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COLD OPEN: This is a declassified briefing from the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, dated June 9, 1983. The document, titled "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process," was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by The Black Vault. It's part of the "Stargate Collection" release, a set of documents related to the US government's investigation into the Gateway Experience, a technique for achieving altered states of consciousness. PROVENANCE: The document was released on January 24, 2021, under the CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 classification. It was obtained through a FOIA request by The Black Vault, and the canonical PDF is available on their website. THE DOCUMENT: Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R00170021 0016-5 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY us ARMY OPERATIONAL GROUP us ARMY INTEL.L.IGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755 IAGPC:O 9 June 1983 SUBJECT: Analysis and Assessment: of Gateway Process TO: Commander US Army Operational Group Fort Meade, MD 20755 1. You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate practicality. As I set out to fulfill that tasking, it soon became clear that in order to assess the validity and practicality of the process, I needed to do enough supporting research and analysis to fully understand how and why the process works. Frankly, sir, that proved to be an extremely involved and difficult business. Initially, based on conversations with a physician who took the Gateway training with me, I had recourse to the biomedical models developed by Itzhak Bentov to obtain information concerning the physical aspects of the process. Then I found it necessary to delve into various sources for information concerning quantum mechanics in order to be able to describe the nature and functioning of human consciousness. I had to be able to construct a scientifically valid and reasonably lucid model of how consciousness functions under the influence of the brain hemisphere synchronization technique employed by Gateway. Once this was done, the next step involved recourse to theoretical physics in order to explain the character of the time-space dimension and the means by which expanded human consciousness transcends it in achieving Gateway's objectives. Finally, I again found it necessary to use physics to bring the whole phenomenon of out-of-body states into the language of physical science to remove the stigma of its occult connotations and put it in a frame of reference suited to objective assessment. 2. I began the narrative by briefly profiling the fundamental biomedical factors affecting such related techniques as hypnosis, biofeedback, and transcendental meditation so that their objectives and mode of functioning could be compared in the reader's mind with the Gateway experience as the model of its underlying mechanics was developed. Additionally, that introductory material is useful in supporting the conclusions of the…

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Stargate Collection: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, 9 June 1983

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COLD OPEN: This is a declassified briefing from the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, dated June 9, 1983. The document, titled "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process," was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by The Black Vault.

Date: JUL 6 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)

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What was Stargate Collection: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, 9 June 1983 about?: COLD OPEN: This is a declassified briefing from the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, dated June 9, 1983. The document, titled "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process," was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by The Black Vault.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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