1 December 1995

Statement by Ingo Swann on Remote Viewing

I refer to:

1- CIA Public Affairs Bureau release of a statement concerning Remote Viewing dated 6 September 1995 (which is available via the WWW)
2- The ABC TV Nightline show of 28 November 1995 (hosted by Ted Koppel)

Since these two events, I have been besieged by many telephone calls and requests for interviews. I have decided that the most efficientway to respond is to prepare this general statement which addresses the basic issues of the involvement of the intelligence/military communities with remote viewing.

"Regardless of official and media misdirecting, the general world knows now that remote viewing exists. Soon other nations will utilize it for their own interests.

So official and media misdirecting is shooting Uncle Sam in his feet -- just for the hell of it and a few sensationalizing laughs.

But some insiders know that soon a new psi-threat analysis will be necessary, or at least advisable."

Remote Viewing or “RV” is a skill that trains the unconscious mind to obtaining data about any person, place, thing and event in the past present or future. A Remote Viewing session begins with a “cue” or question that defines the data you are seeking. These cues may consist of anything from the World’s next catastrophic event to locating your lost car keys.

Since a “cue” consists of a question as defined by a Remote Viewer, only your imagination can limit what information you can obtain about a subject.

CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing
At Stanford Research Institute

by H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D.
Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
4030 Braker Lane W., #300
Austin, Texas 78759-5329

Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release, documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus involvement of the intelligence community in the investigation of so-called parapsychological or psi phenomena. Presented here by the program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985) is the early history of the program, including discussion of some of the first, now declassified, results that drove early interest.