---
alias:
- Senator Malcolm Wallop
category: Political Figure
created: 2026-09-21
location: Wyoming
summary: Wyoming senator who as chairman of the Senate intelligence committee's budget
  subcommittee removed the Army's remote-viewing operations from the National Foreign
  Intelligence Program at the end of fiscal 1982.
tags:
- Person
- MalcolmWallop
- Senate
- SenateSelectCommitteeOnIntelligence
- Wyoming
- GrillFlame
- RemoteViewing
updated: 2026-09-21
---

Malcolm Wallop, senator from Wyoming, chaired the budget subcommittee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the early 1980s. An INSCOM memorandum of October 1983 called him "an important player in DoD's involvement in psychoenergetics. He is the individual who was responsible for the project being eliminated under the NFIP (GDIP) at the end of FY 82," the cut of October 1, 1982, that ended the Army's part of [Grill Flame](/programs/stargate-project/) and drove [INSCOM](/organizations/united-states-army-intelligence-and-security-command/) to continue it as [Center Lane](/programs/center-lane/) on security funds.[^1]

### The Briefing of October 5, 1983

From 2:45 to 3:39 that afternoon, in room SR206 of the Russell building, [Jack Vorona](/people/jack-vorona/) of the DIA, [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) of SRI, Lieutenant Colonel [Brian Buzby](/people/brian-buzby/), and Captain [Frederick Atwater](/people/frederick-atwater/) briefed him. "At the conclusion of the briefing, Dr. Vorona reiterated that the purpose of the briefing was to illustrate that psychoenergetics; remote viewing did in fact have intelligence application, and that it should be placed back in the National Foreign Intelligence Program (NFIP) to give the program the protection it needed. He requested that the Senator insert language in the Congressional Conference Report that would permit the program to be included in the FY 85 GDIP submission. The Senator replied that he is only one person, and that perhaps the briefing should be presented to the entire SSCI Budget Subcommittee," and that "internal political infighting" might mean a continuing resolution instead of an appropriations bill. "The intelligence applications of remote viewing as illustrated in the briefing book definitely impressed him." Two days later the staff of the two intelligence committees told Vorona "that there was no security in the NFIP, and since P-6 money is available, it could be dangerous to reintroduce the subject to the Congressional Committees."[^1][^2]

[^1]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum "Briefing to Senator Wallop, 5 October 1983," October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270015-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
[^2]: Buzby, Brian, memorandum on the briefing of Congressional intelligence committee staff of October 7, 1983, October 14, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270017-8; "ITAOPS Fact Sheet, Inputs for MG Stubblebine," April 10, 1981, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220021-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.