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Central Intelligence Agency
1947
The Central Intelligence Agency (est. 1947). Recurs throughout this network: it convened the 1953 Robertson Panel that set official UFO-debunking policy, funded the SRI remote-viewing program, produced the 1983 Gateway Process report, ran the anomalies/weird desk (Kit Green, Ron Pandolfi), spun up the venture arm In-Q-Tel that seeded Palantir, and its Directorate of Science & Technology was led by figures like Donald Kerr. The institutional through-line of the government-secrecy thread.
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CIA electronic-warfare officer who ran Project Palladium
Source: Wikipedia: Gene Poteat
CIA physician-scientist who ran the medical/anomalies desk
Source: Wikipedia: Christopher "Kit" Green
CIA scientist associated with the UFO/anomalies desk
Source: Wikipedia: Ron Pandolphi
the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence who drove the 1953 Robertson Panel
Source: Wikipedia: Marshall Chadwell
a 1983 CIA Army/analytical report on consciousness and the Monroe Institute
Source: Wikipedia: Gateway Process (1983 CIA Report)
jointly run by the U.S. Navy and the CIA
Source: National Underwater Reconnaissance Office declassified history
the CIA's not-for-profit venture-capital arm
Source: Wikipedia: In-Q-Tel
convened by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (1953)
Source: Wikipedia: Robertson Panel
sponsored and funded by the CIA
Source: Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute; SCANATE history
headed its Technical Services Division (chemical/behavioral programs)
Source: CIA records; Church Committee (1975)
hosted the CIA/DIA-funded remote-viewing program (1972-95)
Source: Wikipedia: Stanford Research Institute
the CIA's Cold-War mind-control program
Source: CIA MK-ULTRA records; Church Committee (1975)
led its Directorate of Science & Technology
Source: official biography; Liberation Times reporting
CIA Deputy Director for Science & Technology (2001-2005)
Source: AFIO obituary (2025); Senate confirmation records
Director of Central Intelligence (1961-65)
Source: Wikipedia: John McCone
Director of Central Intelligence (1953-61)
Source: Wikipedia: Allen Dulles
terminated after the CIA-commissioned 1995 review
Source: 1995 CIA/AIR review of the RV program