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2026-10-05 CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST / STARGATE)

Site: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/ . Investigator run 1 (STEP I), via Chrome. Bears on Claim 1 (scalar-wave memo) and on the absence-of-evidence analysis in arbiter.md ("What followed the memo?").

Searched

  • Reading-room site search: scalar waves; 00792R000500240.
  • Direct document pages: cia-rdp96-00792r000500240002-5, cia-rdp96-00792r000500240008-9, cia-rdp96-00788r001500100012-3 (the last found via Google: "Jack Vorona" DIA "DT" directorate scientific technical intelligence Stargate).
  • Note: the URL for the memo itself (cia-rdp96-00792r000500240001-6) redirected to the reading-room home page on this visit.

Found

1. The folder holding the memo is part of the STARGATE collection [web]

Every RDP96-00792R0005002400xx page read carries "Document Type: CREST; Collection: STARGATE" [web: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00792r000500240002-5]. This confirms that the scalar-wave memo sits in the STARGATE release (the US Army / DIA remote-viewing programme files), which the review had as [memory, medium-high].

2. Item 0002-5: "TO: COL BUZBY FROM: (Sanitized)", 3 pp., NOTES, released 2003/09/09 [web]

URL: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00792r000500240002-5 (PDF attachment CIA-RDP96-00792R000500240002-5.pdf, 157 KB; not downloaded, see sites.md). Content (OCR text on the page, read in full): a staff note to "COL Buzby" giving "exerpts from the document 'Star Wars Now', by Tom E. Bearden, dated April 24, 1984, as well as some logical extensions of my own". In the note's own terms: - Principle: the Bohm-Aharonov (Aharonov-Bohm) effect shows potentials act "even in the absence of electrical and magnetic fields"; two identical beams "180 degrees out of phase" give "a constant electrical value of 0", which it compares to the "silent spot" in the heterodyning of "hemi-sync" signals. "This type signal is called a 'scalar wave'." - Claimed properties: no electric or magnetic change in transit, therefore "very little molecular resistance", so it "will penetrate ocean water, earth, and other materials". - Interferometry: two scalar beams intersecting out of phase form a "beat frequency" with "a definite energy level" at the distant point, which becomes a transmitter. - Military uses as stated: jamming at the enemy transmitter; at high power a plasma "nuclear explosion" without gamma rays or fallout, placeable inside underground complexes, a "roving fireball blast"; draining energy from the intersection point for weather modification; "The U.S. has detected at least 78 tests" by the Soviets (OCR garbled around the places: Sea of Japan and others); defensive "shields". - Detection: "can only be done in an area where time and space have been altered", by an antenna at the pole of a 40-80 kG (4-8 T) superconducting magnet inside a Faraday cage. - People: Bearden "worked with Drs. Harold Faretto and Jack Dea, and Mr. John Bedini", with financial support from "Mr. Josh Reynolds, Essentia Research, and the Association of Distinguished American Scientists". How it bears on the claims: it is a second document in the same folder, addressed to a named Army officer, restating Bearden's principles (the source the 12/22/87 memo names as "chief proponent"). It records the proponent's own principle chain (phase-cancelled potentials -> no field -> no attenuation -> interference recovers energy) in plain words, and the detector concept. It is the note-writer's summary of Bearden plus "extensions of my own", not a test. No date on the note itself beyond the release stamp.

3. Item 0008-9: "INTERACTIONS WITH SCALAR ENERGY - CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF ACTION", Dr. Glen Rein, 6 pp., BOOK, released 2001/03/07 [web]

URL: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00792r000500240008-9 (PDF 586 KB; not downloaded). Content (OCR text read in full): Rein proposes a "Crystalline Transduction Theory" (scalar energy transduced into ordinary EM energy by liquid crystals in cell membranes and solid crystals in blood/tissue). Scalar source: the "Tesla watch" (ELF Cocoon International), a Moebius-strip coil design credited to Dr Andrija Puharich, said by Puharich to emit a "scalar B field" around 8 Hz. Experiment: PC12 rat nerve cells, radiolabelled noradrenaline uptake, watch placed over an open dish for 30 min; control dish about 12 feet away under a watch without the Moebius strip. Result: uptake inhibited 19.5% at 30 min (Table 1: control mean 5507 +/- 841 cpm/mg protein, n = 6; exposed 4435 +/- 480, n = 6; OCR of the table partly garbled), "p < 0.01" by t-test; no effect at 10 min. Also cites Byrd (EEG with the watch), a "Dr. Persinger" (OCR "Persivn") mast-cell degranulation result with two cancelling 0.5 Hz, 10 uT vortex fields, and Puharich/Max Planck E. coli gene activation. Rein's references include Bearden's "AIDS: Biological Warfare" (1988) and PACE newsletter (1982). Rein himself notes the scalar field "was not measured" in the Persinger work and that with ever-present EM fields "it will be difficult to rule out" an EM cause. How it bears: an experiment by a supporter of the scalar principle, held in the same intelligence file, with a measured biological endpoint. Blinding, randomisation of dish position and field measurements are not described in the text. Date: references to 1988 imply 1988 or later.

4. The full folder RDP96-00792R0005002400xx (from archive.org listing, see 2026-10-05-archive-org.md)

0001-6 Scalar Waves (the memo); 0002-5 To Col Buzby (Bearden excerpts); 0003-4 Canada Weekly "The Secret of Entebbe"; 0004-3 Weekend Magazine "Weapon?"; 0005-2 Saturday Review "Front Runners"; 0006-1 Toronto Star "Metro man Israeli hero"; 0007-0 Toronto Star "Hero of Entebbe..."; 0008-9 Rein. Only 0001, 0002 and 0008 are on scalar waves; 0003-0007 (titles only, not read) look like press clippings on an unrelated topic.

5. Who "DT (Dr. Vorona)" was: a primary record [web]

"CENTER LANE Meeting with DIA - 20 July 1984", US Army INSCOM memo, 25 July 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001500100012-3, STARGATE [web: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001500100012-3]. It names "Dr. Jack Vorona, Assistant Vice Director for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, DIA", says DIA staff would be under "AT as opposed to DT (Dr. Vorona's office)", and that "Dr. Vorona will maintain overall oversight responsibility within DIA" for the psychoenergetic programme. It is signed by the CENTER LANE Project Manager, "BRIAN BUZBY ... LTC, MI" (OCR). How it bears: (a) "DT" in the memo's address line is DIA's Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence, headed by Vorona; the memo's "DT-ACO" originator is therefore a DT (DIA) office, not CIA. This moves the arbiter's [memory, medium] attribution to [web, primary record, by inference from the office symbol]; the memo itself still does not name DIA. (b) "Col Buzby" in item 0002 is very probably the same Brian Buzby, CENTER LANE (remote-viewing) project manager in 1984 (same surname and programme; rank LTC in 1984; identity not confirmed). Also found by Google snippet only (not opened): "DEFENSE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT", signed "JACK VORONA Assistant Vice Director for Scientific ...", "DIA/DT-1A" [web snippet: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/nsa-rdp96x00790r000100020003-3].

Not reached here

  • Reading-room hits seen in the "scalar waves" search but not opened: "STAR WARS NOW! The Bohm-Aharonov effect, scalar interferometry, and Soviet weaponization" (Bearden's paper itself, apparently held in the reading room); "The following are excerpts from the document Star Wars Now"; "Motion of the centroid and variation in width of wave packets"; "Solution of some boundary problems of the electromagnetic field by means of two-dimensional models". Document numbers not recorded. Recheck.