Stargate Project
The Stargate Project was a secret project primarily managed by the United States Department of Defense in the 1970s and 1980s. The project goal was to develop a set of protocols, that would make clairvoyance a more scientific process, and minimize as much as possible session noise and inaccuracy.
Remote sensing of places or events is normally performed in the present, but sessions have also been undertaken in the past and future. The term "remote viewing" emerged as a generalised short hand to describe this more structured approach to clairvoyance.
The project was launched partly because some intelligence officers believed a 'psi-gap' had emerged between America and the Soviet Union. But it was also borne of the soul searching that took place in the American military post Vietnam, and a willingness that subsequently emerged to 'think outside the box,' as exemplified by Jim Channon's 'First Earth Batallion' briefing.
The project was eventually terminated, according to the official report at the time, because there was insufficient evidence of the utility of the intelligence data produced. However, in the generalized intelligence and defense budget cuts of the period, many projects lost funding.
In 1995 the project was transferred to the CIA and a retrospective evaluation of the results were to be done. The CIA contracted the American Institutes for Research for this evaluation. A statistical post-hoc analysis conducted by Professor Jessica Utts showed a small but significant effect, whereas a noted long time skeptic Ray Hyman concluded zero results. Based upon Ray’s finding which fitted the political environment of the period, the CIA followed the recommendation to terminate the project.
Key Project Personnel
Major General Albert Stubblebein
A key sponsor of the research internally at Fort Meade, convinced of the reality of a wide variety of psychic phenomena, he never mastered walking through walls, although he did greatly bruise his noise in numerous attempts. Some commentators have confused 'Project Jedi' run by special forces primarily out of Fort Bragg with Stargate. In fact General Stubblebein was poorly recieved when he visited Fort Bragg, and did not participate nor was aware of the goat lab experiments being conducted.
Ingo Swann
Coined the term 'remote viewing' as a derivation of protocols originally developed by René Warcollier, a French chemical engineer in the early 20th century, documented in the book Mind to Mind. Swann's achievement was to break free from the conventional mould of casual experimentation and candidate burn out, and develop a viable set of protocols that put clairvoyance within a framework named “Coordinate Remote Viewing” (CRV).
Joe McMoneagle
In the early 1970's Joe had a Near Death Experience (NDE) that bestowed him with exceptional psychic powers. Widely considered a "natural," Joe has stated that remote viewing ability is predominately determined by innate talent. While many disagree with this statement, it is notable none of his critics seem able to work to the same level as Joe. Joe's definition implies that remote viewing is any psychic undertaking that is performed under scientific protocols.
Lyn Buchanan
A sergeant brought in by General Stubblebein for two main reasons. Firstly extraordinary telekinetic abilities, secondly computer software expertise. This made him exceptionally well qualified to be the data base manager for the Stargate project. From this vantage point, Lyn had the opportunity to work with all the key members of the unit, and in possession of statistical analysis of the session data, was able to properly assess the accuracy of the session data obtained. After leaving the forces, Lyn founded Problems, innovations, solutions, contracted Mel Riley to work for his company, and continues to undertake private tuition.
Mel Riley
Army Sergeant retired who in 1991. Mel is another natural psychic, and was noted for being able to describe what lay under objects in aerial photography. This aroused inconclusive interest in the 1970s. In 1984, the CRV unit had only several trained remote viewers, and Mel was requested transferred to the unit. based upon his innate ability, with training in the CTR protocols, Mel quickly became an impressive remote viewer.
Mel was featured in the first documentary filmed about the PSI SPY unit which was released in 1995 by the BBC and titled "The Real X-Files." Mel worked as a remote viewer for PSI TECH in the 90's. He has recounted past life experiences as a Native American, and continues to be involved in native American culture, enjoying a quiet life with his wife. He manages a popular Native American museum and is constantly creating astounding Native American beaded pieces.
Paul H. Smith
Retired U.S. Army Major and intelligence officer. Paul was one of the five people trained as a prototype test subject in Ingo Swann's psychic development of the Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) protocols in 1983. Paul was later assigned to work part time in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s remote viewing unit. He was the main author of what is known today as the “CRV Manual” which was written as an effort to describe CRV technology for the sole purpose to solicit continued annual funding for the unit from congress. The CRV manual was not written under the guidance of Ingo Swann, nor was it written for the purpose of teaching CRV.
Paul, having natural artistic abilities, produced impressive CRV session sketches. He always preferred to remote view in the blind, being tasked with CRV coordinates by a project manager. Paul rarely took the initiative to perform CRV session analysis of his own work or to operate as the team project manager. He was fairly aloof and seemed uninterested in CRV data but performed sessions on request like a good soldier.
In 1989 the CRV unit began to fall into a state of chaos. New civilian administrators, who were unfamiliar with CRV protocols, brought in "witches", tarot card readers and channelers under the guise of psi research. The CRVers were pushed aside and left with little to do.
Paul Smith was one of the CRVers who was hired and worked for the Psi-Tech corporation on a regular basis until his military retirement in 1997. In 1998 Paul organized his own remote viewing venture called Remote Viewing Instructional Services. Paul is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy. He is of the Mormon faith and regularly contributes writings to the Mormon Church Newsletter. He is married with several children and resides in the State of Texas.
Ed Dames
One of the first five who were trained by Ingo Swann in the Coordinate Remote Viewing protocols. Ed Dames was very surprised and enthused at the possibilities of the technology but he felt that the military would not embrace and contribute to the evolution of Remote Viewing. It turns out that he was correct because with the continuous turn over of administrators in the DoD, the RV program fell into chaos. Ed Dames was instrumental in taking the remote viewing technology out of military secrecy by forming the private corporation known as Psi Tech in 1989. The presiding INSCOM General and a special Forces Colonel sat on the Board of Directors of Psi Tech to ensure its safe entree into the civilian sector. It is reported that PSi Tech was using the professional remote viewers to continue to provide adjunct Intel to government agencies. Mr. Dames retired as a major from the Army in 1991.
Soon afterwards, he became a controversial guest on an all night talk radio show by prophesying doom and gloom using his own remote viewing ability. His self claimed RV abilities have garnered more bad press to the field of remote viewing then any others. He has made countless claims that never come to pass. (Look here for more examples of these claims. http://www.ufowatchdog.com/rvdames4.html ) People speculate that he uses RV as a vehicle for his talk show entertainment more then for the alleged operations which he expounds on. He peddles a trivial parlor trick game and purports that it contains all the collected knowledge of RV.
It is rumored that Dames had difficulty adjusting to civilian life. His ex-wives report that he had a serious problem with anger and jealousy. Dames' former company Psi Tech is now under the leadership of Joni Dourif. People who have worked with Dames say that he operated as a one man show and that he was highly competitive and critical of his own team members. It appears that his arrogant and judgmental character made him a target of hatred and ridicule. Dames failed to succeed fostering a productive image for himself and he eventually fell into a reclusive life in Hawaii. His former colleagues praise him for ushering RV out of secrecy but they also say that his faulty predictions have hurt the public image of remote viewing.
Dames speaks eloquently and sounds impressive but investigative reports indicate that, in reality, he bases his facts on his volatile emotions of the moment. In keeping with his history of hypocrisy, Dames openly slanders his former partner, Joni Dourif. When he was at PSI TECH he publicly praised her "as one of the worlds best remote viewers." Now, he uses his talk show forum to try to denigrate her and her RV skills.
David Morehouse
Dames brought David Morehouse into the DIA's Remote Viewing unit during its latter days and worked with him for a short period until he discovered Morehouse's unsavory past and fired him from the ranks of PSI TECH. Morehouse went on to try to change the history about remote viewing in a book that Jim Marrs was writing about the PSI SPY unit. Morehouse left his wife to move in with the literary book agent who had put together the book deal to be released by Random House. However, when Dames (who was then living with Joni Dourif) discovered that Morehouse had manipulated the story by transposing himself into the role of Dames and then portrayed Dames aa "the bad guy" - Dames had the book stopped in the galleys. The Random House deal to write the story had originally been struck between Jim Marrs and Ed dames. But Morehouse didn't give up, he then wrote a spin-off version and called it "Psychic Warrior" which eventually got published by Saint Martins Press. He severely dramatized the story in order to try to get a movie deal but the book was only about 20% factual. In reality, Morehouse was court marshalled out of the army on sodomy & theft charges subsequently there was no movie deal in the cards for Mr. Morehouse!