The US Army's interest in psychoenergetics goes back to 1972, when the Surgeon General through the Medical Intelligence Information Agency (MIIA), together with DIA, published studies of Soviet Block work. In 1976, the Missile Intelligence Agency (MIA) informally expressed interest in US replication of claimed Soviet experiments in psychokinesis. SRI developed a small program for them and in August 1977, MIA awarded SRI an $80K one-year R&D contract. During the same time, another DARCOM Agency, the Army Material Systems Analysis Agency was involved in the investigation of Remote Viewing concepts with SRI. These efforts continued through FY 1980. In March 1980, William J. Perry, then Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, ordered curtailment of all P6 monies supporting the program, but posed no objection to continuance of non-R&D intelligence applications efforts. This action eventually caused DARCOM to cease all activity.