# Psychics & Remote Viewers Individuals known for psychic abilities, remote viewing, or participation in psi research as test subjects. | Name | Description | | --- | --- | | [[Adolf Hitler]] | Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. | | [[Aharon Yariv]] | Aharon Yariv was a Brigadier General and the head of military intelligence in Israel. | | [[Al Girard]] | Al Girard was the replacement for Dale Graff as the head of the Remote Viewing unit after Graff's retirement in June 1993. | | [[Albert Speer]] | Albert Speer (1905–1981) was a German architect who served as the Reich's Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany during World War II. | | [[Alice Astor Bouverie]] | Alice Astor Bouverie was an American heiress, philanthropist, and the only daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. | | [[Andrea Stocco]] | Andrea Stocco is a co-director at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | | [[Anne Khale]] | Anne Khale was a NASA satellite imagery specialist who was hired by Stephan Schwartz to serve as an unbiased third-party observer for Project Deep Quest. | | [[Annie Jacobsen]] | Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist and author, known for her non-fiction books focusing on government secrecy, national security, and warfare. | | [[Antonio Savasta]] | Antonio Savasta was a member of the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group responsible for the kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. | | [[Arigo]] | Arigo was a Brazilian psychic healer who gained widespread notoriety for reportedly performing major surgeries with a pocketknife, without anesthesia, stitches, or antibiotics, and without causing any pain. | | [[Arthur Hebard]] | In June 1972, Hal Puthoff brought Ingo Swann to Hebard's lab to test Swann's abilities. | | [[Arthur Koestler]] | Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic. | | [[Bill Church]] | Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI. | | [[Bill Clinton]] | William Jefferson 'Bill' Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. | | [[Bill Ray]] | Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | | [[Brad Veek]] | Brad Veek was a cartographer and career submariner who played a role in Project Deep Quest. | | [[Brian D. Josephson]] | His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI. | | [[Bud Duncan]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and early member of the Gondola Wish (later Grill Flame) remote viewing unit. | | [[Caspar W. Weinberger]] | Secretary of Defense under Reagan whose military aide Lieutenant Colonel Higgins was abducted in Lebanon in 1988 with deep knowledge of classified matters. | | [[Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt]] | Charlene Cavanaugh Shufelt was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program. | | [[Charles Bohlen]] | Charles Bohlen (1904–1974) was a distinguished American diplomat who served as the U.S. | | [[Charles Frank Jordan]] | Charles Frank Jordan was a former special agent for the U.S. | | [[Christopher O. Bird]] | American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments. | | [[Cleve Backster]] | In 1966, Backster conducted an experiment where he attached polygraph electrodes to a plant and observed its responses to his thoughts, including the intention to harm it. | | [[Clifford Alexander]] | U.S. Secretary of the Army who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years. | | [[David Baltimore]] | David Baltimore is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist. | | [[David Morehouse]] | U.S. Army officer and remote viewer in the Stargate Project who later authored Psychic Warrior, publicly detailing his military remote viewing experiences. | | [[Don Eyles]] | Don Eyles was a computer scientist who designed the guidance system on the Antares lunar lander, part of the Apollo Program. | | [[Don Keach]] | Don Keach was a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer. | | [[Don Walsh]] | Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken. | | [[Donald A. Myers]] | Myers's deployment came two years after a new and more powerful set of Soviet microwave beams (MUTS-2) were picked up by the CIA in Moscow. | | [[Donald C. Latham]] | Assistant Secretary of Defense who served as chairman of the oversight panel for the Sun Streak program, the renamed Stargate Project. | | [[Donald M. Kerr]] | Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory who served on the science panel for the CIA's Sun Streak/Stargate remote viewing program. | | [[Donald T. Regan]] | Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W | | [[Doug Henning]] | Doug Henning (1947–2000) was a renowned Canadian magician and illusionist. | | [[Douglas B. Hudson]] | This commendation highlights the high regard in which Morehouse was held by his superiors, despite later controversies surrounding his conduct and the eventual downfall of the psychic research program. | | [[Dr. D. G. Vinod]] | Puharich brought Vinod to the Round Table Foundation, where Vinod allegedly went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called 'the Nine Principles and Forces.' This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief in an external, possibly extraterrestrial, source for psychic | | [[Duane Elgin]] | Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis. | | [[Earle Jones]] | SRI branch chief who served as an outbound experimenter in Pat Price's first formal remote viewing test of the outbound protocol. | | [[Ed Dames]] | U.S. Army officer who served as remote viewing session monitor and analyst in the Stargate Project, later a controversial public figure in the field. | | [[Edgar Mitchell]] | Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. | | [[Edward Meyer]] | U.S. Army Chief of Staff who tacitly supported the Stargate Project during its early years alongside INSCOM commander William Rolya. | | [[Edwin May]] | Physicist and parapsychologist who became principal investigator and director of the Stargate Project in its later years under SAIC. | | [[Eileen Garrett]] | Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles. | | [[Elmo Zumwalt]] | Elmo Zumwalt (1920–2000) was an American naval officer who served as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 1970 to 1974. | | [[Ernst Schulte-Strathaus]] | Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer who, alongside Karl Krafft, was reported to have constructed star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's decision to undertake his rogue flight to Scotland in May 1941. | | [[Eugene Lessman]] | **Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman** was a U.S. | | [[Fern Gauvin]] | Fernand 'Fern' Gauvin was a civilian counterintelligence specialist working at Arlington Hall, a military/civilian intelligence complex. | | [[Fernand Gauvin]] | Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more 'James Bond-ish' elements of the U.S. | | [[Fred Zachariasen]] | Fred Zachariasen was a physics professor at Caltech and a ranking member of the Department of Defense's elite JASON Committee. | | [[Gerald Feinberg]] | Gerald Feinberg was a physics professor at Columbia University. | | [[Harry Stump]] | Harry Stump was a Dutch sculptor and channeler who gained the attention of Andrija Puharich and his wealthy benefactors due to his purported psychic abilities, particularly his capacity to enter trance states and produce automatic writings and drawings. | | [[Hartleigh Trent]] | Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the STARGATE PROJECT. | | [[Heinrich Himmler]] | Himmler had a deep and abiding interest in the occult and the supernatural. | | [[Helene Smith]] | Flournoy attributed her abilities to Cryptomnesia and Glossolalia, arguing that the content she produced originated from forgotten memories and unconscious processes rather than genuine psychic phenomena. | | [[Hella Hammid]] | Hella Hammid was a professional photographer and psychic who participated in Project Deep Quest, a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in the summer of 1977. | | [[Henry Belk]] | Henry Belk was a department store tycoon and a wealthy benefactor of Andrija Puharich's research into ESP and other anomalous mental phenomena. | | [[Henry K. Beecher]] | Beecher's work contributed to the understanding of how perception of an event or a situation—real or imagined, rational or irrational—can cause consequential actions to occur. | | [[Herbert Pollack]] | Herbert Pollack was a medical consultant for the State Department. | | [[Howard Rosenberg]] | Howard Rosenberg was a staff member for *60 Minutes*, a prominent American television newsmagazine. | | [[Hugh Crane]] | SRI official involved in early remote viewing experiments by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including Pat Price's sessions. | | [[I. M. Kogan]] | Kogan, like many Soviet researchers, hypothesized that psi was a low-frequency radio system built into human brains. | | [[Imad Mughniyah]] | Imad Mughniyah (1962–2008) was a prominent leader of Hezbollah's terrorist operations. | | [[Jack Anderson]] | Jack Anderson (1922–2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist and syndicated columnist for *The Washington Post*. | | [[Jack Houck]] | Jack Houck was a systems engineer for Boeing Aerospace who became interested in psychokinesis (PK), particularly the phenomenon of metal bending. | | [[Jackie Keith]] | Keith dropped out of the original Gondola Wish team not long after being selected, but he continued to task the remote viewers with targets related to his own operations. | | [[Jacques Vallee]] | Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist. | | [[James Clapper]] | Lieutenant General James Clapper was a U.S. | | [[James L. Dozier]] | Brigadier General James L. | | [[Janet Mitchell]] | Janet Mitchell was an assistant to Karlis Osis, the director of research at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). | | [[Janice Rand]] | Army captain selected for the Gondola Wish/Grill Flame remote viewing unit at INSCOM Fort Meade. | | [[Jeannie Betters]] | Jeannie Betters was the unit secretary for the DIA's Remote Viewing program at Fort Meade. | | [[Jim Morris]] | Morris worked with Norm Everheart, who tasked Ken Bell and Mel Riley to remote-view the KGB agent. | | [[Joan Quigley]] | Joan Quigley was a San Francisco socialite and astrologer who advised President Ronald Reagan during his tenure at the White House. | | [[John Berberich]] | John Berberich was a Division Chief at the DIA. | | [[John LaMothe]] | LaMothe's report highlighted the perceived threat of Soviet ESP and Psychokinesis capabilities, suggesting they could be used to disable U.S. | | [[John Marsh]] | John Marsh was the Secretary of the U.S. | | [[John McMahon]] | McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI. | | [[John Robert]] | John Robert and Luis Elizondo served together in the Army in Korea in the 1990s and developed a deep and lasting friendship. | | [[John Taylor]] | John Taylor was a professor at King's College. | | [[Julian Leek]] | Julian Leek is the son of Sybil Leek, a prominent British witch and astrologer. | | [[Karen Jansen]] | Karen Jansen was a United Nations inspector and a U.S. | | [[Karl Krafft]] | Karl Krafft was a Swiss astrologer known for his influence on high-ranking Nazi officials. | | [[Karl Zener]] | American psychologist and parapsychologist who developed the Zener Cards, a standard ESP testing tool, and collaborated with J.B. Rhine at Duke University. | | [[Karlis Osis]] | Karlis Osis was a Latvian-born parapsychologist with a PhD, known for his research into deathbed visions and his work with the U.S. | | [[Ken Bell]] | U.S. Army captain and original remote viewer in the Stargate Project known for extraordinary ability to connect with distressed or missing human targets. | | [[Leslie Ronald Young]] | Leslie Ronald 'Jimmy' Young was a veteran British broadcaster for BBC Radio 2, known for his show *The Jimmy Young Show*, which had a wide audience across England, Ireland, and Scotland. | | [[Lew Allen]] | U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives. | | [[Llewellyn Thomas]] | Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1972) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. | | [[Lyall Watson]] | Lyall Watson was a South African zoologist and anthropologist. | | [[Lyn Buchanan]] | Remote viewer in the U.S. Army's psychic research program at Fort Meade, part of the Stargate Project. | | [[Lynn Schroeder]] | Schroeder and Ostrander's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | | [[M. L. Juncosa]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | | [[Marcella Miller du Pont]] | Marcella Miller du Pont was an heiress to the du Pont chemical and weapons production conglomerate and a passionate supporter of ESP research. | | [[Margaret Mead]] | Margaret Mead was a renowned American cultural anthropologist. | | [[Marlin Fitzwater]] | Marlin Fitzwater was the White House press secretary under President Ronald Reagan. | | [[Marshall Pease]] | SRI mathematician who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | | [[Meir Amit]] | Meir Amit was the former chief of the Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency. | | [[Mel Riley]] | U.S. Army staff sergeant and one of the original remote viewers in the Stargate Project, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions. | | [[Michael Edwards]] | Michael Edwards was one of two young magicians, along with Steven Shaw, who participated in James Randi's hoax against the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in 1983. | | [[Mike Russo]] | Mike Russo was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who, along with other Livermore personnel, experienced a series of bizarre, hallucination-inducing phenomena after their involvement with Uri Geller. | | [[Milan Ryzl]] | Milan Ryzl was a Czech parapsychologist active in psi research in the mid-1960s. | | [[Murray Watt]] | Watt, along with Atwater, was responsible for selecting and training the initial remote viewers for the program. | | [[Nancy Stern]] | Stern was present during the intense and monotonous remote viewing taskings related to the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981). | | [[Olaf Johnson]] | Swedish-born psychic who served as the receiver in Edgar Mitchell's mind-to-mind telepathy experiment during the Apollo 14 mission. | | [[Oliver J. Caldwell]] | Caldwell expressed significant concern about the Soviet advancements in parapsychology and psychic warfare. | | [[P. T. Van Dyke]] | The study noted that it would not be conceptually difficult to imagine the utility of psychokinesis in disrupting electrical systems, such as those associated with an ICBM's guidance program, as displayed by Geller. | | [[Patty Hearst]] | Patricia Campbell Hearst is an American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical left-wing organization. | | [[Pavel Naumov]] | Pavel Naumov was a Soviet military scientist who reportedly conducted a notable ESP experiment around 1956. | | [[Pavel Stepanek]] | While the effective bit rate for this experiment was very low (about one word per day), it was considered an impressive proof-of-concept, suggesting that the claims made in the Nautilus story might not have been entirely farfetched. | | [[Peter Crane]] | Peter Crane was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). | | [[Peter Hurkos]] | Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for his purported abilities, particularly psychometry—the act of divining information from an object through touch. | | [[Peter Maris]] | Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3). | | [[Peter R. Phillips]] | Randi sent two young magicians, Steven Shaw and Michael Edwards, to Phillips's lab, where they pretended to possess psychokinetic abilities and simulated feats like spoon bending using sleight of hand. | | [[Peter Squire]] | Peter Squire is a program officer in the Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism department. | | [[Peter Tompkins]] | American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience. | | [[Phyllis Cole]] | Lab technician at SRI who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. | | [[Qian Xuesen]] | Chinese rocket scientist who contributed to U.S. missile programs before deportation, later advocating paranormal research as the father of China's rocket program. | | [[R. S. Hawke]] | Hawke documented the results of one of these tests, stating that 'The magnetic pattern stored in the iron oxide layer of a magnetic program card was erased.' He concluded that 'Further experiments are warranted,' indicating a measurable effect from Geller's alleged abilities. | | [[Rajesh Rao]] | Rajesh Rao is a computational neuroscientist who collaborated with Andrea Stocco at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington in Seattle. | | [[Richard DeLauer]] | Richard DeLauer was the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. | | [[Richard G. Stilwell]] | Retired U.S. Army four-star general who arranged John B. Alexander's transfer to INSCOM, bringing psychic research into military intelligence. | | [[Rob Cowart]] | Rob Cowart was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two military intelligence officers personally trained by Ingo Swann in CRV techniques. | | [[Robert A. McConnell]] | Jung remarked on how some age-old mysteries never change, and that attempts to explain away seemingly miraculous results often fail against the facts. | | [[Robert Keenan]] | Colonel Robert Keenan was the commanding officer of the Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) under the command of United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). | | [[Robert Monroe]] | American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers. | | [[Robert O. Becker]] | Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal, 'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress'. | | [[Robert Van de Castle]] | 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. | | [[Rosemary Smith]] | Remote viewer associated with the Stargate Project who in 1976 allegedly located a lost Soviet spy plane. | | [[Rudolf Cordes]] | Rudolf Cordes was a West German hostage who was released by terrorists in September 1988. | | [[Rudolf Hess]] | Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, serving as Adolf Hitler's deputy. | | [[Ruth Hefer]] | Ruth Hefer was a journalist who reported on Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities. | | [[Ruth Sinai]] | Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press. | | [[Severin Dahlen]] | Severin Dahlen was a metallurgist who collaborated with Jack Houck, a Boeing Aerospace engineer, on research into psychokinesis (PK) and metal bending. | | [[Sheila Ostrander]] | Ostrander and Schroeder's work, which included accounts from figures like Eduard Naumov, contributed to the growing awareness and concern within the U.S. | | [[Sir Hubert Wilkins]] | Wilkins conducted experiments in Mind-to-Mind Telepathy, which he documented in his book *Thoughts Through Space: A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of Mind*. | | [[Stephan Schwartz]] | Stephan Schwartz is a former naval officer and researcher who became deeply involved in psychic research, particularly in the area of Remote Viewing. | | [[Steve Hanson]] | Hanson was known to 'cool down' before a remote viewing session by reading Bible verses. | | [[Steve Holloway]] | Army civilian photo-interpreter and one of the original four candidates selected for the Gondola Wish remote viewing unit in the Stargate Project. | | [[Sybil Leek]] | Sybil Leek, known as 'Britain's most famous witch,' was an astrologer and author who was reportedly recruited by British Intelligence during World War II. | | [[Tang Yu]] | Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, in 1979, was reported to be able to read with his ears. | | [[Ted Koppel]] | During the broadcast, Koppel interviewed Dale Graff of the DIA and Robert Gates of the CIA. | | [[Theodore Flournoy]] | Flournoy believed that the content produced by mediums during trances, including foreign languages and detailed historical accounts, originated from their 'subliminal imagination' and forgotten sources, rather than from supernatural channeling. | | [[Tom McNear]] | Tom McNear was a Captain in military intelligence and one of the two original Ingo Swann trainees in CRV, starting in 1981. | | [[W. Ross Adey]] | Chief of staff at Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda and member of the Sun Streak science panel for the Stargate remote viewing program. | | [[Walter Schellenberg]] | Walter Schellenberg (1910–1952) was an SS-Brigadeführer and the head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany during World War II. | | [[William H. Bowers]] | According to Bergier's article, 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War,' the experiment aimed to test long-distance telepathic communication through significant barriers. | | [[William James]] | James was also deeply interested in psychic phenomena and was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in 1885. | | [[William Livingston]] | Medical doctor who ran the CIA's weird desk investigating unusual medical issues, alien implants, and abduction cases related to UAP encounters. | | [[William Richard Higgins]] | William Richard Higgins was a Marine Lieutenant Colonel who served as chief of the United Nations Military Observer Group Lebanon. | | [[William Wolfe]] | Wolfe became Patty Hearst's lover within the SLA. | | [[William Xenakis]] | William Xenakis was a Lieutenant Colonel who commanded Detachment G, the Remote Viewing unit at Fort Meade. | | [[Wolfgang Pauli]] | Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his pioneering work on quantum mechanics, particularly the Pauli exclusion principle. | | [[Yakov Terletsky]] | Yakov Terletsky was the chairman of theoretical physics at Moscow University and a winner of the Laureate of the State Prize in the Soviet Union. |