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Harry Holloway Army colonel and chairman of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing.
John B. Alexander Army lieutenant colonel who published The New Mental Battlefield in Military Review in 1980, served under Stubblebine at INSCOM during Center Lane, and later ran non-lethal weapons work at Los Alamos.
Manfred Gale Army staff official who chaired the 1979 Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee and whose report and briefings the Defense Department's parapsychology working group rejected as misleading.
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.
Walter LaBerge Under secretary of the Army who proposed the 1979 scientific review of the Army's parapsychology programs and to whom the resulting Gale report was delivered over the objections of the Pentagon's working group.
William Stoner Army intelligence staff major who coordinated the 1979 Gale Committee, sat on the Defense Department's Grill Flame working group, and wrote the memorandum attacking Gale's briefing of the report.

Army Security Agency The Army Security Agency (ASA) was a U.S. Army organization responsible for signals intelligence and communications security.

First Earth Battalion A 1979 concept paper by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, issued through TRADOC's Task Force Delta at Fort Monroe, proposing an Army battalion of warrior monks drawn from the human potential movement.
Operation DERBY HAT Army field test of LSD in interrogations in the Far East, August to November 1962, on seven foreign nationals suspected of narcotics dealing or intelligence work; one subject was left semicomatose.
Operation THIRD CHANCE Army field test of LSD on unwitting interrogation subjects in Europe from May to August 1961, including the Black soldier James Thornwell, falsely accused of theft.
Stargate Project Army, DIA, and CIA remote-viewing programs of 1972 to 1995, run under the names SCANATE, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and Star Gate, closed after the 1995 AIR evaluation.

Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee An eight-member Army review under Manfred Gale, reporting in December 1979, which found remote viewing unproved and its programs poorly documented, while a majority of five allowed INSCOM's operational work to continue under oversight.