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Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the STARGATE PROJECT program. He played a crucial role in the continuation and restructuring of the U.S. government's psychic research programs after the Central Intelligence Agency scaled back its involvement12.
In 1981, Vorona contacted Dale Graff and brought him to Washington, D.C., to help run a classified program called Psychoenergetics. The main goals of this project were "to evaluate the threat that foreign psychoenergetics achievements might pose to US national security, and to explore the potential of psychoenergetics for use in US intelligence collection"2. Vorona believed that with the resources of the DIA, genuine progress could be made toward a general theory of Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis2.
Vorona oversaw the STARGATE PROJECT program and later the STARGATE PROJECT program, which aimed to train military personnel in Remote Viewing. He made administrative changes, converting the branch chief and operations officer positions from military to civilian, and reducing training time2.
He was also involved in high-priority operational tasks, such as the effort to locate William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon, and the tracking of Muammar Qaddafi's alleged chemical weapons stockpile. In the latter case, Vorona sat with Angela Dellafiora in the viewing room at Fort Meade, demonstrating the high-level attention given to her abilities2.
Vorona chaired the Remote Viewing Tasking Group for Sun Streak, which included representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, State Department, and various military and intelligence agencies. This group handled targets such as underground tunnels in Korea, Silkworm Missile launch facilities in Iran, and the errant nuclear-powered Cosmos 1900 satellite2.
He received Hal Puthoff's sixty-page classified report, "Psychoenergetics Research in the People’s Republic of China (1982)," which confirmed the extensive research into Extraordinary Human Body Function and its military applications in China, driven by H. S. Tsien2.
Vorona, along with General Edmund Thompson, briefed Congressman Charlie Rose on the Grill Flame program in the late 1970s. He accompanied Rose on tours of the remote viewing facilities at both Stanford Research Institute and Fort Meade, and was a staunch supporter of the program, despite the skepticism it faced1.
Jack Vorona retired after twenty-five years of service at DIA and was inducted into the DIA's Torch Bearers Hall in 20112.