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Russell Targ

1972-01-01year known, day not recorded

Physicist who co-founded and co-directed the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at SRI International alongside Hal Puthoff in the 1970s-80s.

In the consciousness threadClassified 25 August 2026 from this entity's own role text, which reads: "hysicist who co-founded and co-directed the CIA-funded remote-viewing program at SRI International alongside Hal Puthoff in the 197". An editorial classification, the same kind of field as cat - it rests on no page and does not claim to.

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…rnational are Dr. Edwin C. May, Dr. Harold Puthoff, and Mr. Russell Targ.
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…88R001300080001-0 PUBLICATIONS OF RUSSELL TARG M. Ettenberg and R. Targ, "Observations of Plasma and Cyc…
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…off, Theodore Rockwell, Gertrude Schneidler, Ian Stevenson, Russell Targ, Larissa Vilenskaya, Rhea White, and Howard Zimmerman. The…
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NAME ... Russell Targ ... TITLE ... Senior Research Physicist ... PLACE OF BIRTH…
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Priviliged Communication Continuation page Russell Targ Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R00010015…

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  • Ingo Swann names a source we do not hold
    SRI remote-viewing collaborators
    Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
  • Hal Puthoff names a source we do not hold
    co-directed SRI's remote-viewing program
    Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
  • Stanford Research Institute names a source we do not hold
    co-founded its remote-viewing program
    Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
  • Edwin May names a source we do not hold
    colleague on the SRI remote-viewing program
    Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
  • Andrija Puharich names a source we do not hold
    arranged Geller's SRI evaluation, which Targ co-led
    Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena (2017)
  • Uri Geller names a source we do not hold
    tested by him at SRI in the 1970s
    Targ & Puthoff, Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding, Nature (1974)
  • Stargate Project names a source we do not hold
    he co-led the early SRI program
    US remote-viewing program history - Targ 2019 (JSE)
  • Hella Hammid names a source we do not hold
    viewer in Targ's SRI remote-viewing trials
    R. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) - SRI-side account, contested - Targ 2019 (JSE)