1. Officer Record Brief
2. First Officer Evaluation Report (for the RV unit) - Page 1
3. First Officer Evaluation Report (for the RV unit) - Page 2
4. Second Officer Evaluation Report (for the RV unit) - Page 1
5. Second Officer Evaluation Report (for the RV unit) - Page 2
6. Legion of Merit
7. Joint Service Commendation Medal - (for the RV unit)
8. Joint Service Commendation Medal - Citation and Narrative
9. Meritorious Service Medal
10. Meritorious Service Medal - First Oak Leaf Cluster
11. Officer Evaluation Report Support Form - Page 1
12. Officer Evaluation Report Support Form - Page 2

Edward Arthur Dames joined the United States Army in 1967, enlisting as a paratrooper at the age of seventeen. After serving one year as an Airborne Infantryman, Mr. Dames transferred to the Army Security Agency, and was assigned to the Far East to support National Security Agency missions in that part of the world. In 1974, Mr. Dames returned home to attend college, quickly earning a four-year scholarship for academic excellence. After three years as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he double-majored in Bioelectronics and Chinese, Mr. Dames joined Berkeley's ROTC program, becoming a Distinguished Military Graduate, in 1978.

Newly commissioned as a second lieutenant in Military Intelligence, Mr. Dames was sent to be trained as a tactical electronic warfare officer and, for three years, was assigned to Germany to intercept and jam Soviet and Czech communications. From there he was recruited by a scientific and technical military intelligence "black unit", ultimately to direct clandestine operations against high-value foreign targets. He remained in deep cover, travelling worldwide under assumed identities.

In 1981, Mr. Dames' life changed forever. The Soviets had been secretly developing a sophisticated biological weapons program. Mr. Dames and his elite military group were tasked to identify the components of these deadly, toxic weapons. Covert operatives that he had recruited were unable to penetrate the Soviets' wall of secrecy. Out of desperation, he contemplated the use of psychics to help uncover this critical information. In reality, the U.S. Army was already considering the possibility of employing psychics for intelligence collection, but very few high- ranking officers were willing to risk their careers over the stigma associated with such a project.

Nevertheless, the U.S. Army began a funded study at the Stanford Research Institute to systematize psychic phenomena and develop a working tool by which "non-psychics" would also be able to utilize psychic functioning for the purpose of acquiring reliable and consistent information. Mr. Dames became the operations and training officer of this team, which ultimately achieved its goal by developing the technique now known as Remote Viewing.

Back in Washington D.C., in 1984, Mr. Dames and his team applied their remote viewing abilities to the toughest national intelligence problems, such as locating and tracking international terrorists and their hostages and, finally, uncovering key data surrounding the Soviet offensive biological warfare program. The results of these efforts were briefed to Congress and the U.S. President. For his work, Mr. Dames was awarded two Army Meritorious Service Medals and the Legion of Merit. Additionally, he was personally credited by the Defense Intelligence Agency with penetrating the Soviet Defense Council. In that agency's words, "a singularly profound act." Over the years, the remote viewing information that he collected continued to be secretly used by numerous government agencies, and by all branches of the military.

As a result of increasing turmoil and turnover in the ranks of top Army intelligence leadership during the late 1980's, "channelers" and psychic charlatans were recruited to co-mingle with the trained professionals in the unit. Worse yet, various politicians, desiring information about their political and personal futures, began to approach the project, turning it into a "three-ring circus." Rather than being forced to stand by and witness the disintegration of his unit's effectiveness and the loss of remote viewing technology, Major Dames retired from the U.S. Army, taking the original team's best and brightest. He and Jonina Dourif (the current president) formed the Beverly Hills based company, PSI TECH. Jonina Dourif civilianized the technology and the two created and produced the highly successful TRV^® video training tape series.