[CNI News thanks Density4 for sending the following statement from Ed Dames. Though not repeated here, previous public statements of Mr. Dames have included allegations that he and his associates at PsiTech Corporation, a company offering remote viewing services to private clients, have successfully employed remote viewing to determine the location and activites of aliens on the earth.]
Major Ed Dames, U.S. Army. ret., has decided to go fully public with his involvement in the U.S. Government "psychic spy" operations in response to the half-truths and disinformation about the project now being disseminated by the CIA and others, as reported most recently on ABC Nightline program of 11/28/95. Dames is the man who actually helped create the psychic Espionage Unit of the U.S. Army's Department of Military Intelligence, heading its operation for almost a decade, leading all of its major operations, and serving as its only training officer during the project's entire 20 year history.
Major Dames cannot speculate on why the CIA and others have begun this program of disinformation -- although he has his ideas. But he can correct the factual errors and half-truths now being reported as fact, and, except where truth is protected by the highest levels of military secrecy, can substantiate what he says through documentation and the corroborating testimony of other high- placed military officers and intelligence operatives.
The inaccuracies of the Nightline report are too many to delineate in a single release, but a few points must be touched on. For some reason, Nightline chose to focus primarily on the lesser figures within the U.S. Government remote viewing program, and only those who had little or nothing to do with the actual operational aspects of it. SUN STREAK -- code-name >mentioned on Nightline -- was only one of a number of remote viewing programs. The real working aspects of the program -- the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Secretary of the Army units code-named GRILL FRAME, CENTER LANE, and STARGATE, as well as the CIA research project SCANATE -- were never mentioned.
The claim made by William Gates that the CIA pursued remote viewing only because "Congress made them" is, at best, ludicrous. Admiral Stansfield Turner has told a very different story about the CIA involvement with remote viewing. And the truth is that the CIA generally coveted the work of the intelligence unit most active in remote viewing -- the military unit headed by Major Ed Dames.
Dames' unit was run under charter of the DIA and Army INSCOM, but often worked for various agencies and departments, including NSA, DIA, DEA, Navy, and Air Force. The use of the unit was directed by a joint committee headed by Army General Stan Hyman, and through General Hyman the various agencies and departments would submit requests for the intelligence collations to the unit. Norm Jackson, the "Norm" of the Nightline program, was merely the CIA liaison to General Hyman's committee, someone who came requesting the service of the remote viewing unit, not someone directly involved in its actions.
This only begins to touch on the many inaccuracies and half-truths of the Nightline report. However, spurred on by the current flood of disinformation, Major Ed Dames can, and will talk further.
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