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27 September
1995
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Executive Director
VIA:
Deputy Director
for Science and Technology
FROM
:
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Director of Research and Development
SUBJECT:
Star Gate
- Final Response
to CDA
.
In January the Executive Director asked ORD to
respond to a Congressionally Directed Action
(CDA)
relating
to transfer of the Star Gate Program from DIA to CIA.
Shortly thereafter,
the Executive Director approved ORD's
recommended plan to satisfy the CDA.
The plan had three
parts
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'•ORB—wouAd \fbrm a blue-ribbon panel
to conduct
a
twenty-year technical
review,
it would immediately declassify
past CIA sponsorship and further review other program
material
for declassification,
and at
the completion of
the
panel review
•Q-PPr-rTml-d develop a comprehensive management
strategy for the program,
including addressing whether
or not
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this program made sense
for CIA.
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management strategy
is now complete
(attachment
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reports
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SAC and SSCI, Committee
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the management strategy for
Star Gate was deferred until September
30.
This date was
selected in order
to allow CIA to complete
the requested
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SUBJECT:
Star Gate Program
- Proposed Management Strategy
technical review with an external blue ribbon panel
commissioned by the American Institutes
for Research
(AIR)
.
It was agreed by interested staff members and CIA that CIA's
final proposed management strategy would be based closely on
AIR's
review.
That review
is now complete and attached to
the proposed management strategy.
In addition,
it was
proposed during
a third meeting with a SAC Committee staff
that
the NIO
for S&T should conduct an assessment
of Russian
parapsychology with the assistance of DIA Star Gate program
personnel
in parallel with the technical review.
In
fact,
that foreign assessment
is complete and
is also
-a ri part
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the proposed management strategy.
.
The key recommendations
of
the management strategy
are as
follows:
• Terminate remote viewing operations within the
intelligence community.
The American Institutes
of Research,
after
interviewing multiple current users
of remote viewing
aaAf
concluded that
"...
the information provided by
remote viewing is vague and ambiguous ,
making it
difficult if not impossible for the technique
to yield
information of sufficient quality and accuracy for
actionable intelligence
.
•
Terminate research and development relating to remote
viewing within the intelligence community.
The American Institutes
for Research,
after
performing a technical analysis on CIA and DIA sponsored
research spanning over twenty years,
concluded that
"...it remains unclear whether
the existence of a
paranormal phenomenon,
remote viewing,
has been
demonstrated.
The laboratory studies do not provide
evidence regarding
the sources or origins of the
phenomenon.
.
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•
Perform a comprehensive declassification review of all
DOD and CIA program files to prepare them for official
transfer to the National Archives.
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SUBJECT:
Star Gate Program
- Proposed Management Strategy
It was stated in the CDA that
" The Committee also
believes
that
the
time has come for a re-evaluation of
the classification of the existence of this effort as
well as
the results
that have been obtained over
time.
In addition,
it was directed that
"The DCI's
declassification committee should review the history and
nature of this program
to determine what parts of it may
be declassified and be converted into an open world
activity.
• Apply nnCa^dl^^ona^. resources to the assessment of
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foreign developments in parapsychology.
After overseeing the recent assessment of Russian
progxams,
The CIA Directorate of Intelligence
in
coo'rS'ina t-ion with the NIC states
that
"Among the areas
of science and sociological change we are monitoring,
we
view developments
in parapsychology as
a relatively low
threat
to
the United States and,
consequently,
as
a low
priority among all
the
threats we are trying
to monitor
and assess." In addition,
the DI stated that
"In none of
this Russian research do we sge^credible evidence of
developments
that could significantly add
to
the
threat
that Russia currently poses ItopNjational fiecurity . "
4.
These key recommendations are based closely on the
AIR review,
the DI
' s comments after reviewing the NIO's
^ foreign assessment,
and the CDA itself.
They frave been
coordinated with the NIO/S&T,
with the
DDll
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We propose
that
these recommendations,
which
comprise
the essence of CIA's proposed Star Gate management
strategy be forwarded at this
time. to appropriate members
of
Congress
in satisfaction of the CDA.
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