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Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence from 1977 to 1981 who ended Gondola Wish, put the Army's psychic work under the nickname Grill Flame and had INSCOM build a remote viewing unit. Washington, D.C.
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Edmund Randall Thompson enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1947, entered the United States Military Academy in 1948 and was commissioned in 1952. After a posting with the 1st Cavalry Division in Japan he took two master's degrees at Syracuse University, taught in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, served with the Military Assistance Advisory Group for Cambodia and Vietnam from 1963 to 1965 and then moved into military intelligence. He was G-2 of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. Promoted to brigadier general in 1975, he commanded the United States Army Intelligence Agency at Fort Meade for two years, and in 1977 he became a major general and the Army's assistant chief of staff for intelligence (ACSI), a post he held until 1981.1

Gondola Wish and the nickname

At the Army Intelligence Agency, Thompson was the nominal overseer of the Systems Exploitation Team at Fort Meade, a small group of lateral thinkers assigned the strangest intelligence problems. The writer Jim Schnabel reported that when Lieutenant Frederick Atwater of the 902d Military Intelligence Group proposed a program to examine the Soviet parapsychology threat, Thompson, who had been nurturing an interest in psi since reading Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence, favored it, and that he wanted the Army involved in remote viewing without relying heavily on the Central Intelligence Agency or Stanford Research Institute. Schnabel recorded that Thompson recalled the unit as originally meant for offensive collection rather than operations security, and noted that Thompson may have known little about it until late 1978.2

The program, Gondola Wish, was established in September 1977 at the 902d Military Intelligence Group, with Atwater as action officer. Its objective statement of April 1978 set January 1, 1979 for training military intelligence personnel to collect sensitive information by parapsychological techniques, and the training was to be given by Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute in Afton, Virginia, for a fee of $2,000, which Brigadier General John A. Smith Jr. of INSCOM approved on July 19, 1978. A memorandum of May 1978 described the first training phase as aimed at recovering "word" information, specifically computer access passwords, from unwitting subjects.3 A memorandum of September 26, 1978 from the office of the 902d Military Intelligence Group commander to Brigadier General Smith records that on September 20 the 902d's representative met Colonel Jack C. Capps of DAMI-ISH after having been told by General Rolya the week before that the group was "to cease any further planning for its concept of training with the Monroe Institute." Capps related that, "after talks among MG Thompson, Dr. [LaBerge], Dr. [Vorona], et al," it had been decided that the whole program had to be coordinated with the Defense Department and a working group formed; that Gondola Wish was cancelled because the Monroe Institute was not cleared for classified work and because its training "could be categorized as experimenting with the human mind," which under recent legislation would have to be cleared through an office at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and that "MG Thompson did not want to go that route until the legal ramifications were thoroughly examined." Because the Army Materiel Command already had a contract with SRI "not encumbered by possible legalities," Capps suggested that the Army staff and INSCOM fund Military Intelligence training through it; Rolya approved $50,000 of INSCOM year-end funds, and $65,000 in all ($15,000 from the Army staff) was provided.4

The Army's later human use chronology records that on September 26, 1978 (902d Memorandum) the Army staff office DAMI-ISH "cancelled GONDOLA WISH" because the Monroe Institute was not cleared for classified work and because its training "could be categorized as experimenting with human use."5

A message from the Army staff dated July 5, 1978 (051630Z) had by then introduced the unclassified nickname Grill Flame, which was to "replace any open reference to US Army involvement in PY/RV research, experiments, application," and declared the fact of Army interest or work in the subject classified Secret/NOFORN. A follow-on message of mid-July 1978, originated by Major William Stoner, told United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) that Walter LaBerge, the Under Secretary of the Army, was "personally involved," that the Army staff was assembling an information package for him, and that INSCOM should hold in abeyance any planned execution of such projects with outside agencies until the options were developed. The same message commended INSCOM "for the initiative taken."6

By the spring of 1978, in the Army's later account, Thompson "concluded there was sufficient evidence to warrant the development of a comprehensive program" in remote viewing; he "cancelled the Gondola Wish effort, placed a complete security envelope over Army's interest in psychoenergetics, and implemented a new program directed towards intelligence collection using remote viewing." He told a British television series: "I had one or more briefings by SRI and was impressed. The decision I made was to set up a small, in-house, low-cost effort in remote viewing."7

The INSCOM tasking, 1978

In October 1978 Thompson's office tasked INSCOM to build the program, and the tasking was verbal. On November 1, 1978 the INSCOM project officer, Major Murray Watt, recorded a telephone call with Lieutenant Colonel Kane of the INSCOM operations staff: Thompson and the INSCOM commander, Major General William Rolya, had agreed that the Army staff would give no written instructions on Grill Flame, and Watt, as project officer, would have "a virtual 'blank check' on how to proceed and what type of program to develop."8 Schnabel reported that Thompson, as ACSI, increased the unit's effective budget out of his office's funds, gave it three slots for full-time viewers (Mel Riley, Ken Bell and Joe McMoneagle), and that no official manpower authorization existed until 1981.2

Two weeks later Ruth Davis, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, sent Jack Vorona of the Defense Intelligence Agency a memorandum of November 20, 1978 on the oversight of the "Remote Viewing" project, enclosing an October 25, 1978 letter on the subject from Representative Charlie Rose, chairman of the Subcommittee on Evaluation of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Thompson received a copy. A note dated November 14, 1978 from the executive of the Office of the Under Secretary of the Army carried a handwritten line from LaBerge: "MG Thompson - please tell me what's up."9

The Defense Department Grill Flame oversight committee met for the first time on November 28, 1978. Thompson sat on it with Vorona, Rear Admiral S. Shapiro of the Naval Intelligence Command, Major General James L. Brown of Air Force intelligence and Lowell Dailey for the Under Secretary for research, and the committee was "responsible for insuring that research and experiments fall within the legal guidelines."10 On March 6, 1979 the invitee list for the SRI Grill Flame briefing placed "MG Thompson" with Colonel Norman Wells, Mr. Kelly, Lieutenant Colonel Carl Jordan and Major Stoner under the Army Staff, and Colonel Garrison Rapmund, director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, under the Surgeon General.11

Protocols and the Gale committee

The draft minutes of the Grill Flame Steering Committee give a first meeting at 1400 on February 14, 1979 in the DIA Director's conference room at the Pentagon, attended by Major General James L. Brown of the Air Force, Thompson, Vorona, Bob Dailey and William Mehuron. Vorona reviewed the SRI briefing that Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ had given the House committee the day before, at which Representative Rose asked what the committee could do to support the program; Thompson suggested that the last goal on the committee's list, "intelligence threat assessment," be moved to the top as the primary goal of all participants.12

In 1979, according to the report of the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee, "the Army ACSI was designated focal point to develop a DA program" of "moderate intensity, low profile," Thompson sat on the steering committee at its first meeting on February 13, 1979, and "MG Thompson requested the Surgeon General designate, by name, a fully qualified behavioral scientist to act as consultant during protocol development." The Army's chronology records the Surgeon General's human subjects review and the later finding that the work was research involving human subjects, and notes that in February 1980 DAMI-ISH recommended to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering that Brigadier General Rapmund join the steering committee on the human use issue; Thompson's own memorandum to Dr. LaBerge of February 6, 1980 makes the proposal, describing Rapmund as having "been involved with GRILL FLAME for over a year."13

The steering committee met again at 1400 on October 30, 1979 with Dr. LaBerge in the chair and Ruth Davis, Lieutenant General Eugene Tighe, Thompson, Major General Brown and Rear Admiral Shapiro present. In the notes of the meeting LaBerge said the project had "an R&D flavor, rather than intelligence" and hoped to keep Rose's interest and "keep William Proxmire off our backs"; Tighe said "the Golden Fleece Award comes from people being less than quiet in their profession"; Davis said the research and development aspects were "primitive and naive," that work to date "has not been dishonest," that William Perry "wanted no part of it," and that the best results came from "the Fort Meade area where you have a bunch of military people" doing "exactly what they are told"; and Tighe asked whether Rose had told them he had spoken to the President about it and that the President remained interested. When LaBerge asked where the evaluation committee stood, Thompson said "I don't think we know at the moment," and he remarked that "whether it is intelligence or R&D is primarily pragmatic." The minutes record a recommendation that the steering committee hear from the evaluation group as soon as possible.14

Major Stoner reported that the candidacy of Ray Hyman for the evaluation committee ended "because of a protest memo from MG Thompson to Dr LaBerge." At the committee's briefing of January 14, 1980, "when quizzed by MG Thompson on what the word 'proof' in the report findings meant, Manfred Gale responded with a flurry of scientific buzzwords and jargon, the bottom line of which is that SCIENTIFIC PROOF has not been demonstrated."15 On October 17, 1979, Watt briefed the INSCOM deputy chief of staff for operations, Colonel Wilmot, who relayed that Thompson and he "have both questioned: 'Why not 1980?'" as the date for the unit to become operational; Watt's milestones had projected late 1981.16

Congress

Thompson's eyes-only memorandum on the steering committee warned that Representative Rose had an "oft-repeated desire to be kept up to date on a continuing basis" and that "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." By January 1980 he "has briefed the DDO on the INSCOM program." At Watt's briefing of Rose on January 16, 1980, at which Thompson sat with Vorona, Rose's aide Dick Giza and the National Security Council staff member Jake Stewart, Rose asked that the session be taped so other members of the subcommittee could review it; Thompson "had no objections to taping the briefing," and "Page 3 of Incl 1 was not provided to the audience at the direction of MG Thompson." Rose "encouraged us to continue with our program."17 Thompson did not attend the briefing of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations on February 5, 1980, which he had to cancel for an unforeseen commitment; the CIA officers told Watt they were glad the Army had "chosen to go operational on this subject matter rather than keep it in the lab."18

On April 16, 1981 he sat with Lieutenant Colonel Watt to brief Rose again, assuring him that the Army still wished to work with SRI; Rose had concluded from a recent briefing by Hal Puthoff that the Army might wish to break off contact. Thompson told Rose that Ingo Swann had expressed to him a thought similar to Watt's, that sources performed better when they knew they were working real-world problems.19 Schnabel also described Thompson accompanying Vorona to Rose's briefing, which he reported contributed to Rose's staunch public support.2

Briefings, 1979 to 1981

On March 23, 1979 Thompson attended Watt's update for the Under Secretary of the Army, Walter LaBerge, who "approved our actions to date and goals for the future" while cautioning that everyone involved should maintain objectivity.20 On April 10, 1980 Watt briefed the Air Force assistant chief of staff for intelligence, Major General James Brown, in a session Brown had requested and Thompson had approved.21 On July 7, 1980 Thompson and Brigadier General Wilmot attended Watt's Grill Flame briefing for Lieutenant General Eugene Tighe, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, with Admiral Kelln, Vorona and Puthoff; the briefing turned into Vorona's presentation of a proposed Defense Department centrally managed program with DIA as manager, a three-year joint effort at about $450,000 a year in contracts.22 On July 28, 1980 Thompson chaired the ACSI/INSCOM status review with Rolya, Colonel Chad White, Watt, Stoner and others; Rolya observed that the CIA seemed INSCOM's "biggest" tasker and he wanted a more balanced effort, and Swann briefed on signal and noise.23 An undated note from Thompson to Tighe reads: "Reference my 3 October memo discussing the GRILL FLAME Steering Committee, Dr. LaBerge agreed that the principals should meet soon. My office was asked to coordinate."24

On December 22, 1980 Thompson attended Watt's update for the Under Secretary of the Army, Dr. Spiro, with LaBerge, who is listed in the memorandum as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Spiro said he was not satisfied that "successes" had been demonstrated; LaBerge said "I support quiet, rational continuation of the program, but don't allow ourselves to get caught in the position of selling the program"; Spiro said that a one in a thousand chance justified the expense. Afterward Thompson told Watt and Major Hay to prepare a recommendation on whether the Army should help finance Swann's new training concept, and told Watt to continue the program.25

On May 8, 1981, he asked the Secretary of the Army to approve work with civilian contractors under Procedure 18 of the Defense Department's rules on human subjects, granted on May 27 on condition that it serve "an important foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose." In 1981 his office transferred management of the project to INSCOM; Schnabel cited a cable from Thompson to Rolya noting that an under secretary of the Army had approved the transfer.26 On August 10, 1981, in a telephone call that Watt recorded the same day, Thompson agreed with him that no further contract with SRI on the training and evaluation program would be approved until SRI stated in writing what limitations had been placed on it, SRI and Ingo Swann settled in writing "who owns the right to Mr. Swann's new training program," and INSCOM had written assurance that it would be offered the chance to have selected personnel trained under the new concept; funding for fiscal 1982 was to stay at $195,000.27 A memorandum of February 22, 1982 records that Thompson had approved $30,000 for scientific panels to be convened by Rapmund on Grill Flame basic research, concurred in by Brigadier General William Odom, who had succeeded him as ACSI, but that no action had been taken to use the money.28

Defense Intelligence Agency and later

Thompson's last posts were at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as Assistant Director for Special Cooperation and then Deputy Director for Management and Operations; the Army Distinguished Service Medal with a bronze oak leaf cluster cites his service with DIA in 1982 and 1983.29 Schnabel placed him at a party around 1983, hosted by Albert Stubblebine and John B. Alexander, at which guests concentrated on spoons: Thompson's own spoon curved down in his hands, and John McMahon, then deputy director of the CIA, was present. Schnabel also wrote that Thompson and a colleague later called on Stubblebine to express concern about the management of INSCOM, to no effect.30 Schnabel dated the program's loss of its senior protector from Thompson's departure from the ACSI post in 1981, and described Odom as far less optimistic about the military use of the paranormal.31

In an interview that Jim Schnabel published in The Independent of London on August 27, 1995, Thompson said: "I became convinced that remote-viewing was a real phenomenon, that it wasn't a hoax. We didn't know how to explain it but we weren't so much interested in explaining it as in determining whether there was any practical use to it." Of the program's secrecy he said: "It was so small, and so closely-held that it wasn't a big controversy." The article stated that Thompson "co-managed the Army's spy network," that Albert Stubblebine became head of INSCOM in 1981, "the year that General Thompson ... departed for another posting," and that with Thompson gone Stubblebine was remote viewing's chief supporter in the Army.32

Thompson took part in a remote viewing session himself. According to Schnabel, Mel Riley guided him as he tried to describe the location of Major Stone, who had gone to a site he chose; Thompson described a bulky building beside a pool of water seen from a height and guessed the Lincoln Memorial, while Stone had gone to the Alexandria, Virginia train station, and Thompson later decided he had perceived the nearby George Washington Masonic National Memorial. Schnabel quoted him in 1997 as saying "there's something there."33

In 1995 Thompson appeared, with Admiral Stansfield Turner, Puthoff, Lyn Buchanan and Alexander, in the hour-long British television program, based on Schnabel's article for the Independent, that Edwin May described to the CIA on September 21, 1995 as "sensational." May also wrote that the ABC News program 20/20 had put a planned September 29 broadcast on hold because "they want to interview MG. Thompson who they were able to find in the phone directory."34

Footnotes

  1. Syracuse University Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, "Major General Edmund R. Thompson," February 14, 2010, https://veterans.syracuse.edu/news/major-general-edmund-r-thompson/. Military Times Hall of Valor, "Edmund Thompson," Army Distinguished Service Medal citation for 1977 to 1981 as Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, and Legion of Merit citation as G-2, 25th Infantry Division, 1968 to 1969 (citing the United States Military Academy Register of Graduates), https://valor.militarytimes.com/?p=326501 and https://valor.militarytimes.com/?p=363135. Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, biographical note (head of the Army Intelligence Agency 1975 to 1977, ACSI 1977 to 1981). ↩︎

  2. Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, chapters on the formation of the Fort Meade unit and notes (on Thompson's recollection that the unit was meant for offensive spying and the unauthorized manpower slots). ↩︎

  3. 902d Military Intelligence Group, "Management by Objective for Gondola Wish," April 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160012-1; Atwater, Frederick H., memorandum "Gondola Wish," May 18, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160007-7; memorandum "Gondola Wish," May 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160003-1; "Gondola Wish Assessment Report," August 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160001-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000160001-3 and sibling items. ↩︎

  4. Office of the Commander, 902d Military Intelligence Group (TAGPA-CO), memorandum for Brigadier General Smith, "GRILL FLAME Status Report," September 26, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100440004-9, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100440004-9. ↩︎

  5. "Human Use Chronology," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100430001-3, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100430001-3. ↩︎

  6. Department of the Army message, "Issuance of Unclassified Nickname, GRILL FLAME," July 1978, and Army staff message to INSCOM, "Grill Flame," mid-July 1978, enclosed with INSCOM, "INSCOM Project Grill Flame: Progress Report #1," February 21, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500040003-0, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001500040003-0. The first message's date-time group, 051630Z July 1978, appears as the classification authority on later INSCOM Grill Flame documents. The second message carries the date-time group 171717Z July 1978 and the originator line "Stoner/DAMI-ISH." ↩︎

  7. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00789r002100180002-8. Puthoff, H. E., "CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute," Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, quoting the Channel 4 series Equinox. ↩︎

  8. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "Summary Phoncon between LTC Kane, DCSOPS, INSCOM and MAJ Murray B. Watt," November 1, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200410020-3, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001200410020-3. INSCOM Project Grill Flame Progress Report #1, February 21, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100070001-3, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100070001-3. ↩︎

  9. Davis, Ruth M., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology), memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to Davis, October 25, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00787R000500240017-5, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00787r000500240017-5. Gibson, LTC, Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, memorandum for MG E. R. Thompson, November 14, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000010012-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000010012-7. ↩︎

  10. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), CIA-RDP96-00788R001100070001-3; Defense Intelligence Agency, S-1004/DT-1, "Minutes of the Meeting, DoD Grill Flame Committee," November 28, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000140013-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000140013-2. ↩︎

  11. "SRI Grill Flame Briefing, 6 March 1979," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200270001-0, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001200270001-0. ↩︎

  12. "Minutes of the Grill Flame Steering Committee Meeting, 14 Feb 79," draft memorandum for record, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130004-3, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000130004-3. The Gale committee's report dates the steering committee's first meeting February 13, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5). ↩︎

  13. Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee, December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001300120001-5. "Human Use Chronology," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100430001-3. "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100020001-8. The February 1980 date of the Rapmund recommendation is read from the chronology's date column and is not stated in the entry's text. ↩︎

  14. "'GRILL FLAME' Meeting, 30 October 1979, 1400 hrs, Rm 3E 988," notes, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250020-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250020-2; "Minutes of Steering Committee Meeting, 1400-1430 hours, 30 October 1979," CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250021-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250021-1. ↩︎

  15. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001200230017-7. ↩︎

  16. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "GRILL FLAME Update Briefing for COL(P) Wilmot, 17 October 1979," October 21, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240022-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000240022-1. ↩︎

  17. Thompson, E. R., Major General, memorandum "GRILL FLAME Steering Committee" to Dr. La Berge, eyes only, undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250013-0, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250013-0. Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, January 10, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 January 1980," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190001-0, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100190001-0. ↩︎

  18. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for DDO, CIA, 5 Feb 1980," February 6, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250053-6, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250053-6. ↩︎

  19. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefing for Congressman Rose, 16 April 1981," April 17, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190007-4, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100190007-4. The same memorandum is catalogued as CIA-RDP96-00788R001100190004-7. ↩︎

  20. Watt, Murray B., "INSCOM GRILL FLAME Briefings, 23 Mar 79," March 26, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000240034-8, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000240034-8. ↩︎

  21. Watt, Murray B., "Briefing to Air Force ACSI, 10 April 1980," April 22, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250031-0, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250031-0. ↩︎

  22. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "Grill Flame Briefing for Director, DIA (7 July 1980)," July 8, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250039-2, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250039-2. ↩︎

  23. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "ACSI/INSCOM GRILL FLAME Status Review, 28 July 1980," July 31, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250042-8, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250042-8. ↩︎

  24. Thompson, E. R., "Note for: LTG Tighe," undated, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250008-6, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r002000250008-6. ↩︎

  25. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "Update Briefing for Under Secretary of the Army, 22 Dec 80," December 23, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100440042-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100440042-7. ↩︎

  26. Defense Intelligence Agency, "Grill Flame - Action Memorandum," December 11, 1981, with the memorandum of Major General E. R. Thompson of May 8, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100240001-4, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001100240001-4. Schnabel, Remote Viewers, bibliography entry for the 1981 cable from Thompson to Rolya. ↩︎

  27. Watt, Murray B., memorandum for the record, "Army/INSCOM Contractual Position as Regards SRI-I, FY 82," August 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00792R000100140005-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00792r000100140005-7. ↩︎

  28. Jachim, Robert J., memorandum for the record, "Visit to OACSI (COL Kennedy)," February 22, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200060035-6, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00788r001200060035-6. ↩︎

  29. Syracuse University Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, "Major General Edmund R. Thompson," https://veterans.syracuse.edu/news/major-general-edmund-r-thompson/. Military Times Hall of Valor, "Edmund Thompson," Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster to the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Intelligence Agency, 1982 to 1983, https://valor.militarytimes.com/?p=363135. Schnabel, Remote Viewers, biographical note (DIA deputy director for management and operations, 1982 to 1984). ↩︎

  30. Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers, Dell, 1997, chapters on Stubblebine's tenure at INSCOM. ↩︎

  31. Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers, Dell, 1997, chapters on the Odom and Stubblebine years. ↩︎

  32. Schnabel, Jim, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi," The Independent (London), The Sunday Review, August 27, 1995, pp. 10-13, as transmitted by the FBIS wire and filed in the CIA STARGATE collection, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200090001-7, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00791r000200090001-7; also catalogued as CIA-RDP96-00791R000100030073-5 under the heading "US Use of 'Psychic Spies' Reported." ↩︎

  33. Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers, Dell, 1997, chapter on the first months of the Fort Meade unit and the author's afterword. ↩︎

  34. May, Edwin, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, "Re: Publicity and things," September 21, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100030077-1, https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp96-00791r000100030077-1. ↩︎