Headquartered at the Stanford Research Institute, the remote viewing and psychic research program known as Project SCANATE pre-dates its formal establishment by the CIA in 1970, during which time it operated under a variety of names.

Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff are the lead researchers on the Project. In 1973, their test subjects and “trainees” include retired psychic detective Patrick Price, Israeli illusionist and spoon-bender Uri Geller, psychokinetic artist Ingo Swann, and the magic man Mitch Hort. Their current “CIA liaison” is Dr. Marshall Redgrave.

One of SCANATE’s early experimental programs — Operation ISOCLINE — used human subjects in Vietnam, including Mitch Hort.