The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Lincoln D. Faurer.md

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aliases:
- Lincoln D. Faurer
- Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer
category: "Key Figures"
tags:
- Person
- Stargate
- CIA
- Military
- RemoteViewer
- NSA
summary: "Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982."
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Lincoln D. Faurer was a Lieutenant General and the Director of the [[NSA]] (NSA). In the spring of 1982, he was given a briefing on the [[U.S. Army]]'s [[Remote Viewing]] program, and he saw [[Extrasensory Perception|extrasensory perception]] as a form of [[Signals Intelligence|signals intelligence]] with potential operational value[^1].
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].
### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.