Paul OCOnnOR

US Police Departments are using declassified US Military Intelligence Techniques to assist intelligence gathering in missing persons and cold cases, writes Paul OConnor
that a highly trained polygrapher can also tell, using those same involuntary signals from the body, when a test subjects guesses are right or wrong. The implication of this phenomenon, as proven in the laboratory, is that any individual can be placed on a polygraph and asked questions about subjects or events that are entirely unknown to them, in which they have no vested interest or emotional connection, and a trained polygrapher can identify their guessed answers as true or false.

odern police lore is full of anecdotal evidence of an officers gut instinct or sixth sense saving the lives of officers and the public in apparently innocuous but highly dangerous situations. In the early 1970s the CIA and US military intelligence took this ability apart in the laboratory, figured out how it works, named it Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) and put it to use with great success. Most members would be familiar with the concept of the polygraph; an electronic device capable of measuring involuntary physical responses generated by the bodys nervous system in response to yes/no or true/false questions. What most people are unaware of, is

Top secret
The psychological processes involved indicate that the questions are bypassing the conscious mind , which obviously doesnt know the answers, and are being answered by the

the sixth

sense
Research has shown that the subconscious mind seems to be capable of accessing information and knowledge beyond and outside of the body

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subconscious mind, which research has shown seems to be capable of accessing information and knowledge beyond and outside of the body. This is similar to the phenomenon of gut instinct, where the subconscious mind warns us of danger by using its control of our body to create a physical sensation that the conscious mind is capable of noticing and paying attention to. The more frequently the gut instinct sensation is acted upon, the stronger it becomes, as the subconscious realises it now has a tool that it can use to communicate information and warnings to protect us. Through a top secret, CIA-sponsored, programme at Stanford Research Institute, and then further developed by US military intelligence, it was discovered that it is possible to train individuals to achieve a very high degree of sensitivity and awareness to their own body responses and sensations. The individual could be asked to describe any person, location, object or event, at any moment in time, past, present or future, and they could elicit information, including sketches and drawings, of a very specific nature

approached by a detective from a local US police department who asked if this technique could be used in police work. Of course, was the reply, What do you need? Well, replied the officer, the ideal thing would be a witness. Thats no problem, came the reply. We can provide you with a witness by assigning a remote viewer to describe the event at any moment before, during and after it happened. Thus began the Assigned Witness Program(AWP): a humanitarian remote viewing program dedicated to working with police and security services by providing information to help officers and organisations to solve crime, particularly in the case of missing children and persons. The AWP, organised through PSI, will only work cases where they have been requested to do so by the police department or, when requested by the family of a missing person, and only with the agreement of the local police to act on the information which is always provided directly to their department. This is to avoid any danger of the information being

in Ireland, as to do so may inadvertently lead to their identification by criminal elements, with consequent dangers to their personal safety. Closer to home, it has become known that certain Limerick gangs have been approaching a successful local psychic to help them identify those involved in recent gangland murders.

Psychic spying
The success of the military remote viewers in identifying for the US Coast Guard which vessels were transporting drugs into mainland USA, where the drugs were located in the vessel and how they could be accessed, was so successful that the Colombian drug lords, believing they had a high level mole in their organisation, carried out a major purge of their members hoping to eliminate the leak. Following disclosure of the RV program, the drug cartels have since organised and developed their own, active remote viewing teams. Almost every government, no matter how small, and a number of international criminal organisations, has a psychic spying component

Colombian drug lords believed they had a mole, so successful were remote viewers in identifying vessels carrying drugs into the US mainland...
and with a high degree of accuracy. The process was named Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) and the top secret project ran for 23 years under a variety of project code names, including Grill Flame, Center Line and finally Stargate, until public disclosure led to its declassification in 1995. During its lifetime, the top secret remote viewing unit based in Fort Meade, Maryland, Virginia, was employed by almost all of the US intelligence community agencies, including CIA, DIA, FBI, NSC, US Coast Guard and drug enforcement agencies. Its many spectacular successes in providing information, typically in circumstances where no other sources were available, have been well documented in the units history Reading The Enemys Mind by Major Paul H. Smith and the written memoirs of other retired unit members. acted upon by family members, or lay persons with no knowledge of police work, and possibly disturbing or contaminating a potential crime scene through ignorance or carelessness. The AWP do not claim to solve cases. They provide information to the officers in charge, allowing them to do their job and find the evidence necessary to solve the case. They do not widely advertise their services, nor do they seek recognition for their work, save for a departmental mug or cap for the members of the remote viewing team if their work proves successful. Their satisfaction comes from knowing the information they provided has brought home a missing child. In March 2007, and twice yearly since then, Lyn Buchanan has been providing remote viewing training in Ireland. A number of his advanced students have formed PSI: Pure Stream Information, the first registered remote viewing company in Europe, offering their services to the business community and security services. The company act as tasking officers and project managers for a team of professional remote viewers located across the USA and Canada. These viewers have been highly trained by Buchanan to levels over and above what the military viewers were capable of achieving in their day. For security reasons, the Irish remote viewers do not work security projects based to their intelligence gathering services. Not all are trained remote viewers. Some are natural psychics. What differentiates Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) from natural psychic ability is twofold: CRV was developed in the laboratory and has now been field tested through operational work over a 35 year period, during which time the results have been analysed and databased, allowing researchers and operational project managers to identify the percentile accuracy of individual viewers to a broad range of specific information categories. This enables teams of three or four remote viewers to be assembled, each hand-picked for a specific project based upon their individual skills and performance levels in providing accurate information about persons, objects, locations, colours, physical composition, size, etc. Secondly, they never claim to have solved any crimes or seek recognition from the media for having done so. Realising and respecting the sensitivity and need for security that comes with all police work, and the responsibility that comes from using their own highly trained abilities, they see their job as providing accurate, actionable information, enabling the officers in charge of the case to do theirs. n Paul OConnor MRIAI is a Director and Project Manager of PSI: Pure Stream Information. Contact oconnor@iol.ie or 087 8149663

Training
One such member, ex-military intelligence and database specialist, Sergeant Lyn Buchanan, was a member of the unit for eight years, including four years as the unit trainer. Following his retirement from the program he established PSI: Problems Solutions Innovations Inc., to provide training to individuals and organisations seeking to use this extremely valuable information gathering tool, and to offer the service on a humanitarian basis, wherever it could be applied. One opportunity arose when he was

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