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    STAR GATE was one of a number of "remote viewing programs" conducted under a variety of code names, including SUN STREAK, GRILL FLAME, and CENTER LANE by DIA and INSCOM, and SCANATE by CIA. These efforts were initiated to assess foreign programs in the field; contract for basic research into the the phenomenon; and to evaluate controlled remote viewing as an intelligence tool.
    The program consisted of two separate activities. An operational unit employed remote viewers to train and perform remote viewing intelligence-gathering. The research program was maintained separately from the operational unit.

    This effort was initiated in response to CIA concerns about reported Soviets investigations of psychic phenomena. Between 1969 and 1971, US intelligence sources concluded that the Soviet Union was engaged in "psychotronic" research. By 1970, it was suggested that the Soviets were spending approximately 60 million rubles per year on it, and over 300 million by 1975. The money and personnel devoted to Soviet psychotronics suggested that they had achieved breakthroughs, even though the matter was considered speculative, controversial and "fringy."

    The initial research program, called SCANATE [scan by coordinate] was funded by CIA beginning in 1970. Remote viewing research began in 1972 at the Stanford Research Institute [SRI] in Menlo Park, CA. This work was conducted by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, once with the NSA and at the time a Scientologist. The effort initially focused on a few "gifted individuals" such as New York artist Ingo Swann, an OT Level VII Scientologist. Many of the SRI "empaths" were from the Church of Scientology. Individuals who appeared to show potential were trained and taught to use talents for "psychic warfare." The minimum accuracy needed by the clients was said to be 65%, and proponents claim that in the later stages of the training effort, this accuracy level was "often consistently exceeded."

    GONDOLA WISH was a 1977 Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) Systems Exploitation Detachment (SED) effort to evaluate potential adversary applications of remote viewing.

    Building on GONDOLA WISH, an operational collection project was formalized under Army intelligence as GRILL FLAME in mid-1978. Located in buildings 2560 and 2561 at Fort Meade, MD, GRILL FLAME, (INSCOM "Detachment G") consisted of soldiers and a few civilians who were believed to possess varying degrees of natural psychic ability. The SRI research program was integrated into GRILL FLAME in early 1979, and hundreds of remote viewing experiments were carried out at SRI through 1986.

    In 1983 the program was re-designated the INSCOM CENTER LANE Project (ICLP). Ingo Swann and Harold Puthoff at SRI developed a set of instructions which theoretically allowed anyone to be trained to produce accurate, detailed target data. used this new collection methodology against a wide range of operational and training targets. The existence of this highly classified program was reported by columnist Jack Anderson in April 1984.

    In 1984 the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council evaluated the remote viewing program for the Army Research Institute. The results were unfavorable.

    When Army funding ended in late 1985, the unit was redesignated SUN STREAK and transferred to DIA's Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate, with the office code DT-S.

    Under the auspices of the DIA, the program transitioned to Science Applications International Corporation [SAIC] in 1991 and was renamed STAR GATE. The project, changed from a SAP (Special Access Program) to a LIMDIS (limited dissemination) program, continued with the participation of Edwin May, who presided over 70% of the total contractor budget and 85% of the program's data collection.

    Over a period of more than two decades some $20 million were spent on STAR GATE and related activities, with $11 million budgeted from the mid-1980's to the early 1990s. Over forty personnel served in the program at various times, including about 23 remote viewers. At its peak during the mid-1980s the program included as many as seven full-time viewers and as many analytical and support personnel. Three psychics were reportedly worked at FT Meade for the CIA from 1990 through July 1995. The psychics were made available to other government agencies which requested their services.

    Participants who apparently demonstrated psychic abilities used at least three different techniques various times:

    Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) - the original SRI-developed technique in which viewers were asked what they "saw" at specified geographic coordinates
    Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) - a hybrid relaxation/meditative-based method
    Written Remote Viewing (WRV) - a hybrid of both channeling and automatic writing was introduced in 1988, though it proved controversial and was regarded by some as much less reliable.
    By 1995 the program had conducted several hundred intelligence collection projects involving thousands of remote viewing sessions. Notable successes were said to be "eight martini" results, so-called because the remote viewing data were so mind-boggling that everyone has to go out and drink eight martinis to recover. Reported intelligence gathering successes included:

    Joe McMoneagle, a retired Special Project Intelligence Officer for SSPD, SSD, and 902d MI Group, claims to have left Stargate in 1984 with a Legion of Merit Award for providing information on 150 targets that were unavailable from other sources.
    In 1974 one remote viewer appeared to have correctly described an airfield with a large gantry and crane at one end of the field. The airfield at the given map coordinates was the Soviet nuclear testing area at Semipalatinsk -- a possible underground nuclear testing site [PNUTS]. In general, however, most of the receiver's data were incorrect or could not be evaluated.
    A "remote viewer" was tasked to locate a Soviet Tu-95 bomber which had crashed somewhere in Africa, which he allegedly did within several miles of the actual wreckage.
    In September 1979 the National Security Council staff asked about a Soviet submarine under construction. The remote viewer reported that a very large, new submarine with 18-20 missile launch tubes and a "large flat area" at the aft end would be launched in 100 days. Two subs, one with 24 launch tubes and the other with 20 launch tubes and a large flat aft deck, were reportedly sighted in 120 days.
    One assignment included locating kidnapped BG James L. Dozier, who had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Italy in 1981. He was freed by Italian police after 42 days, apparently without help from the psychics. [according to news reports, Italian police were assisted by "US State and Defense Department specialists" using electronic surveillance equipment, an apparent reference to the Special Collection Service]
    Another assignment included trying to hunt down Gadhafi before the 1986 bombing of Libya, but Gadhafi was not injured in the bombing.
    In February 1988 DIA asked where Marine Corps COL William Higgins was being held in Lebanon. A remote viwer stated that Higgins was in a specific building in a specific South Lebanon village, and a released hostage later said to have claimed that Higgins had probably been in that building at that time.
    In January 1989 DOD was said to have asked about Libyan chemical weapons work. A remote viewer reported that ship named either Patua or Potua would sail from Tripoli to transport chemicals to an eastern Libyan port. Reportedly, a ship named Batato loaded an undetermined cargo in Tripoli and brought to an eastern Libyan port.
    Reportedly a remote-viewer "saw" that a KGB colonel caught spying in South Africa had been smuggling information using a pocket calculator containing a communications device. It is said that questioniong along these lines by South African intelligence led the spy to cooperate.
    During the Gulf War remote-viewers were reported to have suggested the whereabouts of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, though there was never an independent verification of this finding.
    The unit was tasked to find plutonium in North Korea in 1994, apparently without notable success.
    Remote viewers were also said to have helped find SCUD missiles and secret biological and chemical warfare projects, and to have located and identified the purposes of tunnels and extensive underground facilities.
    The US program was sustained through the support of Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., and Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C., who were convinced of the program's effectiveness. However, by the early 1990s the program was plagued by uneven management, poor unit morale, divisiveness within the organization, poor performance, and few accurate results. The FY 1995 Defense Appropriations bill directed that the program be transferred to CIA, with CIA instructed to conduct a retrospective review of the program. In 1995 the American Institutes for Research (AIR) was contracted by CIA to evaluate the program. Their 29 September 1995 final report was released to the public 28 November 1995. A positive assessment by statistician Jessica Utts, that a statistically significant effect had been demonstrated in the laboratory [the government psychics were said to be accurate about 15 percent of the time], was offset by a negative one by psychologist Ray Hyman [a prominent CSICOP psychic debunker]. The final recommendation by AIR was to terminate the STAR GATE effort. CIA concluded that there was no case in which ESP had provided data used to guide intelligence operations.
    Resources
    An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications, American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995
    CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute by H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D.
    Reading the Enemy's Mind : Inside Star Gate--America's Psychic Espionage Program by Paul Smith, January 2005
    Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc.
    Enhancing Human Performance 1988, the National Academy Press
    Cognitive Sciences Laboratory parapsychology research
    Farsight Institute
    So did it work or didnt it? Do some or all people posses mental powers they dont use. Did humans use these powers more in the past? Whats your opinon. Is there suchthings as mental telepathy and ESP?
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    Probably belongs in the Athenaeum. Moved - imb39

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    Boy that was fast

    I was really unsure of where to post this. Funny Esp and mentlal telepathy belonging in the science forum. But it fits as well here as anywhere else I suppose.
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    The government had all kinds of strange programs in the cold war, but i think this one takes the cake.

    Their is also MK ULTRA or the experiment where they slipped a bunch of scientists LSD, which unfortunately freaked one of them out and he "fell out of a window" after he was going to go public that they did that.

    IDK I think psychics are possible, but i'm a fan of sci-fi. We do, supposidly, use only 10% of our brain and that is, really, the last area of the human body that isn't understood. I think its a long while off before we know for sure if ESP or other abilities actually exist.
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    I am of the opinion that it is all hogwash.

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    I am of the opinion that it is all hogwash.
    AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EVIDENCE FOR P SYCHIC FUNCTIONING

    Professor Jessica Utts
    Division of Statistics
    University of California, Davis

    ABSTRACT

    Research on psychic functioning, conducted over a two decade period, is examined to determine whether or not the phenomenon has been scientifically established. A secondary question is whether or not it is useful for government purposes. The primary work examined in this report was government sponsored research conducted at Stanford Research Institute, later known as SRI International, and at Science Applications International Corporation, known as SAIC.

    Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted. Effects of similar magnitude to those found in government-sponsored research at SRI and SAIC have been replicated at a number of laboratories across the world. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud.

    The magnitude of psychic functioning exhibited appears to be in the range between what social scientists call a small and medium effect. That means that it is reliable enough to be replicated in properly conducted experiments, with sufficient trials to achieve the long-run statistical results needed for replicability.

    A number of other patterns have been found, suggestive of how to conduct more productive experiments and applied psychic functioning. For instance, it doesn't appear that a sender is needed. Precognition, in which the answer is known to no one until a future time, appears to work quite well. Recent experiments suggest that if there is a psychic sense then it works much like our other five senses, by detecting change. Given that physicists are currently grappling with an understanding of time, it may be that a psychic sense exists that scans the future for major change, much as our eyes scan the environment for visual change or our ears allow us to respond to sudden changes in sound.

    It is recommended that future experiments focus on understanding how this phenomenon works, and on how to make it as useful as possible. There is little benefit to continuing experiments designed to offer proof, since there is little more to be offered to anyone who does not accept the current collection of data.
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    Then why, in the eleven years since she wrote that study (you show no proof that it was ever published in a peer reviewed journal - I'd be interested to know if it was) has there been no further research showing evidence of psychic abilities? Do you have any other information sources for this statistical anomoly? I'm half tempted to see how those experiments she analyzed help up before peer-reviewed criticism.

    I side with imb. Though I'm much a fan of telepathy themes in sci-fi, psychic ability never been demonstrated in a repeatable scientific experiment. Until a person can duplicate their 'abilities', it'll remain in the area of sci-fi and hopeful pseudo-scientists.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kanaric
    We do, supposidly, use only 10% of our brain and that is, really, the last area of the human body that isn't understood.
    We use all of our brain, we just don't use all of it at the same times. Ever seen MRI scans of people reading, speaking, listening to sounds, looking at loved ones, etc? Different areas of the brain do different things, and are used when they are needed.

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    I still think it is hog wash.

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    I've seen a National Geographic piece on this recently. They too believe they it is hog wash, as do I and the lovely imb39...


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    Check this out

    Some of what stated here I saw on the history channel like the part about the soviet subs.
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    Got anything more concrete than linking to a site that sells books on astrology and psychic time machines?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rush Limbaugh
    Check this out

    Some of what stated here I saw on the history channel like the part about the soviet subs.
    You know...I'm with gwen...

    astrology blog+history channel != peer reviewed science journal.
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    So then none of you believe we have any type of mental powers that we dont use? Im really shocked.
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    Nope. Ask me that five years ago and I would have said yes. I want to believe we do. I wish we did. It would certainly be one of the coolest things ever. But it has never been demonstrated in a controlled experiment with someone claiming to be a psychic or have any of these powers, so all it is is wishful thinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rush Limbaugh
    So then none of you believe we have any type of mental powers that we dont use? Im really shocked.
    Why are you shocked?
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    Haven't various scientific institutions offered vast rewards to anybody who can demonstrate "psychic" powers under controlled experimental circumstances? Until somebody comes forward to take the money, it's hogwash.
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    Now how strange! I look at the Gooooooogle ad on the right of my screen, on this very page, and the ad says:

    "Do you have the 'Gift'?. Free ESP test! Tickle.com."

    They must have psychic powers...


    Hogwash.

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    I believe it is interesting to watch different people's responses to such information. To say something like this is hogwash with first consideration or careful examining of the evidence, you are close-minded.

    We must remember to keep an open mind until something has been discredited, debunked or found inaccurate.

    If I remember correctly the CIA shut down the Star Gate program because it wasn't precise and efficient enough for military use, yet the results that came out of it were interesting to say the least.

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