Project Stargate which was a secret U.S. Army unit
established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA). Work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to
psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great
distance. The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes
"Skip" Atwater, an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj.
Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute. The unit
was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of
"an old, leaky wooden barracks".
The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified
in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any
intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague and
included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that
its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues.
The program was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film, both titled The Men
Who Stare at Goats, although neither mentions it by name.
