Scientists & Researchers

Russell Targ

1972

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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Connections (8)

confirmedIngo Swann

SRI remote-viewing collaborators

Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)

confirmedHal Puthoff

co-directed SRI's remote-viewing program

Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)

confirmedEdwin May

colleague on the SRI remote-viewing program

Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) · Targ 2019 (JSE)

confirmedAndrija Puharich

arranged Geller's SRI evaluation, which Targ co-led

Source: Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena (2017)

confirmedUri Geller

tested by him at SRI in the 1970s

Source: Targ & Puthoff, Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding, Nature (1974)

confirmedStanford Research Institute

co-founded its remote-viewing program

Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)

confirmedStargate Project

he co-led the early SRI program

Source: US remote-viewing program history · Targ 2019 (JSE)

confirmedHella Hammid

viewer in Targ's SRI remote-viewing trials

Source: R. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) — SRI-side account, contested · Targ 2019 (JSE)

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