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born: 1935-06-06
category: Intelligence & Government
location: Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
summary: Major General Harry Soyster was the INSCOM commander who ultimately ended
  the U.S.
tags:
- Person
- Stargate
- Military
- RemoteViewer
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Major General [Harry Soyster](/people/harry-soyster/) was the [INSCOM](/organizations/united-states-army-intelligence-and-security-command/) commander who ultimately ended the [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/)'s participation in the [Stargate Project](/programs/stargate-project/). His decision marked a significant turning point for the program, leading to its eventual transfer and later declassification.[^1]

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INSCOM's chronology records: "11 JUL 84 BG Soyster, CG INSCOM, receives CENTER LANE briefing," and two days later "CG, INSCOM formulates decision to discontinue CENTER LANE as an INSCOM project." The Secretary of the Army approved the discontinuance on August 23, 1984, operations ceased on September 28, and the unit passed under DIA's operational control on March 7, 1985.[^2]

[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
[^2]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8; the scan's table columns are reflowed by OCR and some dates are uncertain. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.