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Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process

What this is

That this is a US Army INSCOM document of 9 June 1983, written on tasking from the Commander of the US Army Operational Group, and that its author took the Gateway training himself and built on Itzhak Bentov's models.

That the report was written by Lt Col Wayne M. McDonnell, Commander of Detachment O, and that it describes USAINSCOM personnel as being required to take the Gateway training or work with Gateway materials.

2 passages read  ·  29 pages held  ·  the rest is not described

No source address is recorded for this document.

2 passages read

“DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, US ARMY OPERATIONAL GROUP, US ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND, FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755. IAGPC-O. 9 June 1983. SUBJECT: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. TO: Commander, US Army Operational Group, Fort Meade, MD 20755. 1. You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate practicality. ... Initially, based on conversations with a physician who took the Gateway training with me, I had recourse to the biomedical models developed by Itzhak Bentov to obtain information concerning the physical aspects of the process.”
PDF p. 1  ·  visual, rendered at 150 dpi and read by eye, 2026-08-24

- The ellipsis marks text passed over inside paragraph 1, not text withheld by anyone. - The foot of the sheet carries the stamp "On file ARMY release instructions apply", overprinting the CIA release line. - Neither page 1 nor page 2 prints a folio.

“5. This study is certainly not designed to be the last word on the subject but I hope that the validity of its basic structure and of the fundamental concepts upon which it is based will make it a useful guide for other USAINSCOM personnel who are required to take the Gateway training or work with Gateway materials. WAYNE M. MCDONNELL, LTC, MI, Commander, Det O”
PDF p. 2  ·  visual, rendered at 150 dpi and read by eye, 2026-08-24

- The signature is handwritten above the typed name and is legible. - "required to take the Gateway training" is the document's own phrasing about Army personnel and is the most consequential line on the two pages read.

Where no sheet is shown, the quote was still read off the page, rendered from the file we hold. A page image has not been prepared for the web for that page yet.

What this document is used for, page by page

Every claim on this map that rests on this document, and every claim tested against it and deliberately not used — in the order you would meet them reading the file itself. Where the check was written down, our wording is followed by the document’s own sentence, so you can hold the two side by side. 9 of 9 name a page.

Printed page 44 claims
Gateway ProcessRobert Monroe assessed his Institute's Hemi-Sync technique for the Army
Gateway ProcessThe Monroe Institute the 1983 US Army report assessed its Gateway Experience
our wording was corrected
Gateway ProcessStuart Twemlow quoted his EEG studies of the Monroe tapes as measurement of the technique's effect
Stuart TwemlowThe Monroe Institute described by the 1983 US Army report as a research associate of it
Printed page 82 claims
Gateway ProcessKarl Pribram took his holographic model of mind, with David Bohm's, as the basis of its own account of consciousness
Gateway ProcessDavid Bohm took his physics, paired with Karl Pribram's neuroscience, as the basis of its own account of consciousness
PDF page 13 claims
Gateway ProcessItzhak Bentov cited his consciousness research in its analysis
we read this page
Gateway ProcessCentral Intelligence Agency reached the public through its 2003 CREST release; the report itself is a US Army INSCOM memorandum and the CIA did not write it
we read this pageour wording was corrected
Gateway ProcessINSCOM was written inside it - a memorandum from the US Army Operational Group to its commander, 9 June 1983
we read this page