Paul H. Smith (remote viewer)

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Captain (later Major) Paul H. Smith was assigned to the Army's Center Lane remote viewing program starting in 1983, and transitioned with the program to the Defense Intelligence Agency in early 1986. He was transferred out of the program in 1990 to participate in Desert Storm.

During his seven years with what ultimately came to be known as the Stargate Project, Smith served concurrently as an operational remote viewer, training instructor, unit historian, recruiting officer, and security officer. Directly trained by the creators of remote viewing, Ingo Swann and Dr. Harold E. Puthoff of SRI International, he was later the main author of the DIA "coordinate remote viewing" manual, and was primary theory instructor for the unit, being involved in the training of other now-well-known viewers including Lyn Buchanan, Mel Riley, and David Morehouse.

Smith retired from the Army in 1996 and started a commercial remote viewing training company, Remote Viewing Instructional Services Inc. in January 1997. His Austin, Texas based company continues to train students. In 1999, he participated with Puthoff, Buchanan, Russell Targ, F. Holmes Atwater, and other researchers and remote viewing veterans to found the non-profit International Remote Viewing Association. He organized and chaired the 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004 remote viewing conferences.

[edit] References

Paul H. Smith, Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate -- America's Psychic Espionage Program, Forge, 2005, ISBN 0-312-87515-0
Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, ISBN 0-440-22306-7 The best history of the project; nonskeptical.
F. Holmes Atwater, Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul, Hampton Roads Publishing, VA, 2001, ISBN 1-57174-247-6