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Transferred management of Star Gate to CIA July 1st
Adopted Senate directions in previous SAC language
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DIA to transfer 10 billets, $500K to CIA
DCI to give status report by March 1 st
Transfer management of Star Gate July 1st
Adopt all previous SAC language
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Proposed Management Strategy
Terminate remote viewing operations within
Intelligence Community (IC)
Terminate research and development relating
to remote viewing within IC
Complete declassification review of all CIA,
DOD files; 4-man yrs, $400K in FY96, 97
Apply no immediate resources to assessments
of foreign developments in parapsychology
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Basis of Key Recommendations
Blue Ribbon Panel Review by American
Institutes of Research, Key Scientists
Recent Foreign Assessment by National
Intelligence Council: NIO/S&T, OSWR
Specific Language of the Congressionally
Directed Action
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Blue-Ribbon Panel
Dr. Jessica Utts, Professor of statistics, Univ. of
CA/Davis; Primary Proponent
Dr. Ray Hyman,
Professor of psychology, Univ.
of Oregon; Primary Skeptic
Dr. Lincoln Moses, Professor Emeritus of
Statistics, Stanford Univ.
Dr. David Goslin, former Exec. Dir., Commission
on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,
NRC
Dr. Michael Mumford, Ph.D. Psychology
Dr. Andrew Rose, Ph.D. Psychology
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AIR’s Directed Objectives
Comprehensive technical evaluation of
remote viewing R&D at CIA and DIA
Evaluation of remote viewing’s utility in
intelligence operations regardless of
scientific validity
Recommend to CIA management strategies
for possible program execution at CIA
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AIR R&D Review Process
SAIC principal investigator asked to
identify 10 most favorable documents
Detailed bibliographies made of all relevant
CIA, DIA documents
Key CIA, DIA documents declassified
Over 80 documents ultimately declassified,
transferred to blue ribbon panel
Panel given every document requested
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AIR R&D Review Process, Cont.
• Blue Ribbon Panel met formally, reviewed
CIA objectives, program documents, got
presentation from SAIC (R&D contractor)
• Professors Utts and Hyman commissioned
to write separate detailed reviews
• Commissioned reviews exchanged, rebuttals
permitted, AIR arbitrated final conclusions
for CIA key recommendations
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AIR Operational Utility Evaluation
• DIA program manager asked to identify
most favorable users of remote viewing
• AIR conducted standard interviews of these
users on location with CIA present
• AIR interviewed Star Gate remote viewers,
and program manager
• AIR re-examined CIA’s independent utility
study based on documented user evaluations
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Dr. Utts’ Conclusions
Asserted that “Psychic functioning”
is well-
established
Observed that statistical results obtained
were far beyond chance expectations
Refuted argument that methodological flaws
or fraud could account for results
Claimed some SRI, SAIC results were
replicated in other labs
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Dr. Hyman’s Conclusions
Recent SAIC results are methodologically
superior to previously flawed SRI work
New results are statistically significant
Results hampered by secrecy, experimental
data base has had no community peer
review, no public scrutiny
Better than chance results do not, by
themselves, establish that a paranormal
phenomenon is the cause
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Dr. Hyman’s Review, Cont.
Use of same “judge” during all SAIC
experiments is possible serious flaw
“Remote viewing,”
as opposed to Ganzfeld,
has not been replicated in other labs
Boundary conditions, i.e., when and where
remote viewing can reliably occur, have not
been defined
Possibility of methodological flaw in results
has not been eliminated
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