House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House committee created in 1977 to oversee the intelligence community, whose staff were briefed on the CIA's psychic research that year and whose evaluation subcommittee under Charlie Rose pressed the Pentagon to study remote viewing.
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was "created in 1977" and "is charged with oversight of the United States Intelligence Community," now eighteen elements, and the Military Intelligence Program.1 It and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence grew out of the findings of the Church Committee.2
Psychic Research
After Parade published "Psychic Spying" on August 7, 1977, the committee asked the CIA for a briefing. David Brandwein, director of the Office of Technical Service, gave three staff members "a short oral history of OTS efforts in the field, dating back to 1961" on November 16, 1977, and left them a written outline of the work classified SECRET, the unclassified article on the research at Stanford Research Institute and "a brief article on Mr. Pat Price." He handled most of the office's briefing of Representative Charlie Rose on February 9, 1978.3 On October 25, 1978, Rose, as chairman of the committee's evaluation subcommittee, wrote to Ruth Davis of the Defense Department that "we have a strong obligation also to learn what Soviet research is underway" and that he would "like to see the Department of Defense undertake those efforts deemed necessary and appropriate to investigate remote viewing and other related phenomena."4 On March 28, 1995, the CIA sent its status responses on the Star Gate program to the committee's chairman, Larry Combest, during the 1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA.6
Other Records
In 2021 classified versions of the intelligence community's assessment of domestic violent extremism were briefed to the House and Senate intelligence committees.7 Jim Himes, its ranking member in 2026, appeared that year on a leaked membership list of Peter Thiel's Dialog society.8
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- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, "History and Jurisdiction." https://intelligence.house.gov/history-jurisdiction/ ↩
- Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. Final Report, S. Rept. 94-755, 1976, as cited on the Church Committee page. ↩
- Brandwein, David S., 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; Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Legislative Counsel, "Briefing of Representative Charles Rose," February 9, 1978, OLC 78-0576, CIA-RDP81M00980R000600250087-4. ↩
- Davis, Ruth M., memorandum for Dr. Jack Vorona, "'Remote Viewing' Project," November 20, 1978, with the letter of Charlie Rose, Chairman, Subcommittee on Evaluation, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, October 25, 1978. ↩
- "COMBEST, Larry Ed," History, Art and Archives, U.S. House of Representatives. https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/COMBEST,-Larry-Ed-(C000653)/ ↩
- Executive Director for Intelligence Community Affairs to Larry Combest, Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, March 28, 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100040002-2. ↩
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. "Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021." Unclassified summary, March 17, 2021. ↩
- Cameron, Dell, and Yulia Almazova. "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society." WIRED, June 16, 2026. ↩
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- Event1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA
- PersonAlexus Grynkewich
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- PersonCharlie Rose
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- PersonEdward P. Boland
- PersonFred Hitz
- PersonJim Himes
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- PersonLarry Combest
- PersonLee Hamilton
- PersonPeter Thiel
- ConceptReforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
- PersonRoberto Viaux
- PersonRuth Davis
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