Taskings & Responses
An Interview with Joe McMoneagle
by Jed Bendix (continued from page 8)

JB: What were your thoughts and feelings when Lieutenant Skip Atwater first described remote viewing to you?

JM: I didn’t believe him. I thought, “This I’ll have to see before I’ll believe it.”

JB: As a military remote viewer, you worked on a wide range of national-security situations, such as the Iranian hostage crisis, the General Dozier kidnapping, and the launch of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine. Can you describe your involvement in any of these events?

JM: It wasn’t the launch of a Soviet submarine; it was the development of a completely new class of submarine, the Typhoon class, which the U.S. was unaware of. The National Security Council [NSC] knew about a very large building in the north of the Soviet Union, where a lot of raw materials were being shipped in. But they were unable to ascertain what was going on inside the building; it was too secure, and they had no access. They forwarded an overhead photograph of the building to the STAR GATE office and asked that it be targeted. They put the photograph of the building inside an opaque envelope and tasked me with describing what they needed to know about what was inside the envelope.
Over the course of a few days, I basically described the construction of a new type of submarine significantly larger than any that were extant. I also said it was much wider or broader since they were fitting two hulls together side-by-side. I noted that it had slanted missile tubes, which were new capabilities for the Soviets; it meant they could launch their ICBMs while moving and no longer had to become stationary in order to launch. When we reported these facts, some within the NSC said they didn’t believe the material; they thought it was fantasy. Hearing this, I predicted the new submarine would be launched within 112 days; those who believed our reports ensured that overhead satellites were targeted on the building 112 days out. Within four to six days of my prediction, the Soviets launched the Typhoon submarine – TK208 – “Dmitri Donskoi;” it was a brand new Akula-class submarine. It was launched on September 23, 1980, and we were able to photograph it sitting at the docks being outfitted. Had we missed the launch, we might not have known about this submarine for months afterward. We certainly would have taken years collecting the intelligence we were able to collect in just a few days.

JB: Please describe your history and work with SRI International, formerly known as Stanford Research Institute. 

JM: Almost immediately after retiring from the U.S. Army -- September 1, 1984 -- I was hired as a research consultant by Stanford Research Institute, where they could continue to use my expertise within the STAR GATE program. I worked as both a remote viewer and researcher at that lab until it closed in 1988. I then moved with the lab to Science Applications International Corporation, where I continued to do remote viewing as well as research until the STAR GATE program closed in November of 1995. I then moved with the lab to the Laboratories for Fundamental Research in Palo Alto, where I am still a research associate. I am well versed in scientific research and development within the general field of paranormal exploration.

JB: At the heart of remote viewing is an established scientific protocol. Can you explain a little of the history of its development and the importance of following the protocol?

JM: The protocol was developed in the early 1970s at SRI International by Dr. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, with the participation of Ingo Swann and a man named Pat Price. The protocol is intended to create specific conditions wherein a human being is forced to use psychic functioning in order to describe an unknown target location. At the time, they were using people who would actually travel to the randomly chosen site, and these people were called “outbounders.” The way it worked was: They had a large number of possible locations identified within sealed envelopes that were numbered and stored inside a safe. They would generate a random number, select one of the envelopes, and the outbounder would take that envelope and drive away from the lab with the envelope still sealed. Meanwhile, the remote viewer and a monitor would be secured within a sealed and windowless room within the lab. After driving some distance from the lab, the outbounder would open the sealed envelope and read their instructions on where to go and what the targeted location was. They would then drive there in order to be on site at a prearranged time. At that time, back in the sealed room at the lab, the remote viewer was shown a photograph of the outbounder and asked to describe where she/he was standing.

The remote viewer’s responses were taped, and their drawings would then be formally recorded and appropriately filed. At a specific time, the outbounder would return to the lab and then drive the remote viewer and monitor back to the actual targeted location for formal feedback. All evaluations and judging of the materials were done totally independently from those who participated in the remote viewing. Modifications were later made to this protocol, which eliminated the outbounder and replaced them with other forms of targeting. Initially, [ed., geographic] coordinates were used to target specific locations somewhere on the planet surface, but there were complaints that the remote viewers might be operating from eidetic memory or might have photographic recall for where or what those coordinates might represent. So, the coordinates were placed inside sealed envelopes, and the sealed and opaque envelopes were used for targeting. The idea was to force the remote viewer to rely totally on their psychic ability to produce whatever information was desired. In all cases, the protocol -- in whatever variation might be used -- requires the remote viewer and the monitor, or anyone else inside the room with the viewer, to be totally blind to the target. continued on page 10
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