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16 July
1986
SGI
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MEMORANDUM TO
FROM
SUBJECT
Director
of Research and Development
ACS/ORD
SRI/DIA Request
for Parapsychological Data
SG1I
SGI J
Attached
is
a request
for copies
of data derived
from several
experiments sponsored by the Agency over
a decade ago with
the
alleged psychic,
Pat Price.
I have
a copy of one
of
the requested
documen ts
,
Soviet
|
has
been
After
a
a negative analysis of Pat's statements about
the URDF-3
Las Alamos,
1976).
The other
requested data
destroyed or has
rec eeded
into the mists of OTS archives.
I
suggest we respond by
brief discussion with
providing SRI-International
wfEET
other data has been destroyed
your consideration)
.
or
review and note
archived.
Attached draft
the
for
SGI
I
SGI
I
Background
Approximately
a month ago,
I
1(DIA)
called
to request
a
meeting about an
"Old Contract'
1-
:
Knowing Jim's
involvement with
GRILLFLAME,
DiA's unclassified designator
for parapsychological
research,
I knew generally what he wanted
to discuss.
We arranged
for
a meeting which occurred
on
12 June
in my office.
The meeting
included Ms. Beverly Humphey,
SRI
- International's principle
investigator
on
the DIA funded parapsychology research project.
The main objective of
the meeting was
to
inform me
they have not
made significant progress
in understanding
"remote viewing"
and
therefore,
wanted
to review
the best subject from past experiments,
Pat price.
Since Pat died
in
1977,
and
I had personally worked
with him,
they wanted
to debrief me on my recollections of him and
his procedures
as well
as locate primary data records
on orginal
analysis which they could review and re-analyze.
I discussed my personal recollections of various personal
methods and
idiosyncrasies of Pat's and noted
I
no longer
had access
to most
of
the primary data
(transcripts,
drawings,
and audio
tapes)
from Pat
Price.
I
further
suggested,
that
if
they sent
a request
for
the data,
I would route
it
to
the appropriate part
of
the CIA.
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SUBJECT:
SRI/DIA Request
for Parapsychological Data
SGI
I
After
receiving
the attached
letter,
I
called
I
to
explain
the situation and get his guidance.
| said he was
indifferent
to
the DIA research and would like
to avoid
the effort
of
searching
for
the old data
files,
which may or may not exist.
I
told
|
|l would request your
approval
to send
the single document
which
I had and we would not bother him further with
the matter
SGI
I
SGI
I
SGI
I
Attachment:
as stated
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SG1J CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00787R00020002004174 7) BPRS ay i fr fy ri¥ BRN yay Tir 18 July 1986 SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Dear Ms. Humphrey anf I am pleased the information provided to you during your recent visit proved to be useful. With regard to your request for information about our past experiments, we are interested in maintaining awareness of progress in your research investigations and are happy to share our previous experiences with you. Accordingly, I am enclosing a copy of one requested report, "An Analysis of a Remote-Viewing Experiment of URDF-3 by | SG1 (Las Almos, December 5, 1975.) This largely negative analysis does, nevertheless, provide considerable background on the experimental protocol and copies on some of the primary data. The other data you requested is no longer available to me. Without consider- able effort, I cannot determine if these data were destroyed or if they reside somewhere in archives. Hence, I am declining further efforts to locate the remaining data. I hope you find the enclosed report useful. I would be happy to answer additional questions and review your program at a later date. Sincerely, ——_ —— | aes Office of Research and Development SG1I Approved For Release 2003/0910, GAgRDRP6-00787R000200020041-5
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18 July
1986
SRI
International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park,
CA 94025
SG1J
Dear Ms.
Humphrey and
I
am pleased
the
information provided
to you during your
recent
visit proved
to be useful.
With regard
to your
request
for
information about
our past experiments,
we
are
interested
in
maintaining awareness of progress
in your
research
investigations
and are happy
to share
our previous experiences with
you.
Accordingly,
I am enclosing
a copy of one reques ted report,
"An
Analysis of
a Remote-Viewing Experiment of URDF-3
by
(Las Almos,
December
5,
1975.)
This
largely negative analysis does,
nevertheless,
provide considerable background on
the experimental
protocol
and copies on some of
the primary data.
The other data you requested
is
no longer
available
to me.
Without consider-
able effort,
I cannot determine
if
these data were destroyed
or
if
they reside somewhere
in archives.
Hence,
I
am declining further
efforts
to locate
the remaining data.
I hope you find
the enclosed report useful.
I would be happy
to
answer additional questions
and review your program at
a
later
date.
Sincerely
,
mmrm
SG1I
Advanced Concepts Staff
Office of Research and
Development
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Categorization
of Results,
in Sequence
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body position
object name
color
height object
time
objects absence
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A suggested analysis procedure
is the following:
If possible, calibrate a subject by identifying the categories of description
he uses in RV, as well as those he gets significantly true or untrue.
Use as control a second person whose normal descriptions match that
pattern.
Have the control physically visit the site and describe
it.
(Included
would most likely be a statement naming the type of site (oceanside, building,
park, etc.) and then a number of details.
Score the subject relative to that control.
In addition identify the outbound experimenter's movements and
perceptions, and identify the subject's descriptions of these.
The control may be the outbound experimenter,
if suitable.
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ae OBJECTIVE ASSESSHENT OF SRI VISLE Approved For Releasé 3063/08i09 : Gta RDP96-00787R000200070005-0 INTRODUCTION The trip to SRI was in support of CB's contract on enhancement of human perception. The purpose was to take an independent look at the SRI protocols, subjects, results and their analysis. In particular, | was to witness further demonstrations on the existence of an extra sensory infor- mation channel, to criticize the experimental protocols and analysis pro- i cedures, and to evaluate potential operational utility of the phenomena. te .) My applicable history includes a ten-year mild interest in paranormal phenomena, peaking slightly at times of various personal experiences. My “education includes a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, with research in appli~ a cations of computer science to bioengineering and experimental psychology. Before this trip, | had read the SRI progress reports and had briefly met .with Hal Puthoff. Although the existence of telepathic communication seemed possible to me, the possibility of remote viewing (RV) of a location without a «human "sender" seemed absurd, and foreign to my concept of human information ‘processing. Based on reading the earlier results with Price and Swann, | became willing to admit the possibility that some people might have such talents, and sol participated as a control on the Atlas experiment - with no particular success. Later, in reviewing the results of an SRI subject (Hella Hammid) performing RV on a piece of scientific apparatus, | attempted to identify the ; apparatus from her descriptions, which had been judged marginally useful. shee My attempt was successful, and raised the question of how best to assess information content tn RV experiments. An attempt was to be made to repeat this procedure, and to become more familiar with Hammid's vocabulary and ; manners of speech as well as with her general ability to observe and describe a events. This report is in three parts; Assessment of experimental results using ae the subject Hella Hammid, Criticism of experimental protocols and analysis procedures, Recommendations for future efforts. , oe at at Tee ' wn ye Approved For Release 2003/09/09 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200070005-0 AS
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INTRODUCTION
The trip to SRI was
in support of CD's contract on enhancement of
human perception.
The purpose was to take an independent look at the
SRI protocols, subjects,
results and their analysis.
In particular,
I was
to witness further demonstrations on the existence of an extra sensory infor-
mation channel,
to criticize the experimental protocols and analysis pro-
cedures, and to evaluate potential operational utility of the phenomena.
My applicable history includes a ten-year mild interest
in paranormal
phenomena, peaking slightly at times of various personal experiences.
My
education includes a Ph.D.
in electrical engineering, with research
in appli-
cations of computer science to bioengineering and experimental psychology.
Before this trip,
I had read the SRI progress reports and had briefly met
.with Hal Puthoff.
Although the existence of telepathic communication seemed
possible to me, the possibility of remote viewing
(RV)
of a location without a
.''human "sender" seemed absurd, and foreign to my concept of human information
processing.
Based on reading the earlier results with Price and Swann,
I
became wi lling to admit the possibility that some people might have such talents,
and so
I participated as a control on the Atlas experiment - with no particular
success.
Later,
in reviewing the results of an SRI subject
(Hella Hammid)
performing RV on a piece of scientific apparatus,
I attempted to identify the
apparatus from her descriptions, which had been judged marginally useful.
My attempt was successful, and raised the question of how best to assess
information content in RV experiments.
An attempt was to be made to repeat
this procedure, and to become more familiar with Hammid's vocabulary and
manners of speech as well as with her general ability to observe and describe
events.
This report
is
in three parts; Assessment of experimental results using
the subject Hella Hammid, Criticism of experimental protocols and analysis
procedures. Recommendations for future efforts.
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1 974
Attached are two reports concerning my visit to SRI
in conjunction with
the current CB contract on perceptual augmentation.
The separate reports
"represent an Objective Assessment and a Subjective Critique of the SRI
protocols and results, and reflect my dual role as observer and participant.
They were written for different audiences, and so overlap
in part.
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There
is no question
that there
is an unseen world. The
problem ,is, how far
is
it from midtown and how late
is
it
open?
Unexplainable
events
occur
constantly. One man
will see spirits. Another will hear voices. A third will wake
up and find himself running in the Preakness. How many of
us have not at one time or another felt an ice-cold hand on
the back of our neck while we were home alone? (Not me,
thank God, but some have.) What
is behind these experi-
ences? Or in front of them, for that matter?
Is
if true that
some men
can
foresee
the
future
or communicate
with
ghosts? And after death
is
it
still possible to take showers?
Fortunately,
these questions about psychic phenomena
are answered in a soon to be published book, Boo!, by Dr.
Osgood Mulford Twclge,
the noted parapsychologist and
professor of ectoplasm at Columbia University. Dr" Twclge
has assembled a remarkable history of supernatural
inci-
dents that covers the whole range of psychic phenomena,
from thought transference 'to the bizarre experience of two
b; others on opposite parts of the globe, one of whom took a
bath while the other suddenly got clean. What follows is but
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of that data.
Reproducibility must be considered
in
light
of
the individuals who can reproduce
it,
the conditions under
which any or all
individuals
can reproduce
it and
the nature
of controls which can be imposed upon
a situation where
re-
production of the phenomenon
is demanded.
Evidence which
requires
that
the audience
take
on faith
the
data or mani-
festations
of the data,
should be dismissed out-of-hand
as
evidence
for paranormal phenomena.
The body of evidence presented
to support
a proposal
for this
type
of research should be
as
free
as possible
from
argument by analogy.
If,
indeed,
there
is
to be presented
a theoretical underpinning for these types
of phenomena,
then
that theoretical underpinning should be
able
to
stand on
its
own.
It
is not appropriate
to argue,
for
instance,
that
a
paranormal
form of energy travels
faster
than
the
speed
of
light
and cannot be measured just because
one
can make
the
statement
that
a thought may
travel
faster
than
the speed of
light and no
one has been able
to measure
the
speed of
a
thought.
Argument by analogy
is really only appropriate
in
a positive
sense but not
in
a negative
sense.
It seems appropriate
that
the burden of proof for having
the Agency
involve itself
in research into paranormal phenomena
should be
on
the proponents
of such research.
Without getting
into legalistic definitions
this burden
of proof should not
be proof
’’beyond
the shadow of
a doubt” and indeed
it may not
even require
a preponderance of evidence.
However,
the burden
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4Npproved For Release.2901/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787RQQ9200080011 -2 1000 to 1 or better, one by odds of half a million to one, In one study involving only visiting government scientists, the odds were 60 to ly Even the single study that was not statistically significant contained individual descriptions and drawings that bore a striking resemblance to objects at the site. The researchers point out that while the information channel that couples events remote from the viewer is not yet understood, its existence is not inconsistent with modern scientific thought. In fact, they note, modern physics and neurophysiology provide powerful techniques that can be used to study the nature of this channel, "We therefore consider it important, " they state in the article, ''to continue data collection and to encourage others to do likewise. Investigations such as those reported here need replication and extension under as wide a variety of rigorously controlled conditions as possible." - SRI is.an independent, nonprofit organization that performs contract research for worldwide clients in business, industry and government, Hed Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080011-2
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Menlo Park, CA--The ability to view remote geographical locations
by means
of an unknown perceptual channel may be widespread
in the general
population,
according to two Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) researchers.
In an article appearing
in the March issue of the prestigious Proceedings
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), SRI physicists
Dr. Harold E.
Put.hoff and Russell Targ report that a wide variety of subjects --
including visiting government scientists, and other persons without previous
experience in paranormal functioning- -have demonstrated the ability
to describe
correctly,
often in great detail,
geographical or technical material such as
buildings,
roads and laboratory apparatus
at remote locations unknown to them.
More than 50 experiments have been conducted under controlled
laboratory conditions over a three -year period at SRI, using both experienced
and inexperienced subjects.
The principal difference between the two types
of subjects was not
that the' inexperienced ones never exhibited the faculty of remote
the article says,
but. rather that their results were less reliable
their more experienced counterparts.
viewing,
than those
of
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'|By EDWARD TROPEANO | In a= secret program more incredible than the |wildest James Bond mov- ie, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been us- ing mediums to try to con- tact dead agents from both sides of the Iron Curtain, says a former top CIA ad- ministrator. | And in other mind-boggling wiexperiments, he says, the agency has also used psy- _|chics to try to probe the minds of Russian leaders. NATIONAL ENQUIRER ment with the supernatural began 15 years ago — after the agency’s best double agent had been caught and | Vietor Marchetti, a Meer killed by the Russians. {former CIA official, told The) The CIA had a very suc- ENQUIRER that the bizarre | cagsful but short-lived agent story of the CIA’s involve-| named Olag Penkovsky, a Russian KGB colonel,” re- called Marchetti, who served as executive assistant to the deputy director of the CIA be- iw fore retiring in 1969. “ad. SS : _ ‘vehi’ zi} The Russian agent lasted . "8" ) Nttle more than a year before a sos =" he was arrested, tried and ex- +ecuted by the Soviets, “After he was killed, some- body said, ‘Why don’t we try and contact him?’ That’s how they got involved with medi- ums,'’ Marchetti revealed. The success or failure of ef- forts to contact Penkovsky is _ {still a closely guarded secret. But it is believed that the ex- .|periment expanded into a full-scale program. -| “They began to contact our own dead agents, as well as dead agents from the other side,” said Marchetti. Marchetti said that at one point word flashed through the agency that contact had). “}been made with the famous | __ Approved For Release 2001/08/36 : CIA-RDP96-007@4R000200080025-7, aiFormer Top Administrator Reveals: A Secretly Uses Ps ychics ee oS C= ~ agency was using psychics to try to find out what Kremlin leaders were thinking and planning, Marchetti said. Once, the CIA “even looked for sets of identical twins in Russia — because they sup- posedly had the power to read each other's minds,” claimed Marchetti. — “To the best of my knowl- edge, they did, in fact, stumble across a set of twins where one defected —. al- though I don’t know what happened.”’ The CIA refuses to com- ment on the alleged  pro- grams, but Marchetti says: “There is no indication that they have stopped, and no reason. why they would." Major Popov, a Russian agent | who disappeared in the 1950s. As far back as the 1950s, the Tn ee aE Lhe eee er eel i sem Ta Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080025-7 Boor ‘