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institution1978-1983

Project Grill Flame

Disciplines:
parapsychology
intelligence

Summary

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's early classified remote viewing program (1978–1983) — the direct predecessor to STARGATE — using operationally trained military remote viewers for intelligence purposes.

Core Contribution

Project Grill Flame represents the operational phase of military remote viewing: unlike the research programs at SRI (Targ & Puthoff), Grill Flame trained military personnel as operational remote viewers — intelligence assets rather than research subjects. The Fort Meade unit produced viewers (including McMoneagle) who were used for actual intelligence tasks. The program's operational character distinguishes it from pure research: the military was attempting to use psychic phenomena as an intelligence tool, not merely study it. Folded into CENTER LANE (1983), later becoming SUN STREAK, then STARGATE.

Historical Influences

SRI Remote Viewing Research Soviet Psychotronics Intelligence

Intellectual Lineage

Cold War Intelligence Programs Military Parapsychology

Allied Works

Reading the Enemy's Mind The Seventh Sense Phenomena

Contemporaries & Peers

CIA Remote Viewing ProgramsSoviet Psychotronics

Minds Influenced

STARGATE Program Military Remote Viewing Doctrine

Intellectual Posterity

STARGATE Program Remote Viewing Culture

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