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Chapter 9 The Enigma Files
One day in the fall of 1985, according to author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Howard Blum, a collection of ranking military officers met in a lead-lined conference hall on the third floor of the Old Executive Office Building across from the White House. Though details of this meeting have been contested by some of the persons involved, the essence of the experience is acknowledged as true. Seated in front of the officers and the President’s science adviser were two SRI scientists, most probably Puthoff and Targ, and a remote viewer, reportedly Ingo Swann. The occasion was yet another demonstration of the remote viewing phenomenon, but on this day the extraordinary moved into the fantastic. The viewer was asked to sketch his view of a Soviet submarine. He rapidly began drawing circles. One was elongated— apparently the submarine—but above this was a circle with 241
