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category: Private Organization
created: 2025-07-22
description: Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing
  in fried chicken.
location: San Antonio, Texas
start: 1952
summary: Church's Fried Chicken is an American fast food chain whose part-owner Bill
  Church, an amateur scientist, provided Hal Puthoff with funding that helped initiate
  the SRI remote viewing research program.
tags:
- organization
- private
- business
title: Church's Fried Chicken
updated: 2025-07-22
---

[Church's Fried Chicken](/organizations/churchs-fried-chicken/) is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in fried chicken. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, Bill Church, a part owner of the chain and an amateur scientist, provided [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) with ten thousand dollars in funding to begin his psi experiments at [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/). This private funding was crucial in the early stages of the remote viewing research program before the [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) became involved.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.