Russell Targ is a physicist and author and a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) investigation of psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. He is author or co-author of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities including his current book The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities. His upcoming film, Third Eye Spies, is the true story of his cold war psychic spies and his fight to bring this information public.