Phenomena

  36. What are we dealing with here?: I asked this question of every person I interviewed who was in a position to have an educated answer about this, from 1972 to the present.

  Chapter Fifteen: Qigong and the Mystery of H. S. Tsien

  1. able to “read” with his ears: Author FOIA, CIA: “Chronology of Recent Interest in Exceptional Functions of the Human Body in People’s Republic of China,” n.p., n.d.

  2. shaped Chinese philosophy, science, and statecraft: See I Ching: Book of Changes, translated by Richard Wilhelm, with “Introduction to the I Ching.”

  3. intelligence community had a mystery: Author FOIA, CIA: “Psychoenergetics Research in the People’s Republic of China,” October 1982, 1–5.

  4. children with EHBF: Puthoff, “Psychoenergetics Research,” 1.

  5. government-sanctioned conference: Ibid., 2.

  6. “this new power could shatter modern science”: Author FOIA, CIA: China’s Ziran Zazhi (Nature Journal), September 1979.

  7. now including psychokinesis: Author FOIA, CIA: CIA translation of an article in People’s Daily, May 1979.

  8. see through lead containers: Author FOIA, CIA: Dongsu, Luo, “Discussion of Non-Visual Recognition of Images and Electromagnetic Sensor Mechanism in the Human Body,” Translation Division, Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Patterson AFB (January 1981).

  9. Chinese health system: David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China, 33.

  10. movement expanded rapidly: David Eisenberg, Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine, 154–155.

  11. national qigong training course: Palmer, Qigong Fever, 41.

  12. singled out for attack: Ibid., 43.

  13. So brilliant was Tsien: “Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center,” CALCIT: The First Twenty-five Years, 49.

  14. science adviser to Chairman Mao: Iris Chang, Thread of the Silkworm, 246. “Exactly what Tsien taught Mao is not known,” writes the late Chang. “But it did not exactly appear to whet the latter’s appetite for more education. Mao was convinced that only the working class held the key to truth.” Years later, Tsien wrote that Mao’s intention “was to urge me to learn from the working people, to take them as my teachers, and to make a serious effort to rebuild my world outlook.”

  15. director of the Fifth Academy: Chang, Ibid., 219.

  16. 507th Research Institute: Author FOIA, CIA: “Chronology of Recent Interest in Exceptional Functions of the Human Body in People’s Republic of China,” n.p., n.d. Also called the Institute of Cosmos Medicine and Engineering Research, China’s Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Unit 236 of People’s Liberation Army.

  17. Science returned to the limelight: Chang, Thread of the Silkworm, 256.

  18. outer space and inner space: Author FOIA, CIA: “The Opening and Development of the Basic Research of Human Body Science, by Qian Xue Sen” (DIA handwritten translation), June 30, 1981.

  19. Tsien said: Author FOIA, CIA: Ibid.; Author FOIA, CIA: “Man in Cosmic Environment–Anthropic Principle, Somatic Science and Somatology,” by Qian Xue Sen, circa 1981. “Somatology,” wrote Tsien, “is the synthesis of classical physiology, modern psychology, psychophysiology, neuroscience, scientific parts of Chinese traditional medicine and Qigong (Transcendental Meditation), and other related subjects.”

  20. “time of war”: Author FOIA, CIA: “The Opening and Development of the Basic Research of Human Body Science, by Qian Xue Sen” (DIA handwritten translation), June 30, 1981, 13.

  21. “enthusiastic atmosphere”: Ibid., 49.

  22. scientists, and journalists traveled to China: Interview with Puthoff.

  23. Puthoff prepared a sixty-page classified report: Harold E. Puthoff, “Psychoenergetics Research in the People’s Republic of China,” October 1982.

  24. “foreign psychoenergetics achievements”: “Grill Flame Project Report,” Defense Intelligence Agency Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, October 19, 1983, 1, 3.

  25. “elder statesman”: Puthoff, “Psychoenergetics Research,” 12.

  26. DeLauer signed a memo: “Grill Flame Activity, Memorandum for the Asst. Sec Army for RD&A, et al.,” January 19, 1983.

  27. Houck recalled: Jack Houck, “PK Parties,” jackhouck.com; Severin Dahlen, “Remote Annealing of High Carbon Steel Parts,” Archaeus, February–March 1986, 3.

  28. approximately one thousand individuals: International Remote Viewing Association, Jack Houck, Biography. Between 1981 and 2003, Houck collected and published data on hosted 370 PK parties (jackhouck.com).

  Chapter Sixteen: Killers and Kidnappers

  1. future assassination plots: “Sadat Slaying: Haig Hints Libya Plot,” New York Daily News, October 7, 1981.

  2. surface-to-air missiles: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, 283.

  3. Graff’s role: Interview with Graff.

  4. psychics drew sketches: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Interim Report Given to the U.S. Secret Service on 14 December 1981,” Memorandum for Commander, SRD/ITAC, From: Ltc. Robert J. Jachim, Grill Flame Project Manager.

  5. Grill Flame’s ancillary support: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Grill Flame Project Report,” Defense Intelligence Agency Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, October 19, 1983, 3.

  6. “Pentagon official would be kidnapped”: Author FOIA, CIA: “Task Identification 0049, Report Number 820116,” December 15, 1981, 2.

  7. Puthoff alerted Dale Graff: The chain of command was Puthoff, Salyer, Graff, Vorona.

  8. Dozier recalled: Interview with Dozier in Florida. For this part of the narrative, Dozier is the primary source. See also Richard Oliver Collin and Gordon L. Freedman, Winter of Fire: The Abduction of General Dozier and the Downfall of the Red Brigades; Star Gate Collection, CIA, Dozier File.

  9. other individuals involved: Interview with Dale Graff. The Dozier abduction was unique for the DIA. Says Graff, “At DIA, we were trying to keep track of what various organizations were finding out. We had no direct connection. The search team was an Army function. The Defense Intelligence Agency is basically an analytical organization. We didn’t usually become involved in field activities. Dozier was different.”

  10. an Arabic speaker: McMoneagle, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, 123.

  11. vague and disparate information: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Special Content Report, Parapsychologists in Kent Washington,” January 1982.

  12. protocols SRI had developed: Star Gate Collection, CIA: Project Officer, “Coordinate Remote Viewing, Stages I-VI and Beyond,” February 1985, Appendix A, Glossary. AOL is defined as, “Information produced by the conscious or unconscious which clutters the signal; noise.”

  13. approval of DIA director: Star Gate Collection, CIA: Routing and Transmittal Slip, “DIA/Army Grill Flame support to BG Dozier abduction,” December 28, 1981.

  14. Graff recalls: Interview with Graff. Another theoretical idea being considered at SRI involved the Bohm Cosmogony of Quantum Physics, in which “time and space allow for the explicate unfolded order,” and that “pre-time and space would allow for the implicate enfolded order—”: “Co-ordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) 1981–1983,” Briefing (SRI), August 4, 1983, Slide 4, “Is CRV comparable to other known models?”

  15. find and rescue General Dozier: Author FOIA, CIA: “Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, Subject: Special Intelligence Report Relating to the Kidnapping of BG Dozier—Information Memorandum, Jack Vorona,” n.d.

  16. Reagan invited him to the White House: Russ Hoyle, “Terrorism: Welcome Home, Soldier,” Time, February 15, 1982.

  17. Perry, stated in a memo: “Perry Memorandum,” March 5, 1980; Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate—America’s Psychic Espionage Program, 118, n479.

  18. “hell of a cheap radar system”: William K. Stuckey, “Psi on Capital Hill: Official Circles,” Omni, July 1979, 24. A member of the Intelligence Committee, Rose was an early advocate of cutting-edg
e technology. He drove an electric car to work and was responsible for bringing computers and fiber optics to Congress when typewriters were still in use.

  19. the Devil’s work: Interview with Alexander.

  20. “some kind of psychic powers”: Turner interview, Bill Eagles (director), The Real X-Files: America’s Psychic Spies, Independent Channel 4, British Equinox, August 27, 1995, Channel 4 documentary, 1993; Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 117–120, n480.

  21. system to train soldiers: “Co-ordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) 1981–1983,” Briefing (SRI), August 4, 1983, 9. Presented as a slide show to Army INSCOM officers visiting the SRI laboratory, these stages were: “Stage 1). Ideograms and ideogram production. Signals that induce/produce ideogramic responses (gestalts); Stage 2). Sensations experienced from distant site. Signals producing tactile, sensory, dimensional estimates, directions feelings, and so forth; Stage 3). Motion and mobility (limited) at distant site resulting in primary artistic renderings. Signals producing aesthetic responses in viewer, simple sketches and “trackers”; Stage 4). Quantitative and qualitative assessments of various distant characteristics. Signals (manifold) that induce analytic comprehensions; Stage 5). Methods of interrogating the signal line (still in R&D); Stage 6). Creating 3-dimensional models. Signals (consolidated) that yield simple replicas of distant site features.” Finally, there were two stages planned but not yet developed. They were: “Stage 7). Sonics (still in R&D). Signals that induce verbal content. Stage 8). Human to human interfaces (R&D 1984/1985). Signals that imply human psychic empathy and induce/produce ideogramic responses (gestalts).”

  22. program’s CRV trainers: Interview with McNear. Cowart became sick and left the program. For the next two years, Swann would train McNear in all six stages of CRV.

  23. “what the enemy was doing before the enemy did it”: Interview, YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUrF8dQo9uc]. General Stubblebine (retired) is now a vocal member of the Agenda 21 movement. Through his attorney, he declined to be interviewed.

  24. Stubblebine had a long-standing interest: “An Exclusive Interview with General Albert Stubblebine—“Men Who Stare at Scapegoats,” Podcast #176, September 13, 2013, Gnostic Media, Research and Publishing. Available at gnosticmedia.com.

  25. Advanced Human Technology Office: Author FOIA, Army INSCOM, “High Performance Task Force, High Performance Programs Information,” 60–304.

  Chapter Seventeen: Consciousness

  1. not yet part of the Grill Flame program: Interviews with Colonel John Alexander (retired).

  2. Anderson surmised: Jack Anderson, “Pentagon Invades Buck Rogers Turf,” Washington Post, January 9, 1981.

  3. “a major challenge”: Author FOIA, Army INSCOM: “Army Science Board Report of Panel on Emerging Human Technologies,” Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Washington D.C., December 1983, “Abstract,” n.p.

  4. “strategies and actions”: Ibid., i.

  5. pressure was taking its toll: Interview with Fred Atwater.

  6. “I thought I had killed him”: Interview with Joe McMoneagle; interview with Fred Atwater. Atwater doesn’t remember bleeding as badly as McMoneagle recalls. See also McMoneagle, The Stargate Chronicles.

  7. feelings of sorrow and loss: Interview with McMoneagle; McMoneagle, The Stargate Chronicles, 138–139.

  8. help him relax: FOIA, CIA: “Timeline, Secret: Date /Event/Comments,” Sept 77–Jan 31, 1986; interview with Atwater.

  9. out-of-body experience: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Information Paper, The Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences,” January 5, 1984.

  10. “second body”: Robert A. Monroe, Journeys out of the Body, 101.

  11. “unbearable ecstasy”: Ibid., 197.

  12. copies of her husband’s journal entries: Ronald Russell, The Journey of Robert Monroe: From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer, 41.

  13. Monroe’s sexual escapades: Puharich used the pseudonym “Bob Rame” for Robert Monroe.

  14. “The woolly world of consciousness”: Russell, The Journey of Robert Monroe, 148.

  15. Institute’s first official U.S. Army client: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “To Det. G, Director, Individual Training Requirements–Joe, from Command Psychologist, LTC Hartzell,” April 13, 1982.

  16. McMoneagle recalls: Star Gate Collection, CIA: Ibid.

  17. in pursuit of a new goal: McMoneagle, The Stargate Chronicles, 159.

  18. “broaden his perception of reality”: Ibid., 160–162.

  19. In hindsight: Interview with Graff.

  20. “improve human capability”: Star Gate Collection, CIA, “Army Science Board Report of Panel on Emerging Human Technologies,” Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Washington D.C., December 1983, E-3, E-5.

  21. “electrical effect”: Ibid., E-5.

  22. findings presented to Pentagon officials: Ibid., B-1.

  23. Green read… [Stubblebine] disagreed and overruled: Interview with Green; interview with Alexander; Author FOIA, Army INSCOM, “High Performance Task Force, Hemispheric Synchronization,” 294–296.

  24. Human Use Review Board: Author FOIA, CIA: “Contractor Human Use Review Board,” Enclosure 2, undated. For a longer discussion of why and how the Nuremberg Code came into effect, see Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip.

  25. redesign the Gateway seminar: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Information Paper, The Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences, Rapid Acquisition Personnel Training (RAPT),” January 5, 1984.

  26. Steven Shaw walked up to the microphone: An Honest Liar starts at minute 53:00.

  27. “the slyest scientific hoax in years”: Philip J. Hilts, “Magicians Score a Hit On Scientific Researchers,” Washington Post, March 1, 1983.

  28. “Randi was very upset”: An Honest Liar starts at minute 59:00.

  29. Gardner… spoke out: Martin Gardner, The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher, 16.

  30. “gross distortions” of the facts: Author FOIA, CIA: “Defense Intelligence Agency Background paper for Dr. Vorona, Recent Adverse Publicity on Parapsychology Research,” March 4, 1983, 1.

  31. hoax did affect the INSCOM program: Interview with Alexander.

  32. Doug Henning: Interview with Alexander; John Harrison, Spellbound: The Wonder-Filled Life of Doug Henning, ii.

  33. “Magic is something that happens”: Myrna Oliver, “Magician Doug Henning Dies of Liver Cancer at 52,” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2000.

  Chapter Eighteen: Psychic Training

  1. What am I doing here?: Interview with Graff.

  2. Soviet officials became suspicious: Dusko Doder, “Soviet Stop Building U.S. Embassy Over Use of Bugging Detector,” Washington Post, May 27, 1983. The story suggested that the alleged bugging detector machine was an excuse for Soviet workers to walk off the job over what was really a pay dispute.

  3. where Graff and his team should look for bugs: Interview with Atwater.

  4. Committee on Intelligence: Elaine Sciolino, “The Bugged Embassy Case: What Went Wrong,” New York Times, November 15, 1988.

  5. Smith arrived at Fort Meade: Interview with Paul Smith.

  6. symbols representing an idea: Author FOIA, CIA: Project Officer, “Coordinate Remote Viewing, Stages I-VI and Beyond,” February 1985, Appendix A, Glossary.

  7. thrilled with the prospect: Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 142.

  8. the Center: Dames, Tell Me What You See, 162–165.

  9. people who were already dead: Star Gate Collection, CIA: “Advanced Training with MIAS [Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences],” January 5, 1984.

  10. a trained psychologist: One of the therapists, Jan Northrup, was married to John Alexander, Stubblebine’s chief of staff for esoteric technologies.

  11. “The general had a lot of really far-out ideas”: Interview with John Alexander.

  12. “Will there be a terrorist attack”: Interview with Smith; Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 150–151.

  13. One week she might be writing: Interviews
with Angela Dellafiora; interview with Scott Carmichael.

  14. her twin sister’s astrologer: Interview with Dellafiora.

  15. born in Coral: Interview with Dellafiora. See also Carmichael, Unconventional Method, 31–32.

  16. Bordas offered adult education classes: “ESP and Parapsychology,” Indiana Gazette, August 15, 1980.

  17. “approach new technology with an open mind”: Interview with Dellafiora; Author FOIA, Army INSCOM, “High Performance Task Force, High Performance Programs Information, Human Potential,” I-11.

  18. Dellafiora recalls: Interview with Dellafiora.

  19. Court documents indicate: Smith Papers, “Summarized Record of Trial and accompanying papers of David A. Morehouse, Major, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, North Carolina,” Cross-Examination of Colonel Dennis Kowal, MSC, 69–71. Interview with Alexander; Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 198.

  20. “He had a lot of strange ideas”: Interview with Graff. Of Dellafiora he wrote: Smith Papers, “Summarized Record of Trial and accompanying papers of David A. Morehouse, Major,” Cross-Examination of Colonel Dennis Kowal, MSC, 46–51, 73–74.

  Chapter Nineteen: The Woman with the Third Eye

  1. so did NSA: Star Gate Collection, CIA: Memorandum for Dr. Willis Ware, Chairman and [redacted], Member of Committee, Retired from NSA (former Crypto Manager): “NSA Scientific Advisory Committee, CIA presentation, DIA presentations, SRI presentation,” n.d.

  2. rounds of negotiations: Smith, Reading the Enemy’s Mind, 227.

  3. “implications are revolutionary”: Star Gate Collection, CIA: Memo from Chief, POG [Redacted] to DT (Dr. Vorona), Subject: Sun Streak, Ops/Tng Objectives,” September 19, 1985; Project Sun Streak: Psychoenergetics, “A Memorandum of Agreement,” September 18, 1984.

  4. When McMoneagle retired: Interview with McMoneagle; McMoneagle, The Stargate Chronicles, 189.