My Library

competent woman who did everything to make me feel comfortable -- i.e., showed me where the coffee machines were and gave me a tour of the local offices, labs etc., When I grumbled a little about the delay, Eli explained that Puthoff was always on the phone. I then remembered to telephone Dr. William Tiller, whom I’d met briefly in New York. I called him in his office at Stanford University, and he said something like "Well, you’ve really started up a hubbub. Can you come to dinner tomorrow? Dr. Shafica Karagula is staying with us. Would you like to meet her?" WOULD I? YES, yes, indeed! And so that was arranged. At some point later in the morning, Hal came briefly away from his precious telephone saying that Dr. Willis Harmon was on his way over to meet me. "He’ll probably take you to lunch, so I’ll see you later this afternoon." I had no idea who Harmon was. Eli explained that he was one of the pillars of SRI, with his own staff and building at SRI, an office in Washington, D.C., and that he was connected to the highest places everywhere possible. Meanwhile, Bart Cox came into Eli’s office to shake my hand regarding the magnetometer experiment. With him was Judy Schmickley, who said she didn’t understand much of what had happened, but that everyone who did was excited. With them was Dr. Earl Jones, director of all the labs under Cox’s jurisdiction. It’s fair to say, I think, that Jones looked like his world was ending because of the experiment. But he was cordial and eventually gave his full support to Hal’s project. I later learned that Jones’s Washington connections were also awesome.