Project Interloper

Name Index

Viewer numbers.

Session transcripts, summaries and taskings in the release refer to the remote viewers by number: “Source 079”, “Viewer 018”. Many of the same people are named elsewhere in the release, in security agreements, training memos and personnel papers, but those papers seldom give the number. This key gives the person behind each number only where a published source says who it was, and cites that source on the row.

The release’s own evidence. Training cover sheets from 1985 to 1988, headed “REMOTE VIEWING SESSION DATA”, give the viewer and interviewer by initials or first name, often with a number: “Paul 003”, “Mel 011”, “LB 018”. Where a sheet like that exists it is linked on the row.

Read the numbers with care. A number was sometimes passed to a new viewer after the first one left, and in the early years a viewer could hold several numbers. As Jim Schnabel put it, “Like all remote viewers, McMoneagle had a series of three-digit ‘code numbers’ randomly assigned to him.” The sheets are not always consistent either: one written for “Mel 003” carries the handwritten note “Misfiled Should be filled 003” (CIA-RDP96-00789R001700390001-1). Use a document’s date with the dates below.

The Army unit at Fort Meade, 1978 to 1995

SRI and SAIC research subjects

The research laboratories numbered their subjects separately, so a three-digit number in an SRI or SAIC report is not the same series as the unit’s.

Sources

  • Paul H. Smith, The Guide to the Central Intelligence Agency's Star Gate Collection Archives (Remote Viewing Instructional Services), viewer and monitor table, as published by the International Remote Viewing Association at irva.org/stargate-guide. Smith served in the unit from 1983 to 1990.
  • Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (Dell, 1997), 69: "Like all remote viewers, McMoneagle had a series of three-digit 'code numbers' randomly assigned to him."
  • Joseph W. McMoneagle, review of Annie Jacobsen's Phenomena, Journal of Scientific Exploration 31, no. 2 (2017): 296-311: "as Remote Viewer #001".
  • "Melvin C. 'Mel' Riley," biography, Remote Viewing Instructional Services (rviewer.com): "Mel, designated as Viewer 011".
  • The Signal Line podcast, "Remote Viewing Discussion with Star Gate remote viewer Angela Ford" (5 April 2021), episode notes: "a former Project Star Gate remote viewer (viewer number 079) from 1986 to 1995".
  • Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers (MS 0773), Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Series XXI, Box 46, Folder 6: "Remote Viewing Slides/Photos Experiments, McMoneagle (Viewer 372), 1979".
  • Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers (MS 0773), Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Series XXI, Box 47, Folder 13: "Remote Viewing Experiments-Local PA Sites, Viewer 009 Gary Langford, 1979".
  • Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers (Dell, 1997), 69: "During the Carter administration, the National Security Council knew him primarily as Viewer 518".
  • SRI's own report, reprinted in the release: CIA-RDP96-00788R001300080001-0, pages 49 ("Subject S1: Experienced. To begin the series, Pat Price"), 51 ("Subject Hammid (S4)") and 54 ("Subject Swann (S3)").

Paul H. Smith’s table is published in more than one edition; where an edition gives only a first name and an initial, so does this key. Document counts are approximate: they count released documents in which the number follows “Source”, “Viewer” or “Remote Viewer”, as read by machine.