Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate

EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate

The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques.

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SECTIONS

1. 03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller
2. 07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO
3. 12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true
4. 16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time) 
5. 17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again)
6. 24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Batallion
7. 29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money
8. 35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult
9. 43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander 
• Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach
• CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017
• STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program
• Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video
• Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022
• Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma
• Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links
• CIA documents about Ingo Swann
• Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle
• Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
• Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse
• The Monroe Institute website
• CIA entry for Gondola Wish
• CIA entry for Project Grill Flame
• Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999
• Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek
• Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense
• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
• Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
• The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires
• Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind
• Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
• Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change)
• Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie
• Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff
• Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998)
• Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion?
• Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode
• Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent
• British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired
• British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive
• Ministry of Defence 2002 report
• UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register
• The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden
• Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown 
• The Farsight Institute website 
• Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer 
• The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer 
• Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video
• The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue
• Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue
• Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video
• Aaron C. Hanson documents archive
• Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
• Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
• The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid

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