FEATURE STORY Edward A. Dames, Major, U.S. Army (Ret.) Past, Present and Future by Dick Allgire [Ed Dames granted an interview to the RV News, which was conducted by telephone and email in early February 2001.] I first met Ed Dames in 1997, at a party in Hawaii hosted by one of his students. Dames had flown to the Big Island from Los Angeles to give him private instruction, and they held a small party at the conclusion of the training, to which I was invited. So I hopped on an inter island flight and spent an evening with Ed Dames. Just in case you were wondering . . . there's a good reason Ed Dames is a regular guest on Art Bell's Coast To Coast AM radio show. He's interesting. If you're looking for fascinating conversation, either on the radio or at a party, Dames is a great guest. His wit is laced with an edge of sarcasm - - - which he displays a bit more at a wine and cheese party than on the radio - - - but essentially what you hear on Art Bell is what you get. Dames served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry from 1967 until 1974. He was an O5H Morse Code Intercept operator in the Airborne ASA. He left the Army and attended college at U.C. Berkeley, graduating as an ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate with a B.A. in Chinese. Then he reinlisted in the Army, this time as an officer with the 20th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Nurnberg, Germany where he worked with the Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1982 to 84. One of the more interesting facets of Ed Dames’ military intelligence career involved operating under civilian cover during the 1980s. He posed at different times as a professional toxicologist, research physician, or information science manager. He prepared for those roles by getting on the job training at U.S. Government scientific facilities, or by attending civilian professional society seminars. That training enabled him to pose as an expert on subjects ranging from toxicology, immunology, and biotechnology to directed energy effects and neutron activation spectroscopy. Dames also debriefed foreign émigrés and defectors, which required him to establish a rapport and gain their trust in order to determine whether or not they had information of value to U.S. Intelligence. Then came remote viewing, and Dames was selected as a member of the U.S. Army prototype Remote Viewing Program at Fort Meade, the one we have all heard so much about. When it became clear the government intended to abandon what was by then known as Star Gate, Dames took it public. The rest, as they say, is history. Ed Dames brought remote viewing into the civilian world and then he popularized it. He brought it out of what he calls "the deep dark secret world" by forming Psi Tech in 1990, and then he took it to the masses through his training tapes and his many appearances on the Art Bell show. Love him or hate him, a lot of us would not be involved in RV if it wasn't for Ed Dames. It wasn't easy transitioning this technology from a top-secret military application to the civilian business world, but he did it. And he did it five years prior to declassification, without being prosecuted. "I almost went to jail," says Dames. "I held three or four very big aces. That's all I'll say." He won't go into details. Ed Dames was interested in esoteric targets even back when he was the training and operations officer of the military's top secret Ft. Meade remote viewing program. Under the guise of "advanced training " he liked to task the viewers against targets such as ancient civilizations on Mars, and UFOs. Dames has maintained files of the session work done on those esoteric targets. "The original military so-called advanced targets," says Dames. "Mars, a lot of Mars stuff, a lot of UFO stuff that I slipped to the military viewers, I made copies of and took home. Some of them I have the originals," he says with a laugh. "There are some interesting stories in those old boxes." According to Dames, the files contain work done by remote viewers Paul Smith, Lyn Buchanan, Greg Seward, and David Morehouse. The ownership of the files is currently in dispute, and the subject of litigation between Dames and the present owners of the current incarnation of Psi Tech. Edward Dames Page 2 Privacy Statement Copyright © 2001, H.R.V.G. All rights reserved.

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