Captain (later Major) Paul H. Smith was assigned to the Army's Center Lane remote viewing program starting in 1983, and transitioned with the program to the Defense Intelligence Agency in early 1986. He was transferred out of the program in 1990 to participate in Desert Storm.

During his seven years with what ultimately came to be known as the Star Gate Program, Smith served concurrently as an operational remote viewer, training instructor, unit historian, recruiting officer, and security officer. Directly trained by the creators of remote viewing, Ingo Swann and Dr. Harold Puthoff of SRI-International, he was later the main author of the DIA "coordinate remote viewing" manual, and was primary theory instructor for the unit, being involved in the training of other now-well-known viewers including Lyn Buchanan, Mel Riley, and David Morehouse.

Smith retired from the Army in 1996 and started a

References

• Paul H. Smith, Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate -- America's Psychic Espionage Program, Forge, 2005, ISBN 0312875150
• Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, ISBN 0440223067 The best history of the project; nonskeptical.
• F. Holmes Atwater, Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul, Hampton Roads Publishing, VA, 2001, ISBN 1571742476