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The intelligence services are heavy players, and because of the Soviet Psi threat they more or less required an active picture of Psi potentials somewhat larger than standard parapsychology could provide. Because of these unusual circumstances, I got dragged into several years of work in this regard-But this meant that I also got dragged into realms of often idiotic secrecy, into endless security checks conducive of paranoia, into all kinds of science fiction dreamworks, into intelligence intrigues whose various formats were sometimes like toilet drains, and into quite nervous military and political ramifications, My participation in this long-term affair had its ups and downs -and was to involve hundreds of complicated situations, circumstances, and events of various kinds - of which those narrated in this book were only one kind, albeit the most stressful and mindboggling, To get into the elements of the narration, it is necessary to briefly outline what led up to them. In late 1972 the Central Intelligence Agency funded a small, tentative research project at Stanford Research Institute- The project at SRI was headed by the physicist. Dr. H. E. Puthoff, and I was invited to travel to California to participate in it, The purpose of the small project was to discover one ESP phenomenon that was capable of being reproduced at will. This was the kind of experiment notoriously missing in parapsychology, but in which I had been somewhat successful earlier. The project was given eight months to produce something along these lines. So, thereupon began yet another daily exercise involving hundreds of experimental trialsThese proceeded up and down in terms of what was being tested, but ultimately DOWN into boredom so cloying that it was hard to face yet another day of it. In early April, 1973, in an effort to emerge from the daily boredom of repetitive testing (which induces a flatline of ESP activity), I suggested that we once in a while do something far out, something that might reintroduce a sense of adventure, excitement, and enjoyment, The planet Jupiter was literally far out- NASA had earlier launched Pioneer 10 and 11 to fly-by that planet, and information telemetered back by the two crafts would undergo technical analyses. Information from Pioneer 10 would commence in September, 1973, The only real difference between Jupiter as a "target," and mundane target objects in the next room, was its distance from Earth-But for me there was another difference. It would be exciting to try to extend one's ESP to the planet, a form of remote viewingJupiter was more remote than the next room - and there might be a thrill of "traveling" in interplanetary space. But there was yet another difference. Those locked into conventional research mindsets are usually nervous about novel experiments. Conventional mindsets tend to take themselves somewhat seriously, so there is usually resistance to non-conventional experiments. The resistance is usually first manifested by tar and feathering the proposed experiment (and everyone involved) BEFORE it takes place.