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5 April 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director of Research and Development
SUBJECT
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Transfer of Funds to TSD in Support of a Contract
vith Stanford Research Institute for Paranormal
Research
1.
This memorandum contains,
in paragraph 7,
a request for
your approval.
2.
The proposed research addresses itself to the question of
whether the purported paranormal powers of subjects now being examined
by the Stanford Research Institute
(SRI) under contract with DD/O/TSD
can be validated with Agency-controlled stimulus materials.
It
is
believed that only with such validation will TSD and ORD be able to
formulate sound proposals for longer-range research which will have and
deserve the support of the various Agency components legitimately
interested in this area of research.
3.
TSD's current contract with SRI expires on 30 June 1973, by
which time they will have completed the testing of Mr.
Ingo Swann.
The
proposed expansion of the contract will permit SRI to use additional
staff personnel for the concurrent testing of another subject, Mr. Uri
Geller, whose paranormal gifts are ostensibly more reliable and dramatic
than those
of Mr.
Swann.
Commencing on 15 April 1973, SRI plans to subject
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to. a variety of tests
and will insert Agency-provided stilus
material at the appropriate seances.
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monitor from the next room.
Mr. Seller's responses to our material will
be stapled to the sealed envelopes, given to our representative immediately
after the testing and pouched
(or brought) bach to Headquarters for
examination by the TSD experts.
Should there be early validation of
Mr. Seller's capacities in this manner, SRI will proceed with other
testing on which we have already agreed, including extensive physiological
and sense-acuity examinations.
Should validation not he forth
this "clairvoyance" mode, non-double-blind testing (using our materials
under the monitoring of our representative) will be conducted in the
"ESP" mode.
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If Mr.
(teller’s powers prove to he not validatable in either the
clairvoyance or ESP modes, we should probably conclude that—whatever
the truth about such purported phenomena may be—its functioning is too
fragile and unreliable to warrant further research for clandestine
exploitation.
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will be the Project Officer responsible
for monitoring the validation effort.
7.
Life Sciences/ORD recommends approval of the transfer of
$l8,lff4 to TSD for an expanded contract with Stanford Research Institute.
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