Project STARGATE

“I was one of the original remote viewers recruited into what is now commonly referred to as Project STARGATE, the once secret Army project designed to use trained remote viewers for intelligence purposes during the Cold War.”

“During the height of the Cold War, the United States government embarked on a mission to gain an advantage over the Soviet Union. To do this, they sought to use a new weapon that could give them an edge in the conflict. Mind reading.”

“they initiated a highly classified project that began in a research lab in California in the 70s before moving to a Maryland army base”

“A famous remote viewing program, known as Project Stargate, was run for the Central Intelligence Agency at the Stanford Research Institute starting in 1972”

“Project STARGATE was terminated in November 1995.”

“and cancelled in 1995, allegedly due to unreliable results.”

“There were no books or articles that clearly outlined a method for finding someone who might be psychic, nor did any known method for training someone in remote viewing exist.”

“The first place they looked, of course, was SRI-International, where remote viewing had already been studied for nearly five years, and comments relative to training and gifted versus non-gifted subjects could be found.”

“Back when the United States Army decided to find, train, and use remote viewers for Project STARGATE, no one knew what this meant.”

“An additional document which was available and known to have been used by Army STARGATE founders to identify possible remote viewing subjects was a paper published in the Journal of Communications titled Psi Conducive States, by William G. Braud”

“The military people tasked with finding psychics added their own list of possible indicators that would show up against a common military background. ... These were the general guidelines that were used to hunt down the original psychics used in the STARGATE program.”

“1: Consistently successful whatever the task.”

“2: Liked by peers but considered different from the norm.”

“4: Willing to pursue new avenues of approach.”

“participating in protocol design, R&D evaluations, thousands of remote viewing trials in support of both experimental research as well as active intelligence operations for Project STARGATE”

“I did applications (sometimes referred to as operational) remote viewing in support of that unit for a period of nearly eighteen years, until it closed in November 1995.”

“Way back in the beginning, there was concern about a number of things in the STARGATE Project, but probably highest on the list was the stability of the players.”

“The outset of the STARGATE Project involved extensive psychological testing and numerous interviews, as well as a gradual program of exposure, to insure that centered and stable individuals were allowed to participate, individuals who could cope with and integrate what they would be exposed to.”

“Later in the program, a decision was made to no longer do this testing in order to reduce costs.”

“Without going into specific personalities, I can say that in more than one case, otherwise stable individuals were stripped of their psychological boundaries, and subjected to areas of inquiry that they should not have been. As a result they became quite unstable, emotionally, mentally, or sometimes both.”

“In STARGATE we never considered anyone a remote viewer until s/he finished training.”

“training in our program was almost always a minimum of anywhere from three to eighteen months, usually depending upon how much innate talent the person had walking through the door”

“Someone with a lot of natural talent could usually be quite productive within ninety days.”

“Those with very little either took the full term of training, or failed to complete it. (Yes, we did have those too.)”

“At the beginning of the project, all of the methods for evaluating or judging the material were tuned to drawings.”

“So, to deal with the skeptical issues, the military side of the house did what the military does best—they improvised. Instead of using standard grid coordinates that anyone can read, they used military maps, which use a different coordinate system.”

“So, at least on the military side, we began putting the real map coordinates inside sealed and opaque envelopes, and then we would write false coordinates on the outside. ... Point being, they really had no actual meaning, other than to identify that day's project.”

“Protocols developed within the military during Project STARGATE stretched many of these well known protocols to address additional areas that include ideas, concepts, plans, thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions as targets.”

“I was originally trained in dowsing while assigned to the STARGATE unit at Fort Meade.”

“Major Ed Dames, who was part of the Sci-Spy program in the 80s.”

“When I was selected as one of the five prototype members, Army members, to be trained by Ingo Swann, my mentor, to whom I later became protege, and that was 1983 and 1984.”

“Ingo had just developed his structure.”

“The moment that changed me was when Ingo Swann had me remote view the ... as one of my first training targets, the Lincoln Monument, the Washington Monument.”

“a gentleman by the name of Major Ed Dames, a retired U.S. Army major who claims that he was trained by Ingo Swann as a remote viewer in Project Stargate while serving in the Army in the 80s”

“I am the former operations and training officer for the Department of Defense Stargate program.”

“One thing that we did use, and I especially as an operations officer, to evaluate potential recruits for the program was the Bob Monroe's program developing altered states and out-of-bodies.”

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“and to Dr. Edwin C. May and his colleagues—from 1986 through the termination of the project in November 1995.”

“findings and materials from the lab were shared and used within the operational element of Project STARGATE, located at Fort Meade, Maryland, at least for most of the time it existed.”

“Research that established changes to specific remote viewing applications was sometimes not viewed as constructive or conducive to the operational requirements by the Fort Meade project managers. In such cases, this research was summarily dismissed as unnecessary or simply discarded.”

“There was always a large discrepancy between good managers and bad managers within STAR-GATE.... Since full managerial responsibility for the project resided within the Meade unit, the science side of the house was sometimes subjected to these irregularities, as were certainly the remote viewers.”

“From locating hostages kidnapped by Islamic terrorist groups to tracing the paths of fugitive criminals within the United States.”

“tracing the paths of fugitive criminals within the United States”

“recently, in 2017, the CIA declassified some 12 million pages of records, which revealed new details about the program, now known as Project Stargate”

“The Operational, or Fort Meade Unit, for which ninety-nine percent of the material has not yet been declassified or made available to the public.”

“Since then, I've had interaction with dozens of television production companies, a number of newspaper, magazine, and book writers, and live and taped radio show hosts.”

“Over the course of eighteen years, counting support and viewer personnel, probably eighty to eighty-five people were involved in the project on both the scientific and the operational sides of the house.”

“Probably fewer than three dozen people were viewers.”

“Of the others, about half were scientists, and the remainder performed support functions, such as evaluation, analysis, and operational monitoring.”

“Literally dozens of targets worked by viewers within the STARGATE Program made successful predictions relating to events involving people, places, or things, generally out to between 90 and 365 days.”

“some members of the unit may say that they believe anyone can be taught remote viewing. Others seem to say something quite the opposite—that remote viewing cannot be taught.”