Remote viewing techniques, originally experimeted with by René Warcollier, were developed by the U.S. Army from the early 1970s until 1995. Research took place at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) at Menlo Park, California and experiments were carried out in a condemned clapboard building down a wooded track at Fort Meade, Maryland. Psychic spies attempted to use remote viewing to identify the location of missile silos, submarines, POWs, and MIAs.

Research was initiated after SRI's Dr Harold Puthoff a laser physicist and Dr Russell Targ were visited by artist Ingo Swann who demonstrated his psychic abilities. Puthoff and Targ concluded: "A channel exists whereby information about a remote location can be obtained by means of an as-yet-unidentifiable perceptual modality"
The remote viewing program was established with CIA funding in 1972. In 1973 Pat Price accurately remote viewed a military site including code words, and in the following year the Soviet R & D facility at Semipalatinsk.

RV Programs:
Phase one - involved a sender.
Phase 2 - Scangate (geographical co-ordinates given to remote viewer, CRV)
SRI 1977 - Gondola Wish
Ft. Meade 1978 - Grill Flame
1983-85 - Center Lane (under General Albert Stubblebine)
1985 - Sunstreak (increased occult methodology)
1991-95 - Stargate (control handed from DIA to CIA in 1994)
1995 - Official public CIA termination of the program

Additional training took place at the Monroe Institute, under Robert Monroe, in the Hemi-Synch process, which alters brainwave frequencies through audio input to achieve altered psychic states and astral projection.
( Hemi-Sync¨ is an audio guidance technology that works by sending different sounds (tones) to each ear through stereo headphones. The two hemispheres of the brain then act in unison to "hear" a third signal -the difference between the two tones. This is not an actual sound, but an electrical signal that can only be perceived within the brain by both brain hemispheres working together.)

Selected Remote Viewers: Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle, Lyn Buchanan, Ed Dames

In 1989 Ed Dames left the program and set up a private enterprise, the PSI-TECH Corporation, in New Mexico, which he later moved to Beverly Hills, California. PSI-TECH practices and teaches Technical Remote Viewing (TRV). It provides TRV training, private consultancy services and TRV images of locations of terrorists, WMDs and supernatural events to Government agencies.

A series of remote viewing drawings were made in the presence of Dr John Dee's scrying crystal at the Science Museum, London as part of HEXEN 2039 research.