The Star Gate Operational Remote Viewing Program A Human Intelligence ( HUMINT ) Collection Platform SONALI BHATT MARWAHA and EDWIN C. MAY Introduction The U.S. government’s military and intelligence communities funded informational psi (a.k.a. anomalous cognition, remote viewing, extrasensory perception) and causal psi (a.k.a. psychokinesis) applications and research from 1972 to 1995 at a total level of support of US $19.933 million. In the early years, it was known as a “psychoenergetics” program, in keeping with the Soviet term for psi phenomena. While small in terms of what is usually budgeted for traditional programs within these organizations, such funding represented the largest support in the history of the field of parapsychology. Volumes 1 and 2 of these archives contain the entire research reports in remote viewing from 1972– 1995; the psychokinesis research (Volume 3), found insufficient evidence in support of the mind-over-matter hypothesis. Informational psi (IΨ) is defined as the transfer of information, which is based on entropic considerations, arising from a distant point in spacetime leading to the local acquisition of non-inferential information by an atypical perceptual ability. The raison d’être of the Star Gate program was primarily to determine the degree to which IΨ could assist in intelligence collection and whether the intelligence alluding to Soviet Bloc research in this field posed a national security threat. If so, to determine this, the first and foremost question was: were such capabilities real and implementable? All aspects of the research and applied program were in support of this primary mission. Did the Star Gate program satisfy this objective? Yes, and here is why.  Between the SRI and the remote viewing (RV) operations group at Ft. Meade, a total of 504 separate missions were tasked by a variety of agencies that required 2865 individual remote viewings to accomplish the stated missions.  Of the 19 client agencies from 1973-1995, 17 were returning customers for the remote viewing human intelligence (RV-HUMINT) collection product—an 89.5% customer return rate. It seems highly unlikely that there would be such a high customer return rate if the RV-HUMINT information were not worthy of such attention. Another way to answer the question of the utility of IΨ would be to query each tasking agency as to the mission-by-mission assessment. These data are not available. A third way to answer this question would be to provide such an assessment by outcome measures that might be contained in the CIA declassified data release. But only a small number of such assessments are available. Perhaps this is so because, in the intelligence tasking agency → collector → analyst → tasking agency cycle it is rare, indeed, that the information collector receives any direct feedback as to the success or failure of any given task. THE OPERATIONS The application of remote viewing to concerns of national security was accomplished under various Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) programs at Ft. Meade, Maryland. From 1973 to 1978, the SRI team conducted all operations and undertook 54 operational projects, with a total of 127 remote viewing sessions. In 1978, with the establishment of the DIA- Army INSCOM Grill Flame project, an in-house effort for operational remote viewing was established at Ft. Meade. Of the 251 personnel considered for Grill Flame, 117 were interviewed, from which six individuals were selected for training in the remote viewing method. From the first operational session on 4th September 1979—a missing A6E aircraft was located within a 15-nautical mile radius of its downed location—to its end in 1995, the Ft. Meade RV unit was tasked on 450 operational projects, with a total of 2738 remote viewing sessions, by various agencies. Figure 1 illustrates the number of projects assigned by various intelligence agencies (tasking agencies) to the Ft. Meade RV unit. As is evident from this figure, there were many repeat customers for the RV-HUMINT effort. (Cancelled projects have not been included in this count. Projects divided into segments, such as a, b, c, have either been included under the main project number, or separated, depending on the year. These issues, along with the availability of listings of all projects leads to a discrepancy between the totals presented in Figures 1 and 5.) While critiques of the program can be found in the memorandums and reports in this volume, Figure 2 and Figure 3, are typical of the letters in support of this activity. Excerpts from customer evaluations (1981) can be seen in Figure 4. Marwaha, S. B., & May, E. C. (2019). The Star Gate Operational Remote Viewing Program: A Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Collection Platform. (pp. 5–58). In E. C. May, and S. B. Marwaha (eds.), The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972–1995. Volume 4: Operational Remote Viewing: Memorandums and Reports. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.