Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability

Mind-Reach (Delacorte, 1977) is the first popular account of the remote-viewing experiments that the physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff ran at the Stanford Research Institute from 1972, with subjects such as Ingo Swann and the former police officer Pat Price trying to describe distant places they could not see. It describes their protocols and results and argues that the effect is real. Margaret Mead wrote the introduction.

The book did not disclose that the research was funded by the CIA and later by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Army; that work continued as the Stargate programme until 1995. A CIA-commissioned evaluation that year concluded that remote viewing had never produced intelligence useful in operations. The scientific community has generally rejected the SRI results, and critics such as David Marks and Richard Kammann argued the early experiments had cues in the judging that could explain them.

Sources: Wikipedia — Stargate Project · Russell Targ's file