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In response to a
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Lt Col Frederick Dunlap, AF/IBfc
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As preliminary remarks Mr. Gira stated that he was
conducting th© inquiry for a committee member, net identified
by name, who had read a
7 August 1977 Washington *oSt .artiele,
"Psychic Spying", written by Mr. John
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already spoken with several people from the central Intelligence
Agency
(CIA) who had indicated to him that the Foreign
Technology Division
(FTD) was sponsoring ex^ri»»nts# and had
a continuing interest in parapsychology*
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Mr. Graff explained that FTD hed received a task from
the Defense Intelligence Agency
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produce an assessment of the threat posed by parapsychology
research conducted in the Warsaw Pact*
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The experiments sponsored by FTD were described at
length by Mr.
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The Stanford Research Institute* under
contract to ftd,
had conducted experiments in remote viewing
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The objective of the experiments was to provide a basis pf
comparison to evaluate data.
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in response to a question by Mr*
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for remote viewing was within the
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During the discussion it was pointed out that the
FTD Commanders policy was to conduct^the Dlk ftUdy
based upon the findings, decide if further S§i||§m|l
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Follow-on C^ntf|^s;M#tft.
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Mr. Giza stated that if he wrote a report to the
committee on his total inquiry, he would makethat report
available to the Air Force through SAF/LL.
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