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  • Albert Stubblebine Major General Albert Stubblebine III was the U.S. Army INSCOM commander from 1981 to 1984 who was the military's most senior advocate of psychic research for intelligence applications, personally believed in training soldiers for anomalous physical feats, and provided high-level Army support that kept the STARGATE remote viewing program funded through its critical early operational phase.
  • Andrija Puharich Andrija Puharich was a physician and parapsychologist who founded the Round Table Foundation in 1949, conducted Army-contracted ESP research at Edgewood Arsenal, brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in 1972, and died alone and impoverished in 1995.
  • David Morehouse David Morehouse was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger officer who joined the Fort Meade remote viewing unit after surviving a head wound in Jordan in 1987, was trained in CRV, faced a court-martial for personal conduct, and after retirement published Psychic Warrior (1996), a memoir that was commercially successful but disputed by other unit members for accuracy.
  • Don Keach Don Keach was a former U.S. Navy officer and deep-sea explorer at the University of Southern California who located a lost hydrogen bomb off Palomares, Spain in 1966 and facilitated Stephan Schwartz's Project Deep Quest by providing access to the submersible Taurus I in 1977.
  • Ed Dames Ed Dames was a U.S. Army Major who served as the remote viewing unit's training and operations officer at Fort Meade during the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs before retiring to found PSI Tech and becoming a controversial public figure known for apocalyptic predictions.
  • Edwin May Edwin May is a particle physicist who succeeded Hal Puthoff as principal investigator of the government's remote viewing research program in 1985, moved the program from SRI to SAIC in 1991, and directed the program's final phase until its 1995 declassification and termination.
  • Eldon Byrd Eldon Byrd was a Navy physicist at the Naval Surface Weapons Center who conducted parapsychology experiments with Uri Geller in 1973-1974 including the nitinol memory-metal bending test, and worked on research into electromagnetic effects on biological systems.
  • Frederick Atwater Frederick 'Skip' Atwater was the U.S. Army intelligence officer who proposed and organized the military remote viewing program at Fort Meade in 1977, recruited and managed the original STARGATE viewers including Joe McMoneagle and Mel Riley, and served as the program's operations officer until his retirement in 1987.
  • Hella Hammid Hella Hammid was a German-American professional photographer who became one of the Stanford Research Institute's primary remote viewing subjects alongside Ingo Swann, demonstrating statistically significant results in CIA-funded experiments under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ from 1974 onward.
  • Henry Belk Henry Belk was a North Carolina department store magnate and wealthy funder of Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation who brought Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos to Maine for testing in 1956 and helped finance Puharich's Brazilian expeditions.
  • Ingo Swann Ingo Swann was an American artist and psychic subject who coined the term 'remote viewing,' initiated the CIA-funded Stanford Research Institute program in 1972 through his contact with Hal Puthoff, and developed the Coordinate Remote Viewing protocol that became the operational standard for the U.S. government's STAR GATE program.
  • Jack Houck Jack Houck was a Boeing Aerospace systems engineer who developed the PK Party protocol for group psychokinesis metal-bending experiments beginning in 1981 and whose work attracted U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command attention for its potential military implications.
  • Jessica Utts Jessica Utts is a statistician at the University of California, Davis, who wrote the pro-psi half of the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation of the STAR GATE program, concluding that the remote viewing data showed a statistically significant and replicable anomalous effect warranting serious scientific investigation.
  • Joe McMoneagle Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. Army warrant officer who was one of the original six remote viewers recruited into the STARGATE program in 1977, produced the program's most operationally credited results including confirmed details of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine, and received the Legion of Merit at retirement for his remote viewing work.
  • John B. Alexander John B. Alexander was a Green Beret colonel and Special Forces Vietnam veteran who authored the 1980 Military Review article on psychic warfare, ran INSCOM's Advanced Human Technology Office under Albert Stubblebine, and became one of the most prominent advocates for non-lethal weapons and anomalous phenomena research within the U.S. military establishment.
  • John L. 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.
  • Lyn Buchanan Lyn Buchanan was a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to the Fort Meade remote viewing unit under the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs beginning in the early 1980s, trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing, and after retirement founded Problems Solutions Innovations (PSI) and wrote The Seventh Sense (2003).
  • Mel Riley Mel Riley was a U.S. Army staff sergeant and aerial photo-interpreter who was one of the original six STARGATE remote viewers recruited in 1977, known for his artistic rendering of psychic impressions and for being part of the three-viewer core that became the Grill Flame program.
  • Pat Price Pat Price was a retired Burbank, California law enforcement official who produced the most operationally significant results of the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program, including a substantially confirmed viewing of the Soviet Semipalatinsk weapons facility, before dying of a disputed heart attack in Las Vegas in July 1975 while working directly for the CIA.
  • Peter Hurkos Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for psychometry - divining information from objects by touch - and was studied by Andrija Puharich at the Round Table Foundation in 1956 before achieving notoriety as a police psychic consultant in the United States.
  • Qian Xuesen Qian Xuesen (H.S. Tsien) was a Chinese aerospace scientist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was expelled from the United States during the McCarthy era, returned to China where he directed its ballistic missile and space programs, and in later life endorsed state-sponsored research into 'Extraordinary Human Body Function' - a Chinese government euphemism for parapsychology - providing the scientific credibility that enabled large-scale EHBF research programs with military applications interest.
  • Ray Hyman Ray Hyman is a University of Oregon psychologist and scientific skeptic who evaluated Uri Geller for DARPA in 1973, criticized SRI remote viewing methodology throughout the 1970s-80s, and wrote the skeptical half of the 1995 AIR evaluation of STAR GATE, concluding that methodological flaws precluded accepting the data as evidence for remote viewing.
  • Russell Targ Russell Targ is a laser physicist who co-founded the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing program with Hal Puthoff in 1972 under CIA contract, co-authored the program's landmark 1974 Nature paper and 1976 IEEE paper, and continued parapsychology research and writing after leaving SRI.
  • Ruth Hefer Ruth Hefer was an Israeli journalist who witnessed Uri Geller's apparent prediction of Egyptian President Nasser's death in fall 1970 at the Tzavta Theater in Tel Aviv, an incident that significantly boosted Geller's Israeli reputation.
  • Shimshon Shtrang Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magician James Randi raised questions about potential collusion.
  • Tom McNear Tom McNear was a U.S. Army military intelligence captain who became one of the first two soldiers trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing beginning in 1981, authored the 1985 DoD CRV manual declassified in 2000, and was assessed by Swann as surpassing his own abilities before requesting transfer from the Fort Meade unit.
  • Uri Geller Uri Geller is an Israeli-British illusionist and psychic claimant who was tested by Stanford Research Institute under CIA contract in 1972-1973, reportedly worked for Israeli military intelligence on clairvoyance taskings, and became the most publicly known subject of the U.S. government's parapsychology program.
  • Zhang Baosheng Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely attributed to sleight of hand.

Organizations (2)

  • American Institutes for Research The American Institutes for Research (AIR) conducted the 1995 government-commissioned evaluation of the CIA's STAR GATE remote viewing program, whose split findings between evaluators Ray Hyman and Jessica Utts led to the program's termination.
  • Walter Reed Army Institute of Research The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the U.S. Army's principal biomedical research laboratory, involved during the Cold War in classified Project Pandora investigations into the biological effects of the Moscow Signal microwave emissions on primates at its Forest Glen Section.

Programs (5)

  • Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR was a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report that assessed Soviet Union research into Parapsychology phenomena and its potential military applications.
  • Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact 'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' was a 1977 DIA report by Dale Graff assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact research into psi phenomena including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, and holography, which provided competitive justification for continued American government parapsychology investment.
  • Project Deep Quest Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
  • SCANATE SCANATE was the CIA's initial code name for its remote viewing research program at Stanford Research Institute, launched in 1972 following Hal Puthoff's contact with CIA officer Kit Green and running until the program transitioned to Army management as Gondola Wish in 1977.
  • STARGATE PROJECT STARGATE PROJECT was the umbrella designation for the U.S. Army and DIA remote viewing programs at Fort Meade, Maryland (1977-1995), progressing through code names Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and STAR GATE before termination following the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation.

Events (1)

  • 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 (22)

  • Clairvoyance Clairvoyance is the purported paranormal ability to perceive information about physical reality through extrasensory means, distinguished from telepathy by its direct perception of external reality rather than mind-to-mind transmission, and the operative phenomenon underlying the U.S. government's STARGATE remote viewing program.
  • Dowsing Dowsing is a divinatory practice used to locate water, minerals, or other hidden objects using a divining rod, usually a forked twig, but also a pendulum or one's hand.
  • Eight-Martini Results 'Eight-Martini Results' is a term coined within the Central Intelligence Agency to describe highly accurate and unsettling PSI-INT that is so inexplicable it drives intelligence officers to drink.
  • 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.
  • Extrasensory Perception Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the claimed ability to receive information through means beyond the known sensory channels; the term was coined by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s and became the subject of sustained U.S. and Soviet government research programs through the Cold War.
  • Eyeless Sight Eyeless sight is the claimed psi ability to perceive visual information without using the eyes, demonstrated by Uri Geller in blindfolded stage performances and studied in Soviet parapsychology research under the label 'skin vision.'
  • Geller Effect The 'Geller Effect' refers to the phenomenon where individuals, particularly children and teenagers, reportedly become able to bend metal or influence electronic devices after witnessing Uri Geller perform such feats.
  • Mind Projection Mind Projection is a claimed Psi ability where an individual can influence or implant thoughts into another person's mind.
  • Mind-to-Mind Telepathy Mind-to-mind telepathy is the direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between individuals without conventional sensory channels, a subset of telepathy that was a core focus of Cold War parapsychology research programs.
  • Out-of-Body Experience An out-of-body experience (OBE) is the sensation of consciousness leaving the physical body, reported in connection with psi research, near-death experiences, and the altered states of consciousness studied at the Monroe Institute using Hemi-Sync audio technology.
  • Precognition Precognition is the claimed psi ability to perceive future events before they occur, one of the phenomena studied in government parapsychology research programs throughout the Cold War alongside remote viewing and telepathy.
  • Psi Gap The 'Psi Gap' was a perceived disparity in Psi research capabilities between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  • Psychic Spying Psychic Spying refers to the use of psi abilities such as remote viewing for intelligence collection, the operational premise of the U.S. Army's STARGATE program and the Soviet Union's parallel parapsychology programs.
  • 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.
  • Psychokinesis Psychokinesis (PK), also known as telekinesis, is a claimed Psi ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction.
  • Psychotronic Research Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.
  • Remote Action Remote Action (RA) is a parapsychology term for psychokinetic mental influence on physical systems without contact, used by U.S. government researchers as a formal operational category alongside remote viewing in STARGATE-era programs.
  • Remote Perturbation Remote Perturbation (RP) is a parapsychology term for mentally disturbing or altering a physical system, a form of psychokinesis that was studied under U.S. government-funded programs including STARGATE.
  • Synthetic Telepathy Synthetic Telepathy, also known as the Frey Effect, is a technology discovered by Allan H. Frey in 1961.
  • Telepathic Interrogation Telepathic Interrogation is a claimed Psi technique involving the use of Telepathy to extract information from a subject.
  • Telepathy Telepathy is the claimed direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between minds without conventional sensory channels, one of the core phenomena studied in government parapsychology programs including the Stargate Project and Soviet psi research.
  • Temporal Displacement Temporal Displacement in Remote Viewing refers to the phenomenon where a psychic perceives a target in a different time period (past or future) than the present moment.