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Remote Viewing Timeline

This timeline details United States government development of parapsychology for military intelligence purposes, leading to a secret CIA-initiated program that became commonly known as "remote viewing." The timeline reaches to the beginnings of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mind research and experimentation in the late 1940s, and includes parallel information on similar research being carried out simultaneously in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Because of a secret contract between the CIA and highly trained Scientologists at the inception of the CIA-initiated remote viewing program, events related to Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard that led up to the unlikely marriage of CIA and Scientology are included.

Also included are key events involving CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies that are parallel to the evolution of remote viewing, and that are linked to its development in ways that are as inexplicable as they are inextricable. As a result, the remote viewing timeline necessarily is a partial timeline of events and people related to the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

Contents


    1940s

    October 1943
    • E. Howard Hunt is confirmed for service in Office of Strategic Services
      CIA's E. Howard Hunt
      (OSS), forerunner to CIA. Hunt goes to Catalina Island for training. Among the people Hunt trains with is Lucien Conein.[1]

    1946
    • Psychiatrist Lewis J. Fielding joins the Veteran's Administration (VA) in Los Angeles as staff psychiatrist and instructor in clinical psychiatry. When Fielding joins the VA, and intermittantly over the next several years, Dianetics and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is living in and around L.A., doing Dianetic research. He has opened an office in Hollywood, California, and is delivering Dianetic processing to people. When there, he is associated with the Los Angeles Veteran's Administration. [NOTE: Fielding later will be integral to incidents involving CIA's E. Howard Hunt, Daniel Ellsberg, Lucien Conein, the Pentagon Papers, and the Watergate scandal—at the very time that CIA is secretly setting up its remote viewing program using highly trained Scientologists. See timeline years 1971 and 1972.][2][3][4]

    Thursday, 18 September 1947
    • The National Security Act of 1947 establishes the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Robert Komer is in the CIA at its inception. [NOTE: Komer will become a close associate of Daniel Ellsberg at Rand and will be with Ellsberg in Vietnam.] [5][6]

    Wednesday, 15 October 1947
    • A letter purportedly from L. Ron Hubbard, dated 15 October 1947, ends up in his Veteran's Administration files in Los Angeles, where Lewis J. Fielding is staff psychiatrist. The subject of the letter is Hubbard pleading with the VA for psychiatric help. [NOTE: The letter never surfaces until decades later, and then only as a copy several generations removed, making its authenticity impossible to prove or disprove.][7]

    June 1948
    • With CIA liaison for administration and supply, a separate clandestine organization called Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) is created. On CIA orders, E. Howard Hunt reports to Washington, D.C. to begin service in OPC.[1]

    July 1949
    • CIA's head of Scientific Intelligence goes to Western Europe to learn Soviet techniques in mind control and interrogation, including use of LSD.[8]

    1950s

    Thursday, 20 April 1950
    • CIA's mind control program Project BLUEBIRD is authorized. CIA-contracted psychiatrists begin secret experiments with ice-pick lobotomies, electroshock, hypnosis, pain, and drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In coordination with the Veteran's Administration, U.S. military veterans are used as unwitting subjects for many of the experiments.[9][8]

    Tuesday, 9 May 1950
    • The book Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard is released. It decries hypnosis, and describes techniques for safely accessing in the mind the contents of incidents involving unconsciousness, hypnosis, drugs, and pain. It becomes a bestseller.[10][11]

    Saturday, 27 May 1950
    With Dianetics a bestseller, L. Ron Hubbard (right) is lecturing around the country when U.S. Naval Intelligence attempts to force him into service for the U.S. government. He refuses.
    • The Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, D.C. sends an officer to put L. Ron Hubbard into civilian service in the government to continue his researches on the mind. Hubbard says no. The officer says that if he refuses, Hubbard will be ordered back to active duty, since his Naval commission has not been terminated. Hubbard quickly takes advantage of a letter of permission he has from the Secretary of the Navy to resign his commission, thereby putting Dianetics and Scientology out of the reach and control of the U.S. government.[12][13]

    September 1950
    • As CIA's Project BLUEBIRD expands, the CIA-contracted psychiatrists' experimental purposes and activities include inducing amnesia, inserting hypnotic access codes in subjects' minds, controlling behavior from remote transmitters with brain electrodes, administering LSD to children, and using electroshock to erase memories.[9]

    1951
    • Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), where E. Howard Hunt is working, is merged with CIA. Over the coming years, during his CIA career, Hunt has other occassions to work with Lucien Conein, who is on contract to CIA.[1]

    January 1951
    • L. Ron Hubbard introduces the "Theta-MEST Theory" stating that thought (Theta) is separate from the physical universe (Matter, Energy, Space and Time—MEST): that Theta can operate in and with MEST, that Theta can consider itself integrated with MEST, and that Theta can consider itself to be MEST, but that creative thought and perception reside in Theta, not MEST.[14]

    Monday, 25 June 1951
    • L. Ron Hubbard exposes "a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations."
      CIA's Sidney Gottlieb
      In a new book, Science of Survival, Hubbard says: "It required Dianetic processing to uncover pain-drug-hypnosis. Otherwise, pain-drug-hypnosis was out of sight, unsuspected, and unknown." Hubbard denounces its use as a "vicious war weapon" that may be "of considerably more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb." [NOTE: It's not until decades later that CIA's pain-drug-hypnosis experimentation during this period begins to be investigated and reported by Congress. By that time, CIA's Richard Helms, Sidney Gottlieb, and others will have destroyed many of CIA's records of such activities. See January 1973.][15]

    Monday, 20 August 1951
    • CIA's Project BLUEBIRD evolves into Project ARTICHOKE, with goals such as "get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature."[16]

    Monday, 7 January 1952
    • A secret internal CIA document discusses a multi-level prorgram to research and develop the use of extrasensory perception for "practical problems of intelligence."[17]

    July 1952
    • L. Ron Hubbard releases a book, History of Man (published also as What to Audit), that describes some of the native capabilities of thought (Theta) in the individual as including communication by telepathy and the moving of material objects by "throwing an energy flow at them." Hubbard describes Scientology processes to rehabilitate these potentials.[18]

    Wednesday, 6 August 1952
    • Alexander Puharich delivers a lecture called "On the Possible Usefulness of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare" to a Pentagon conference.[19]

    "On the Possible Usefulness
    of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare"
    becomes a decades-long intelligence agenda
    for the Cold War.

    December 1952
    • George Hunter White, on loan to CIA from the Federal Narcotics Bureau, begins administering LSD to unwitting U.S. citizens at a CIA "safehouse" in Greenwich Village.[20]
    • L. Ron Hubbard delivers a series of over 50 lectures in Philadelphia on processes for attaining a state he calls "Operating Thetan" (OT), described as a being stably exterior from the body and able to perceive, communicate, and operate in the physical universe without reliance on the sense channels or mechanics of a body.[21]

    1953
    • James McCord, later to be involved in the Watergate break-in, joins CIA.[22]

    Friday, 10 April 1953
    • CIA director Allen Dulles gives a speech before the National Alumni Conference at Princeton University, lecturing on "how sinister the battle for men's minds" has become in Soviet hands.[23]

    Monday, 13 April 1953
    CIA's Richard Helms
    • CIA Director Allen Dulles authorizes a new expanded mind-control program, MK-ULTRA, brainchild of Richard Helms, a high-ranking member of CIA's Clandestine Services. E. Howard Hunt is working at CIA headquarters at the time as a "chief of covert operations" under Clandestine Services. [23][24][1]

    Thursday, 19 November 1953
    • On a 3-day holiday for CIA officials at Deer Creek Lodge in the mountains of Maryland, Sidney Gottlieb—head of CIA's MK-ULTRA—secretly slips LSD into the after-dinner drinks. An Army scientist and germ warfare specialist named Frank Olson, who is working on an MK-ULTRA project, experiences a "bad trip," becoming very disoriented. [NOTE: Olson soon commits suicide.][20]

    Circa July 1955
    • George Hunter White moves his CIA "safe house" operation, equipped with one-way mirrors and surveillance gadgets, to San Francisco, under the aegis of MK-ULTRA and Sidney Gottlieb. The code name is Operation Midnight Climax. He hires prostitute addicts who lure men from bars to the safe houses after their drinks have been spiked with LSD. White films the events. The purpose of these "national security brothels" is to enable CIA to experiment with the act of lovemaking for extracting information from men.[25]
    • Factions of the U.S. government are making efforts to "seize Scientology in the United States."[26]

    Monday, 15 August 1955
    • Staff of CIA Director Allen Dulles complete "A Report on Communist Brainwashing."[27]

    Wednesday, 2 January 1957
    • The Church of Scientology of California, the senior church, is granted tax exemption.[28]

    July 1957
    • The CIA has file No. 156409 on L. Ron Hubbard and his organizations.[29]

    January 1958
    • L. Ron Hubbard introduces the "American Blue E-meter," a transistorized improvement over earlier prototypes, to be used as an aid for Scientology practitioners. Newer Scientology technology begin to require the use of the meter as a guide to the use of processes toward the attainment of Operating Thetan (OT).[11]

    June 1958
    • Daniel Ellsberg arrives at Rand to spend the summer as a consultant.[30]

    Circa July 1958
    • U.S. corporations, including Westinghouse, General Electric, and Bell Telephone have begun telepathy research.[17]

    Saturday, 8 November 1958
    • The Herald Tribune in New York reports that Westinghouse Electric Corporation has begun to study ESP using specially designed apparatus.[17]
      L. Ron Hubbard discovers measurable sentience in plants, first using an E-meter with geraniums in his greenhouse at St. Hill, England, later with tomatoes

    Saturday, 25 July 1959
    • Westinghouse Corporation's Friendship Laboratory undertakes an experiment in ESP with the U.S.S. Nautilus, linking one person on land (the sender) with another person in the submarine (the receiver),while the vessel is submerged. Representatives of the U.S. Navy and Air Force are present during the experiments, which run for sixteen days under Air Force Colonel William H. Bowers. The experiments result in a 70% success rate.[17]

    Friday, 18 December 1959
    • Garden News publishes a story, "Plants Do Worry and Feel Pain," describing experiments done by L. Ron Hubbard where he has connected plants to a Scientology E-meter and measured their reaction to threat and damage.[31]

    1960s

    Monday, 17 April 1961
    • Martin Ebon, administrative assistant of the Parapsychology Association in New York and on staff with the U.S. Information Agency, is in Washington, D.C. giving a briefing on telepathy to "a top intelligence agency." He is a specialist in tracking and examining the nature and direction of Russian and Soviet security services.[17]

    Tuesday, 25 July 1961
    • L. Ron Hubbard goes from St. Hill in England to Cape Finisterre, Spain for about 10 days and purchases a ship that is 106 feet long with an 18 foot beam and sleeps about 22 people. He says that purchase of the ship is "part of an operation" he is conducting from St. Hill. [NOTE: This event is the earliest indication of Hubbard's creation, in Spain, of the confidential "Sea Project," later to be called the "Sea Org," which he establishes to protect and deliver the confidential upper levels of Scientology. This is the first ship purchased. The Sea Project will not be made known publically for several years. Later, Hubbard writes that the "oldest yacht in the Sea Org" is the "Enchanter."][32][33]

    Tuesday, 1 August 1961
    • The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is created in the Department of Defense (DOD) by DOD Directive 5105.21, August 1, 1961. [NOTE: After the 1971-1972 creation of the CIA-initiated remote viewing program, its administration later gets transferred, at least in part, to DIA as one action of the remote viewing shell-game of secrecy that goes on for decades.]

    The Soviet Union claims to have
    confirmed "communication between two people
    separated by long distances...without conventional
    communication facilities."

    July 1962
    • A book published in the Soviet Union, "Biological Radio Communication," claims "experimental confirmation of the fact that communication between two people separated by long distances can be carried out through water, over air and across metal barrier by means of cerebral radiation in the course of thinking, and without conventional communication facilities."[17]

    1963
    • CIA organizes the Robert R. Mullen public relations firm as a CIA front company for use "mainly in providing CIA cover overseas." Mullen has several overseas branches for its ciafront operations and an office in Washington, D.C.. One of its branches in Europe is staffed, run, and paid for by CIA. [NOTE: E. Howard Hunt will "retire" from CIA and go to work for Mullen on 1 May 1970 (see). At the time of his purported retirement, Hunt will be CIA's "Chief EUR/CA"][34]
      Feds seize Scientology
      E-meters
    • CIA's Richard Helms attempts to defend CIA drug operations like Midnight Climax by telling CIA Inspector General John Earman that such testing has been necessary "to keep up with the Soviets."[25]

    Friday, 4 January 1963
    • Deputy Marshals and Food and Drug Administration Agents raid the Scientology headquarters in Washington, D.C. and seize 100 E-meters along with Scientology publications on the grounds that the E-meters are "misbranded."[35]

    1964
    • Daniel Ellsberg is granted a unique security clearance giving him "unprecedented accesss to data and studies in all agencies," as well as several "special clearances" including "very high-level access to all our secrets in the State and Defense Departments and the CIA."[2]

    Circa November 1964
    CIA Director Helms testifies. He later will be convicted of perjury for lying to Congress.
    • Richard Helms, Dirctor of CIA and father of MK-ULTRA, contradicts himself on the need "to keep up with the Soviets," telling the Warren Commission that "Soviet research has consistently lagged five years behind Western research."[25]

    Early January 1965
    • L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue Hubbard leave St. Hill in England and travel to Spain, going first at the Canary Islands—a province of Spain—off the coast of Morocco. His research into upper levels of Scientology is now confidential, and while in Spain and the Canary Islands, he lays the groundwork for establishing confidential bases in Spain to deliver the upper levels. They return to St. Hill mid-February 1965.[3][36]

    Monday, 17 May 1965
    • Psychiatrist Jose Delgado gives a mind control demonstration in Spain with a bull: he presses a button on a radio transmitter and the bull brakes to a halt. He presses another button and the bull turns to the right and trots away, obeying commands being delivered through radio signals to brain regions in which fine wires had been planted the day before.[25]

    Monday, 14 June 1965
    • L. Ron Hubbard issues "Politics, Freedom From" in Executive Directive form, declaring Scientology to be "nonpolitical and nonideological," and declaring it "free of any political connection or allegiance of any kind whatever." He says the reason for the declaration is the continuing efforts of the U.S. government "to seize Scientology in the United States." In closing he says: "Scientologists may be members of any political group on this planet without restraint only so long as these individuals or that group do not attempt to seize Scientology for their own warlike ends and so make it unworkable or distasteful by invidious connection."[26]

    Tuesday, 29 June 1965
    • L. Ron Hubbard tells a group of Scientology students in a lecture at St. Hill in England that he has recently returned from Washington D.C. where IRS and factions of the U.S. government have been "trying to seize Scientology in the United States," and that he has told them an emphatic "no."[37]

    July 1965
    Hunt and Hubbard in Spain
    • E. Howard Hunt converts from "CIA employee" to "CIA contract status" and is sent by Richard Helms on a secret mission to Madrid, Spain. The Canary Islands, where L. Ron Hubbard has recently begun to establish a base for upper level Scientology research, is a province of Spain at the time.[38][1]
    • In a meeting with CIA's William Colby it is arranged that Daniel Ellsberg will be traveling to Vietnam with E. Howard Hunt's long-time associate, CIA's Lucien Conein, on a team headed up by 20-year CIA veteran Edward Lansdale [often misspelled as Edward Landsdale].[30]

    Friday, 3 September 1965
    • L. Ron Hubbard inaugurates the confidential Clearing Course, available only at St. Hill in East Grinstead, Sussex, England.[3]

    Monday, 11 October 1965
    • Moscow's A.S. Popov Scientific-Technical Society for Radio Engineering, Electronics and Communication establishes a Laboratory for Bio-Information to conduct laboratory-controlled telepathic experiments. [NOTE: Also referred to as Soviet Laboratory for Bio-Electronics and the Laboratory for Bio-Communications.][17]

    Sunday, 17 October 1965
    • Daniel Ellsberg has arrived in Vietnam with CIA's Edward Lansdale [often misspelled as Edward Landsdale] and Lucien Conein, and is put in touch with John Paul Vann. Through Vann, Ellsberg meets reporter Neil Sheehan. For about six weeks Vann drives Ellsberg around to every province capital in "III Corps"—the eleven provinces that include Saigon. [NOTE: Neil Sheehan will later publish secret documents given to him by Ellsberg: the "Pentagon Papers.][30]

    Tuesday, 14 December 1965
    • Stephen I. Abrams, Director of the Parapsychological Laboratory, Oxford University in England, working under the auspices of CIA's MK-ULTRA, prepares a review article entitled "Extrasensory Perception." It says ESP has been demonstrated, but is not understood or controllable.[19]

    L. Ron Hubbard forbids access to
    confidential Scientology upper levels for anyone connected
    to "police spy organizations and government spy
    organizations" including CIA, IRS, FBI, and NSA.

    Tuesday, 28 December 1965
    • L. Ron Hubbard issues a Scientology policy letter that forbids anyone connected to a "Suppressive Group" from being allowed onto the confidential Scientology upper levels unless and until the group is permanently disbanded. "Suppressive Groups" are defined as those that "seek to destroy Scientology" or specialize in "injuring or killing people or damaging their cases," or that "advocate the supppression of Mankind." They include "police spy organizations and government spy organizations" such as the CIA, IRS, FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), Department of Justice (DOJ), "or any other federal agency in any country."[39][40]

    Wednesday, 2 February 1966
    CIA's Cleve Backster plagiarizes plant response testing, giving CIA their own data set for experiments done years earlier by Hubbard that he would never share with an intelligence agency
    • CIA contractor Cleve Backster connects plants to polygraphs and gets reactions on the machines when the plants are threatened or harmed. [NOTE: These are almost identical to plant experiments done by L. Ron Hubbard over six years earlier using the Scientology E-meter. See 18 December 1959.][41]

    March 1966
    • Daniel Ellsberg is working in Vietnam in conjunction with CIA's Intelligence Coordination and Exploitation (ICEX) operations—forerunner of the Phoenix Project—on "hamlet pacification," a euphemism for, among other things, kidnapping, brutal interrogations, and assassinations.[2][30]

    Thursday, 7 April 1966
    • Daniel Ellsberg is in a meeting in Vietnam with his "old friend from Rand," CIA veteran and National Security Council (NSC) member Robert Komer. At the time, Ellsberg is involved with Lucien Conein and John Paul Vann. One of the Green Berets in the various CIA "pacification programs" is Paul Preston. [NOTE: Preston later will enroll in Scientology, and will be described by some sources as having become the "bodyguard" of L. Ron Hubbard when Hubbard disappears. See 28 May 1972.] [2][30]

    Circa July 1966
    • "Special Department No. 8" is established at the Institute of Automation and Electrometry in Academgorodok, ("Science City"), near Novosibirsk, Siberia. The building that houses the department can only be entered if one knows the code, changed each week, that opens the main door's lock. The "No. 8" operation is devoted to experiments in information transmission by "bioenergetic" means. About 60 researchers have been brought to the facility from other parts of the USSR.[17]

    Saturday, 9 July 1966
    • The Moscow daily Komsomolskaya Pravda reports on long-distance telepathy experiments conducted by the Moscow Laboratory of Bio-Information, using Yuri Kamensky and Karl Nikolayev. The experiments are reported to have "demonstrated the reality of the phenomenon and produced valuable data, both positive and negative, which pointed up the need for continued research."[17]

    The Soviet Union reports more
    successful telepathy experiments, escalating the Cold War
    race for supremacy in psychological warfare.

    Friday, 29 July 1966
    • IRS sends a letter to the senior Scientology organization, Church of Scientology of California, recommending revocation of tax exemption.[28]

    Sunday, 14 August 1966
    • The confidential materials for the first Operating Thetan level, OT I, are released by L. Ron Hubbard to qualified Scientologists on 14 August 1966. The level is called OT I.[11]

    Tuesday, 16 August 1966
    • L. Ron Hubbard issues a Scientology policy letter called "Clearing Course Security" with instructions on how to handle reports of anyone being a "potential security risk" with confidential upper level materials.[42]

    Thursday, 1 September 1966
    • L. Ron Hubbard resigns from all directorships and running of Scientology organizations. At about the same time he releases to qualified Scientologists the confidential materials of "Operating Thetan Level II" (OT II).[11]

    Wednesday, 21 September 1966
    • CIA's E. Howard Hunt returns to the Washington, D.C. area from a highly secret assignment he has been on in Spain for a little over a year. Hunt supposedly has been on a "contract" basis with CIA rather than an employee of CIA since leaving for Spain, but a CIA document of 21 September, sent to CIA's Central Cover Staff through the Office of Security refers to Hunt as "this employee." [NOTE: Also see 1970, where Hunt purportedly "retires" from CIA as an employee.][1][38]

    Wednesday, 5 October 1966
    • Just after E. Howard Hunt arrives in D.C., Daniel Ellsberg leaves Vietnam and flies to Washington, D.C., then turns around almost immediately and makes a one week trip back to Vietnam, flying non-stop on the plane of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Ellsberg is in contact again with CIA's Robert Komer.[30]

    Wednesday, 12 October 1966
    • Daniel Ellsberg flies back from Vietnam to Washington, D.C. non-stop on McNamara's plane. With them is CIA's Robert Komer.[30]

    Thursday, 10 November 1966
    • L. Ron Hubbard has created the "Sea Project" and confidential programs for Scientology Clears and OTs to carry out.[43]

    Tuesday, 29 November 1966
    Harold "Hal" Puthoff from NSA and Ingo Swann from the UN enroll in Scientology, supposedly unknown to each other. Within five years they will be at the highest levels of Scientology and under secret contract with CIA to develop remote viewing for military intelligence.
    • L. Ron Hubbard gives a lecture to the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course: "OT and Clear defined," date code 6611C29, lecture code SHspec-82.

    1967
    • Ingo Swann begins to take Scientology services. At about the same time, Swann tenders his two-year notice for resignation from his permanent contract with the United Nations Secretariat in New York.[44]
    • NSA's Hal Puthoff enrolls in Scientology services. [NOTE: Puthoff will somehow get past or around the Hubbard injunction against members of a "Suppressive Group" being allowed access to the upper levels of Scientology, and by 1971 Puthoff will have attained the highest level, OT VII. See January 1971.]

    July 1967
    • IRS revokes the tax exemption of the senior Scientology organization, Church of Scientology of California (CSC), which it has had since 2 January 1957 (see).[28]

    Wednesday, 10 January 1968
    • L. Ron Hubbard reissues "Politics, Freedom From" [see 14 June 1965], this time as a broad public issue Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter, declaring Scientology to be "nonpolitical and nonideological," and declaring it "free of any political connection or allegiance of any kind whatever."
      L. Ron Hubbard issues "Politics, Freedom From" as policy
      He says the reason for the declaration is the continuing efforts of the U.S. government "to seize Scientology in the United States."[26]

    February 1968
    • "American intelligence analysts" begin "noticing a Soviet secret police (KGB) trend...indicating serious interest in what is called 'parapsychology' in the West."[17]
    • The first Scientology "Advanced Org" is started on the Scientology Flagship (then called the Royal Scotman, later the Apollo) for the delivery of the confidential upper levels. The location is highly confidential.[45]

    March 1968
    • Daniel Ellsberg is working at Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He begins having regular meetings with Beverly Hills psychiatrist Lewis J. Fielding—former staff psychiatrist of the Veteran's Administration when L. Ron Hubbard was connected with the VA there. Ellsberg purportedly is a Fielding patient.[2]

    Tuesday, 4 March 1969
    • On a trip to the Rand office in D.C. Daniel Ellsberg is given a copy of the top-secret study that will become known as "the Pentagon Papers" for him to carry with him to the Rand office in Santa Monica, California where he works.[30]

    April 1969
    • Ingo Swann employment on a "permanent contract" with the United Nations Secretariat in New York comes to an end.[44]

    Tuesday, 30 September 1969
    G. Gordon Liddy gets "special clearances" from CIA
    • Daniel Ellsberg "decides to release the Pentagon Papers," purportedly because he reads in the newspaper that all charges have been dropped against several Green Berets who had been charged with a murder in Vietnam. [NOTE: The kind of ops the Green Berets had been charged with were what Ellsberg himself had been immersed in while in Vietnam, including time spent with his "good friend" Robert Komer—who headed CIA's Phoenix Project of kidnappings and assassinations.][30]

    Tuesday, 16 December 1969
    • A Scientology Guardian Order says that double agents are being infiltrated into Scientology staffs and urges the use of any means to detect such infiltration.[46]

    December 1969
    • G. Gordon Liddy is granted "special clearances" by CIA.[34]

    1970

    IRS's Meade Emory
    January 1970
    • Meade Emory is Legislation Attorney for the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. [NOTE: Emory has ties to the law firm Gall, Lane, Powell and Kilcullen in D.C. Emory will later be Assistant to Commissioner of IRS, then secretly will be the architect of several wills attributed to L. Ron Hubbard, and of the restructuring of all Scientology corporations, turning control of all Scientology materials over to non-Scientology tax attorneys appointed for life. See Meade Emory, Founder.][47]

    Sunday, 22 February 1970
    • Yvonne Gillham, one of the earliest Sea Org members, has been Commmanding Officer of the Scientology Advanced Organization in Los Angeles (AOLA). L. Ron Hubbard gives her a mission to set up a Scientology organization called Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, with the purpose of "revitalization of the arts." She rents an old redwood and brick warehouse near downtown Los Angeles and begins delivering basic Scientology services to people in the arts, sports, entertainment, and government. She knows Ingo Swann, and he is instrumental in helping her get Celebrity Centre started.
      Yvonne Gillham (later Jentzsch) opens Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles
      The center also has an art gallery, a performance theatre, and classes in everything from ballet to fencing to fine arts and crafts like pottery and leatherwork.

    Friday, 10 April 1970
    • Richard Helms has rubber-stamped E. Howard Hunt's "early retirement" and has written a letter to Robert R. Mullen on behalf of Hunt, urging Mullen to hire him. Mullen is head of a CIA-created public relations firm in D.C. and has "cooperated" with CIA in the past." One of the Mullen offices, in Stockholm, Sweden, is "staffed, run, and paid for by CIA." Also at the Mullen firm is Douglas Caddy.[1][38]

    Monday, 13 April 1970
    • Daniel Ellsberg quits Rand in California, flies to Boston and signs a contract at MIT. He remains, though, a "consultant" for Rand.[30]

    Friday, 1 May 1970
    • E. Howard Hunt ostensibly "retires" from CIA. He goes to work for Mullen in D.C. [NOTE: By this time, up to eight people at the Mullen company have been "cleared and made witting of Agency ties, mainly in providing CIA cover overseas." Some time shortly after arriving, Hunt is told by Robert Mullen that Mullen is planning to retire before long, and that Douglas Caddy has been selected to run the CIA front company along with Hunt and an unnamed other person after Mullen's retirement.][1][48]

    Four weeks after Hunt's purported retirement
    from CIA and employment at Mullen, a CIA Covert Security
    Approval is requested for Hunt under
    Project QK/ENCHANT.

    Tuesday, 5 May 1970
    • Daniel Ellsberg flies to Washington, D.C. and is there for three days, flies to St. Louis for a day, then flies back to D.C.[30]

    Wednesday, 13 May 1970
    • Daniel Ellsberg testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, Senator Fulbright chairing.[30]

    Thursday, 28 May 1970
    • A CIA Covert Security Approval is requested under Project QK/ENCHANT for E. Howard Hunt.[49]

    August 1970
    CIA's James McCord
    • Just four months after E. Howard Hunt, James McCord "retires" from CIA.[50]

    September 1970
    • Daniel Ellsberg stops seeing Beverly Hills psychiatrist Lewis Fielding. [NOTE: Ellsberg had moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts months before. See 13 April 1970.][2]

    Sunday, 20 September 1970
    • L. Ron Hubbard releases OT VII, the highest level in Scientology, to Advanced Organizations around the world.[3]

    November 1970
    • Douglas Caddy leaves the Mullen firm to work for Gall, Lane, Powell and Kilcullen, where tax and probate attorney Meade Emory is connected.
    • E. Howard Hunt becomes a "client" of Caddy and of Gall, Lane, Powell and Kilcullen. Caddy consults with Hunt regarding probate and other matters.
    • G. Gordon Liddy is approached by Robert Mardian, asking Liddy to take a position that Mardian describes as "super-confidential."[51]

    1971

    January 1971
    NSA's Harold "Hal" Puthoff, one of fewer than 3,000 Scientology "Clears" in the world in 1971, has joined the ranks of a much smaller number of OT VIIs.
    • NSA's Hal Puthoff somehow has gotten past L. Ron Hubbard's prohibitions against government spy agency personnel being allowed access to upper-level Scientology, and has progressed up the Scientology levels to the recently-released OT VII—the highest level available. He writes a success story for a Scientology publication about having completed OT VII, saying that on a weekend he had stood outside a locked building and remotely viewed information he wanted from a building directory that he couldn't physically read from the doorway, then verified later, when the building was open, that what he had viewed remotely had been accurate. [NOTE: According to Scientology's The Auditor magazine, Special Issue March 1971, by that date there are only 2,773 Scientology "Clears" in the world. Being Clear is a prerequisite to the OT Levels. Even if 10% had gone all the way up through the higher levels by this date, Puthoff would be among only about 300 OT VIIs in the world.][52]

    February 1971
    • A hidden taping system is installed in the Oval Office of the White House.[22]

    April 1971
    • Vietnam vet and Green Beret Paul Preston has signed up in Scientology's Sea Org, and is at the confidential land base for Scientology—"Tours Reception Center," in Tangier, Morocco—where the Flagship Apollo often docks with L. Ron Hubbard aboard.

    Saturday, 17 April 1971
    CIA's Bernard Barker
    • E. Howard Hunt is in Miami and meets with Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez, and Felipe De Diego. Bernard Barker has a history of almost seven years with CIA. Eugenio Martinez is on "retainer" with CIA. [NOTE: A little over four months later, these same three men will be involved with Hunt in a purported break-in of the offices of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding, ostensibly in response to Daniel Ellsberg having leaked the Pentagon Papers. But the Pentagon Papers haven't been leaked to the press yet, and won't be for almost two months.][1]

    May 1971
    • IRS begins an audit of the senior Scientology corporation, Church of Scientology of California. Meade Emory, who later will corporately restructure all of Scientology, is Legislative Attorney for the Joint Committee on Taxation.[28]

    June 1971
    • Daniel Ellsberg makes "a series of phone calls" to psychiatrist Lewis Fielding "shortly before" the Pentagon Papers are published.[2]

    Saturday, 12 June 1971
    • The day before the "Pentagon Papers" are published, Morton Halperin, Leslie Gelb, and Defense Department official Paul Nitze make "a deposit into the National Archives" of "a whole lot of papers." [NOTE: This turns out later to be copies of the not-yet-published Pentagon Papers that will make Daniel Ellsberg famous and launch everything that later comes to be known as "Watergate."][22]

    Sunday, 13 June 1971
    Daniel Ellsberg, having highest possible clearances from CIA, leaks the "Pentagon Papers"
    • The New York Times publishes the first of three installments of secret documents that have been passed to Times reporter Neil Sheehan by Daniel Ellsberg. These come to be known as the "Pentagon Papers."

    Tuesday, 15 June 1971
    • G. Gordon Liddy is abruptly transferred from being "Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury" to "Staff Assistant of the President of the United States," part of the White House Domestic Council. Liddy is supplied with White House credentials.[53][51]

    Wednesday, 16 June 1971
    • G. Gordon Liddy is at the White House in his new job. A William Galbraith comes to the White House, purportedly one of a group of officers from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). [NOTE: No "William Galbraith" has been found on WHNPA rolls, and a William Galbraith has been identified as having been a CIA agent. Nine days after this event a girl is found shot to death on board the Scientology Flagship "Apollo" at Safi, Morocco, and a William Galbraith will be in Safi representing the U.S. Embassy in Morocco in response. See 25 June 1971 and 13 July 1971.][51][54]

    Friday, 18 June 1971
    • An unspecified amount of money being carried by John McLean while on a confidential mission from the Scientology Flagship Apollo is reported stolen by McLean. Also with the Apollo at the time is Green Beret Paul Preston. [NOTE: McLean will later become a key witness for the Commissioner of Internal Revenue against Scientology in the IRS case that results from a tax audit of Scientology being pursued at the time this event takes place. See May 1971.][28]

    Friday, 25 June 1971
    • One week to the day after John McLean reports Scientology money having been stolen from him, Susan Meister is found shot to death in a cabin aboard the Flagship Apollo, docked in Safi, Morocco. Conflicting reports say she was shot either in the mouth or in the forehead. One report says the gun was folded in her hands neatly in her lap. Her death is ruled a suicide by Moroccan authorities.[46][55][56]

    Monday, 28 June 1971
    • Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for the leak of the Pentagon Papers.

    Wednesday, 30 June 1971
    Yvonne Gillham at Scientology's Celebrity Centre is closely connected to both Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann
    • The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the government has not shown compelling evidence to justify blocking further publication of the Pentagon Papers.

    July 1971
    • Yvonne Gillham, Executive Director of Scientology's Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, is in regular touch with both Ingo Swann and Hal Puthoff. As Executive Director, as a fellow OT, and as a highly-trained Scientology auditor, she has taken on responsibility for their progress in and connection to Scientology.

    Thursday, 1 July 1971
    • David Young—who is with NSA, the same agency as OT VII Hal Puthoff—is appointed to the White House Domestic Council to work with Egil Krogh[57][2]
    • On or about the same date, Carol Ellsberg, Daniel Ellsberg's ex-wife, calls the FBI. She tells them that Daniel Ellsberg had seen a psychiatrist. She says that Ellsberg has "assured her" that he "had told this analyst all about what he had done" (referring to the Pentagon Papers). She volunteers the name of the Beverly Hills psychiatrist: Lewis Fielding. [NOTE: Daniel and Carol Ellsberg have been living apart since January 1964, divorced since 1966. Daniel Ellsberg didn't begin with Fielding until two years after the divorce, in March of 1968 (see), and had quit seeing Fielding in September 1970 (see)—nearly a year before "what he had done."]
      Jack Caulfield
    • On or about the same date, John "Jack" Caulfield, Staff Assistant to President Nixon, has created a 12-page political espionage proposal called "Sandwedge." Ostensibly as part of it, Anthony Ulasewicz has rented an apartment at 321 East 48th Street (Apartment 11-C), New York City. G. Gordon Liddy is given the complete "Sandwedge" plan. [NOTE: The apartment is in close proximity to the lab and school of CIA's Cleve Backster. It provides a backstopped New York address and phone. Note, too, that the reference for date of Sandwedge is a document in the National Archives titled "7/71 Sandwedge proposal," despite most anecdotal accounts placing it later in 1971.][58][59]

    Friday, 2 July 1971
    • CIA Director Richard Helms is pushing behind the scenes to get E. Howard Hunt into a position connected with the White House in response to the Pentagon Papers having been leaked. H. R. Haldeman tells Nixon that that Helms has described Hunt: "Ruthless, quiet and careful, low profile. He gets things done. He will work well with all of us. He's very concerned about the health of the administration. His concern, he thinks, is they're out to get us and all that, but he's not a fanatic. We could be absolutely certain it'll involve secrecy... ."
    • Charles Colson sends a memo to H. R. Haldeman with a transcript of a phone conversation he had with E. Howard Hunt the previous day—which he happened to record. Colson says: "The more I think about Howard Hunt's background, politics, disposition and experience, the more I think it would be worth your time to meet him."[22][1]

    Wednesday, 7 July 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt is hired as a "White House consultant" while keeping his full-time job at Mullen. Hunt is supplied with White House credentials.[1]

    Thursday, 8 July 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt has a private meeting with CIA's Lucien Conein, Hunt's acquaintance of almost 30 years. [NOTE: Conein had been part of the team that Daniel Ellsberg had gone with to Vietnam, headed by CIA's Edward Lansdale [often misspelled as Edward Landsdale], in 1965-66.][1]

    Tuesday, 13 July 1971
    • A William Galbraith, represented as being American vice consul from Casablanca, meets in Safi, Morocco with two representatives from the Scientology Flagship Apollo, ostensibly concerning the 25 June 1971 death of Susan Meister [see 16 June 1971 re: Galbraith].

    A William Galbraith, reportedly CIA,
    is at the Scientology Flagship     Apollo in Safi, Morocco
    after having been at the White House a month before,
    ostensibly as a White House news photographer.

    Tuesday, 20 July 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt has a private meeting with CIA's Edward G. Lansdale [often misspelled as Edward G. Landsdale]. [NOTE: Lansdale had taken Daniel Ellsberg and Lucien Conein to Vietnam in 1965-66. Green Beret Paul Preston had also been there as part of so-called "pacification" programs," as well as Neil Sheehan, who just has published the Pentagon Papers.][1]

    Thursday, 22 July 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt goes to CIA headquarters and meets privately with Deputy Director of CIA Robert Cushman.[1][60]

    Friday, 23 July 1971
    • The CIA supplies E. Howard Hunt with counterfeit ID in the name of "Edward J. Warren." Hunt meets CIA's Stephen Greenwood in a CIA safehouse where a fake driver's license and other ID material, plus a disguise, are given to Hunt.[60][1][61]

    Saturday, 24 July 1971
    NSA's David Young is running everything that leads to
    the Fielding office break-in. Young will later be given
    immunity by Watergate prosecutors, then will report
    the Fielding burglary, backed up by CIA photos, just after
    CIA has given a secret contract to Hal Puthoff to develop
    the remote viewing program using OT VII Ingo Swann.
    • Based on a memorandum by Egil Krogh and NSA's David Young, the Special Investigations Unit is established at the White House under them. It comes to be known as the White House Plumbers. [NOTE: David Young gives the unit its nickname, supposedly because it is there to "stop leaks." It never stops a single leak, or accomplishes anything effective regarding security leaks. Liddy and Hunt are already established in their positions weeks before the unit is created. The creation of the Special Investigations Unit does nothing to alter the operatioinal status or position of either of them.]

    Friday, 30 July 1971
    • A highly secure facility has been set up in Room 16 of the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House that G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt use. It includes a secure phone used "mostly to talk to the CIA at Langley."[51]

    Early August 1971
    • Green Beret and Vietnam veteran Paul Preston is aboard the Flagship Apollo in the Mediterranean, where L. Ron Hubbard is living. [NOTE: Less than a year later, Hubbard disappears, and some sources say Preston is with Hubbard at the time of the disappearance as a "bodyguard." See 28 May 1972.]
    • G. Gordon Liddy is in regular communication with "State and the CIA," having direct conversations with CIA Director Richard Helms. Liddy is briefed by CIA on "several additional sensitive programs in connection with his assignment to the White House staff." Liddy is also making regular trips to the Pentagon.
    • E. Howard Hunt is making regular trips to the State Department. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the time is George H.W. Bush (Sr.).[62][51][1][34]

    Monday, 2 August 1971
    • CIA psychiatrist Bernard Malloy comes to Room 16 and meets privately with G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt.[1][53]

    Friday, 6 August 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt again meets clandestinely in a CIA safehouse, this time with CIA's Stephen Greenwood and also with CIA's Cleo Gephart. Hunt purportedly discusses CIA providing a "backstopped address and phone" in New York city. Hunt also asks for CIA to provide phony ID and a disguise for "an associate"—G. Gordon Liddy. [NOTE: Hunt is asking for ID and disguise for Liddy prior to any proposal to break into Lewis Fielding's office. Also, there's already a backstopped address and phone in New York city at 321 East 48th Street, Apartment 11-C, New York City, set up by Anthony Ulasewicz as part of the Sandwedge proposal, which Liddy and Hunt have. See 1 July 1971.][61]

    E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy
    both are supplied with phony I.D. and "disguises"
    by the CIA, and both have been issued
    White House credentials.

    Wednesday, 11 August 1971
    • CIA psychiatrist Bernard Malloy again comes to Room 16 and meets privately with G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt. Soon after, Liddy and Hunt recommend an attempt at surreptitious entry for "acquisition of psychiatric materials" on Daniel Ellsberg from the files of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding. They claim the need, first, for a "feasibility study" of Fielding's Beverly Hills office.[1][53]

    Thursday, 12 August 1971
    • L. Ron Hubbard issues a policy letter called "Advanced Courses" that makes access to all the confidential upper levels of Scientology available by invitation only, to be based largely on ethics record in Scientology and security of materials.[63]

    Friday, 20 August 1971
    • The CIA supplies G. Gordon Liddy with counterfeit ID in the name of "George F. Leonard." Hunt and Liddy meet CIA's Stephen Greenwood (called "Steve" in Hunt's account)
      Hunt and Liddy take photographs of each other in front of Fielding's door in CIA-supplied "disguises." The photos will later be used by CIA to give Ellsberg a convenient "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
      in a CIA safehouse where a CIA-created fake driver's license and other ID material, plus a disguise, and a camera are issued to Liddy. [NOTE: According to Greenwood, Hunt and Liddy say they have to "stop by the Pentagon" on their way to the airport, although they don't say where they are going. It isn't to Los Angeles for the Fielding office "feasibility study," since that doesn't take place until 26 August 1971 (see) according to the available accounts from Hunt and Liddy, cited in this timeline.][60][1][61]

    Thursday, 26 August 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy fly to Los Angeles. Hunt takes pictures of Liddy, in his CIA-issued black wig, standing in front of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding's office door, with Fielding's name on the door. Liddy also takes pictures of Hunt. The photos are taken with the camera supplied to them by CIA.[51][1][64]

    Friday, 27 August 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy fly back to Washington, D.C. CIA's Stephen Greenwood meets them at the airport, where Hunt gives Greenwood the film for developing by CIA. Greenwood delivers prints to Hunt the same day. The CIA keeps a copy of the photos of Liddy and Hunt (in CIA-provided "disguises" that don't disguise them at all) mugging in front of Lewis Fielding's identifiable door. [NOTE: The CIA later turns their copies of the photos over to Watergate investigators, which results in all criminal charges against Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers to be dropped. See 1973, specifically 3 January, 17 March, 15 April, and 11 May 1973][60][1][61]

    Saturday, 28 August 1971
    CIA's Eugenio Martinez
    • On a Saturday, Hunt and Liddy purportedly are in Room 16 when Liddy tells Hunt that the plan to do a break-in of Fielding's office is approved, but that the two of them are not "to be permitted anywhere near the target premises." [See 27 August 1971, immediately above.] E. Howard Hunt then purportedly calls Bernard Barker in Miami and asks if Barker can "put together a three-man entry team." Barker calls back to say it will be Barker, Eugenio Martinez, and Felipe De Diego. [NOTE: As luck would have it, this happens to be the same three men Hunt had met with in Miami two months before the Pentagon Papers were published. See 17 April 1971.][1][51][65]

    Friday, 3 September 1971
    • A break-in takes place at the office of psychiatrist Lewis J. Fielding in Beverly Hills, California. The break-in is made obvious by the smashing of a window. Accounts of the break-in are irreconcilably conflicting. According to Bernard Barker, E. Howard Hunt, and G. Gordon Liddy, the three Cubans—Barker, Martinez, and De Diego—had entered the office and searched thoroughly, and there was no file on Daniel Ellsberg anywhere. According to Lewis Fielding, there was a file on Ellsberg in his office, which Fielding says he found on the floor the next morning. Fielding claims it was evident that someone had gone through the file.
      Liddy and Hunt in New York on same night as Fielding break-in in Los Angeles
    • The same night, Hunt and Liddy are in New York City—where Hunt has made an issue of needing "a backstopped address." They check into the Pierre hotel and remain in New York through at least Sunday, 5 September 1971. [NOTE: There is no physical evidence that either Liddy or Hunt had been in Los Angeles at all for the Fielding office break-in. Only the anecdotal claims of the co-conspirators account for the whereabouts of Hunt and Liddy that weekend. This is similar to the later purported Watergate first break-in that involved the same personnel. (See 26, 27, and 28 May 1972.) Also, there is a backstopped address that was available to Liddy and Hunt in New York: 321 East 48th Street, not far from the Pierre hotel. Both locations are less than a mile from the Times Square lab and polygraph school of CIA's Cleve Backster. Five days after Hunt and Liddy leave New York (see 9 September 1971), OT VII Ingo Swann will "chance" to meet Backster "at a party" in New York. Backster will be the person who then ostensibly sets up a connection between Ingo Swann—a Scientology OT VII—and NSA's Hal Puthoff, also a Scientology OT VII. Both will be contracted by CIA to start CIA's secret remote viewing program (see 1 October 1972).][1][51][65]

    Thursday, 9 September 1971
    • OT VII Ingo Swann meets CIA's Cleve Backster, purportedly "at a party" in New York. Backster has an "extensive network of contacts in law enforcement agencies and within the CIA."[44]

    Sunday, 12 September 1971
    • OT VII Ingo Swann visits Cleve Backster's lab and polygraph school in New York city where Swann is asked to think thoughts of harming a plant that Backster has connected up to what Swann says was "a polygraph." Swann thinks of lighting a match with the intent of burning one of the plant's leaves, and there is an immediate and violent reaction. With repetitions, the reaction diminishes, and the conclusion
      OT VII Ingo Swann
      is drawn that not only is the plant capable of detecting harmful thought, but can "learn" to differentiate between true and artificial intent. The thought directed at the plant is changed to one of putting acid in its pot, with the same curve of results.[44]

    Wednesday, 15 September 1971
    • A "Master File" of cables (telexes) disappears from the External Comm Bureau of the Scientology Flagship Apollo. The file contains all cables related to the administration of Scientology worldwide from 22 August 1971 to 15 September 1971. In the External Comm Bureau at the time is John McLean. Also aboard he ship is Green Beret Paul Preston, doing a service called "Word Clearing Method 1."[62]
    • E. Howard Hunt makes a request that the CIA "immediately recall a 24-year-old secretary" from Paris for his use and "explain to all concerned that she was urgently needed for an unspecified special assignment."[2]

    Monday, 20 c. September 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt is granted special permission by the State Department for "full access to the department's chronological cable files." [NOTE: Shortly thereafter, Hunt is engaged in forging cables.][1]

    Saturday, 25 September 1971
    • Scientology OT VII Ingo Swann is doing experiments with Cleve Backster involving a piece of graphite hooked into a Wheatstone bridge [the main mechanism in a Scientology e-meter], connected with a chart recorder. Swann learns that he can focus a "beam" of intention at the graphite, and cause repeatable jogs in the chart.[44]

    October 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt is in telephone contact with CIA Chief European Division John Hart, and has several telephone conversations with CIA Executive Officer European Division John Caswell.[34]

    Friday, 1 October 1971
    APA's Karlis Osis
    • Dr. John Wingate of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York invites OT VII Ingo Swann to work on "well-designed" psychic experiments with psychiatrist Karlis Osis. Osis is a member of the very anti-Scientology American Psychological Association (APA). [NOTE: Chicago's W. Clement Stone is a member and major contributor to the ASPR. About 7 months later, CIA's E. Howard Hunt will deliver an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. See April 1972.][44]

    Sunday, 10 October 1971
    • Cleve Backster writes and circulates a small report entitled "Psychokinetic Effects on Small Samples of Graphite," detailing the repeatable experiments that he has conducted with OT VII Ingo Swann. Backster tells Swann, "Boy, are the guys down at the CIA going to be interested in you."[44]

    Friday, 15 October 1971
    • E. Howard Hunt meets with CIA Director Richard Helms.
    • Ingo Swann meets with Gertrude Schmeidler, who asks Swann if he thinks he can influence a thermistor isolated in a sealed thermos bottle. He agrees to try.[44][38]

    Late October 1971
    • Scientology OT VII Ingo Swann is in Washington, D.C. with "a colleague" meeting "in bars and pizza parlours" with unnamed intelligence personnel. At one of the meetings with "six spooks," Swan is asked: "If you were going to set up a threat analysis program to match what the Soviets are up to, what would you do?'"[66]

    By late October 1971
    Ingo Swann is in Washington, D.C. meeting with U.S.
    intelligence agency personnel.

    Saturday, 30 October 1971
    • Ingo Swann is working with CIA's Cleve Backster, testing "psi probes" on gasses in pressurized containers. He and Backster move on to experiments with biologicals, including one-celled biological specimens, blood, and seminal fluid. When Swann has some success in affecting biologicals with psychic probing, Backster says, "Well, you've just done something the Soviets have been working on for a long time."[44]

    Early November 1971
    • CIA's James McCord, purportedly retired in August 1970, signs a contract with the Republican National Committee to handle "security." The contract is in the name of "McCord Associates, Inc." [NOTE: The corporation will not be created until several weeks after the contract is signed; incorporation papers are not filed until 19 November 1971 (see) in Maryland.][67]

    Monday, 15 November 1971
    Gertrude Schmeidler
    • Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler conducts her thermistor experiments with OT VII Ingo Swann at the New York City College. Swann can produce changes in the target thermistors, while the control thermistors remained unchanged, on a repeatable basis at the direction of the experimenter.[44]

    Friday, 19 November 1971
    • CIA's E. Howard Hunt contacts CIA's Office of Security Director Robert Osborne.[38]
    • CIA's James McCord files incorporation papers in Maryland for McCord Associates, Inc., ostensibly a security company, but the incorporation papers say nothing about providing security, and the company is not licensed for security. Included on the board are McCord, his wife, and his sister, Dorothy Berry, who works for an "oil company in Houston." [NOTE: Berry later claimed she had "no idea" she had been listed on the board. Also, the Gulf Resources and Chemical Corporation—an "oil company in Houston" that controls half the world's supply of lithium—will later provide checks that get converted to traceable $100 bills for part of what becomes known as Watergate. See 15 April 1972.][67]

    Monday, 22 November 1971
    • OT VII Ingo Swann is involved in one of a series of ten out-of-body (OOB) perception experiments at ASPR, the task being to verbally describe objects out of his sight in a target tray. Having difficulty doing a narrative description of the target items, he hits upon the idea of doing sketches. Successful, this becomes a regular part of the experiments.[44]

    Wednesday, 1 December 1971
    • Gertrude Schmeidler's paper, "PK EFfects Upon Continuously Recorded Temperature," describes results of her thermistor experiments with Ingo Swann and is being circulated for peer review. It generates speculation that if someone could trigger a thermistor, they also might be able to remotely trigger a bomb. There are requests for interviews of Schmeidler and Swann from media like Time and Newsweek, but Swann refuses.[44]

    Monday, 6 December 1971
    • G. Gordon Liddy becomes General Counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President.[68][51]

    Wednesday, 8 December 1971
    • In one of a series of long-distance remote viewing experiments at ASPR, OT VII Ingo Swann suggests calling the experiments "remote sensing" or "remote viewing."[44]
    • E. Howard Hunt is in touch with senior CIA officer Peter Jessup, who is with the National Security Council staff.[38]
    • On or about the same day, Hunt meets privately again with CIA's Lucien Conein.[1]

    Sunday, 12 December 1971
    • NSA's David Young meets with Egil Krogh and CIA psychiatrist Bernard Malloy.[2]
      Lt. George W. Bush

    Thursday, 16 December 1971
    • CIA's E. Howard Hunt is in Dallas, Texas—an airline hub.
    • Lt. George W. Bush is living in Houston, Texas. He is a pilot trained on T-38 Talons, a type of plane used as a chase plane.[69]

    Thursday, 30 December 1971
    • An "out-of-body" (OOB) perception experiment results in Ingo Swann sketching the target object (a 7-Up can) upside down, so he believes he has missed getting it. Dr. Osis realizes that it is a perfect drawing of the can once it is turned upside down.[44]

    1972

    January 1972
    • G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt are collaborating on a "political espionage" plan to replace the Sandwedge proposal. One of the items they have factored into the budget, ostensibly for "political espionage," is a chase plane.[1][51]
      T-38 Talon, commonly used as "chase plane"

    Monday, 10 January 1972
    • G. Gordon Liddy is in New York city at the apartment Ulasewicz has established at 321 East 48th Street, Apartment 11-C.[70][51]

    Wednesday, 12 January 1972
    • G. Gordon Liddy is still in New York city. Ingo Swann learns that "two men in suits," flashing credentials, have visited the ASPR facility investigating him. They have met with Dr. Osis, and have looked at the experiment rooms and some of the experiment results. Osis tells Swann that he (Osis) isn't "free to tell" Swann what was discussed.[44]

    Friday, 14 January 1972
    • Origin date of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report, "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR"[71]

    Tuesday, 25 January 1972
    • Buell Mullen tells Ingo Swann that a small group of her "high-placed friends" has begun establishing a pool of money for Swann. Already some $70,000 has been "pledged" from "several sources."[44]

    Monday, 31 January 1972
    • "Information Cut-off Date" for a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report entitled "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR" concerning Soviet research and development of "psi" technologies.[71]
    • E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy return from a weekend trip to Los Angeles, during which Liddy also has gone to San Diego and back. [NOTE: Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel has a home just outside San Diego.][1][51]

    The secret DIA report,
    "Controlled Offensive Behavior—USSR" will say
    when published that Soviet knowledge in parapsychology
    "is superior to that of the U.S."

    Early February 1972
    • Buell Mullen calls Ingo Swann to say that Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel will be in New York city on 17 February with "some friends" who want to meet with Swann. She is having a dinner party for the occassion. Swann says he'll be there.[44]
    • G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt fly to Miami, home of Bernard Barker and other CIA-connected Cubans.[1][51]
    • G. Gordon Liddy "recruits" CIA's James McCord as a "wire man," purportedly to be able to do electronic eavesdropping for "political espionage" purposes. [NOTE: At the time, Liddy has no approved budget for any such activities, nor are there any approved plans for, or targets for, any such activities.][53]

    Thursday, 17 February 1972
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    • At a dinner at Buell Mullen's home in New York, Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel has brought four "friends" in suits who Kinzel will only introduce to Swann by first names. They have a one-hour meeting that is "strictly confidential," concerning "big-time funding for a new research organization" that's separate from the $70,000 already collected. According to Swann, at least one of the "friends" is CIA.[44]
    • On or about the same date, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy again fly to Miami, ostensibly to meet with Donald Segretti (a.k.a. "Donald Simmons"). While there, Hunt is in contact with CIA's Bernard Barker.

    Tuesday, 22 February 1972
    • OT VII Ingo Swann performs the first of a series of "out-of-body" (OOB) experiment with Vera Feldman of the ASPR as the outbound experimenter. Swann is hooked up to brainwave leads and locked in the OOB room while Feldman goes to the Museum of Natural History a few blocks away. Swann gets a high number of "hits" on what Feldman is seeing, one of them being a display case full of gemstones. Swann and Feldman talk about ESP being used for psychic spying.[44]
      Liddy and Hunt name the operations they are engaged in "GEMSTONE"
    • G. Gordon Liddy meets with CIA in connection with CIA "special clearances" he has been granted.[34]

    Thursday, 24 February 1972
    • G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt meet with a "retired" CIA doctor, introduced by Hunt to Liddy as "Dr. Edward Gunn," to get briefed by him on various covert means of murder for a possible assassination. [NOTE: Although Liddy and Hunt relate many similar incidents, if disjointedly, in their respective autobiographies, Hunt mentions nothing about this incident in his, while Liddy devotes several pages to it.]

    Late February 1972
    • OT VII Ingo Swann, connected with ASPR, meets Robert D. Ericsson, Executive Director of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (SFF). [NOTE: Chicago's W. Clement Stone is a member and major contributor to both the SFF and ASPR. About two months later, E. Howard Hunt will deliver an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. See April 1972.][44]
    • One of the members of the board of ASPR, A.C. Twitchell, Jr., purportedly calls Ingo Swann early in the morning saying that there is a move afoot at the ASPR to have Swann ejected on the grounds that he is a Scientologist. Twitchell says that it has been circulating that Swann is "Hubbard's spy," and is seeking to take over the ASPR on Hubbard's behalf. Swann threatens to sue the board over his civil rights.[44]
    • E. Howard Hunt travels to Nicaragua on an "undisclosed mission." [NOTE: See entry for 3 March 1972.][38]

    Wednesday, 1 March 1972
    • Russell Targ, Charles T. Tart, and David Hart release a proposal entitled "Research on Techniques to Enhance Extra Sensory Perception."[44]
    • On or about the same date, Douglas Caddy begins to do "legal tasks" for G. Gordon Liddy.[72]

    Friday, 3 March 1972
    • Gary O. Morris, psychiatrist of E. Howard Hunt's wife, Dorothy, vanishes while on vacation on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. No trace is ever found of the pleasure boat he had left on for a cruise with his wife and a local captain, Mervin Augustin.[38]

    Wednesday, 15 March 1972
    • A memorandum is sent to Director of FBI J. Edgar Hoover from the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) Copenhagen titled "SUBJECT: L. RON HUBBARD." It says: "On 3/13/72, [BLACKED OUT] advised that he has not yet completed preparation of his report concerning the Scientology Organization and its operations in Denmark. He reiterated, however, that when completed a copy of this report will be designated for [BLACKED OUT] Contact will be maintained with [BLACKED OUT] in order to insure that this office receives copies of his report and Bureau will be kept advised."[73]

    Monday, 20 March 1972
    • OT VII Ingo Swann is at Cleve Backster's lab in New York. Backster hands some papers to Swann on Hal Puthoff and purportedly says, "You two might get along. He's into Scientology, too." [NOTE: Both Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann have been connected with Yvonne Gillham at Celebruty Centre for some time. Both also are OT VII, and the only place in the United States delivering the OT Levels is the Advanced Organization in Los Angeles (AOLA), where Yvonne Gillham had been the senior executive before starting Celebrity Centre.][44]

    Wednesday, 22 March 1972
    • Janet Mitchell writes regarding out-of-body brightness comparison experiments with Ingo Swann, saying, "It may be possible that he can see all the waves in the atmosphere from infrared to ultraviolet."[44]

    Monday, 27 March 1972
    • G. Gordon Liddy's job abruptly changes to general counsel of the Finance Committee to Re-elect the President.[53]

    Wednesday, 29 March 1972
    • Two days after Liddy's job changes, E. Howard Hunt "terminates" in his paid capacity as a White House consultant—yet he keeps his office and the safe he'd used as such, and keeps his White House credentials because he continues to "work there a few hours each week."[22][1]

    Thursday, 30 March 1972
    • The day after E. Howard Hunt's "official" disconnection from the White House, OT VII Ingo Swann contacts OT VII Hal Puthoff saying Cleve Backster has "suggested" for Swann to contact Puthoff. Swann has several phone conversations over several days with Puthoff, who suggests that Swann come out to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) for a couple of weeks to do some experiments.[44]

    Early April 1972
    Unknown amount of cash delivered by CIA's E. Howard Hunt to offices of W. Clement Stone's foundation
    • CIA's E. Howard Hunt flies to Chicago and delivers an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.[1]

    Tuesday, 4 April 1972
    • OT VII Ingo Swann receives word that an independent judge, blind to the fact that she was judging an experiment in out-of-body (OOB) perceptions, has correctly matched all eight of the former "picture drawing" trials—a 100 per cent match between the OOB drawings and the contents of the target trays.[44]

    Friday, 7 April 1972
    • L. Ron Hubbard gives three taped lectures to students on the Expanded Dianetics course. They are the last public lectures Hubbard ever will give. [NOTE: As of this date, L. Ron Hubbard had given over 1,300 public lectures since 1950—averaging a little over one a week.]

    Monday, 10 April 1972