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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
title: Church's Fried Chicken
tags:
  - organization
  - private
  - business
description: Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in fried chicken.
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain whose part-owner Bill Church, an amateur scientist, provided Hal Puthoff with funding that helped initiate the SRI remote viewing research program."
start: 1952
location: "San Antonio, Texas"
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[[Church's Fried Chicken]] is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in fried chicken. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, Bill Church, a part owner of the chain and an amateur scientist, provided [[Hal Puthoff]] with ten thousand dollars in funding to begin his psi experiments at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]. This private funding was crucial in the early stages of the remote viewing research program before the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] became involved.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.