STAR GATE

Codename for the operational unit of the DIAs remote viewing program from approximately 1991 (redesignated from Sun Streak) until its termination in 1995. I have seen this codename been used casually by journalists to describe the entire remote-viewing program.

I have heard that at this time, the unit was no longer housed at Ft. Meade, but I don't know when they left or where they went.

Star Gate began around 1991, and had only four viewers: Lyn Buchanan, Robin Dahlgren, Angela Dellafiora, and a DIA civilian. No attempts were made to recruit new personnel. The branch chief of Star Gate was Dale Graff. When Graff resigned in the summer of 1993, he was replaced by a DIA HUMINT (human intelligence) specialist.
(Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 380-1)

In 1994, there was an attempt to move Star Gate to the CIA's Office of Research and Development. The CIA was reluctant to take the unit, but agreed under the condition of an outside evaluation, which was carried out by AIR. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 386)

AIR gave an unfavorable report of the program, and the CIA set about shutting it down in 1995. Since then, there have been rumors that the project went deep black, or that the intelligence community still funds some low-level psi research.

According to viewer Paul Smith, during Star Gate, the unit changed from a "SAP ('Special Access Program') to a LIMDIS ('limited dissemination') program".

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