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Stanford Research Institute
1972-01-01year known, day not recorded
Nonprofit research institute (renamed SRI International in 1977) that hosted the CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing program from 1972 to 1995, initially seeded by private funding from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Parapsychology Foundation. Physicist Edwin May also led research there alongside Puthoff and Targ. Beyond psi, SRI was a pillar of the government research complex - the ARPANET's second node (1969) and home to Douglas Engelbart's DARPA-funded Augmentation Research Center. Its remote-viewing work began as the CIA's Project SCANATE and was monitored by CIA officers including Kit Green. Targ's 2019 review reports experimental series significant at four standard deviations with effect sizes over 0.6, and accuracy said to be independent of distance (to ~10,000 km) and time (days into the future) - claims disputed by mainstream science.
In the consciousness threadClassified 25 August 2026 from this entity's own role text, which reads: "International in 1977) that hosted the CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing program from 1972 to 1995, initially seeded by private fundin". An editorial classification, the same kind of field as cat - it rests on no page and does not claim to.
20 of 32 connections resolve to a document you can open. 1 was tested against a document we hold and deliberately not bound.
Documents8 behind these connections7 more that name it
Documents behind these connections
- Memorandum for Record: Security Review of "Mind Wars" 1984-05-09
- An Evaluation of the Remote Vewing Program: Research and Operational Applications 1995-09-22
- Project GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasks 1983-01
- Special Report: SUN STREAK Evaluation 1989-11-02
- CENTER LANE Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence Agency 1985-03-07
- Attendance at Scientific Seminar in Support of GONDOLA WISH (U) 1978-07-31
- Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project
- Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychology 1976-02-04
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This entity's name appears in the 12 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.
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Stanford Research Institute and the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence
named on a page we have read · p. 3
STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT…
Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into Parapsychologyalready cited above
named in the title
named in the title
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…June 1973. MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD. SUBJECT: Turning Off Stanford Research Institute Program. 1. On 13 June 1973, I personally discussed the rea…
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Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California - application to the US Public Heal…
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…ROUGH ... Oct. 1, 1973 ... 9. APPLICANT ORGANIZATION(S) ... Stanford Research Institute ... 333 Ravenswood Ave. ... Menlo Park, CA. 94025
Attendance at Scientific Seminar in Support of GONDOLA WISH (U)already cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…ave of absence from Davis and is serving as a consultant to Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA, in the field of parapsychology.
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…from that of one's physical body. An OOBE differs from what Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Menlo Park, CA, calls "Remote Viewing."
named on a page we have read · p. 6
(1) Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Menlo Park, CA, is under contract from FTD to conduc…
Memorandum for Record: Security Review of "Mind Wars"already cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…nt's interest in RV is clearly "applications" oriented. c. Stanford Research Institute International (SRI-I) is the key institute involved with th…
Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Projectalready cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…gation of paranormal perception phenomena be initiated with Stanford Research Institute (SRI). A proposal for such an investigation is attached. Si…
Project GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasksalready cited above
named on a page we have read · p. 5
…gmentation Techniques (U)," Final Report, SRI Project 3183, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA (December 1, 1975), SECRET. Kress, K. A., "…
named on a page we have read · p. 2
…scribing the research efforts of such prestigeful groups as Stanford Research Institute on the psychic phenomena. The Department of Defense publicl…
named on a page transcribed in full · p. 72
…ronics (Wiley, 1969). In 1972, he joined the staff of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) as a senior researcher where he ini…
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one of two key psychics named at SRI-I across ten years of research
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prepared one of the two separate expert reviews of the remote-viewing program SRI beganAn Evaluation of the Remote Vewing Program: Research and Operational Applicationsprinted p. E-2 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
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This map saysthe CIA remote-viewing project ran there from 1972The document saysThere was a Project named SCANATE, run by SRI-I, funded by the CIA and co-participated in with the National Security Agency (NSA).Memorandum for Record: Security Review of "Mind Wars", 1984
printed p. 2 · read off the page footerCaveat THIS IS AN ASSESSMENT, NOT AN ORIGINAL RECORD. The document is INSCOM's 1984 security review of Ron McRae's book "Mind Wars". The sentence quoted sits in paragraph 3, the list of statements the reviewer determined as "having a high reliability for truth" - so what this establishes is that the Army's CENTER LANE project officer judged the published claim highly reliable in May 1984. It is not a contemporaneous record of the project it describes, and no page of an original SCANATE file is behind it. AND THE DATE IS NOT IN THIS SENTENCE. The document supports "run by SRI-I"; it says nothing about 1972. The year on this link remains unsourced. -
the DIA co-sponsored and later managed its remote-viewing workProject GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasksprinted p. 1 · PDF p. 6 checked against the page
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the Extended Remote Viewing technique is named for her in the programme's own evaluation forms
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funded its psychoenergetics program from 1971, the first entry in the program's own funding tableProject GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasksprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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its Foreign Technology Division funded the SRI psychoenergetics program, 1976-79same document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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← INSCOMfunded the SRI psychoenergetics program from 1979, and jointly with DIA in FY1981 and FY1982same document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the pageCaveat The table ends at FY 1983 and names DIA alone in that year. This document is withheld in parts (25 pages of a stated 46) and was issued in January 1983, so an FY1983 INSCOM figure may simply not have existed yet - but the page does not say so and nothing here assumes it.
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ran the remote-viewing task on the site and reported its result to the CIAsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 5 · PDF p. 10 checked against the page
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trained the first six Army remote viewers and held the program's external contractsCENTER LANE Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence AgencyPDF p. 31 checked against the page
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held its coordinate remote viewing training contract, awarded 15 November 1983same document as the row abovePDF p. 16 checked against the page
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was on leave from UC Davis and serving as a consultant to it in parapsychology, July 1978
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jointly funded and monitored its paranormal perception research project with the Office of Research and Development
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jointly funded and monitored its paranormal perception research project with the Office of Technical Servicesame document as the row abovePDF p. 1 checked against the page
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approved the recommendation that a paranormal perception research project be initiated with itOffice of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Projectprinted p. 3 · PDF p. 3 checked against the page
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named in a CIA memorandum as among those said to have replicated its remote viewing tasksStanford Research Institute (SRI) Investigation into ParapsychologyPDF p. 1 checked against the pageCaveat scoped
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← NAVELEXfunded its psychoenergetics program in 1975-76, the only Navy entry in the program's own funding tableProject GRILL FLAME (U): Operational Tasksprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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funded its psychoenergetics program in 1977-80, the largest single entry in the program's own funding table before the joint programsame document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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funded its psychoenergetics program in 1978-80, the second of two Army technical organisations in the program's own funding tablesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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funded its psychoenergetics program in 1978-80, before the joint program it went on to managesame document as the row aboveprinted p. 2 · PDF p. 7 checked against the page
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tested against Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research ProjectThe claim we testedthe CIA technical-services lineage that funded SRI's psi program had earlier run itWhat the document actually saysA previous OTS project, summarized in the attached proposal, indicated the existence of paranormal perception phenomena.Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical Service Paranormal Perception Research Project
VERIFIED - rendered at 170 dpi and read by eye, 2026-08-25, across eleven pages of three CREST records. All three PDFs carry a text layer of ZERO characters, so nothing was read but the image: this is not OCR and not a fetch-tool transcription.Why we refused it. THE DOCUMENT THIS LINK ASKED FOR ARRIVED AND DID NOT SETTLE IT. This bind used to say "What would settle this link is the Office of Technical Service's own record of the SRI funding decision, which this corpus does not hold." The operator supplied it on 25 August 2026. THREE LEGS, ONE STANDS. (1) That OTS funded SRI's paranormal perception research is ESTABLISHED - paragraph 1 recommends the work "be jointly funded and monitored by the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Technical Service", approved over W.E. Colby's signature. (2) That the same lineage had earlier run MK-ULTRA is NOT ESTABLISHED: no page of the eleven names MK-ULTRA at all. (3) That TSD and OTS are one organisation renamed is NOT ESTABLISHED: nothing in these documents says it. What paragraph 3 does say is "A previous OTS project, summarized in the attached proposal, indicated the existence of paranormal perception phenomena." - an earlier OTS paranormal project, CONFIRMED AND NOT NAMED. So this is now a refusal rather than an absence: we hold the record, we read it, and it does not say this. The narrower claim these documents DO fully support - that ORD and OTS jointly funded and monitored paranormal perception research at SRI on a recommendation approved by the DCI - is not this claim and belongs between its own two ends. WHAT WOULD SETTLE LEGS 2 AND 3, NAMED 2 September 2026: the 1977 Senate joint hearing "Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification" (Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, 3 August 1977) - a GPO publication of the same class as the four UAP hearings this project holds and reads. It is the public record of the programme itself: its office, its dates, its director, and its subprojects. Nothing this corpus currently holds can source MK-ULTRA at all - the only file about it is an abandoned Intellipedia wiki page whose own caution reads "FINDING AID ONLY ... no link on this map should rest on it", and a one-page commercial television transcript with third-party rights. Until that hearing is held here, MK-ULTRA stays off the front-page timeline, because every other block in that column is a documented programme and this one would be an assertion in the same shape. -
ran its remote-viewing program from 1972Targ & 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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IONS gave early private funding for its psi researchJim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)
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succeeded Puthoff as project director in 1985CIA STAR GATE declassified archive (1995); AIR review (1995) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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asked it to lead a White House UFO study, reportedly pressured to dropRussell Targ, The Reality of ESP (2012) [Targ's account]
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hosted the CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing program (1972-95)Wikipedia: Stanford Research Institute
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worked on classified psi research at SRI International in the 1980sDean Radin bio; Psi Encyclopedia (IONS)
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ran through SRI International (1972-1990)US remote-viewing program history; 1995 CIA/AIR review - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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a CIA contract monitor of its remote-viewing researchPuthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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→ DARPAmajor ARPA/DARPA research contractor; the ARPANET's second node (1969) and home to Engelbart's Augmentation Research CenterARPANET / SRI history; Doug Engelbart Institute
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an SRI remote-viewing operationR. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) - SRI-side account, contested - Targ 2019 (JSE)
1 correction to this record
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Stanford Research Institute → Jessica Utts
co-authored the 1995 evaluation of the government remote-viewing program that began at SRI
prepared one of the two separate expert reviews of the remote-viewing program SRI began
She did not co-author the evaluation. The report says: "Separate written reviews were prepared by Dr. Utts and Dr. Hyman. They exchanged reviews with other panel members who then tried to reach a consensus." She wrote one of two independent reviews. The same correction was made to link 1049 by the operator on 2026-08-19; this is its twin, missed at the time.