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 ### DIA Assessment
 
-[[Hal Puthoff]]'s 1982 classified DIA report, "Psychoenergetics Research in the People's Republic of China," documented the Chinese EHBF research programs and provided American intelligence with its first comprehensive assessment of the scale and institutional structure of Chinese psi research. Puthoff's report, compiled for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Psychoenergetics]] program, described the Zhang Baosheng experiments among the most significant EHBF demonstrations being studied by Chinese military researchers. This intelligence was used by DIA officials including [[Jack Vorona]] to justify continued American investment in the [[STARGATE PROJECT|STAR GATE]] program on the grounds that the United States required a comparable research effort.[^2]
+[[Hal Puthoff]]'s 1982 classified DIA report, "Psychoenergetics Research in the People's Republic of China," documented the Chinese EHBF research programs and provided American intelligence with its first comprehensive assessment of the scale and institutional structure of Chinese psi research. Puthoff's report, compiled for the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]'s [[Psychoenergetics]] program, described the Zhang Baosheng experiments among the most significant EHBF demonstrations being studied by Chinese military researchers. This intelligence was used by DIA officials including [[Jack Vorona]] to justify continued American investment in the [[Stargate Project|STAR GATE]] program on the grounds that the United States required a comparable research effort.[^2]
 
 The competitive logic - that if China had a functioning EHBF research program, the United States needed equivalent capabilities - paralleled the reasoning used to justify American remote viewing research in response to Soviet psychoenergetics programs. Zhang's sessions thus contributed indirectly to the sustained funding of American remote viewing research through the 1980s.
 
 ### Disputed Results
 
-Zhang's results were contested from the beginning by Chinese researchers who suspected fraud. Skeptics argued that the filmed demonstrations were inadequate as evidence because they did not rule out sophisticated sleight-of-hand techniques; that the research teams had institutional incentives to find positive results; and that the experimental protocols had not been designed with adequate input from professional magicians who could evaluate the possibility of deception. As the [[Extraordinary Powers Craze]] declined in the late 1980s and Chinese government support for EHBF research was withdrawn, Zhang's results were increasingly attributed to stage magic rather than genuine anomalous phenomena. He reportedly worked in subsequent years as a stage magician and entertainer.[^1]
+Zhang's results were contested from the beginning by Chinese researchers who suspected fraud. Skeptics argued that the filmed demonstrations were inadequate as evidence because they did not rule out sophisticated sleight-of-hand techniques; that the research teams had institutional incentives to find positive results; and that the experimental protocols had not been designed with adequate input from professional magicians who could evaluate the possibility of deception. As the Extraordinary Powers Craze declined in the late 1980s and Chinese government support for EHBF research was withdrawn, Zhang's results were increasingly attributed to stage magic rather than genuine anomalous phenomena. He reportedly worked in subsequent years as a stage magician and entertainer.[^1]
 
 ### Footnotes