Kit Green

Christopher "Kit" Green was a physician and neurophysiologist who served in the CIA's Life Sciences Division, where he functioned as the agency's primary scientific reviewer and liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from its inception in 1972. He was among the small number of CIA officers who maintained long-term engagement with anomalous phenomena research, and later continued that work in both academic and government consulting contexts after leaving the agency.

CIA Career and SRI Liaison

Green was working in the CIA's Life Sciences Division when physicist Hal Puthoff initiated contact with the agency regarding proposed research on anomalous mental phenomena. On June 27, 1972, Puthoff wrote to Green at the CIA outlining remote viewing as a legitimate area for scientific investigation, proposing formal experiments at SRI to assess whether the phenomena could be reproduced under controlled conditions. This letter - subsequently released under FOIA and housed in the CIA Reading Room - established the institutional relationship between SRI and the CIA's scientific analysis staff that would persist for more than two decades.¹

Green served as the primary CIA officer receiving and evaluating SRI's experimental results during the early years of the program, which was organized under various code names before being consolidated as the STAR GATE program. In this capacity he reviewed classified experimental data, participated in briefings, and maintained the agency's formal interest in the research while keeping it within the Life Sciences Division's medical and scientific framework rather than the operational framework of the Directorate of Operations.²

Uri Geller and the SRI Experiments

Green served as the CIA's primary handler and scientific overseer during Uri Geller's testing at SRI in 1972-1973. Geller, an Israeli entertainer claiming psychokinetic and clairvoyant abilities, underwent a series of formal laboratory tests under the direction of Puthoff and Russell Targ. Green was responsible for reviewing the experimental protocols, receiving the results, and assessing their implications for the agency. He administered or oversaw medical evaluations of Geller, including neurological and psychological assessments designed to identify physiological correlates of the claimed abilities.²

Green's assessment of the Geller results was qualified: he acknowledged that the experiments produced results he could not explain through conventional means while maintaining that the data did not constitute proof of psychic ability as conventionally understood. He was skeptical of organized programs to train multiple personnel as psychic operatives, believing the evidence supported only that a small number of individuals produced anomalous results under controlled conditions.²

Sugar Grove and Sensitive Facility Remote Viewing

Green was the CIA officer informed of and involved in evaluating the Sugar Grove incident, in which Pat Price and Ingo Swann were provided geographic coordinates corresponding to a classified NSA signals intelligence facility at Sugar Grove, West Virginia, and independently produced detailed descriptions of the installation. The accuracy of the descriptions - which included internal organizational details not publicly available - created significant concern within the NSA about whether the remote viewing program represented a security vulnerability for highly classified facilities. Green managed the CIA's response to NSA's concerns about the implications of the result.²

Esalen and the Soviet Exchange Program

Green's name appears in CIA documents related to monitoring of the Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange Program in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His connection to Puthoff and the SRI remote viewing program placed him in the intersection between the CIA's interest in Soviet parapsychology research and Esalen's role as a civilian forum for U.S.-Soviet scientific exchange, including exchange specifically touching on parapsychology and consciousness research. The CIA maintained passive collection on Esalen's Soviet contacts, and Green's position made him a natural node for any intelligence bearing on Soviet research in related areas.¹

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Investigation

After several scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported unusual perceptual experiences following their involvement with Geller and the broader SRI program, Green investigated the reports. His conclusion was that the experiences were most likely the result of a sophisticated psychological operation directed at the scientists - possibly by a foreign intelligence service or a domestic entity with access to the scientists' vulnerabilities - rather than genuine paranormal phenomena. The investigation was not publicly disclosed during Green's CIA tenure.²

Post-CIA Career

Following his departure from CIA, Green continued academic and research work in neurophysiology and forensic medicine. He was associated with Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he worked in forensic pathology and neurological research.²

Green contributed as a consultant and scientific advisor to the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon's UAP research program that operated from approximately 2007 to 2012 under the direction of Luis Elizondo. His contribution included review of reported physical and physiological effects on individuals claiming proximity to anomalous aerial phenomena. He published research examining injuries reported by people claiming UAP encounters - a category he termed "exotic wounds" - applying forensic neurological analysis to the reported symptom patterns. This work represented the extension of his long-standing interest in the medical and physiological dimensions of anomalous phenomena from the SRI era into the post-AATIP period.³