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Paul H. Smith

Army military intelligence captain who joined the Center Lane remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1983 and, as its project officer, wrote the 1984 staff study on its transfer to DIA.

Captain Paul H. Smith, military intelligence, "presently assigned to OPS Group, Ft. Meade, and available for duty with CENTER LANE," was listed for the project's personnel spaces on August 2, 1983, with Captain William G. Ray. As "CPT, MI, Project Officer" of Center Lane he signed the staff study "Transfer of Project CENTER LANE" of September 4, 1984, recommending "that INSCOM, with DA concurrence, transfer all currently assigned personnel, documents and equipment to DIA, and that arrangements be made as well for the transfer of the buildings presently occupied by the project," and "that DA (ACSI) provide overage spaces to DIA for FY 1985." On October 8, 1984, he recorded that "while on TDY in New York City during the week 1-5 October," he had watched the WABC-TV program "Eye on Hollywood," on which "one of the featured stories dealt with military exploitation of psychic phenomena. Interviewed on the program were Russell Targ, Keith Harary, Hella Hammid, and a psychic from Jamaica who claimed to have worked for the British during WWII. When questioned about military involvement with psychic phenomena, Targ, Harary and Hammid replied that the military was indeed involved, but that the details were classified, and they could not elaborate. Hella added that she could not allow her psychic abilities to be used for military purposes."1

  1. "Center Lane Personnel Spaces," August 2, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700300001-1; Smith, Paul H., "Transfer of the Center Lane Project," staff study, September 4, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500090026-0; Smith, Paul H., memorandum for the record on the "Eye on Hollywood" program of October 3, 1984, October 8, 1984, in CIA-RDP96-00788R001500040003-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.

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