Russell Targ

"Russell Targ is a senior research physicist at Stanford Research Institute, having joined their electronics and bioengineering laboratory in 1972. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in laser and plasma physics research with Sylvania Corporation, developing gas lasers...He is also president of the Parapsychology Research Group, Inc., in Palo Alto, California."
(Mitchell, Edgar, Psychic Exploration, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974, pg 522-3)
Partner with Hal Puthoff in the SRI remote viewing project (see SRI's page for more details.)
"I have had dealings with Andrija Puharich intermittently since 1965.."

"I could remember back to my own activities at nineteen, when I was earning money performing magic.."
(Targ & Puthoff, 1977, pg 137)

Brother-in-law of former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. Interestingly, one of Fischer's opponents, Boris Spassky, claimed he lost a match because he was being beamed with confusion rays.
(Becker, Robert and Selden, Gary, The Body Electric, Quill, 1985, pg 322)
"In May 1982, Elisabeth Targ and I (R.T.) were invited to hold a workshop at Esalen Institute for a group of twenty-five professional men and women." This was part of a program with Stanislav Grof, who was studying non-chemical alternatives for altered states of consciousness. The Targs' goal was to show that psychic experiences did not require an altered state.
(Targ and Harary, pg 99)

In 1982, Targ left SRI and founded Delphi Associates with Keith Harary. Delphi Associates was a consultancy which sought to apply psi to finding oil, gas, etc. Using Harary as a viewer, they claimed to have successfully traded in the silver market.
(Targ and Harary, pg 176)

In Spring, 1982, Targ turned in a research report to his DIA contract manager at SRI, Jim Salyer. Salyer and the DIA considered his work to be unprofessional, and they soon refused to pay his salary.

Under SRI rules, Targ had eight months to find new funding. In early 1983, he left SRI, reportedly claiming that he left because he didn't like the military applications of psychic research.
(Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 264)

After leaving SRI, he toured the world with Keith Harary, including travelling to many communist countries, which made some in the DIA very nervous.

Before officially leaving SRI, Targ, along with Harary and businessman Tony White, founded Delphi Associates. Their first project was to develop a psi-related game for Atari, but Atari went under before the deal was completed. Delphi then went on to ty to predict silver futures on the market. After several reported successes, there were two misses, which scared off their investor. Each blamed each other for the failure, and the argument went public during a lecture Harary gave at the Esalen Institute. The feud continued into the 1990s. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 264-6)

Russell Targ is now apparently working with Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co., where his work deals with using lasers to determine wind patterns. In April, 1996, he co-chaired a session on "Advanced Sensor Technologies" at the Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls conference. He is also indentified as being with the Bay Research Institute, 1010 Harriet St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, and was involved with the Physics/Consciousness Research Group.
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