Jack Sarfatti 's History: Esalen Institute, SRI, CIA, MI6 and Elite Republicans; Unusually Open About Personal Ties, Despite Questionable Theories

By: Joël v.d. Reijden | Date: July 8, 2020.

Contents

1.	Intro
2.	Coast to Coast AM appearances
3.	Jacques Vallee background and sources

Intro

This page is a subsection of ISGP's article Cult of National Security Trolls: Art Bell and Coast to Coast AM. As that article details, shows like Coast to Coast AM promote virtually nothing but very organized and systematic disinformation.

Coast to Coast AM appearances

Coast to Coast AM: August 26, 2007; February 21, 2010; September 18, 2011.

Jack Sarfatti background and sources

May 20, 2010, Alan Waite (PraxisForLife.org president) interview with Jack Sarfatti (video transcript): "I was part of a group of superkids, these genius kids that were being studied at the Columbia University Laboratory of William Sheldon, and one of his assistants, a [later exposed pedophile] Walter Breen [in 1953-1956]. ...
There was a bunch of them, a guy named Robert Solovay, who became a famous mathematician at Berkeley. And even Alan Greenspan who became head of the [Federal Reserve]. Yeah. Greenspan is older than I am, but Greenspan became part of this group. ... I'm actually wondering, where did Greenspan go? Is he from Chicago? That'd be interesting to find out. Greenspan was part of this experiment. Or so I'm told. I never met Greenspan at the time. He would have been four or five years older. I was about thirteen when it started. So from about thirteen to sixteen. ...
[The project] was all also connected somehow with Ayn Rand. Somehow Ayn Rand had something to do with it. It was also connected to the government. It had something to do with what later became Sandia Labs in New Mexico. In fact, we used to have these guys come up (they looked like FBI guys), and this was the McCarthy era, to get pep talks about being patriotic and anti-communist and all that kind of stuff. So there were a lot of weird things going on. ...
Apparently there was a similar program at Berkeley – there's a friend of mine named Hank Harrison who was a part of it, who's the father of Courtney Love [widow of Nirvana's Curt Cobain, a very "new left" political band], actually Courtney Love's dad. And he apparently ... You might want to actually talk to him about the program. ...
It was tied up with the intelligence community, definitely with the government. It was kind of like the X-Men. I mean what they were trying to do. ... We were tested. They were trying to induce paranormal powers in us... like telepathy, psychokinesis, and things like that. There were experiments, and they would just sit with the kids, you know, trying to get them to move objects. We never moved anything, but there was a whole program going on about this. Also, they talked about aliens and flying saucers, trying to figure out how they fly, and all that kind of stuff. It was a lot of science fiction. Oh, and I met Isaac Asimov at that time.
Walter [Breen] wanted me to go to the University of Chicago for some reason. And when I graduated from high school in 1956, the people in this program wrote the recommendations for me for the schools I applied to. So I applied to MIT, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. For some reason my mother didn't want me to go to Chicago; it was too far away. Also the people in the neoconservative movement came out of Chicago [right-wing Rockefeller network, headed by George Shultz]. One of the people, I forget the name, but one of the professors there who was an inspiration for neocons was in some way connected with this [seemingly Milton Friedman, but also George Stigler, Trilateral Commission neoliberal economist D. Gale Johnson, Thomas Sowell, Friedman's assistant Dr. Arnold Harberger]. So, at this point I wouldn't go to the University of Chicago. ...
So I went to Cornell, and I remember Breen wrote the recommendation that got me into Cornell. ... My mother didn't have any money, and my parents were divorced, so I got a full scholarship to Cornell. My professors were the guys who built the atomic bomb in Los Alamos. You know, like [Nobel laureate physicist] Hans Bethe? A lot of them were at Cornell and other Ivy League schools. ... My voice teacher, who later became Sir Keith Faulkner (became knighted by the Queen of England), became the head of the Royal College of Music...
But there's this very tight relationship between the British and the Americans in the intelligence services. Of course, this is the Fifties. I mean, it was very different back then, it was a small world. The Ivy League was a recruiting ground for the intelligence services.
My grandfather, even before this Columbia Project, which was definitely some kind of intelligence thing... before that, my grandfather worked for the US Army. He was a veteran, and this is when I was 8 or 9 years old. I was actually living with the grandparents. And after school, I would go to meet my grandfather, who was at the Army Quartermaster Corps, in the Garment District of New York. And that was a very strange situation. Maybe I was 10 or 11 years old, but I would hang out there and play. And they had a laboratory there. They had the different cold weather uniforms, hot weather, that sort of stuff. It was like a museum.
I was given free reign in this place. My grandfather drove around with these Army officers – my grandfather was driving the car, and I would sit in the back seat, with these colonels. They must have been psychiatrists. I mean they were always analyzing. And it's all kind of consistent. Because at time I was going to build rockets, go to the moon, or all this kind of stuff. But all of this was encouraging me. I was actually in the company of these Army officers a lot. That's when I saw this fun colonel named Phil Corso [an associate of Nelson Rockefeller] who wrote a [disinformation] book, "The Day After Roswell", many years later [in 1997]. I'm pretty sure Col. Corso's one of those guys, really... though I can't prove it. This would've been around 1950. But it's a consistent story, and it all makes sense.
Then there were other scientists. A guy named Hal Puthoff [who] also had similar experiences, and has been involved... It was Hal Puthoff who was involved in a CIA project at Stanford Research Institute back in the 70's [to set up remote viewing]. That's where I first met him.
So this has all been kind of a consistent picture of what looks like a very long term intelligence effort, definitely involving the British, definitely involving the Americans and probably other agencies as well, to investigate [read: disinform the public on] these kind of fringe areas which are now called UFO's and the paranormal, and how physics could explain it. This idea to try to explain consciousness and possible flying saucers, the big thing back then, was part of this project. So I was involved in that from the very beginning. ...
So, the military, they were always interested in stuff like that. I mean the military's more open to the paranormal. So one reason that possibly the Army became interested in me was because of my uncle. That they wanted to see if any of the... if there's any kind of familial sort of thing in the gene pool And this is speculation. I don't really know for sure.
My mother's brother, Arthur, was in the war... in the Pacific. ... He had a reputation for being psychic, you see, because he was in a lot of combat – he was overseas for four and a half years. And even when he was not in the jungles, they had him teaching, in New Zealand or something, as a jungle warfare instructor.
And I think at one point, they had him working with the Navajo Indians, you know, the Whisperers? [corrected:] Yeah, the Windtalkers, 'cause apparently he got this sort of, they used to call him "the Jewish Indian". He had this reputation, everybody wanted to be wherever he was because he had a sense in the jungle... the snipers in the tree, he sort had an accurate sense for where they were. And there was one outfit, I think when he first went over, the 25th Division or something, it was famous since around 90% of them were killed. Tremendous casualties. And he was one of the few that survived without getting shot... I have photographs of him during the war...
I was not really actively involved with the fringe stuff when I was at Cornell although when I would go to New York I would visit Walter [Breen] ... but, I guess it's more of something we had to do really. This actually involves his dad [pointing to Daniel Geller [Uri Geller's son]]. When I was thirteen or maybe twelve, I got a very strange set of phone calls in which there was a mechanical voice, and it could have been simulated, but the story is of this mechanical voice that it was a computer onboard a spacecraft in the future! The "Godphone" [of Uri Geller fame]. And you know, it wanted to teach me things, and I was supposed to meet these "others" in 20 years. This was 1953 and twenty years would be 1973. So this kind of whole weird thing happened. And the odd thing about it was that I only remember one of the phone calls. But my mother, I only found this out later, my mother remembers weeks of them and hours at a time, which I have no memory of whatsoever. I was walking around glassy-eyed. And finally she got worried... finally she grabbed the phone from me and says "who's this?" and heard this metallic sounding voice. And it said "this is a computer aboard a spacecraft and it wanted to speak to me." She got angry and said "Don't ever call here again," and slammed the phone down. That was her memory of it that she told me about later.
Well, I think that maybe it was [an intelligence operation]. It's one of two things. Either it was what it says it was, or a government program, take your choice. I mean, given everything else, it sounds like it's a government project. They're still playing psychological games on these kids, quite possibly. So that's the most likely explanation. ...
[However] Uri's [rob of light] experience was about the same time as my phone calls were happening. And whatever was on the other end of that, the telephone said I would begin to link up with the others, part of the group, in twenty years. [And we met 20 years later] ...
I was involved with SANE, the people at SANE, S-A-N-E, the Sane Nuclear policy. I was sort of on the periphery of all that. Then I wound up at UCSD. And UCSD back in the mid Sixties. Now UCSD is part of the Military-Industrial-Complex. We had Edward Teller would come down there all the time. Harold Uri, these are all famous, you know... John Wheeler, Keith Brueckner was the head of the JASONs...
Back in my generation, it was all taken for granted – you did things for your country. It was not even questioned until the Sixties. I was on the periphery; I can tell you what happened. In the 'Sixties when I left Cornell, I spent two years at Brandeis University, the graduate program at Brandeis, I ran out of time at Cambridge. There, I met Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis... and I got involved with a lot of that stuff... I was fairly naive, but I must say my main interest was science. ... But the liberal arts department had Herbert Marcuse taken in from Brandeis and Angela Davis. My wife was more into liberal arts. So I knew them socially, and got involved with the formation of the Peace and Freedom Party in San Diego...
Also I must say, before that, at Cornell, a lot of my friends were involved in the freedom movement in Mississippi. ... We had the Black Panthers... Huey Newton's... he used to come to La Jolla... So, I was a sort of Forest Gump and Zelig witness to a lot of these historical things on the Left. ...
I was a professor of physics at this time at San Diego State, and it happened that I was leaving town. I was on my way to, in fact, see a Pakistani physicist named Abdus Salam – he had invited me to Europe to the UNESCO Institute of Physics, which is also a part of the International Atomic Energy Agency, you know, the ones who now monitor Iran. I was invited there as a scientist, and I made it there by a very weird set of circumstances. ... Okay, it's 1974, I'm commuting between Trieste [in Italy], working with Abdus Salam at UNESCO's International Center for Theoretical Physics - very straight science. But the institute we were at in Trieste was a meeting ground between the Russians and Eastern Europeans; it was still the Cold War. That project was definitely an intelligence thing... It was CIA, and we were right in the middle of it, Fred Alan Wolf and I. ...
Fred was invited to Bulgaria in 1974 and he had an affair with this woman who turned out to be the daughter of the KGB chief – the secret police in Bulgaria.
Another interesting thing was in the Spring of 1974. There was a very wealthy woman in London; I think Daniel's dad [Uri Geller] knows her... Judith... was that her name? Anyway, there's this wealthy American heiress living in London, who was very into the paranormal, and she had this beautiful house in London, I remember it had an Olympic-sized swimming pool in the basement. Ira Einhorn stayed with her more than once. So we were staying there with some of the people from the SRI...
There was a group of guys from the CIA there too. One of those people invited me to dinner, his name was Dennis Bardens. Dennis Bardens, if you look him up on the Internet, well, he's dead now, but he was definitely with British Intelligence. He was the biographer of Winston Churchill. He was also into the paranormal. Oh, in fact he was a producer... he invented Panorama on the BBC. He even did something during the war in Czechoslovakia. You know, we're talking about the MI6, James Bond, OSS, one of those guys. He was that era, and he looked it. ...
Maybe, Crowley and all that; all kinds of connections to [Aleister] Crowley... We haven't got into that yet but all kinds of connections there. In fact even Ayn Rand was connected with Crowley. Thanks for reminding me.
So, we're at this meeting and... Dennis Bardens, he's an older man, and a general very established, a Winston Churchill staff type, very distinguished, and he says "Dr. Sarfatti, I'd like to take you to dinner". So we went to the Blue Boar Inn in Cambridge. I remember I had duck and cherry sauce. I swear something right out of a James Bond film. Then we went into the "club" for brandy, and Bardens looks at me and says "Dr. Sarfatti, first" and he winks at me. [He was a little bit drunk]; "I must tell you that I am a Kabbalist." Another wink in his eye.
Now, I had just come from Paris, I had just been involved with these Kabbalists, a French guy [Carlo Suares], a whole other story there. Bardens was telling me he knew the people I had been with in Paris. The people I was with in Paris knew Lawrence Durrell, the author who was a member of the British Intelligence in World War II, very well known. It was cloak-and-dagger stuff.
"I'm a Kabbalist" he says... Then he gets serious and says "Dr. Sarfatti, it is my duty to inform you that there is a psychic war raging across the continents between the Soviet Union and your country, and you are to be in the thick of it." [note: disinformation] And I didn't quite know what he was referring to, so I just said, "Okay." ...
I met Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who was on the moon. Edgar Mitchell was very into the paranormal, as was a guy named Brenden Regan, one of the people running the [SRI] project. And I was asked at the time because I had been the assistant to a man named David Bohm at the University of London. And I was asked to help arrange tests of Danny's father, Uri, at the University of London. At the time of course, you know, this was a CIA operation, but I didn't know that. ...
Well, I'm looking back, and remember, at the moment I was still in my early thirties. Lots of testosterone, some sexy English woman had picked me up and wanted me to spend the night with her. I didn't even want to have dinner with him. I had other things on my mind. I mean, I was, you know, totally distracted [laughter].
I was just being polite, letting him take me to dinner. Even though I knew it was something official, I had a sense that there was a lot of this stuff going on. And he couldn't be much more explicit than that... But it was just another in a series of weird things that started happening at that time...
["So, essentially you've been groomed throughout your entire life, since the Godphone calls?"] Exactly ["By the government, the United States government?"] Oh yeah. Absolutely.
I became kind of a maverick. Here's what happened, and this gets back to some of the recent stuff that's been happening (with the "Tuscan Conference Controversy."). At the time with the Uri Geller paranormal tests, the tests at the University of London, I came out, and was a witness to these tests done by Arthur Koestler. But it was being done under the CIA, and I wrote a little report of what I witnessed at Birkbeck College (University of London) with David Bohm and Arthur Clarke, and Arthur Koestler, and Uri Geller bending the metal...
I just wrote this thing and gave it to Brendan O. Regan, who was part of Edgar Mitchell's Noetics Institute, the SRI people. Instantly this thing went all over the world as a major press release in every major newspaper. Now, that normally doesn't happen. That's CIA. I was being used, in a way. I wrote this little thing about what I thought, was very positive, judging from what I saw, Uri's ability to bend metal with his thoughts. So as a result of that article, immediately, I found that I had powerful enemies in the academic establishment.
I remember when I went back to America, I was up in Boston, and my undergraduate advisor Phil Morrison, who was then a professor at MIT, the book editor for Scientific American, and Morrison warned me. He said "This is very bad for your academic career; politically it would be hard for you to get a job." Not good to come out in favor of inquiring into the paranormal. ...
There's a war going on, warring factions, okay? Involving factions within the intelligence community itself. I don't claim to... I'm not privy to all it, but at that time, I was put under a lock. And even the Amazing Randi (world famous magician) took me to lunch back here in California - and Randi says "Uri's a fake. I can do this, bending metals..." And at one point he kind of scared me and I said "Okay, sure, it's a trick, physicists can be fooled". My arm was being twisted not to... apparently I got all this publicity because of the Central Intelligence Agency being involved, right? I was just a professor... Assistant Professor of Physics at San Diego State. Why else am I suddenly getting this worldwide coverage? ...
Uri has the power (to bend metal with his mind) or doesn't have the power. I personally think he does, because I have seen other things since then, very many things. But whether or not you believe it, is not the point. The point is intellectual freedom, academic freedom and why the people who are thinking outside the box are being demonized. ... Theoretical physicists have formed a priesthood of death since they created the atomic bomb."

February 1997, Vol. 2, No. 2a, Jack Sarfatti in MindNet Journal, 'Sarfatti's Illuminati: In the thick of it!': "We flew to New York. Sharon and I spent a few days with Uri Geller [C2C AM], Ira Einhorn [murderer], Bob Toben, Sir John Whitmore and Andrija Puharich [the CIA-tied scientist who recruited Geller from Mossad hands and brought him to SRI] at Puharich's large house in Ossining.
Puharich gave me his book 'URI'. I did not have time to read it but I gave it to my mother in Brooklyn a few days later. My mother was reading the book [12] when she suddenly exclaimed: "Jacky, Jacky, this is what happened to you!" "What happened to me? What are you talking about Ma?" "The computer in the flying saucer that called you on the telephone when you were a little boy. Don't you remember when you got all those phone calls?"
An electric shock went through me -- I only remember one phone call. "What do you mean phone calls? I only got one call." "No you didn't! Jacky, what's the matter with you? You got three weeks of these crazy calls. You were on the phone for hours at a time walking around glassy-eyed. I got worried and grabbed the phone away from you. I said, 'Who is this? Why are you calling my son?' I heard that voice. It said it was a computer. It wanted you to come back to the telephone. I said, 'Don't you call back here again,' and hung up and that was that." Not even a super-technological conscious computer on board a flying saucer from the future can argue with an irate Jewish Mother! ...
Another physicist [and colleague in the early 1970s], Saul Paul Sirag [20], who was [future Pentagon-no-planer] Barbara Honegger's [21] lover. ... Honegger worked with Jim Hickman, [Esalen founder] Michael Murphy and Brendan O. Regan [of Edgar Mitchell's IONS - Mitchell is also C2C AM]. Barbara told me of a strange encounter with Brendan O. Regan in which trance medium Ingo Swann [C2C AM] spoke with a cold metallic voice and said that it was a computer from a hundred years into the future."

Leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the 1970s. Other members include fellow future Coast to Coast AM guest Fred Alan Wolf, as well as Fritjof Capra, in later decades part of Maurice Strong's Earth Charter. All these men, and Sarfatti in particular, became deeply involved in the Esalen Institute. The group was also hired by SRI International, as part of a CIA project, to study alleged psychic Uri Geller. Dr. Edgar Mitchell and remote viewing project leaders were all involved in studying Geller here. The entire group, including the remote viewers, later all ended up on Coast to Coast AM - with all of them being disinformers.

In January 1975 Werner Erhard, Fred Alan Wolf [C2C AM] and Jack Sarfatti formally set up a non-profit think tank, the Physics–Consciousness Research Group, with Sarfatti as president and Saul-Paul Sirag (whose girlfriend at the time was Barbara Honegger, a future extremely dedicated Pentagon-no-planer for 9/11) vice-president. Later fell out with Erhard.

In the late 1970s Sarfatti became involved in a conservative political network that would soon make it to the Reagan White House:
- 2011, David Kaiser, 'How the Hippies Saved Physics': "Perched at his regular location (Caffe Trieste, North Beach, San Francisco), [Sarfatti] had fallen in with a curious crowd: politically conservative thinkers who were drawn to certain New Age ideas. Chief among them was [Yale-educated National Review contributor] A. Lawrence ("Lawry") Chickering [who] direct[ed] the statewide Office of Economic Opportunity under Governor Ronald Reagan. Near the end of Reagan's term, Chickering founded the Institute of Contemporary Studies, and convinced such leading conservatives as Edwin Meese and Caspar Weinberger to the Institute's Board. Chickering quickly became known as the intellectual leader of the "New Age Right." Where others had seen only left-leaning collectivist ideas on display at Esalen or in the Eastern mysticism craze, Chickering discerned a strong element of "personal responsibility." Borrowing from Est and the human potential movement...
  When Reagan was elected president in 1980, and Meese and Weinberger joined the new cabinet, Chickering suddenly had the ear of the White House. Sarfatti, in turn, had the ear of Chickering. [7] Chickering sent memos to highly placed bureaucrats in Reagan's Defense Department touting Sarfatti's work and lobbying for funds to support further research.
  At a March 1982 dinner in Washington, DC, hosted by Secretary of Defense Weinberger -- until recently a board member of Chickering's think tank -- Chickering struck up a conversation with the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. He followed up with a long letter a week later, to describe in more detail "the work of a physicist friend of mine which just might have profound implications for certain aspects of the technology of warfare."[8] Chickering mentioned the CIA memorandum from 1979 that had expressed some interest in Sarfatti's ideas, and then made his pitch. "Jack says that if in fact we can control the faster than light nonlocal effect," then one could make "an untappable and unjammable command-control-communication system at very high bitrates for use in the submarine fleet. ... Wouldn't it be in the nation's interest to invest a little of the Pentagon's discretionary funding to test Sarfatti's hypothesis...?"
  Sarfatti had already drawn up a proposal to establish a think tank of his own, "PSI: Physical Sciences Institute" (an all-too-obvious reference to "psi" or parapsychology), to advise the Reagan administration on "potential defense applications of the "new physics" and they emerge." Total cost: a meager $250,000 per year for five years (nearly $600,000 per year in 2010 dollars)...
  Chickering [wrote] to the undersecretary of defense: "God knows what other clever ideas he [Sarfatti] and his crew of eccentric geniuses might come up with if they were properly supported." [11] Chickering's memo did not generate funds for Sarfatti. The undersecretary suggested that Sarfatti confer with the JASON Group... while an Air Force colonel held out for a "summarization of Dr. Sarfatti's latest finding" before promising any funds...
  But the connection with Chickering introduced Sarfatti to a whole new network of people. ... Sarfatti's political leanings [now also] swung solidly to the right. He began to write with characteristic ire about the leftist excesses of people and groups with whom he had enjoyed close relations only a few years earlier. ...
  He flitted from wealthy patron to wealthy patron... One of his first benefactors following Erhard was a Berkeley-based architect [likely linked to Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Consciousness]. In the 1990s his major sponsor was a Silicon Valley executive and UFO enthusiast [Joe Firmage]... (Patrons such as [1001 Club member with the Rockefellers] crown prince of Lichtenstein have lavished funds on other researchers with the same goal in mind.) After another dramatic falling-out with the Silicon Valley sponsor, Sarfatti found a new benefactor. Though Sarfatti remains cagey about revealing his present patron, suffice it to say that he drives around San Francisco in a mint-condition Jaguar (full leather interior)..."
- January 26, 1981, New York Times, 'Research Institute Rises With Reagan' (Chickering not mentioned): "The Institute of Contemporary Studies [was] formed in 1975... Edwin Meese 3d, who was Mr. Reagan's executive assistant in Sacramento and is now counselor to the President in Washington, played the leading role in establishing the institute. Caspar W. Weinberger, now Secretary of Defense, was state director of finance under Governor Reagan [a Bechtel vice president] and is a director of the institute. H. Monroe Browne, an occupational safety and health commissioner for Governor Reagan's administration, assumed the full-time position of president of the institute when he left Sacramento in 1975. ... Mr. Browne said that the institute's budget was about $1 million a year. He named the Scaife and Hearst Foundations as among its backers..."

In the 1980s Sarfatti's sponsor was Harold Chipman, a decades-long protege of notorious CIA officer Ted Shackley. At the time of Chipman's death, Chipman was involved in erecting the Sarfatti Institute, having drawn up a list of desired officers that included close associates as CIA officer Ray Cline (strategy of tension; American Security Council) and Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., another high level CIA officers, as well as leading advisor to David Rockefeller at Chase Manhattan Bank.
- independent.academia.edu/KimBurrafato (March 8, 2019 conversation with author): "I interacted with Chipman a few times, Jack [Sarfatti] was with me, but I do remember discussing the LSD safe house with him, as [in the late 1950s] I was a nine year old kid who lived just down the street from the apartment where they conducting the operation [Midnight Climax]."
- February 1997, Vol. 2, No. 2a, Jack Sarfatti in MindNet Journal, 'Sarfatti's Illuminati: In the thick of it!': "[68] Chipman started funding my work in 1985. He said he had secretly funded part of the SRI work in remote viewing. He also introduced me to V. He was involved with a Texas Company TLC and a man named Joe Peeple's who was indicted for selling arms to Iran in the mid-80's [Iran Contra]. ...
  Harold Chipman believed that [remote viewing] worked and told me that he had used it successfully in his business. Indeed, he introduced me to a glamorous private detective, V, as one of his best performers in remote-viewing operations. V and I became lovers. She confirmed that she had participated in experiments with Chipman. V was like the Princess in Cocteau's 'Orfee' "une espionne chargee de surveiller un homme et qui le suave en se perdant," ["A spy charged with watching a man and making him lose himself through affection,"] in Cocteau's words."
  - May 23, 1986, Detroit Free Press, '3 charged in [Iranian] arms plot'. Report one of the tiny few to mention Joe Peeple, reported here to be a friend of Yaacov Meridor, a long-time ally of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.
- March 5-6, 2019, Jack Sarfatti in emails to ISGP: "Bcc to the usual suspects with a need to know. ...
  Helms as I recall [was] important in the psi spying program at SRI? ... Chip [Harold Chipman] funded me to work on that stuff. He told me he was the hidden puppet master for the funding of the whole SRI project unbeknownst to Puthoff and Targ. ... I do not know specifically about Chip's connection to IONS, Esalen, Foundation only to SRI. ... I was involved with him in the 1980s. ... Checker cab [was his car in the 1980s] – I rode in it many times. ... He tapped me on the shoulder from behind as I was Xeroxing my at-the-time-mad writings in the copy shop then on Washington Square Filbert & Columbus now a bakery. ... I did meet his son in Venice Beach about 15 years ago – we went to dinner at Haaka Japanese restaurant. I don't remember if he mentioned a daughter. I have no reason to doubt her claim [to you]. ...
  [The think tank he tried to get going before his death was the] Sarfatti Institute [related to faster-than-light communication] – me. If you look at my book Destiny Matrix Authorhouse 2002 you will see Chip's papers proposing to set it up. It's still on Amazon. ...
  
  [Document photocopies sent over read:]
  - Economic: Chester W. Bunnell, Jr. Director Henry F. Swift & Company...
  - Economic: Albert J. Morris. Senior Vice President, Bank of California. ...
  - Economic: Donald K. Haenlein. President, Sarfatti Corporation. ...
  - Economic: Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr. [CIA] Director -- International Relations, The Chase Manhattan Bank [of David Rockefeller]...
  - Political: Dr. Ray S. Cline, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS]...
  - Political: Harold E. Chipman. President, Chipman Group Limited, 550 Battery Street, San Francisco, California 94111.
  - Science: Dr. Arthur L. Schalow [at] Stanford. ...
  - Military: [Army Gen.] E.B. Roberts, Johnson & Anton Incorporated. ...
  - Religious: Father Joseph Fessio. Director, [ultraconservative] St. Ignatius Institute, University of San Francisco [and 1978 founder of Ignatius Press; educated at the University of Regensburg, West Germany in 1978 where his thesis director was later Pope Ratzinger; Dec. 1993 issue (apparently), Smart File, p. 37: "[Fessio:] Opus Dei is consciously trying to influence people who are influential in Society."]. Jesuit Order."
  [End document]
  
  No doubt [Chipman was tied in with Ted Shackley, George H. W. Bush, etc.]. Never got to meet Cline, Roosevelt et-al because of Chip's alleged untimely [death]...
  
  Yes, Chip was in Opus Dei and Knights of Malta [note: after me asking about it; March 12, 2019: "Chipman was Knights of Malta and Opus Dei – I know for a fact – saw his documents."]. I met a high-level Catholic priest [apparently the above Father Joseph Fessio] with Chip at USF which may have been the site of the post-quantum-physics institute had Chip not prematurely passed...
  
  Oh yes Colby [is the DCI who died mysteriously], was a friend of a guy I knew in North Beach since passed, and I think Gordon Novel. ... Colby was supposed to be in North Beach, San Francisco to have dinner at Fior d'Italia a few days after he was found dead in the rowboat on the lake. My friend Don was an advisor to Reagan."

Additional sponsors since the 1990s:
- 2011, David Kaiser, 'How the Hippies Saved Physics': "[Sarfatti] flitted from wealthy patron to wealthy patron... In the 1990s his major sponsor was a Silicon Valley executive and UFO enthusiast [Joe Firmage]... (Patrons such as [1001 Club member with the Rockefellers] crown prince of Lichtenstein have lavished funds on other researchers with the same goal in mind.) After another dramatic falling-out with the Silicon Valley sponsor, Sarfatti found a new benefactor. Though Sarfatti remains cagey about revealing his present patron, suffice it to say that he drives around San Francisco in a mint-condition Jaguar (full leather interior)..."
- February 28, 2019, medium.com post of @jacksarfatti_73785: "I know [Rockefeller-tied Silicon Valley financier] Joe Firmage and [CIA UFO community handler] Ron Pandolfi since the late 1990s. I was the key figure in setting up Joe Firmage's ISSO Science Lab in San Francisco with Creon Levit on leave then from NASA AMES. I have been actively working on the Tic Tac mystery—independently from To The Stars Academy."
- Presidentialufo.com/old_site/scott.htm (Dick Farley bio on C.B. Scott Jones): "Jack Sarfatti says he took [C.B. Scott] Jones to a meeting with former multimillionaire Joseph Firmage, at the time spending his fortune "promoting the Truth (big-T) about ET contacts with Earth," in search of funding."
  Beginning in 1999, Sarfatti was employed by Joe Firmage's International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO). C2C AM guest Joe Firmage was pushing the bogus MJ-12 documents of Robert and Ryan Wood at the time.

April 29, 2010, Scienceblogs.com, 'Conference Organizers Should Not Live in Caves', comment section, where Jack Sarfatti posts under his own name: "My main interest was Valentini's idea of signal nonlocality, which in Valentini's words, could be used for "espionage" and breaking quantum cryptography security words. I am an informal "senior advisor" to Dr. Ronald Pandolfi, of the Science & Technology Directorate of the CIA and the MASINT [Measurement and Signature Intelligence] program. Indeed, I was Pandolfi's guest at a JASON [Group] meeting at General Atomics in June 2008 in La Jolla. Therefore, for Towler to tell the Times Higher Education Supplement that I thought Towler was in the pay of the CIA was blatantly false and I had previously admonished Towler not to spread that false story to the press."

In 2010 invited to the 100 Year Starship study, organized by DARPA and NASA's Ames Research Center.