1972
Program
Early U.S. government research begins
CIA, SRI researchers · laboratory and exploratory protocols
Source cue: CIA historical account
Signature resource · MVP-1
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1977
Program
Research responsibility moves to DIA
CIA, DIA · program transition
Source cue: CIA historical account1985
Document
A released training session records tasking, notes and feedback
viewer LB, interviewer FA · CRV record
Source cue: CIA FOIA record1988
Publication
National Research Council publishes Enhancing Human Performance
NRC committee · consensus review
Source cue: National Academies1995
Evaluation
An independent evaluation is commissioned
AIR review team · program assessment
Source cue: CIA historical account1995
Program
The program is judged unreliable for intelligence use
CIA, DIA records · operational assessment
Source cue: CIA historical account1998
Community
Ten Thousand Roads becomes a public community resource
Palyne Gaenir and TKR contributors · web archive and forum
Source cue: community history2006
Community
The historic forum is documented as an active Perl-based board
TKR community · forum archive
Source cue: contemporary web record2011
Research
A university-linked remote-viewing publication enters the record
Caroline Watt, Richard Wiseman · mass participation study
Source cue: University of Edinburgh recordThe dates are anchors, not verdicts. A timeline can show when a document, program or publication existed. It cannot resolve the underlying question by chronology alone.
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