Declassified Targ and Puthoff
SRI International remote viewing research
Stanford Research Institute hosted foundational experiments under Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff. Intelligence and defense interest is in the STAR GATE paper trail. Methods included remote sites, sealed objects, and coordinates.
Stanford Research Institute (later SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, ran remote-viewing experiments from 1972 under physicists Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff. Intelligence and Army interest is in the STAR GATE paper trail. They framed remote viewing as something a laboratory might test: remote geographic sites, sealed objects, coordinates. Sponsors framed it as something a service might need. Those frames never fully agreed, which is why the archive is both experimental and operational, and why the ending is an intelligence review rather than a single journal paper.
What they were testing
A viewer in a room, a target somewhere else, a protocol meant to keep ordinary cues out. SCANATE — scan by coordinate — is the abstract handle most associated with this lab. Consultant Ingo Swann helped shape coordinate remote viewing and later the six-stage training drill transferred to the Army. Early subjects in the public story include Swann and Pat Price; later Grill Flame viewers such as Joseph W. McMoneagle belong to the operational chapter, not to the first SRI notebooks.
From lab to Fort Meade
SRI’s enhancement task in the early 1980s was to make a procedure transmissible: featureless chamber, limited monitor speech, repeated coordinate, staged proficiency. Army INSCOM personnel from the Grill Flame shop took contracted SRI training in 1983–1984. That transfer is documented in RDP96 enhancement reports (for example CIA-RDP96-00788R001300280001-8 and related Grill Flame project paper). The physics lab did not become the unit; the unit borrowed a method and a vocabulary.
How to read SRI in this trail
Include the instrumentation and the argument, not only the legend. Targ and Puthoff wanted a test. Consumers of intelligence wanted an answer. Close-out in 1995 asked whether the answer helped the desk. A binaural console is not an SRI RV protocol. A scored lab is a small game with a handle. Both sit beside this history. Neither is Menlo Park reconstructed.
Editorial reading of declassified material. The official PDF is authoritative. Not medical, legal, or intelligence advice. Not a claim that consumer audio recreates historical units. The live lab is observational, not proof.