Approved For Release 2003/09/09': ClA-RIDP96-00787R000700110006-9 DD/S&T 3697-73 gifted subjects, with emphasis on those characteristics of most importance to intelligence matters such as resolution, information transfer rate and accuracy; (b) Correlation of physiological responses to reliability and accuracy of paranormal perception; (c) Enhancement of those abilities which seem to be most useful to the intelligence community; and (d) Exploration of new avenues of researcn discovered during the course of the program. 5. The proposed project is well suited to a joint effort by the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Technical Service. The proposed investigation is a tightly directed advanced research project. It involves the exploration of demonstrated phenomena to determine the significance and limitations of remote perception abilities of "gifted" individuals for intelligence collections. Necessarily a parallel effort elucidating the fundamental nature of the paranormal perception phenomena is proposed. This fundamental information is reauired in order to develop an orderly comprehensive program which would lead to the basic understand- ing essential for the full exploitation of the phenomena for intelligence activities. It is expected that the combination of attitudes and experi- ences represented by OTS and ORD will produce timely relevant results and insure an objective assessment of the significance of those results. 6. . The recommended project should be completed by Stanford Research Institute. SRI has produced some of the most significant investigations in paranormal phenomena. This has occurred because of the philosophies and abilities of the principal investigators.’ These investigators have established competence in the physical sciences and in paranormal phenomena research. They have been responsive to past OTS directives and are willing to investigate intelligence related applications. SRI has given these investigators the institutional integrity and facilities necessary to achieve creditable research in both the public and a more restrictive private domain. 7.. Although the controversy associated with paranormal research may create some unique security problems, they are not insurmountable. These problems include embarrassment of being involved in an assumed fraud; the potential adverse propaganda associated with the use of psychic mind altering or control techniques, and the fact that some subjects may be of questionable stability. These potential problems can be controlled Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110006-9
SG1I SGi1I Approved For Release 2003/09/0$%, Cia;RDP96-00787R0007001 10006-9 DD/S&T 3697-73 because of the motivation and integrity of the principal investigators. Both the investigators and the Institute have solid reputations and derive much of their support from government projects. Involvement with fraudulent experiments, publication of poor experimentation and open association with CIA would be deleterious to the careers of the investigators and the credibility of the Institute. For this effort, we recommend a SECRET level contract but remain flexible to other security arrangements which could be implemented as deemed necessary. arl £. Ducket Deputy Directo for Science and Technology APPROVED: WE. Colby Date , Director Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110006-9