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120PSI Spiesthe breakup of an OPEC conference by terrorists.Nearly every day it seemed that Pat would havesome new piece of precognitive news for us to thinkabout over lunch, days in advance of the event’s actualoccurrence. 57Adding to credibility problems of remote viewing werePrice’s unsolicited descriptions of UFOs and extraterrestrialbases.Despite the success of SCANATE, there was footdraggingwithin the CIA itself. Psychic research neverbecame institutionalized, due to constant friction between believersand nonbelievers, as well as newly publicized revelationsregarding agency improprieties including assassinationplots against world leaders.One potential boost came in late 1975 when PresidentGerald Ford named George H. W. Bush as director of the CIA.Bush, who was confirmed as CIA director in January 1976,was a longtime friend of astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Mitchellfounded the Institute for Noetic (from the Greek for “new”)Sciences in San Francisco.Mitchell, who was dedicated to psychic research andhad kept in close contact with SRI, convinced Bush to allowhim to organized high-level seminars at the CIA to study thepotential applications of parapsychology to intelligencegathering. 58But before anything profitable could come of these seminars,Jimmy Carter was elected president and, in 1977, NavyAdmiral Stansfield Turner, a man with no particular interestin the paranormal, was appointed director of the CIA.