Russell Targ
Physicist who co-founded and co-directed the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at SRI International alongside Hal Puthoff in the 1970s-80s.
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SRI remote-viewing collaboratorsTarg & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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co-directed SRI's remote-viewing programTarg & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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co-founded its remote-viewing programTarg & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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colleague on the SRI remote-viewing programJim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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arranged Geller's SRI evaluation, which Targ co-ledAnnie Jacobsen, Phenomena (2017)
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tested by him at SRI in the 1970sTarg & Puthoff, Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding, Nature (1974)
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he co-led the early SRI programUS remote-viewing program history - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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viewer in Targ's SRI remote-viewing trialsR. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) - SRI-side account, contested - Targ 2019 (JSE)