---
aliases:
- Lincoln D. Faurer
- Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer
born: 1928-02-07
category: Key Figures
died: 2014-11-07
location: Medford, Massachusetts
summary: Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade
  a dozen new tasks in April 1982.
tags:
- Person
- Stargate
- CIA
- Military
- RemoteViewer
- NSA
---

Lincoln D. Faurer was a Lieutenant General and the Director of the [NSA](/organizations/nsa/) (NSA). In the spring of 1982, he was given a briefing on the [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/)'s [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/) program, and he saw [extrasensory perception](/concepts/extrasensory-perception/) as a form of signals intelligence with potential operational value[^1].

Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at [Fort Meade](/places/fort-meade/) a dozen new tasks in April 1982. His support was crucial for the program's survival, as it provided the necessary operational requests from the military and intelligence services[^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.