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aliases	category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Robert Van de Castle	Psychics & Remote Viewers	Person RemoteViewer SRI	Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA.	1927-11-16	2014	Rochester, New York

Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to Stanford Research Institute to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for DARPA. Their conclusion, later reported in Time magazine, was that anyone who believed in Geller's powers was falling for the "ridiculous"¹.

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