Skip Atwater

Frederick Holmes 'Skip' Atwater served as the Operations and Training Officer for the US Army's classified remote viewing unit at Fort Meade, Maryland from 1977 to 1988 — the program later declassified as Project Star Gate. He recruited and trained remote viewers including Joe McMoneagle (Agent 001), managed operational remote viewing missions for the DIA, and served as the military's primary interface with consciousness research. After retiring from the Army, Atwater became Research Director and later President of The Monroe Institute, founded by Robert Monroe — the organization that developed the Gateway Process (documented in the classified 1983 CIA assessment). Atwater represents the most direct human pipeline between military intelligence operations and consciousness research: the same person who ran classified psychic espionage for the Army went on to lead the civilian institute whose techniques the CIA had already validated. His career arc proves the military-consciousness connection isn't theoretical — it's biographical.