Stargate (final phase)

The last name of the US psychic-spy programme, which kept a handful of viewers working out of Fort Meade until 1995.

1991 CE · 39.11, -76.74 · status: official

The account

In its final years Stargate was a small unit of perhaps 15 to 20 people over its lifetime, with a falling budget and morale. In 1995 Congress moved it to the CIA, which commissioned an outside review and then shut it down. Thousands of pages were later declassified. A December 1992 legal memo, written as the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center took over DIA's DTI-S unit, records a contractor doing human parapsychology testing with informed consent and DTI-S running 'episodic operations' for agencies including the DEA and the Department of Energy (p.1). In May 1994 DIA told Sen. Sam Nunn it was drafting the research and peer-review plan Congress had demanded to test whether STARGATE could show cost-effective results (p.1-2), and in May 1995 the CIA reported it was taking the programme over and planning a retrospective review and declassification (p.1-3).

The sceptical view

The CIA concluded it had never provided intelligence of use in an operation.

Connections in the atlas

• Joseph McMoneagle, 'Remote Viewer No. 1'
• The last Stargate oversight papers (1992-1995)
• The 1995 AIR evaluation (Utts vs Hyman)
• Charles Tart
• Gondola Wish
• Ray Hyman
• Air War College paper 'Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier'
• Sun Streak
• Jeffrey Mishlove
• Russell Targ
• Hal Puthoff
• Ingo Swann

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Stargate Project
2. CIA Reading Room: Stargate collection (archived)
3. Memorandum RE: Operation Stargate, human-experimentation review (11 Dec 1992, CIA-RDP96-00789R003300230001-0)
4. DIA letter to Sen. Sam Nunn: program plan for Project STARGATE (23 May 1994, CIA-RDP96-00789R003000110001-6)
5. Status of STARGATE Program (CIA, May 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100040004-0)