---
aliases:
- Karen Jansen
- Major Karen Jansen
category: Military
created: 2026-05-15
summary: Karen Jansen was a U.S. Army major and United Nations weapons inspector who
  reportedly carried remote viewing-derived sketches of suspected Iraqi biological
  weapons sites produced by Ed Dames of PSI Tech during the post-Gulf War inspection
  effort.
tags:
- Person
- Military
- RemoteViewing
- Iraq
- 1990s
title: Karen Jansen
updated: 2026-05-17
---

Karen Jansen was a [United Nations](/organizations/united-nations/) inspector and a [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/) major. She was involved in the effort to find [Saddam Hussein](/people/saddam-hussein/)'s weapon sites in [Iraq](/places/iraq/) and reportedly worked with [Psi](/concepts/psi/), a private firm specializing in [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/)[^1].

According to an Associated Press story by [Ruth Sinai](/people/ruth-sinai/), Jansen carried sketches of two sites where the Iraqi leader had supposedly stashed biological weapons. These sketches were provided by PSI Tech president [Ed Dames](/people/ed-dames/), who claimed they were generated through remote viewing[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.