Central Intelligence Agency
The people of Project Stargate
Six long-form profiles of the program's central figures.
Project Stargate was, in the end, a program about specific people. It began as a research contract on whether Ingo Swann's apparent abilities could be reproduced in others. It ran on Pat Price's results in its foundation years and on Joseph McMoneagle's results in the operational years that followed. Its scientific direction was set by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. Its institutional life inside the Department of Defense, during the years that mattered most, was defended by Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III. The profiles below try to read each of these people as a figure in their own right, rather than as a fixture of a program whose story is already over.
Where the sources permit, the biographies draw on primary-source documents from the 2017 Stargate declassification. Where they don't, they draw on the principals' own published memoirs, on contemporaneous news reporting, and on the obituaries the New York Times and the Washington Post wrote when each of them died.