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  • Andrija Puharich Physician and parapsychologist who lectured the Pentagon on ESP in psychological warfare in 1952, founded the Round Table Foundation, and brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute in 1972.
  • 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.
  • Bart Cox Division chief at SRI who oversaw early psi research by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including experiments with Uri Geller.
  • Bill Church Philanthropist and part-owner of Church's Fried Chicken who provided initial funding for Hal Puthoff's psi research at SRI.
  • Brian D. Josephson His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at SRI.
  • 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.
  • Charles Tart University of California, Davis, psychologist of altered states and consultant to SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program who rejudged the Price series in 1979 against the Marks-Kammann critique.
  • Duane Elgin Elgin demonstrated strong psychic abilities, performing well in remote viewing tests and even trying his hand at psychokinesis.
  • Earle Jones SRI branch chief who served as an outbound experimenter in Pat Price's first formal remote viewing test of the outbound protocol.
  • Edgar Mitchell Edgar Mitchell was an American astronaut, best known as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 14, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
  • Edwin May Particle physicist who succeeded Puthoff as principal investigator of the remote-viewing research at SRI in 1985, moved it to SAIC in 1991, and chose the ten experiments the 1995 AIR panel reviewed.
  • Fernand Gauvin Civilian counterintelligence specialist at Arlington Hall and one of the first six Gondola Wish remote viewers, who left the unit after the failed Iran hostage rescue of 1980.
  • 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.
  • Hartleigh Trent Hartleigh Trent was a former Navy petty officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the Stargate Project.
  • 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.
  • Hugh Crane SRI official involved in early remote viewing experiments by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, including Pat Price's sessions.
  • Ingo Swann New York artist and Scientologist who brought remote viewing to SRI in 1972, gave the first coordinate readings of the West Virginia site in May 1973, and later trained Army viewers in his coordinate method.
  • Jacques Vallee Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist.
  • Jim Salyer Jim Salyer was a deputy to Dale Graff at the DIA.
  • John McMahon McMahon, along with Norm Everheart, had been involved in psychic spying experiments since the early days of the CIA-sponsored work at SRI.
  • Ken Bell U.S. Army captain and original remote viewer in the Stargate Project known for extraordinary ability to connect with distressed or missing human targets.
  • Kenneth A. Kress Kress was the lead analyst assigned to the operation involving Pat Price's Remote Viewing of URDF-3, a highly classified Soviet research and development facility in Kazakhstan.
  • 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.
  • Marshall Pease SRI mathematician who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.
  • Norm Everheart Norm Everheart was a CIA technical operations specialist with nearly a quarter-century of service by the mid-1970s, who served as the chief coordinator for Grill Flame taskings from the CIA's Operations Directorate.
  • Pat Price Former Burbank police commissioner and SRI subject S1 whose 1973 West Virginia and Urals readings the CIA called substantially correct, whose Semipalatinsk session Los Alamos judged unsuccessful, and who died in 1975.
  • Patty Hearst Newspaper heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on February 4, 1974, who appeared to undergo coerced conversion, joining her captors in armed robbery before her arrest, conviction, and eventual presidential pardon.
  • Peter Maris Peter Maris was a CIA physicist who, along with Ken Kress, an engineer from the Office of Technical Service (OTS), tasked Pat Price with remote viewing the mysterious Soviet military research facility at Semipalatinsk (URDF-3).
  • Phyllis Cole Lab technician at SRI who demonstrated strong psychic talents in early remote viewing tests conducted by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.
  • Ray Hyman University of Oregon psychologist and skeptic who evaluated Uri Geller for DARPA in 1973 and, for the 1995 AIR review, judged ten SAIC experiments too few to establish remote viewing.
  • Robert Van de Castle Robert Van de Castle was a civilian psychologist who, along with George Lawrence and Ray Hyman, traveled to SRI to test Uri Geller's purported psychic abilities for ARPA.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Organizations (1)

  • 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 (2)

  • 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.

Concepts (1)

  • 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.