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People (12)

  • Angela Dellafiora INSCOM analyst who joined the DIA's remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1986, worked by automatic writing, and gave the location of the fugitive customs agent Charles Jordan in 1989.
  • Edwin Wilson Edwin P. Wilson was a CIA and DIA officer who supplied weapons, explosives, and training to Libya's Qaddafi, was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 52 years, and had his conviction overturned in 2003 after the government acknowledged falsely representing his CIA status at trial.
  • Eugene Tighe Air Force intelligence officer who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1977 to 1981, during the Grill Flame program's oversight fights, and led a 1986 review of DIA's handling of POW/MIA reports.
  • Gerald G. Oplinger Aide to National Security Advisor Brzezinski present at the White House situation room meeting responding to the 1979 Vela satellite nuclear test detection.
  • Jack Varona Assistant Deputy Director of the DIA for technical affairs who headed the U.S. delegation at a 1979 Israel-U.S. intelligence exchange.
  • Jack Vorona Jack Vorona was the Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and served as the overall manager of the Grill Flame program.
  • Jim Salyer Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA.
  • John LaMothe John L. LaMothe was a U.S. Army Medical Intelligence Office captain who authored the 1972 classified report Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR, warning of Soviet psychoenergetics research capabilities and spurring U.S. government concerns about a psi gap.
  • Letitia Long Career naval and defense intelligence official who signed DIA's 1995 Star Gate response as director of its military intelligence staff and rose to direct the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, then joined defense-contractor boards.
  • Scott Carmichael Scott Carmichael is a former analyst with the DIA.
  • Werner Tony Asmar Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988.
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski Brzezinski dismissed suggestions from Prime Minister Begin that the U.S.

Organizations (1)

  • Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) was the primary DIA contractor for the AAWSAP/AATIP program (2008-2010), employing hundreds of investigators to study UAP and anomalous phenomena including at Skinwalker Ranch.

Programs (3)

  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program Defense Intelligence Agency program, formally AAWSAP, funded from fiscal 2008 with 22 million dollars at Harry Reid's direction and contracted to Robert Bigelow's BAASS, whose UFO and paranormal work AARO later reviewed.
  • 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.
  • Sun Streak The DIA's special access program for the Fort Meade remote-viewing unit from 1986 to 1990, twelve billets working 192 projects by 1989, judged by a 1990 counternarcotics test to give good data in about a third of cases.

Events (3)

  • 1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate The CIA-commissioned 1995 review of the DIA's Star Gate remote-viewing program, delivered September 29, 1995, which found a statistically significant laboratory anomaly and no intelligence value, and recommended against continuing operations.
  • 1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA The 1995 Congressionally directed transfer of the DIA's Star Gate remote-viewing program to the CIA, which the CIA used to review, declassify and close it.
  • Extraordinary Powers Craze The Extraordinary Powers Craze (1979-1989) was a period of officially sanctioned Chinese research into paranormal abilities sparked by the 1979 Tang Yu case and physicist Qian Xuesen's endorsement, involving military and academic programs before collapsing when fraud became undeniable.

Concepts (2)

  • Extraordinary Human Body Function Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was the Chinese government term for claimed paranormal abilities investigated by state-funded programs after physicist Qian Xuesen's 1979 endorsement, with the DIA's discovery of its scale providing competitive justification for continued American Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE investment.
  • Psychoenergetics Psychoenergetics was the Soviet-coined and DIA-adopted term for government parapsychology research covering clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis as potential intelligence tools, with the DIA's 1981 Psychoenergetics program serving as organizational predecessor to STAR GATE.