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3. The military operational RV periods that are covered are as follows:

Further, there is a period from about 1975 to around 1979/80 where the Air Force managed the program under the leadership of Dale Graff; and there may be documents from this period also mixed in with the rest of the archives. AMSAA was an Army organization at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD which carried on a fairly intensive remote viewing program for a short time during roughly 1978–1979.

4. Some of those assigned to the military RV unit are as follows (people are listed alphabetically, independent of program cover name they served under, and including last names only for those who are generally publicly known and, as far as I can determine, whose full names appear in the Archives; question marks [?] after viewer numbers reflect uncertainty about whether the number is correct or not):

Sometimes the same number was re-used after a source left the unit. So 025 was used both for Rob Cowart and for Robin D., and 052 was used for Gene Lessman and for Linda A. Dave Morehouse shares 032 with an unidentified Grill Flame viewer. Dates of service should make clear which person is referred to in the Archives.

The viewer/source numbers will be helpful in sorting out who the viewers and who the monitors were on many of the various sessions. There are a number of numbers from the Grill Flame years that haven’t yet been identified as to which individuals they belong to. This is at least partly because viewers at the time were often assigned several numbers which were used interchangeably as a security measure.

Commanders of the Ft. Meade unit, and their tenures are as follows (I only include the full names of those whose full names so far as I can determine appear in the Archives):

5. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) also figured prominently in the remote viewing saga. By the late 1970s under chief scientist Jack Vorona the Agency was a major supporter of and contractor for the SRI research. This continued up to the Star Gate program’s demise in 1995. But besides the research angle, DIA absorbed the Army’s operational unit starting in 1985 (with the official transfer from Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) coming on 30 January 1986). Important figures in the DIA effort were:

• Dr. Jack Vorona (deputy director in charge of science and technology intelligence issues)
• Dale Graff (who transferred is DIA in about 1980 when the Air Force discontinued its program)
• Jim Salyer (who monitored the SRI program for DIA from the 19705 through about 1990)
• John Berberich (replaced Vorona in early 1990)

Most primary DIA-related activities took place at the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center (DIAC) located on Bolling Air Force Base, across the Anacostia River from metropolitan Washington, DC. DIA’s actual headquarters, though, were in the E-ring of the Pentagon, where the Director’s office was at the time.

6. Despite labels such as “The ClA’s ‘Star Gate’ Program,” the Central Intelligence Agency never actually ran the Star Gate program. In 1994 Congress ordered DIA to turn the Program over to the CIA. The day the CIA took control, June 30, 1995, the Agency terminated the program as a functioning element. No military remote viewers ever actually worked directly for the CIA as viewers.

7. Projects and project numbers: The operational remote viewing projects conducted at Ft. Meade were usually numbered with the year and the order in which the tasking was received. For example: 8709 (the project against the Stealth aircraft) was the ninth project received in 1987. In the Archives, unfortunately, the actual target of a given project is in most cases missing, so it is frequently difficult to know what the purpose of the sessions was. However, reports included with the sessions often give useful clues as to what the mission was, and in some cases tasking information about the targets is included as well. Fortunately, this same problem doesn’t exist for the training sessions, where the majority of them come with the feedback attached so it is possible to see how well the viewer did in describing the intended target.

• ACSI – Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence – the senior intelligence officer (usually a two-star general) on the Army staff in the Pentagon.
• CRV – Coordinate Remote Viewing (now called ‘Controlled’ Remote Viewing).
• DCSINT – Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence – replaced the ‘ACSI’; term.
• DIA – Defense Intelligence Agency.
• ERV – Extended Remote Viewing.
• Human Use – Rules governing experimentation on human subjects in scientific settings.
• ITAC – A Intelligence, Threat, and Analysis Center (an Army intel analysis organization)
• INSCOM – The U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command.
• Monitor – Assists a remote viewer during the session (sometimes referred to as “interviewer”)
• SAIC – Science Applications International Corporation.
• Session – The period of activity during which remote viewing is done.
• SRI – Officially, ‘SRI-International’ – formerly the Stanford Research Institute
• Viewer – Remote viewer (sometimes also referred to as a “source.”)
• WRV – Written Remote Viewing (an RV method mixing channeling and automatic writing).