lieutenant colonel who ran the Center Lane remote-viewing project from August 15, 1983, briefed Senator Wallop and the intelligence committee staffs with Vorona and Puthoff, and negotiated its transfer to DIA."
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Brian Buzby, a lieutenant colonel of military intelligence, "assumes duties as Project Manager" of [[Center Lane]] on August 15, 1983, as chief of the Security Systems Planning Division of the 902d Military Intelligence Group at [[Fort Meade]], succeeding Captain [[Frederick Atwater]] as acting manager and Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert Jachim]]. On August 26 he, Atwater, and [[Joe McMoneagle]] briefed the commander of [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]], [[Albert Stubblebine]], on the project and the [[Monroe Institute]]; the chief of staff had asked him beforehand whether he was in contact with Lieutenant Colonel [[John B. Alexander]], and Buzby "explained that LTC Alexander's involvement with parapsychology was entirely overt and that we neither had nor wanted any contact with him." He wrote the records of Stubblebine's decisions of November 30, 1983, and January 6, 1984, on the RAPT training, the recruitment of Captain [[Ed Dames]], the "Los Alamos Project," and Alexander's debriefing of [[Russell Targ]].[^1]
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With [[Jack Vorona]] of DIA and [[Hal Puthoff]] he briefed Senator [[Malcolm Wallop]] on October 5, 1983, and the staff of the two intelligence committees on October 7, and recorded of the staff that "it is unclear if they accepted our definition of accuracy" after they asked "how we derived an 85 percent accuracy figure"; "I did not receive the same positive feeling after the briefing to the Congressional Staffers as I did after the briefings to the Secretary of the Army and Senator Wallop." He wrote the Center Lane briefing script and the overview of May 4, 1984, that recommended the project stay in INSCOM, and after Brigadier General [[Harry Soyster]] decided in July 1984 to discontinue it, saw it through the memorandum of agreement with DIA and the end of operations on September 28, 1984.[^1][^2]
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His "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project" is dated May 10, 1985, two months after the unit passed to DIA.[^3]
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[^1]: 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. Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Buzby, Brian, memorandum on the briefing of Congressional intelligence committee staff of October 7, 1983, October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270017-8; "ITAOPS Fact Sheet, Inputs for MG Stubblebine," April 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220021-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Buzby, Brian, "Purpose: To Provide an Overview of Center Lane," May 4, 1984, with the CIA memorandum "Comments on Recent CENTER LANE Experience," May 1, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220003-8. 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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[^3]: Grill Flame volunteer security agreements, consent statements, and counseling statements for Joseph W. McMoneagle (February 8, 1979; October 26, 1979; February 19, 1980), Melvin C. Riley (February 8, 1979), and Robert C. Cowart (June 3 and October 2, 1981), and "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project (Brian Buzby)," May 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00789R0021001500xx series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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Graff attended the first meeting of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee on November 28, 1978, and the committee's minutes of 1979 list him at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Air Force Foreign Technology Division, reporting to the group in July 1979 "that the Japanese student who effects photographic film is to visit the US."[^2]
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On *Nightline* in November 1995, identified as the physicist who had directed the DIA's project for five years, Graff said of the Dozier kidnapping, "we had one viewer come up with the name of the city, Padua. We had another one come up with the name of the building he was in," and of the Jordan search, "we like to count it as a success."[^3]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room.
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David S. Brandwein was director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]] in the middle 1970s, the office that had funded the remote-viewing research at [[Stanford Research Institute]] since 1972. On February 20, 1976, he sent the director of research and development "two reports summarizing the final work by SRI for OTS, together with a memorandum discussing the status of the parapsychology program. As you are no doubt aware, I directed that OTS support of this effort be terminated. I continue to believe that it would be inappropriate for us to continue it; however, if ORD desires to pick it up, be my guest." On October 7, 1976, having read the minutes of the twelfth meeting of the research and development subcommittee of the Human Resources Committee, at which OTS officers had briefed on the work and it was recorded that "enough empirical evidence existed to warrant further research in this area," he wrote to the Intelligence Community Staff: "I think you know my position on this, but just in case there is some confusion I want to make myself clear. OTS will not support any further research in parapsychology."[^1]
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After the *Washington Post*'s Parade section published "Psychic Spying" on August 7, 1977, the [[House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]] asked for a briefing. Brandwein gave it to three staff members on November 16, 1977, from ten to eleven: "A short oral history of OTS efforts in the field, dating back to 1961, was presented. All three staffers asked very pertinent questions and were given frank and in-depth replies." Since the officers "could speak only for OTS," one was asked to find out whether any other component was sponsoring such research, and the staff were left "a written outline of OTS work on ESP, classified SECRET, the IEEE article covering the unclassified portions of the work done by SRI and a brief article on Mr. [[Pat Price]]." On February 9, 1978, the OTS briefing for Representative [[Charlie Rose]] "was largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein."[^1][^2]
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[^1]: 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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[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose," February 9, 1978, OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4.
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title: Ed Dames
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summary: "Ed Dames was a U.S. Army Major who served as the remote viewing unit's training and operations officer at Fort Meade during the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs before retiring to found PSI Tech and becoming a controversial public figure known for apocalyptic predictions."
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summary: "Army captain recruited to Center Lane in 1983 with Stubblebine's approval, a session monitor and trainer at Fort Meade, who left in 1989 to found PSI Tech and sell remote viewing commercially."
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born: 1946-03-22
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location: "San Francisco, California"
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Ed Dames was a [[U.S. Army]] Major who served as training and operations officer in the classified remote viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, during the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Center Lane]] and Sun Streak phases of the program in the 1980s and early 1990s. Within the unit he occupied a managerial and analytical role rather than being a primary operational viewer himself, working with [[Edwin May]] and the DIA sponsorship structure. His post-military public profile, built on commercial remote viewing training and alarming predictions about planetary catastrophe, made him simultaneously the most publicly visible and most criticized figure to emerge from the Fort Meade program.[^1]
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Ed Dames was a [[U.S. Army]] Major who served as training and operations officer in the classified remote viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, during the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Center Lane]] and [[Sun Streak]] phases of the program in the 1980s and early 1990s. Within the unit he occupied a managerial and analytical role rather than being a primary operational viewer himself, working with [[Edwin May]] and the DIA sponsorship structure. His post-military public profile, built on commercial remote viewing training and alarming predictions about planetary catastrophe, made him simultaneously the most publicly visible and most criticized figure to emerge from the Fort Meade program.[^1]
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### Fort Meade Service
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His personality was described by contemporaries as forceful and controlling, with an intensity that generated friction within the small unit. Jim Schnabel's account of the program characterizes Dames as someone who took the unit's work extremely seriously and who bridged the analytical and the operational within the structure while maintaining a strong personal commitment to the reality of remote viewing phenomena.[^1]
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The [[Center Lane]] project manager's record of a meeting with General [[Albert Stubblebine]] on November 30, 1983, reads: "We identified CPT Edward Dames as a perspective CENTER LANE member. He agreed to a future assignment to the project and to participate in the training. Major Laing had concurred in the training and CPT Dames involvement in CENTER LANE. Major General Stubblebine commented that Dames was a good choice."[^2]
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### PSI Tech and Public Career
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After leaving the Army, Dames founded PSI Tech, a commercial remote viewing company, in 1989 - before STAR GATE's 1995 declassification. PSI Tech offered training and contracted remote viewing services to corporate and private clients, capitalizing on former government program personnel credentials at a time when the program's existence was not yet officially acknowledged.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997. Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: 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.
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Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater (born 1947, Glendale, California) was the [[U.S. Army]] intelligence officer at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, who proposed the formation of a military remote viewing unit in 1977, recruited its initial personnel, and served as its operations officer through the program's most active period until his retirement from the Army in 1987. His proposal directly initiated what became the [[STARGATE PROJECT]] series of programs - Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak - that constituted the military's remote viewing research and intelligence effort for nearly two decades.
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Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater (born 1947, Glendale, California) was the [[U.S. Army]] intelligence officer at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, who proposed the formation of a military remote viewing unit in 1977, recruited its initial personnel, and served as its operations officer through the program's most active period until his retirement from the Army in 1987. His proposal directly initiated what became the [[STARGATE PROJECT]] series of programs - Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, [[Sun Streak]] - that constituted the military's remote viewing research and intelligence effort for nearly two decades.
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### Army Career and STARGATE Initiation
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Frederick H. Atwater, known as Skip, was a lieutenant in the Special Security Detachment of the 902d Military Intelligence Group at Fort Meade when INSCOM began its remote-viewing project in October 1978. The project manager, Major Murray Watt, reported in February 1979 that "the initial concern of the Project Manager (PM) was to develop a full understanding of parapsychology and the various aspects of the phenomena. Towards this end, the PM has been greatly assisted by Lieutenant Frederick H. Atwater. LT Atwater, although assigned to the Special Security Detachment, 902d MI Group, was attached to the GRILL FLAME project because of previous research into this area during work on a separate project." Watt and Atwater "were busy preparing a method that would help them select the INSCOM personnel who would volunteer for participation," considering 251 and interviewing 117, and on January 12, 1979, the two visited the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity at [[Aberdeen Proving Ground]], which was running its own tests of the SRI protocol.[^1]
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He remained the unit's operations officer through Grill Flame and [[Center Lane]]. INSCOM's chronology records for August 1983: "CPT Frederick Atwater assumes duties as Acting Project Manager," between Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jachim's departure and Lieutenant Colonel Brian Buzby's arrival on August 15. Published accounts by participants credit him with recruiting the first six viewers, among them Joe McMoneagle and Mel Riley, and with the unit's training in [[Robert Monroe]]'s Hemi-Sync method, which the Center Lane briefing dates to the end of 1980. After retiring from the Army in 1988 he became research director of the Monroe Institute's laboratory and, in 2006, its president, and was a founder and president of the International Remote Viewing Association.[^1][^2][^3]
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He remained the unit's operations officer through Grill Flame and [[Center Lane]]. INSCOM's chronology records, under a date read as July 7 or August 1983, "CPT Frederick Atwater assumes duties as Acting Project Manager," between Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jachim's departure and Lieutenant Colonel Brian Buzby's arrival on August 15. Published accounts by participants credit him with recruiting the first six viewers, among them Joe McMoneagle and Mel Riley, and with the unit's training in [[Robert Monroe]]'s Hemi-Sync method, which the Center Lane briefing dates to the end of 1980. After retiring from the Army in 1988 he became research director of the Monroe Institute's laboratory and, in 2006, its president, and was a founder and president of the International Remote Viewing Association.[^1][^2][^3]
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At the same time Reagan and Bush were publicly whipping the American public into a frenzy over street-corner crack dealers, [[Oliver North]] and other top administration officials were livid that Contra-connected drug trafficker General [[Jose Bueso Rosa]] had even been charged with a crime. North's computer messages about Bueso Rosa illustrated how skewed the Reagan administration's sense of justice had become regarding its "War on Drugs." [[Scott Weekly]], a figure connected to the CIA and the Hasenfus shootdown, claimed on tape that he reported to people who reported to Bush.[^3]
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As director of central intelligence in 1976 Bush was briefed on the CIA's remote-viewing research at [[Stanford Research Institute]] after the agency learned that Soviet visitors were "questioning Puthoff and Targ at SRI," and left office before reacting. As vice president, on August 3, 1983, he "was briefed for thirty minutes concerning [[Center Lane|CENTER LANE]] related activities by Dr. [[Jack Vorona]], DIA," the Army's remote-viewing unit, with "Adm. Murphy, C/S," and "Mr. Gregg" present; INSCOM's chronology records that "the briefing was well received and the Vice President was interested and impressed."[^4]
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As director of central intelligence in 1976 Bush was briefed on the CIA's remote-viewing research at [[Stanford Research Institute]] after the agency learned that Soviet visitors were "questioning Puthoff and Targ at SRI," and left office before reacting. As vice president, in 1983 (the chronology's date reads as March 31 or August 3), he "was briefed for thirty minutes concerning [[Center Lane|CENTER LANE]] related activities by Dr. [[Jack Vorona]], DIA," the Army's remote-viewing unit, with "Adm. Murphy, C/S," and "Mr. Gregg" present; INSCOM's chronology records that "the briefing was well received and the Vice President was interested and impressed."[^4]
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John B. Alexander, a lieutenant colonel of the [[United States Army|Army]] who had served with the Special Forces in Thailand and Vietnam, published "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock'" in *[[Military Review]]* in December 1980. Its author note placed him on the staff of the Army's inspector general in Washington after heading the human resources division of the organizational effectiveness office at [[Fort McPherson]].[^2]
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### The New Mental Battlefield
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The article's note gave him as "with the Inspector General Agency, Department of the Army, Washington, DC," with a B.A. from the [[University of Nebraska]], an M.A. from [[Pepperdine University]], a Ph.D. from [[Walden University]], and a 1980 diploma from the Command and General Staff College. It opened: "Psychotronics may be described as the interaction of mind and matter. While the concepts may stretch the imagination of many readers, research in this area has been underway for years, and the possibility for employment as weaponry has been explored. To be more specific, there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." Citing the DIA reports of 1972 and 1975 by [[John LaMothe]] and Louis Maire, [[Thomas Bearden]]'s "Soviet Psychotronic Weapons" in *Specula* (1976), Henry Gris and William Dick's *The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries,* and Ostrander and Schroeder, it stated that "it is generally believed that the Soviets and their allies are well in the lead"; that "the ability to heal or cause disease can be transmitted over distance, thus inducing illness or death for no apparent cause. While this has been demonstrated on lower organisms, flies and frogs, the present capacity for human death is still debated"; that "telepathic behavior modification, which includes the ability to induce hypnotic states up to distances in excess of 1,000 kilometers, has been reported"; that the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] work of Targ and Puthoff "tends to support claims that relatively accurate information can be obtained"; that "the intelligence-gathering capability available through remote viewing or OOBE travel is obvious"; that the Soviets "have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in Moscow" with "extremely-low-frequency (ELF) emissions" of "psychoactive characteristics"; and that "the use of telepathic hypnosis also holds great potential. This capability could allow agents to be deeply planted with no conscious knowledge of their programming. In movie terms, the Manchurian candidate lives and does not even require a phone call." It concluded: "It has been suggested that whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons." "Clearly, psychotronic weapons already exist; only their capabilities are in doubt."[^3]
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### INSCOM
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He served under Major General Albert Stubblebine at INSCOM during the [[Center Lane]] years. The project manager's record of a meeting with Stubblebine on November 30, 1983, notes "an update on the RAPT training" and that the general "confirmed his decision to hold a 'bonding' ceremony and that it would be lead by LTC Alexander." At a meeting on January 6, 1984, the "recent LTC Alexander problem concerning the debriefing of Russell Targ" was raised: "The CG stated that he was unaware that there was a problem as he had not instructed LTC Alexander to debrief [[Russell Targ|Targ]] because Alexander was not a trained intelligence officer. The CG stated that he would get with Alexander and resolve the issue."[^3]
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He served under Major General Albert Stubblebine at INSCOM during the [[Center Lane]] years. The project manager's record of a meeting with Stubblebine on November 30, 1983, notes "an update on the RAPT training" and that the general "confirmed his decision to hold a 'bonding' ceremony and that it would be lead by LTC Alexander." At a meeting on January 6, 1984, the "recent LTC Alexander problem concerning the debriefing of Russell Targ" was raised: "The CG stated that he was unaware that there was a problem as he had not instructed LTC Alexander to debrief [[Russell Targ|Targ]] because Alexander was not a trained intelligence officer. The CG stated that he would get with Alexander and resolve the issue."[^4]
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### Afterward
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He retired as a colonel in 1988, his last post the advanced systems concepts office of the Army Laboratory Command, and went to [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], where he worked on non-lethal weapons with [[Janet Morris]] of the [[U.S. Global Strategy Council]], the body chaired by [[Ray Cline]]. His books include *The Warrior's Edge* (1990, with Richard Groller and Janet Morris), *Future War* (1999), and *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011).[^4]
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He retired as a colonel in 1988, his last post the advanced systems concepts office of the Army Laboratory Command, and went to [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], where he worked on non-lethal weapons with [[Janet Morris]] of the [[U.S. Global Strategy Council]], the body chaired by [[Ray Cline]]. His books include *The Warrior's Edge* (1990, with Richard Groller and Janet Morris), *Future War* (1999), and *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities* (2011).[^5]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index; the December 1980 issue itself was not obtained. Author note as summarized in search results, not read in the original.
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[^3]: 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.
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[^4]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records.
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[^3]: Alexander, John B. "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock,'" *Military Review,* vol. 60, no. 12, December 1980, pp. 47-54, read in a Wayback Machine copy of the Army University Press PDF.
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[^4]: 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.
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[^5]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records.
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Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]] a dozen new tasks in April 1982. His support was crucial for the program's survival, as it provided the necessary operational requests from the military and intelligence services[^1].
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INSCOM's chronology of its remote-viewing project records "LTG Faurer, Director NSA, briefed" on August 5, 1982; General [[Albert Stubblebine]] came to INSCOM's own briefing of September 27, 1982, straight from a visit to Faurer and "told us about NSA's position"; and the [[Center Lane]] manager noted a "5 December 1983 briefing of Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, Dir., NSA," which "was a decision briefing for NSA involvement in the field" at which INSCOM's project would not be presented.[^2]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: 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. 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.
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Lyn Buchanan was a [[U.S. Army]] sergeant who served as a remote viewer in the classified Army program at [[Fort Meade]] that operated under the successive designations [[STARGATE PROJECT|Center Lane]], Sun Streak, and STAR GATE during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was trained in [[Coordinate Remote Viewing]] (CRV) by [[Ingo Swann]] after Swann returned to the program to train Army viewers beginning in 1984, and became one of the unit's more consistently producing operational viewers.[^1]
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Lyn Buchanan was a [[U.S. Army]] sergeant who served as a remote viewer in the classified Army program at [[Fort Meade]] that operated under the successive designations [[STARGATE PROJECT|Center Lane]], [[Sun Streak]], and STAR GATE during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was trained in [[Coordinate Remote Viewing]] (CRV) by [[Ingo Swann]] after Swann returned to the program to train Army viewers beginning in 1984, and became one of the unit's more consistently producing operational viewers.[^1]
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Nilo Floody Buxton, a division general of the [[Chile|Chilean]] army, was in 1976 head of the Chilean military mission in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], military attaché to the embassy, and head of the delegation to the [[Inter-American Defense Board]]. Answering under oath the written questions of the military prosecutor [[Héctor Orozco]] after March 27, 1978, he said that "in late August 1976, Lieutenants [[Rolando Mosqueira]] and [[René Riveros]] were at my home," that "the reason for the officers' visit to my home was to greet me," that "I did not know what mission the officers were carrying out on their visit to the USA," and that "they did not hand me any classified documentation, nor did they explain to me the reason for another mission in Washington D.C." He had known General [[Vernon Walters]] "of the United States Army since 1974. It is true that I had my secretary telephone General Walter's offices to find out whether he was in Washington D.C. I was informed that he was out of town, that he no longer belonged to the CIA, and that upon his return he would presumably rejoin the Army." Riveros had testified that the two captains, unable to reach Walters, called on a general Mosqueira knew, "giving our true names and ranks, but without revealing the true link and content of our mission," and that Floody's office could not obtain the contact for them.[^1]
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Nilo Floody Buxton, a division general of the [[Chile|Chilean]] army, was in 1976 head of the Chilean military mission in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], military attaché to the embassy, and head of the delegation to the [[Inter-American Defense Board]]. Answering under oath the written questions of the military prosecutor [[Héctor Orozco]] after March 27, 1978, he said that "in late August 1976, Lieutenants [[Rolando Mosqueira]] and [[René Riveros]] were at my home," that "the reason for the officers' visit to my home was to greet me," that "I did not know what mission the officers were carrying out on their visit to the USA," and that "they did not hand me any classified documentation, nor did they explain to me the reason for another mission in Washington D.C." He had known General [[Vernon Walters]] "of the [[United States Army]] since 1974. It is true that I had my secretary telephone General Walter's offices to find out whether he was in Washington D.C. I was informed that he was out of town, that he no longer belonged to the CIA, and that upon his return he would presumably rejoin the Army." Riveros had testified that the two captains, unable to reach Walters, called on a general Mosqueira knew, "giving our true names and ranks, but without revealing the true link and content of our mission," and that Floody's office could not obtain the contact for them.[^1]
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The plan was for Cowart and [[Tom McNear]], the other trainee, to become the program's CRV trainers. However, McNear later noted that Cowart was medically retired due to cancer, which contributed to McNear's decision to leave the unit[^1].
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His Grill Flame security agreement is dated June 3, 1981, and his participant counseling statement and "Information about Remote Viewing for Participants" October 2, 1981.[^2]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Grill Flame volunteer security agreements, consent statements, and counseling statements for Joseph W. McMoneagle (February 8, 1979; October 26, 1979; February 19, 1980), Melvin C. Riley (February 8, 1979), and Robert C. Cowart (June 3 and October 2, 1981), and "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project (Brian Buzby)," May 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00789R0021001500xx series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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In 1986, Gates noted a significant buildup in advanced technology weapons facilities in both the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]], particularly in areas like laser, particle beam, kinetic energy, and microwave technologies applicable to strategic weapons[^2].
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Gates revealed details about the [[Moscow Signal]] in his 1997 memoir, *From the Shadows*. He described how the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] detected a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams aimed at the [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] in 1973, code-named MUTS-2. He noted that these signals were regarded as posing a greater health hazard due to their duration and peculiar characteristics[^2].
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Gates revealed details about the [[Moscow Signal]] in his 1997 memoir, *From the Shadows*. He described how the CIA detected a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams aimed at the [[U.S. Embassy in Moscow]] in 1973, code-named MUTS-2. He noted that these signals were regarded as posing a greater health hazard due to their duration and peculiar characteristics[^2].
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On November 28, 1995, Gates appeared on *Nightline* with [[Ted Koppel]] to discuss the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Stargate program]], where he downplayed the significance of the government's psychic research[^2].
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On ABC's *Nightline* of November 28, 1995, the night the [[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate|AIR evaluation]] of the remote-viewing program was released, Gates said that after the mid-1970s "CIA basically monitored the activities of other government agencies and what was going on in the academic community and then in mid 1980s, then-deputy director [[John McMahon]] formalized that. So, CIA really during that period had a very limited role"; that "I don't know of a single instance where it is documented that this kind of activity contributed in any significant way to a policy decision or even to informing policy makers about important information"; that "most intelligence professionals have been pretty skeptical of this. We got into it, I think, mainly because we heard the Soviets were involved and also because the Congress, individual members of the Congress and some staff pushed us into it"; and that "this is a pretty low priority for the intelligence community, and it's better done on the outside."[^3]
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### Publications
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* *From the Shadows* (1997)
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^3]: "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room.
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On January 23, 1973, Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff showed a CIA audience a film of their experiments with "Uri Geller, an Israeli magician with claimed capabilities in ESP." The Office of Research and Development's memorandum of the next day recorded that "the SRI work with Geller has been supported by Edgar Mitchell's foundation, by something with a name like Mind Science Institute of Los Angeles, and by TSD," the [[Technical Services Division]]. The film showed Geller reproducing sealed drawings, calling dice, finding metal or water in one of twelve containers, "and bending spoons by touching them with apparently much less force than would be required normally." The writer added: "On the basis of meetings I have attended at ARPA, whose Drs. Austin Kibler and George Lawrence have been to SRI to observe Geller, Puthoff and Targ in action, there is serious doubt that Geller's accomplishment transcends the range of activities a skillful magician can perform and much concern that Puthoff's and Targ's own experimental bias in favor of successful outcomes is undermining their objectivity in designing properly controlled experimental procedures. Geller's connections with Dr. A. Puharich, with whom many unsavory reports have been linked, also is disturbing." He recommended asking TSD about "their plans for future research at SRI, both with Geller and with other subjects such as Ingo Swann," and noted that one manager in the science and technology directorate had said he was "humbled" by the film. A further file, "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," is in the same collection.[^3]
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### August 1973
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Targ's log of the sessions of August 4 to 11, 1973, in an "electrically shielded room" once used for EEG research, records that on August 5 for the target word "fuse" (a firecracker) Geller "saw 'a cylinder with noise coming out of it'" and drew a drum; for "bunch" (grapes) he drew grapes, and "both the target picture and Geller's rendition had 24 grapes in the bunch"; that evening he could not draw a devil with a trident, producing "Moses' Tablets" and an apple with a snake, Targ noting "the inability on Geller's part to draw the devil may be culturally induced." On August 6, with a target drawn "by a scientist of whom Geller is not fond," he "got no clear impression and passed," but named the artist. On August 7, with EEG electrodes, he passed twice; on August 8 he passed on a camel and the Golden Gate Bridge and drew a flying gull correctly. "Good results were obtained on the four days when there was no openly skeptical observer (except the experimenters whom Geller has learned to accept)." On August 9, 150 feet from a kite drawn on a computer terminal, "his first drawing was a good representation of the actual target picture"; on August 10 he passed on a church stored in computer memory and drew "an arrow inside a suitcase" for an arrow through a heart, Targ allowing either "clairvoyant perception of information stored in the computer, or telepathy since there were several people in the computer room who knew the nature of the target." Of two long-distance trials with East Coast scientists, Targ called the first "suggestive of communication but not conclusive" and left the second unjudged. "In our detailed examination of the shielded room and the protocol used in these experiments no sensory leakage has been found."[^4]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum ORD-413-73, "Briefing by Stanford Research Institute," January 24, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070029-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2, not read.
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[^4]: Targ, Russell. "Experiments: Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," memorandum of August 13, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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When the CIA, which had taken custody of the program from the DIA in 1995 at the direction of Congress, contracted the American Institutes for Research in June 1995 to evaluate it ([[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]), May, as principal investigator, was asked "to list those studies which he believes provide the strongest evidence" and every unique study since the 1988 National Research Council report. His memorandum of July 25, 1995, listed ten SAIC experiments, among them "Entropy II" (90 trials, effect size 0.550, p = 9.1 × 10^-8), "ERD AC Behavior" (70 trials, 0.303), "Remote observation" (48 trials, 0.361), and "AC with binary coding" (40 trials, −0.067). [[Jessica Utts]] took them, with the 1988 analysis of the SRI database, as establishing that "psychic functioning has been well established"; [[Ray Hyman]] agreed the effects were "too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes" but held that ten experiments from one laboratory could not establish a phenomenon. May told the panel that "approximately 20 percent of the information supplied by a viewer is accurate," and AIR noted that throughout the experiments "only one judge, apparently the Principal Investigator, was used in assessing matches." The report of September 29, 1995, recommended against continuing the operational program. May's commentary in the *Journal of Parapsychology* the next year described the review as the result of "a Congressionally Directed Activity" and gave the report's public release as November 28, 1995.[^1]
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May "was asked by the CIA to provide administrative support, technical documents, and briefings on an as-needed basis for the review," under a small contract to SAIC, from which he resigned on November 28, 1995, the day the report was released. His commentary in the *Journal of Parapsychology* argued that "there is compelling evidence that the CIA set the outcome with regard to intelligence usage before the evaluation had begun," by "limiting the research and operations data sets to exclude positive findings, by purposefully not interviewing historically significant participants, by ignoring previous extensive Department of Defense program reviews, and by using the questionable National Research Council's investigation of parapsychology as the starting point." He noted that AIR's president, David Goslin, had also overseen the NRC's 1988 report; that of the seventeen members of the SRI and SAIC oversight committees and review board "only one was contacted by the CIA"; that his memorandum of June 6, 1995, "the existence of anomalous mental phenomena cannot be statistically determined from the results of a single laboratory," was "ignored by fiat"; and that a Senate staff member told him the CIA's briefing to Congress gave eight bullet points to Hyman's conclusions and four to Utts's. He quoted Jessica Utts's letter of December 19, 1995: "I was explicitly asked by AIR staff NOT to mention the NRC report in my review!" and "we were shown very little of the 'operational' remote-viewing work"; and [[Robert Rosenthal]] on the NRC's 1988 request that he omit his ganzfeld section, "censorship did not occur." He quoted [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s 1984 Legion of Merit citation, "more than 200 missions, addressing over 150 essential elements of information," reported "at the highest echelons," and traced a line from ARPA's George Lawrence and Hyman being refused access at SRI in 1974, through Lawrence's commissioning of the NRC study in 1985, to Goslin's AIR review. Of the program's last years: a 1993 attempt to move it to the CIA "found no willing recipient," the last DIA officer "had little knowledge of the program," and "the program was in shambles." "I am forced to conclude that either the AIR investigators were not competent to conduct a proper review of such a complex program, a view to which I do not subscribe, or they knew exactly what they were doing: They wanted to demonstrate that AC lacked usefulness for intelligence operations. They did so by construction rather than by careful analysis." On *Nightline* that November he said: "I think about 15% of our data, over 1500 separate remote viewing trials, are of such a quality that you might think they were sketched," and, after [[Robert Gates]] said the work was "better done on the outside": "I couldn't agree with Director Gates more."[^2]
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After the STAR GATE program's termination, May founded the Laboratories for Fundamental Research (LFR) in Palo Alto, California, a private research organization continuing anomalous cognition research. He published extensively in scientific journals on experimental parapsychology, focusing on statistical analysis of remote viewing data and theoretical frameworks for understanding what physical mechanism might account for the observed effects. He proposed "decision augmentation theory" (DAT) as a framework for interpreting the statistical patterns in remote viewing data without requiring conventional psychic transmission.
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[^1]: Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, pp. 2-3, 3-18, 3-67, 5-2. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB438/docs/doc_57.pdf May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, 1996, pp. 3-23, abstract only.
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[^2]: May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 3-23. The letter of December 19, 1995, is printed at pp. 15-17 as Utts's reply to May's e-mail of December 17, checked against the page images. "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room.
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Puthoff and Targ began working with Hammid after establishing the initial remote viewing protocol with Swann. Her participation addressed a key question about the SRI research: whether the remote viewing phenomenon was specific to individuals with claimed psychic abilities or whether it could be demonstrated in ordinary subjects with no prior psychic claims.
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Hammid was a subject in the formal SRI remote viewing experiments described in Puthoff and Targ's 1976 paper in *Proceedings of the IEEE*, which presented results from a series of experiments conducted under controlled conditions with independent judges evaluating the correspondence between subjects' descriptions and target locations. Her results contributed to the statistical case for anomalous information transfer that the SRI team presented to [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and Defense Department sponsors as evidence of a genuine, reproducible phenomenon.
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Hammid was a subject in the formal SRI remote viewing experiments described in Puthoff and Targ's 1976 paper in *Proceedings of the IEEE*, which presented results from a series of experiments conducted under controlled conditions with independent judges evaluating the correspondence between subjects' descriptions and target locations. Her results contributed to the statistical case for anomalous information transfer that the SRI team presented to CIA and Defense Department sponsors as evidence of a genuine, reproducible phenomenon.
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The SRI protocol for Hammid and other subjects involved an outbound experimenter who traveled to a randomly selected location within thirty minutes' driving distance. The subject remained at SRI with Puthoff or Targ and attempted to describe the target location through spontaneous description and drawing. Independent judges matched the descriptions to the target locations blind, without knowing which description came from which trial.[^1]
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### The 1974 Record
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SRI's first progress report of March 1974 records "a preliminary remote viewing pilot experiment" with "a subject (H.H.) previously screened by the EEG correlates experiment": "The target chosen at random was a small red clapboard schoolhouse structure with a bell steeple on top in a miniature golf course. The subject's response was that she saw a red clapboard structure with a steeple that seemed to be artificial as in a movie set." An outside reviewer noted that of six subjects in the EEG work, "one of the six subjects, HH, showed a consistent alpha blocking effort. Therefore, this subject was studied further and most of the data recorded is based on HH's performance." A CIA officer who observed her in 1974 wrote: "Hella is very alert and outgoing; although not insightful. She is very concerned with her performance. Her aim seems to be pleasing the experimenters rather than proving anything to herself." "She does very badly on absolute size estimates. She does very well on indicating lighting conditions, including the presence of steady or pulsing lights. She does not often describe colors, but is very accurate when she does." "There can be no question that Hella can repeatably, although not reliably, produce information not available through normal means." Set to describe an electric typewriter on which the officer had typed for ten minutes, she missed, while [[Russell Targ]], who had been questioning her throughout, "gave a nearly perfect account of the target." Called in by a police lieutenant named Konar, who "had exhausted all available leads" in the murder of a young woman in the [[Stanford University|Stanford]] chapel, she "gave details of the crime location, described the victim and her assailant, indicated the exact location of the fatal wound, alluded to the ritualistic tone of the crime, and traced the victim's movements before the crime as well as the relocation of the body afterwards," the only known error being earrings; Konar wrote SRI a letter and followed her leads; but "none of the data that Hella generated, that has been verified, was unknown to Lt. Konar at the time of this experiment. Therefore, it is possible that Hella received all of her information from the Lt., by some unknown means." The same officer warned that if funding lapsed Puthoff and Targ "will publish everything they have generated," including "their association with unreliable subjects." A cassette of September 19, 1974, is catalogued "Tape 'N' Text Editor and Drill Press, Beacon Russell Targ, Viewer Hella Hammid."[^2]
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### Project Deep Quest
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Hammid participated in [[Project Deep Quest]] in the summer of 1977, a unique experiment testing whether remote viewing could be performed under extreme environmental conditions. The experiment, conducted in the [[Pacific Ocean]] near Catalina Island, used the deep-sea research submersible *Taurus I*.
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In one part of the experiment, Hammid worked with [[Ingo Swann]] to attempt to identify the locations of previously unidentified seafloor shipwrecks, using maps and dowsing-style intuitive technique. Both subjects independently marked a single location; when the *Taurus I* investigated, the submersible found an uncharted wreck.
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In one part of the experiment, Hammid worked with Ingo Swann to attempt to identify the locations of previously unidentified seafloor shipwrecks, using maps and dowsing-style intuitive technique. Both subjects independently marked a single location; when the *Taurus I* investigated, the submersible found an uncharted wreck.
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In the Air Force's classified component of the experiment, Hammid was sealed inside the *Taurus I* submersible at 500 feet depth, 375 miles from a land-based target she had not been told about. She was given a set of six sealed envelopes and asked to identify which contained a photograph corresponding to a location on land where Puthoff and [[Dale Graff]] were serving as a beacon. Her selection matched the correct target.[^1]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research." *Proceedings of the IEEE* 64, no. 3 (March 1976): 329-354 (the primary published SRI remote viewing experimental results).
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[^2]: Puthoff, Harold E. *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* progress report no. 1, March 12, 1974, SRI Project 3183, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100010001-1. 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. "Experiments with Hella Hammid," CIA memoranda of 1974 with an officer's trip report of November 1974, author's name redacted, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200070006-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000200070002-3; cassette catalogue card of September 19, 1974, CIA-RDP79-00999A000400040013-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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summary: "Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. Army warrant officer who was one of the original six remote viewers recruited into the STARGATE program in 1977, produced the program's most operationally credited results including confirmed details of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine, and received the Legion of Merit at retirement for his remote viewing work."
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summary: "Army warrant officer, viewer 001 of the original Fort Meade unit from 1978, credited by the program with the Typhoon submarine description, who declined promotion and retired in 1984 to continue at SRI."
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The program received training and protocol guidance from [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]], where [[Russell Targ]] and SRI researchers had developed the remote viewing experimental protocol under CIA contract since 1972.
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His Grill Flame volunteer security agreement is dated February 8, 1979, his participant counseling statement October 26, 1979, and his volunteer consent statement February 19, 1980, the same forms signed by Mel Riley on February 8, 1979.[^1]
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### Operational Remote Viewing
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McMoneagle became the program's most operationally credited viewer. Among his notable sessions:
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Skylab reentry (1979): McMoneagle provided coordinates for the crash zone of Skylab, which reentered Earth's atmosphere over eastern Australia, consistent with the actual debris field.
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On August 26, 1983, "CW2(P) Joseph Mc Moneagle, CENTER LANE Project Member," briefed General [[Albert Stubblebine]] with the project manager and operations officer on the project and the [[Monroe Institute]]. On November 30 Stubblebine "asked me if CW2 McMoneagle still planned to decline his promotion and retire. I stated that he had already declined the promotion."[^2]
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His Legion of Merit citation of 1984, as quoted by [[Edwin May]], read that he "served most recently as a Special Project Intelligence Officer for SSPD, SSD, and 902d MI Group, as one of the original planners and movers of a unique intelligence project that is revolutionizing the intelligence community," and "used his talents and expertise in the execution of more than 200 missions, addressing over 150 essential elements of information," reported "at the highest echelons of our military and government, including such national level agencies as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, DIA, NSA, CIA, DEA, and the Secret Service, producing crucial and vital intelligence unavailable from any other source." On *Nightline* in November 1995 he said of the Iran hostages that "there were 2 or 3 others that were held away from the Embassy," and "we were instrumental in helping identify that location. The inside of the location, the exterior of the location, the uniforms and the kinds of people that were holding them," and of Dozier that the viewing "was absolutely accurate. As well as the description of the room he was being held in, how he was being held, chained to the heater."[^3]
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### Retirement and Later Work
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McMoneagle retired from the Army in 1984 with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. His Legion of Merit citation referenced his contributions to intelligence collection through unconventional means. After retirement, he continued as a civilian consultant to the STAR GATE program - operating under DIA oversight through the Sun Streak and STAR GATE code names - until its declassification in 1995.
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McMoneagle retired from the Army in 1984 with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. His Legion of Merit citation referenced his contributions to intelligence collection through unconventional means. After retirement, he continued as a civilian consultant to the STAR GATE program - operating under DIA oversight through the [[Sun Streak]] and STAR GATE code names - until its declassification in 1995.
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He married Nancy Lea Honeychurch, the sister of Robert Monroe, the founder of the [[Monroe Institute]] in Faber, Virginia. The Monroe Institute had developed methods for inducing altered states of consciousness using binaural audio technology and had trained some STARGATE viewers in out-of-body techniques. McMoneagle became associated with the institute after his retirement.
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He married Nancy Lea Honeychurch, the sister of Robert Monroe, the founder of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. The Monroe Institute had developed methods for inducing altered states of consciousness using binaural audio technology and had trained some STARGATE viewers in out-of-body techniques. McMoneagle became associated with the institute after his retirement.
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He published two books describing his work and his theoretical framework: *Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing* (Hampton Roads, 1993) and *Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook* (Hampton Roads, 2000). He has continued to participate in publicly available remote viewing demonstrations and research.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 155-202. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, pp. 170-256.
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[^2]: McMoneagle, Joseph. *Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing.* Hampton Roads, 1993.
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[^1]: Grill Flame volunteer security agreements, consent statements, and counseling statements for Joseph W. McMoneagle (February 8, 1979; October 26, 1979; February 19, 1980), Melvin C. Riley (February 8, 1979), and Robert C. Cowart (June 3 and October 2, 1981), and "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project (Brian Buzby)," May 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00789R0021001500xx series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: 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.
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[^3]: May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 3-23. "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room.
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Marsh's authorization was a crucial step in ensuring the continuation of the U.S. government's psychic research efforts, despite the ongoing debates and controversies surrounding them[^1].
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As Secretary of the Army, Marsh was briefed on [[Center Lane]] by General Albert Stubblebine on June 13, 1983, approved its establishment as a special access program on June 15 and its continuation on September 1, was briefed again in October 1983, with the assistant secretary Delbert Spurlock present, and on January 5, 1984, on the [[Monroe Institute]], and on August 23, 1984, approved the project's discontinuance as an Army program and its transfer to the Defense Intelligence Agency.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: 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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### The Article
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His review, "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," appeared in the classified *Studies in Intelligence* in the winter of 1977 and was declassified in 1996. It recorded the briefing of Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] in 1976, [[Stansfield Turner]]'s public acknowledgment of 1977, and the state of interest at DIA, DARPA, the Navy, and the Air Force, and ended: "This is not to say that parapsychology is a proven intelligence tool; it is to say that the evaluation is not yet complete and more research is needed." In a postscript of January 1999 for its reprinting he mentioned a later "secure line call from a person who identified himself as an FBI agent" and wrote: "Me, I remain a skeptical agnostic." Representative [[Charles Rose]] was briefed at OTS by its chief, David Brandwein, on February 9, 1978.[^2][^4]
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His review, "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," appeared in the classified *Studies in Intelligence* in the winter of 1977 and was declassified in 1996. It recorded the briefing of Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] in 1976, [[Stansfield Turner]]'s public acknowledgment of 1977, and the state of interest at DIA, DARPA, the Navy, and the Air Force, and ended: "This is not to say that parapsychology is a proven intelligence tool; it is to say that the evaluation is not yet complete and more research is needed." In a postscript of January 1999 for its reprinting he mentioned a later "secure line call from a person who identified himself as an FBI agent" and wrote: "Me, I remain a skeptical agnostic." Representative [[Charles Rose]] was briefed at OTS by its chief, [[David Brandwein]], on February 9, 1978.[^2][^4]
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Writing in the *Skeptical Inquirer* in 1996, he said the CIA "abandoned this program in the late 1970s because it showed no promise," that under the DIA it "consisted of three components," one tracking foreign work, an operations program of "six, and later three, psychics on the government payroll," and the laboratory research at SRI and SAIC; that "because of some controversies within the program, a Senate committee decided to transfer the program from the DIA back to the CIA"; that "May helped identify the ten best studies for Utts and me to evaluate"; and that the panel "all agreed that any scientifically meaningful evaluation of these operational psychic intelligence uses was impossible." He ended: "It is premature to draw any conclusions. We will simply have to wait and see. If history is a guide, then this will be a long wait, indeed."[^3]
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On *Nightline* on November 28, 1995, he said: "My considered judgment, if someone pushed me hard right now, I'd have to say the odds are 99 to 1 that there's nothing to remote viewing." Edwin May's commentary of 1996 traced "a thread of bias" from the visit to SRI (1973 or 1974, the accounts differ) at which Hyman, George Lawrence of ARPA, and Robert Van de Castle were refused access to an experiment in progress, and *Time* quoted Hyman on the tests' "incredible sloppiness," through Lawrence's commissioning of the National Research Council study in 1985 with Hyman leading its parapsychology section, to the AIR review under David Goslin, who had administered the NRC report.[^4]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena," September 11, 1995, reproduced in the AIR report, pp. 3-41 to 3-75, and published in *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 31-58. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB438/docs/doc_57.pdf
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[^3]: Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of the Military's Twenty-Year Program on Psychic Spying," *Skeptical Inquirer,* March-April 1996, pp. 21-23.
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[^4]: "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room. May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 3-23.
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Ricardo Morales Navarrete, called El Mono, gave his birth as [[Havana]], June 14, 1939, in his 1981 deposition. In 1968 he helped [[Orlando Bosch]] with instruction in bombs "and then suddenly surfaced in court as an FBI informant and as the chief witness against the baby doctor, who went to jail." By 1976 he was a comisario of [[DISIP]], the Venezuelan security police, in charge of Section D-54, its counterintelligence section, under the code name Comisario Moises.[^1][^2]
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Michael Townley told the Chilean military prosecutor in 1978 that when [[DINA]] asked him early in 1975 about Orlando Bosch's group, he advised against contact because it "had been infiltrated by the CIA, the FBI, and specifically by a certain 'Mono' Navarrete."[^3]
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[[Michael Townley]] told the Chilean military prosecutor in 1978 that when [[DINA]] asked him early in 1975 about Orlando Bosch's group, he advised against contact because it "had been infiltrated by the CIA, the FBI, and specifically by a certain 'Mono' Navarrete."[^3]
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summary: "INSCOM lieutenant colonel who managed the Grill Flame remote-viewing project from July 1981 to 1983, briefed Senator Pell and the Senate Appropriations staff in 1982, and recorded Stubblebine's decision to keep the unit."
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Robert J. Jachim, a lieutenant colonel of military intelligence, attended the first briefing of the new commander of [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]], [[Albert Stubblebine]], on [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] on June 30, 1981, as "incoming project manager" beside Lieutenant Colonel [[Murray Watt]], and "assumes project manager duties" on July 17. He gave the standard INSCOM briefing to staff of the [[Senate Appropriations Committee]] on June 29, 1982 ("In the fall of 1978, ACSI tasked INSCOM to determine if parapsychology could be used to collect intelligence"), and wrote the record of the briefing of Senator [[Claiborne Pell]] by [[Jack Vorona]] of DIA and INSCOM representatives in his office at the Capitol on September 29, 1982. His memorandum of the full briefing to Stubblebine on September 27, 1982, records the general choosing the 902d Military Intelligence Group's Security Support Detachment as the unit's new home before the options had been read out, and the guidance "Get out of the briefing mode!" and "Prepare a letter to MG [[William Odom|Odom]] notifying him of the decision to continue the project." He remained manager through the change of name to [[Center Lane]] until the summer of 1983.[^1]
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[^1]: Memorandum for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981," July 1, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0; "Briefing Given to Senate Appropriations Committee 29 June 1982," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100290005-5; Jachim, Robert J., memorandum "Information Briefing for Senator Clairborne Pell," October 6, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320001-5; Buzby, Brian, information paper "GRILL FLAME Briefing Presented to Senator Pell," February 6, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320004-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. 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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### Brigade 2506
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In early September 1976, three weeks before the killing of [[Orlando Letelier]], Manuel Camargo telephoned to say he was in Washington with the leadership of [[Brigade 2506]]. McIntyre asked the embassy for an official, and Tomás Amenábar sent Rafael Otero; he also called in the deputy naval attaché, Commander Fernando Lazcano, and Commander Lautaro Sazo. The Brigade's president, Roberto Carballo, Camargo, and [[Bernardo de Torres]] came to his office. "The leadership stated they were committed to uniting all anti-Castro Cubans. That it was in their interest to end all the acts of terrorism that infiltrated small Cuban groups were carrying out in Miami. That they believed their efforts had succeeded since no bombings had occurred since they took over the leadership." The "only discordant note" was Carballo's feeling "over the detention in Chile and handover to US authorities of the Cuban [[Rolando Otero|Otero]] (today sentenced as a terrorist in Miami)." "The Cuban group in New Jersey" had sent him a copy of a letter to the Chilean consul in [[New York City|New York]] declining to attend the visit of the training ship Esmeralda in July 1976 "precisely because of the handover of Otero"; "this letter was signed by [[Guillermo Novo|Novo]], one of the brothers implicated in the Letelier crime. This letter was not answered." He had "no knowledge of the death of Mr. Orlando Letelier," and the facts "are known to Prosecutor [[Eugene Propper|Propper]]." On June 22, 1978, the prosecutor asked the CNI to have the Cuban participants questioned.[^1]
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In early September 1976, three weeks before the killing of [[Orlando Letelier]], Manuel Camargo telephoned to say he was in Washington with the leadership of [[Brigade 2506]]. McIntyre asked the embassy for an official, and Tomás Amenábar sent Rafael Otero; he also called in the deputy naval attaché, Commander Fernando Lazcano, and Commander Lautaro Sazo. The Brigade's president, Roberto Carballo, Camargo, and [[Bernardo de Torres]] came to his office. "The leadership stated they were committed to uniting all anti-Castro Cubans. That it was in their interest to end all the acts of terrorism that infiltrated small Cuban groups were carrying out in Miami. That they believed their efforts had succeeded since no bombings had occurred since they took over the leadership." The "only discordant note" was Carballo's feeling "over the detention in Chile and handover to US authorities of the Cuban [[Rolando Otero|Otero]] (today sentenced as a terrorist in Miami)." "The Cuban group in [[New Jersey]]" had sent him a copy of a letter to the Chilean consul in [[New York City|New York]] declining to attend the visit of the training ship Esmeralda in July 1976 "precisely because of the handover of Otero"; "this letter was signed by [[Guillermo Novo|Novo]], one of the brothers implicated in the Letelier crime. This letter was not answered." He had "no knowledge of the death of Mr. Orlando Letelier," and the facts "are known to Prosecutor [[Eugene Propper|Propper]]." On June 22, 1978, the prosecutor asked the CNI to have the Cuban participants questioned.[^1]
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At the briefing of June 30, 1981, attended by Brigadier General Flynn, Colonel Weinstein, Colonel White, and the two project managers, "MG Stubblebine instructed us to ensure that there were no legal problems concerning our joint contractual effort with DIA, especially to be watchful of mixing OM&A and R&D monies," and, reviewing the customer evaluations, "expressed the thought that the evaluations were a clear indication that we were on to something and that work in this area had to continue."[^2]
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On September 27, 1982, four days before the cut, he heard the full Grill Flame briefing at building 2561, "well over an hour" of it on the project book and two unevaluated cases; "he was unaware of the problems we had had in getting information from Europe, concerning [[James Dozier|Dozier]]." Coming from a visit to Lieutenant General [[Lincoln D. Faurer|Faurer]] of the [[National Security Agency|NSA]], he dismissed one option for housing the unit as soon as it was clear it had no spaces or money of its own, and "before I could finish, MG Stubblebine selected SSD, 902D as the organization to which the project would go. As I tried to continue with other options, MG Stubblebine then indicated I must not have heard him for he had already made his decision." His guidance included "Get out of the briefing mode!" The assistant chief of staff for intelligence wrote to him in April 1983 that "I applaud your efforts to establish a Special Access Program," and that INSCOM should present itself as engaged in "a similar, cooperative effort of its own initiative" rather than the former joint program. In 1983 he briefed the Army Science Board, the under secretary [[James Ambrose]], and the Secretary of the Army, [[John Marsh]], himself. On August 26, 1983, after Buzby, Atwater, and McMoneagle briefed him on the project and the [[Monroe Institute]], "the CG started to relate some of his experiences and personal thoughts in the field of parapsychology," and "directed me to expand the program with quality people, develop a screening program to identify qualified people for the project; and employ advance techniques for intelligence collection." His chief of staff asked whether the project was receiving information from Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander and was told that Alexander's involvement "was entirely overt and that we neither had nor wanted any contact with him." On January 6, 1984, he asked to be kept informed of the "Los Alamos Project," "as it was his initiative," and agreed not to fund a new Monroe Institute proposal. On March 13, 1984, the director of the Army staff cancelled RAPT, the Hemi-Sync screening course, and on July 13 his successor, [[Harry Soyster]], decided to discontinue Center Lane.[^3]
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### Post-Military Career
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After retirement, Stubblebine became involved in alternative health movements and supplement businesses. He married psychiatrist Rima Laibow, and the two became prominent voices in alternative medicine and health freedom advocacy, including campaigns against mandatory vaccination and opposition to pharmaceutical industry regulation. This later career was distant in character from his military intelligence background but reflected a consistent pattern of skepticism toward mainstream institutional authority.
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[^1]: 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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[^2]: 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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[^3]: 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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On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, January 14, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981.[^5][^6][^7]
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On February 9, 1978, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s legislative counsel met Rose and his aide Dick Giza at the agency's front entrance for four briefings, one of them at the [[CIA Office of Technical Service|Office of Technical Service]], the office that had funded the SRI remote-viewing work, "largely handled by the Chief of OTS, Mr. David S. Brandwein." In July 1979 the chairman of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee, Jack Vorona of the DIA, missed its meeting because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology"; Rose and Representative Young "were primarily interested in the funding of such projects within the DoD." The committee's minutes of January 10, 1980, recorded that "as a result of that interest, arrangements were made to present the INSCOM briefing," that "Congressional concern and support were expressed for funding the program in FY 80, 81, and 82," and that "Congressman Rose will be on the CIA Life Science Panel." The Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General Edmund Thompson, wrote in an eyes-only memorandum: "Congressman Rose is a topic worth discussion. It has been about three months since he was briefed on program specifics, and we should keep in mind his oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis. A situation as before in which the last briefing was done at his instigation, forcing us to be reactors rather than action takers, should be avoided." INSCOM's chronology lists him briefed on January 16, 1980, February 11, 1981, and, "on human use issue," April 16, 1981 (Watt's memorandum of the April briefing says he had last briefed Rose in January 1980, so the February briefing was given by someone else).[^5][^6][^7]
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summary: "Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
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summary: "Claiborne Pell (1918-2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
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born: 1918-11-22
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Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]]. A former [[Foreign Service]] officer who had worked behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Hungary, Pell was a firm supporter and proponent of [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] and the [[Remote Viewing]] program[^1].
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Claiborne Pell (1918-2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]]. A former [[Foreign Service]] officer who had worked behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Hungary, Pell was a firm supporter and proponent of [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] and the [[Remote Viewing]] program[^1].
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Pell actively lobbied for the program's survival, reaching out personally to [[Dale Graff]] to offer his support. His interest stemmed from a belief in the potential operational value of psychic abilities for military intelligence[^1].
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Pell also played a role in the 1987 Geneva disarmament talks. He was present at a reception where Geller was instructed to try and influence [[Yuli M. Vorontsov]], Russia's first deputy foreign minister and lead Soviet arms negotiator, to sign the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty|INF treaty]]. Seven days later, [[Ronald Reagan]] announced that the Soviet Union had offered to move ahead with an agreement to cut longer-range INF missiles[^1].
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From five to six that afternoon, in his office at the Capitol, Pell received "a GRILL FLAME information briefing" arranged by [[Jack Vorona]] of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] and given with Major Gerald Fox of the Army staff and representatives of [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]], whose project manager, Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert Jachim]], wrote the record, with two of his aides present; "although Senator Pell had invited 8 members of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] to attend the briefing none were present." The Army's part covered the history of its involvement, "how remote viewing is used for intelligence collection," and four projects whose names are redacted. "The briefing was well received. Senator Pell had had previous briefings concerning parapsychology from Dr. Vorona. He was also acquainted with the work of Dr. [[Robert Jahn]], Dean, College of Engineering, [[Princeton University]]. Senator Pell stated that while he could not assist in FY83, he offered to try to help in the future." Two days later the Army's operations lost their funding in the National Foreign Intelligence Program. In November 1983 INSCOM's chief of staff "asked for a status report on the Senator Pell project," and the [[Center Lane]] manager answered "that we were developing an operational plan to support the project, but as yet we had not collected any information."[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Jachim, Robert J., memorandum "Information Briefing for Senator Clairborne Pell," October 6, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320001-5; Buzby, Brian, information paper "GRILL FLAME Briefing Presented to Senator Pell," February 6, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320004-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. 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.
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Newspaper clippings filed by the defense in 1978 reported that Propper, Assistant Attorney General [[Stanley Pottinger]], and the director of central intelligence, George Bush, had "met to determine to what extent that agency could help in the investigation," and that "a carefully worded agreement placing the Letelier case in a 'national security' status allowed that cooperation." During the trial Townley telephoned Chile from Propper's office, with his consent for calls about the extradition proceedings, and once, on January 30, 1979, without it, a call that was taped at the other end and given to the defense.[^3]
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The letter rogatory that carried the investigation to Chile, signed by Chief Judge William B. Bryant and certified by [[Cyrus Vance]] and [[Griffin Bell]], asked the Supreme Court of Chile to have "[[René Riveros|Juan Williams Rose]]" and "[[Rolando Mosqueira|Alejandro Romeral Jara]]" answer 55 written questions under oath, with Propper present; the foreign ministry's legal adviser, Gustavo Chamorro, advised on March 3, 1978, that the secrecy of the Chilean sumario did not allow his attendance. It stated that "at least one of these men met with one of the persons believed to be responsible" for the murders. The Chilean prosecutor in turn asked for a statement from Vernon Walters; Propper had already noted on June 9 that Walters had retired on July 2, 1976, and "was no longer there at the time either mission to the United States by DINA personnel took place"; he and Barcella sent the FBI's interview of June 14 on June 22.[^4]
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The letter rogatory that carried the investigation to Chile, signed by Chief Judge William B. Bryant and certified by [[Cyrus Vance]] and [[Griffin Bell]], asked the [[Supreme Court of Chile]] to have "[[René Riveros|Juan Williams Rose]]" and "[[Rolando Mosqueira|Alejandro Romeral Jara]]" answer 55 written questions under oath, with Propper present; the foreign ministry's legal adviser, Gustavo Chamorro, advised on March 3, 1978, that the secrecy of the Chilean sumario did not allow his attendance. It stated that "at least one of these men met with one of the persons believed to be responsible" for the murders. The Chilean prosecutor in turn asked for a statement from Vernon Walters; Propper had already noted on June 9 that Walters had retired on July 2, 1976, and "was no longer there at the time either mission to the United States by [[DINA]] personnel took place"; he and Barcella sent the FBI's interview of June 14 on June 22.[^4]
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Asked by the prosecutor [[Eugene Propper]] and the agent [[Carter Cornick]] where he had been the night before the bombing, Novo said: "That is my trump card. That is the ace up my sleeve." The informant [[Ricardo Morales Navarrete|Ricardo Morales]], then an officer of the Venezuelan [[DISIP]], had planted a story that Bosch was telling associates the "Novo brothers" had killed Letelier. "Bosch is a liar and a traitor to freedom," Novo said.[^1]
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An undated memorandum to Contreras from Washington, written after the second Carter-Ford debate of October 1976 and enclosing photocopies of Letelier's diary then in the hands of the *Washington Star* reporter [[Jeremiah O'Leary]], reported: "Some friends from over there tell me again that the FBI reached the conclusion that the perpetrators of the attack on Letelier were 4 members of Brigade 2506, whose names are as follows: Roberto Carvallo, Carlos Pascual, Vicente Vásquez, and Guillermo Novo. They would have been deceived and paid by a Castro agent."[^4]
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An undated memorandum to Contreras from Washington, written after the second Carter-Ford debate of October 1976 and enclosing photocopies of Letelier's diary then in the hands of the *[[Washington Star]]* reporter [[Jeremiah O'Leary]], reported: "Some friends from over there tell me again that the FBI reached the conclusion that the perpetrators of the attack on Letelier were 4 members of [[Brigade 2506]], whose names are as follows: Roberto Carvallo, Carlos Pascual, Vicente Vásquez, and Guillermo Novo. They would have been deceived and paid by a Castro agent."[^4]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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INSCOM's chronology records: "11 JUL 84 BG Soyster, CG INSCOM, receives CENTER LANE briefing," and two days later "CG, INSCOM formulates decision to discontinue CENTER LANE as an INSCOM project." The Secretary of the Army approved the discontinuance on August 23, 1984, operations ceased on September 28, and the unit passed under DIA's operational control on March 7, 1985.[^2]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: 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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His file holds the sworn statements of [[Manuel Contreras]], [[Armando Fernandez Larios|Armando Fernández Larios]], [[René Riveros]], and [[Rolando Mosqueira]] (March 22), [[Michael Townley]] (March 29), [[Mariana Callejas]] (April 4), [[Pedro Espinoza]] (April 24), and [[DINA]]'s passport clerk (April 12); Mosqueira had already testified before the civilian judge on March 20. On March 23 he widened the investigation with requests to Enrique Montero, General Odlanier Mena of the CNI, General Washington Carrasco, General Nilo Floody, and the military mission in Washington. On April 10 he ordered Espinoza, [[Raúl Iturriaga Neumann]], Townley, and others re-examined on the code names Quetropillán and Avispa, a confrontation between Townley and Espinoza "as to who assigned Townley each of the operations he carried out abroad," and a handwriting sample from Callejas against a document in the file. Before May 1 he asked the American authorities for a sworn statement from General [[Vernon Walters]], or failing that his answers to whether "in exercising his duties as former Deputy Director of the CIA, he asked General Contreras to send him some contacts to receive the names of certain lobbyists." The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] interviewed Walters on June 14, 1978, and the Chilean embassy reported by secret telex that this had been done "acceding to Fiscal Orozco's request." His oficio of June 23 explained that routine requests went through the CNI to the FBI, while letters rogatory were reserved for the sworn interrogatories. On March 14, 1979, the military judge Enrique Morel replaced him with General Santiago Sinclair, a month after Contreras and Espinoza, through [[Sergio Miranda Carrington]], had asked the Supreme Court for access to the file in the extradition proceedings.[^2]
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His oficio of June 23, 1978, listed his requests to the FBI through the CNI: on April 27 for everything "relating to the planning of the death of Orlando Letelier, the trip of Captains Riveros and Mosqueira to the United States, their possible contacts with General Vernon Walters, and the contacts of Michael Townley with various American, Croatian, or Cuban organizations and individuals"; on May 4 for the interrogation of Fernández Larios's sister, her husband, and the FBI agents who had questioned her; and on May 8 for "everything relating to various Cuban citizens allegedly implicated in the Letelier case," whom his order of that day named as [[Jose Dionisio Suarez|Dionisio Suárez]], [[Rolando Otero]], [[Orlando Bosch]], [[Guillermo Novo]], [[Felipe Rivero]], [[Frank Castro]], "El Gorilita," and "Mono Navarrete." He also obtained sworn written answers from the diplomats in Washington, General [[Nilo Floody]] and Admiral [[Ronald McIntyre]].[^3]
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His oficio of June 23, 1978, listed his requests to the FBI through the CNI: on April 27 for everything "relating to the planning of the death of [[Orlando Letelier]], the trip of Captains Riveros and Mosqueira to the United States, their possible contacts with General Vernon Walters, and the contacts of Michael Townley with various American, Croatian, or Cuban organizations and individuals"; on May 4 for the interrogation of Fernández Larios's sister, her husband, and the FBI agents who had questioned her; and on May 8 for "everything relating to various Cuban citizens allegedly implicated in the Letelier case," whom his order of that day named as [[Jose Dionisio Suarez|Dionisio Suárez]], [[Rolando Otero]], [[Orlando Bosch]], [[Guillermo Novo]], [[Felipe Rivero]], [[Frank Castro]], "El Gorilita," and "Mono Navarrete." He also obtained sworn written answers from the diplomats in Washington, General [[Nilo Floody]] and Admiral [[Ronald McIntyre]].[^3]
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summary: "Ingo Swann was an American artist and psychic subject who coined the term 'remote viewing,' initiated the CIA-funded Stanford Research Institute program in 1972 through his contact with Hal Puthoff, and developed the Coordinate Remote Viewing protocol that became the operational standard for the U.S. government's STAR GATE program."
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summary: "New York artist and Scientologist who brought remote viewing to SRI in 1972, gave the first coordinate readings of the West Virginia site in May 1973, and later trained Army viewers in his coordinate method."
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After Price's death in 1975, Swann returned to SRI and worked with Puthoff to formalize CRV into a six-stage structured protocol. The protocol trained viewers to progress through stages from initial ideogram responses (reflexive markings produced in response to presented coordinates) through increasingly specific descriptive and analytical phases. The design was intended to minimize contamination from imagination and prior knowledge by structuring viewer responses before analytical interpretation was introduced. Swann believed remote viewing was a natural perceptual ability that could be developed through disciplined training.
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### The SCANATE Sessions
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SRI's SCANATE report records that "as a result of the experimentation carried out on what might be termed micro-abilities, Swann expressed the opinion that the insights obtained had strengthened a macro-ability which had been researched prior to his joining the SRI program; namely, the ability to view remote locations." In a training series "100 targets on the earth's surface, ten per day for ten days, were chosen at random," Swann "being given a target location by latitude and longitude only," each run of ten finished "in less than thirty minutes"; the report itself cautioned that "an individual could, in principle, obtain good results on the basis of memory" or "subliminally from an experimenter who knows the target location." On May 29, 1973, at 4:34 in the afternoon, Hal Puthoff gave him coordinates supplied by the sponsor, 38°23'N, 79°25'W, "described simply as being in West Virginia," with no maps, on videotape: "This seems to be some sort of mounds or rolling hills. There is a city to the north (I can see the taller buildings and some smog). This seems to be a strange place, somewhat like the lawns that one would find around a military base, but I get the impression that there are either some old bunkers around, or maybe this is a covered reservoir. There must be a flagpole, some highways to the west, possibly a river over to the far east, to the south more city." The next morning: "Cliffs to the east, fence to the north. There's a circular building (a tower?), buildings to the south. Is this a former Nike base or something like that? I seem to get the impression of something underground, but I'm not sure." On July 21, 1973, given 49°20'S, 70°14'E, he said: "My initial response is that it's an island, maybe a mountain sticking up through a cloud cover," with buildings "rather mathematically laid out," one orange, "something like a radar antenna, a round disc," two white cylindrical tanks, and "to the northwest a small airstrip," and the next day mapped its coastline. Later, surprised in a New York hotel room with an abacus locked in the adjoining room, bought as "a target analogous to a cipher machine of particular interest," he drew its outline "in approximately one minute" and called it "a game box with little balls." The 1975 final report's West Virginia sessions are coded to subject S3.[^1]
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At Maimonides Medical Center, in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976, [[Edwin May]] and Charles Honorton had him attempt to influence a noise-driven binary random generator: 29 runs gave a mean of 493 against 500 expected (p = 0.011), improving as he was moved twelve feet away behind "two double steel walls," while a control run after he left gave 499.7. "We conclude that Mr. Swann was successful in exerting a psychokinetic influence on the instrument." The SRI final report's instrumented magnetometer series of 1974 and 1975, thirteen ten-trial runs on a Develco gradiometer at four metres giving p = 0.004, was run with subject S1, the code that matches Pat Price's sessions, not S3; the "early research (1972)" perturbation "of a Josephson effect magnetometer" is described there as a pilot study of "a few hours" that "prevented a proper investigation." He visited the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity on October 17, 1978, and was still reporting to Puthoff as a consultant in April 1984.[^2]
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From 1984, Swann traveled to [[Fort Meade]] to train the Army's operational remote viewing unit - the military successor to the SRI research, operating under the code names Center Lane and Sun Streak - in the CRV protocol. He trained the initial Army cadre in the six-stage method, including viewers who became the operational core of the program in its final decade before declassification.
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From 1984, Swann traveled to [[Fort Meade]] to train the Army's operational remote viewing unit - the military successor to the SRI research, operating under the code names [[Center Lane]] and [[Sun Streak]] - in the CRV protocol. He trained the initial Army cadre in the six-stage method, including viewers who became the operational core of the program in its final decade before declassification.
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### Writing and Later Career
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 28-60, 83-97. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, pp. 34-84.
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[^2]: Swann, Ingo. *Natural ESP: A Layman's Guide to Unlocking the Extra Sensory Power of Your Mind.* Bantam Books, 1987. Swann, Ingo. *Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy.* Ingo Swann Books, 1998. CIA CREST database documents on SCANATE program (CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 and related documents), released under FOIA.
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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.
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[^2]: May, Edwin C., and Charles Honorton. "A Dynamic PK Experiment with Ingo Swann," Maimonides Medical Center, abstract for the American Physical Society meeting of February 1976, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130005-3. 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. 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. "Visit of Ingo Swann to AMSAA, 17 October 1978," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200240010-3, and "Memo to Dr. H.E. Puthoff from I. Swann, Consultant, Subject: Work Report," April 15, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140033-6, titles only.
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summary: "Mel Riley was a U.S. Army staff sergeant and aerial photo-interpreter who was one of the original six STARGATE remote viewers recruited in 1977, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions and for being part of the three-viewer core that became the Grill Flame program."
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summary: "Army sergeant and imagery analyst, one of the six original Fort Meade viewers selected in February 1979, who returned to the unit under DIA and retired in 1990."
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Mel Riley was a U.S. Army staff sergeant and one of the original six remote viewers in the [[STARGATE PROJECT]]. He was recruited into the program, then codenamed [[STARGATE PROJECT|Gondola Wish]], in 1977 by [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] and [[Murray Watt|Scotty Watt]].[^1]
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Mel Riley was a U.S. Army staff sergeant and one of the original six remote viewers in the [[STARGATE PROJECT]]. He was recruited into the program, then codenamed Gondola Wish, in 1977 by [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] and [[Murray Watt|Scotty Watt]].[^1]
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Riley was five feet eight, slim and fit, with wavy blond hair and an Irish, vaguely leprechaunish face. He had tattoos of an eagle, a rabbit, and a large winged dragon across his chest. His eyes were often described as wide and intense, as if he were staring inward. He was a morning person, enjoying the quiet calm of the predawn hours.[^1]
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During the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981), Riley and other remote viewers were tasked hundreds of times to provide information on the hostages. Despite the gratification of contributing to a key intelligence effort, Riley found the relentless and monotonous taskings led to mental burnout, as remote viewers needed variety to maintain clarity. He experienced aftereffects of remote viewing, describing them as similar to a "natural high" or the adrenaline rush after a parachute jump, with heightened sensory perception. However, he also noted that intense, daily remote viewing could lead to mental fatigue, emotional fragility, and a "vacant stare."[^1]
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Riley, along with [[Joe McMoneagle]] and [[Ken Bell]], became one of the three full-time remote viewers when the unit was officially designated the Special Action Branch and the program was codenamed [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]]. He left the unit in 1981 for a posting in Germany, with the understanding that he could return to the program in the future, as the unit was on "relatively firm ground" with an increasing budget and new recruits.[^1]
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Riley, along with [[Joe McMoneagle]] and [[Ken Bell]], became one of the three full-time remote viewers when the unit was officially designated the Special Action Branch and the program was codenamed Grill Flame. He left the unit in 1981 for a posting in Germany, with the understanding that he could return to the program in the future, as the unit was on "relatively firm ground" with an increasing budget and new recruits.[^1]
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His Grill Flame security agreement and volunteer security agreement are dated February 8, 1979, the day of Joe McMoneagle's.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997. Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Grill Flame volunteer security agreements, consent statements, and counseling statements for Joseph W. McMoneagle (February 8, 1979; October 26, 1979; February 19, 1980), Melvin C. Riley (February 8, 1979), and Robert C. Cowart (June 3 and October 2, 1981), and "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project (Brian Buzby)," May 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00789R0021001500xx series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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title: Pat Price
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summary: "Pat Price was a retired Burbank, California law enforcement official who produced the most operationally significant results of the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program, including a substantially confirmed viewing of the Soviet Semipalatinsk weapons facility, before dying of a disputed heart attack in Las Vegas in July 1975 while working directly for the CIA."
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summary: "Former Burbank police commissioner and SRI subject S1 whose 1973 West Virginia and Urals readings the CIA called substantially correct, whose Semipalatinsk session Los Alamos judged unsuccessful, and who died in 1975."
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Price also demonstrated precognitive results during SRI experiments: he described the Redwood City Marina and its boats five minutes before Puthoff and a colleague arrived at the target location, and he described a water-treatment facility with elevated water tanks at Rinconada Park that had existed at the site decades before his session.
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### The Documents
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SRI's SCANATE report introduces him without a surname: "As a backup test, the coordinates were given to a second subject who appears to possess similar ability in casual testing, although with perhaps a lower signal-to-noise ratio. Since the second subject, a businessman, wishes to remain anonymous for the time being, he shall be referred to simply as Pat." Given the West Virginia coordinates by telephone on June 1, 1973, he wrote his answer at Lake Tahoe the next day: a mountain of about 4,996 feet, "a battleground in civil war," a monument to "the battle of Lynchburg," and "large underground storage areas" that "looks like former missile site, bases for launchers still there, but area now houses record storage area, microfilm, file cabinets. Personnel, Army 5th Corps engineers. M/Sgt. Long on desk placard on grey steel desk. Personnel, Army Signal Corps." A later session gave "papers labeled: Flytrap / Minerva," a cabinet "labeled: Operation Pool," folders "Cueball / 14 Ball / 4 Ball / 8 Ball / Rackup," a site name "vaguely seems like Hayfork or Haystack," and three officers' names. He then "volunteered that he scanned the other side of the globe for a Bloc equivalent, and found one in the Urals," at 65°00'57"N, 59°59'59"E: "Elevation, 6200 ft. Scrubby brush, tundra-type ground hummocks," an underground site with "doorways of steel of the roll-up type," "unusually high ratio of women to men, at least at night," helipads, light rail into the mountain, and thirty miles north "a radar installation with one large (165 ft) dish and two small fast-track dishes." The 1975 final report, which codes him S1, states that "the two reports for the West Virginia Site, and the report for the Urals Site were verified by personnel in the sponsor organization as being substantially correct," the coordinates having come from "the OSI group responsible for threat analysis." He was the subject of its magnetometer series, thirteen ten-trial runs at four metres giving p = 0.004, and of its Costa Rica series, in which twelve daily descriptions by him, a second subject, and once an SRI experimenter gave five matches to Puthoff's travels (p = 0.02).[^1]
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The Semipalatinsk experiment ran in three phases "under direct control of the COTR": Phase I with coordinates and the words "R&D test facility" only, Phase II after "the subject being made 'witting' (of the client) by client representatives who introduced themselves to the subject," and Phase III "the generation of unverifiable data concerning the Semipalatinsk site not available to the client, but of operational interest nonetheless," over two weeks. The Los Alamos analyst who reviewed the tapes of July 9 to 15, 1974, found that on the first day he "successfully evaded drawing a perimeter of the area even though he was asked to do this twice" and produced a 500-foot antenna, a swimming pool "for underwater testing," an array of telephone poles, and an airstrip that did not exist; that on the second "Price supplied the most positive evidence yet for the remote-viewing experiment with his sketch of the rail-mounted gantry crane. It seems inconceivable to imagine how he could have drawn such a likeness to the actual crane at URDF-3 unless: 1) he actually saw it through remote viewing, or 2) he was informed of what to draw by someone knowledgeable of URDF-3," adding, "I only mention this second possibility because the experiment was not controlled to discount the possibility that Price could talk to other people, such as the Disinformation Section of the KGB"; that on the third, shown the surface features of the underground Building 1, he said "No, that's a concrete apron, and there's nothing subterranean right in that particular area," which "was his most negative evidence yet"; and on the fourth admitted "he had been trying to force-fit a space-oriented situation to the target location." The conclusion: "I consider Price's remote-viewing experiment of URDF-3 to be unsuccessful. I recommend that the tapes be considered for use with the psychological stress evaluator." An outside reviewer of the SRI progress reports in 1974, under the heading "Remote Viewing by Mr. Price," wrote that "one cannot determine whether he was aware of the nine sites or had visited them prior to the experiment," and closed: "one still has the feeling that the prevailing philosophy is to 'prove' the existence of an information channel." When OTS briefed the House intelligence committee in November 1977 it left with the staff "a brief article on Mr. Pat Price."[^2]
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### CIA Direct Work (1974-1975)
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In the autumn of 1974, Price left SRI and began working directly for the CIA outside the SRI institutional framework, including a period attempting to identify coal deposits in Huntington, West Virginia, using psychic methods for a commercial client. He also undertook CIA-tasked remote viewing sessions to attempt to confirm locations of foreign intelligence facilities. He passed initial CIA verification tests, accurately describing embassy layouts and interior details that were confirmed against classified records.
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The *Nature* paper of October 1974 reported his nine double-blind trials against Bay Area sites, six matched by a plurality of five judges, and gave him, with Hella Hammid, as one of "two of our subjects (H.H. and P.P.)" who "had not considered themselves to have unusual perceptual ability before their participation." Targ's memoir of 1996 quotes his words on July 10, 1974: "I am lying on my back on the roof of a two or three story brick building. It's a sunny day. The sun feels good. There's the most amazing thing. There's a giant gantry crane moving back and forth over my head," and his description of "a giant, 'sixty-foot diameter metal sphere'" assembled from "thick metal gores," which Targ set beside an *Aviation Week* report of May 2, 1977, of Soviet steel gores for "a large sphere estimated to be about 18 meters (57.8 feet) in diameter." In August 1977 [[Stansfield Turner]] told reporters that the agency "had found a man who could 'see' what was going on anywhere in the world," dropped in 1975: "He died, and we haven't heard from him since."[^3]
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### Death and Disputed Circumstances
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Price died in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 14, 1975, at age 56. The official cause of death was a heart attack. He had no known prior history of cardiac disease. Puthoff was contacted and traveled to Las Vegas to manage the program's interests in the aftermath. He found that Price's personal suitcase, which Price habitually carried and which contained his remote viewing notes and CIA-associated materials, had disappeared before Puthoff's arrival.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 41-78 (comprehensive account of Price's SRI work and death). Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, pp. 85-150.
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[^2]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research." *Proceedings of the IEEE* 64, no. 3 (March 1976): 329-354 (presents SRI experimental results including Price sessions). CIA CREST database documents on SCANATE program, released under FOIA.
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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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In late September 1995, Webb visited Ross at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown [[San Diego]], where Ross was being held without bail pending trial. Ross appeared confident at first but dropped the pretense by the end. "I can't believe he done me like this," Ross said of Blandón's betrayal. When Webb explained that Blandón had been arrested with no drugs and faced only taped conversations with informants, Ross was incredulous: "They didn't find no dope on him? Then what would he roll over for? Think about it. You ain't gonna pull a life sentence just for talking to somebody about selling dope." Ross concluded that someone was not telling Webb the whole story.[^11]
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In late September 1995, Webb visited Ross at the [[Metropolitan Correctional Center]] in downtown [[San Diego]], where Ross was being held without bail pending trial. Ross appeared confident at first but dropped the pretense by the end. "I can't believe he done me like this," Ross said of Blandón's betrayal. When Webb explained that Blandón had been arrested with no drugs and faced only taped conversations with informants, Ross was incredulous: "They didn't find no dope on him? Then what would he roll over for? Think about it. You ain't gonna pull a life sentence just for talking to somebody about selling dope." Ross concluded that someone was not telling Webb the whole story.[^11]
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The letter rogatory sent by the federal court in Washington to Chile in February 1978 put to the bearer of the name Juan Williams Rose, which Michael Townley had carried on a Paraguayan passport in July 1976 and Captain [[René Riveros]] of DINA on a Chilean one in August: "In February 1976, you met with Rolando Otero Hernández, who at that time was a fugitive from United States law. Present at that meeting was a man who introduced himself as Major Torres of DINA," and another "under the name Marcelo Estobel," and asked their true names. Townley testified that at the meetings in Union City in September 1976 the talk included "spreading rumors to justify and explain Otero's arrest in Chile and his subsequent handover to the FBI. The idea was to blame Otero himself for his 'blunder.'"[^5]
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Admiral [[Ronald McIntyre]] of the Chilean naval mission testified that when the leadership of [[Brigade 2506]] came to his office in early September 1976 "the only discordant note" was the feeling of its president, Roberto Carballo, "over the detention in Chile and handover to US authorities of the Cuban Otero," and that the New Jersey group had refused to attend the visit of the training ship Esmeralda in July "precisely because of the handover of Otero," in a letter signed by Novo.[^6]
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Admiral [[Ronald McIntyre]] of the Chilean naval mission testified that when the leadership of [[Brigade 2506]] came to his office in early September 1976 "the only discordant note" was the feeling of its president, Roberto Carballo, "over the detention in Chile and handover to US authorities of the Cuban Otero," and that the [[New Jersey]] group had refused to attend the visit of the training ship Esmeralda in July "precisely because of the handover of Otero," in a letter signed by Novo.[^6]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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As the Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence Odom was briefed on Grill Flame in October 1981, received an update on [[Center Lane]] on February 23, 1984, and on October 4, 1984, as a lieutenant general, approved the memorandum of agreement transferring the project to the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]; on February 6, 1985, he accompanied its personnel to brief the under secretary of the Army.[^2]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: 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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The most carefully sourced investigation of Sargant's intelligence relationships is *Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control* (Hodder and Stoughton, 2006), Chapter 7. The book's primary source was an unnamed senior psychiatrist described as a former close colleague of Sargant, interviewed September 3, 2004. This source confirmed that Sargant acted as an informal consultant to [[MI5]], "loved doing things for the government," and discussed the advisory role openly in informal terms, but stated he was "never an official psychiatrist to either MI5 or MI6" and never signed the Official Secrets Act. The nature of the consultancy was general advisory, involving discussion of Soviet and Chinese psychiatric methods, rather than operational or classified briefings.[^1]
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*Journey into Madness* (Bantam, 1988) and *Secrets and Lies* (Mainstream Publishing, 1999) make substantially more specific claims based on personal acquaintance with Sargant and with CIA officer William Buckley. These accounts describe Sargant as the institutional link between British intelligence and [[MKULTRA]], and as having been "sent by the British government in the early Fifties to evaluate MK-ULTRA," reporting back that Cameron and Gottlieb's work was "as bad as anything going on in the Soviet gulags." These accounts also claim Sargant and [[Louis Jolyon West]] co-authored CIA interrogation manuals titled "Coercive Questioning" and "Human Resource Exploitation." No copies of documents attributing these manuals to Sargant have been produced; the "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual" is a documented declassified CIA document but its authorship attribution to Sargant remains sourced to these accounts alone.[^1]
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*Journey into Madness* (Bantam, 1988) and *Secrets and Lies* (Mainstream Publishing, 1999) make substantially more specific claims based on personal acquaintance with Sargant and with CIA officer [[William Buckley]]. These accounts describe Sargant as the institutional link between British intelligence and [[MKULTRA]], and as having been "sent by the British government in the early Fifties to evaluate MK-ULTRA," reporting back that Cameron and Gottlieb's work was "as bad as anything going on in the Soviet gulags." These accounts also claim Sargant and [[Louis Jolyon West]] co-authored CIA interrogation manuals titled "Coercive Questioning" and "Human Resource Exploitation." No copies of documents attributing these manuals to Sargant have been produced; the "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual" is a documented declassified CIA document but its authorship attribution to Sargant remains sourced to these accounts alone.[^1]
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The most specifically documented intelligence-adjacent incident is Sargant's encounter with CIA officer [[Frank Olson]] at Porton Down in spring 1953. *Poisoner in Chief* (Henry Holt, 2019) reports that Olson was visiting the UK's Microbiological Research Establishment at Wiltshire and expressed distress to Sargant about CIA activities he had witnessed in safe houses in Germany. Sargant then wrote a report characterizing Olson as "deeply disturbed over what he had seen" and displaying "symptoms of not wanting to keep secret what he had witnessed." Olson died in November 1953 under contested circumstances. The chain from Sargant's report to any decision regarding Olson's death is asserted by Thomas but is not independently confirmed by declassified documents.[^1]
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In 1981, Vorona contacted [[Dale Graff]] and brought him to Washington, D.C., to help run a classified program called [[Psychoenergetics]]. The main goals of this project were "to evaluate the threat that foreign psychoenergetics achievements might pose to US national security, and to explore the potential of psychoenergetics for use in US intelligence collection"[^2]. Vorona believed that with the resources of the DIA, genuine progress could be made toward a general theory of [[Extrasensory Perception|ESP]] and [[Psychokinesis|PK]][^2].
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Vorona oversaw the Grill Flame program and later the Sun Streak program, which aimed to train military personnel in [[Remote Viewing]]. He made administrative changes, converting the branch chief and operations officer positions from military to civilian, and reducing training time[^2].
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Vorona oversaw the Grill Flame program and later the [[Sun Streak]] program, which aimed to train military personnel in [[Remote Viewing]]. He made administrative changes, converting the branch chief and operations officer positions from military to civilian, and reducing training time[^2].
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He was also involved in high-priority operational tasks, such as the effort to locate [[William Richard Higgins]], a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in [[Lebanon]], and the tracking of [[Muammar Qaddafi]]'s alleged chemical weapons stockpile. In the latter case, Vorona sat with [[Angela Dellafiora]] in the viewing room at [[Fort Meade]], demonstrating the high-level attention given to her abilities[^2].
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Vorona chaired the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee from its first meeting at DIA on November 28, 1978, where he "cautioned the Committee to maintain a low profile with minimal fanfare," "urged the development of experimental protocol and methods for validating experiments," and saw it agree "that all documents originating as a result of the GRILL FLAME program would undergo downgrading review only after 20 years." He missed the meeting of July 12, 1979, because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology." In November 1979 the committee asked him to demand sight of the "Gale Committee's" outside report before anyone else saw it, the working group holding it "misleading and inadequate." INSCOM's chronology records that on August 3, 1983, "the Honorable [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]], Vice President of the United States, was briefed for thirty minutes concerning CENTER LANE related activities by Dr. Vorona, DIA," "Adm. Murphy, C/S," and "Mr. Gregg, Assistant to the Vice President, National Security Affairs," present: "The briefing was well received and the Vice President was interested and impressed."[^3]
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Vorona chaired the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee from its first meeting at DIA on November 28, 1978, where he "cautioned the Committee to maintain a low profile with minimal fanfare," "urged the development of experimental protocol and methods for validating experiments," and saw it agree "that all documents originating as a result of the GRILL FLAME program would undergo downgrading review only after 20 years." He missed the meeting of July 12, 1979, because he "was briefing Congressman Rose on DoD efforts and interest in parapsychology." In November 1979 the committee asked him to demand sight of the "Gale Committee's" outside report before anyone else saw it, the working group holding it "misleading and inadequate." INSCOM's chronology records that in 1983 (the chronology's date reads as March 31 or August 3), "the Honorable [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]], Vice President of the United States, was briefed for thirty minutes concerning CENTER LANE related activities by Dr. Vorona, DIA," "Adm. Murphy, C/S," and "Mr. Gregg, Assistant to the Vice President, National Security Affairs," present: "The briefing was well received and the Vice President was interested and impressed."[^3]
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Vorona arranged the briefing of Senator [[Claiborne Pell]] on September 29, 1982, two days before Congress ended the Army's funding; "Senator Pell had had previous briefings concerning parapsychology from Dr. Vorona." On October 5, 1983, with Hal Puthoff and the [[Center Lane]] officers, he briefed Senator [[Malcolm Wallop]], "the individual who was responsible for the project being eliminated," and asked him "to insert language in the Congressional Conference Report that would permit the program to be included in the FY 85 GDIP submission"; Wallop "replied that he is only one person." On October 7 the committees' staff asked "what is the benefit of placing the program back in the NFIP since DIA has Program 6 (P-6) money," and when he answered "security," told him "that there was no security in the NFIP, and since P-6 money is available, it could be dangerous to reintroduce the subject to the Congressional Committees. Dr. Vorona did not continue the debate and terminated the briefing." As chairman of the working group he had answered the [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]]'s report of December 1979 with a memorandum supporting its finding that "unexplained observations of human capabilities to generate data of potential utility to intelligence have been documented" and objecting that "many of the difficulties in the report, especially those of fact and incompleteness, could have been avoided if the report had been collectively reviewed in draft."[^4]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^3]: Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). 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. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^4]: Jachim, Robert J., memorandum "Information Briefing for Senator Clairborne Pell," October 6, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320001-5; Buzby, Brian, information paper "GRILL FLAME Briefing Presented to Senator Pell," February 6, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100320004-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Buzby, Brian, memorandum on the briefing of Congressional intelligence committee staff of October 7, 1983, October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270017-8; "ITAOPS Fact Sheet, Inputs for MG Stubblebine," April 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220021-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Vorona, J., "Comments on 'Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee,'" memorandum of the Grill Flame Working Group, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300060001-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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Hyman's report of September 11 agreed that the SAIC experiments "were free of the methodological weaknesses that plagued the early SRI research" and that their effect sizes were "too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes," but answered no to whether they established anomalous cognition, whether flaws had been eliminated, and whether they matched other laboratories, "ten experiments, especially from one laboratory," being "far too few." Utts's reply cited the psychologist Sybo Schouten's estimate that all parapsychology funding since 1882 "is at best equivalent to the expenditures devoted to fewer than two months of research in conventional psychology in the United States," and the Physicians Health Study of aspirin: "had it been conducted on only 2,200 men with the same reduction in heart attacks, it would not have achieved statistical significance." AIR's own synthesis found that "the two reviewers agreed far more than they disagreed," and that the significant results rested on "the same remote viewers, the same judge, the same target set, and the same scoring procedures." The report of September 29 recommended against continuing the operational program. Both reviews were published in the *Journal of Scientific Exploration* in 1996.[^3]
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On *Nightline* on November 28, 1995, she said: "I'm a statistician, and when I look at the data I have to say that there's something there," and "what it proves to me is that we don't quite understand either the nature of the mind or perhaps the nature of time and space." In a letter to Edwin May of December 19, 1995, which he published, she wrote that "I was explicitly asked by AIR staff NOT to mention the NRC report in my review! This is very troubling to me," since the NRC's "vote-counting" method "has been completely discredited," a point "substantiated by Stanford Statistics Professor Lincoln Moses" at the panel's July meeting; that "despite the claims Ray Hyman is making in the media, we were shown very little of the 'operational' remote-viewing work"; that after May sent her a memorandum she "was contacted by the AIR staff and told that I was NOT to contact any of those individuals"; and of Hyman, "I don't know how he can substantiate the claims he's making about remote viewing being useless for intelligence. He may be correct, but he has very little data on which to base that conclusion."[^4]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: Utts, Jessica. "An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning," September 1, 1995, reproduced in the AIR report, pp. 3-2 to 3-40, and published in *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 3-30. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB438/docs/doc_57.pdf
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[^3]: Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena," September 11, 1995, reproduced in the AIR report, pp. 3-41 to 3-75, and published in *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 31-58. Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, pp. 3-76 to 3-84.
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[^4]: "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room. May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 3-23. The letter of December 19, 1995, is printed at pp. 15-17 as Utts's reply to May's e-mail of December 17, checked against the page images.
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Malcolm Wallop, senator from [[Wyoming]], chaired the budget subcommittee of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] in the early 1980s. An INSCOM memorandum of October 1983 called him "an important player in DoD's involvement in psychoenergetics. He is the individual who was responsible for the project being eliminated under the NFIP (GDIP) at the end of FY 82," the cut of October 1, 1982, that ended the Army's part of [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] and drove [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] to continue it as [[Center Lane]] on security funds.[^1]
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### The Briefing of October 5, 1983
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From 2:45 to 3:39 that afternoon, in room SR206 of the Russell building, [[Jack Vorona]] of the DIA, [[Hal Puthoff]] of SRI, Lieutenant Colonel [[Brian Buzby]], and Captain [[Frederick Atwater]] briefed him. "At the conclusion of the briefing, Dr. Vorona reiterated that the purpose of the briefing was to illustrate that psychoenergetics; remote viewing did in fact have intelligence application, and that it should be placed back in the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP) to give the program the protection it needed. He requested that the Senator insert language in the Congressional Conference Report that would permit the program to be included in the FY 85 GDIP submission. The Senator replied that he is only one person, and that perhaps the briefing should be presented to the entire SSCI Budget Subcommittee," and that "internal political infighting" might mean a continuing resolution instead of an appropriations bill. "The intelligence applications of remote viewing as illustrated in the briefing book definitely impressed him." Two days later the staff of the two intelligence committees told Vorona "that there was no security in the NFIP, and since P-6 money is available, it could be dangerous to reintroduce the subject to the Congressional Committees."[^1][^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum on the briefing of Congressional intelligence committee staff of October 7, 1983, October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270017-8; "ITAOPS Fact Sheet, Inputs for MG Stubblebine," April 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220021-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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title: Russell Targ
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summary: "Russell Targ is a laser physicist who co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program with Hal Puthoff in 1972 under CIA contract, co-authored the program's landmark 1974 Nature paper and 1976 IEEE paper, and continued parapsychology research and writing after leaving SRI."
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summary: "Laser physicist who founded the SRI remote-viewing program with Puthoff in 1972, published it in Nature in 1974, ran the Price and Geller sessions, and in 1995 forced the CIA to release its files."
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Targ was responsible for many of the early experiments at SRI, including the development of an ESP "teaching" machine, a primitive computer designed to give subjects feedback on their psychic guesses. He often clashed with [[Ingo Swann]] over the use of this machine, as Swann found it to be a "depressing remnant of old-time parapsychology." He also conducted experiments with other psychics, including [[Pat Price]] and [[Uri Geller]], and explored various psi phenomena such as psychokinesis and telepathy. He was instrumental in developing and refining remote viewing protocols, including "outbound remote viewing" and "coordinate remote viewing" (CRV).[^1]
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As a monitor in remote viewing sessions, Targ would prompt psychics with questions and record their impressions. He was involved in the testing of [[Uri Geller]], and while often suspecting sleight of hand due to Geller's hyperkinetic style, he was also impressed by Geller's genuine abilities. He and Puthoff would sometimes search the laboratory rafters and acoustic tiles for hidden audio or video bugs after Geller's sessions, though they never found anything.[^1]
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As a monitor in remote viewing sessions, Targ would prompt psychics with questions and record their impressions. He was involved in the testing of Uri Geller, and while often suspecting sleight of hand due to Geller's hyperkinetic style, he was also impressed by Geller's genuine abilities. He and Puthoff would sometimes search the laboratory rafters and acoustic tiles for hidden audio or video bugs after Geller's sessions, though they never found anything.[^1]
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Despite the personality conflicts and the controversial nature of the research, Targ was a key figure in the remote viewing program. He was the co-author, with Hal Puthoff, of a number of influential papers on remote viewing, including a 1974 article in *Nature* and a 1976 article in the *Proceedings of the IEEE*. He eventually became convinced of the reality of remote viewing, even conducting his own informal experiments. He was present during many of Price's most impressive remote viewing feats, including the glider experiment where Price accurately perceived the numbers Kennett was carrying and the "ankh" around his neck, and the precognitive viewing of the Redwood City Marina and the Rinconada Park water tanks.[^1]
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### The Nature Paper
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The paper he and Puthoff published in *Nature* on October 18, 1974, "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," reported thirteen drawing experiments with Uri Geller in "a double-walled steel room" and later "a double-walled, copper-screen Faraday cage," in which two judges "each matched the target data to the response data with no error"; a hundred-picture series on which Geller "passed" every day, with results that "do not depart significantly from what would be expected by chance"; a die in a steel box called correctly eight times of eight; nine double-blind remote-viewing trials with Pat Price against Bay Area sites chosen by the division director with a random-number calculator, of which five judges matched six of nine; and an EEG series in which one subject of six, "H.H.," showed "a consistent alpha blocking effect" when a distant light flashed. It concluded that "a channel exists whereby information about a remote location can be obtained by means of an as yet unidentified perceptual modality," that "the information channel appears to be imperfect, containing noise along with the signal," and that the ability "may be widely distributed in the general population." The acknowledged sponsor was "The Foundation for Parasensory Investigation, New York City," with thanks to Judith Skutch and [[Edgar Mitchell]] of the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences]]. In 1978 [[David Marks]] and Richard Kammann reported in *Nature* that they had failed to replicate the work and argued that the Price transcripts held cues such as "second place of the day" that let judges match them; Targ, Puthoff, and [[Charles Tart]] answered in January 1979 with re-edited transcripts and a new judge who matched seven of nine.[^2]
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### The 1996 Memoir
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Targ requested his CIA files in May 1994, "moved from number 540 in line to number 474" in a year, and with "two Washington lawyers, two congressmen, and a senator" obtained them on August 11, 1995. His memoir of 1996 recounts Price telephoning Puthoff in June 1973 to say he had been "doing that kind of psychic thing for years, catching crooks when he was the police commissioner in Burbank"; the protocol of sixty target cards and a calculator with a random-number key, run by the laboratory director Bonnar Cox, with Targ and the viewer in a Faraday cage on the second floor of the Radio Physics building; Price's drawing of the Rinconada Park pools, "about a hundred feet in diameter (it was actually hundred and ten feet)," with water tanks that the city's centennial report showed had stood there in 1913; and the session of July 10, 1974, in which Price, given coordinates by "a physicist from the CIA," said: "I am lying on my back on the roof of a two or three story brick building. It's a sunny day. The sun feels good. There's the most amazing thing. There's a giant gantry crane moving back and forth over my head. As I drift up in the air and look down, it seems to be riding on a track with one rail on each side of the building." Targ added that Price described "a giant, 'sixty-foot diameter metal sphere'" being assembled from "thick metal gores" with welding difficulties, and that *Aviation Week* of May 2, 1977, reported satellite photographs of Soviet technicians manufacturing "huge extremely thick steel gores" for "a large sphere estimated to be about 18 meters (57.8 feet) in diameter." He quoted the *Chicago Tribune* of August 13, 1977, on Director [[Stansfield Turner]]'s disclosure that the agency "had found a man who could 'see' what was going on anywhere in the world through his psychic powers," dropped in 1975: "'He died,' Turner said, 'and we haven't heard from him since.'" Of the agency's position in 1995 he wrote: "It is as though the CIA discovered that there were indeed little men on Mars, but concluded that since they were pretty small and didn't have weapons, they weren't worth investigating any further."[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: 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. Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments," *Nature,* vol. 274, 1978, pp. 680-681, not obtained; quoted from Puthoff, Targ, and Tart, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," with Tart, "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," submitted to *Nature,* January 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5, archive.org mirror.
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[^3]: 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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One of the two, Captain René Riveros Valderrama, gave a sworn statement in Santiago on March 22, 1978, to the Chilean court investigating Contreras and Espinoza. He and Captain Rolando Mosqueira Jarpa had left for Washington on August 21, 1976, on official passports in the names Juan Williams Rose and Alejandro Romeral Jara, prepared by DINA's passport section, on a mission given them by Contreras "to make contact with the North American General Don Vernon Walters in order to receive certain information relating to the names of certain persons." They could not reach him: he was handing over his post and on leave, and "finally a CIA secretary whom we could not identify told us that General Walters no longer worked at that intelligence agency." They then called on a Chilean general Mosqueira knew, giving their real names and ranks but not their errand, and when every approach failed telephoned Espinoza, DINA's chief of operations, who authorized them to return.[^21]
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Contreras told the Chilean military prosecutor on March 22, 1978, that "around June or early July 1976, CIA Chile informed me that the Deputy Director of the CIA, General Vernon Walters, needed a contact in the US to give us a list of lobbyists and people who could cooperate with Chile before the US Senate and also for the UN's forthcoming session that year." Espinoza testified on April 24 that Contreras ordered him to designate an agent for the mission with a companion fluent in English; he chose Fernández Larios, and "the name of the second man was suggested by then-Major [[Raúl Iturriaga Neumann|Iturriaga]], under the name Andrés Wilson," who "turned out to be the same person I had known since November or December 1974 as Michael Townley." Fernández Larios said he was told "once in the US I had to speak with a CIA chief named Vernon Walters, because he was going to give me a list of people sympathetic to Chile for purposes of presenting the Chilean position before the United Nations." The second pair, Captains [[René Riveros]] and [[Rolando Mosqueira]], could not find him; General [[Nilo Floody]] of the Chilean military mission, who had known Walters since 1974, had his secretary telephone Walters's office and was told "that he was out of town, that he no longer belonged to the CIA, and that upon his return he would presumably rejoin the Army." The FBI interviewed Walters on June 14, 1978, at the Chilean prosecutor's request. "When told that several DINA officials were claiming that their trip to the US in August of 1976 was to see him, the General laughed and dismissed the idea as being ludicrous on its face, saying it was impossible since he had retired during the previous month." He said his trip to Paraguay "had been completely unrelated to the Letelier assassination," that "at no time had he discussed with any Paraguayan officials the issuance of false passports," that his only contact with Contreras had been the 1975 visit, and he "offered to take a polygraph examination." Propper added: "I have been advised by the CIA that General Vernon Walters retired from the CIA on July 2, 1976. He was no longer there at the time either mission to the United States by DINA personnel took place."[^22]
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Contreras told the Chilean military prosecutor on March 22, 1978, that "around June or early July 1976, CIA Chile informed me that the Deputy Director of the CIA, General Vernon Walters, needed a contact in the US to give us a list of lobbyists and people who could cooperate with Chile before the US Senate and also for the UN's forthcoming session that year." Espinoza testified on April 24 that Contreras ordered him to designate an agent for the mission with a companion fluent in English; he chose Fernández Larios, and "the name of the second man was suggested by then-Major [[Raúl Iturriaga Neumann|Iturriaga]], under the name Andrés Wilson," who "turned out to be the same person I had known since November or December 1974 as [[Michael Townley]]." Fernández Larios said he was told "once in the US I had to speak with a CIA chief named Vernon Walters, because he was going to give me a list of people sympathetic to Chile for purposes of presenting the Chilean position before the United Nations." The second pair, Captains [[René Riveros]] and [[Rolando Mosqueira]], could not find him; General [[Nilo Floody]] of the Chilean military mission, who had known Walters since 1974, had his secretary telephone Walters's office and was told "that he was out of town, that he no longer belonged to the CIA, and that upon his return he would presumably rejoin the Army." The FBI interviewed Walters on June 14, 1978, at the Chilean prosecutor's request. "When told that several DINA officials were claiming that their trip to the US in August of 1976 was to see him, the General laughed and dismissed the idea as being ludicrous on its face, saying it was impossible since he had retired during the previous month." He said his trip to Paraguay "had been completely unrelated to the Letelier assassination," that "at no time had he discussed with any Paraguayan officials the issuance of false passports," that his only contact with Contreras had been the 1975 visit, and he "offered to take a polygraph examination." Propper added: "I have been advised by the CIA that General Vernon Walters retired from the CIA on July 2, 1976. He was no longer there at the time either mission to the United States by DINA personnel took place."[^22]
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As ambassador at large for President [[Ronald Reagan]], Walters visited Pinochet in February 1981. "We spoke as old friends," he reported. "He offered full support and said he would do anything we wanted to help us in the Salvadoran situation." He told a congressional committee that the Letelier bombing had been "a mistake," like [[Napoleon]]'s execution of the Duke of Enghien: "You can't rub their noses in it forever."[^19]
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In [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] the service's officer [[J. Walton Moore]] was in contact with [[George de Mohrenschildt]], the friend of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].[^4]
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The Miami office made contact with the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] on November 27, 1967, seven months after the Office of Security had severed the agency's relations with its founder, and carried it as a contact for reports on Latin America, under [[Justin Gleichauf]] as chief of the office through 1970. By 1974 Gleichauf worked for the company and reported to his former office as a private citizen. The case was closed on June 30, 1977.[^5]
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The Miami office made contact with the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] on November 27, 1967, seven months after the [[CIA Office of Security|Office of Security]] had severed the agency's relations with its founder, and carried it as a contact for reports on [[Latin America]], under [[Justin Gleichauf]] as chief of the office through 1970. By 1974 Gleichauf worked for the company and reported to his former office as a private citizen. The case was closed on June 30, 1977.[^5]
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### The Cathy O'Brien Account
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The most detailed public claim about Project Monarch came from [[Cathy O'Brien]], who described her experiences in the 1995 book *Trance Formation of America*, co-authored with [[Mark Phillips]]. O'Brien claimed she was subjected to Monarch programming from infancy, beginning with abuse by her father [[Earl O'Brien]], who she said was recruited by the DIA through her uncle, a pilot in Air Force Intelligence. At age 13, she claimed she was sold by her father to U.S. Senator [[Robert Byrd]] of Virginia, who was also head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in exchange for Defense Department contracts.[^1]
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The most detailed public claim about Project Monarch came from [[Cathy O'Brien]], who described her experiences in the 1995 book *Trance Formation of America*, co-authored with [[Mark Phillips]]. O'Brien claimed she was subjected to Monarch programming from infancy, beginning with abuse by her father [[Earl O'Brien]], who she said was recruited by the DIA through her uncle, a pilot in Air Force Intelligence. At age 13, she claimed she was sold by her father to U.S. Senator [[Robert Byrd]] of Virginia, who was also head of the [[Senate Appropriations Committee]], in exchange for Defense Department contracts.[^1]
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O'Brien described being subjected to further conditioning by Lt. Col. [[Michael Aquino]] at [[NASA]] bases, and being sent to what was called "Charm School" in [[Youngstown]], [[Ohio]], described as a stone building with a basement dungeon equipped with chains, a stretching rack, whips, and altars. She claimed to have delivered messages to foreign leaders including Mexican President [[Carlos Salinas]] on behalf of Vice President [[George H.W. Bush]], using keyword-triggered personality compartments.[^1]
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### Industrial Espionage
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The European Parliament investigation focused specifically on evidence that ECHELON had been used not only for national security intelligence but for commercial intelligence - targeting European companies' communications to benefit American competitors. Specific cases cited included intelligence about the Airbus-Saudi Airlines contract in 1994, allegedly intercepted by NSA and passed to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and intelligence about Thomson-CSF negotiations.[^2]
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The European Parliament investigation focused specifically on evidence that ECHELON had been used not only for national security intelligence but for commercial intelligence - targeting European companies' communications to benefit American competitors. Specific cases cited included intelligence about the Airbus-Saudi Airlines contract in 1994, allegedly intercepted by NSA and passed to Boeing and [[McDonnell Douglas]], and intelligence about Thomson-CSF negotiations.[^2]
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category: "PSI Research Program"
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tags:
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- Program
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- CenterLane
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- INSCOM
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- RemoteViewing
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- Project Center Lane
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- INSCOM Center Lane Project
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- ICLP
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summary: "INSCOM's remote-viewing unit from October 1982 to March 1985, kept alive with security funds after Congress cut Grill Flame, run as a special access program under Stubblebine, and handed to the DIA as Sun Streak."
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start: 1982-12-03
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end: 1985-03-07
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location: "Fort Meade, Maryland"
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Center Lane was the name under which [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] kept its remote-viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]] after Congress cut the Army's part of [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]]. On October 1, 1982, "NFIP funding terminated for Army GRILL FLAME collection operations project by Congressional directive"; a year later the project manager identified Senator [[Malcolm Wallop]], chairman of the budget subcommittee of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]], as "the individual who was responsible for the project being eliminated under the NFIP (GDIP) at the end of FY 82." On September 27, 1982, the commander of INSCOM, Major General [[Albert Stubblebine]], heard the full briefing at building 2561 and, before the project manager could finish the list of options, "selected SSD, 902D as the organization to which the project would go"; "as I tried to continue with other options, MG Stubblebine then indicated I must not have heard him for he had already made his decision." His guidance: "Get out of the briefing mode!" On December 3, 1982, INSCOM told the Army staff "that INSCOM will fund a psychoenergetics program out of hide by using S&IA funds," and "project name changed to CENTER LANE." On January 19, 1983, the under secretary of defense for research, [[Richard DeLauer]], signed a memorandum allowing Program 6 money "to maintain the current INSCOM CENTER LANE capability," and on March 1 a letter of instruction established the project as the Security Systems Planning Division of the Security Support Detachment, 902d Military Intelligence Group.[^1][^2][^3]
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### The Special Access Program
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The assistant chief of staff for intelligence wrote to Stubblebine in April 1983 that "OPSEC should again be of great concern and I applaud your efforts to establish a Special Access Program. Some linkage to your former, similar program will be inevitable, but must be minimized. I suggest that instead of being part of a joint DOD program INSCOM is now engaged in a similar, cooperative effort of its own initiative," adding that the director of DIA had written of "the need to preserve the fragile, painstakingly constructed experience factor." The Secretary of the Army, [[John Marsh]], approved the special access program on June 15, 1983, and continued participation on September 1; the compartment was called "Center Lane Level 4." The chronology records briefings in 1983 of the vice chief of staff, General [[John Wickham|Wickham]], the under secretary [[James Ambrose]], Marsh, the Army Science Board, and the Vice President, [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]], "for thirty minutes concerning CENTER LANE related activities by Dr. [[Jack Vorona]], DIA." Lieutenant Colonel [[Robert Jachim]] was project manager until Captain [[Frederick Atwater]] took over as acting manager in the summer of 1983 and Lieutenant Colonel [[Brian Buzby]] on August 15. On August 26 Buzby, Atwater, and Chief Warrant Officer [[Joe McMoneagle]] briefed Stubblebine on the project and the [[Monroe Institute]]; the general "directed me to expand the program with quality people, develop a screening program to identify qualified people for the project; and employ advance techniques for intelligence collection." The unit's mission statement now ran to "psychoenergetic communication and psychokinesis."[^1][^2][^4]
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### Operations and Training
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Between March 21 and April 20, 1984, the unit ran eleven sessions for the CIA on the kidnapped Beirut station chief [[William Buckley]]; the agency's memorandum of May 1 described itself as "a customer" with "no Agency people or funds assigned," and asked "to continue to call upon CENTER LANE." A contract "with Mr. [[Robert Monroe]] for 'One-on-One' training of CENTER LANE operative" was signed on July 19, 1983; "RAPT Training established" on November 10; a second group began coordinate remote viewing training at SRI on January 15, 1984. On March 13, 1984, the director of the Army staff, Lieutenant General Brown, "directs cancellation of RAPT as CENTER LANE personnel screening vehicle." An Army inspector general team was briefed on April 10, and on May 9 "dialogue initiated with [[McDonnell Douglas]] Astronautics Company, Huntington Beach, CA to comply with directive to obtain second contractor." Congressional staff heard Vorona's case for restoring the program to the National Foreign Intelligence Program on October 7, 1983, and answered "that there was no security in the NFIP, and since P-6 money is available, it could be dangerous to reintroduce the subject to the Congressional Committees."[^1][^5][^6]
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### Transfer
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Brigadier General [[Harry Soyster]], the new commander of INSCOM, was briefed on July 11, 1984, and on July 13 "formulates decision to discontinue CENTER LANE as an INSCOM project." On August 23 the Secretary of the Army "approves discontinuance of CENTER LANE as Army project, and authorizes negotiations for transfer of Project to DIA or other suitable agency"; Major General Rapmund of the Army Medical Research and Development Command discussed taking its assets on August 1. A memorandum of agreement with DIA was completed on September 18, and on September 28 "CENTER LANE ceases operational collection activities." After DIA asked for the personnel to be detailed rather than transferred, INSCOM approved interim operational control on December 11, 1984; the memorandum was signed for DIA by Lieutenant General Williams on March 7, 1985, and the project passed to DIA, where it became [[Sun Streak]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: 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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[^2]: 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.
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[^3]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^4]: 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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[^5]: Buzby, Brian, "Purpose: To Provide an Overview of Center Lane," May 4, 1984, with the CIA memorandum "Comments on Recent CENTER LANE Experience," May 1, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220003-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, information paper "The Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences," January 5, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270004-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^6]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum on the briefing of Congressional intelligence committee staff of October 7, 1983, October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270017-8; "ITAOPS Fact Sheet, Inputs for MG Stubblebine," April 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220021-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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title: SCANATE
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category: "Psi Research Program"
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summary: "SCANATE was the CIA's initial code name for its remote viewing research program at Stanford Research Institute, launched in 1972 following Hal Puthoff's contact with CIA officer Kit Green and running until the program transitioned to Army management as Gondola Wish in 1977."
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summary: "The CIA-funded SRI remote-viewing research of 1972 to 1975, named for scanning by coordinate, whose West Virginia and Urals readings SRI reported as verified, whose Semipalatinsk test the sponsor's analysts judged unsuccessful, and which OTS ended in 1976."
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Puthoff and Targ published SCANATE-era results in two peer-reviewed venues: "Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding" in *Nature* (October 1974) and "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances" in *Proceedings of the IEEE* (March 1976).
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### The Reports
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||||
SRI's SCANATE report described a training mode of "100 targets on the earth's surface, ten per day for ten days," scored H, N, or M by its own key (a response of "volcano to southwest, I think I'm over ocean" for Hudson Bay was a hit), and concluded that "a channel exists whereby information about a remote location can be obtained," that "the information channel appears to be imperfect, containing some noise along with the signal," and that "for security and logistical reasons, the results obtained with the double-blind sponsor coordinates are being evaluated separately at the sponsor agency." The final report of December 1, 1975, *Perceptual Augmentation Techniques,* 153 pages, SRI Project 3183 (the progress reports carry the line "Client Private"), said the West Virginia coordinates had come from "the OSI group responsible for threat analysis in this area," that "one subject drew a detailed map of the building and grounds layout, the other provided information about the interior including codewords, data subsequently verified by sponsor sources," and that the three reports "were verified by personnel in the sponsor organization as being substantially correct." Its executive summary claimed drawing reproduction, random-number-generator readings, and remote viewing "all at levels of statistical significance," a magnetometer perturbation at p = 0.004 "implying that the information channel under investigation may sustain energy transfer in either direction," and that "its characteristics are compatible with both quantum theory and information theory." Its conclusions cited a *New Scientist* reader survey in which "67 percent of nearly 1500 responding readers considered paranormal perception to be an established fact or a likely possibility."[^1]
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||||
An outside reviewer of the first three progress reports in 1974 found "the impression that the research was done on a pragmatic and perhaps 'catch-as-catch-can' basis," "too many unexplained variables here for a proper review," and "the feeling that the prevailing philosophy is to 'prove' the existence of an information channel beyond those customarily postulated." A CIA memorandum of mid-1974 recorded that "after reviewing SRI's spotty performance thus far, we stressed that we had explicitly told SRI that they had to make significant progress" on five points by mid-August, and that OTS would write "so that, should termination eventually be necessary, our case would be well-documented." On February 20, 1976, the director of OTS, [[David Brandwein]], wrote: "I directed that OTS support of this effort be terminated. I continue to believe that it would be inappropriate for us to continue it; however, if ORD desires to pick it up, be my guest," and on October 7, after a subcommittee had recorded that "enough empirical evidence existed to warrant further research in this area": "OTS will not support any further research in parapsychology." In April 1976 the Air Force Foreign Technology Division asked him for the SRI study for its own assessment of the Soviet threat. OTS briefed the House intelligence committee's staff on November 16, 1977, giving "a short oral history of OTS efforts in the field, dating back to 1961."[^2]
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### Transition to Army Management
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In 1977, the Army established its own remote viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, under the initiative of [[Frederick Atwater]] and the command sponsorship of Major General [[Edmund Thompson]]. The Army program, designated Gondola Wish, contracted SRI for training and protocol guidance but operated as a separate military intelligence program with its own personnel and operational structure. The CIA's direct management of the SCANATE research at SRI ended as the Army unit became operational, though CIA continued as a consumer and occasional sponsor of the broader program through subsequent code name cycles.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 28-95. CIA FOIA Reading Room, document CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030006-8 (Puthoff letter to Green, June 27, 1972).
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[^2]: Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding." *Nature* 251 (October 1974): 602-607. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances." *Proceedings of the IEEE* 64, no. 3 (March 1976): 329-354. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
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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]: "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. Foreign Technology Division cable to Brandwein, April 13, 1976, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020005-5.
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In the summer of 1973 a test on "a vacation property in the eastern United States" led Price to "a sensitive government installation a few miles from the vacation property," and, tasked on its interior, he produced project titles and the site's code name, "data subsequently verified by sponsor sources," with wrong personnel names. Price then "went on to scan the other side of the globe for a Communist Bloc equivalent and found one located in the Urals." In July 1974 the target was "the [[Semipalatinsk]] Unidentified Research and Development Facility-3 (URDF-3, formerly known as PNUTS)." Kress chose "the tall crane and the four structures resembling oil well derricks" as checks; Price said of the derricks, "I didn't see them because they are not there any more," and new photography weeks later showed "two derricks were partially disassembled." A photo interpreter and a nuclear analyst at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] judged his crane drawing accurate, the latter writing that either "he, the subject, actually saw it through remote viewing, or two: he was informed what to draw by someone knowledgeable of URDF-3." Kress concluded: "since there was so much bad information mixed in with the good, the overall result was not considered useful. As proof of remote viewing, the data are at best inconclusive." An internal summary of the same four days was harsher: "The remote-viewing experiment of URDF-3 by [Price] proved to be unsuccessful," since besides the crane he drew "several landmark-type objects that simply did not exist" and, shown the surface features of an underground building, denied that anything lay beneath, "his most negative evidence yet." Price also "correctly located the coderooms" of two foreign embassies already known to the agency's audio teams, and described a Libyan site as "a guerrilla training site" with "a related underwater sabotage training facility," partly confirmed by reconnaissance. "Price died of a heart attack a few days later, and the program stopped."[^2][^4]
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The agency's reasons, as Kress gave them in 1977: "the research was not productive or even competent; therefore, research support to SRI was dropped. The Director of OTS felt the OTS charter would not support research; therefore, all Agency funding in paranormal research stopped"; operational utility was "considered questionable but deserved further testing"; the contractor tests gave way to "a personal services contract with Price"; and Kress himself, "judged to be a positively biased advocate," was taken off evaluation. Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] was briefed in 1976 after learning that Soviet visitors were "questioning Puthoff and Targ at SRI," and left before reacting; [[Stansfield Turner]] acknowledged an "operational interest in parapsychology" in August 1977. Puthoff attributed the withdrawal to "pressure on the Agency (unrelated to the RV Program) from the Church-Pike Congressional Committee." By 1977 DIA "remains interested on a low priority basis," the Navy had funded a brief replication and stopped over "mind warfare" concerns, DARPA had held "a hostile confrontation briefing," and "active funding has shifted to the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division." SRI's later accounting of these years: NAVELEX 74,000 dollars (1975-76), the Foreign Technology Division at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base|Wright-Patterson]] 300,000 (1976-79), the Missile Intelligence Agency at [[Redstone Arsenal]] 281,000 (1977-80) for "remote perturbation," the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity 230,000 (1978-80), DIA 228,000 (1978-80).[^2][^3][^5]
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The agency's reasons, as Kress gave them in 1977: "the research was not productive or even competent; therefore, research support to SRI was dropped. The Director of OTS felt the OTS charter would not support research; therefore, all Agency funding in paranormal research stopped"; operational utility was "considered questionable but deserved further testing"; the contractor tests gave way to "a personal services contract with Price"; and Kress himself, "judged to be a positively biased advocate," was taken off evaluation. The director of OTS, [[David Brandwein]], wrote on February 20, 1976, "I directed that OTS support of this effort be terminated," and on October 7, 1976, "OTS will not support any further research in parapsychology." Director [[George H.W. Bush|George Bush]] was briefed in 1976 after learning that Soviet visitors were "questioning Puthoff and Targ at SRI," and left before reacting; [[Stansfield Turner]] acknowledged an "operational interest in parapsychology" in August 1977. Puthoff attributed the withdrawal to "pressure on the Agency (unrelated to the RV Program) from the Church-Pike Congressional Committee." By 1977 DIA "remains interested on a low priority basis," the Navy had funded a brief replication and stopped over "mind warfare" concerns, DARPA had held "a hostile confrontation briefing," and "active funding has shifted to the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division." SRI's later accounting of these years: NAVELEX 74,000 dollars (1975-76), the Foreign Technology Division at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base|Wright-Patterson]] 300,000 (1976-79), the Missile Intelligence Agency at [[Redstone Arsenal]] 281,000 (1977-80) for "remote perturbation," the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity 230,000 (1978-80), DIA 228,000 (1978-80).[^2][^3][^5]
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### Gondola Wish and Grill Flame
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On February 15, 1979, the Army general counsel found that Grill Flame involved testing on human subjects and halted the AMSAA work. A subcommittee of the surgeon general's review board met on March 26 with Puthoff, Targ, and Colonel Garrison Rapmund of [[Walter Reed Army Institute of Research|Walter Reed]] and ruled the SRI work "technology transfer rather than research," while noting that "there clearly is no fixed and formally appointed professional oversight for work being done under 'Grill Flame.'" On November 20, with [[Edwin May]] attending as "Grill Flame Project Leader," it found that the revised protocols "did constitute human use," recommended that consent forms warn subjects they might "lose the esteem or respect from certain colleagues," and noted that some subjects had believed they could use the ability "for personal financial gain in games of chance/investment." The under secretary of the Army approved continuation in April 1980, and the secretary renewed it on January 14, 1981, February 1, 1982, and September 1, 1983. A memorandum of understanding of 1981 set up a Grill Flame committee of two voting members each from DIA and the Army, with 150,000 dollars from INSCOM and 300,000 from DIA in fiscal 1981; Thompson's request of May 8, 1981, to use civilian contractors under Procedure 18 of the Defense Department's intelligence rules was approved on May 27 on condition that the work serve "an important foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose."[^7]
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"During 1979, we conducted 79 operational missions, 43 of which were dedicated to assisting the intelligence community during the Iranian hostage crisis. During 1980 we were able to increase our production to 386 operational missions, 154 of which were still dedicated to Iran." A session report of the [[Iran Hostage Crisis|hostage crisis]] states that it was "conducted in compliance with a request from SOD, J3, OJCS, Pentagon," the special operations division of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], and that "the remote viewer's impressions of the target are provided as raw intelligence data and as such have not been subjected to any intermediate analysis, evaluation or collation." The unit began in 1979 with five people, two of them viewers; "by the end of 1980, we began an advanced training program using the hemispheric synchronization (Hemi-Sync) process developed by [[Robert Monroe|Robert A. Monroe]] and used at the [[Monroe Institute]]," whose tapes INSCOM later asked to write into the protocol, "3-5 times per week," and "in mid 1982, we began a new training program in [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|coordinate remote viewing]] with SRI." In March 1980 the under secretary of defense for research, [[William Perry]], "ordered curtailment of all P6 monies supporting the program."[^7] After Brigadier General [[James Dozier]] was kidnapped in Italy on December 17, 1981, "on 18 December, we conducted our first session"; DIA told the Secretary of Defense that data had gone "to U.S. authorities for discreet release to Italian officials with no source attribution given," adding, "we can not at this time attest to the method's accuracy or usefulness." A drawing from the first session was used by a DIA analyst to brief the commander in Italy "that the search for General Dozier should be concentrated in the Padua area," two days before the rescue there; a session of January 20, 1982, named Padua but "was not forwarded to Italy," because the Italian police "were having difficulty with information they were getting from psychics all over the world." A memorandum in the file records that Dozier was briefed on the program on February 9, 1982, and shown the sketches.[^6][^8][^9]
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"During 1979, we conducted 79 operational missions, 43 of which were dedicated to assisting the intelligence community during the Iranian hostage crisis. During 1980 we were able to increase our production to 386 operational missions, 154 of which were still dedicated to Iran." A session report of the [[Iran Hostage Crisis|hostage crisis]] states that it was "conducted in compliance with a request from SOD, J3, OJCS, Pentagon," the special operations division of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], and that "the remote viewer's impressions of the target are provided as raw intelligence data and as such have not been subjected to any intermediate analysis, evaluation or collation." The unit began in 1979 with five people, two of them viewers; "by the end of 1980, we began an advanced training program using the hemispheric synchronization (Hemi-Sync) process developed by [[Robert Monroe|Robert A. Monroe]] and used at the [[Monroe Institute]]," whose tapes INSCOM later asked to write into the protocol, "3-5 times per week," and "in mid 1982, we began a new training program in [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|coordinate remote viewing]] with SRI." On February 6, 1980, the under secretary of defense for research, [[William Perry]], restricted the use of Program 6 funds, holding it "not appropriate for Army to fund technology programs aimed at scientific demonstration of parapsychology"; an Army history gives the order as March 1980.[^7] After Brigadier General [[James Dozier]] was kidnapped in Italy on December 17, 1981, "on 18 December, we conducted our first session"; DIA told the Secretary of Defense that data had gone "to U.S. authorities for discreet release to Italian officials with no source attribution given," adding, "we can not at this time attest to the method's accuracy or usefulness." A drawing from the first session was used by a DIA analyst to brief the commander in Italy "that the search for General Dozier should be concentrated in the Padua area," two days before the rescue there; a session of January 20, 1982, named Padua but "was not forwarded to Italy," because the Italian police "were having difficulty with information they were getting from psychics all over the world." A memorandum in the file records that Dozier was briefed on the program on February 9, 1982, and shown the sketches.[^6][^8][^9]
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The three-year joint program of fiscal 1981 to 1983 cost 1,475,500 dollars, 962,000 of it from DIA, 313,500 from INSCOM, and 200,000 from DARPA, of which 575,000 went to training. DIA's report of October 19, 1983, found: "Remote viewing is a real phenomenon, and is not degraded by distance or shielding. Remote viewing ability can be improved by appropriate training procedures. Remote viewing has potential for US intelligence applications. However, at this stage of development, descriptive content (e.g., sketches, configurations) is more reliable than analytic content." It reported that INSCOM's viewers "detected the remote site successfully in 50 percent of their projects (89 sites)," and that "a potential threat to US national security exists from foreign achievements in psychoenergetics. In the USSR and in China, this research is well funded." SRI's list of clients served included "a secret NSA facility, including codeword retrieval" and "Soviet R&D facility at Semipalatinsk (PNUTS)."[^3][^10]
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### Center Lane
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In 1981 the ACSI "transferred total management responsibility for the project to INSCOM," and a joint services committee of DIA, the Air Force, and the Army was formed; "the Navy expressed no interest and later the Air Force Chief of Staff directed that the Air Force withdraw." At the end of fiscal 1982 "the budget subcommittee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Senator [[Malcolm Wallop|Wallop]]) curtailed all psychoenergetic operational activities conducted by the Army in the National Foreign Intelligence Program." The commander of INSCOM, [[Albert Stubblebine]], "decided to continue INSCOM's project and provide funding with Security and Investigative Activities (S&IA) monies," under "a provisional special access program nicknamed Center Lane," registered as a Department of the Army special access program on September 1, 1983, with a compartment called "Center Lane Level 4." Its mission statement ran: "Conduct intelligence collection and counterintelligence operations utilizing all psychoenergetic processes applicable," and "expand operational capabilities and training beyond the confines of information collection into the fields of psychoenergetic communication and psychokinesis." By the end of fiscal 1984 it had nine operational and two support personnel, and "in the past five years we have conducted over 750 operational intelligence collection missions."[^6]
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In 1981 the ACSI "transferred total management responsibility for the project to INSCOM," and a joint services committee of DIA, the Air Force, and the Army was formed; "the Navy expressed no interest and later the Air Force Chief of Staff directed that the Air Force withdraw." At the end of fiscal 1982 "the budget subcommittee of the [[Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]] (Senator [[Malcolm Wallop|Wallop]]) curtailed all psychoenergetic operational activities conducted by the Army in the National Foreign Intelligence Program." The commander of INSCOM, [[Albert Stubblebine]], "decided to continue INSCOM's project and provide funding with Security and Investigative Activities (S&IA) monies," under "a provisional special access program nicknamed Center Lane," approved by the Secretary of the Army as a special access program on June 15, 1983, and continued on September 1, with a compartment called "Center Lane Level 4." Its mission statement ran: "Conduct intelligence collection and counterintelligence operations utilizing all psychoenergetic processes applicable," and "expand operational capabilities and training beyond the confines of information collection into the fields of psychoenergetic communication and psychokinesis." By the end of fiscal 1984 it had nine operational and two support personnel, and "in the past five years we have conducted over 750 operational intelligence collection missions."[^6]
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From March 21 to April 20, 1984, the unit "conducted 11 remote viewing interviews at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency" on [[William Buckley]], the station chief kidnapped in [[Beirut]] on March 16: where he was, his condition, his captors, and "CIA point of contact for release negotiation." A CIA memorandum of May 1, 1984, over the title block of the deputy director for operations, stated: "CIA's relationship with the US Army activities covered under the designator of CENTER LANE has been that of a customer. We have no Agency people or funds assigned to or otherwise designated in support of those activities." Its sources "have often 'made contact' far beyond what might be expected by probabilities and coincidence," with "a less than hoped for signal-to-noise ratio and a less than photographic resolution, as well as some outright misses"; "we would like to continue to call upon CENTER LANE." The overview of May 4, 1984, by Lieutenant Colonel Brian Buzby recommended that the work continue within INSCOM. A memorandum chain of November and December 1984 recorded that the fiscal 1983 appropriation language "directed that future parapsychological experimentation be conducted outside the NFIP," that DIA's funds for 1984 and 1985 were 79,000 dollars each for "evaluation of foreign research only," that DARPA had put in 600,000 dollars in 1984, that the Army surgeon general anticipated two million for 1985, and that DIA planned "to detail the operational remote viewing unit from HQDA/INSCOM to DIA."[^10][^11]
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INSCOM's chronology of the unit lists briefings of an official of the [[Office of Management and Budget]] (April 1982), the House and Senate intelligence and appropriations staffs (1981 to 1983), Lieutenant General [[Lincoln D. Faurer]] of the NSA (August 5, 1982, and December 5, 1983), Senator [[Claiborne Pell]] (September 29, 1982), Senator Wallop (October 5, 1983), Vice President Bush (1983), the Secretary of the Army, and the Army inspector general (April 10, 1984). The [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] under Manfred Gale had reported in December 1979 that the research "thus far have not proved the existence of the phenomena," with a majority of five of eight allowing INSCOM's operational work to continue under oversight. The unit ceased collection on September 28, 1984, and passed under DIA's operational control on March 7, 1985.[^12]
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### The Science Panel
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A "congressionally directed independent scientific review" met in August and September 1983 and reported on March 1, 1984, over the signatures of W. Ross Adey, [[Donald M. Kerr]], and F. Zachariasen: "The evidence shown to us is too impressive to dismiss as mere coincidence. Certain similarities between the SRI and Princeton results, obtained in very different circumstances by unrelated investigators, are particularly compelling." The panel "found no obvious evidence of cueing or collusion," thought "remote viewing is either real or due to some sort of experimental interference from one or some of the participants," found that "repeated attempts to elicit a rational basis" for [[Ingo Swann]]'s coordinate training "were uniformly unsuccessful," and concluded "that Dr. Puthoff's team warrants cautious continued fiscal support, and that the research should be conducted as much as possible in an open unclassified mode." DIA was still citing the report in 1993.[^12]
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A "congressionally directed independent scientific review" met in August and September 1983 and reported on March 1, 1984, over the signatures of W. Ross Adey, [[Donald M. Kerr]], and F. Zachariasen: "The evidence shown to us is too impressive to dismiss as mere coincidence. Certain similarities between the SRI and Princeton results, obtained in very different circumstances by unrelated investigators, are particularly compelling." The panel "found no obvious evidence of cueing or collusion," thought "remote viewing is either real or due to some sort of experimental interference from one or some of the participants," found that "repeated attempts to elicit a rational basis" for [[Ingo Swann]]'s coordinate training "were uniformly unsuccessful," and concluded "that Dr. Puthoff's team warrants cautious continued fiscal support, and that the research should be conducted as much as possible in an open unclassified mode." DIA was still citing the report in 1993.[^13]
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### Sun Streak
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"In January 1985, Project GRILL FLAME was transferred to DIA and was placed under the staff cognizance of the former Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence. Moreover, a 5-year psychoenergetics program (FY 1986-1990), using Army medical research and development funds authorized by the then U.S. Army Surgeon General, was begun at SRI," to "document that psychoenergetic phenomena are real and reproducible, to determine the underlying mechanisms, and to bring psychoenergetics research into the mainstream of human performance research." The Fort Meade unit "was transferred to DIA in 1986 when 12 billets were authorized in the GDIP budget for this activity. A Special Access Program (SAP), SUN STREAK, was established in order to protect identity of the individuals." It worked 192 projects from 1986 to 1989. A Military Intelligence Board review of 1989 and 1990 found "potential applications exist for certain project types: counternarcotics (CN), counterterrorism (CT), counterintelligence (CI)," "limited potential" for detailed data, and "low potential" for prediction; in a 1990 Army counternarcotics test, of 32 projects with ground truth "about one third of all projects were judged to have provided data of good quality." The Army surgeon general's money ran 1.9 million dollars in 1985-86, 2.3 million in 1987, 1.15 million in 1988, and one million in 1989. "The effort at SRI was discontinued in 1990."[^13]
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The DIA phase is described on the page Sun Streak. "In January 1985, Project GRILL FLAME was transferred to DIA and was placed under the staff cognizance of the former Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence. Moreover, a 5-year psychoenergetics program (FY 1986-1990), using Army medical research and development funds authorized by the then U.S. Army Surgeon General, was begun at SRI," to "document that psychoenergetic phenomena are real and reproducible, to determine the underlying mechanisms, and to bring psychoenergetics research into the mainstream of human performance research." The Fort Meade unit "was transferred to DIA in 1986 when 12 billets were authorized in the GDIP budget for this activity. A Special Access Program (SAP), SUN STREAK, was established in order to protect identity of the individuals." It worked 192 projects from 1986 to 1989. A Military Intelligence Board review of 1989 and 1990 found "potential applications exist for certain project types: counternarcotics (CN), counterterrorism (CT), counterintelligence (CI)," "limited potential" for detailed data, and "low potential" for prediction; in a 1990 Army counternarcotics test, of 32 projects with ground truth "about one third of all projects were judged to have provided data of good quality." The Army surgeon general's money ran 1.9 million dollars in 1985-86, 2.3 million in 1987, 1.15 million in 1988, and one million in 1989. "The effort at SRI was discontinued in 1990."[^14]
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### Star Gate
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"In the FY 1991 Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was identified as executive agent for initiating a new program to investigate parapsychological/anomalous phenomena. A funding level of $2 million was authorized," repeated in the fiscal 1992 appropriation, which also ordered DIA to "realign 10 civilian billets" and to assess foreign "weaponization." The project "was formally established as a limited dissemination (LIMDIS) project early-on and given the official project name, STAR GATE," and the research went to the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of [[Science Applications International Corporation]] in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]] under May. DIA's budget paper of March 1995 listed among the customers [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]], [[United States Central Command|CENTCOM]], the Joint Interagency Task Forces East and West, JTF-6, and the [[El Paso Intelligence Center]], and gave DIA's own funding as 600,000 dollars in 1993, 500,000 in 1994, and 650,000 in 1995; "since FY 1980, the manpower structure devoted to Project STAR GATE remained constant (10 billets)." Congress in fiscal 1994 required a plan "to determine whether the STAR GATE program can show results that are cost-effective," subject "to peer review by neutral scientific experts"; the SAIC contract expired in May 1994 and was twice extended without cost to the end of the year, and 45 SRI and SAIC reports were approved for declassification. SAIC's own assessment, quoted by DIA: "The evidence for a valid information transfer anomaly (anomalous cognition (AC)) meets all recognized statistical and methodological criteria," its size "medium-to-large when compared to other known human behaviors," and "approximately 1 percent of the general population appears to meet strict statistical criteria for exhibiting a robust AC ability."[^14]
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"In the FY 1991 Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was identified as executive agent for initiating a new program to investigate parapsychological/anomalous phenomena. A funding level of $2 million was authorized," repeated in the fiscal 1992 appropriation, which also ordered DIA to "realign 10 civilian billets" and to assess foreign "weaponization." The project "was formally established as a limited dissemination (LIMDIS) project early-on and given the official project name, STAR GATE," and the research went to the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of [[Science Applications International Corporation]] in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]] under May. DIA's budget paper of March 1995 listed among the customers [[United States Special Operations Command|USSOCOM]], [[United States Central Command|CENTCOM]], the Joint Interagency Task Forces East and West, JTF-6, and the [[El Paso Intelligence Center]], and gave DIA's own funding as 600,000 dollars in 1993, 500,000 in 1994, and 650,000 in 1995; "since FY 1980, the manpower structure devoted to Project STAR GATE remained constant (10 billets)." Congress in fiscal 1994 required a plan "to determine whether the STAR GATE program can show results that are cost-effective," subject "to peer review by neutral scientific experts"; the SAIC contract expired in May 1994 and was twice extended without cost to the end of the year, and 45 SRI and SAIC reports were approved for declassification. SAIC's own assessment, quoted by DIA: "The evidence for a valid information transfer anomaly (anomalous cognition (AC)) meets all recognized statistical and methodological criteria," its size "medium-to-large when compared to other known human behaviors," and "approximately 1 percent of the general population appears to meet strict statistical criteria for exhibiting a robust AC ability."[^15]
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"From 1986 to the first quarter of FY 1995, the DoD paranormal psychology program received more than 200 tasks from operational military organizations." Only in 1994 did it adopt a numerical evaluation. By May 1, 1995, its three viewers, all full-time government employees, had answered 40 tasks from five organizations, 26 of them from DIA in support of two joint task forces, others on "North Korean (NK) capabilities and leadership." Of 99 accuracy scores on a six-point scale, 55 were 2s and 3s and 13 were 1s; of 100 value scores on a five-point scale, none was "major significance." The program office concluded: "The utility of RV for operational intelligence collection cannot be substantiated. The ambiguous and subjective nature of the process actually creates a need for additional efforts of questionable operational return."[^15]
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"From 1986 to the first quarter of FY 1995, the DoD paranormal psychology program received more than 200 tasks from operational military organizations." Only in 1994 did it adopt a numerical evaluation. By May 1, 1995, its three viewers, all full-time government employees, had answered 40 tasks from five organizations, 26 of them from DIA in support of two joint task forces, others on "North Korean (NK) capabilities and leadership." Of 99 accuracy scores on a six-point scale, 55 were 2s and 3s and 13 were 1s; of 100 value scores on a five-point scale, none was "major significance." The program office concluded: "The utility of RV for operational intelligence collection cannot be substantiated. The ambiguous and subjective nature of the process actually creates a need for additional efforts of questionable operational return."[^16]
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### Termination
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"In early 1995, Senate conferees directed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to transfer the 'Star Gate' program from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to CIA. Specifically, the conferees directed the transfer of ten civilian billets and $500,000 in Star Gate program resources by July 1, 1995," together with "a technical review of Star Gate going back twenty years, a declassification review, and establishment of a cooperative activity with the Russians in parapsychology." The Senate Appropriations Committee had already required "a retrospective review and technical analysis of the data that has been produced by the program since its inception 20 years ago." DIA told the CIA on May 10 that "any decision on declassification actions regarding Project STAR GATE should be made by the CIA" and that it had "no objection to a declassification of the 'fact of' a DIA program to employ paranormal phenomena for intelligence purposes"; 38 boxes of files were transferred in July and receipted on October 10. The CIA contracted the [[American Institutes for Research]] in June ([[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]), whose report of September 29 it quoted in its management paper: "the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult if not impossible for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable intelligence," and "it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated." The paper recommended terminating both operations and research, adding that "this does not mean that research in parapsychology is not important or that it should not continue in the public domain," a declassification review of "at least five different programs including Star Gate, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and SCANATE," some "43 document boxes," and, on the advice of the Directorate of Intelligence and the [[National Intelligence Council]], "no resources to the assessment of foreign developments in parapsychology": "we view developments in parapsychology as a relatively low threat to the United States," and "in none of this Russian research do we see credible evidence of developments that could significantly add to the threat that Russia currently poses."[^14][^16]
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"In early 1995, Senate conferees directed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to transfer the 'Star Gate' program from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to CIA. Specifically, the conferees directed the transfer of ten civilian billets and $500,000 in Star Gate program resources by July 1, 1995," together with "a technical review of Star Gate going back twenty years, a declassification review, and establishment of a cooperative activity with the Russians in parapsychology." The Senate Appropriations Committee had already required "a retrospective review and technical analysis of the data that has been produced by the program since its inception 20 years ago." DIA told the CIA on May 10 that "any decision on declassification actions regarding Project STAR GATE should be made by the CIA" and that it had "no objection to a declassification of the 'fact of' a DIA program to employ paranormal phenomena for intelligence purposes"; 38 boxes of files were transferred in July and receipted on October 10. The CIA contracted the [[American Institutes for Research]] in June ([[1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate]]), whose report of September 29 it quoted in its management paper: "the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult if not impossible for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable intelligence," and "it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated." The paper recommended terminating both operations and research, adding that "this does not mean that research in parapsychology is not important or that it should not continue in the public domain," a declassification review of "at least five different programs including Star Gate, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and SCANATE," some "43 document boxes," and, on the advice of the Directorate of Intelligence and the [[National Intelligence Council]], "no resources to the assessment of foreign developments in parapsychology": "we view developments in parapsychology as a relatively low threat to the United States," and "in none of this Russian research do we see credible evidence of developments that could significantly add to the threat that Russia currently poses."[^15][^17]
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### Other Accounts
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Other operational sessions are known from the accounts of participants: [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s 1979 description of a large submarine under construction at Severodvinsk, later identified as the Typhoon class; his and [[Mel Riley]]'s "hourglass on its side" for a Chinese device at Lop Nor; Riley's "batlike flying-wing" in an operations security test on the B-2; [[Ken Bell]]'s location of a crashed Navy aircraft on Bald Knob in [[Virginia]]; McMoneagle on Skylab's reentry; and the tracking of a Soviet T-72 tank. The same accounts give the original unit as McMoneagle, Riley, Bell, [[Nancy Stern]], [[Fernand Gauvin]], and [[Hartleigh Trent]], recruited by Captain [[Frederick Atwater]] of the Systems Exploitation Detachment, and a 1984 [[Jack Anderson]] column as the first public disclosure. Targ and Puthoff had published the SRI work in *Nature* in 1974 and in the *Proceedings of the IEEE* in 1976.[^17][^18]
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Other operational sessions are known from the accounts of participants: [[Joe McMoneagle]]'s 1979 description of a large submarine under construction at Severodvinsk, later identified as the Typhoon class; his and [[Mel Riley]]'s "hourglass on its side" for a Chinese device at Lop Nor; Riley's "batlike flying-wing" in an operations security test on the B-2; [[Ken Bell]]'s location of a crashed Navy aircraft on Bald Knob in [[Virginia]]; McMoneagle on Skylab's reentry; and the tracking of a Soviet T-72 tank. The same accounts give the original unit as McMoneagle, Riley, Bell, [[Nancy Stern]], [[Fernand Gauvin]], and [[Hartleigh Trent]], recruited by Captain [[Frederick Atwater]] of the Systems Exploitation Detachment, and a 1984 [[Jack Anderson]] column as the first public disclosure. Targ and Puthoff had published the SRI work in *Nature* in 1974 and in the *Proceedings of the IEEE* in 1976.[^18][^19]
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### Key Personnel
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- [[John McMahon]] - CIA Deputy Director for Operations, authorized early SRI funding
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- [[Charlie Rose]] - U.S. Congressman, congressional supporter of the program
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- [[Jessica Utts]] - UC Davis statistician, wrote the AIR evaluation's positive assessment
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- [[Ray Hyman]] - University of Oregon psychologist, wrote the AIR evaluation's skeptical assessment
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- [[Ray Hyman]] - [[University of Oregon]] psychologist, wrote the AIR evaluation's skeptical assessment
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Proposed Star Gate Management Strategy," c. October 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100150002-0; Defense Intelligence Agency, "Declassification and Cooperation in Response to Congressionally Directed STAR GATE Program Review," May 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100010001-6, and "Transfer of Project STAR GATE Files," October 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200290001-5.
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[^2]: Kress, Kenneth A. "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 21, no. 4, winter 1977, declassified 2011, document NSA-RDP96X00790R000100010031-3.
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[^2]: Kress, Kenneth A. "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," *Studies in Intelligence,* vol. 21, no. 4, winter 1977, declassified 2011, document NSA-RDP96X00790R000100010031-3. 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]: Puthoff, H. E., and L. A. Lavelle, "Project Grill Flame Operational Tasks," SRI International for DIA/DT-5A, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100340001-3. Puthoff, H. E. "CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute," *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 63-76.
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[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Summary RV URDF-3 Experiment," c. 1974-75, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100500001-2. Kress cites Strand, W. T., memorandum for the Director of OTS, "Evaluation of Data on Semipalatinsk Unidentified R&D Facility No. 5, USSR," August 20, 1974, and Stillman, D., Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, "An Analysis of a Remote Viewing Experiment of URDF-3," December 4, 1975 (CIA-RDP96-00791R000200240001-0).
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[^5]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "FY 1995 Congressional Budget - Star Gate," March 15, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000300010003-2.
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[^9]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Special Intelligence Support Relating to the Kidnapping of BG Dozier," information memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, December 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130001-1; "1983 Briefing Papers - Use of Center Lane, Relocation of BG Dozier in Italy," CIA-RDP96-00788R001700370002-3. "Conversation with BG Dozier," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130019-2, and "Debriefing, B.G. Dozier, Tape 1102, Grill Flame," February 9, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250014-0, both known from the index and not read.
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[^10]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, "Grill Flame Project Report," October 19, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001000410001-6; "Grill Flame - Activity," memoranda of November 21 to December 4, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001800070002-5.
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[^11]: Buzby, Brian, Lieutenant Colonel, "Purpose: To Provide an Overview of Center Lane," May 4, 1984, with the summary of information on the Buckley case and the CIA memorandum "Comments on Recent CENTER LANE Experience," May 1, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220003-8; "Request for Administrative Review of INSCOM Grill Flame Protocol," c. 1981-83, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100200005-4.
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[^12]: "Science Panel Report: SRI Studies in Remote Viewing: A Program Review," March 1, 1984, signed by W. Ross Adey, Donald M. Kerr, and F. Zachariasen, reproduced as appendix B of Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," DTI-S-1056-SL, April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.
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[^13]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "FY 1995 Congressional Budget - Star Gate," March 15, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000300010003-2. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.
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[^14]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2. Defense Intelligence Agency, "FY 1995 Congressional Budget - Star Gate," March 15, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000300010003-2.
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[^15]: "Summary Report. Star Gate Operational Tasking and Evaluation (An Extract)," 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200300002-2.
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[^16]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Proposed Star Gate Management Strategy," c. October 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100150002-0; Defense Intelligence Agency, "Declassification and Cooperation in Response to Congressionally Directed STAR GATE Program Review," May 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100010001-6, and "Transfer of Project STAR GATE Files," October 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200290001-5. All CIA documents cited are in the STARGATE collection of the CIA FOIA Reading Room and were read in the archive.org mirror of that collection (archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-<id>).
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[^17]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997; Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown, 2017; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002. Participant and journalistic accounts, not verified against the documents.
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[^18]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transfer under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607; Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances," *Proceedings of the IEEE,* vol. 64, no. 3, March 1976, pp. 329-354.
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[^12]: 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. *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Vorona, J., "Comments on 'Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee,'" memorandum of the Grill Flame Working Group, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300060001-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^13]: "Science Panel Report: SRI Studies in Remote Viewing: A Program Review," March 1, 1984, signed by W. Ross Adey, Donald M. Kerr, and F. Zachariasen, reproduced as appendix B of Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," DTI-S-1056-SL, April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.
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[^14]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "FY 1995 Congressional Budget - Star Gate," March 15, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000300010003-2. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.
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[^15]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2. Defense Intelligence Agency, "FY 1995 Congressional Budget - Star Gate," March 15, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000300010003-2.
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[^16]: "Summary Report. Star Gate Operational Tasking and Evaluation (An Extract)," 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200300002-2.
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[^17]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Proposed Star Gate Management Strategy," c. October 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100150002-0; Defense Intelligence Agency, "Declassification and Cooperation in Response to Congressionally Directed STAR GATE Program Review," May 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100010001-6, and "Transfer of Project STAR GATE Files," October 10, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200290001-5. All CIA documents cited are in the STARGATE collection of the CIA FOIA Reading Room and were read in the archive.org mirror of that collection (archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-<id>).
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[^18]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997; Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown, 2017; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002. Participant and journalistic accounts, not verified against the documents.
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[^19]: Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transfer under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," *Nature,* vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607; Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances," *Proceedings of the IEEE,* vol. 64, no. 3, March 1976, pp. 329-354.
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category: "PSI Research Program"
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tags:
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- Program
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- SunStreak
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- DIA
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- RemoteViewing
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- FortMeade
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- Counternarcotics
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- SpecialAccessProgram
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- Project Sun Streak
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- SUN STREAK
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summary: "The DIA's special access program for the Fort Meade remote-viewing unit from 1986 to 1990, twelve billets working 192 projects by 1989, judged by a 1990 counternarcotics test to give good data in about a third of cases."
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start: 1986
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end: 1990-12-31
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location: "Fort Meade, Maryland"
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created: 2026-09-21
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updated: 2026-09-21
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Sun Streak was the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]]'s name for the remote-viewing unit at [[Fort Meade]] after it took the Army's [[Center Lane]] project. Operational control passed on March 7, 1985, and "this unit was transferred to DIA in 1986 when 12 billets were authorized in the GDIP budget for this activity. A Special Access Program (SAP), SUN STREAK, was established in order to protect identity of the individuals and due to the nature of some of the projects examined." It sat under the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, and its viewers appear in its records only by number: 003, 011, 018, 025, 032, 049, 052, 079, 095, 099. Lieutenant Colonel [[Brian Buzby]], the last Army project manager, filed his request for access to the DIA project on May 10, 1985. Its research contract stayed with [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]], on Army surgeon general's money, until 1990.[^1][^2]
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### The Unit
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The annual report for 1989 described "the SUN STREAK Prototype Operational Group" as "dedicated to the exploitation of the Remote Viewing (RV) process to determine its potential and effectiveness as a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection tool," a group "comprised mainly of professional intelligence officers," whose "results to date reveal the presence of satisfying results, disappointing shortfalls, and quantifiable limitations directly related to the nature of the tasks at hand." Viewers were "cross-trained in both CRV and ERV," [[Coordinate Remote Viewing|coordinate]] and [[Extended Remote Viewing|extended]] remote viewing, with written remote viewing "optional" and its protocol still being drafted; "individual and beacon training searches were conducted during the reporting period with an apparent success rate of about 30%. Efforts to provide predictive data resulted in an apparent success rate ranging from 8 to 12 percent." Members attended a three-day seminar by Discovery Engineering International "to recognize theta states of consciousness through tonal recognition." One experienced viewer was to retire from the Army in June 1990 and another to rotate out in August.[^3]
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### Operations
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A report of November 1987 on Project 8713, eighteen sessions by four viewers in October against a coordinate target, concluded that "the activity of intelligence interest appears to focus on a foreign-flagged submarine operating from a secretive northern cold weather base and is responsible for tracking the activity of ships and objects launched in space"; Viewer 011 had "perceived this apparatus as originating from a very northern base (like the USSR), traveling through the Bering Straits, south into the [[Pacific Ocean]]." In Project 8804, fifteen sessions from August to October 1988 on a building, Viewer 079 placed the target "west southwest of Moscow in the vicinity of Bugulma and Blagoveschensk" and associated it with "the concept of the Blackjack's suitability as a low-level, strategic intelligence gathering platform"; other viewers reported "a turbine or compressor," "jet turbine engines and aircraft thrust," and "massive amounts of contained energy." Project 8808 in 1988 involved maps of [[Lebanon]] and a vessel, known from the file titles only. Project 8915, eight sessions in May and June 1989 on a site in overhead photography, produced "a compound of structures surrounded by leveled-off, flat, brown land in a foreign country" where "mobile military weapon structures are worked on" and "10-20 'vehicles' at a time are brought in by rail." In Project 8926, seventeen sessions in August and September 1989, one viewer described "cylindrical objects with rounded ends" with "the odor of an obnoxious chemical," one "a 'hydro-bomb,'" and Viewer 032 "a swirling, metallic energy mass rotating in a counter clockwise rotation," later "an information gathering UFO," which the operations officer noted "is considered as being probably incorrect; it was the cause of a viewing distraction which 032 was unable to overcome"; Viewer 018's "drug-related" reading "seems to be the result of interference caused from recent efforts directed against drug-related targets."[^4]
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### Counternarcotics
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"In 1989 the Military Intelligence Board (MIB) agreed to examine the utility of the project under field conditions involving counternarcotics projects." A review of 192 projects from 1986 to 1989, briefed to the board that year, found that "potential applications exist for certain project types: counternarcotics, counterterrorism, counterintelligence," "limited potential exists for detailed data," and "low potential exists for predictive tasks." In July 1990, for the Army staff, Viewer 018 gave a day-by-day account of drug transfers between vessels with names heard as "Oro Negra," "Bindar," and "Burgon/Burgundy," and "perceived the intercept and seizure of vessel(s) at the transfer point on 7 July 1990"; the report added that "Viewer 018 recently reported the apparent experimental use of the equivalent of a 'psychic shield' to avoid detection. Viewer 018 was instructed not to discuss this finding with anyone," since 018 was Viewer 052's trainer. On September 6, 1990, in Project 90102, Viewer 095 described a cargo vessel whose name "starts with the sounds 'CA LEH,'" carrying "solid, rock-like cocaine" in "a sealed metal compartment in the absolute stern," at a given position off Central America, to be met by a white motor vessel that would carry the drugs to a port near Guaymas, and Viewer 049, for a base station in Mexico, a walled compound whose head, "an older man with graying hair," "frail but ruthless," ran a family associated with "the words 'GARCIA' or 'de GARCIA'" and "the 'Guadalahara Cartel'" and calling itself "SPIDER WEB"; "time sensitive information was reported on 061500L SEP 90 to DAMI-PO via STU-III." The board reviewed the test in September 1990: "Overall, about one third of all projects were judged to have provided data of good quality. This was based on evaluation of 32 projects. Although 104 projects were conducted, weather/operational constraints prevented follow-up for ground truth on the majority of those projects." "The effort at SRI was discontinued in 1990," and under the defense authorization act for fiscal 1991 the program became [[STARGATE PROJECT|Star Gate]].[^1][^4]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Star Gate Project: An Overview," DTI-S-1056-SL, April 30, 1993, CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2. 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. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Grill Flame volunteer security agreements, consent statements, and counseling statements for Joseph W. McMoneagle (February 8, 1979; October 26, 1979; February 19, 1980), Melvin C. Riley (February 8, 1979), and Robert C. Cowart (June 3 and October 2, 1981), and "Requirement for Access to DIA Sun Streak Project (Brian Buzby)," May 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00789R0021001500xx series. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "SUN STREAK - Annual Report 1989," January 17, 1990, CIA-RDP96-00789R001100020014-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
|
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[^4]: Defense Intelligence Agency, Sun Streak operational reports: Project 8713, November 19, 1987 (CIA-RDP96-00789R000200110001-7); Project 8804, October 24, 1988 (CIA-RDP96-00789R001800770001-8); Project 8915, June 1989 (CIA-RDP96-00789R000500200002-3); Project 8926, September 20, 1989 (CIA-RDP96-00789R003500800001-5), with the session report of Viewer 032 of September 6-7, 1989 (CIA-RDP96-00789R000700690001-9); Project 9044, July 1990 (CIA-RDP96-00789R000800340001-6); Project 90102, September 7, 1990 (CIA-RDP96-00789R003600150004-3). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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|
||||
### Veterans and Later Operations
|
||||
|
||||
Brigade 2506 veterans became the CIA's organizational core for subsequent Cuba operations and reappeared across later covert programs. [[Felix Rodriguez]], a veteran who had participated in the capture of [[Che Guevara]] in Bolivia, managed the Contra resupply operation at [[Ilopango Airbase]] in [[El Salvador]] in the 1980s under the alias "Max Gomez." [[Howard Hunt]], the Bay of Pigs political officer responsible for the [[Cuban Revolutionary Council]] exile leadership, recruited Bay of Pigs veterans for the Watergate burglary team. Three of the Watergate burglars - [[Bernard Barker]], Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis - were Bay of Pigs veterans with continuing CIA relationships. Hunt's Bay of Pigs role, and the CIA's desire to contain investigation into it, was a recurring element of the Watergate cover-up narrative.[^3]
|
||||
Brigade 2506 veterans became the CIA's organizational core for subsequent Cuba operations and reappeared across later covert programs. [[Felix Rodriguez]], a veteran who had participated in the capture of [[Che Guevara]] in Bolivia, managed the Contra resupply operation at [[Ilopango Airbase]] in [[El Salvador]] in the 1980s under the alias "Max Gomez." [[Howard Hunt]], the Bay of Pigs political officer responsible for the [[Cuban Revolutionary Council]] exile leadership, recruited Bay of Pigs veterans for the Watergate burglary team. Three of the Watergate burglars - [[Bernard Barker]], Eugenio Martinez, and [[Frank Sturgis]] - were Bay of Pigs veterans with continuing CIA relationships. Hunt's Bay of Pigs role, and the CIA's desire to contain investigation into it, was a recurring element of the Watergate cover-up narrative.[^3]
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|
||||
### Footnotes
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|
||||
The report found "a statistically significant 'anomaly'" in the laboratory, no "convincing demonstration that a paranormal ability is involved," no identification of "the nature and source of the effect," and "no evidence that the phenomenon would prove useful in intelligence gathering." Its history of the program stated that "CIA's program began in 1972, but was discontinued in 1977," and that "DIA's direct involvement began about 1985." It observed of "some well-publicized cases of dramatic hits" that "there is reason to suspect that substantially more background information was available than one might at first assume." The last line of the body read: "Continued support for the operational component of the current program is not justified." Hyman wrote in 1996 that "because of some controversies within the program, a Senate committee decided to transfer the program from the DIA back to the CIA," that the operations program "involved six, and later three, psychics on the government payroll who were available to any government agency that wanted to use their services," and that the panel "all agreed that any scientifically meaningful evaluation of these operational psychic intelligence uses was impossible." [[Hal Puthoff]] quoted the report's count of "more than 200 tasks from operational military organizations" between 1986 and the first quarter of fiscal 1995, and cited a CIA public affairs statement on remote viewing of September 6, 1995. May's commentary of 1996 gave the report's public release as November 28, 1995.[^6]
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|
||||
### Release
|
||||
|
||||
The agency's public affairs office had said on September 6, 1995: "As mandated by Congress, CIA is reviewing available information and past research programs concerning parapsychological phenomena, mainly 'Remote Viewing' to determine whether they might have any utility for intelligence collection. CIA sponsored research on this subject in the 1970s. At that time, the program, always considered speculative and controversial, was determined to be unpromising." The report was released on November 28, 1995, the day ABC's *Nightline* broadcast "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?" [[Ted Koppel]] opened: "For 20 years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been experimenting with ESP." ABC said it "has obtained a copy of that report which is critical of psychic spying," and that psychic spying "has been used in about 500 cases. Of those, fewer than a dozen were claimed to be right on target." May described the Semipalatinsk crane and "underground spheres"; [[Joe McMoneagle]] said of the Iran hostages, "there were 2 or 3 others that were held away from the Embassy, and no one seemed to know exactly where that was. But we were instrumental in helping identify that location"; [[Dale Graff]] said of Dozier, "we had one viewer come up with the name of the city, Padua. We had another one come up with the name of the building he was in"; the customs official William Green described the Jordan search, "next to an Indian gravesite," and Graff added, "we like to count it as a success." Hyman: "If someone pushed me hard right now, I'd have to say the odds are 99 to 1 that there's nothing to remote viewing." Utts: "There's some mystery out there that we need to solve." In the studio [[Robert Gates]] said that after the mid-1970s "CIA really during that period had a very limited role and essentially was just watching what was going on elsewhere," formalized by [[John McMahon]] in the mid-1980s; "I don't know of a single instance where it is documented that this kind of activity contributed in any significant way to a policy decision"; "we got into it, I think, mainly because we heard the Soviets were involved and also because the Congress, individual members of the Congress and some staff pushed us into it"; and "this is a tool best developed in the academic community or in the public arena, not by the intelligence community." A former CIA technical adviser identified only as "Norm," who had monitored the programs under McMahon until 1984, said "there's never been a case to my knowledge that produced any significant intelligence product," and explained the "8-martini" sessions: "The photograph you gave me, you developed that film in a house a mile down the road in the basement. That's grounds for an 8-martini evening, because the guy that took the picture had forgotten that fact. So, the knowledge was in the room, but not in any conscious way."[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
### May's Reply
|
||||
|
||||
May's commentary of March 1996 charged that the CIA "set the outcome with regard to intelligence usage before the evaluation had begun," that only one of seventeen members of the program's own oversight bodies was contacted, and that David Goslin of AIR had also administered the NRC's 1988 report; Utts wrote to him on December 19, 1995, that "I was explicitly asked by AIR staff NOT to mention the NRC report in my review!" and that "we were shown very little of the 'operational' remote-viewing work," and that after she asked to contact operational participants she "was contacted by the AIR staff and told that I was NOT to contact any of those individuals." May's conclusion: the evaluators "wanted to demonstrate that AC lacked usefulness for intelligence operations. They did so by construction rather than by careful analysis."[^8]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, pp. E-1 to E-5, 1-4 to 1-5, 2-1 to 2-8 and note 2, 3-80 to 3-84. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB438/docs/doc_57.pdf
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||||
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|
|||
[^4]: Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena," September 11, 1995, reproduced in the AIR report, pp. 3-41 to 3-75, and published in *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 31-58. Pages 3-41 to 3-44, 3-67, 3-72 to 3-79 of the report, including Utts's "Response to Ray Hyman's Report of September 11, 1995."
|
||||
[^5]: Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, pp. 4-7 to 4-15 and appendix D, pp. D-12 to D-16.
|
||||
[^6]: Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications.* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, pp. 1-4, 3-84, 5-1 to 5-5; Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of the Military's Twenty-Year Program on Psychic Spying," *Skeptical Inquirer,* March-April 1996, pp. 21-23.; Puthoff, H. E. "CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute," *Journal of Scientific Exploration,* vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 63-76., note 10 and reference 1; May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, 1996, pp. 3-23, abstract only.
|
||||
[^7]: Central Intelligence Agency, Public Affairs, statement on remote viewing, September 6, 1995, as reproduced in Victorian, Armen, "Remote Viewing and the US Intelligence Community," *Lobster,* c. 1996; the original release was not seen. "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News *Nightline,* November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room.
|
||||
[^8]: May, Edwin C. "The American Institutes for Research Review of the Department of Defense's STAR GATE Program: A Commentary," *Journal of Parapsychology,* vol. 60, no. 1, March 1996, pp. 3-23. The letter of December 19, 1995, is printed at pp. 15-17 as Utts's reply to May's e-mail of December 17, checked against the page images.
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---
|
||||
category: "Intelligence Scandal"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Event
|
||||
- GaleCommittee
|
||||
- GrillFlame
|
||||
- RemoteViewing
|
||||
- ScientificReview
|
||||
- Army
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- Gale Committee
|
||||
- Gale Report
|
||||
summary: "An eight-member Army review under Manfred Gale, reporting in December 1979, which found remote viewing unproved and its programs poorly documented, while a majority of five allowed INSCOM's operational work to continue under oversight."
|
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start: 1979
|
||||
end: 1980-01
|
||||
location: "Washington, D.C."
|
||||
created: 2026-09-21
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-21
|
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The Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee, chaired by Manfred Gale and known in the program as the Gale Committee, reported in December 1979 on the Army's parapsychology work: the [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]] remote-viewing research, the psychokinesis contract of the Missile Intelligence Command, the replication trials of the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, and the [[United States Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]] unit at [[Fort Meade]] ([[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]]). Its chapters covered a chronology, "Parapsychology in Perspective," an assessment of Warsaw Pact activity, "suggested parapsychological mechanisms," and the SRI experiments, with annexes on each Army activity.[^1]
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"RV research and investigations thus far have not proved the existence of the phenomena and have not conclusively established any parametric dependencies. Many of the anecdotal events reported to this Committee as potential evidence of the existence of RV do not adequately sustain their claim under careful scrutiny. A few of the examples are subjectively spectacular, but lack of scientific procedures precludes their consideration as scientific evidence of the phenomena. On balance, the Committee has indeed been persuaded that there is some probability that effects attributed to the RV phenomena exist under unexplained circumstances and in conjunction with particular individuals. However, to date, the experimental techniques have not been adequate to document such effects." Of the programs: "Inadequate documentation and failure to apply adequate controls are the most frequent causes which limit the credibility that can be given to reports of 'success' attributed to RV applications. In the judgment of the Committee, sole dependence on SRI-like protocols to resolve the RV issue will not be fruitful," and "operational programs, that by their very existence assume the reality of RV as given, may inadvertently establish the assumption in other communities that RV is real."[^1]
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Work to demonstrate the existence of remote viewing and psychokinesis "should be supported if a credible approach were to emerge; however, it may be preferable to do this in some other agency other than DOD in order to more readily conduct the work in an open forum." Research to characterize the phenomena "should not be sponsored until existence is established." On operations "the Committee was divided," and "the majority (5 out of 8) believed that operationally-oriented RV activities aimed at determining the empirical value of RV to intelligence (like those at INSCOM) should continue," provided the work "be monitored by an oversight committee that can review the work for its adequacy and guard against self-fulfilling prophecy" and that "dependence on SRI approach should be phased out."[^1]
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The Defense Department's Grill Flame working group, under [[Jack Vorona]] of DIA, had asked in November 1979 to see the report "prior to it being given to any other party or group." Vorona's reply supported the finding that "unexplained observations of human capabilities to generate data of potential utility to intelligence have been documented" and "strongly" disagreed with the recommendation to end the Missile Intelligence Command and AMSAA work, "based on a misinterpretation of these programs"; the "condemnation" of the SRI approach "is not understood or acceptable without further explanation"; and "many of the difficulties in the report, especially those of fact and incompleteness, could have been avoided if the report had been collectively reviewed in draft, rather than allowing only individual inputs." On February 6, 1980, the under secretary of defense, [[William Perry]], restricted the use of Program 6 funds, since it was "not appropriate for Army to fund technology programs aimed at scientific demonstration of parapsychology."[^1][^2]
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[^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5; Vorona, J., "Comments on 'Report By: The GRILLFLAME Scientific Evaluation Committee,'" memorandum of the Grill Flame Working Group, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300060001-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Chapters 1 and 4 to 9 and the annexes were not read.
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[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1) and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1); 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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Sustained government interest in ESP emerged during the Cold War, driven by concern that the Soviet Union might exploit any genuine psychic capabilities for intelligence collection. The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] funded ESP research from the early 1950s, including work by Andrija Puharich under programs related to [[MKULTRA]]. Soviet research into what Moscow termed "psychotronics" or "biological communications" was tracked by Western intelligence analysts and fed further investment in American programs.[^2]
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The longest-running classified program was [[STARGATE PROJECT]], a joint DIA-CIA effort that ran under various designations (GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, STAR GATE) from the early 1970s until 1995. The program employed trained remote viewers at Fort Meade, Maryland, and contracted with [[Stanford Research Institute]] and later [[Science Applications International Corporation]] for evaluation. Key personnel included [[Hal Puthoff]], [[Russell Targ]], [[Ingo Swann]], [[Pat Price]], [[Joseph McMoneagle]], and [[Angela Dellafiora]].[^2]
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The longest-running classified program was [[STARGATE PROJECT]], a joint DIA-CIA effort that ran under various designations (GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, [[Sun Streak|SUN STREAK]], STAR GATE) from the early 1970s until 1995. The program employed trained remote viewers at Fort Meade, Maryland, and contracted with [[Stanford Research Institute]] and later [[Science Applications International Corporation]] for evaluation. Key personnel included [[Hal Puthoff]], [[Russell Targ]], [[Ingo Swann]], [[Pat Price]], [[Joseph McMoneagle]], and [[Angela Dellafiora]].[^2]
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An independent evaluation of STAR GATE conducted by the [[American Institutes for Research]] and delivered to Congress in 1995 concluded that remote viewing had not been demonstrated to provide actionable intelligence and that the program should be terminated. The program was declassified and shut down that year.[^3]
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The DIA Psychoenergetics program provided organizational continuity for U.S. remote viewing research from 1981 through the successive program designations Grill Flame (1978-1983), Center Lane (1983-1985), Sun Streak (1985-1991), and finally [[STARGATE PROJECT|STARGATE]] (1991-1995). When the program was declassified and transferred to CIA control in 1995, and subsequently evaluated by the [[American Institutes for Research]] in a study that resulted in the program's termination, the full history of Psychoenergetics/STARGATE became available for review.[^2]
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The DIA Psychoenergetics program provided organizational continuity for U.S. remote viewing research from 1981 through the successive program designations Grill Flame (1978-1983), [[Center Lane]] (1983-1985), [[Sun Streak]] (1985-1991), and finally [[STARGATE PROJECT|STARGATE]] (1991-1995). When the program was declassified and transferred to CIA control in 1995, and subsequently evaluated by the [[American Institutes for Research]] in a study that resulted in the program's termination, the full history of Psychoenergetics/STARGATE became available for review.[^2]
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* [[Associative Remote Viewing|Associative Remote Viewing (ARV)]]: A technique used for [[Precognition|precognition]], where objects or geographic locations are used as surrogates for numbers or other abstract data that are difficult to remote-view directly. For example, a teddy bear might represent a specific number in a lottery, and the remote viewer would describe the teddy bear to predict the number.[^1]
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### The Nature Exchange
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Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff's paper in *Nature* of October 18, 1974, concluded that "a channel exists whereby information about a remote location can be obtained by means of an as yet unidentified perceptual modality." In 1978 [[David Marks]] and Richard Kammann reported in the same journal that they could not replicate the results and that the transcripts of [[Pat Price]]'s nine trials contained cues, such as "second place of the day," from which judges could order them; Targ, Puthoff, and [[Charles Tart]] replied in January 1979 that a judge given transcripts edited of such cues matched seven of nine, and that the critique "did not address the quality of the remote-viewing descriptions in the transcripts per se, but was instead limited to criticism of a particular judging procedure." The Army's Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, replicating the SRI protocol in twenty sessions of its own in 1978 and 1979, "did not result in statistical significance."[^3]
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Remote viewing, like any human faculty, has limitations. Numbers and letters are generally difficult to remote-view accurately. Visually dramatic targets with fixed and long-established locations are usually easier to perceive. The longer a target has existed at a given site, the easier it is to remote-view. Conversely, the more a target moves, the more it blurs in the remote viewer's perception. Remote viewers often find it difficult to describe a target's surroundings in enough detail to pinpoint its exact location, and reading signs or specific alphanumeric data is challenging.[^1]
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Furthermore, the apparent precognitive abilities of UAP, such as the [[Tic Tac]] seeming to know the future location of the F/A-18 pilots, have led some to speculate that the operators of these craft may possess highly evolved psychic abilities, or that consciousness itself may be a fundamental component of their propulsion systems. The idea that remote viewing may be a vestigial human ability, a form of pre-linguistic communication, has also been proposed.[^2]
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
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[^2]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
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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. Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments," *Nature,* vol. 274, 1978, pp. 680-681, not obtained; quoted from Puthoff, Targ, and Tart, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," with Tart, "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," submitted to *Nature,* January 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5, archive.org mirror. US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8.
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