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AIR’s Judgments on
Commissioned R&D Reviews
Reviewers agree more than they disagree:
- Statistically significant results
- Vast improvement in experimental protocols
Reviewers disagree on key points:
- Establishment of paranormal causality
- Replication of “remote viewing” in other labs
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AIR’s Judgments on
Commissioned R&D Reviews
AIR independently concludes:
- the data do not establish that a paranormal
phenomenon is involved, nature of source not
identified
- the data have not been replicated independently
- the boundary constraints critical to obtaining
statistically significant experimental results are
not practical in real world of intelligence
collection
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Future Research and Development
• SAIC’s exp. results must be replicated in an
independent lab, not SAIC (RH, AIR)
• Experimental protocols must be re-judged
by independent judge (RH, JU, AIR)
• Cloak of secrecy must be removed since it
precludes objective community review (RH)
• AIR concluded future R&D should not take
place within Intelligence Community since
20 years of IC investment failed to establish
a paranormal phenomenon.
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AIR’s User Interviews
Users say remote viewers typically give
descriptions too broad and vague to be
useful as intelligence
Remote viewers provide much inaccurate,
irrelevant; information making it difficult to
interpret by analysts
Different remote viewers often inconsistent
In no case, analyzed by AIR, did the user
actually act on remote viewing information
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AIR’s Conclusions on Utility
Conditions under which remote viewing is
observed in the lab do not apply in the
operational environment
The users found some accuracy on broad
background characteristics, but not the
concrete, specific information valued by
intelligence collectors
Since remote viewing typically does not
produce actionable information, it should
not be used operationally
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Further Declassification
Congressionally Directed Action:
- The Committee believes it’s time for re-
evaluation of the classification of both the
program and its findings
- DCI should review history and nature of
program to see which parts can be declassified
Dr. Hyman’s findings:
- Secrecy has kept this program from benefiting
from the checks and balances that come from
doing research in a public forum.
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Future Foreign Assessments
• Based on recent assessment, National
Intelligence Council concludes and
Directorate of Intelligence concurs that no
immediate resources should be applied to
assessments of foreign developments in
parapsychology.
• Assessment had oversight of NIO/S&T and
OSWR
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Congressionally Directed Action
(SAC)
• DCI to conduct review of technical files
going back 20 years at CIA, DIA
• DCI to review program history and nature
to determine what can be declassified
• Director of DIA to establish cooperative
activity with Russians
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