Psychic Warrior: The True Story of America's Foremost Psychic Spy and the Cover-Up of the CIA's Top-Secret Stargate Program

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by  David Morehouse

PSYCHIC WARRIOR. INSIDE THE CIA’S STARGATE PROGRAM: THE
TRUE STORY OF A SOLDIER’S ESPIONAGE AND AWAKENING
Copyright © 1996 by David Allen Morehouse.
Cover photography by Glen Gyssler.
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St. Martin’s Press hardcover edition published 1996
St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition / January 1998

eISBN 9780312964139
First eBook Edition : October 2011
EAN: 8031296413-9

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-3085
Table of Contents Title Page
PROLOGUE
ONE - THE DAWN
TWO - THE BULLET
THREE - THE SELECTION
FOUR - THE TRAINING
FlVE - THE CHANGELING
SIX - THE DECISION
SEVEN - THE FALL
EIGHT - THE REBIRTH
EPILOGUE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
“YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.”
POINTS OF DEPARTURE
Notes
Copyright Page
To my darling wife, Debbie, whose love has nourished and sustained me for
longer than I can remember. We are together, eternally.
PROLOGUE
I lay there staring at the ceiling, listening to my wife’s breathing as I conjured
shapes in the darkness. No amount of effort could force the excitement from my
mind; it was as if a fluorescent light burned just behind my eyes each time I
closed them. My mind reeled at the idea of what I was becoming.
Three months had passed since I had been recruited; I could hardly bear, let
alone comprehend, the physical and emotional transformation taking place.
Grinning in the darkness I mumbled, “I’m becoming a time traveler.” Even I
struggled to believe it. Everything I was destined to become was changing
before my eyes. I didn’t know who or what I was anymore; my very essence had
been torn apart and pieced together again by modern-day seers, travelers in time
and space. But they were only ordinary men, I kept telling myself. How could
they know these things? How could they be sure that what they were doing was
right? What if we weren’t supposed to do this … this thing we do?
The alarm shocked me into the world of consciousness and I slapped groggily
at it until it fell off the nightstand, ringing and clanking the room awake. Patting
Debbie back to sleep, I dragged myself into the morning’s routine and continued
my deliberations during the drive to the office. It was strange going to work in
civilian clothing and with long hair. For the past twelve years I had been an
infantry officer, short hair and all. Now I looked and felt like a civilian, so as not
to attract attention to the unit.
I pulled into the parking lot of the ramshackle buildings, the highly classified
special-access program where I was now undergoing my metamorphosis. I was
to spend over two years here, and every day I chuckled at the worn-out
structures that had seen better days as a bakers’ school during World War II.
Now, the two wooden buildings sheltered a group of soldiers and Defense
Department employees.
This was the home of an espionage program that skirted the limits of
imagination and spirituality. It was the haunt of a clan of spies, hand-picked
from the tens of thousands who filled the ranks of the army and Department of
Defense. A well-kept secret, the unit’s existence and location were known only
by a few members of the Defense Intelligence Agency, of which it was a part.
Ironically, some of the DIA’s more conservative members came to think of the
members of this unit as evil, even satanic, because of what we learned and
practiced here. And now I was part of it … this aberrant crew of eight that the
DIA code-named Sun Streak.
I was never first into the office—several of the others always managed to earn
that honor—which was good, because that meant the much-needed coffee was
always ready. Grabbing a cup, I made my way to the vault and withdrew my
notes from yesterday’s sessions. Well into my training by now, I had enjoyed
strong successes on my early missions; in fact, the program manager, Bill Levy,
had accelerated my indoctrination into this new world. It was this acceleration
that had prompted yesterday’s excursion into the unknown.
I swallowed the coffee while staring at the strange drawings and data I had
scribbled the day before. Among my sketches, one mysterious figure stood out—
faceless, cloaked, hooded, and pointing a gnarled hand toward someone or
something unseen. The pages that followed contained descriptions of another
world, perhaps another dimension … things that just now were
incomprehensible. I pored over them, trying to grasp their significance, when
smack! a firm hand clamped down hard on my shoulder. “Not bad for the new
guy in town.”
“Christ, Mel, you scared the hell out of me.”
He grinned. “You shouldn’t be so shaky. You haven’t seen anything yet.” He
took a swig of his coffee and walked back to his cubicle. I followed.
Mel Riley was an army master sergeant; a thin, gray-haired man with pale
eyes and the forgiving disposition of a grandfather. He smoked cigarettes like a
madman and drank coffee strong enough to etch glass. He was my trainer and
coach along my two-year journey of self-discovery. He was the first military
remote viewer—the first man to transcend time and space for the purpose of
viewing selected targets and collecting intelligence information. I learned early
to rely on his counsel. What he said was always true: no lies, no exaggerations,
no betrayal, and no ego.
“Mel, what in the world is this place you sent me to yesterday? I’m
comfortable with the training targets I’ve worked so far, but I’m struggling with
this one. This was … what did you call it?”
“An open search. We all do it from time to time—it keeps us humble.”
“Humble? Ever since I walked in here I’ve been humbled daily. I don’t think I
need to float aimlessly into the ether, landing on God knows what, to be
humble.”
Riley looked at me with fatherly eyes and smiled. “Maybe you don’t need
humility now, but trust me, you will.” He paused for another sip of coffee, but
his eyes never left mine. “When you get your wings in a few more months, walk
into that viewing room alone, and jump into the ether—when you’ve soared into
time and space and returned—you’ll start to think you’re a god, a fucking god.
But you’re not. What you are is a very mortal tool … an instrument of the
government. Staying humble and realizing how insignificant you are in the
spectrum of things is critical to surviving as a remote viewer. Without that thread
connecting you to reality, you’ll forget who you are, and you won’t last out there
… or back here.”
“Out where?” I asked.
He drew a large circle in the air with both hands. “Out there … in the ether.
Where we work.” He smiled. “But now, I think Bill wants to see you. Don’t
worry about that stuff.” He pointed at the papers in my hand. “That will all
become clear soon enough.”

Bill briefly glanced at me over the tops of his glasses and then refocused on the
papers in front of him. “Sun Streak” ’s director, an olive-skinned man with dark
hair and dark eyes, had an intensity about him that rarely broke. He was
intolerant of many things, and I was careful not to get on his bad side. “Mel said
you wanted to see me.”
Bill continued to scratch away at the papers. “Yes, I do. I have another target
for you to work … a training target.” He paused long enough to look up at me.
“Not an open search. This is a standard mission. I want to get you through Stage
Four of training as soon as possible. We’ll be losing a viewer in another week or
so, and I want you to take his place. Operationally, that is.”
“Well, that’s wonderful, I guess. I want to move along as fast as I can … I
find this stuff fascinating.”
“Good! Do you have any questions so far?”
I assumed he was expecting some sort of intellectual query on the theory or
practice of remote viewing, but I couldn’t think of a damned thing. I sat there
biting my lip like a third-grader. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a ghost from my past
came into my thoughts. “There is one thing,” I began. “I hate to bring this up
because it’s personal, but it’s important to me.” Levy said nothing, simply stared
into the wall behind me as I talked. “I’ve been wondering if I could work—or
have some other viewers work—a special project.”
“What sort of project?”
“I had a friend some time ago, in Panama. A chopper pilot. He was flying a
classified mission with another pilot and a crew chief, monitoring the border
wars between Ecuador and Colombia.”
“And?”
“They never returned from the mission. And they were never found.”
“And now you want to see if you can find this—”
“His name is Mike Foley. Chief Warrant Officer Foley. I know this is unusual,
but he was like a brother … I mean, I loved this guy. We did everything
together, our wives did everything together, and I never got to say good-bye.
One day he was suddenly listed as missing in action, and the next thing I knew
Debbie and I were helping Sharon Foley pack for the States. It still seems like a
nightmare, and it happened eight years ago.”
Like radar, Levy keyed in on the word “nightmare.” He sat forward in the
chair and laced his fingers under his chin. “Does he come to see you, in
nightmares?”
“Yeah. Sometimes he does.”
“How? Tell me about them.”
“Oh, I don’t know. It’s nothing morbid or horrifying. It’s just that I see him,
you know … . I don’t talk to him; he doesn’t talk to me.” A knot began to swell
in my throat, and I fought back tears. “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be emotional. I
thought by now I was over it.”
“You’ll find that the more closely you embrace the art of viewing, the less
you’ll be able to escape all that makes us human. You’ll eventually learn to live
beyond sorrow and anguish, and countless other emotions. Of course you’ll
always feel them, but you’ll understand them unconditionally, and that
understanding will give you the wisdom you need to survive. So don’t be
ashamed of your emotions. Release them freely. We all do around here; it’s
healthy.” He was briefly silent. “Now tell me more about your friend Foley.”
“I don’t know much. I was a general’s aide at the time, and we were
participating in a training exercise when it happened. The general had just gotten
a briefing in the tactical operations center when the aviation battalion
commander approached him quietly. Right away I sensed something was wrong
with Mike—I just knew it. The battalion commander filled my boss in, and the
general left for the office. I stayed behind and asked if Foley was okay.
“The battalion chief looked at me strangely; it was obvious he was wondering
who might have told me. I said I didn’t know anything particular, but I just
sensed something was wrong with Mike. Reluctantly, he told me Mike’s chopper
had gone down somewhere in the mountains and hadn’t been found. That’s all
he’d say.”
“What about the nightmares? Tell me about Foley’s visits to you.”
“Well, like I said, it’s not like he jumps out of the ground and grabs my ankles
or anything. It’s actually very tranquil, almost like he’s trying to comfort me.
Sharon says he’s come to her as well.”
“When did this occur? In 19—”
“He went down in 1980. The last words anyone heard from the chopper came
from Mike. He said, ‘Wait a minute … I have a problem.’ And then there was
nothing but static. They mounted several searches for the aircraft, but nothing
was ever found.”
“That’s because it was never Americans looking for Americans.”
“What?” I sat bolt upright. “What do you mean?”
Levy stood up, flipping his pencil onto the papers. “Wait here.”
Five minutes later he returned with a stack of blue folders and dropped them
in my lap. “I think you’ll find these very interesting. Look them over carefully,
and we’ll talk after lunch.”
He sat back down at the desk and picked up his work as though I’d never been
there. I sat there stunned for a few seconds; finally, he looked at me again over
the top of his glasses.
“Okay?”
“Okay.” I replied awkwardly. “Okay … thanks.”
I stepped out of the door and hurried back to my desk. There were about
twenty-eight folders, each with the words “TOP SECRET—PROJECT: GRILL
FLAME” in inch-high red letters front and back. I’d seen these markings before,
when I was being recruited for the unit. Inside each folder was a copy of some
teletype message traffic: “MISSING—ARMY helicopter (UH-1H) tail number
November Seven Nine, with crew: CW4 David Suitter (Pilot in Command),
CWO Michael Foley (Co-Pilot) and Sergeant First Class William Staub (Crew
Chief).” The remainder of the message dealt with the area in which they were
presumed to have gone down, along with reports from locals about seeing or
hearing the copter before the crash. I tore through all the official message traffic,
straining to read as fast as I could, but I couldn’t move fast enough. I began
flipping through the folders, until finally I stumbled on what Levy had wanted
me to see.
I was looking at the results of eight-year-old remote viewing sessions that had
begun hours after Mike and the rest of the crew were reported missing. Twenty-
eight sessions had been conducted by five different remote viewers, each session
describing the crash in detail. I read graphic accounts by remote viewers who
were psychically clutching the tail of the chopper as it rolled off axis and
plunged into the jungle. I could hardly believe it; the viewers described, as if
seeing through the eyes of the crew members, what each one experienced in his
final moments. I read two viewers’ descriptions of how Mike watched CW4
Suitter die. Illustrations showed the chopper separated from its tail and resting
on its left side. Mike was still strapped in, looking at Suitter, who had been
thrown forward about twenty feet out of the aircraft. “Foley winced in pain,” the
viewers wrote, “while CW4 Suitter crawled along the jungle floor several feet