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aliases:
- Ruth Sinai
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
summary: Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Military
---

Ruth Sinai was a Washington correspondent for the Associated Press. In November 1991, she broke the story about [Psi](/concepts/psi/), a private firm run by retired military intelligence officers, being enlisted by the [United Nations](/organizations/united-nations/) to find [Saddam Hussein](/people/saddam-hussein/)'s weapon sites. Her article, titled "U.N. Enlists Psychic Firm to Find Iraqi’s Weapon Sites," marked the beginning of the end for the U.S. government's twenty-three-year history in [ESP](/concepts/extrasensory-perception/) and [PK](/concepts/psychokinesis/) research[^1].

Sinai's report focused on the work of [Karen Jansen](/people/karen-jansen/), a UN inspector and Army major, who allegedly carried sketches of Iraqi biological weapons sites provided by PSI Tech president [Ed Dames](/people/ed-dames/). Dames told Sinai that he and his associates drew the sketches through [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/), which he described as a learned technique that doesn't require psychic powers but rather suppressing imagination and concentrating on a target[^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.