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#RemoteViewing

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People (32)

  • Albert Stubblebine INSCOM commander from 1981 to 1984 who kept the Army's remote-viewing unit alive as Center Lane with security funds after Congress cut it, and pursued spoon bending and other human performance experiments.
  • Arthur Hastings Consultant to the SRI remote-viewing program and sole judge of the Price and Hammid series, whose target lists and transcripts, lent to David Marks, became the basis of the 1978 cueing critique.
  • Brenda Dunne Chicago remote-viewing experimenter who from 1979 ran Robert Jahn's privately funded Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory.
  • Brian Buzby INSCOM lieutenant colonel who ran the Center Lane remote-viewing project from August 15, 1983, briefed Senator Wallop and the intelligence committee staffs with Vorona and Puthoff, and negotiated its transfer to DIA.
  • Charles Honorton Parapsychologist at Maimonides Medical Center and director of the Psychophysical Research Laboratories, whose ganzfeld meta-analyses were subcontracted by SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program.
  • David Brandwein Director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service who ended its funding of the SRI parapsychology research in 1976, refused to resume it, and briefed the House intelligence committee on the work in 1977 and 1978.
  • David Marks University of Otago psychologist whose 1978 Nature letter with Richard Kammann argued that cues in the SRI transcripts, not remote viewing, explained the Price series, and who pursued the case through 1986.
  • 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.
  • Douglas Tang Chief of biostatistics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing.
  • 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.
  • Eugene Lessman Eugene 'Gene' Alden Lessman was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and lead recruiter for the Army's Great Skill Program who handled remote viewer Angela Dellafiora and allegedly recruited Luis Elizondo into the program.
  • Frederick Atwater Army lieutenant of the 902d Military Intelligence Group attached to Grill Flame in 1978 for his earlier research, who screened the first Army remote viewers and was acting project manager of Center Lane in 1983.
  • Hal Puthoff Physicist who founded the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 with Russell Targ, ran it until 1985, and later worked on the Pentagon's AATIP.
  • 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.
  • Harry Snyder Virginia Tech professor of industrial engineering whose 1979 critical evaluation of remote-viewing research is held by the CIA, and who then sat on the Army's Gale Committee in place of Ray Hyman.
  • 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.
  • Jesse Orlansky Institute for Defense Analyses scientist on the 1979 Gale Committee who joined the minority opinion against operational tests of remote viewing.
  • John Kramar Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity engineer who was its Grill Flame project officer and rebutted the Gale committee's call to end the Army's remote-viewing work.
  • Karen Jansen Karen Jansen was a U.S. Army major and United Nations weapons inspector who reportedly carried remote viewing-derived sketches of suspected Iraqi biological weapons sites produced by Ed Dames of PSI Tech during the post-Gulf War inspection effort.
  • Keith Harary Partner of Russell Targ in Delphi Associates, the remote-viewing silver-futures venture, who later disputed Targ's account of its trials.
  • Kit Green Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA physician who served as the agency's principal liaison for the SRI remote viewing program from 1972, including handling Uri Geller during the 1972-1973 tests, and later contributed to the AATIP program and published research on UAP encounter injuries.
  • Malcolm Wallop Wyoming senator who as chairman of the Senate intelligence committee's budget subcommittee removed the Army's remote-viewing operations from the National Foreign Intelligence Program at the end of fiscal 1982.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Richard Kammann University of Otago psychologist who with David Marks failed to replicate the SRI remote-viewing experiments, co-wrote the 1978 Nature critique and The Psychology of the Psychic, and died in 1984.
  • Russell Targ Laser physicist who founded the SRI remote-viewing program with Puthoff in 1972, published it in Nature in 1974, ran the Price and Geller sessions, and in 1995 forced the CIA to release its files.
  • Ruth Davis Deputy under secretary of defense for research and advanced technology who in 1978 set the managerial questions for the Pentagon's remote-viewing oversight and in 1979 widened the Gale Committee's mandate to the whole department.
  • Terry Waite Envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Lebanon hostage negotiations whom Oliver North called 'our only access to events in Lebanon,' himself held hostage in Beirut until 1991.
  • Uri Geller Israeli performer tested at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 and 1973 with Technical Services Division money, whom a CIA reviewer thought no more than a skillful magician.
  • 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.

Organizations (6)

  • Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity Army Materiel Command systems-analysis activity at Aberdeen Proving Ground, formed in 1968, which ran its own replication of the SRI remote-viewing protocol under Grill Flame in 1978 and 1979.
  • Esalen Institute Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.
  • House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence House committee created in 1977 to oversee the intelligence community, whose staff were briefed on the CIA's psychic research that year and whose evaluation subcommittee under Charlie Rose pressed the Pentagon to study remote viewing.
  • Rand Corporation The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history.
  • Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Permanent Senate committee created in 1976 after the Church Committee to oversee intelligence; its budget subcommittee ended Army remote-viewing funding in 1982, and its 2014 study documented the CIA's interrogation program.
  • Stanford Research Institute Stanford Research Institute is the Menlo Park research institute, founded in 1946 and independent since 1970, that produced Douglas Engelbart's 1968 'Mother of All Demos,' the second ARPANET node, and the U.S. government's classified remote-viewing program under Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.

Programs (5)

  • Center Lane INSCOM's remote-viewing unit from October 1982 to March 1985, kept alive with security funds after Congress cut Grill Flame, run as a special access program under Stubblebine, and handed to the DIA as Sun Streak.
  • Project 8200 Project 8200 is the subject of a 2024 book by former STARGATE remote viewer Frederick Atwater claiming the existence of classified UAP base locations identified through remote viewing operations.
  • SCANATE The CIA-funded SRI remote-viewing research of 1972 to 1975, named for scanning by coordinate, whose West Virginia and Urals readings SRI reported as verified, whose Semipalatinsk test the sponsor's analysts judged unsuccessful, and which OTS ended in 1976.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Concepts (9)

  • Analytical Overlay Analytical Overlay refers to the conscious or unconscious imposition of a remote viewer's existing knowledge, beliefs, or biases onto their psychic perceptions, potentially distorting the accuracy of the data.
  • Associative Remote Viewing Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) is a precognitive Remote Viewing technique where objects or geographic locations are used as surrogates for abstract data, such as numbers or letters, which are generally difficult to remote-view directly.
  • 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.
  • Coordinate Remote Viewing Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of Remote Viewing that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's perception to a target.
  • Extended Remote Viewing Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) refers to deeper altered-state methods of Remote Viewing, often favored by the Stargate Project unit at Fort Meade.
  • 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.
  • Outbound Remote Viewing Outbound Remote Viewing is a Remote Viewing methodology where an 'outbound' experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings.
  • Outbounder-Beacon Experiment The Outbounder-Beacon Experiment was a Remote Viewing protocol developed by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute for the Central Intelligence Agency's psychic research program.
  • 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.

Places (2)

  • Maryland State of Fort Detrick, Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground and Fort Meade, where the CIA dosed Frank Olson at Deep Creek Lake in 1953 and the Army's remote-viewing unit began in 1977.
  • West Virginia Appalachian state where Danny Casolaro died in a Martinsburg hotel in 1991 and where the NSA station at Sugar Grove was a target of the CIA's early remote-viewing tests.