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Albert Stubblebine

Military

Army intelligence general who sponsored controversial psychic warfare and remote viewing experiments for INSCOM during the early 1980s

Died — February 6, 2017

Disclosure Rating — 3/10

Albert Newton Stubblebine III (born February 6, 1930, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma) entered the United States Military Academy in 1948 and graduated in the Class of 1952.1 He later earned an M.S. in chemical engineering from Columbia University in 1961.2

Initially an armor officer, Stubblebine transferred to military intelligence and served as G-2 of the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam (1968-69), receiving the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit.3 During the 1970s he held a series of senior intelligence billets, commanded the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (1977-79), and then led the Electronics Research and Development Command (ERADCOM).

From 1981 to 1984 he commanded the 16,000-soldier U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), where he reorganized Army intelligence architecture and championed novel collection methods.4

  Stargate Program and Psychic Initiatives

While at INSCOM, Stubblebine became the most senior uniformed sponsor of what evolved into Project Stargate, a joint Army/CIA remote-viewing effort at Fort Meade.5 He established the "High Performance Task Force," directed battalion commanders to practice spoon-bending, and personally attempted feats such as walking through walls.6

  Retirement and Public Advocacy

Forced into early retirement in 1984 after friction with Army leadership over paranormal projects, Stubblebine joined defense contractor BDM as a vice-president and was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1990.7

In later years he co-founded the Natural Solutions Foundation with psychiatrist Rima Laibow, promoted alternative medicine, and advanced conspiracy claims about 9/11 and swine flu vaccinations.8

  Statements from Interviews

ClaimDetails
Redesign of Army IntelligenceIn multiple on-record interviews, Stubblebine accurately described moving imagery exploitation and electronic targeting to echelons-above-corps during his 1970s staff work.9
Support for Remote ViewingDeclassified CIA files confirm that he funded Army involvement in Project GRILL FLAME, predecessor to Stargate, between 1981 and 1983.10
Levitation and Wall-PassingStubblebine told BBC documentarian Jon Ronson that he tried to levitate and pass through solid walls but "kept bumping [his] nose."6
Pentagon Strike DenialIn several interviews, Stubblebine asserted a Boeing 757 could not have hit the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.11
Engineered H1N1 VirusHe alleged the World Health Organization created swine flu as a depopulation tool.12

  References

  1. en.wikipedia.org ↩

  2. ikn.army.mil ↩

  3. telegraph.co.uk ↩

  4. en.wikipedia.org ↩

  5. cia.gov ↩

  6. Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and BBC documentary "Crazy Rulers of the World," Part I. ↩ ↩2

  7. U.S. Army Military Intelligence Hall of Fame citation, 1990. ↩

  8. Southern Poverty Law Center, "Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, Says 'Gen. Bert'" (2009). ↩

  9. Department of the Army, FM 34-1 (1975) and interview in Army magazine, Jan 1982. ↩

  10. CIA STAR GATE Collection, Document "Summary of Grill Flame Activities," 9 June 1983. ↩

  11. Video interview, Pentagon Strike, 2006; National Transportation Safety Board, Flight 77 Flight Path Study (2002). ↩

  12. Smith et al., "Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic," Nature 459 (2009): 1122–25. ↩

Born on February 6, 1930

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