# Key Figures Central figures in the U.S. government's investigations into psychic phenomena and remote viewing. | Name | Description | | --- | --- | | [[Albert Stubblebine]] | Major General Albert Stubblebine was a U.S. | | [[Andrija Puharich]] | Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich (1918–1995) was a prominent American physician, research scientist, and parapsychologist who became a central figure in the U.S. | | [[Bart Cox]] | Division chief at SRI who oversaw early psi research by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including experiments with Uri Geller. | | [[Bill O'Donnell]] | This incident, where Ingo Swann and Pat Price accurately described the NSA facility despite being given coordinates for O'Donnell's cabin, became known as the Sugar Grove incident. | | [[Carl E. Duckett]] | Duckett became the recipient of intelligence on Israel's nuclear program, which was routed to his office from sources like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos through the CIA's Office of Science and Technology. | | [[Charlie Rose]] | U.S. Congressman from North Carolina who chaired the House Intelligence Evaluation Subcommittee and was a staunch advocate of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | | [[Claiborne Pell]] | Claiborne Pell (1918–2009) was a powerful Democratic Senator from Rhode Island and a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | | [[Dale Graff]] | Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current. | | [[Don Curtis]] | Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was part of the group investigating Uri Geller's psychokinetic abilities as part of the Stargate remote viewing program. | | [[Don Porter]] | Don Porter was an official with INSCOM at Arlington Hall. | | [[Ed Rogers]] | Ed Rogers was the chief of Staff D (later known as the Office of SIGINT Operations) at the CIA, an office specializing in small-scale signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. | | [[Ed Tompson]] | Major General Edmund R. | | [[Edmund Thompson]] | Major General Edmund Thompson was the U.S. | | [[Frederick Atwater]] | Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater was born in Glendale, California, growing up in a house with land, dogs, cats, a goat, and a donkey. | | [[Garrison Rapmund]] | Garrison Rapmund was a Major General and the Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. | | [[Hal Puthoff]] | American engineer and parapsychologist who led the SRI remote viewing program and later served as chief scientist for AATIP studying UAP. | | [[Harry Soyster]] | Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended the U.S. | | [[Ingo Swann]] | Ingo Douglas Swann—born with just one N—was not far from the stereotypical image of the psychic. | | [[Itzhak Bentov]] | Itzhak Bentov was an Israeli rocket scientist, biomedical engineer, and author known for his work on 'the mechanics of consciousness.' He designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence and invented the steerable cardiac catheter, which paved the way for many biomedical engineering invent | | [[Jack Vorona]] | 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 Grill Flame program. | | [[Jake Stewart]] | In September 1979, Stewart brought Hal Puthoff and Skip Atwater satellite photographs of a large industrial facility at the port of Severodvinsk in northern Russia. | | [[Jim Salyer]] | Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA. | | [[Joe McMoneagle]] | Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. | | [[John B. Alexander]] | Lieutenant Colonel John B. | | [[Kenneth A. Kress]] | Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan. | | [[Kit Green]] | Christopher 'Kit Green' was a CIA analyst and neurophysiologist in the Life Sciences Division. | | [[Lincoln D. Faurer]] | Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade a dozen new tasks in April 1982. | | [[Major Stone]] | Aide to Major General Edmund Thompson who served as a beacon for remote viewing sessions and brought Pentagon taskings to the unit. | | [[Morse Allen]] | Morse Allen was a CIA officer and a deception and polygraph expert who played a significant role in the agency's early programs investigating altered states of consciousness and truth serums. | | [[Moshe Dayan]] | Dayan's rise to prominence began when David Ben-Gurion appointed him as the new army chief of staff in late 1953, with the strategic aim of ensuring that Moshe Sharett's dovish views on the Arab question would not go unchallenged. | | [[Nick Clancy]] | Nick Clancy was a CIA officer whose job for several years had been to conduct technical penetrations of embassies in Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East. | | [[Norm Everheart]] | Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s. | | [[Norm Everheart 1]] | Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate. | | [[Pat Price]] | Pat Price was a retired police commissioner from Burbank, California, who joined the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) remote viewing program in 1973. | | [[Richard Helms]] | Helms personally approved the continuation and expansion of the CIA's psychic research program, initially known as the Biofield Measurements Program and later as the Paranormal Perception Research Project. | | [[Robert Gates]] | Robert Gates is an American government official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1991 to 1993. | | [[Ron Robertson]] | Ron Robertson was a security officer for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). | | [[Russell Targ]] | Russell Targ is a physicist who, in the early 1970s, joined Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to lead the remote viewing research program. | | [[Scott Carmichael]] | Scott Carmichael is a former analyst with the DIA. | | [[Shimshon Shtrang]] | Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller. | | [[Shippi Strang]] | Friend and early manager of Uri Geller who encouraged his first public psychic performance in a Tel Aviv school hall in 1969. | | [[Sidney Gottlieb]] | Sidney Gottlieb was a CIA chemist and spymaster, notorious for his involvement in controversial programs like Project MKUltra, which explored mind control and chemical interrogation. | | [[Stansfield Turner]] | Stansfield Turner (1923–2018) was an American admiral who served as the DCI under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. | | [[Uri Geller]] | When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus. | | [[William Colby]] | William Colby (1920–1996) was an American intelligence officer who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1973 to 1976. | | [[William E. Colby]] | Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976 who believed Israel possessed nuclear weapons and might use them in an extreme situation. | | [[William Odom]] | U.S. Army Major General who succeeded Edmund Thompson as ACSI and was skeptical of the Grill Flame remote viewing program. | | [[William Perry]] | William Perry served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | | [[William Rolya]] | INSCOM commander who provided tacit support for the military's remote viewing program during the early years of the Stargate Project. |