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category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
location: Rhode Island
summary: Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more 'James Bond-ish'
  elements of the U.S.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Stargate
- SRI
---

[Fernand Gauvin](/people/fernand-gauvin/) was a civilian counterintelligence specialist from Rhode Island and an early member of the [Gondola Wish](/programs/stargate-project/) (later [Grill Flame](/programs/stargate-project/)) remote viewing unit. He was among the initial group of ten or eleven candidates selected by [Skip Atwater](/people/frederick-atwater/) and [Scotty Watt](/people/murray-watt/). Gauvin had a long history of psychic experiences and transcendental yearnings, going back to his childhood. He practiced yoga and meditation, experimented with altered states, and read books about spirit-mediums and auras. In 1975, he had an unusual out-of-body-type experience, an encounter with a benevolent, luminous, loving entity.[^1]

Gauvin worked at Arlington Hall, home to some of the more "James Bond-ish" elements of the U.S. espionage community. He was among the six most promising members sent to [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/) for two weeks of outbound remote-viewing experiments. He was present during the intense and monotonous remote viewing taskings related to the Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981). After the failed hostage rescue mission in April 1980, he left the unit, vowing never to remote-view again, highlighting the psychological toll of the relentless remote viewing operations.[^1]

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