Edited sentence: , working with NASA on the first airborne laser radar (LIDAR) systems to protect aircraft from wind-shear and air turbulence.===Targ's website.If it were true, why did the CIA support the SRI program for 23 years, at a million dollars per year.It has nothing to do with ESP.Later he was at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.Targ had a distinguished twenty-five year career in lasers and laser communications, where he published more than a hundred scientific papers.Targ retired from Lockheed as a senior research scientist in 1997.[Please don't keep erasing this life-time of published research.]  In the late 1950s Targ worked at TRG Inc.with Gordon Gould on the earliest development of the laser.{CIA director Robert Gates made this false statement on the Night-line TV program in 1995