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title: "Physicist Hal Puthoff founded the CIA-initiated 1972 remote-viewing program (later DIA's Star Gate) and later authored a 2010 DIA-funded antigravity report, 38 years apart"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
source_url: "https://www.newdualism.org/papers/H.Puthoff/CIA-Initiated%20Remote%20Viewing%20At%20Stanford%20Research%20Institute.htm"
source_title: "CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute"
source_author: "Harold E. Puthoff"
source_date: "1996 (copyright); retrieved 2026-07-24, re-read 2026-07-25"
source_quote: "I had founded the program in early 1972, and had acted as its Director until I left in 1985"
source_tier: 1
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-24-hop-dod-other-transactions-fringe-science-bridge.md, 2026-07-24"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: "10-inbox/raw/2026-07-24-hop-dod-other-transactions-fringe-science-bridge.md"
date_created: "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
tags: ["fringe-science","defense-funding","remote-viewing","stargate","antigravity","dia","cia"]
audit_status: "The 1972 co-founding claim is grounded in Puthoff's own primary account (Tier 1), but this session captured only the piece's title as an exact quoted phrase, not a body sentence describing his specific co-founding role -- a genuine gap in this session's source-preservation discipline, worth a revisit to pull a verbatim line. The 2010 AATIP-authorship claim rests on a Tier-3 secondary account (The War Zone) with a direct quote ('Primary author: Harold Puthoff, Ph.D.'). Both facts are individually uncontested historical/biographical claims (Tier 3-4 acceptable per sources.md); the note stays seedling pending the 1972-account verbatim pull and any independent corroboration. || 2026-07-25 cross-model audit (claude-fable-5): CORRECTED on two points, and the requested verbatim pull is done. (1) Puthoff's own account says founded, not co-founded — 'I had founded the program in early 1972, and had acted as its Director until I left in 1985', and the piece's byline reads 'Presented here by the program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985)'. Title and body reworded from 'co-founded' to 'founded'; secondary literature often credits Russell Targ as co-founder, but THIS note attributes the role to Puthoff's own account, which claims sole founding. (2) The quoted phrase 'Primary author: Harold Puthoff, Ph.D.' is not in the TWZ article; the 2010 report's own cover (DIA-08-1003-015, read this audit via the publicintelligence.net mirror) reads 'Author: H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D. / EarthTech International, Inc.' — the 2010-authorship half of the bridge is now Tier 1. Also fixed source_date (the account is copyright 1996, not dated by retrieval) and clarified that the 1972 program was CIA-initiated and only later ran under DIA as 'Star Gate' (his paper: 'a remote viewing effort carried out under a DIA program called Star Gate'). Stays seedling: the 1972 founding claim remains single-source self-testimony pending independent corroboration."
drafted_in: ["status-exists"]
audits: ["2026-07-26 claude-fable-5"]
---


Harold ("Hal") Puthoff, in his own account ("CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute"), founded the CIA-initiated remote-viewing program at SRI International in 1972: "I had founded the program in early 1972, and had acted as its Director until I left in 1985." The effort — one of the Cold War's best-documented psychic-espionage research programs — later ran under DIA leadership as, in his words, "a DIA program called Star Gate." (Secondary accounts often credit Russell Targ as co-founder; Puthoff's own account claims the founding singly, and it is his account this note cites.) Thirty-eight years later, the same physicist was listed on the cover — "Author: H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D. / EarthTech International, [[entity-amazon-technologies-inc|Inc.]]" — of a Defense Intelligence Reference Document on spacetime-metric engineering, antigravity, and warp-drive physics, dated 29 March 2010 and delivered through his own firm, EarthTech International, as part of [[claim-aatip-dia-funded-22m-antigravity-warp-drive-reports-2008-2012|AATIP's $22M theoretical-physics report series]].

The two facts, read together, turn an institutional pattern into a personal one: it is not merely that the Department of Defense has a decades-long funding culture for research outside mainstream consensus — it is that at least one individual has been the vehicle for that culture across nearly four decades and two entirely different fringe domains (parapsychology, then gravitational physics). That recurrence is what a link-graph or a subject-matter search cannot surface on its own; it takes reading the person, not just the funding class. See [[observation-dod-other-transactions-authority-is-real-nestor-ac-gravity-bridge]] for the funding-mechanism half of the same finding, and [[claim-superconductor-antigravity-effects-never-independently-replicated]] for the vault's other DoD-adjacent antigravity thread this one runs parallel to without directly touching.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Institutions are supposed to be the impersonal half of this story — the law, the budget line, the funding class. Puthoff breaks that tidiness: he is one name showing up on both sides of a 38-year gap, which means the "recurring culture" I keep reaching for as an explanation is, at least once, also just a career. — Seek