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TEXT [rBIS Transcribed Text] Lt P- recovered, and remains on active

duty but Stubblebine retired from the Army in 1984 to become an
executive at BDM Corporation a Washington-area defence and
intelligence contractor. He left BDM a few years ago, and now lives
in New York, where he is married to Ri~ Laibow, a controversial
·psychiatrist who has claimed that she is a UFO abduction victim. But
the damage had been done. "Bert gave re:note-viewing a bad name,
because of all the other stuff he was involved in," says a former
senior pentagon official who knew him. And although the unit never
left its offices at Fort Meade, by 1985 it had been expelled from
the Army. It still had its supporters, notably Jack Varona, chief
of the DIA's science and te.chnology directorate, who had Since 1978
been the overall head of the remote-viewing programme. The DIA took
the Fort Meade unit under its Wing, the project was renamed Center
Lane, ~nd later, Sun Streak, and Varona now exerted more direct
control of the Fort Meade unit. For the remote-viewers, this was a
fortunate development. Vorona was a man who was widely respected
throughout the intelligence community, and with him watching over
it, the unit seemed safe from outside threats.
But what of inside threats? Although Stubblebine was gone, his
spirit lingered, and in the mid and late 1980s, the unit seemed to
take on a garish tinge. In its first few years under DIA management
the unit included the "witches,", two women called Angela Dellafiora
and Robin Dahlgren. Dellafiora eschewed remote-viewing and instead
"channelled" her psychic data through a group of entities with names
like "Maurice" and "George". Dahlgren practiced tarot-card reading.
In the eyes of Ed Dames and Mel Riley, Angela achieved an undue
influence on the unit when she began to give personal channelling
sessions, featuring advice on the most intimate matters of their
lives, to Jack Varona and other officials. "Jack Vorona would sit at
one end of the table, and Angela at the other," recalls Dames. "She
would say, 'Good morning, Dr Vorona. Maurice says hello!'"
"Their eyes would be shining when they came out of those
sessions," recalls Riley. "Th~y were told all the nice things they
wanted to hear, which reinforced Angela's position within the unit."
"Psychic blowjobs," says Ed Dames, referring to the activities of
Angela and Robin. To witness them, he told me, and the other antics
of "the witches", was "too much to bear for professional military
officers". But Dames as much as anyone was caught up in the
transformational dynamic of remote-viewing.
A linquist - his forte was Chinese - and former INSCOM
intelligence officer, Ed Dames was one of the group that had been
trained in the early Eighties by Ingo Swann at SRI. With his blond
hair, California accent, and preternaturally boyish face, he lookedA
more like a teenage surfer than a soldier. Although widely pprove for Release
conSidered intell~gent and creative, he also seemed, like
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at Ed as a loose cannon," says Mel Riley. "I was in trouble all the
time, anywhere I went," agrees Dames. "I was always pushing the
envelope."
Certainly, despite his professed distaste for the New Ageishness 1...\'- "',
of Varona and the "Witches", Dames was =rustrated by the increasinq "~--..v "
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scarcity of operational taskings. In his ample spare time at the

unit, he began to use remote-vie~ing techniques co exercise his own
"spiritual and extraterrestrial interests. "Under the guise of
'advanced training,'" he says, "I began to see "hat (remote-vie;..ring)
cou'ld do. 'fou know what r mean?" Dames's advanced training
"targets" included apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the demise of
Atlantis ("it's at the bottom of Lake Titicaca," says Dames), the
-Loch Ness monster ("a dinosaur's ghost"), and a great many flying
"saucers. "He would tell me a lot of things about Nartians,"
remembers Dames's now estranged wife Christine. "I didn't want to
hear about it."
While Dallies was at the Fort Heade unit, stories began to
circulate about certain "unusual experiences" during remote-viewing
sessions, particularly those engaged on "advanced training" targets.
"r think he had some kind of experiences, some kind of disturb3nces
from unknown spirits," remembers Christine Dames. "But he didn't
care -- he welcomed the challenge."
"We thrived on adventure," Dames remembers proudly. "'fou get men
of action -- we're not satisfied ;..rith sitting around and t;..riddling
our thumbs year after year," says Dames. "Unless something happens,
you're going to lose our interest. But there ;..ras enough happening
in there to hold our interest."
Dames left the unit in 1989, and formed a company, Psi Tech, to
make commercial use of his remote-viewing skills. But his clients
were few and far between. He separated from his wife and moved to
Albuquerque, New Mexico, believing that the nearby deserts hat'boured
a hidden Martian civilisation. ~ wilderness prophet for our time,
he predicted to the local media that in August 1992; the aliens
would arise from their desert dwellings, shocking the world. When I
saw him in 1994, Ed Dames was almost out of money.
MOST OF the remote-vie;..rers I've talked to are willing to admit,
when pressed, that their craft does have its psychiatric hazards. As
with any prolonged and forced alteration of consciousness, it
promotes altered states and a general mental instability, and thus
can be dangerous for those who are inherently unstable. They also
point out that in the absence of regular independent verification,
remote-viewing can quick)y become a generator of idiosyncratic
fantasy. As Mel Riley says, "Without feedback, your remote-viewing
turns to shit."
And without proper oversight, it seems, the remote-viewing
programme turned foul, too, slowly strangled by its own isolation.
Following the Irangate scandal of 1987, Defense secretary Frank
Carlucci had instituted a wide-~anging review of potentially
embarraSSing Pentagon programs, and in 1988, a Defense Department
Inspector General's (IG) '. team descended on the remote-viewing unit's
offices, demanding to see the files.
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