Ingo Swann is an artist who helped develop the supposed
process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute
sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, and has
become well known as a remote viewer himself. PRG (Stanford)
would seal a target in an envelope.
This envelope would be given to a group of people who
would enter a car. Once they were in the car the envelope
would be opened and the target they were to drive to would
be revealed. They would then drive to the target and try
to visually send an image back to Ingo. He would then
try to pick up on the target and reveal what it was. His
success rate was incredible.
It got to the point where he would tell the controller
where the people were heading sometimes before they opened
the envelope. "I remember once when given co-ordinates
on a world map he drew a perfect picture of the island
which was the target." (David Garner, PRG, 1967-1976)
In 1972, Ingo Swann read a paper by Dr. Hal Puthoff while
visiting Backster's laboratory, and wrote back suggesting
that he should instead study parapsychological effects.
He described a number of such studies that he had been
involved with at the City College of New York.
Puthoff was interested and invited Swann to SRI for a
week in 1972. Prior to the meeting Puthoff had set up
test equipment below the room in which Swann demonstrated
his talents, all of which recorded anomalies. As a result
of this meeting, Puthoff became convinced the matter was
worth additional study, and published a short report on
the meetings.
Swann, Puthoff, and other members of their team were all
high-level Operating Thetan members of the Church of Scientology
and the connection between Scientology and the CIA has
raised concerns from many critics of all involved. Swann
is commonly accredited with proposing the idea of Coordinate
Remote Viewing, a process in which viewers would view
a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates,
which was developed and tested by Hal Puthoff and Russell
Targ with CIA funding..
