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Paul H. Smith served for seven years in the government's remote viewing program at Ft. Meade, MD (from September 1983 to August 1990).  During 1984, he became one of only a handful of government personnel to be personally trained as coordinate remote viewers by Ingo Swann at SRI-International.  Paul was the primary author of the government RV program's CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting officer and unit security officer.  He is credited with over a thousand training and operational remote viewing sessions during his time with the unit at Ft. Meade.

Raised in Boulder City, Nevada, he enlisted in the Army in 1976 for Arabic training, attended Officer Candidate School, and was commissioned as a Military Intelligence officer.  Besides his tour at Ft.  Meade, his military assignments included Arabic linguist, electronic warfare operator, strategic intelligence officer for a special operations unit, Mid-East desk officer, tactical intelligence officer with the 101st Airborne Division during Desert Storm/Shield, strategic intelligence officer in the Collection Directorate of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and chief of the intelligence and security division for the Military District of Washington, from which he retired in 1996.

Paul has a BA from Brigham Young University in Mid-East Affairs, Art, and English; an MS from the Defense Intelligence College (Mid-East Concentration); and is enrolled in a Ph.D program in Philosophy, specializing in consciousness and philosophy of mind.

He or his work as a remote viewer have been featured on television programs such as the Arts & Entertainment Network's "The Unexplained," the History Channel's "History Undercover" series, "Strange Universe," "Inside Edition," and two documentaries on remote viewing produced for German television.  He has also been a guest on Art Bell's "Coast to Coast" radio show [Transcript: 03-25-1997], George Noory's Coast to Coast [Archived on StreamLink], and Jeff Rense's "Sightings on the Radio" [Transcript: 10-01-2000]   [Transcript: 11-14-2001]

Besides serving as President of Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., a company offering remote viewing training courses to individuals and small groups, he also works as a remote viewer and RV consultant, is a founding director of the International Remote Viewing Association, and currently serves as the organization's President.

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Bill Ray, is a former Commander of the Ft Meade RV Unit and one of the five military viewers trained by Ingo Swann. Bill spent over three and one half years with the Ft Meade Unit and has spent approximately eleven and one half years involved with Remote Viewing. He taught a CRV course in Europe for several years.

He has a bachelors degree in History from the State University of New York and a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Bill is a retired US Army Major and is now employed for the US Army as a civilian. He has over thirty years in Intelligence, including twenty years in Europe. He currently resides in New Mexico.

In addition to her duties as Director of Community Out-Reach, Daryl Gibson is a career journalist who has worked as a reporter for the Las Vegas Review Journal, The Boulder (CO) Daily Camera, and as managing editor for legendary investigative journalist Jack Anderson's "Washington Merry-go-Round" column. Daryl is the co-author with Mr. Anderson of his recently-published memoir, Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account, and is now assisting Melvin Laird (Secretary of Defense under President Richard Nixon) in writing his memoirs.

She has edited or contributed to books about General Norman Schwartzkopf, on the Charlie Keating savings-and-loan scandal, to a book investigating the AARP, etc. Daryl is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in Journalism.