Elizondo says Army civilian intelligence officer Eugene 'Gene' Lessman recruited him and trained him in remote viewing near Sierra Vista, Arizona, with an older training manual, as the formal program was winding down; he then took an Army civilian intelligence (MICECP) post in Panama

Record

Date

Before Elizondo's Panama posting; date uncertain

Claim or item

Elizondo says Army civilian intelligence officer Eugene 'Gene' Lessman recruited him and trained him in remote viewing near Sierra Vista, Arizona, with an older training manual, as the formal program was winding down; he then took an Army civilian intelligence (MICECP) post in Panama

Evidence category

Memoir autobiographical claim

Firsthand?

Elizondo firsthand to training; secondhand on Lessman's career

Publicly accessible?

Published book (page numbers not supplied)

Independent corroboration

Lessman service and dates, MICECP and Panama records not checked

Assessment

Unverified; does not make Elizondo an operational STAR GATE viewer

Notes

Source SRC-233; transcription 'MICACP' treated as error for Military Intelligence Civilian Excepted Career Program. Person 187. Chunk M search (2026-11-12): No file on this site (the GRILL FLAME memo, the SRI and SCANATE reports, the AIR evaluation) names Lessman, a Sierra Vista or Fort Huachuca training, or a post-1995 Pentagon session; a web search found no record of Lessman outside Imminent. Elizondo's sworn November 2024 testimony does not mention remote viewing. Flag stays.

Linked case IDs

CASE-017