On 9 June 1983, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell signed Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process at Fort Meade for INSCOM. A scan later appeared in the CIA FOIA Reading Room as CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5. Primary file: and keep internet mythology from rewriting the letterhead.
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Some circulated scans lacked page 25 for years; journalism in 2021 discussed recovery. Prefer complete official scans.
What the paper is doing
McDonnell assesses Monroe Institute Gateway Experience training (audio techniques associated with hemispheric synchronization and reports of expanded awareness or out-of-body states). He tries to restate those claims in physical-science language for possible practical military interest. That is a staff assessment, not a peer-reviewed clinical trial and not a press release announcing proven astral projection.
Internet culture merges Gateway with CE-5, non-human contact, and “we are energy beings.” That merge is a reader hypothesis. Quote page numbers from the PDF before you baptize a TikTok summary.
Related program culture (keep separate)
Remote-viewing / Stargate-era public literature is adjacent Cold War human-performance research — different files, different claims. Search Black Vault and CIA Reading Room under those names instead of gluing every psychic-ops acronym into one blob.
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