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title	aliases	created	updated	category	tags	summary	relations
Kit Green	Kit Green Christopher Green Christopher C. Green Christopher Canfield Green Richard Kennett	2026-05-17	2026-10-15	Intelligence & Government	Person CIA Stargate SRI NSA RemoteViewing UAP Esalen AATIP LifeSciences GeneralMotors ArmyScienceBoard NationalAcademies	Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, handled Uri Geller's tests, and later contributed to AATIP.	type with start end role fn employed_by Central Intelligence Agency 1969 1985-03 analyst, chief of the Biomedical Sciences Branch and deputy chief of the Life Sciences Division; senior division analyst, Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence, from 1978 13 type with start end role fn employed_by General Motors 1985-03 2004 head of Automotive Safety and Health Research (department of Biomedical Science), North American Operations Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, to September 1993; later director of research technology partnerships, executive director of materials research, executive director of technology intelligence, and chief technology officer for Asia Pacific 13 type with start end role fn member_of Board on Army Science and Technology 1988 1999 member from 1988; chairman 1997 to 1999 (the CV also lists a chairmanship from 1990) 13 type with start end role fn member_of Army Science Board 1985 1995 member 13 type with start end role fn director_of National Institute for Discovery Science 1995 1999 chairman, Science Advisory Board 13 type with start end role fn member_of Fetzer Institute 1995 1998 Committee for Frontier Medicine 13 type with start role fn employed_by Wayne State University School of Medicine 2003-02 executive director of emergent technologies research; later professor and assistant dean for Asia Pacific, with appointments at the Detroit Medical Center 13 type with role fn member_of The Aviary membership as alleged: listed as Blue Jay in a roster published by Richard J. Boylan 16

Christopher "Kit" Green was a physician and neurophysiologist who served in the Central Intelligence Agency's Life Sciences Division, where he functioned as the agency's primary scientific reviewer and liaison for the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program from its inception in 1972. He was among the small number of CIA officers who maintained long-term engagement with anomalous phenomena research, and later continued that work in both academic and government consulting contexts after leaving the agency.

CIA Career and SRI Liaison

Green was working in the CIA's Life Sciences Division when physicist Hal Puthoff initiated contact with the agency regarding proposed research on anomalous mental phenomena. On June 27, 1972, Puthoff wrote to Green at the CIA outlining remote viewing as a legitimate area for scientific investigation, proposing formal experiments at SRI to assess whether the phenomena could be reproduced under controlled conditions. This letter, subsequently released under Freedom of Information Act and housed in the CIA Reading Room, established the institutional relationship between SRI and the CIA's scientific analysis staff that would persist for more than two decades.¹

Green served as the primary CIA officer receiving and evaluating SRI's experimental results during the early years of the program, which was organized under various code names before being consolidated as the Stargate Project program. In this capacity he reviewed classified experimental data, participated in briefings, and maintained the agency's formal interest in the research while keeping it within the Life Sciences Division's medical and scientific framework rather than the operational framework of the Directorate of Operations.²

Jim Schnabel gave Green the pseudonym "Richard Kennett" in Remote Viewers (1997).³ In that account Kennett was an analyst in the Office of Scientific Intelligence, in his early thirties, married with two young sons, holding a Ph.D. in neurophysiology and pursuing an M.D.; religion and mysticism "in particular fascinated him," and he spent part of his agency time monitoring the fringes of medicine and psychology. Schnabel placed him as slated to become assistant national intelligence officer for chemical and biological warfare issues. Kennett monitored the work at SRI and later at Fort Meade, tasked viewers against intelligence problems and evaluated their results. Schnabel also recorded Kennett's own anomalous experiences: a precognitive episode connected to Uri Geller involving a shattered glass globe and a white bulldog, and an encounter with a one-armed man in a gray suit.⁴

Uri Geller and the SRI Experiments

Green served as the CIA's primary handler and scientific overseer during Uri Geller's testing at SRI in 1972-1973. Geller, an Israel entertainer claiming psychokinetic and clairvoyant abilities, underwent a series of formal laboratory tests under the direction of Puthoff and Russell Targ. Green was responsible for reviewing the experimental protocols, receiving the results, and assessing their implications for the agency. He administered or oversaw medical evaluations of Geller, including neurological and psychological assessments designed to identify physiological correlates of the claimed abilities.²

Green's assessment of the Geller results was qualified: he acknowledged that the experiments produced results he could not explain through conventional means while maintaining that the data did not constitute proof of psychic ability as conventionally understood. He was skeptical of organized programs to train multiple personnel as psychic operatives, believing the evidence supported only that a small number of individuals produced anomalous results under controlled conditions.²

Sugar Grove and Sensitive Facility Remote Viewing

Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the Sugar Grove, West Virginia incident, in which Pat Price and Ingo Swann were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified NSA signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions, which included internal organizational details not publicly available, created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.² In Schnabel's version, Puthoff contacted Kennett in May 1973 about Swann's coordinate scheme; doubtful of it, Kennett asked for a target unknown even to himself and obtained coordinates from the CIA officer Bill O'Donnell, meant to locate O'Donnell's summer cabin. The descriptions matched the nearby NSA station instead, and a security investigation followed.⁴

Esalen and the Soviet Exchange Program

Green's name appears in CIA documents related to monitoring of the Esalen Institute's Esalen Soviet-American Exchange Program in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His connection to Puthoff and the SRI remote viewing program placed him in the intersection between the CIA's interest in Soviet parapsychology research and Esalen's role as a civilian forum for U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange, including exchange specifically touching on parapsychology and consciousness research. The CIA maintained passive collection on Esalen's Soviet contacts, and Green's position made him a natural node for any intelligence bearing on Soviet research in related areas.¹

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Investigation

After several scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported unusual perceptual experiences following their involvement with Geller and the broader SRI program, Green investigated the reports. He told Annie Jacobsen that he examined the scientists individually and found "no pathology," that they "were not psychologically impaired," and that he first wondered whether the events were a psychological operation "either by an enemy intelligence service or perhaps even the CIA"; he concluded they had to have been "some kind of high-technology psychological operation" involving holograms, lasers and small unmanned aerial vehicles, and recalled that two of the Livermore scientists quit.²

Two accounts of the episode exist. Annie Jacobsen placed it in the winter of 1975, during sanctioned classified tests of Geller held in a former World War II barracks with an Atomic Energy Commission security officer present; after the second day Ron Robertson telephoned Green, reporting objects flying across rooms, flashing lights and a six-inch ball of light rolling down a hallway, and Green first suspected hallucination.² Schnabel placed it in late 1974, after unofficial off-hours tests of Geller by a Livermore group that included Robertson; members saw monochrome flying saucers and fantastic animals in their homes and laboratories, an audiotape played back a metallic voice pronouncing the code name of a classified project unknown to the group, and the physicist he called Peter Crane telephoned Kennett. Kennett met the group, including the physicist he called Mike Russo, and after Don Curtis and his wife saw a hovering one-armed man in a gray suit with a hook for a hand, demanded a meeting with Puthoff and Russell Targ. The apparitions ended after the group stopped its work with Geller.⁴ A CIA staff report filed with a Reuters item of November 4, 1974 records a telephone call of October 23, 1974 from an Atomic Energy Commission security officer at Livermore reporting two days of testing Geller with forty AEC scientists; other paragraphs of the same report concern "LSD personnel."⁵ Green's curriculum vitae gives one of his CIA posts as "Chief of the Biomedical Sciences Branch/LSD."⁶

Post-CIA Career

Following his departure from CIA, Green continued academic and research work in neurophysiology and forensic medicine. He was associated with Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he worked in forensic pathology and neurological research.²

Green contributed as a consultant and scientific advisor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon's UAP research program that operated from approximately 2007 to 2012 under the direction of Luis Elizondo. His contribution included review of reported physical and physiological effects on individuals claiming proximity to anomalous aerial phenomena. He published research examining injuries reported by people claiming UAP encounters (a category he termed "exotic wounds"), applying forensic neurological analysis to the reported symptom patterns. This work represented the extension of his long-standing interest in the medical and physiological dimensions of anomalous phenomena from the SRI era into the post-AATIP period.⁷

Elizondo's acknowledgments in 2024 thank "everyone else who worked with and supported AAWSAP/AATIP, especially Dr. Hal Puthoff, Dr. Eric Davis, Dr. Christopher 'Kit' Green, Garry Nolan," Bigelow and others. The body of the book does not otherwise mention Green by name, and it does not describe his role.⁸

A Defense Electronics article of July 1993 in the CIA's Star Gate files, on closed briefings by the Russian physician Igor Smirnov on "a computerized acoustic device allegedly capable of implanting thoughts in a person's mind," held from March 17 in Northern Virginia and later at the University of Kansas Medical Center, lists among "the non-military attendees" "Dr. Richard Nakamura of the National Institute of Mental Health and Dr. Christopher Green, director of General Motors Corp. (GM) biomedical research department in Detroit." A GM spokesman told the magazine that Green "attended the Smirnov briefings in his capacity as a member of a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel on 21st Century Army technologies," and that "this has no connection to anything being done by GM."⁹ Green's curriculum vitae of November 20, 2007 lists him as head of Automotive Safety and Health Research at General Motors' North American Operations Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, from March 1985 to September 1993, directing "the independent department of Biomedical Science."⁶ The National Research Council's 1992 report STAR 21: Strategic Technologies for the Army of the Twenty-First Century names "Christopher C. Green, General Motors Research Labs" both as a member of its Study Committee on STAR and as lead expert of its Biotechnology and Biochemistry Technology Group,¹⁰ and the same CV lists him as chairman of the National Research Council "Committee on Biotechnology in the Year 2020 (STAR/BAST)" from 1989 to 1992.⁶ A 2012 National Research Council committee roster gives the same person a career with the CIA from 1969 to 1985 "as a senior division analyst and assistant national intelligence officer for science and technology" and, at General Motors, "head of biomedical sciences research."¹¹

General Motors and Army Advisory Boards

Green's curriculum vitae of November 20, 2007 gives his Central Intelligence Agency service as 1969 to March 1985, in the Life Sciences Division (analyst, chief of the Biomedical Sciences Branch and deputy division chief) and from 1978 as senior division analyst in the Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence, and records that he holds the President's National Intelligence Medal, awarded in 1985 for work on a project from 1979 to 1983. Among his CIA duties it lists chairmanship of the DCI Interagency Working Group on Chemical Weapons Use, the Ad Hoc Interagency Working Group on Soviet Submarine Drag Reduction Research and Development, work on the Glomar Explorer project, an interagency program to examine non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation "including foreign equipment and devices" and a research program "to evaluate biological effects of microwaves from certain devices" (1973 to 1976), and service as manager of an analytical effort in support of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1973 to 1975).⁶

From March 1985 to September 1993 he headed Automotive Safety and Health Research at General Motors' North American Operations Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan, directing a department of Biomedical Science in "a modern 100,000-sq. ft. research facility," with 80 physicians, pharmacologists, physiologists, physicists, engineers, toxicologists, microbiologists and biochemists and an "extensive extra-mural research effort with about one-dozen medical schools and private contractors." The CV lists the department's programs as including the health effects of new manufacturing materials, trauma and toxicology (forensic applications), neurophysiology and cardiovascular injury, toxicology of chemical and biological particulates and aerosols, biotechnology applied to hazardous material control, crash and blast injury, "stress/hazard protection of operators in certain tactical military vehicle operations," and "radiofrequency and non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation."⁶

His later General Motors positions, as listed in the CV, were director of research technology partnerships (October 1993 to October 1995), executive director of materials research and technology business development and chief technology officer for China (to June 1998), executive director of technology intelligence (July 1998 to November 1999), and executive director of technology policy in the Public Policy Center and chief technology officer for Asia Pacific (November 1999 to February 2003). It lists General Motors boards and strategic committees for 1985 to 2004, among them the Asia Pacific Strategy Board, the Advanced Technology Committee, a role as co-founder of a General Motors-Israel technology joint venture and as founding director of the Pan Asian Technology Automotive Center in Shanghai, and a vice-presidency of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The CV states that in February 2003 he became executive director of the Emergent Technologies Research Division of the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University School of Medicine.⁶

The same CV lists Army and academy advisory service: member of the Army Science Board, 1985 to 1995; member of the National Research Council's Board on Army Science and Technology from 1988, with the CV giving chairmanships of the board as 1990 to 1999 in one entry and 1997 to 1999 in another; chairman of the Committee on Biotechnology in the Year 2020 (STAR/BAST), 1989 to 1992; chairman of an Independent Science Panel in the Office of the Undersecretary of the Army, Operations Research, from 1989; member of the Air Force Studies Board (1995 to 1997); member of the Institute of Medicine commission on Persian Gulf mystery illness (1998); and scientific advisor to the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence and to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. It also lists chairmanship of the Science Advisory Board of the National Institute for Discovery Science (1995 to 1999), membership of the Committee for Frontier Medicine of the Fetzer Institute (1995 to 1998), and, among current clients in 2007, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, General Motors, Ford, the Fetzer Institute, the Institute for Advanced Physics, EarthTech International and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.⁶

The report STAR 21 (National Academy Press, 1992) of the Board on Army Science and Technology lists Green, of General Motors Research Labs, as lead expert of the Biotechnology and Biochemistry Technology Group, with Joseph F. Soukup of Science Applications International Corporation, Bertram W. Maidment Jr. of the Midwest Research Institute and Gregory A. Petsko of Brandeis University, and as one of the members of the Study Committee on STAR chaired by Walter B. LaBerge, formerly of Lockheed Aircraft Company.¹⁰

UFO-Related Contacts, 1986 to 1997

Mark Pilkington wrote in Mirage Men of a meeting with Green, whose interest in UFOs, he wrote, went back "some three decades to his time as the CIA's 'keeper of the weird' at the Office for Science and Technology," adding: "Really he was a senior science analyst, but a small part of his work involved intelligence to do with remote viewing (RV), UFOs and other hot paranormal topics of the 1970s." Pilkington described Green as "a close and long-standing friend of Rick Doty" (Richard Doty), whom he "talked about with unguarded warmth and respect." Asked about silver spheres from Yosemite National Park, Green said, in Pilkington's account, "We have reconnaissance craft that fit that description," and of quiet helicopters "disguised" as UFOs to probe security and nuclear installations, "I'm pretty sure that it happened." Pilkington wrote that at a Denny's restaurant "back in 1986" Green, Puthoff and Jacques Vallee "distilled what they knew about the subject into what has become known as the 'core story,'" and quoted Green as stating the core story: "The ETs came here, maybe once, maybe a few times. Either through accident or design, the US government acquired one of their craft. The only problem was that the physics that powered the craft were so advanced that for decades we humans have struggled to understand it or to replicate it." He described "paraphrenia," a delusion a person can "confine and control," as the category into which many believers fall.¹²

Vallee wrote in May 1986 that he intended to present "strong comments about the Secret Onion project" to Green; Vallee's name for the project is the Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group of John B. Alexander. According to the Loose Threads Report authors, Puthoff said Green received an invitation to the group's meetings but did not attend, and Green told Vallee in 1989 that he was reluctant to take part unless the initiative had an official funding stream. In an entry of August 1990 Vallee recorded Green as dismissing Howard Blum's 1987 account of a secret UFO group as an allusion to the proposal of Alexander and Ron Blackburn that "went nowhere," adding that he had gone to see Jack Vorona, who "told me, 'They never let me in on it!'" In February 1990 Vallee wrote that Blackburn "had co-organized a national panel on UFOs" with Green, "who never told me about this." Green's 2007 curriculum vitae, as quoted by the authors of the Loose Threads Report, lists him as chairman of an "Independent Science Panel, Office of the Undersecretary, Operations Research, DO Army (1989 to present)" and as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Biotechnology in the Year 2020 from 1989 to 1992.¹³

An April 15, 1993 transcript of a call between Ronald Pandolfi and C. B. Scott Jones has Pandolfi say, of the briefing prepared for Laurance Rockefeller's visit to the White House science adviser John Gibbons, "Kit was supposed to meet with Jack yesterday and supposed to give us some guidance today if there is any additional follow-up or what his reactions were." The person who supplied the transcript to the White House called it "purported."¹⁴ In a letter of March 29, 1997 Richard Farley wrote to Gibbons that Green "terms 'myth-making'" the efforts of "cultists and culture-change agents employed in ongoing efforts by Laurance Rockefeller, with his attorney Henry L. Diamond and former Pell aide (and intelligence 'rogue') C.R. 'Scott' Jones."¹⁵ Richard J. Boylan listed Green as Blue Jay in a roster of the The Aviary.¹⁶

Footnotes

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1. Puthoff, Harold E. Letter to Christopher Green, CIA, June 27, 1972. CIA FOIA Reading Room, cia.gov/readingroom. CIA document CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030006-8 (released). Kripal, Jeffrey J. Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 381-385. ↩︎

2. Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎

3. Cook, Nick. "The Light Beyond The Mountains (Chapter 22: UFO Medico)." Rogue Icons, January 6, 2025, https://nickcook.substack.com/p/the-light-beyond-the-mountains-500. Schnabel's own list of pseudonyms in Remote Viewers (Dell, 1997), "Pseudonyms," includes Richard Kennett: https://archive.org/details/jim-schnabel-remote-viewers-the-secret-history-of-americas-psychic-spies_2. ↩︎

4. Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies. Dell, 1997. ↩︎

5. CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010023-0, https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0/cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0_djvu.txt. ↩︎

6. Green, Christopher Canfield. Curriculum Vita, November 20, 2007 (sections: General Motors North American Operations Research and Development Center, 3/85 to 9/93; Research and Development Center, 10/93 to 6/98; Research and Development and Planning, 7/98 to 11/99; Public Policy Center and GM Asia Pacific, 11/99 to 2/03; Central Intelligence Agency, 1969 to March 1985; External Medical/Scientific Boards and Activities). https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/DrGreen_Article.pdf The CV's account of his own career; ↩︎

7. Lacatski, James T., Kelleher, Colm A., and Knapp, George. Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UAP Program. RTMA, 2021. Elizondo, Luis. IMMINENT: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs. Morrow, 2024. ↩︎

8. Luis Elizondo, Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs (New York: William Morrow, 2024), Acknowledgments, p. 250. ↩︎

9. "DoD, Intel Agencies Look at Russian Mind Control Technology, Claims," July 1993, reprinted from Defense Electronics, CIA-RDP96-00792R000600150001-5. The article gives no CIA affiliation. ↩︎

10. National Research Council, Board on Army Science and Technology. STAR 21: Strategic Technologies for the Army of the Twenty-First Century. Washington: National Academy Press, 1992, appendix of contributors (Biotechnology and Biochemistry Technology Group; Study Committee on STAR). https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/1888/chapter/12 ↩︎

11. National Research Council. Human Performance Modification: Review of Worldwide Research with a View to the Future. Washington: National Academies Press, 2012, Appendix A, "Biographic Sketches of Committee Members" (Christopher C. Green). https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13480/chapter/9 ↩︎

12. Pilkington, Mark. Mirage Men. 2010, chapter "The Man in the White Coat," https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Mark%20Pilkington%20-%20Mirage%20Men%20-%20A%20Journey%20into%20Disinformation,%20Paranoia%20and%20UFOs.pdf. The "keeper of the weird" and Denny's statements are Pilkington's narration; the "core story" and "paraphrenia" passages are quoted from Green. ↩︎

13. Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of May 11, 1986 (Forbidden Science: Volume Three, p. 242, as quoted in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/), and February and August 1990 (as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," pp. 21 and 66-67, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf, which does not name the volume; the period is that of Forbidden Science: Volume Four). ↩︎

14. "Telecon: Ron Pandolphy and Scott Jones," April 15, 1993, enclosure to Farley's letter of April 29, 1995, Clinton Presidential Library, Office of Science and Technology Policy FOIA 01-22, item 46, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/1995%2004%2029_C.%20Richard%20Farley,%20Jr.%20to%20John%20Gibbons%20-%20OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022%20-%20item%20no%2046.pdf. ↩︎

15. Farley, C. Richard, Jr., letter to John H. Gibbons, March 29, 1997, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 75, same collection. ↩︎

16. Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," Perceptions, http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. ↩︎