No. The report "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" was written by a US Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell of the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), on 9 June 1983 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The CIA did not write it. It released the document in September 2003, and it sits in the CIA's Star Gate collection because the CIA inherited the program's files in 1995. Calling it "the CIA report" is common and wrong.
What the cover memo shows
What the CIA did
Why the Army was interested
Where to read it
What the documents say, and what people claim
What the cover memo shows
The first two pages are a memorandum on Department of the Army letterhead: "US Army Operational Group, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland." It is dated 9 June 1983 and addressed to the Commander of the US Army Operational Group. The signature block reads Wayne M. McDonnell, LTC, MI, commander of a detachment ("Det O").
The memo explains the assignment: "You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate practicality." The author took the course himself; he mentions "a physician who took the Gateway training with me." He wrote it, he says, as "a useful guide for other USAINSCOM personnel who are required to take the Gateway training or work with Gateway materials."
What the CIA did
The CIA Reading Room record, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5, lists the publication date as June 9, 1983 and the release date as September 9, 2003. Every page carries the stamp "Approved For Release 2003/09/10." The CIA declassified and published a document it held; it was not the author.
Why does the CIA hold an Army memo? The remote-viewing program that began in the Army and moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency was transferred to the CIA by the Fiscal Year 1995 defense appropriations bill, along with its files. Those files became the Star Gate collection, posted online in bulk in 2017. The Gateway report is one record among roughly twelve thousand. For the program's history, see What was Project Star Gate?
Why the Army was interested
INSCOM had sent personnel to the Monroe Institute since 1978, first to learn out-of-body technique as a way to mimic a suspected Soviet capability, later as training for the Center Lane project. By 1983 enough officers were "required to take the Gateway training" that a commander wanted an assessment. The whole story is on Why did the Army send soldiers to the Monroe Institute?
The report's sources are not intelligence. Its bibliography on page 28 lists nine items: Itzhak Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum (1977), Marilyn Ferguson's 1978 article on Karl Pribram, a 1983 Science Digest piece, a Monroe Institute monograph by Melissa Jager, Robert Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body (1971), and works by Jill Purce, Lee Sannella, Pat Stone and Charles Tart.
The documents: an Army INSCOM lieutenant colonel wrote the report in 1983 for his commander, drawing on popular science books and the Monroe Institute's own material. The CIA released it in 2003 from files it had inherited.
The claims: "the CIA's Gateway report," "the CIA studied astral projection," "CIA-approved technique." The CIA's involvement was custody and declassification. The CIA did fund early remote-viewing research at SRI in the 1970s, which is a separate story; see What was Project Star Gate?
Last updated November 4, 2026.
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