Phenomena: The Secret History of the U S Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen 2017

Little Brown

Grover Cleveland (Cleve) Baxter JBA spells it Cleve Backster; this seems to be the correct spelling.

“a large body of reliable experimental evidence points to the inescapable conclusion that ESP does exist as a real phenomena, albeit characterized by rarity and lack of reliability.”

Henry Karel “Andrija” PuharichDr. Paul De Kruif author of Microbe HuntersJack Hammond Jr.,Nicola Tesla wrote in his memoirs that he had experienced ESP as a child,Warren S. McCulloughMartin Gardner

J. B. RhineDr Karlis Osis sciAldous HuxleyPeter Hurkos psyChristopher C. Green CIAEdgar Mitchell

Amanita muscariaFairytalesshamanistic tribesCryptomnesiacollective consciousMuscarineAtropineBufoteninThe Doors of Perception

Robert MonroeJames Randall Zwinge James RandiDoug HenningEd DamesPaul Smith (RVer)Angela Dellafiora (RVer)W. Ross AudeyMadame Helena Blavatsky

Ninel Kulagina

Uri GellerHal PuthoffYakov Terletsky Gerald Feinberg.Grover Cleveland (Cleve) BaxterWilliam JamesIngo SwannRay HymanJames Randall ZwingeJacques ValleePat Price died of “heart attack” under mysterious circumstancesCarl SaganRon S. Hawke Livermore scientistDr. Allan H. FreyRobert O. BeckerDale GraffJimmy CarterFred AtwaterJoe McMoneagle psyQian Xuesen, H. S. TsienJack Houck engineer for Boeing Aerospace

Major General Albert Stubblebine took command of INSCOM in 1982. He was in charge of all the Army’s strategic intelligence forces around the world. He had a longstanding interest in anomalous mental phenomena.

Lt Col John B. Alexander,

Captain David MorehouseLt Gen James ClapperJim MarrsDr. Andrea Stocco

(Sheep and Goatsinhabitants of the distant futureRemote Map Sensing.American Institutes for ResearchPower Dreaming for PTSDsynthetic telepathyInstitute for Learning and Brain Sciences at U W in SeattleInstitute for Advanced Studies at AustinDOD, NASA, DARPA, and Lockheed’s Skunkworkszero point energyQi and PranaEntangled particles

Retrocausationforensic investigation and diagnosis of patients injured by anomalous events.Nolan Lab at Stanfordimmune systemGenetic link in psychic powers

[ BUT: Geller, McMoneagle, Dellafiori etc seem to have been born with the phenomena, while the Livermore scientists this was a new event, somehow based on Geller’s activities.]

V Monroe instituteV Sunstresak Star GateV Akashic recordsEdgar Cayce Association for Research and EnlightenmentJASON committee

MKULTRAteonanactl – Gods Flesh: not just hallucinogenic, but has divine qualities. It allowed human consciousness to separate for a time from the body.Round Table FoundationPuharich theoryeponymous torpedoextraterrestrial intelligencepseudoscience: originally used to describe alchemy

psycometrypsychotronic weapons

Big BoyProject BIZARREPhiladelphia Naval Yard.Dowsinguse of dowsing techniques by US military in battletachyonNSABaxter EffectSecret Life of Plantsroot tip, or radicle, “acts like the brain of one of the lower animals”American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR)Josephson Junction; 2 layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material.

SQUIDSwannGeller effect,

outbounder-beacon Remote viewingARPANET internetUFOcoordinate Remote viewingCommittee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the ParanormalPauli effectGeller effectVisions seen by Laurence Livermore Lab Nuclear Scientists V placebo effect. W. I. Thomas theoremheart attack gunProject Pandora was a classified multiservice effort to duplicate the Moscow SignalMoscow SignalSynthetic telepathy: a microwave input signal allowed the brain to receive a message that it perceived to be a voice transmission

Project Deep QuestOperations Security, OPSECTyphoon Russian SubmarineExtraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF)QigongAdvanced Human Technology Office

Part 1: The Early Days

Chapter 1: The Supernatural

The Nazis were interested in astrology and the occult. Himmler created a vast Nazi science academy called Das Ahnenerbe, or the Institute for Research and Study of Heredity. The mission was to prove Nazi ideology was directly descended from ancient Teutonic culture and was therefore superior to all others. P. 17

One branch of the institute, called a survey of the occult was where research on ESP, astrology, map dowsing, spirit channeling, etc was pursued. It was from these Ahnenerbe documents, captured separately by the US and Soviet military, that the psychic arms race began. P. 18

Right after WWI, Soviet and US governments began researching ways to influence and control human behavior. Leading the charge in the US was the newly formed CIA. One of their early projects was to develop a truth serum. In concert with elements in the US Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, MD., a classified program was developed, called Bluebird, then Artichoke, and finally MKULTRA. For these and similar programs the CIA hired magicians, hypnotists, and even Sybil Leek, Britain’s famous white witch. P. 20

Morse Allen, made director of Project Artichoke in 1952, sought a Mexican field mushroom called teonanactl – Gods Flesh – alleged to produce psychic effects. Field agents were sent

to Mexico to collect this specimen. A contract was also let to a mushroom grower in PA to mass produce the species for classified intelligence use. P. 21-22.

In 1954, Allen learned that an Army Captain at the Army Chemical Center was also looking for this mushroom. This was Henry Karel “Andrija” Puharich, who was also a research scientist, an MD, and a trance –state specialist.

Since 1947, Puharich and a well funded prizewinning staff of scientists had been conducting a wide range of unusual research at a privately funded facility called the Round Table Foundation, located in rural Maine. He was written into the Army Chemical Center’s operation to locate drugs that could enhance psychic functioning. P. 22

Chapter 2: The Puharich Theory

“The point I am trying to establish is that the brain is an area where in is localized the cell energy of the body”. He calls this cell energy “dynamics”. He believed this energy force, present in all animals and insects, radiated somewhere on the EM spectrum but that man had not yet technology to measure or record it. The Puharich theory was embraced by the nation’s top doctors. When, a few months later, Yale scientists Lloyd H. Beck and Walter S. Miles first reported that the olfactory nerve of the bee radiated energy in the infrared spectrum, one of Puharich’s theories was proved right.

In 1947, Puharich began a collaboration with Dr. Paul De Kruif, legendary microbiologist and author of Microbe Hunters. In addition to his support, De Kruif offered a prescient warning:

“All creation, including science, is a war against precedent. Science, to be vital, must grow out of competition between individual brains, foils to one another, each man mad for his own idea. “

Conformity was a scientist’s death knell. “Beware the establishment”.

Wealthy benefactors contributed to the establishment of his new Round Table Foundation. Puharich moved his family from California to a new mansion and lab in Maine.

One of the more influential people in his life during this period was Jack Hammond Jr., the wealthy US inventor and ESP advocate, Hammond held more US patents than any other living US citizen at that time, including one for his eponymous torpedo, the first radio controlled underwater missile in use by the US Navy. The idea came from his mentor Nikola Tesla. Hammond had also been mentored by Thomas Edison and Alex Graham Bell. Hammond, as Tesla before him, believed scientific inspiration could come in the form of a dream. Several scientists have won Nobel prizes based on such dream inspiration. Tesla wrote in his memoirs that he had experienced ESP as a child, and wondered if ESP might travel on extremely low frequency (ELF) EM waves. In nature, ELF waves are generated by thunderstorms, lightning, and natural disturbances in the earth’s magnetic field. To test Tesla’s ideas, H and P built a Faraday cage, to shield anything inside from all EM waves except ELF. They then hired famous psychics and tested them in the cage. Results suggested shielding had a positive impact on psychic functioning. P. 32 f.

P. investigated a machinist who suddenly heard voices. P and his foundation suspected the man might be hearing voices that were traveling on a radio wave. Turned out that occupational use of carborundum as a grinding agent had deposited carborundum dust in his teeth. The dust, silicon carbide, a semiconductor, behaved like a crystal rectifier in the old radio sets of he 1920. The man was not crazy. He was precisely tuned to radio station WOR in N. Y. City. After his teeth were cleaned, he heard no more voices. [ has this been verified? This info appeared in a letter from Warren S. McCullough, a powerful establishment scientist, to P.]

P. did additional work for the military and CIA. Then, in 1952, P’s life took a dangerous turn. Cognitive scientists call it confirmation bias, or myside bias, the tendency to search for, interpret, or favor data that confirms a deeply held preexisting belief.

His experiences with Hindu scholar Dr D. G. Vinod resulted in the alteration of his old theory of an internal energy source to something outside the human body, some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. He promoted these ideas in a series of classified military and intelligence briefings in the eastern US. P. 34 f.

Chapter 3 Skeptics, Charlatans, and the U.S. Army

In 1952, with the publication of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Martin Gardner singlehandedly jump started the modern scientific skepticism movement. The book reintroduced readers to the18th century term “pseudoscience” (originally used to describe alchemy, the magic based medieval forerunner to chemistry), which Gardner described as a collection of beliefs not based on the scientific method.

In the strict scientific method, if an experiment is not repeatable, then the original hypothesis must be refined, altered, expanded or rejected. Probability is not addressed.

J. B. Rhine became known as the father of modern US ESP, and the topic became very popular.

The last chapter of Gardner’s book debunked Rhine’s work, labeling it “an enormous self-deception”.

p. 40-41

Gardner did not know that Rhine, like Puharich, was working on numerous classified ESP projects.

p. 42

Dr Karlis Osis was an expert in deathbed visions. He spent 4 years traveling between the US and India studying this phenomena. He found that Indian patients were far more likely to experience DBVs than US population, suggesting cultural differences.

p. 43

Amanita muscaria is a poisonous mushroom often referred to in Nordic and Germanic fairytales, likely the reason for its association with magic potions, witches, goblins and trolls. P. 47

Numerous shamanistic tribes believed that teonanactl, Gods flesh, is not just hallucinogenic, but has divine qualities. It allowed human consciousness to separate for a time from the body. P. 48

Cryptomnesia is a term invented by psychology professor Theodore Flournoy in 1898 as a result of studying Catherine-Elise Muller, aka Helene Smith, who in trance could describe in detail events from the lives of historical figures, including Victor Hugo and Marie Antoinette. She spoke multiple languages including some unidentified. Flournoy believed her responses came from her “subliminal imagination, derived largely from forgotten sources”. P. 51-52

Jung described a similar case in 1903 in a paper called Cryptomnesia. This concept propelled him to develop his own ideas about the collective conscious. P. 53

Puharich retired from the Army. The FBI was assigned to monitor his ongoing ESP experiments at the Round Table. P. 53-54

Chapter 4: Quasi Science

CIA and asset James Moore bypassed Puharich and tried to access the Mexican mushrooms via R. Gordon Wasson, without success. Wasson found the mushrooms in Oaxaca mexico. While having hallucinations, he experienced no divinatory powers, and sent a box to Puharich at the RT Foundation in Maine. He found that 3 chemicals produced the hallucinogenic effects: Muscarine, atropine, and bufotenin. He planned to test this on Harry Stump, and got his friend Aldous Huxley, to act as witness. Huxley had studied and written about shamanistic people, and in Los Angeles in 1953, under the supervision of a psychiatrist, ingented 400 mg of mescaline, and recorded the results in a 63 page book, The Doors of Perception. Jim Morrison named his band The Doors after reading it. The book has never gone out of print. P. 55-57

In 1956, Peter Hurkos, a WW II concentration camp survivor, was taking Europe by storm with his psychic abilities. In 1941 he had fallen off a third floor balcony and suffered traumatic brain injury. When he recovered, he possessed ESP, and was especially good at pychometry, the act of devining info from an object through touch. He had helped Scotland yard and the Paris Metro police solve crimes. He came to the RT Foundation and worked well with Harry Stump. Thing were going well. Then in 1956, Puhrich leaned that the CIA bypassed him and went directly to Wasson directly, and had infiltrated his group. P. 60-61. CIA’s Moore finally was

allowed to accompany Wasson on an expedition to retrieve mushrooms, and returned a bag of them to CIA. Wasson published a 15 page Life Magazine article on the mushroom, caused a sensation, rendering the CIA’s desire to keep it as a secret weapon null.

Things went downhill at Warrenton. Hurkos said he saw a flying saucer land on the beach. He began to see ghosts and have premonitions.

P. 61-63

Puharich was visited by 2 reps from the DOD at Warrenton. A month later the RT Foundation was shut down. A FOIA request reveals that Puharich was hired by the U.S. Army to work as a “consultant on mushroom toxicology”. P. 64

Puharich discovered Uri Geller. P. 69.

Chapter 5: the Soviet Treat

In 1960, a story appeared in France’s top science journal, Science et Vie, under the heading The Secret of the Nautilus, claiming a US ESP experiment on the sub at the north pole was successful. The US Navy called the story a hoax. Regardless of the truth of this story, the Soviets used the story to boost their ESP efforts. P. 70 f

In the early 1960s, reference to “psychotronic weapons” appeared in soviet science journals, defined as EM weapons involving the generation of high-penetrating emissions of non-biological origin.

p. 73

in 1962 it was determined that the soviets were bombarding the US Embassy in Moscow with microwaves in an attempt to adversely effect embassy personnel. A dispute arose among defense scientists, some believing the Russian microwaves were harmless, and others who strongly disagreed. Highly classified studies code named Big Boy and Project BIZARRE PROJECTED MICROWAVE RADIATION at unwitting sailors stationed in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. These experiments would remain secret for 7 years. P. 76-77

Ninel Kulagina was promoted by the Soviets as having psychokinetic abilities. Demonstrations were said to show that she could move small objects and stop and start a frog’s heart. P. 77 f

Regardless of the actual capabilities, the US military felt obligated to mirror the Soviets ESP programs. The psychic warfare race was on. P. 80-81

Part 2: The CIA Years

Chapter 6: The Enigma of Uri Geller

In 1970, Uri Geller was using his map dowsing to help Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Dayan find and steal Israeli archeological treasures. Dowsing is the ability to locate water, minerals or man made objects buried underground by means of a divining rod. Few divinatory practices have incensed modern skeptics as much as dowsing has. In his Fads book Gardner noted it became a common and respectable practice in during the Age of Enlightenment. Some of the most famous dowsers were illiterate and had no explanation for their ability, and untold numbers of dowsers throughout the world were being paid for their services. Dowsing was pure pseudoscience he wrote.

p. 85-86

Drawings of figures with Dowsing rods have been found in prehistoric cave paintings in North Africa and Peru. Egyptians Scythians and Persians adapted the process. Dowsing became common in the US in the late 1800s as a way for homesteaders to find water.

The first known use of dowsing techniques by US military in battle occurred during the Vietnam war. .In 1967 Marines used the technique to find Viet Cong tunnels. Although it worked, the Marine Corps declined to go forward with a divining program. P. 87-89

Geller became a sensation in Israel. He met Puharich there, and was successfully tested for psychic abilities. CIA director Richard Helms directed Kit Green to become Geller’s handler, but the CIA wanted to distance themselves from Puharich. Edgar Mitchell was selected as the vehicle through which funds would flow to Geller and Puharich. P. 97 f.

Chapter 7: The man on the Moon

Edgar Mitchell’s adventures on the moon. His ESP experiment in space failed, but his world view shifted. He left NASA and divorced his wife, and he sought only the companionship of those who shared his vision. At a conference he met Puharich and they became fast friends. Mitchell accepted Puharich’s invitation to collaborate on a Geller project.

Chapter 8 The Physicist and the Psychic

Before working as a laser scientist, Hal Puthoff had worked for US Naval Intelligence, and was loaned out to NSA for a computer based code breaking project. Although interesting, he decided a traditional career in the military was not for him. He began to focus on quantum physics, zero point energy, and how quantum theory might account for life processes. He became interested in the faster then light tachyon, hypothesized by Russian Yakov Terletsky and US Gerald Feinberg. By 1972, at age 35, Puthoff was an expert in quantum electronics and electron beam devises, published 23 papers, and given 14 national symposium lectures.

From SRI he wrote to Grover Cleveland (Cleve) Baxter, a former CIA analyst whose specialty was detecting deception. P 118-120.

Baxter had cofounded the CIA’s polygraph program. He moved to NYC and founded the Baxter School of Lie Detection, and trained FBI agents the art of lie detection.

On Feb 2, 1966, he did his first experiment with house plants. As he prepared to strike a match and burn the houseplant, the plant like detector reading spiked dramatically. Plants had consciousness, he was convinced. P. 120 f. He called the plant reaction the Baxter Effect, and his work would eventually become the subject of a best selling book, the Secret Life of Plants, by journalists Peter Tomkins, a former OSS officer, and Christopher Bird, a CIA operative.

Skeptics and scientists tore the Baxter Effect to shreds, starting with the fact that plants lack a nervous system. As of 2017, no other scientist has been able to repeat the experiment under strict lab controls.

But even Charles Darwin, who studied plants his entire life, once observed that the root tip, or radicle, “acts like the brain of one of the lower animals”

Baxter stood by his experiment.

In another experiment, he cut a plant in two, then moved the halves to two different rooms, where he burned the leaves. His conclusion was that a plants ability to react was not limited to distance. This was the experiment that caught Puthoff’s attention. He had been tracking the work of scientists of the tachyon hunt. These were all apparatus-based inanimate physics experiments. He proposed to grow an algae culture, split it, separate the cultures by 5 miles, then zap one culture with a laser, and see if the other culture responded. This could answer 2 questions: 1) do living organisms really interact at a distance, and if so, 2) could tachyons explain how the plants might communicate.

Meanwhile, Baxter had moved on to experiments involving humans and plants. His human subject was Ingo Swann. They had met at a dinner party given by Bruell Mullen, a painter, muralist, and social high flyer. Swann learned of the actual but hidden extent for the demand for psychics, among the wealthy, politicians, wall-street types.

P. 120 f

Swann worked as a subject at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), the oldest such org in the US, founded by philosopher and physician William James. In an experiment headed by Karlis Osis, Swann found that he could quickly “see” what was hidden in test boxes, but could not articulate what he saw. However, he was able to draw what he say. It was then that he realized that he was able to “see” the target instantaneously. Psychic functioning seemed to occur at the speed of light. No one understood except Baxter, who told him he had received a research paper from a scientist, Hal Puthoff, who was pursuing a related hypothesis at SRI. Swann contacted Puthoff, who invited him to SRI to be tested inside a Faraday cage.

At first intimidated by this idea, he found New York’s skeptical and disparaging press intolerable. He resolved to go the SRI and be tested by a scientist.

p. 126 f

Puthoff decided to design a fail safe test for Swann. He gained access to a quark detecting magnetometer in the basement of the Varian physics hall. According the declassified CIA docs, the devise was developed under an Office of Naval Research contract, and was of the SQUID type. The only thing ever written about the device was that it contained a Josephson Junction; 2 layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material. It was buried. Swann was being asked to “poke around” with a target he could neither see, nor even know exactly where it was underground. A strip chart recorder was in the room, which recorded the magnetometer’s activity. From his perspective, all 9 witnesses were smirking at him, and he became angry. He concentrated for a few minutes, but the recorders did not move.

He asked for a piece of paper. He drew the magnetometer as he saw it in his mind. “Is this the Josephson Junction, he asked, pointing to his drawing. If so I can see it quite well. At that instant, the pen on the strip chart gave a small jerk. “All eyes went to the machine” Puthoff said. Then the pen lifted high above its previous position. Swann heard someone mumble “Jesus Christ”. Can you do that again Puthoff asked. Swann concentrated and the pen moved again. Puthoff shook his head. “I thought, I’ll be damned”

This led Puthoff to only one conclusion. Swann had perturbed the magnetometer by some not understood means.

Puthoff asked Drs Lee and Hebard to sign the changes recorded by the strip chart, and they did.

p. 130 f

Puthoff wrote up his findings and sent them to colleagues. Several weeks later the CIA approached Puthoff and expressed concern over Soviet ESP experiments, and arranged for more testing of Swann and a pilot program headed by Puthoff. Swann successfully passed a spontaneously conceived test, in which there was no possibility of fraud. In 1972, the CIA awarded an 8 month research contract to SRI. Geller would also be brought into the program and tested, on behalf of the CIA. The results, called the SwannGeller effect, would set the stage for more than 20 years of classified research into ESP.

p. 135 f

Chapter 9: Skeptics vs the CIA

Geller did well on tests conducted for the CIA. P. 138 f.

The CIA concluded Geller’s abilities were real. ARPA thought his abilities did not exceed those of a skillful Magician. P. 145

Ray Hyman, the psychologist contracted by ARPA, and Martin Gardner teamed up in an anti-Geller campaign. Gardner told Time that Geller’s supporters reminded him of the supporters of Nazism. A reporter at Time, Stefan Kanfer said that “SRI should be destroyed” for carrying out this type of research. “That’s the way Fascism began”

A popular magician, James Randall Zwinge, who went by the name of James Randi, made things personal. “Geller brings disgrace to the craft I practice.”” Worse than that, he warps the thinking of a young generation of forming minds.” Randi spent 2 years writing his one expose of Geller. One of the things he found most offensive about Geller was that he had single-handedly ruined the careers of respectable men like Andrija Puharich. “Just how did a man of the learning and intelligence of Andrija Puharich ever get sucked into the Geller following?” Randi asked, in all seriousness, insisting that Geller had “done more to destroy what authority Puharich once held in the scientific community” than Puhrich would be able to recover fom. P. 146-147

Despite the controversy, Puthoff told Christopher Green he remained convinced that Geller used ESP, and said he could see things at a distance. Green said “no he can’t”. Puthoff put Geller on the line with Green. Geller proceeded to describe an image from a book upon which Green was focusing. Green was baffled. In 2015 Puthoff’s recollection of the event matched Geller’s.

Chapter 10: Remote Viewing

To meet the CIA objective of “opportunities for operational use”, P and T worked to demonstrate a form of long distance telepathy known as traveling Clairvoyance. Swann called it “remote viewing”. They developed a protocol called the outbounder-beacon RVing experiment. The outbounder team would randomly choose a sealed envelope and get in a car. They would open the envelope, which contained a photo of a landmark and its address. They would drive to the target location and at a predetermined time one of them would survey the site, mentally recording the target. The viewer, back at SRI, would try to sketch what the outbounder was seeing. Swann and several others acted as viewers. P & T were so impressed they planned to publish their work. Swann was not impressed. “These ESP experiments are a trivialization of my abilities.”

p. 151-152

In the SRI cafeteria Swann was having lunch with a colleague of Puthoff, Jacques Vallee. Vallee had co developed the first computerized mapping system of Mars by NASA. For ARPA, he was working on a multi-user military network called ARPANET, later renamed the Internet. Vallee was also considered on of the most significant figures in nthe study of UFOs. He told Swann that he needed an addressing scheme. A few days later the words “try coordiantes” popped into Swann’s head. He decided to create a new concept called coordinate RVing. He suggested it to Puthoff.

p. 152-154

Swann was given a set of coordinates that had been “handed down” from several people, so none of them knew what was at the target location. A new psychic, Pat Price, was also given the coordinates. Swann described what seemed to be a military base, with something underground. Price gave much more specific information, including what was inside underground rooms at the target site. The source of the coordinates dismissed both Swann and Price’s description. The coordinates were for his summer cabin in Virginia. Green visited the location. He saw the cabin, but he also found a secure military facility that matched Swann and Price’s surface description. The details that Price reported, hidden underground, were confirmed by the CIA. The installation was the secret Naval Radio Station at Sugar Grove, used by NSA for intercepting messages from around the world. Price was hired to be a remote viewer. P. 155-161.

Before Pat Price, the consensus was that RVing was a right brain activity, non-verbal and intuitive. Swan was visual and creative. Price however, was able to discern details; letters, words, numbers and dates. This made Price an intelligence gathering gold mine. P. 162

During one experiment, a geometric shape interfered with the numbers Price was trying to RV. The situation gave him nausea. The shape was an Old Testament cross. Neurophysiologist Kit Green observed that nausea has to do with how the cortex obtains but does not process visual data. There is a surge of serotonin in the area postrema.p. 163-164

Another time Price felt nausea and chest pains RVing Kit Green in a church praying. Green began developing about the physiology involved in RVing: the brain of the sender (outbounder and brain of the viewer are both involved I a very complex way. P. 165

Price seemed to be able to travel across the globe, gather info, and return.

The CIA contracted with an outside scientist to evaluate the psychic research program. After reviewing the data given to him, he concluded “a large body of reliable experimental evidence points to the inescapable conclusion that ESP does exist as a real phenomena, albeit characterized by rarity and lack of reliability.” P. 170

Chapter 11: The Unconscious

While Geller’s posse of critics cried fraud, the CIA did not necessarily think so. p. 173.

They were also worried about secondary effects. On Nov 23 1973, Geller appeared live on the BBC Jimmy Young show. Geller allegedly caused a spoon to bend on air, while telling the listening audience to bend spoons, fix watches, etc. with their minds. Calls came into the BBC station from across the UK reporting metal objects bending. P. 174

At similar events, scientists present expressed wonder: Statements that they believed Geller bend spoons, etc: variations on what CIA’s Ken Kress called “conversion moments”. P. 175

Geller became front page news in Europe. P. 175

In the US, a “coalition” was formed to discredit him. Carl Sagan, Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, Paul Kurtz and James Randi created the “Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal”. Sagan believed it was a battle between the rational and the irrational. Their position had no bearing on the decision made by the CIA. They continued research in this area. Geller’s actions had real world consequences, rational or irrational.

SRI scientists working with Geller noticed that strange things sometimes occurred in his presence. Otherwise reliable equipment would malfunction; objects disappeared, then reappeared; computers crashed; magnetic tape became demagnetized. There was a president for this phenomena: the Pauli effect, in which there were numerous instances of technical equipment malfunctioning, falling, or sustaining unusual damage when Wolfgang Pauli was in the lab. Pauli wrote an article titled “Background physics”, in which he discussed the relationship between physics, the conscious, and the unconscious. The SRI scientists started calling the odd occurrences around them the “Geller effect.” P. 175-178.

One theory behind this phenomena is called associationism: the idea that, like a chain reaction, , each experience informs or influences the next experience. Also called self-fufilling prophesy and the tinkerbell effect. For the CIA in 1950s, the controversial anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher studied the placebo effect. The W. I. Thomas theorem states that what is believed to be true is true in its consequences . p. 178

In 1975, scientists at Laurence Livermore lab California, where research on nuclear weapons is done, were concerned over Geller’s possible influence, and wanted to test him. Magnetic computer program cards were placed in a lead container. “The Magnetic pattern stored in the iron oxide layer of a magnetic program card was erased, wrote Ron S. Hawke, a Livermore scientist. The determination was, that a close distance, Geller could effect matter and materials. But he also had an effect on the Livermore scientists. Several nuclear weapons engineers reported seeing things they could not explain in their homes at night. Balls of light, a raven. Green thought these sounded like poltergeist events. P. 179

Green conducted pathology tests on these scientists. There was no pathology.

One scientist saw a disincarnate human arm with a hook for a hand, rotating like a hologram at the foot of his bed. His wife saw it too. P. 180

Green concluded that this was a high-tech psy-ops. As a result of all these visions, two nuclear scientists took it as an omen and quit. “ they believed they were not supposed to work on nuclear weapons anymore.”

The CIA hired Pat Price away from SRI. What he did for them remains a mystery.

On July 14 1975, Price was pronounced dead of a heart attack. There was no autopsy report, because there was no autopsy. The coroner said a man showed up with Price’s medical record, than waived the autopsy on the grounds that Price had died of a heart attack. At SRI rumors spread that Price had been killed, by the KGB, the CIA, or perhaps by the church of Scientology. In 1972, the Army’s Medical Intelligence Office warned that the KGB was developing a way to use psychokinesis to stop the human heart. The Church committee had

also revealed that the CIA had created a “heart attack gun”, whose poison pellets would make it appear that the victim had suffered a heart attack. The CIA withdrew from it’s lead position in anomalous mental performance research.

P. 181-183

Chapter 12: Submarines

With the development of EM theory, EM became a possible candidate to “explain” ESP. Light can be blocked, as can High frequency waves with lead. In the 1940s, Puharich and Jack Hammond built a Faraday cage to block radio and microwaves. They found no degradation in psychic functioning. The Faraday cage does not block ELF EM waves, nor does deep water. ELF EM waves are the only ones that can reach through deep water.

By 1975, the Navy had spent roughly $125 million researching ELF. Puthoff and Targ suggested they research the relationship, if any, between ELF and ESP. p. 188

Note:

Project Pandora was a classified multiservice effort to duplicate the Moscow Signal as a counter measure for the Russian microwave weapon being aimed at US personnell in the Moscow Embassy. The ARPA led program included beaming signals at unwitting sailors stationed in a submarine at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.

The initial Moscow signals bombarding the Embassy were discovered in 1962. New and more powerful signals were detected in 1973. Finally, in 1976, the US Ambassador was briefed. He reported to his staff that they had been subject to this radiation, which could be harmful to their health. 100 of 125 embassy employees filed $250 million in lawsuits against the US government.. in response the govt funded a $1 million study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygene and Public Health. The study found “no convincing evidence” of adverse health effects. Not a penny was paid in lawsuits. Three ambassadors exposed to the Moscow signal died of cancer in the period from 1972-1986. Microwave and ELF weapons were now being discussed in the public domain. P. 189 f.

Dr. Allan H. Frey was one of the nation’s most dedicated researchers on understanding the effects of microwaves on the human. In 1961, Frey discovered a new technology, later called synthetic telepathy, in which a microwave input signal allowed the brain to receive a message that it perceived to be a voice transmission but was really a microwave beam. He insisted we do not have a good understanding of nervous system function, including how it can be effected by EM radiation.

P. 189 – 192

In the late 1960s, Frey reported he could stop an excised frog heart by synchronizing the pulse rate of a microwave beam with the heart, echoing what Nina Kulagina was reported to have done with her mind. Robert O. Becker, colleague of Frey and Koslov, wrote that it was

technically feasible to produce heart attacks with EM radiation. Becker, twice nominated for the Nobel prize, worked on microwave weapons for the DOD until the 1970s. He resigned after working on microwave weapons designed to disorient people, because he considered such work immoral.

Was the Moscow signal benign, as koslov asserted, or potentially lethal, as Becker and Frey asserted? The CIA hired AiResearch to study the Soviet research on ESP. p. 193

In one area they found cause for alarm. The Soviets were trying to optimize psychic functioning by bombarding test subjects with VHF sound and pulsing the brain with EM signals, to facilitate hallucinations and altered states. What Puharich tried to facilitate by mushrooms, the Soviets were trying to do via technology.

In the summer of 1977, Puthoff, Dale Graff, the SRI team, Ingo Swan and another psychic teamed up with Stephan Schwarz for Project Deep Quest. There was a classified and unclassified portion of the project. The unclassified was to find a ship wreck. On a nautical map,

The psychics marked where they detected ship wrecks. The map was taken to the geodetic survey, which confirmed numerous places marked by the pyschics as being the site of a ship wreck. Only one location indicated by the psychics was not confirmed by the geodetic survey. A previously unidentified ship wreck was found in the vicinity of where the psychics had indicated. The results of the classified test, in which psychics submerged in a submarine RVed photos held by experimenters on the surface, allowed Graff to conclude that there was no way to hide classified information from a talented RVer. P. 199

Graff got the OK to begin a program in which RVers would attempt to locate lost aircraft. This was the beginning of a 20 year effort by the DoD to use psychic functioning in military operations. P 200.

Part 3: The Defense Department Years.

Chapter 13 Paraphysics

Jimmy Carter confirmed the case of the recovery of valuable foreign technology which had succeeded with the help of RVing, having failed using satellite imagery. P. 216

The CIA had cancelled its RV program, and Graff’s participation, in part because there was no known mechanism for it to work. Then the DIA, under Jack Vorona, recruited Graff to work on a classified program called psychoenergetics. P. 220

Chapter 14: Psychic Soldiers

2nd Lt. Fred Atwater worked in Operations Security, OPSEC. He was aware of the concern of the US military over possible Soviet use of ESP as a military weapon. He was given responsibility to train military personnel, with the help of Puthoff et al, to learn psychic skills. The project became Grill Flame. P. 221- 225.

Warrant officer Joe McMoneagle was a selected trainee. “My life was saved more than once by simply doing what my inner voice suggested. He had a NDE. P. 229-230. 5 other Army employees were also selected. .232

McMoneagle RVed an entirely new generation of nuclear powered ballistic missile subs, the “shark”, or “Typhoon”., This was a military “intelligence first”. p. 235-236

The NSA authorized the Army psychics in training to become an operational unit in the Iran hostage crisis. The psychics envisioned the crash of the helicopter sent to rescue the hostages.Several RVers quit as a result of the RVed trauma.

At Ft Meade the viewers continued to provide info for the NSA, the CIA and the Joint Chiefs. P. 240

Chapter 15: Qigong and the mystery of H. S. Tsien

In 1979, intelligence analysts were startled by what they discovered about China and psychic functioning. A 12 year old was cited in a new article as able to ‘read’ with his ears. Additional such stories of other children appeared.

After tests, China’s top party scientists proclaimed the boy possessed Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) 4 months later, scientists from more than 20 colleges and research institutes gathered to test such children.

This was seen as a potential threat to the US military. If China was advancing human potential, then so must the US. P. 245

Children were said to bend metal, break matches, cause spontaneous combustion of flammable liquids. Several were reported to be able to see through lead.

Chinese air force scientist Luo Dongsu proposed that these children’s minds were able to produce rays similar to microwaves that were “ ten million times stronger than the most powerful radar equipment in present use. The Chinese first looked to EM waves as a source of this power. Chinese scientists also had an alternative source: Qi. (vital energy or life force)

Qigong became very popular in China in mid 19th cen. P. 246-248

During the reign of Mao, Qigong became demonized, and virtually disappeared from China. How did the EHBF movement, Qigong in spirit, spring out of the Qigong vacuum?

The CIA discovered Qian Xuesen, or H. S. Tsien was at the center of the EHBF revolution. Tsein was a US rocket pioneer. He studied at MIT then switched to Caltech to study under Theodore von Karman, the famous aerospace engineer. He applied for US citizenship, but it was delayed. He co-founded Jet Propulsion Lab in Ca, the US’s first experimental rocket lab. He worked on the Manhattan Project and later interrogated Werner von Braun. He was made first director. In 1949, when Mao proclaimed the existence of the People’s Republic of China,the US and China became enemies and the McCarthy reign of terror began. Although he held top

security clearances, the FBI insulted him and revoked his clearances and placed him under house arrest. After 5 years in detention, he was returned to China in a prisoner exchange. He spent the rest of his life avenging his treatment by the US.

Science was to be his weapon of revenge. He would embrace communism and almost single handedly transform China from a backwater into a nuclear power. He also promoted the EHBF movement, and sought to transform qi from ancient Chinese medicine to a new scientific technology.

China along with the Soviets, became a threat to US security.

P. 250 f.

A systems engineer for Boeing Aerospace, Jack Houck, knew about Qigong and H. S. Tsien, and saw a connection between qi and psychokinesis(PK) that no one in the US considered before. He considered that PK was not a paranormal superpower, but an ability to harness Qi. Houck hosted more than 50 PK spoon bending parties in a high energy environment of excitement, where all exclaimed “bend”. About 85% of the spoons bent, as well as steel plate, etc. His conclusion was that everyone seems to be able to do PK. P257 f.

Chapter 16 Killers and Kidnappers

Major General Albert Stubblebine took command of INSCOM in 1982. He was in charge of all the Army’s strategic intelligence forces around the world. He had a longstanding interest in anomalous mental phenomena. Stubblebine set up an entity called the Advanced Human Technology Office, with Lt Col John B. Alexander, former Green Beret and special forces commander in Vietnam. P. 275-276.

Chapter 17 Consciousness

The first time ESP and PK were written about in an official Army publication was on Dec 12, 1980. The article, titled “The New Mental Battlefield: Beam Me Up Spock” was published in Military Review, out of Fort Leavenworth KS, by John Alexander. P. 277

“While the concepts may stretch the imagination of many readers” wrote Alexander, “the possibility for employment as weaponry has been explored. To be more specific, there are weapon systems that operate on the power of the mind whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated. He was not yet part of Grill Flame, nor did he have access to information about any of the CIA, DIA, or Army projects involving ESP or PK, now being called remote action (RA) or remote perturbation (RP). His article was based on personal experience and open-source information. What interested him most was how people face fear, and how people feared death. For his PhD in near death studies, working with Elisabeth Kubler Ross, he was a founding board member of the nation’s first Children’s Hospice International, where he developed protocols to help terminally ill children face death without fear. P. 278

In Jan 1981, Alexander’s interests caught the eye of a high level Army organization called Task Force Delta (not Delta Force), whose goal was to change the way soldiers thought. He was then transferred to INSCOM under Stubblebine.p. 279-281

In the early 1980s, a major challenge faced the military. Machines were getting smarter but humans were not. The army no longer wanted soldiers to be all they could be; they wanted them to be better. As part of a program called INSCOM Beyond Excellence, Alexander was now in charge of the Advanced Human Technology Office. P. 281.

AHTO members traveld the country on a quest to learn what factors motivated people to strive for greatness. They looked at new age and self help programs, including sleep discipline, NLP, and Silva Mind Control. They were looking for the 5 best programs that Army INSCOM could get behind. P. 282

McMoneagle was being overworked as a RVer at Fort Meade. Requests were coming in from NSA, CIA, and FBI. P. 283

Fred Atwater suggested McMoneagle and he visit the Monroe Institute. Robert Monroe’s mentor in weird shit was Puharich. His specialty was out of body experiences (OBE).In 1971, he published Journeys Out of Body, describing his experiences in the astral plane. P. 287.

He promoted an audiotape trademarked as hemi-sync, short for hemispheric synchronization. The concept was built on the work of Heinrich W. Dove, a Prussian physicist who proposed the concept of the binaural beat in 1839. The idea was that if 2 pure tones of slightly different frequencies is played in the 2 ears, the brain would produce a third tone, a phantom signal. People wanted to have the same kind of experiences Monroe had, so he founded the Monroe Institute, in the foothills of the Blueridge mountains. Atwater thought this would be a good place for McMoneagle to relax. McMoneagle agreed and became the first official US Army client. Soon hundreds of INSCOM personnel would follow. P. 288

The first trip to the MI helped McMoneagle relax. After the second trip, he noticed an improvement in his RVing. He began an intensive course, and would develop a system to have and repeat OBEs.

McMoneagle wrote another report encouraging the military to send more soldiers to shift their level of consciousness, but warned they would need to be not military minded. But coupling Army doctrine with expanded consciousness could be catastrophic. Alexander was also working with Monroe. P. 289

AHTO attended Monroe’s lectures in 1983, where he claimed hemisync would promote sleep, wakefulness, increase recall, aid concentration, etc. A second advisory team, not connected with AHTO was sent to the institute to assess Monroe’s program. This group rejected Monroe’s claims, finding none of them verifiable. The DIA asked the CIA for an assessment, and the CIA assigned Kit Green the task. Green read the reports and studied the data, and concluded

altered states make the brain unstable, and can have effects similar to hallucinogems. He wrote that enhancing an altered state in pursuit of intelligence gathering would likely provide more noise than signal. The CIA recommended to DIA that the Army disengage from its partnership with the Monroe Institute. Stubblebine overruled the CIA’s recommendation.

In a 2016 interview, Green stated that he believed what Stubblebine was doing was dangerous. He did not believe a soldier can be trained to be a psychic spy. He found that those RVers who were always right, like Pat Price, were also abnormal. They were much smarter than the average human being. From blood tests, genetic tests, IQ tests, neurological and cardiovascular tests, they were abnormal. He suggested to Stubblebine that he take the physiological, psychological, psychiatric and genetic characteristics we identified at CIA, and go recruit people like that. Stubblebine disagreed. He was convinced that ESP, PK, and other forms of psychic functioning were latent in all people and could be brought out in training. The issue of the Nuremberg code came up, regarding ethics for human experimentation. INSCOM was now required to create a Human Use Review Board in order to continue its training.

Army intelligence personnel could not mix in conversations with the public at Monroe Institute seminars, so a program was designed for the military, called Rapid Acquisition Personnel Training (RAPT), and scores of Army intelligence personnel signed up for it. It did not take long for chaos to develop.

P. 290-292

In 1983, James Randi decided to perpetrate a hoax against a well known parapsychology lab in St Louis Mo: McDonnell Lab for Psychical Research at Washington U. Two magicians employed methods Randi taught them to cheat a bending spoons. The lab was duped. The Pentagon assigned an analyst to see how it might effect the Grill Flame program. Randi claimed a lab was taken in by trickery, and that most, if not all parapsychological research is suspect, the analyst noted, but insisted Randi’s claims were “gross distortions” of the facts. The two magicians had been dismissed from the lab a year before, when it became clear they could not demo psychic abilities under tighter controls or formal scientific methods. It is clear Mr. Randi is solely interested in promoting his image as a clever magician as showman rather at the expense of reporting accuracy, the analyst noted.

In a 2016 interview, John Alexander explained that the hoax did effect the INSCOM program . “We started consulting magicians as consultants. Doug Henning was one Alexander worked with. The first episode of Doug Henning’s World of Magic, in 1975, still holds the record as the most watched magic show in TV history. Alexander also worked with Jack Houck, the host of spoon bending parties. “Jack would host spoon bending parties at my house” Alex says. Henning was invited to attend. Alex wanted Henning’s expert opinion as to weither some or all of a group of 20 guests could collectively cheat.

Henning was overwhelmed by several aspects of the party. In 1987, Henning, at the height of his popularity, quit stage magic, or illusion magic, for “real magic”. He focused on TM. Henning

told the LA times in 1988 that illusion magic uses the laws of science we already know, while real magic uses laws that have not yet been discovered. 6 months later he died of liver cancer.

p. 294-295

Captain Paul Smith was recruited into the RV unit. He was sent, with others, including Ed Dames, to the Monroe Institute training session. He said Dames was smart, dedicated, and enthusiastic about the RV program. On “most of the 4 hour trip Ed spent talking about space aliens and UFOs. P. 301

Chapter 18: Psychic Training

Angela Dellafiora learned to access her “third eye”, necessary to be a psychic. She had worked for the FBI, and worked at INSCOM and heard a rumor of the secret RAPT program. She demonstrated channeling for Stubblebine. Stubblebine retired, and Angela got into trouble for breaking the chain of command. She was required to have a psychiatric evaluation. She explained to the doctor her perspective, and the doctor discharged her saying she was not crazy. She was demoted however, by her CO. Paul Smith called to interview her for the psychic program.

P 304-308

Chapter 19: The Woman with the Third Eye.

In 1984, Stubblebine was forcd into early retirement. INSCOM’s new commander, Brig. Gen Harry Soyster, tried to cancell the RV program, but it had been authorized by the Secretary of the Army. The Army psychoenergetics program was up for grabs, and finally the program was transferred to the DIA, thru the efforts of Graff and Vorona. In 1986, the special access program was given another name, Sun Streak. Offices remained at Ft Meade. Verona remained in charge. The science panel included 3 of the nation’s top physicists: Donald M. Kerr, DO of Los Alamos lab in New Mexico; Fred Zachariasen, Caltech physicist and ranking member of the DOD’s elite JASON committee, and W. Ross Audey, chief of Staff of the research division at Veteran’s Hospital in Loma Linda, CA. The definitions of RV and RA (remote action) were refined.

McMoneagle continued as the only RVer at Ft Meade during the program transition to DIA, on operations for the CIA, NSA, and SED. McMoneagle was awarded the Legion of Merit for his exceptional service. He then went to work for SRI. Multiple sources indicate he was almost certainly working for the CIA. Any files that exist on this remain classified, as do the files on Pat Price, which also remain classified as of 2017.

By the time DIA took over the program, 5 RVers from INSCOM remained: Bill Ray, Paul Smith, Ed Dames, Tom McNear, and Charlene Shufelt. They were sent to NYC to study under Ingo Swann. After Stubblebine was forced to retire, the AHTO and HPTF were shut down, but one

concept remained: the idea that people could be trained to be psychic. The DIA was hoping to decouple RVing from its magical stigma, but this did not happen. Until science can account for it, it will remain “pseudoscience”.

p. 309.- 311.

Swann tried to come up with a quasi theoretical basis that the DIA could present as a basis for RVing. He described it as “the matrix”, perhaps in the unconscious mind. At the meeting in NYC, Dames said “Why that sounds just like the Akashic records”, a concept introduced by Madame Helena Blavatsky. Dames explained the Records were located on the astral plane, where all human memory and its history are stored. And according to the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, “the Akashic records contain every deed, word, feeling, and thought, and intent that has ever occurred at any time in the history of the world.” The seeds of calamity were being sown. To suggest that someone with Dames’ set of beliefs could become a psychic spy for a top secret military program was in hindsight a recipe for fiasco. P. 313

McMoneagle believed psychics were born, and non-psychics could not be trained. Tom McNear was an exception. He took a long time to train, but became excellent at building clay models of his target. McNear didn’t like the program however, and moved on. In 1985 the DOD published a 41 page “how to” document Coordinate Remote Viewing, Stages i-vi and Beyond. The project officer, or author was McNear, whose name was redacted. P. 314

In 1986, the DIA parted ways with Ingo Swann, depending on those he had trained to train others. In July 1986, Dellafiora joined Sun Streak. Tensions rose, because she had broken the chain of command to be reassigned, and she called herself a psychic, in contrast to the others, who worked hard to establish themselves as remote viewers, and remove the discipline form the realm of the occult. Her worst offense was that she claimed to have a third eye, which none of them could accept.

She did not need training to function as an RVer. In a matter of minutes she could arrive at the DIA’s target site. Privately the other RVers called her a witch.

As a trainee she turned out to be not only fast, but accurate. Former special ops Vietnam veteran Eugene Lessman was in awe as her monitor in the first session. Other trainees would invariable report noise rather than signal. In her last training session, she was able to access alpha numeric data.

When Graff and Vorona read the report, they knew they had a rare viewer in Dellafiora, but recognized the potential problem that she had not been “trained”, making her subject to ridicule as occult. The proposed solution was “large scale RVing”, in which several RVers view the same target.

p. 315-325

Angela’s results were consistently the best, and Graff gave her many high priority targets, which led to tensions in the unit. The remaining viewers were assigned to refining tradecraft in RVing by going to DIA sanctioned targets. But Ed Dames began sending viewers to anomaly targets.

These targets did not exist or could not be verified, like “alien bases” beneath the desert in Phoenix or on Mars. Dames’ personal interests began working their way into the Fort Meade workload.

Joe McMoneagle says of this time “One difficulty in the study of Psi is that it is not only possible to delude oneself, into thinking something that isn’t true, in some cases it is highly likely”.

[the question is, how does one know something isn’t true? Just because something cannot be verified does not mean it is not true. How does McMoneagle know anything in RV is a delusion?]

For reasons that have never been explained, Dames was allowed to run wild with his anomaly targets. This is around the 1986 time frame.

Graff and Atwater were not aware of Dames’ anomaly targets until after the fact.

Graff’s deputy raised a larger concern: At SRI, the RV group is managed by scientists with extensive experience in understanding and researching psi, the Army has no such management. It is a matter of having a group of amateurs, led by amateurs, trained by amateurs. This eventually resulted in the DIA being given control of the Ft Meade Personnel.. But before that, the craziness would escalate. p

p. 327-329

[Yes, and the SRI scientists would most likely make sure that orthodoxy was maintained, as the DIA wished.]

Chapter 20: The End of an Era

The mid 1980s was the end of an era.

Kit Green retired from the CIA, Hal Puthoff left SRI to lead the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. Vallee became a venture capitalist. P. 330

In 1985, Ed Mitchell’s personal life went to hell, and he was demonized. He was suicidal he reported.

The anti-ESP and PK crusader James Randi also fell on hard times. He won a MacArthur grant for $272,000, but burned thru almost all of it in legal cost fighting libel cases brought on by Uri Geller. CSICOP told him to lay off making false statements, but he would not stop. His campaign against Geller ultimately cost him his position on CISCOP.

p. 330-331

Things have gone well for Geller. He has amassed fortune divining information for oil and mining companies via map dowsing. He has maintained contact with numerous government

sources. Verification of Geller’s appearance and activities at a Geneva Disarmament talk. P. 333 f.

Nuala Pell, wife of Senator Claiborne Pell, witnessed Geller putting grass seeds in his hand and sprouting them at the 1985 talks. Alexander witnessed Geller’s abilities in aclassified meeting in 1987. P. 334

It was revealed, and confirmed by the White House Press secretary, that eery major decision the Regan’s made was cleared by a San Francisco astrologer. P. 335

In 1987, 4 RVers tried to predict significant events in the Persian gulf. The correlation was poor, and the effort put aside. There was more than enough work to keep the Fort Meade RVers busy. Two RVers successfully described the content of test documents. Dellafiora was one of them. She was assigned to many projects, while Ed Dames continued to direct RVers to anomalous targets.

Declassified documents reveal that in the winter of 1987, Dames, operations manager, tasked RVers to dozens of sites of celebrated UFO encounters and alien abductions. Although many in his unit objected, many more followed his lead. (Sheep and Goats) p. 237. Dames’s goal was to support his hypothesis that a group of ETs called the Supreme Galactic Council of Aliens was working to control earth. The resulting reports could not be verified, and Dames was ordered to lay off anomalous targets. P. 338

While not excusing Dames’s frivolous actions, Atwater said he had witnessed enough strange behavior in his decade of running the RVing program at Fort Meade, that Dames’s targeting was not uniquely aberrant. Atwater, just months away from retirement, was also expanding his own supernatural ideas. He would eventually serve as president of the Monroe Institute. There, he would teach clients how to communicate with nonphysical entities who, according to Monroe literature, were inhabitants of the distant future. Dames was denied promotion to Atwaters’ job. p. 339.

Othr RVers accused Dellafiora of having an eidetic memory. Coordinates would now be encrypted to eliminate any possibility of gaming. In 1978-88, a new training technique was going to be added to the CRV protocol: Written RVing, WRV. This horrified Paul Smith, who called this automatic writing, calling it occult channeling. He was sure Dellafiora was behind it. Of occult practices, channeling it the most maligned. P. 340.

On May 15, 1987, Smith RVed what turned out to be an attack on the US Frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf…… 50 hours before it happened. The info was sent up the chain of command, but there was no response. In 2016, Dale Graff said that some members of congress thought RVing info about the future was heretical. P. 344-345.

Chapter 21: Hostages and Drugs

Graff was forced to confront a distressing reality. What good did remote viewing really do? None of RVing info saved lives. RVing promised to be useful in intelligence gathering.

A new recruit, Captain David Morehouse arrived in 1988. A former Army Ranger commander, he got superior evaluations from his superiors. Even so, he moonlighted, because the RVers had time limited assignments, with lots of free time. P. 350-352.

In 1989, the DOD was placed at the helm of the war on drugs. RVers from DIA were brought on board to help locate cocaine coming into the US from South America. Dowsing was used, in a new protocol known as Remote Map Sensing. P. 353

Sun Streak was classified, but within It were deeper levels of secrecy: Switch Plate and Stippled. Traditional dowsing tools were encouraged.

Declassified documents reveal the number of “search projects of intelligence value to have been 52%; while 47 % were listed as being of no value. P. 360.

In 1990, the DOD began pulling resources from the war on drugs to the coming Persian Gulf war. In 1990, Sun Streak was renamed Star Gate, with new panels and boards, and changed assignments. Graff was now in charge of the RVers and planned a major overhaul from lessons learned. He also wanted to discover a general theory of paranormal phenomena, and expand the scope of the program so it was not restricted to RVing. He also wanted to change the program from its Special Access status to Limited Distribution status.

By the end of the Gulf War only 3 RVers remained. Graff gave a briefing to British, Israeli, and German intelligence representatives, which were well received. P. 360f

Chapter 22: Downfall

The beginning of the end of the governments 23 year history in ESP and PK began on 11/19/1991, when AP ran a story under the headline “U. N. Enlists Psychic Firm to Find Iraqi’s Weapon Sites”. P. 364

According to legal documents filed in CA, PSI Tech had been in business since 1989. Ed Dames, David Morehouse, Mel Riley and Paul Smith- all government employees with top secret clearances, had been moonlighting their services to private clients. In 1990, Alexander and Stubblebine joined Psi Tech;s board. Smith said he did not work on any U.N. assignments during the gulf war, only ones from wealthy individuals interested in solving mysteries as whether crop circles and the Siberian Tungusta explosion could be attributed to aliens. P. 365.

Not too much attention was paid by the public to the article, but at the Pentagon, the fallout was tremendous. Lt Gen James Clapper, director of the DIA at the time, could not go anywhere without being hounded about the psychic spying program. In 1993, Dale Graff retired, which quickened the unraveling. News surfaced that Dames and Morehouse were collaborating with Jim Marrs to write an expose on the still classified RVing program. Soon Dames and Morehouse were preparing to sue one another. The RV unit seemed totally out of control.

In 1994, a phone call came from the Pentagon saying Morehouse was being court-martialed by the Army. Charges included adultery, sodomy, assault, theft of Army property, , and conduct unbecoming an officer. P. 366.

After his 2 year term with the RVing unit, Morehouse had returned to school at the Command and General Staff College in Kansas. On graduating from a masters program, he received high praise, and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg N. C. It was there that the trouble arose. This was three years after Morehouse left the RV program. Morehouse’s lawyer told Dellafiora and the RVing unit chief that the defense was going to take the position that RVing had driven Morehouse crazy. Dellafiora was called as an expert witness. The Army did not accept Morehouse’s contention that RVing made his crazy, and the Court-martial went forward.

In 1994, Morehouse checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center in DC. He told doctors there that evil demons possessed him, as a result of working in the RVing unit. He was arranging for an interview with 60 minutes in which he would say that the DIA’s RVing program at Ft Meade had made him crazy.

P. 367-368

Morehouse wanted Smith to testify that RVing had caused the mental problems he was having. He hoped that if he were diagnosed as mentally ill, traceable to a military relatable cause, he would be granted a medical retirement rather than being sent to military prison. Smith and Morehouse were Mormons, and Smith had been recently promoted in the church hierarchy.

Smith could not justify that. Walter Reed concluded that Morehouse did not have a severe mental illness. 60 minutes decided not to air the program.

p. 369

Morehouse proposed to resign his commission in lieu of being tried in court-martial, and this was accepted. He was discharged “under other than honorable conditions.”

The CIA hired an independent entity, the American Institutes for Research to conduct a review of Star Gate. The study advised against continuation of the RVing program. The reason was a restatement of what had been said before: Although lab studies demonstrated “the existence of Paranormal phenomena, remote viewing,” in the absence of evidence regarding “the source or origins of the phenomena,” there was no rationale for continuance. “The remote viewing phenomena has no real value for intelligence operations,” the researchers wrote..

The researchers were given less than 2 months to review 23 years worth of work. One of the team leaders on the report was Ray Hyman,

P. 370

a PSYCOP and acknowledged critic of the government’s psychic research since 1972. The researchers did not examine any of the research or reports done at SRI. It was later revealed

that AIR based its evaluation on roughly 40 sessions conducted in 1994-1995 by three randomly selected RVers.

On June 31, 1995, the CIA ordered DIA to cease all Star Gate operations.

In 1995, 5 months after the CIA order, a Nightline expose made the Star Gate program public. DIA’s Dale Graff and CIA’s Robert Gates were interviewed. Graff defended the integrity of the programs. Gates downplayed the significance of it all.

The story generated additional press; the tenor was skeptical and satirical, and DIA director Clapper descried the program, even though he

p. 371

categorized the work as leading edge technology.

p. 372

scientific skeptics saw victory in the RVing programs exposure, cancellation, and ridicule. But for a growing number of people, the revelation of keen government interest in anomalous mental phenomena renewed its appeal.

p. 373

Part 4 The Modern Era

Chapter 23 Intuition, Premonition, and Synthetic Telepathy.

Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung had a lively conversation about ESP and PK.

Jung said, “every conceivable kind of attempt has been made to explain away these results, which seem to border on the miraculous and frankly impossible. But all such attempts come to grief on the facts, and the facts refuse so far to be argued out of existence. “ Jung and Pauli could have been having this conversation in 2017.

For 7 decades, the CIA and DOD have been actively conducting research on anomalous mental phenomena. P. 377

Today’s DOD programs in anomalous mental phenomena research leverage modern technology. They exist in the areas of cognition, perception, and the human brain and have been retooled

p. 378

And rebranded as 21st century pursuits. They fall under the category of anomalous human cognition, and the research is being done not by parapsychologists, but by neurophysiologists, neurobiologists, IT, computer engineers. P. 379

In 2014, the Office of Naval Research embarked on a 4 year research program it calls premonition and intuition study. Today’s Navy scientists, says Peter Squire, place less emphasis on trying to understand the phenomena theoretically, and more on using technology to examine the mysterious process. Are there ways to improve premonition through training, Lt Commander Brent Olde asks. The project was born of field reports detailed a “6th sense” that alerted the military to impending attack.

In 2017, The DOD has accelerated

p. 380

practical applications of this concept. Marines are being taught to hone precognitive skills in order to preempt assaults. Because of the stigma of ESP and OK, the nomenclature has changed, to distance itself from its RVing past. Under the Perceptual Training Systems and Tools banner, ESP has a new name: sensemaking. Since 1972, CIA and DOD research indicates that premonition, or precognition, appears to be weak in some, strong in others, and extraordinary in a rare few.. p. 381.

At Bremerton Naval Hospital in WA., researchers are exploring cognition and

p. 381

perception in soldier’s virtual dream states.

Starting in 2011, in a program called Power Dreaming, soldiers plagued with PTSD nightmares use biofeedback, which has been updated with 21th century virtual reality technology. The method, called redreaming, is alleged to produce changes in the way the brain processes info. The goal is to teach trainees to trans form their debilitating nightmares into empowering dreams. P. 382 f.

Today (2017) the DOD has many programs that claim to harness the power of the mind to influence matter. The Pentagon currently supports more than 50 qigong based programs for soldiers and vets, the majority of which suffer from PTSD even though the NIH and US Department of Health and Human Services still considers qigong “unproven as medicine”.

Scientific skeptics insist that all forms of traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, are “chicanery”. The idea that the mind is able to effect the health of the body is considered pseudoscience by the PSICOPS.

The Army and Marines appear to disagree. The Operation Warrior Wellness program, offered at Army and Marine bases and VA medical centers, teaches Transcendental Meditation to PTSD sufferers. The TM based Resilient Warrior program has proved effective, based on 340 peer reviewed studies. P. 384

At DARPA, and in the US Army, scientists are building technology based mental telepathy systems, called “synthetic telepathy”. The goal is the allow future soldiers to communicate by thought alone. The brain’s alpha rhythms can be detected and translated into a computer based speech recognition system, and transmitted to another person at a remote location. This system

builds on work done in the 1960s by physicist Edmond M. Dewan of the Air Force Cambridge Research Labs in Bedford MASS. Participants learned to control their alpha brain waves.

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after much training, Dewan was able to imagine letters of the alphabet in Morse code and send those coded signals to machinery. First letters, then words then phrases.

At the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at U W in Seattle, scientists are taking signals from the brain and with minimal translation, putting them back in another persons brain. Experiments filmed at Dr. Andrea Stocco’s lab on Aug 12 2013, in collaboration with computational neuroscientist Rajesh Rao, demonstrated synthetic telepathy between two human test subjects for the first time in human history.

In 2014, the internet sent the signal from a transmitting human in one country to receiving humans in another country. P. 386-387.

Chapter 24: The Scientists and the Skeptics

Hal Puthoff’s Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, in Texsas does research in exotic propulsion systems. Its EarthTech International manages 32 subcontracts, mostly military and intelligence related. “we pursue novel ideas in gravity, cosmology, and new sources of energy. Its client list incudes the DOD, NASA, DARPA, and Lockheed’s Skunk Works. P. 388

DIA sources told Jacobsen that ETI, a subsidiary of Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, has maintained a DOD contract to investigate over-unity energy claims. Puthoff says all the claims have been disproven so far, and the results are made public on the ETI website. P. 388

ETI also investigates the possibility of harnessing zero point energy.

Puthoff wonders, as many others, whether the metaphysical cosmic energy like Qi and Prana may be analogous to ZPE. In pursuit of this theory, Puthoff and his team conduct quantum optical experiments using lasers, beam splitters, lenses, and diffraction grating. At age 80. Puthoff has no intention of slowing down. P. 390.

H. S. Tsien was brilliant, and believed the vital force of Qi was the key to the next scientific revolution. Tsien was AWST’s 2007 person of the year, and in that same year New Scientist named him one of the top 10 Influential Space Thinkers of all time. Because of the stigma associated with his anomalous mental phenomena research, his work has remained unreported in the West. P. 391

Groff continues his research at age 82, and says in the 70s and 80s, we were looking at the EM spectrum as a basis for ESP. Now we are looking at QM.

Today, physicists create huge numbers of entangled particles, to encrypt messages and study quantum computation. It might also effect time’s arrow. Some physicists suspect that causality may be different in quantum entanglement.

Entangled particles share information instantaneously, ie faster than light. [ it has been suggested that this may mean the two particles ate not 2 but 1.] Entangled particles may be related to retrocausation; the idea that the future might influence the past.

PBS Nova reporter Allison Eck wrote an article entitled Retrocauseality Could Send Particles’ Information Back to the Future. Some physicists are beginning to use retrocauseality to explain existing results.

Dale Graff is one of those physicists. In 2016, he gave a lecture at the Quantum Retrocausation III Symposium at UC San Diego, presenting data showing Retrocausation in a RVing context:

Perceiving the Future News: Evidence for Retrocausation. P. 393

There is an underlying reality Graff insists. “Remote viewing illustrates that this underlying reality exists, although it is the tip of the iceberg.

What interests Kit Green is the notion of people being physically injured by anomalous events. Often these events are perceived as involving unidentified aerial phenomena, drones, high energy radio frequencies that confront people face to face and cannot be explained.

Green first confronted this when working with Uri Geller and the nuclear scientists at Livermore. This mystery plagued him for decades. In 2005, he began working on a research project to address the issue. He began creating a structured database of individuals who were suffering enigmatic injuries and diseases, and who also had face to face encounters with UAPs. P. 396.

After people with pathologies were removed from the data base, many very interesting cases remained. Green began doing pro bono forensic investigation and diagnosis of patients injured by multiple witnessed anomalous events.

They are all high functioning individuals, most of whom carry a high security clearance; members of special forces, the intelligence community, employees of aerospace companies, military officers, guards of military bases, police. Often injuries take place on an overnight mission as a secured location. Common injuries are from something airborne; something that emits some kind of light or beam. Some orbs. P. 397

Green orders brain scans, specialized blood, DNA and endocrine tests. In 2017, he has had more than 100 active patients. His original hypothesis was that a majority of his patients had been exposed to technology from black programs. Non-lethal weapons programs, holograms, cloaking devises, drones. “25 % of my patients die from 5 to 7 years of my diagnosis, and I have no idea of how any programs I knew about 10 years ago can do these things.

Green and his colleagues sought out Garry Nolan for help. Nolan runs Nolan Lab at Stanford, and is one of the world’s leading research scientists specializing in genetics, immunology, and bioinformatics. In 2012, Nolan was awarded a 3.3 million dollar grant from the DOD for advanced cancer studies. The lab is known for large scale mapping of cellular features at an unprecedented level of detail.

Nolan met and worked with many of Green’s patients. He agrees that in many cases it looks as if an EM field of some sort “(it) has led to inflammation and other biomarkers in their bodies that

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can be seen in MRIs, tissue, and blood. We are now working on the genetic and epigenetic components.” Nolan said.

“all kinds of trauma can be picked up by the immune system” Nolan said. “Every event that happens to you Is recorded in your immune system… every surgery or bee sting …flu, head cold, allergy is recorded by the immune system.” Doctors will likely soon be able from blood testing to read the historical record of that person’s physiological life.

We are also mapping immune systems of people and their families who claim to be remote viewers or have anomalous perception. There seems to be a genetic component.

Both Green and Nolan think there is more to his patient’s injuries than just damage from high energy devises. “Some people seem to repeatedly attract the

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phenomena or the experiences” Nolan says”, like antenna. Sometimes the phenomena is a blessing, as in Geller, McMoneagle, Dellafiori, or sometimes a curse, as in Green’s injured patients.

In effect, Green and Nolan are searching for the genomics of supernormality.

Genetic link in psychic powers

[ BUT: Geller, McMoneagle, Dellafiori etc seem to have been born with the phenomena, while the Livermore scientists this was a new event, somehow based on Geller’s activities.]

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Martin Gardner, generally accepted as the father of the modern scientific skepticism movement

(or Psycops) experienced a religious epiphany that he discussed openly before his death in 2010. “I believe in a personal God” he stated in an interview in 2008. “I believe in an afterlife, and I believe in prayer, but I don’t believe in any established religion”.

In 2011, Randi was exposed as being involved in a decades long double deception and criminal fraud. It was revealed that Randi’s Carlos-the-channeler hoax involved a federal crime. This created a PR problem for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Carlos turned out to be Randi’s boy friend, who was charged with identity theft and making a false statement in application for a passport. Charges were dropped due to letters from high profile magicians and skeptics including Richard Dawkins.