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Leonard (Lyn) Buchanan is the Executive Director of Problems>
Solutions>Innovations
(P>S>I) which started as a small data analysis company
in the Washington, D.C. area in 1992, after Lyn’s retirement
from the military.
In late 1995, when the US government declassified their Remote
Viewing project, information became public about Lyn’s prior
involvement with that project as one of the unit’s Remote
Viewers, Database Manager, Property Book Officer and as the
unit’s Trainer. Public demands for training and applications
became great, and P>S>I moved into the remote viewing
field full time, bringing with it Lyn's extensive databasing
capabilities. At the present time, P>S>I possesses the
most complete body of data on the applications of remote viewing
in real-world applications.
The U.S. government used a specialized form of remote viewing
known as Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). Lyn’s involvement
with CRV came about by a long, strange, and circuitous series
of events, some parts of which are still classified. Lyn was
brought into the unit in 1984 and remained there on special
assignment for the rest of his military career.
As a young man, Lyn had been a military computer expert for the
Nike Ajax/Nike Hercules guided missile systems. He had a 12-year
break in service, during which he gained a BA in Psychology,
a BA in Linguistics, and an MA in Linguistic Psychology. He
then taught foreign languages in East Texas. Re-entering the
service in 1974, he became a military linguist, specializing
in German, Russian, and Spanish.
After re-entering the military, he was stationed in Japan for four
years, where he also gained a proficiency in Japanese and
Mongolian, becoming the only Mongolian linguist in all branches
of the US military. After his assignment to Japan, he returned
to the Defense Language Institute for another year to attend
their higher-level Russian course and became one of only 12
Russian Scientific Research Linguists in the US Army. He was
then assigned to a 4 year stint at the US Intelligence Field
Station in Augsburg, Germany, a station which deals with mostly
tactical traffic and very little scientific research traffic.
But his skills and experience with computers proved to be
very rare, right at a time when the military was just getting
itself computerized. Here, he was also utilized as a systems
designer and programmer for the many and varied US- and
foreign-manufactured mainframe and mini-computers which were
used at the Field Station.
Lyn has been plagued throughout his life with "psychokenetic"
events. One fateful day in Augsburg, such an event, parts
of which are still classified, happened and brought about
official recognition and record of his "ability". Shortly
thereafter, the commander of the U.S. Intelligence and Security
Command decided, because of these abilities, to transfer him
to the special "psychic spying" unit at Ft. Meade, Maryland,
where he planned to have Lyn affect and/or destroy enemy computer
systems. This plan was aborted for funding reasons, and Lyn
became one of the unit’s Controlled Remote Viewers instead.
After retirement from the U.S. Army in 1992, he settled down with
his wife and youngest son in Mechanicsville, Maryland. He
began working for a "beltway bandit" (a term used for computer
consultant companies which surround the Washington D.C. beltway,
and make their fortunes working mainly governmental contracts.)
At the same time, he began building his own company,
Problems>Solutions>Innovations (P>S>I). P>S>I
was originally a data analysis company only.
During these years, he continued training people within the intelligence
community, who were privy to the existence of CRV and to the
fact that he had been the unit’s trainer. In December 1995,
however, the CIA effectively declassified the government’s
connection to and use of CRV, and the existence of the military
unit. The public became aware of CRV, and P>S>I quickly
took on the role of training CRV to the public, keeping research
data on the trained "CRVers", and developing new, civilian
applications for the technology.
Lyn has a personal drive to take this technology completely out
of the "spooky" realm and find the scientific and technological
causes behind it. To this end, he maintains a strict database
on all operations in order to conduct as much research as
possible.
Adding his computer skills to the CRV process, Lyn has developed
techniques for enhancing the results of organized CRV efforts.
He has developed computerized analysis techniques for identifying,
categorizing and predicting viewer error rates. He has developed
and maintains a database which tracks a trained viewer's individual
strengths and weaknesses. He has also designed and written
computer programs for the specific areas of CRV training,
to aid and guide the student’s progress.
In addition to providing standard computer systems-oriented data
analysis and programming services, he also provides remote
viewing services and training to both individuals and organizations,
and also performs a free public service to police and other
public-funded investigative organizations and agencies.
This work was originally done under a program called The Assigned
Witness Program. The name for the program came about by chance
one day when Lyn was working with an investigator. He asked
the investigator what information was needed most. The investigator
replied, "Well, what we really need is a witness." "No problem,"
Lyn replied, "we can assign one. For the first time, the investigator
realized the scope of this new tool, and asked, "Do you mean
that you can assign someone to actually witness something
that has already happened?" Lyn replied, "That’s what we do."
Like so many of the other remote viewers of the military unit,
Lyn is also into art. To see some examples of his art work,
click
here.