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E. H. Walker
Aberdeen, Maryland physicist who proposed a quantum theory of psi, visited SRI in 1973, and was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to build a remote-viewing machine. 1935-02-15 2006-08-17 Aberdeen, Maryland 2026-09-22 2026-09-22

Evan Harris Walker was born in Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, received a doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland in 1964, founded and directed the Walker Cancer Institute in Aberdeen, Maryland, Maryland, and held a dozen patents. He died at Harford Memorial Hospital on August 17, 2006, aged 71.1

Quantum Theory of Psi

A Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record of April 18, 1973, on a review of the parapsychology project at Stanford Research Institute, recorded that "a theoretically physicist, Dr. E. H. Walker, had visited SRI and presented them with a copy of his latest paper concerned with parapsychological phenomena," which "purports to be a theory which gives a physical basis for paranormal phenomena"; its author wrote that "we are now observing and contributing to the development of one of the most significant scientific developments of our time."2 SRI's survey of remote viewing cited his "Foundations of paraphysical and parapsychological phenomena," published in the proceedings of the Parapsychology Foundation's conference on quantum physics and parapsychology in Geneva (1975), and a Defense Department review of replication studies grouped him with the French physicist Olivier Costa de Beauregard as having proposed "theories of paranormal functioning based on quantum concepts."3

Grill Flame

A draft request for fiscal 1979 funding from the Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence (DAMI-ISH), dated July 7, 1978, named "E. H. Walker" as principal investigator of a project "To determine feasibility of developing automatic equipment capable of producing remote viewing in hard copy form," asking 350,000 dollars (150,000 for equipment, 150,000 for personnel, 50,000 miscellaneous) and stating that such equipment "might have the same utility in any future conflict as that of the Ultra machine used in WWII."4 The Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity's interim note of July 1979 on its STARGATE PROJECT phase I work listed "Dr. Evan Harris Walker" among its acknowledged participants, with Lewis Walt and John Kramar, noting that "The identification of the specific roles played by specific individuals in the AMSAA GRILL FLAME program must be protected."5

Footnotes

  1. "Dr. Evan Harris Walker," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, August 2006. https://www.mccomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/evan-harris-walker ↩︎

  2. Memorandum for the record, "Review of Parapsychology Project at Stanford Research Institute," April 18, 1973, CIA-RDP79-00999A000300030020-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

  3. Puthoff, H. E., and R. Targ, "Direct Perception of Remote Geographical Locations," bibliography, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6; "DoD Psychoenergetics Program: Replication Studies," CIA-RDP96-00792R000600310001-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

  4. Department of the Army, DAMI-ISH, draft, "Request for Funding, FY 79, Re: Parapsychology - Feasibility for a Hard Copy 'Remote Viewing' Machine," July 7, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080003-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

  5. U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, acknowledgements, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎