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the Above Material.
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coi relates),
as appropriate,
on the basis of these summaries
qRT
,,-ni
Vseening
Ambruster with questions &/01 hypotheses
(if possibl^S
fe ?
°
before the end of the project)-
all
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p°ss^de ’.:^ least por spot-testing
possible and certainly by (or in)
the Final Report
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S°°n as
available PAMC findings
in theirIc presentable December /^If bbabof
questlons we
' a iite to~
iinTofToLt
getting raw
o^ifeSor^
“T ff^
"ao IT.
^ *** ^^Sions
because of the reStive fusztaejs ofthe
°“ ^
P°lntinS OUt that
and writing their final interpreting abfjbbTbbbwb!
EEG;
filtereI^Sr^?4^°H
hyPS°
KlCaa S£25»-
These consist
of:
’total'
earlier) we will
^
and plethysmograph.
In the Final Report
(if not
;ro ttl l
get detailed summaries and interpretations of this material
and
rcTa^^’l^r ?
atM
ny «“ We wish
havLg^er^ch Of'i?
US copies of rt) If be
f°ollsh
probably useless for them to try to seAd
Puthoff admitted " that
thef
^ f?f them
^°Ut
°f a Possible total of 30 ) and
suppression of EEG aienSi^^
offhorourt data' c
°f
S^'ject #> ^^ngs.
I impressed on him the Mportance
T
hei-i
ollection and analysis in this area and,
while he clearly agreed
I believe he perceives a real problem with respect
to analysis.
So far tiwv’?e
’
told him
n
we'^rboen
1md
lt
tb
d
thlS
C " rSOry approach
is
quite time consuming.
I
he explained that tw ?.d
b “pressrt they had a eo«PUter capability for this and
They started ™t hv
oaa-but n0 lonS=b.
‘he background being as follows,
but actually
S
Cn;" r? 3cl<;noe = bab
(and Dr Lukas) for this effort
ment witf^b)Th
,’n
eXper“anta
''ibb
(D
a Strobe-Light/EEG experi-
tho man^who
is now y
i 'f a
,
lh°j
a“dcessfully replicated last year’s results with
during an 00B test
B^tf ^^>4 Z^TZst %£?£?% ?%*?>* 1
Sa°dl|ic
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gl?t?Ag
aSI?
t^d
“s^SeffjLPhS
hiCsf“iti:l^tt
hei
help and urgxngs,
they set up
a capability to
do" the
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(i didn't task him with failing to notifv
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-p
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protocol since using Lukas was their idea originall? end
us
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They
b
Ske
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thiir
S
o™^st^bSter than\ukas'
degrade the^ata)!
output capability^ and they intend to pursue {hS Jests in ^Llesf
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five mid-experiment tests with each nf Km
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EEG/GSR/pSth^
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f°
r real “time comparison of accurate hits
and’
/GSR/Pleth signals;
these experiments
are in
addition to the nine
screening experiments and the later 00B tests“for^Jih from this
data they will attempt to develop one or more Hypo'S!?
remaLinfliri^tJ!
6^ hyP°theses w111 th“
^ted on the
(3) print-out tapesfrom the Teaching ScMne- S
> of 00B experiments;
light exnerimonf^-
(
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i eacpmg Machine;
(4)
strip-charts on the EEG/Strobe
and
(6) strip-charts on
xitzZoiii is rSuft'ss
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srara^tr
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expect ifS S ?S5S 2 S^o^SSSS^eSoSiSJSlS- *
nothing SlITtflSSrSSSSaM
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some useful ideas came
n„t
n -p Ro
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surprising; ,
they say that
1 of P
thG Geneva
G°uference-and one of them
(see Appendix
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srss?s;
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eMllr
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short -t '=m
'future memories'
of feSbSfJSS SSSJeri
was Avon (oSSeJSi?iT?
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sub.] # 4 in which no feedback
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consultant
USPor
bff
J 7 *?e
. Ge?eva conference and his views on possible
Puthofif and TaJm
let
hi™
"'l'?'
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, 1'
ls untended to put him together with
up with useful §pothes“.
8ee
‘md SGe "hether >
together,
they can come
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'inwS5S„I !fT755^rf~i IlSfiSv; 7^^ ^ 9 fe ”
£££
-pnhilitics which might ..^eUSE.
9 suTL JhSe
the basic screening tests
and thfmid-test neS^oph^sioSgicIl^nes? ^^fa^
they've
run perhaps
ten of them—half with subject # 4 who appears
to be the most gifted of
1 m this
domain.
I
was appalled
to realise,
however, that—evidently for reasons
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of efficiency^
to collect maximum data as soon as
-nnqqih
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critical part of the earlier protocol and,
thereby
have left
ropped
a
normal '"lat^control the°sSi“ioi of“ter
ad
t°
f
^. ?avin®
s°meone °utsite\he
SpSL
seieoiion 'randomly
after leaving
the
ceases to^e^S/afsciLJStr^e
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Xt never
so personally sensitive whenever I raise the°issue
s°°!’ tuse
111 thls nogard and
again
(and it
is quite literallv
T“
e assured th«« time
and
of them are consciously cheating-but that it L^rresJoSible^tta
?
4 neith“
discredit such potentially good data as they now have ^ usSg
Jor SatevS
Their
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011 ft1 pe:rait ES°ne else to shoot holls
in tET'evla-nce
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r»f siSraAd
he
re
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Uttal 1
th3t
if th6y 333 C0X «
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evidence n^ly^
tte^ncl
controls.
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onose aaairionai
llSt
f?u d
T
t0
S °me
° f Subject # ^’ s tapes,
looked
' lt d th
Sltes
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All I can say is that,
if repeatable with
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APPlTnnotr
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nvt/inwv,,.
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at her drawings and visi
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&
/
vlbJ- w^
au
a. can say is that,
if reneatahlp
=sFH5ST£?
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and I took part
ip two non
tSS^urtfah^t 3-wS‘frS SH “ltTd
fct"°ff
h
anl SUtJeCt *
400 ft from where we actually were
his basic mistake T T
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3 m“Seum aboUt
was
in
'cognating'
the museuj & embroidering on ttafilSrnrJ?.?'’ * 3 =0”0n
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d
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six
clusion°^ hi
g0Od-r
bal
deSp?ioS
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33 the
^ remote -viewer^in
experiment being that both
I got
a much beU^r feeT for Se actufl
?ver
e
to
r
have a Sttif
°Ut ^ the
?.
that ’
in the ops
scenarios,
we were unlikely
ever
to have a siting or cooperative subject
at the site
(and,
if we did
we'd
in whSrtL
r
:ub1e\t^i^tt
illS^
them t0 ^ •* leait ^ extents
,i.' fi|!
the
subject didn
t know the
’outbound'
viewer at all—and then som-
in
which the subject knew him/her only by name/photo/etc
and,
finally,
some
in which
the
subject was permitted to see the viewer in
a
'walio-by'
situation
They Sewlv
before S pro02t ends.
Variati°nS
bllt ^ n0t
S”e
get arolmd to “
11.
Presentation in DC.
This is tentatively scheduled for earlv
in
will
”he
r
nr'
a -'LS
Cl“l
1:V lntendod
-° hawe an impact on those in the hierarchy who
win be passing on the question of renewal.
In a sense
it will be *ro“ew of
their Final Report-and
I feel this
is
a perfectly legitimate procedure
As
r
h
• y
a“
e
,™cS
rged
to onsur° thai thair
material
as
is available on
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material;
independent judging results on the 00B screening tests-
'clean'
(a
e
safeguarded)
lab RV experiments;
succinct statements of where they stand with
respect ^ngWsls of the raw data;
whatever useful theorising/S^Sellhey
(an /or
can present--couched,
if they wish,
in terms of possible
follow,-on activity.
We
shoul<1
to OTS soon about drawing up a definitive
guest-list for the presentation.
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A copy of the latest Progress Report
is attached-
h
a few last minute .medical raw data sheets inserted.
In addition,
there
mpnt
h
q
ac
^
e
|
i hut available ) :
casette,
photos & drawings of two RV experi-
ments by bubj # 4;
and
a series of SRI documents relating to the Nature
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13. Social .
Oct with Hal PuthSf
14.
In Conclusion.
I’m impressed by the intensity of their motivation
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and by the quantity of work they have done—but
a bit distressed by the lack of
iscipline with respect to procedures and exploitation of data.
It may be that
this
is an inevitable
(however unpalatable) trade-off for having
a pair of such
eager, hard-working and imaginative investigators
in such an exotic field. There
is no doubt that both are very intensely and emotionally wrapped-up in their
work,
are wholly convinced of the existence of the psychic phenomena they are
investigating and equally convinced that they can harness
it in time.
I cannot
honestiy judge the degree to which their objectivity suffers
as
a consequence—
or the _ degree
to which any postulated loss of objectivity biases
the outcome
of their work.
For what
its worth,
I am personally convinced that neither are
engaging m conscious cheating- -but the very intensity of their involvement
does,
it
seems to me,
elevate the possibility of unconscious cueing.
Let me
hasten to add that
I have absolutely no evidence of the latter,
either-
it
is
simply a possibility which,
given the dynamics of the entire situation’
it
would be irresponsible not
to recognize.
On the other hand,
at the risk of
that the Weight of *** the evidence
.4however-fa^-fed-portions:, 0fr,it-might^> leaves me on balance more persuaded
than not of some psychic functioning—although I'm less confident that we now
ave either the tools to measure
it or the capacity to conceptualize or model
*
mpirica ly, nonetheless,
I can see operational uses if certain of the
alleged gifts can be demonstrated under optimum controls and if measures
in
support of confidence-level indicators can be devised.
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