More than ten years ago, the U.S. Government revealed
official interest in
the use of mind-over-matter during the height of the cold war.
STAR GATE was
the culmination of a series of various programs involving
psychic spies and
mental influencing, run under the Defense Intelligence Agency,
the CIA, and
armed services including the Army. USAF, the Navy, and their
intelligence
divisions.
Buried deep within the eighty-thousand plus pages of released
STAR GATE
documentation was a reference to a "Phoenix Program." The
reference came
near the end-time of STAR GATE, suggesting that somewhere in the
remaining
fifty-thousand plus pages of unreleased material were secrets
still
considered vital to the national security.
If STAR GATE was a failed attempt, a twenty-year plus search for
non-existent pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, then what of the
unreleased
material? What hidden secrets remain of a program said to have
been one of
the biggest embarrassments in the history of the intelligence
world? Why
were so many other nations conducting their own psychic mind
research behind
closed doors? What about the letter to the Pentagon's leader of
Net
Assessment, Andy Marshall, and memo's about briefing Marshall on
psychotronics and STAR GATE?
What we know to be true:
Several letters in the STAR GATE files, and a couple of
documents discuss a
program called PHOENIX, with reference to "psychotronics," a
cold-war term
for doing mind-to-mind battle with the enemy by means of weird
science and
paranormal phenomenology.
In a letter dated September 22, 1994, from Jay Sloan, former
officer at the
Defense Intelligence Agency we learn that,
"Lin Wells has asked
us to set up
a meeting with himself and Andy Marshall for the purpose of
briefing Andy on Stargate ... Focus of the briefing is substantive rundown to
include the
Phenix [PHOENIX] program. To get Andy familiar with the
activity, the need
to monitor, and an item of interest/concern from a DOD
[Department of
Defense] perspective. Why? Among other things, because Andy
might have some
money he would be willing to allocate to keep the contract
DIA has had
going -- the contract that allowed for those unique contacts
and sourcing
leads."
Why is this so important? STAR GATE was shut down shortly after
this letter
was written, in 1995, but this letter mentions the importance of
monitoring
psychotronics foreign research efforts in paraphysics and
phenomenology. Sloan also mentions that, "This should be done
ASAP, because Lin is orchestrating interest in this subject in
OSD prior to the Yeltsin visit."
In a letter sent to Sloan a few hours later, an undisclosed
party "came down
a couple of weeks ago and briefed Marshall on 'psychotronic
weapons' -
foreign program etc. (talked a bit about PHOENIX). This was in
response to
his query about what the weapons were. The session went very
well ...
however the briefing did not formally talk about SG [STAR GATE]
or any other
related programs/efforts."
Is this confirmation that "other related programs/efforts"
existed outside
of the STAR GATE program? It certainly suggests
compartmentalization of
psycho-paraphysical efforts at the Pentagon. Writer and humorist
Jon Ronson
has written about other alleged efforts, some which are said to
continue
today as part of the war on terror. Starstream Research has
learned of at
least one former intelligence officer looking for financing to
engage in
advanced mind-brain research experiments. What of the official
'black' work
taking place behind the closed door of national security?
As for the so-called PHOENIX program, clues remain sparse, but
are sprinkled within STAR GATE documents.
One clue can be found in a monthly activity report from
December, 1993.
Mundane aspects of personnel vacancies and program
administration are
followed by heavily redacted operational details.
An undisclosed (redacted) party "volunteered his services to
conduct open
source research in the area of non-lethal technology as it
applies to our
mission area." We only note here that the leading expert in the
field
of non-lethal weapons is also a member of the so-called AVIARY
group of
military insiders interested in phenomenology like UFO's and
psychic powers:
Colonel John B. Alexander.
The document continues, " [redacted name] also offered his
services in
assisting us in preparing briefings if so asked. [redacted name]
performs
open source data searches for SAIC [STAR GATE's private sector
contracted
research partner, "Science Applications International
Corporation" ] in
support of our contract."
Mention is made of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory
research on the
biological effects of electromagnetic fields, and equivalent
Russian programs.
Following the next heavily redacted section of the document is a
paragraph
dated December 7, 1993, discussing so-called remote influencing:
"[redacted] attended a meeting with corporate management
representatives of
Delfin Systems, Arlington, VA. Also in attendance was [redacted]
...
conducted a briefing in which he covered the history of Russian
activity in
the area of remote influence and provided a current assessment
of the
'Phoenix' devices."
The remainder of the document is heavily redacted, but there is
another item
of interest:
"[redacted] reviewed and filed classified and open source
literature on
Activity related R&D efforts in Russia, FSU, Europe, China,
[redacted] and
Central and South America. [redacted] has drafted a paper on
QIGONG
practices/applications in the PRC."
Apparently the United States was in deep parapsychological
competition for the hearts and souls of the world population.
In a document simply titled "KEYWORD LIST," terms are provided
without explanation. Among the keywords listed, which included "parapsychology,"
"psychoenergetics," "telepathy," and other buzz terms for
paraphysics, is "Phoenix" ("Feniks") Device."
The curious aspect of all of this comes from a confidential memo
dated February
3rd, 1994, prior to the letters discussing the briefing for Andy
Marshall. The document is titled "Psychotronic Weapon Dupes KGB
and Soviet Military." The originator of the document is the
"Foreign Science and Technology Center."
And there, listed under cover name, is "PHOENIX PROGRAM."
What follows is a text abstract that says:
"In a 21 April 1993 Literaturnaya Gazeta interview, Vevgeniye
Aleksandrov of
the Vavilona Optical Institute revealed that experiments
conducted in the
former Soviet Union (FSU) on mind altering weapons were largely
a hoax
intended to milk millions of rubles from the KGB and the
military.
Aleksandrov, in commenting on the validity of psychotronic
weapon research,
stated: 'The whole thing was a grandiose snow job, a monstrous
squandering
of the national wealth, this work, fortunately for humanity, did
not have
any real content; it was an imitation of work, science like
shamanism. The
military and KGB were simply taken for a ride.' Since the
1970's, as much as 500 million rubles may have been sunk into
research programs aimed at producing weapons that would transmit
signals to modify the behavior of soldiers ... proponents of
these programs claimed that these psychotronic weapons could
even kill enemy troops."
If this revelation was indeed true, one might ask why STAR GATE
files include another copy of the September 22, 1994, letter
from DIA's Jay Sloan, hand signed and dated October 24th, 1994,
with a list of items, the first three having been
check marked:
"(1) Scalar [a reference to a kind of wave behavior thought to
exist in
psychotronics]
(2) Weasle (sic) money out of Andy
(3) [unreadable] keep Jay informed
(4) Let agency brief [redacted]
ACTION [underlined]
Jay Sloan, 24 Oct"
At the top of the same letter:
"MFR: Response VIA Higgins to [redacted] on 25 Oct 94.
Basically: (1) No
meeting - OBE [Overcome by Events], (2) MTG was to get Andy to fork over $ for R&D."
And in the same handwriting, at the lower right hand corner:
"File Wells [Lin Wells] Folder, thanks."
What might be a follow up letter, addressed directly to Andy
Marshall, appears in the STAR GATE files on the 27th of
February, 1995, coming from the "Defense Group Inc."
"Dear Andy,
Per guidance from Lin Wells, the enclosed proposal (your copy)
is to address
the sensitive matter discussed with you and Lin Wells earlier,
and verbally
approved.
I have had the document written in response to your recent BAA
whose
deadline is Tuesday, 28 February 1995, with delivery to Glenna
Hughes. I
have included enough 'code word' phrases to identify the thrust
of the
work - but not the scope or the totality.
Please call if I can clarify any issues.
Sincerely,
James P. Wade, Jr.
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer"
Sensitive matters, verbally approved, indeed. Is this a smoking
gun in the
hands of those claiming that STAR GATE - like programs live on,
even today,
hidden in the black operations of the Pentagon and the
intelligence
agencies? Or were the Soviet scientists playing head games with
both eastern and western governments? What about programs in
China, and other nations?
To be continued in Part Two.
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