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Project GRILL FLAME Army Psychic Intelligence Program

Project GRILL FLAME mattered because it was the moment the U.S. Army’s psychic-intelligence fear moved from assessment into operational machinery. GONDOLA WISH asked whether Soviet psychoenergetics could threaten U.S. security. GRILL FLAME tried to turn that anxiety into a controlled intelligence tool. It placed remote viewers inside the Fort Meade intelligence world, tied Army INSCOM to DIA funding, pulled SRI’s remote-viewing research into a military pipeline, and created the language that later became CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, and STAR GATE. The public record proves the program existed. It does not prove that psychic intelligence was reliable. That boundary is the whole story.

Declassified / Black Projects/black project/2026-04-03
Project GRILL FLAMEGRILL FLAMEremote viewingpsychic intelligencepsychoenergeticspsychotronics
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Project SCANATE Early Remote Viewing Program

Project SCANATE was one of the earliest CIA-sponsored attempts to test whether human subjects could describe distant places, facilities, or targets without ordinary sensory access. Conducted through Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s, the program sits at the origin point of the later U.S. remote-viewing architecture: GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, and STAR GATE. SCANATE is real as a documented intelligence research program. What remains contested is whether its results proved a paranormal mechanism, produced actionable intelligence, or mostly revealed how Cold War fear, experimental ambiguity, and classified curiosity could turn psychic claims into an intelligence collection experiment.

Declassified / Black Projects/black project/2026-04-03
Project SCANATESCANATEremote viewingCIAStanford Research InstituteSRI