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Burbank and earlier life

Burbank Public Library's Burbank in Focus archive holds a city-council photograph captioned "Patrick Price, Council 1950-1953."¹ A Los Angeles, California newspaper of April 30, 1952, as quoted by the writer Chris Carosa, reported that the newly elected councilman Patrick Price, "previously silent in the investigation of organized crime in Burbank," criticized the Burbank Citizens Crime Prevention Committee in council session, saying that 28 of its 29 members were board members or officers of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce.²

Puthoff and Targ's book Mind-Reach (1977) introduced him as "an ex-police commissioner and vice-mayor of Burbank, a maverick president of a West Virginia coal company, and an Irishman." In their account Price telephoned Puthoff from Lake Tahoe in 1973 and said that "as police commissioner I used my abilities to track down suspects," and that after one case in which a clear mental picture proved true he began to wonder whether "all this psychic stuff I had put down for years might not have something to it."³ The CIA's own project officer, Kenneth A. Kress, wrote in 1977 that Price "had no military or intelligence background."⁴

Jim Schnabel wrote in 1997 that Price had been a local councilman in Burbank who "briefly served as the town's police commissioner," that he believed information about criminals' hiding places came to him spontaneously, and that he sometimes sat in the police dispatcher's office trying to receive impressions of those places. Schnabel described him at the time of his first call as a semi-retired man in his fifties at Lake Tahoe with a small building-contractor business who also raised Christmas trees to sell in the Bay Area, and wrote that Puthoff and Ingo Swann had run into him in late 1972 selling Christmas trees from a lot in Mountain View, California. In a footnote Schnabel added that Price had also been a gold prospector in Alaska, a student pilot in World War II, the manager of an equipment-packing plant at Lockheed Aircraft Company, and a security guard at the Lockheed Skunk Works during the development of the U-2. Schnabel also wrote that Price believed he could change the weather and make traffic lights change, that his soul had once belonged to the colonial orator Patrick Henry, and that an alien civilization kept bases on the moon and Mars and beneath oceans and mountains, one of the largest at Mount Hayes in Alaska.⁵

Schnabel wrote that Price "up to his death, had been deeply involved in Scientology," that Puthoff had known him through a Scientology course in Los Angeles, and that the later coal-company position in West Virginia had Scientology connections: a senior officer of the company, who believed Scientological techniques had cured him of a serious illness, had heard of Price on "the Scientology grapevine."⁵

June 1973: the first coordinates

Mind-Reach gives the first test in Puthoff's words. On an impulse he read Price the coordinates of the East Coast site that Swann was then targeting, at 5 p.m. on June 1, 1973. On the morning of June 4 he received Price's written response, dated June 2: five pages beginning with a view of the area from 1,500 feet and ending with a tour through building interiors, with descriptions of equipment, names from desks, and a list of about a dozen labels on file folders in a locked cabinet.³

SRI's report on the SCANATE project introduces him without a surname: "As a backup test, the coordinates were given to a second subject who appears to possess similar ability in casual testing, although with perhaps a lower signal-to-noise ratio. Since the second subject, a businessman, wishes to remain anonymous for the time being, he shall be referred to simply as Pat." Given the West Virginia coordinates by telephone on June 1, 1973, he wrote his answer at Lake Tahoe the next day: a mountain of about 4,996 feet, "a battleground in civil war," a monument to "the battle of Lynchburg," and "large underground storage areas" that "looks like former missile site, bases for launchers still there, but area now houses record storage area, microfilm, file cabinets. Personnel, Army 5th Corps engineers. M/Sgt. Long on desk placard on grey steel desk. Personnel, Army Signal Corps." A later session gave "papers labeled: Flytrap / Minerva," a cabinet "labeled: Operation Pool," folders "Cueball / 14 Ball / 4 Ball / 8 Ball / Rackup," a site name that "vaguely seems like Hayfork or Haystack," and three officers' names. He then "volunteered that he scanned the other side of the globe for a Bloc equivalent, and found one in the Urals," at 65°00'57"N 59°59'59"E: "Elevation, 6200 ft. Scrubby brush, tundra-type ground hummocks," an underground site with "doorways of steel of the roll-up type," "unusually high ratio of women to men, at least at night," helipads, light rail into the mountain, and thirty miles north "a radar installation with one large (165 ft) dish and two small fast-track dishes." The 1975 final report, which codes him S1, states that "the two reports for the West Virginia Site, and the report for the Urals Site were verified by personnel in the sponsor organization as being substantially correct," the coordinates having come from "the OSI group responsible for threat analysis."⁶

Kress gave a different weighting of the same episode in his 1977 article for the CIA's journal Studies in Intelligence. In his account an officer of the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence passed only geographic coordinates of a vacation property in the eastern United States to the SRI physicists, who passed them to two subjects, one of them Price; both "talked about a military-like facility," and the correlation of the two descriptions led the officer to drive to the site, where he found a sensitive government installation a few miles from the vacation property. Price, asked for the interior, "provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities including one of extreme sensitivity" and the codename of the site; "other information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate. Some information, such as the names of the people at the site, proved incorrect." Kress's summary was that "the evaluation was, as usual, mixed."⁷

Schnabel's account of the origin of the coordinates uses two pseudonyms: "Richard Kennett," an analyst in the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence, asked a colleague he calls "Bill O'Donnell" for coordinates of a place on the East Coast that O'Donnell could later recognize from a drawing or photograph, and telephoned the figures to Puthoff. Schnabel identified the target as the Naval Security Group Activity base at Sugar Grove, West Virginia. He added that he could find no record, in the Army, Air Force or Marines, of the three officers Price had named, that the coordinates actually given to Swann and Price described a place about ten miles southwest of Sugar Grove on Bullpasture Mountain in Virginia, and that Swann had told him the names, project code words and coordinates in SRI's reports were later changed to protect the site, which Puthoff denied.⁸ The Snyders' evaluation of 1979 added: "It is alleged, although unverified by the authors, that Price had once worked for the organization that had control over that particular site."⁹ Kress's 1977 article, by contrast, says Price "had no military or intelligence background."⁴

SRI sessions, 1973 and 1974

The CIA's STARGATE collection holds transcripts of sessions of the autumn of 1973. On October 4, 1973, Hugh Crane, Price and Targ sat in a room at SRI while Puthoff and Price's wife Ann went to a second site for the day; on October 24 Price, Dean Brown and Targ sat in the shielded room in Building 30 while Bart Cox, Puthoff, Judy Schmickley and Phyllis Cole travelled; on October 26 Price and Targ sat in a shielded room on the second floor while Puthoff and Dick Honey travelled.¹⁰

The final report of 1975 records that he was the subject of its magnetometer series, thirteen ten-trial runs at four metres giving p = 0.004, and of its Costa Rica series, in which twelve daily descriptions by him, a second subject, and once an SRI experimenter gave five matches to Puthoff's travels (p = 0.02).⁶ The Nature (journal) paper of October 18, 1974 reported his nine double-blind trials against Bay Area sites, six matched by a plurality of five judges, with Price in a double-walled copper-screen Faraday cage in experiments 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and gave him, with Hella Hammid, as one of "two of our subjects (H.H. and P.P.)" who "had not considered themselves to have unusual perceptual ability before their participation."¹¹ Schnabel recounted that in session four Bart Cox, the division chief, changed the protocol so that he and Puthoff drove by a pseudorandom turning rule, that Price described a boat jetty on the bay before the outbound pair reached the Redwood City, California Marina some five minutes later, and that in the final session Price described the two pools at Rinconada Park in Palo Alto accurately but added a water-treatment plant with two elevated water tanks; Targ later read in Palo Alto's centennial annual report that a municipal waterworks had been built on the site in 1913, with a photograph of a tower with two tanks near the place Price had placed them.¹²

David Marks and Richard Kammann of the University of Otago argued in Nature in August 1978 that the judging of his nine-trial series depended on "multiple extraneous cues which were available in the original unedited transcripts," such as "Nothing like having three successes behind you" in the fourth, and on a target list given to the judge "in the correct order." Puthoff, Targ and Charles Tart answered with a rejudging of edited transcripts in which "seven of the nine were correctly matched," and Puthoff conceded in 1980 that the list had been "inadvertently (through an error) given in the same order."¹³

The Hearst kidnapping and the police memorandum

Schnabel wrote that on Tuesday, February 5, 1974, the day after Patty Hearst was taken, Berkeley Police Department asked SRI for help through Puthoff's branch chief Earle Jones; that Price and Puthoff met the police at her apartment; that Price said at once the kidnapping was political and not for money; and that from police mug-shot books Price chose three men, naming one "Lobo," whom the police later connected to the Symbionese Liberation Army (William Wolfe). Price continued to work on the case, Schnabel wrote, until police killed members of the group in Los Angeles in May.¹⁴

An undated memorandum for the record in the CIA's files, headed "Operational Use of Paranormals in Police Activities," by an officer of the Office of Technical Service whose name is redacted, reports that two paranormal subjects tested at SRI "have produced impressive data on explicit police cases," the Hearst kidnapping and a Stanford student homicide. It states that "even the appearance of CIA involvement with domestic police operations is a political explosive association," which had kept the writer from verifying the SRI claims directly. Of the Hearst case it states that "the night after the kidnapping and before any publicity occurred, Mr. Price's help was solicited by the Alameda police," that he "provided a significant amount of data, including identification of people later proven to be involved," and that the interaction was taped by Puthoff and Targ and verified by the group leader at SRI, Earle Jones.¹⁵

Semipalatinsk, 1974

Kress, the CIA's project officer for the jointly funded Office of Research and Development (CIA) and Office of Technical Service program begun in February 1974, described the Semipalatinsk test in his 1977 article. He and his branch chief briefed Targ and Puthoff in a motel so that neither would know the target; Price was given the coordinates, a world atlas page marked with the approximate location, and told only that it was a Soviet research and development test site. Overnight he produced a drawing and said it was a "damned big crane" because he saw a person walk by who came only to the axles of its wheels. When Price was made witting, Kress tested him by asking in front of Targ and Puthoff whether he knew him: "Yes. Name? Ken Kress. Occupation? Works for CIA," which Kress noted was meaningful because he was then a covert employee. Asked why he had not seen four derricks that Kress's older data showed, Price closed his eyes and said "I didn't see them because they are not there any more"; a reconnaissance check weeks later showed two partly disassembled and all four visible. Kress wrote that "in general, most of Price's data were wrong or could not be evaluated," that two analysts, a photo interpreter and a nuclear analyst at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, agreed the crane was accurate, and that "as proof of remote viewing, the data are at best inconclusive."¹⁶

The target was designated URDF-3, "unidentified R&D facility number 3," in the Semipalatinsk test area of Kazakhstan, and the coordinates were brought to SRI by Kress and a physicist Schnabel calls "Peter Maris," a pseudonym; Schnabel placed a briefing of the CIA's John McMahon and Carl Duckett by Puthoff and Targ a month before.¹⁷ A memorandum of August 5, 1974 recorded that photographs from the National Photographic Interpretation Center "apparently do not support Price's remarks about the derricks, water tower, etc.," although a preliminary examination suggested possible nearby ambiguous hits.¹⁸

The experiment ran in three phases "under direct control of the COTR": Phase I with coordinates and the words "R&D test facility" only, Phase II after "the subject being made 'witting' (of the client) by client representatives who introduced themselves to the subject," and Phase III "the generation of unverifiable data concerning the Semipalatinsk site not available to the client, but of operational interest nonetheless," over two weeks. The Los Alamos analyst who reviewed the tapes of July 9 to 15, 1974, found that on the first day he "successfully evaded drawing a perimeter of the area even though he was asked to do this twice" and produced a 500-foot antenna, a swimming pool "for underwater testing," an array of telephone poles, and an airstrip that did not exist; that on the second "Price supplied the most positive evidence yet for the remote-viewing experiment with his sketch of the rail-mounted gantry crane. It seems inconceivable to imagine how he could have drawn such a likeness to the actual crane at URDF-3 unless: 1) he actually saw it through remote viewing, or 2) he was informed of what to draw by someone knowledgeable of URDF-3," adding, "I only mention this second possibility because the experiment was not controlled to discount the possibility that Price could talk to other people, such as the Disinformation Section of the KGB"; that on the third, shown the surface features of the underground Building 1, he said "No, that's a concrete apron, and there's nothing subterranean right in that particular area," which "was his most negative evidence yet"; and on the fourth admitted "he had been trying to force-fit a space-oriented situation to the target location." The conclusion: "I consider Price's remote-viewing experiment of URDF-3 to be unsuccessful. I recommend that the tapes be considered for use with the psychological stress evaluator."¹⁹

Targ's memoir of 1996 quotes his words on July 10, 1974: "I am lying on my back on the roof of a two or three story brick building. It's a sunny day. The sun feels good. There's the most amazing thing. There's a giant gantry crane moving back and forth over my head," and his description of "a giant, 'sixty-foot diameter metal sphere'" assembled from "thick metal gores," which Targ set beside an Aviation Week report of May 2, 1977, of Soviet steel gores for "a large sphere estimated to be about 18 meters (57.8 feet) in diameter."²⁰ An outside reviewer of the SRI progress reports in 1974, under the heading "Remote Viewing by Mr. Price," wrote that "one cannot determine whether he was aware of the nine sites or had visited them prior to the experiment," and closed: "one still has the feeling that the prevailing philosophy is to 'prove' the existence of an information channel."²¹

Coal, embassies and the Libyan tasking, 1974 and 1975

Schnabel wrote that Swann returned to SRI as a consultant in the autumn of 1974, which "was to correspond with the departure of Pat Price"; that Price went to work for a coal company in Huntington, West Virginia, whose president offered him his job, a salary and shares of stock, and that Price planned to find coal seams by remote viewing and to return to SRI with money to fund its program. Schnabel added that Price was also going to work directly for the CIA, and that the coal job was real and not a cover.²²

Kress's article lists the CIA activity: in a challenge from OTS management to produce "something of genuine operational significance," Price was sent against the interiors of two foreign embassies already known to audio teams that had entered them years earlier, given exterior photographs and coordinates. "In both cases, Price correctly located the coderooms," producing "the location of interior doors and colors of marble stairs and fireplaces that were accurate and specific," though "as usual, much was also vague and incorrect"; the operations officer concluded that "this technique, whatever it is, offers definite operational possibilities." Reviews within OTS and ORD followed: the ORD project officers held the research "not productive or even competent" and dropped support to SRI, and "to achieve better security, all the operations-oriented testing with the contractor was stopped, and a personal services contract with Price was started," with his testing transferred from Kress, "judged to be a positively biased advocate," to an OTS operations psychologist. A second Libya requirement list, after a first set of coordinates described a guerrilla training site with a map-like drawing and an underwater sabotage training facility some hundreds of kilometers away, was passed to Price. "Price died of a heart attack a few days later, and the program stopped."¹⁶

Schnabel described the origin of the embassy tests as a proposal in late 1974 or early 1975 by a Staff D liaison he calls "Norm Everheart" (a pseudonym) of the Office of Technical Service: Price would be asked to describe the basement of the Chinese Embassy in a certain foreign capital, suspected to hold its communications office, before a signals intelligence entry was mounted. The chief of Staff D, "Ed Rogers" (a pseudonym), required Price first to succeed in three tests against targets on which the Agency already had ample information. Schnabel wrote that in the first, in Price's hotel room in the Washington, D.C. area with Kress and an officer he calls "Nick Clancy" (a pseudonym), Price sketched Africa, marked the location of a photographed building, which was the Chinese Embassy in a large African city, gave its distance from the ocean as 150 miles, said there were three buildings at the site, and said the photograph had been developed in a basement a mile down the road. In the second, a building in a North African capital, he described a magnificent staircase and "the most beds I've seen in any one place" and passed through an iron gate that did not exist, which Clancy later traced to the building's use as a hospital in the war years and a girls' school dormitory before them. In the third, a Chinese consular building in Rome, he described the layout and a ceiling mural accurately. Everheart judged that Price had passed; Schnabel wrote that Rogers, concerned about "the giggle factor," chose not to rely on a psychic and approved a close-up technical check of the basement.²³

Las Vegas, July 14, 1975

Mind-Reach, published two years later, recorded that "Pat Price ended his stay at SRI to accept a new challenge, a position as president of a West Virginia coal company," and noted "with sadness the death of Pat Price due to a heart attack in July, 1975."³

Schnabel's account of the end of the trip is the fullest. In mid-July 1975 Price left Huntington on a several-week journey west, stopped in Washington, flew to Utah to see his son, and went on to Las Vegas, planning to continue to SRI and then to see his wife Ann, who lived in Los Angeles and worked as a nurse. Schnabel wrote that Price's electrocardiograms at SRI a year earlier had suggested advanced coronary artery disease, that he smoked two and a half packs a day, and that physicians at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic and CIA and SRI colleagues had tried to get him to change his habits. At the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas, with friends he calls "Bill and Judy Alvarez" (pseudonyms), Price complained at dinner of feeling unwell and, according to a story Alvarez later told, mentioned that someone had seemed to slip something into his coffee at dinner in Washington the night before. Upstairs he called the Alvarezes, who found him in cardiac arrest; paramedics could not resuscitate him and he was declared dead in the emergency room of a local hospital.²⁴

Schnabel wrote that when "Richard Kennett" and others tried to find out what had happened, they learned that no autopsy had been performed, although autopsies were normal for out-of-town deaths outside hospitals; they were told that a friend of Price, not Alvarez, had arrived with a briefcase of his medical records, which with the emergency-room physician's statements led Las Vegas officials to waive the autopsy. Kennett could not identify the man with the briefcase. Schnabel recorded the rumors that followed: that the man was from the CIA, that Price had been murdered by the Soviets, that he was alive under a new identity, and that a friend had a vision in which Price's ghost said he had been poisoned. He recorded the view of those who knew of Price's heart disease that "there was no real mystery," and that a CIA official who worked with Price told him the Agency "had no connection with any of the events surrounding Price's death, including the (alleged) appearance of the mysterious man with the medical records." As late as 1994, Schnabel wrote, Targ told him: "I don't know how Pat Price died."²⁴

In late summer 1977, Schnabel wrote, the day after The Washington Post published an article by John L. Wilhelm on government psychic research, Stansfield Turner, the Director of Central Intelligence, was asked about the subject at a meeting with reporters and, "clearly referring to Pat Price," said that the CIA had once worked with a man who seemed to have some psychic ability, whose drawings of foreign targets he had not seen were reasonably accurate but rudimentary: "he died, and we haven't heard from him since." When the Office of Technical Service briefed the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on November 17, 1977, it left with the staff "a brief article on Mr. Pat Price."²⁵ A Defense Intelligence College thesis of 1992 quotes Turner at a breakfast for journalists in 1977 as saying the CIA "had an individual who from time to time was able to draw very elementary sketches of street scenes in foreign countries where he had never been," and that "this subject died in 1975, and we haven't heard from him since."²⁶

The 1995 review

The American Institutes for Research report of September 29, 1995 described the Semipalatinsk work as the third reported operational success, in which "the viewer was provided with only the geographic coordinates of the site." It noted that a government official who reviewed that work had concluded "there was no way the remote viewer could have drawn the large gantry crane unless 'he actually saw it through remote viewing, or he was informed of what to draw by someone knowledgeable of [the site],'" and that the same analyst judged the experiment unsuccessful because the positive evidence "was far outweighed by the large amount of negative evidence." The report added that "there is no way to know with certainty that the subject did not speak with someone who had knowledge of the site, however unlikely that possibility may appear," and that it was unknown to what degree the results in the reports "were selectively chosen because they were correct."²⁷

Footnotes

"1950-1953: Councilman - Patrick Price," photograph by Paul E. Wolfe, note on print "Patrick Price, Council 1950-1953," City Council Image Collection, identifier cco00655, Burbank Public Library, Burbank in Focus Office (physical copy held by the City Clerk's Office). https://burbankinfocus.org/islandora/object/islandora:90/ The collection record does not state that this councilman and the remote viewer are the same man; Targ and Puthoff and Schnabel both place the remote viewer's Burbank service in the same period. For the SRI period and the OTS contract see Kress, Kenneth A., "Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions," Studies in Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 1977, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030040-0, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Carosa, Chris. "Patrick H. Price: Savior, Savant, or Sacrifice?," May 3, 2022, quoting "Story of Crime Questioned," Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, April 30, 1952. https://chriscarosa.com/2022/05/patrick-h-price-savior-savant-or-sacrifice/ The newspaper text is quoted from this web article. ↩︎
Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities. New York: Delacorte Press, 1977, chapter "Pat Price: A Man for All Seasons," read in the archive.org full-text copy of the 2005 reprint, https://archive.org/details/mind-reach-scientists-look-at-psychic-abilities-2005-russell-targ-harold-e.-puth ↩︎
Kress, "Parapsychology in Intelligence," Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1977, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030040-0. ↩︎
Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies. New York: Dell, 1997, chapters on the SRI work and "The Shamans," and the discussion of Scientology, read in the archive.org full-text copy, https://archive.org/details/jim-schnabel-remote-viewers-the-secret-history-of-americas-psychic-spies_2 Schnabel's own notes state that "The anecdote about Price and the police dispatcher comes from Targ 1996"; he does not give a source for the Lockheed and Alaska details. Sole source for the passages so cited. ↩︎
Stanford Research Institute, "Project SCANATE, Exploratory Research in Remote Viewing," 1973, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100480002-4. Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, final report, part two, research report, December 1, 1975, SRI Project 3183, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2, and part one, executive summary, covering January 1974 to February 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100420001-1. The report codes its subjects; S3 and S1 are identified as Swann and Price by matching their responses to the named sessions in the SCANATE report. All read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Kress, "Parapsychology in Intelligence," Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1977, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030040-0, section on summer 1973. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter text and notes to the chapter on Sugar Grove; pseudonyms are listed in the book's "Pseudonyms" page (which includes Richard Kennett, Bill O'Donnell, Peter Maris, Norm Everheart, Ed Rogers, Nick Clancy and Bill and Judy Alvarez). https://archive.org/details/jim-schnabel-remote-viewers-the-secret-history-of-americas-psychic-spies_2 ↩︎
Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing, Report RV-79-1, final technical report, contract 77F104420, Systemetrics, Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, June 1, 1979, parts 1 and 2, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100440001-9 and CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. The sponsor of the contract is not named in the report. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Transcripts of remote viewing experiments with Pat Price, October 4, 1973 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130011-6), October 24, 1973 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130012-5) and October 26, 1973 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130010-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Targ, Russell, and Harold Puthoff. "Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding," Nature, vol. 251, October 18, 1974, pp. 602-607, read in the CIA Reading Room copy CIA-RDP96-00787R000100220001-8 on archive.org. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter on the SRI series; his notes cite Puthoff and Targ 1973, 1975 and 1977 for the SRI side. ↩︎
Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." Nature, vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, Nature, vol. 284, 1980, p. 191. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, the Patricia Hearst section of the chapter on Price. ↩︎
Memorandum for the record, "Operational Use of Paranormals in Police Activities," undated, author redacted, Office of Technical Service, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130013-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Kress, "Parapsychology in Intelligence," Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1977, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200030040-0, with footnotes there to W. T. Strand, memorandum for the Director, Office of Technical Service, "Evaluation of Data on Semipalatinsk Unidentified R&D Facility No. 3, USSR," August 20, 1974; C/AOB/OTS memorandum for the record, April 20, 1976; and Directorate of Operations memoranda of December 12, 1974, and January 14, 24, 31 and February 5, 1975 on "Perceptual Augmentation Testing" and the Libyan desk requirement. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter on the Semipalatinsk session; "Peter Maris" is on the book's pseudonym list. Schnabel's account is based on interviews and on the SRI reports. ↩︎
Memorandum for the record, "Discussions About SRI Performance," August 5, 1974, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200200017-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Puthoff, Harold E., and Russell Targ. Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, final report, part two, December 1, 1975, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100410001-2. "An Analysis of a Remote Viewing Experiment of URDF-3," report of the four sessions of July 9 to 15, 1974, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200240001-0, with other copies at CIA-RDP96-00791R000100500001-2 and CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040002-1, cited by Kress as the work of a Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory nuclear analyst and dated in one copy December 4, 1975. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Targ, Russell. "Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s: A Memoir," Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 10, no. 1, 1996, pp. 77-88, read in a Wayback Machine copy of the journal's PDF. ↩︎
"Review of Perceptual Augmentation Techniques," unsigned review of SRI progress reports 1 to 3, c. August 1974, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200230001-6. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter on Swann's return and Price's departure. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter on the embassy tests; pseudonyms as listed in the book. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter "The Shamans" and its footnotes, including the footnote recording the statement by a CIA official who worked with Price. The pseudonym list in the same book includes Bill and Judy Alvarez and Richard Kennett. ↩︎
Schnabel, Remote Viewers, 1997, chapter on the summer of 1977, naming Wilhelm's Washington Post article; the Wilhelm piece also survives in CIA files as "The Search for Superman," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100040006-1. Brandwein, David S., Director, Office of Technical Service, memoranda "Stanford Research Institute Parapsychology Research," February 20, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020001-9), and "OTS Support to Research in Parapsychology," October 7, 1976 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020016-3); memorandum for the record, "Briefing for House Permanent Select Committee re OTS Involvement in ESP Research," OTS memo 287-77, November 17, 1977 (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200020020-8), at which OTS left with the committee staff "a brief article on Mr. Pat Price." Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Zarbo, Michael E. (Captain, U.S. Army), Remote Viewing: Parapsychological Potential for Intelligence Collection?, master's thesis, Defense Intelligence College, November 1992, CIA-RDP96-00789R002600250001-6, quoting Turner. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
Mumford, Michael D., Andrew M. Rose, and David A. Goslin. An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications. American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, chapter 3, p. 3-77 and following, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180005-5, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

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