Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was co-founder of a Stanford Research Institute's (SRI)
investigation into psychic abilities a 23-year research program in the 1970s and 1980s.
After TED cancelled his entire planned event, he released a statment defending his data:
“We were doing research and applications for the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Air Force and Army Intelligence, NASA, and others.
In this 25 million dollar program, we used Remote Viewing to:
- find a downed Russian bomber in North Africa, for which President Carter commended us.
- found a kidnapped US general in Italy.
- described a Russian weapons factory in Siberia, leading to a US congressional investigation about weakness in US security.
We
published our scientific findings in 'Nature,' and The Proc. IEEE, Proc. AAAS, and Proc. American Institute of Physics.
I thought a TED audience would find this recently declassified material interesting. And no physics would be harmed in my presentation.”
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