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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D, C, 20505
1 May
1984
Comments
on Recent CENTER LANE Experience
1.
CIA's
relationship with
the US Army activities covered
under
the designator
of CENTER LANE
has
been that
of
a customer.
We have
no Agency people
or
funds assigned
to
or otherwise
designated
in support
of those
activities.
We
do have contact
for
the purpose
of querying and tasking
the Project's
capabili-
ties when we believe we have
an appropriate matter
to
investigate.
2.
Appropriate "targets"
for
us might
include such
as
locating individuals
or describing mysterious
facilities
in
foreign countries.
Our aim
in consulting Subject Projects would
be
to obtain
leads
to develop
access with more conventional
sources.
Staff advisers
inform me
that
during such tasks
for
us,
CENTER LANE
sources have
often "made
contact"
far beyond what
might
be expected by probabilities
and coincidence.
Significant
problems
of course
remain.
To
use
analogy,
they are best
de-
scribed
as
a
less
than hoped
for
signal- to-noise
ratio
and
a
less
than photographic resolution,
as well
as
some
outright misses.
Nevertheless,
the
attitude
of Project personnel
has
always been
professional,
helpful,
and receptive
to
our
concerns.
I
am
confident
that
they have
a good grip
on where
they are
in
the
state
of their
art
as
an applied technology.
3.
We would
like
to
continue
to
call upon CENTER LANE,
especially
in
those
special
instances
where,
for
the moment,
we
have
no
other recourse
and still
feel
a need
to
act.
With shared
practical
experiences,
it
seems
likely
that CENTER LANE
can build
further capabilities
as
a collector,
and we
can sharpen our
ability
to use
this product
in
the
analytical process.
SGI
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Deptfty Director
for Operations
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Comments
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this product
in
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SGI
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Deputy Director
for Operations
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