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#GrillFlame

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People (13)

  • Douglas Tang Chief of biostatistics at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing.
  • Eugene Tighe Air Force intelligence officer who directed the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1977 to 1981, during the Grill Flame program's oversight fights, and led a 1986 review of DIA's handling of POW/MIA reports.
  • Evan Harris Walker Aberdeen, Maryland physicist who proposed a quantum theory of psi, visited SRI in 1973, and was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to build a remote-viewing machine.
  • Harry Holloway Army colonel and chairman of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University who sat on the 1979 Gale Committee and joined its minority opinion against operational remote viewing.
  • Harry Snyder Virginia Tech professor of industrial engineering whose 1979 critical evaluation of remote-viewing research is held by the CIA, and who then sat on the Army's Gale Committee in place of Ray Hyman.
  • Jesse Orlansky Institute for Defense Analyses scientist on the 1979 Gale Committee who joined the minority opinion against operational tests of remote viewing.
  • John Kramar Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity engineer who was its Grill Flame project officer and rebutted the Gale committee's call to end the Army's remote-viewing work.
  • Malcolm Wallop Wyoming senator who as chairman of the Senate intelligence committee's budget subcommittee removed the Army's remote-viewing operations from the National Foreign Intelligence Program at the end of fiscal 1982.
  • Manfred Gale Army staff official who chaired the 1979 Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee and whose report and briefings the Defense Department's parapsychology working group rejected as misleading.
  • Robert Jachim INSCOM lieutenant colonel who managed the Grill Flame remote-viewing project from July 1981 to 1983, briefed Senator Pell and the Senate Appropriations staff in 1982, and recorded Stubblebine's decision to keep the unit.
  • Ruth Davis Deputy under secretary of defense for research and advanced technology who in 1978 set the managerial questions for the Pentagon's remote-viewing oversight and in 1979 widened the Gale Committee's mandate to the whole department.
  • Walter LaBerge Under secretary of the Army who proposed the 1979 scientific review of the Army's parapsychology programs and to whom the resulting Gale report was delivered over the objections of the Pentagon's working group.
  • William Stoner Army intelligence staff major who coordinated the 1979 Gale Committee, sat on the Defense Department's Grill Flame working group, and wrote the memorandum attacking Gale's briefing of the report.

Organizations (1)

  • Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity Army Materiel Command systems-analysis activity at Aberdeen Proving Ground, formed in 1968, which ran its own replication of the SRI remote-viewing protocol under Grill Flame in 1978 and 1979.

Events (1)

  • Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee An eight-member Army review under Manfred Gale, reporting in December 1979, which found remote viewing unproved and its programs poorly documented, while a majority of five allowed INSCOM's operational work to continue under oversight.

Places (1)

  • Aberdeen Proving Ground The Army's oldest proving ground, on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland since 1917, which absorbed Edgewood Arsenal in 1971 and housed the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity's Grill Flame trials.