Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

War in the Ether 177Intelligence Directorate. From that time onward, the PsiSpies were part of the DIA organization. The unit code nameunderwent several changes: GRILL FLAME became CENTERLANE, another computer-generated name, then SUNSTREAK, and finally STAR GATE.Officially, the Psi Spies were never supposed to be operational,despite the active missions they undertook. On thebooks, it was only a research program. This meant the PsiSpies were considered human guinea pigs, and thus cameunder the scrutiny of human use protocols. After revelationsof past wrongdoing, particularly the use of LSD on unsuspectingmilitary personnel, the Pentagon has been very concernedabout the use of humans for research purposes.The Psi Spies unit thus became one of only two programswithin the military that was perceived as using humans forexperimental purposes.One member of the Human Use Committee, which actedas an oversight group for the Psi Spies program, was NavyCapt. Paul Tyler, who was also a medical doctor. Dr. Tylerwas the former director of the Armed Forces RadiobiologyResearch Laboratory at Bethesda, Maryland.“I had been at briefings at the Agency [CIA] regardingGRILL FLAME,” recalled Dr. Tyler. 4Dr. Tyler mentioned the covert use of LSD as one of thereasons for the creation of the committee. Another he mentionedwas the infamous Tuskegee Study, in which a largenumber of poor, southern, black men were studied to examinethe long-term effects of syphilis, long after penicillin becameknown as a cure. He said, “Those people were not