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. He played a crucial role in the continuation and restructuring of the U.S. government's psychic research programs after the CIA scaled back its involvement¹².

In 1981, Vorona contacted Dale Graff and brought him to Washington, D.C., to help run a classified program called Psychoenergetics. The main goals of this project were "to evaluate the threat that foreign psychoenergetics achievements might pose to US national security, and to explore the potential of psychoenergetics for use in US intelligence collection"². Vorona believed that with the resources of the DIA, genuine progress could be made toward a general theory of ESP and PK².

Vorona oversaw the Grill Flame program and later the Sun Streak program, which aimed to train military personnel in Remote Viewing. He made administrative changes, converting the branch chief and operations officer positions from military to civilian, and reducing training time².

He was also involved in high-priority operational tasks, such as the effort to locate William Richard Higgins, a Marine Lieutenant Colonel abducted in Lebanon, and the tracking of Muammar Qaddafi's alleged chemical weapons stockpile. In the latter case, Vorona sat with Angela Dellafiora in the viewing room at Fort Meade, demonstrating the high-level attention given to her abilities².

Vorona chaired the Remote Viewing Tasking Group for Sun Streak, which included representatives from the CIA, NSA, State Department, and various military and intelligence agencies. This group handled targets such as underground tunnels in Korea, Silkworm Missile launch facilities in Iran, and the errant nuclear-powered Cosmos 1900 satellite².

He received Hal Puthoff's sixty-page classified report, "Psychoenergetics Research in the People’s Republic of China (1982)," which confirmed the extensive research into EHBF and its military applications in China, driven by H. S. Tsien².

Vorona, along with General Edmund Thompson, briefed Congressman Charlie Rose on the Grill Flame program in the late 1970s. He accompanied Rose on tours of the remote viewing facilities at both SRI and Fort Meade, and was a staunch supporter of the program, despite the skepticism it faced¹.

Jack Vorona retired after twenty-five years of service at DIA and was inducted into the DIA's Torch Bearers Hall in 2011².