Ed Dames, a proprietor of Psi-Tech - a "remote viewing" service in Beverly Hills, California founded by a clique of former intelligence officers - explains to late night radio talk show host Art Bell how the company's sole product - psi - is channeled: "This is a very structured technique, the remote viewer sitting at a desk with a ream of white paper and a pen. Using ['remote-viewing'] protocols, they first perceive a target. They're not told what the target is, only given a random number. Their unconscious minds are taught to do all the work, viewing the target first as sort of a 'thought-ball,' if you will.
"The next stage is sensory perceptions. They elaborate, download and objectify in words and sketches the colors, textures, the smells and taste, the sounds, the temperatures and the dimensions present at the site." Dames lets on that his psychics constructed clay models of the Unabomber's bombs, "that sort of thing," for a "federal agency." It doesn't come to him that all of this may sound a bit far-fetched and grandiose, the paranormal hardwired to the trappings of computer science, not to mention blatant disinformation. His firm is building clay models when remote viewing could, if the "protocols" worked as advertised, have pinpoint a killer's location. After all, says Dames, "if the 'target' is a terrorist - Saddam Hussein or Abu Nidal - we go in through the back door. We can be in their minds, in their dreams." A company brochure reports that Psi-Tech was founded in 1989, employing "a select, technically qualified group of professional analysts who provide a unique data collection capability not available anywhere else in the world. We are a team of highly-trained remote viewing specialists [who've] developed applied remote viewing into a powerful investigative tool."
Dames rambles on, a metaphysical comic book narrative, but assures us this is serious business. During the Gulf Crisis, one Psi-Tech client, "a large company with strategic oil interests in the Mid East," called on Dames and his telepaths "to provide data and analysis on Saddam himself, his mind (intent, motivation, emotional and behavioral states), to penetrate his war room for information concerning battle plans, operations, force strengths and possible deception schemes, and to provide a six-month general outlook for the Gulf region."
Major Dames is schooled in military intelligence, and the former commanding officer of the Army's "Psychic Espionage Unit," which operated under DIA and Army INSCOM charter.2 He is also a chronic confabulator, the chief Plumber of the "Stargate" psychic spying scandal. He draws his intelligence background from the shadows like the priest's robes Jim Garrison recovered from the closet of David Ferrie, the Kennedy assassination suspect. In the past, he acknowledges, "I have been involved in a lot of very, very deep, dark black projects." "I have never been assigned to a unit that has suffered more ostracism, been looked upon with more fear." In the late '70s, he admits, the unit was "associated with the occult. It gave the unit a bad name."
And Dames as well. Wherever you stand in the ESP debate, Psi-Tech was formed in the caul of the intelligence underground's "occult" projects, a world of flying disks, cosmic telepathy, teleportation, cosmic voyages and communication with house plants. The "psychic spying" unit, Dames gloats (ignoring the compulsory secrecy oath?), has provided services to the CIA, NSA, DIA, DEA, Navy and Air Force under the watch of a panel chaired by Army General Stan Hyman. The group led by Dames was one of several paranormal divisions run by the DIA and the Secretary of the Army, code-named Sun Streak, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Scanate and Stargate.
Dames's coevals in the military-metaphysical complex included General Albert Stubblebine, the retired director of Army intelligence INSCOM, and a Psi-Tech co-founder. Another is David Morehouse, Ph.D., an executive officer of the Second Battalion and deputy of the 82nd Airborne Division until 1994, when he resigned. Morehouse is the author of Comes the Watcher: The True Story of a Military Psychic Spy, and Peace Quest: Visions of Future War, a glorification of nonlethal weapons. He is also the producer of a Hanna-Barbara cartoon series, Peace Force: The Avalon Odyssey, about aliens defending the galaxy with advanced weapons. Morehouse is also a vice president at Paraview, a television production company with headquarters in Manhattan.
The occult is a recurring theme in this milieu. "They have no idea what they're dealing with," observes Rod Lewis, a spokesman for the American Federation of Scientists. "Of course, the immediate speculation is that they're dealing with the demonic realm.'" Demonic? "It's a Greek word for 'disembodied intelligence.' Apparently it's something they take very seriously, and unfortunately they're trying to use it for military purposes."
One corporation, in coordination with the CIA, took part, Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) with corporate headquarters in San Diego. SAIC is directed by some of the highest-ranking oligarchs of the DoD and intelligence groups: former NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's John Deutch, William Perry, Clinton's secretary of defense from ESL, Inc. (part owner of Area 51), Melvin Laird, defense secretary under Nixon, and Donald Kerr, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The CIA"covets" remote viewing as a source of intelligence, Dames boasts. In reality, the Agency covets his metaphysical cover stories, schizoid pablum that direct attention from blatant human rights violations. The Taos Hum, he confides, is a 17 hz. "time beacon" that pumps pulses of gravity into space, an invisible light house for time-travelling extraterrestrials. Psi-Tech's remote viewers, he says, have located and drawn diagrams of the "alien beacon" of Taos, (and all along residents thought it was a classified electromagnetic device attuned to the brain's auditory frequencies.)
Mars is "super-important" - Psi-Tech's telepaths have discovered a breed of "alien" that hails from Mars, ferried to earth by wayfarers from a remote civilization known as The Federation. The time-travelling aliens store their mind control gear in "parking garages" on the moon's surface. Since Psi-Tech has "confirmed" that Bug-Eyes are abducting human beings, out goes the thesis that scientists are conducting illicit biological experiments and dropping off the subjects with hypnotic memories of "alien" abduction ... Then again, the paranormal fantasies spun by Dames, a veteran of the CIA's UFO "Working Group," could be interpreted as a veil for ruthless experimentation and the torture of anyone falling into disfavor with the intelligence community.
In fact, the deep history of Psi-Tech is a chapter of a much larger movement, one that thrives on the spread of religious programming, "alien" invasions and other forms of irrational belief. The surface of the underground movement is populated by seemingly delusional quasi-mystical savants. Underneath, a hidden world of terror - with origins in the waste of warstruck Europe and the beating hearts of some of Nazi Germany's most ruthless military scientists. From these cold chambers exploded many of the mysteries that have since riddled the postwar world. One sector of the virtual government, the mind control and biocybernetics group, was born in academia. The goal of the research, to gain "control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of human nature as self-preservation."
The Agency's scientific contracts were first handed around by Barnaby Keeney, president of Brown University. In 1951, Brown took a sabbatical to design a CIA trainee program and a system of fronts to finance covert operations. In 1962 he was named chairman of the Human Ecology Fund, the financial hub of MKULTRA.8 By 1974, Michael Shapiro, a professor of law at USC, could report in the Southern California Law Review, "Psychotropic drugs, electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) by electrodes, psychosurgery and organic conditioning techniques are now available for use by the state in controlling criminal, sick or otherwise aberrant or unwanted behavior."
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