as a result of his reputation, association with sri and friendships with harold e. puthoff and central intelligence agency analyst kit green (who obtained a temporary security clearance for him in 1974), vallée was intermittently consulted on classified remote viewing research (including the stargate project) throughout the 1970s and 1980s. during the early sri experiments (led by puthoff and russell targ with green as cia liaison), he became acquainted with uri geller, edgar mitchell, charles musès, andrija puharich, jack sarfatti, arthur m. young, edwin c. may, pat price and ingo swann. in 1973, doubleday editor bill whitehead introduced vallée to ira einhorn, a close confederate of puharich; their association would span vallée's business and paranormal networks until einhorn was charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1979.