---
aliases:
- Lincoln D. Faurer
- Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer
born: 1928-02-07
category: Intelligence & Government
died: 2014-11-07
location: Medford, Massachusetts
summary: Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade
  a dozen new tasks in April 1982.
tags:
- Person
- Stargate
- CIA
- Military
- RemoteViewer
- NSA
---

Lincoln D. Faurer was a Lieutenant General and the Director of the [NSA](/organizations/nsa/) (NSA). In the spring of 1982, he was given a briefing on the [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/)'s [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/) program, and he saw [extrasensory perception](/concepts/extrasensory-perception/) as a form of signals intelligence with potential operational value[^1].

Faurer's interest led him to assign the remote-viewing unit at [Fort Meade](/places/fort-meade/) a dozen new tasks in April 1982. His support was crucial for the program's survival, as it provided the necessary operational requests from the military and intelligence services[^1].

INSCOM's chronology of its remote-viewing project records "LTG Faurer, Director NSA, briefed" on August 5, 1982; General [Albert Stubblebine](/people/albert-stubblebine/) came to INSCOM's own briefing of September 27, 1982, straight from a visit to Faurer and "told us about NSA's position"; and the [Center Lane](/programs/center-lane/) manager noted a "5 December 1983 briefing of Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, Dir., NSA," which "was a decision briefing for NSA involvement in the field" at which INSCOM's project would not be presented.[^2]

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^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. Jachim, Robert J., memorandum "Briefing for MG A.N. Stubblebine III," October 8, 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220022-7; Buzby, Brian, memoranda "CENTER LANE Briefing for CG, USAINSCOM," August 29, 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220011-9), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983," December 6, 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984," January 17, 1984 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2); letter of the ACSI to Stubblebine, "CENTER LANE," April 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220002-9). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.