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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Human Resources Committee
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
HRC-R&D-M-012
23 September 1976
Minutes of the Twelfth Meeting,
20 September 1976
Members
or Representatives Present
Chai rman
CIA
DIA
NSA
Army
Air Force
FBI
-Mr.
George A.
Sumner
-
Mr.
Jean
R.
Henson
Others Present
CIA/OTS
CIA/OTS
CIA/OTS
Army
Air Force
HRD/HRC
-
Mr.
Joe Vladich
-
Mr.
L.
J.
Stracqualursi
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Mr.
John
G.
Kormann
1.
The Chairman opened the twelfth meeting announcing that
priorities
had necessitated
a change
in
the agenda and that the first
item would
be
a discussion of
a CIA R&D program followed
by
a review of
the draft National
Human Resource
Plan
(NHRP)
and
an
R&D
^
u^™ttee
briefing
that is
scheduled for presentation
to the
,CF *
Inte11
Council
on
13 October 1976.
The other listed agenda
items would then
be
addressed
in
a subsequent meeting.
The minutes of the tenth
and eleventh
meetings were approved.
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CIA was attempting
to determine whether any aspect of this esoteric
discipline had an application
in
the
in telligence field.
He pomted oot
that these CIA efforts were embodied
by/
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\ 0f DDS&T/OTS whom he tnen introduced^
I began the briefing with
a ten-minute videotape display of a TV
news
item presented
on NBC approximately
two weeks ago.
The news
'item
outlined research on remote viewing conducted by
H.
E.lPuthoff and
R. Targ
of the Electronics
and B1oengineenngt Labora|mx^lJllf Stanford
detail
institute
in California.
After the showing ,
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the results of six sets of experiments
conducted
by these ^searchers
an
oassed out several
sets of the
research material.
One of the items was
an article published
in the IEEE Spectrum that evoked
a flurry of letters
to
the editor and rebuttals
by the authors.
The upshot of the exchange
was
that two scientists working with the same data can come to diametri
cally opposite conclusions.
Next
a review was made of CIA parapsychology/paranormal
research' that began
in
1972.
The program was divided basically into
two
parts:
basic research and applied
research.
The CIA was
P r™a™W
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ested
in
the applied aspects of such experimentation
and
in this
regard
nhtainpd
limited clearance
for one such subject or sensitive.
Both
TOinea
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l described the experimentation conducted
with
the subiect.
Insights
sought from the subject was
related
to the
intelligence activity known to an extremely restricted circle of persons.
The results of the experimentation were promising and attested to by an
analvst as
being helpful.
Although unable
to ascertain
the cause of the
phenomena that produced seemingly positive results,
the feeling was
sub-
stantiated that '^enough empirical
evidence existed
to warrant further
research
in this
area*
,
concluded the briefing noting that research had
also revealed that persons possessing paranormal
abilities
are general
y
bright and good analysts;
however, although adept
in describing what they
saw,
they could
not interpret
in most instances what they had
seen.
5.
Time constraints
did not permit discussion of other items.
The Chairman indicated
it might be necessary
to call
a special
meeting
to discuss
the NHRP and the Intelligence R&D briefing.
The next regular
meeting will
be held at 1330
hours,
Friday,
the eighth of October,
at
CIA Headquarters
in room 6E0708.
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