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MEORANDUM FOR: Chairman. Behavioral Parel

SUBIECT: Guidarce for Further Panel Action

1. The jCommittec reviewed your report at its last meeting and requests that you provide a final report to the Committee Chairman by 20 Octcber.

2. In your next report the Committcewould like you to omphasize the content and adequacy of the curront Agency program and the additional work that shor ld be dore to suppolt Agency interests in this area. We would like you to give spccial attention to defining areas in which you believe new initiatives should be made. Please ccfine thesc proposals in detail. giving estimated costs for FY 73 and FY 74. In esscnce, we would like to use your nest roport as a basis to recommend to the Ythe specific new programs (i.e.. programs not currently included in Agency program plans) thai could and should be undertaken in thc last half of Fy 73 and those that should be plannedTor FY 71.

3. The Committe would also like to have a discussion by the Panel of the relationship of the in-house work done in hc 'Office to the modeling work done in in land tothe land to the 7 resparch program. Finally, the Committec notes that in a reprt cone last spring by the previous Dehavioral Panel. a copy of which is attached for your infcrwation. thc Panel idontified as a problem area the lack of an Agoncy-wide mochanism for testing. adapting and training operational porsonnel in the techniques and data that resuli iron the research studies. We would like you to treat this pro!lom in rour report also.

4. Plcase fecl free to call on me if you have questions or need assistance.

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RESCH AND DIVEIOPMENT PROGR. IN TEE AREA OF BEHAVTORAL ACTIVITIES

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1. "Behavioral Activities" is a loosc term gencrally concorncd with the moasuement,assessment, prediction, influonce and control of human behavior. In the broadest el c, just about cvery clcment of the Agency is concerned j. it, assessing and predicting the behavior of persons, and to inis cnd conducts some kind of data collcction, analysis, and tosting often referred to as "rosearch." This paper covcrs, however, only the formally programmed rescarch activities of

Specifically not covered are the rescarch äivi…; ofthe 1

{In tcrmsof dollars and mampower, the research of Ifar excceds that of the other components. with a staff of only five professionals, initiates and monitors nearly all of the contracted"external"research. Behavioral Activitics research of lis largely conducted "in-house", by a staff of three profcssionals and seven technicians.The

in-house activity involves the equivalcnt of l professionals. We believe that most of the resoarch of thc components not represented in this report is conducted "in-house", supplemented in some instances by cleared consultants.

2. lidentifies Behavioral Activities research under four project areas:Performánce Measuronnt, Assessment and Selcction, Hluman Factors, and Matcrial: Analysis. hiile the Tinitiated and monitored researoh a iniended to henefit.the Agoncy as a whole, and consccuonily is frequently not in response to specific requiromon:s fror operating components, much of the research in thc Porformance Measurement arca is directed to the

Vrogran and the

Jerogram. The Assessment andSelectienresearch is "cnerally oricnted to the work of the

The greater part of lucan Tactors rescarchis intended tobenefitMatcrialsAnilysis, a drug watch progvam conducted in coordination with..is not treated in this paper.

3. Iprojects in-hoase consurie the full time cftorts of 4 prolcssionals and 7 techaicians plu: the part-time input of many,opcrational per: ois. Pollar cost in salaries, equipment, and overhcad is diltirult to separate fron the operationat badgets of these co.ponents, but. roughly approximates! Abouithe

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7. Analog Polygraph Data Analysis - Pattern aualysis approach to the Polygraphinterrogntion process

s. Polygiaph/Final Report - Drawing together all polygraph rosoarch since 1964

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Analytical Methods for 1. lanlling Socio-Political Data

2. Extra Sensory Perception - Keeping tab of state of the ari

3.1 Exploratory research in conditioning mechanisms

Conversation Analysis-1. Esplora lory resoarch on hassesspotential nent measure

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