PSYCHIC WARRIOR, David Morehouse, paperback, 310pp, 1996, $7.99

Former Army Captain David Morehouse discusses his experiences with Sun Streak, the super secret project later dubbed Stargate, the so-called CIA psychic spies. The group became the object of ridicule in what Morehouse told me in a telephone interview shortly after 9/11 was a standard CIA disinformation response that allowed them to channel public perception. Meanwhile, Morehouse is convinced that a similar group, even deeper undercover, was taken off the back burner to succeed Stargate.

Stargate consisted of eight remote viewers and their administrative head who operated out of Fort Meade, Maryland. The whole project was intended to once and for all answer the question of whether or not the Russians were wasting resources on their own well-publicized efforts to develop psychic talents a weapons.

The official word is that the evidence is shaky, the results very mixed.  Morehouse’s own opinion is that, utilizing the procedures developed by Stargate, the results are very good.

The key to Stargate was development of a procedure to get the remote viewer into the mental framework needed to get the viewer to “see” the target.  Morehouse differs from a previous account I read of what was being done in that what he describes sounds more like astral projection where a spiritual self separates from the body, goes to the site, and makes observations which he communicates to his handler back in the viewing room as he continues.  (On the other hand, Morehouse told me the book I got the other account from was written by a contract writer for the CIA as part of its disinformation program.)

In intelligence, as Morehouse told me, you don’t take a single source of information and act on it. You work it into a mosaic, you act on evidence supported by several sources of information. Stargate was intended to provide one of those sources of information. An example might be if you lose an aircraft and crew in the Congo and you are searching the entire area where you know the aircraft went down. Stargate remote viewers may be able to steer you into areas in the Congo region they believe it likely the craft went down. That sort of thing did happen.

Another example mentioned in other books involves viewer Joseph McMoneagle who has since written several books, but was gone by the time Morehouse joined Sun Streak AKA Stargate. As I understand it, McMoneagle found and described a huge structure near water at a location in the Soviet Union and what turned out to be the new Typhoon class Soviet submarine, the world’s largest. Satellites had already confirmed the existence of the building, but intelligence didn’t know what was in it and McMoneagle’s description would have given them something to work with. (Whether it was acted upon or not, who knows? You don’t get feedback on this sort of thing…it’s all need-to-know-as-you-go.)

Until the first Gulf War broke out, Morehouse writes that they were often loaned to DEA to locate drug shipments. In fact, Morehouse told me that the biggest drug haul in US history was made by Stargate remote viewers using a pendulum as a tool. A ship near Hawaii was raided and found with a massive amount of drugs on board.

Perhaps most intriguing are the remote viewing sessions that confronted Morehouse with alien creatures, perhaps extra-dimensional, who seemed to recognize his presence but were variably unimpressed.

Morehouse was forced out of the military because of his intention to disclose the potential of remote viewing for the betterment of people generally, rather than keep it secret and focused on enemy operations.

I’ve read the book four times and always find it very informative and entertaining.