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created	updated	title	aliases	category	tags	summary	born	location
2026-05-15	2026-05-17	John B. Alexander	John B. Alexander Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander Colonel John Alexander	Military	Person Military PSI INSCOM Stargate Army 1980s 1990s	John B. Alexander was a Green Beret colonel and Special Forces Vietnam veteran who authored the 1980 Military Review article on psychic warfare, ran INSCOM's Advanced Human Technology Office under Albert Stubblebine, and became one of the most prominent advocates for non-lethal weapons and anomalous phenomena research within the U.S. military establishment.	1937-01-01	New York, New York

Lieutenant Colonel John B. Alexander is a former Green Beret and Special Forces commander in Vietnam and Thailand, earning the moniker Assassin Six. He holds a PhD in thanatology, the study of death. Alexander became a prominent figure in the U.S. Army's exploration of anomalous mental phenomena and human potential¹.

In December 1980, Alexander authored an article titled "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock," published in Military Review, an official U.S. Army publication. This article was the first time Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis were discussed in an official Army publication, asserting that "there are weapons systems that operate on the power of the mind whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated"¹. The article, based on personal experience and open-source information, gained national attention after Washington Post columnist Jack Anderson wrote about it under the heading "Voodoo Warriors of the Pentagon"¹.

Alexander's esoteric interests caught the attention of Task Force Delta, a high-level Army organization. In 1981, Richard G. Stilwell, the deputy undersecretary of defense, arranged for Alexander's transfer to United States Army Intelligence and Security Command under Major General Albert Stubblebine. Here, Alexander was put in charge of the Advanced Human Technology Office, interacting with Stubblebine's High Performance Task Force¹.

Alexander's work at INSCOM focused on developing human technologies to enhance soldier performance and narrow the "human technology gap." He explored various new age and self-help programs, including sleep discipline, neurolinguistic programming, and Silva Mind Control¹.

He also played a role in the STARGATE PROJECT program, particularly after the James Randi hoax. Alexander suggested using magicians as consultants, and worked with Doug Henning and Jack Houck on psychokinesis research, observing spoon-bending parties to understand the phenomena¹.

After retiring from the military, Alexander joined Psi's corporate board in 1990, though he later stated it was a mistake¹.

Publications

• "The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up, Spock" (Military Review, 1980)

Footnotes

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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. ↩︎