Lew Allen
U.S. Air Force chief of staff and Joint Chiefs member who influenced Pentagon psychic research programs and strategic defense initiatives.
Lew Allen was a powerful U.S. Air Force chief of staff and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He played a significant role in the Pentagon's strategic defense initiatives, including the MX Missile Basing System, and had direct influence over the direction of psychic research programs within the military1.
In the late 1970s, Allen was a strong supporter of the MX missile basing system, which aimed to protect America's land-based, nuclear-tipped ICBMs from a Soviet preemptive nuclear attack. He pushed the idea through U.S. Congress, with estimated start-up costs in the tens of billions of dollars1.
Allen became furious when a study contracted by Dale Graff indicated that Remote Viewing could significantly increase the odds in determining the location of the real ICBMs within the MX system. He sent Graff a letter ordering him to immediately stop work on any programs that involved extrasensory perception, paraphysics, or parapsychology1.
Despite Graff winning the prestigious CIA's Exceptional Intelligence Analyst award and a yearlong sabbatical, Allen intervened and declined the award on Graff's behalf. This demonstrated Allen's significant power and his stance against the military's involvement in psychic research1.
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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