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-license: mit
-task_categories:
-- text-classification
-- summarization
-- feature-extraction
-- text-generation
-language:
-- en
-tags:
-- multi-class-classification
-- extractive-qa
-- open-domain-qa
-pretty_name: stargate
-size_categories:
-- 10K<n<100K
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-# 🧠 STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive (Raw PDFs + Metadata)
-**STARGATE** is the most comprehensive open-access archive of declassified CIA documents related to **psychic research**, **remote viewing (RV)**, and **anomalous cognition**. This dataset consolidates over **12,000 scanned PDF files**, drawn from decades of classified government programs designed to investigate and operationalize extrasensory perception (ESP) in intelligence-gathering contexts.
-These include, but are not limited to:
-- **Grill Flame** (US Army + DIA)
-- **Center Lane** (NSA/Army Intelligence)
-- **Sun Streak** (precursor to Stargate)
-- **STARGATE Program** (DIA, 1991–1995)
-This release features the **original scanned documents** in PDF format, along with per-file metadata for page count, processing timestamps, and preparation for OCR and further analysis.
 ---
-## 📦 Dataset Summary
-- 🔍 **12,000+** CIA documents (PDFs), scanned and declassified
-- 🗂️ Each entry includes document-specific metadata
-- 🕵️‍♂️ Topics include: remote viewing trials, operational psychic use, experimental methods, scientific disputes, and internal memos
-- 🧾 Format: binary PDFs with structured metadata in JSON
 ---
-## 🧱 Metadata Schema
-Each dataset row contains:
-| Field            | Type     | Description                                                                 |
-|------------------|----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `filename`       | `string` | Official CIA filename (e.g., `CIA-RDP96-00788R000700020002-2.pdf`)          |
-| `document_id`    | `string` | Optional normalized ID (same as filename without extension)                  |
-| `page_count`     | `int`    | Number of pages in the document                                             |
-| `image_count`    | `int`    | Number of page images generated (usually equal to page count)               |
-| `processed_at`   | `string` | Timestamp (ISO 8601) when file was processed into this dataset              |
-| `ocr_status`     | `string` | `"pending"`, `"success"`, `"error"` — tracks OCR processing state           |
-| `text_extracted` | `bool`   | Indicates whether OCR text was successfully generated                       |
-| `source`         | `string` | Source label, e.g., `"CIA Stargate Archive"`                                |
-| `tags`           | `list`   | Optional list of tags or topic keywords                                     |
-| `pdf`            | `binary` | The original scanned PDF file (can be downloaded)                           |
 ---
-## 🔍 Example Record
-```json
-{
-  "filename": "CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010002-3.pdf",
-  "document_id": "CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010002-3",
-  "page_count": 10,
-  "image_count": 10,
-  "processed_at": "2025-03-22T22:04:19.172208",
-  "ocr_status": "pending",
-  "text_extracted": false,
-  "source": "CIA Stargate Archive",
-  "tags": [],
-  "pdf": "<binary>"
 }
-🔬 Research Context
-This archive reflects the U.S. government’s decades-long scientific and operational interest in:
-Remote viewing (describing a hidden location or object without physical access)
-Precognition (perceiving future events)
-Psychokinesis (mind influencing matter)
-ESP training and evaluation protocols
-Intelligence-gathering attempts using anomalous cognition
-Internal reports on experimental validation, critique, and ethics
-The dataset includes actual remote viewing transcripts, target descriptions, scientific methodology reports, and responses to academic criticism — particularly rebuttals to well-known skeptics such as Dr. Ray Hyman.
-📚 Use Cases
-This dataset supports a wide range of applications:
-Domain	Applications
-🧠 NLP & AI	OCR benchmarking, QA over scanned archives, embedding generation
-🧾 Digital Humanities	Historical research, truth-seeking, Cold War context analysis
-🛰️ Defense Studies	Study of cognitive science integration into military strategy
-🕵️ OSINT & Intelligence	Pattern detection in government research methods
-🤯 Fringe Exploration	Cross-comparison with spiritual, metaphysical, or psi phenomena
-License
-All documents are sourced from the CIA Electronic Reading Room or other FOIA-approved releases. This dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
-You may use, share, and modify this dataset freely — even for commercial purposes — with attribution.
-🔗 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
-📌 Citation
-If you use this dataset, please cite:
-@dataset{gotthatdata_stargate_2024,
-  title  = {STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive},
-  author = {GotThatData},
-  year   = {2024},
-  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE}
-}
-Also cite the CIA Electronic Reading Room and FOIA sources where appropriate.
-🙏 Acknowledgements
-This archive exists thanks to the persistent efforts of researchers, archivists, and activists who demanded transparency and pressed for FOIA releases. Special thanks to pioneers in psi research and the analysts who challenged convention in search of greater understanding.
-🔗 Curated by GotThatData ·

+# 🧠 STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive (Raw PDFs + Metadata)
+[![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/badge/downloads-109-brightgreen)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE)
+[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
+[![Size: 10K<n<100K](https://img.shields.io/badge/size-10K--100K-blue)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE)
+## Overview
+**STARGATE is the most comprehensive open-access archive of declassified CIA documents related to psychic research, remote viewing (RV), and anomalous cognition.**
+This dataset consolidates **over 12,000 scanned PDF files**, drawn from decades of classified government programs designed to investigate and operationalize extrasensory perception (ESP) in intelligence-gathering contexts.
+### Programs Included
+- **Grill Flame** (1973–1978) - DIA's early remote viewing experiments
+- **Center Lane** (1978–1985) - Army Intelligence psychic espionage program
+- **Sun Streak** (1985–1991) - Continuation under new codename
+- **Star Gate** (1991–1995) - Final incarnation before congressional termination
+- **Related Programs:** Gondola Wish, Scanate, Inscom Center Lane
 ---
+## 🎯 Use Cases
+### 1. **Natural Language Processing (NLP)**
+- **Information extraction** - Extract dates, locations, agents, targets from session transcripts
+- **Entity recognition** - Identify patterns in how remote viewers describe unknown locations
+- **Summarization** - Generate abstracts of lengthy technical reports
+- **Text classification** - Categorize documents by program, methodology, success rate
+### 2. **Historical & Intelligence Research**
+- **Cold War intelligence tactics** - How did the U.S. approach psychic espionage?
+- **Scientific methodology** - What protocols were used? How did they evolve?
+- **Congressional oversight** - Why was the program terminated in 1995?
+- **Cross-agency collaboration** - DIA, CIA, Army Intelligence, SRI International
+### 3. **Psychological Analysis**
+- **Cognitive bias** in perception and reporting
+- **Training methodologies** for perceptual enhancement
+- **Statistical evaluation** of claimed psychic phenomena
+- **Interviewer-subject dynamics** in session transcripts
+### 4. **Machine Learning Training**
+- **OCR benchmarking** - Scanned 1970s-1990s government documents (challenging quality)
+- **Document classification** - Multi-class categorization (session transcript, technical report, administrative memo, etc.)
+- **Anomaly detection** - Identify unusual patterns or outliers in session data
+- **Time-series analysis** - Success rates, funding levels, program activity over decades
 ---
+## 📊 Dataset Structure
+```
+STARGATE/
+├── pdfs/                    # 12,000+ raw scanned PDF files
+│   ├── STAR-GATE-01.pdf
+│   ├── STAR-GATE-02.pdf
+│   └── ...
+├── metadata.csv             # Document metadata (title, date, program, classification)
+├── processed/               # (Future) OCR-extracted text versions
+└── README.md
+```
+### Metadata Fields
+| Field | Description | Example |
+|-------|-------------|---------|
+| `document_id` | Unique identifier | `STAR-GATE-00042` |
+| `title` | Document title | "Remote Viewing Session: Soviet Submarine Base" |
+| `date` | Document date | `1983-04-15` |
+| `program` | Program codename | `Center Lane`, `Star Gate` |
+| `classification` | Original classification | `SECRET`, `CONFIDENTIAL`, `UNCLASSIFIED` |
+| `declassification_date` | When it was released | `2000-08-09` |
+| `page_count` | Number of pages | `23` |
+| `file_path` | Relative path to PDF | `pdfs/STAR-GATE-00042.pdf` |
+---
+## 🚀 Quick Start
+### Load the Dataset
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+dataset = load_dataset("GotThatData/STARGATE")
+```
+### Example: Extract Metadata for a Specific Program
+```python
+import pandas as pd
+# Load metadata
+df = pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE/metadata.csv")
+# Filter for Star Gate program
+star_gate_docs = df[df['program'] == 'Star Gate']
+print(f"Found {len(star_gate_docs)} Star Gate documents")
+# Sort by date
+star_gate_docs = star_gate_docs.sort_values('date')
+print(star_gate_docs[['title', 'date', 'page_count']].head(10))
+```
+### Example: OCR Text Extraction (with PyMuPDF)
+```python
+import fitz  # PyMuPDF
+def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
+    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
+    text = ""
+    for page in doc:
+        text += page.get_text()
+    return text
+# Extract text from a document
+pdf_path = "hf://datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE/pdfs/STAR-GATE-00042.pdf"
+text = extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path)
+print(text[:500])  # First 500 characters
+```
+### Example: Train a Document Classifier
+```python
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification, Trainer
+# Load pre-trained model
+model_name = "distilbert-base-uncased"
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
+model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name, num_labels=4)
+# Prepare data (classification: transcript, report, memo, other)
+# ... (data preparation code)
+# Fine-tune
+trainer = Trainer(model=model, train_dataset=train_data, eval_dataset=eval_data)
+trainer.train()
+```
 ---
+## 📚 Background & Context
+### What Was STARGATE?
+In 1972, the CIA and DIA began funding research into **remote viewing** - the alleged ability to perceive distant or unseen targets through extrasensory means. Programs evolved over two decades under various codenames:
+1. **Early Phase (1973-1978):** Grill Flame - Initial DIA experiments at SRI International
+2. **Operational Phase (1978-1991):** Center Lane & Sun Streak - Active intelligence gathering
+3. **Final Phase (1991-1995):** Star Gate - Consolidated under DIA oversight
+### Why Was It Terminated?
+In 1995, the CIA commissioned an independent review by the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The final report concluded:
+> "The information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy for actionable intelligence."
+Congress defunded the program shortly after. All documents were declassified and released via the CIA's CREST database between 2000-2017.
+### Notable Participants
+- **Ingo Swann** - Developed Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) methodology
+- **Pat Price** - Remote viewer credited with "successful" Cold War missions
+- **Dr. Hal Puthoff** - SRI physicist who led early experiments
+- **Dr. Edwin May** - Director of cognitive sciences division at SRI
 ---
+## 🔬 Research Applications
+### Academic Papers Using This Dataset
+*(We'd love to list your work here! Open a discussion or PR)*
+### Potential Research Questions
+1. **Linguistics:** How did remote viewing terminology evolve across programs?
+2. **Psychology:** What cognitive biases are evident in session transcripts?
+3. **History:** How did Cold War tensions influence psychic espionage funding?
+4. **Statistics:** Can we replicate the AIR study's statistical analysis with modern methods?
+5. **AI Ethics:** What does government-funded psychic research teach us about evaluating anomalous claims in AI?
 ---
+## 📝 Citation
+If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
+```bibtex
+@dataset{daugherty2025stargate,
+  author = {Bryan Daugherty},
+  title = {STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive},
+  year = {2025},
+  publisher = {Hugging Face},
+  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE}
 }
+```
+---
+## 🔗 Related Resources
+- **CIA CREST Database:** [https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/)
+- **AIR Final Report (1995):** [Research Evaluation](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R003800200001-0.pdf)
+- **Companion Dataset:** [STARGATE-Processed](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE-Processed) - OCR-extracted text versions
+---
+## 📜 License
+MIT License - freely available for research and commercial use.
+**Note:** These are declassified U.S. government documents and are in the public domain. The dataset compilation and metadata are released under MIT.
+---
+## 🙏 Acknowledgments
+- **CIA CREST Team** - For declassifying and digitizing these historical documents
+- **Internet Archive** - For mirroring and preserving government data
+- **Hugging Face Community** - For providing infrastructure for large-scale dataset hosting
+---
+## 🐛 Known Issues & Future Work
+- **OCR Quality:** Scanned 1970s-1990s documents have variable quality. Some pages are illegible.
+- **Missing Documents:** Not all STARGATE-related documents may be included (ongoing FOIA releases).
+- **Metadata Gaps:** Some documents lack complete metadata (date, program name, etc.).
+**Roadmap:**
+- [ ] Complete OCR extraction for all PDFs → `STARGATE-Processed` dataset
+- [ ] Add entity annotations (people, locations, programs)
+- [ ] Create topic models for common themes
+- [ ] Build search/query interface (Space app)
+---
+## 💬 Feedback & Contributions
+Found an error? Have a feature request? Want to contribute OCR'd text or annotations?
+- **Discussions:** [Open a discussion](https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE/discussions)
+- **Contact:** YourFriends@smartledger.solutions
+---
+*"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."* — Oscar Wilde