My Library

In fact, as of June 1972, everyone had Washington connections except me -- and as of that month I couldn’t imagine that anyone in Washington would have the slightest interest in parapsychology stuff. You see how dense and naive I could be? Dr. Willis W. Harmon then arrived. He had a warm, firm hand and for a full moment held mine and looked straight and deep into my eyes without saying anything. He then said: "My, my!" This flustered me a little, since I hadn’t the faintest clue as to what THAT was all about. When Harmon found Puthoff was closeted with his telephone, he suggested that he take me to his office where a few of his staff were wanting to meet me. Then there would be lunch. I said OK. He made a quick call. I’m going to present Harmon’s credentials later in this book, but in June 1972 I quickly found out something about him and his far-flung importance. At SRI, he was Director of HIS Educational Policy Research Center. This Center was a large project merely sheltered under SRI’s umbrella. The major goal of the project was studying "Planning Amid Forces for Institutional Change." Big Business, the DOD, Congress, everyone, was interested in what "institutional change" might consist of. Dr. Harmon and his staff were in process of giving answers. When this gets transliterated into more simplified English, Harmon was the head of SRI’s futurology effort. And as of 1972, Futurology constituted one of the most important and biggest efforts in THE ENTIRE WORLD. The Center’s "own building," though was not one of the modern glass-and-machine ones at SRI, but composed of two old Army barracks joined together. During WW II and shortly after,