oe Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110016-8 SG1I SG1I ani 22 June 1974 MEMO FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT Discussions with OTS on the SRT Project SG1I 1. OOB Ops Testing. On 27 June 74 I met with of OTS to review with them their protocol for testing one of the SRI subjects in an OOB ‘viewing’ of a Soviet target; the substance of their proposal may be seen in the attached draft. Though many other aspects were discussed, the only points made by me which touched on our basic research interests may be summar- ized as follows: we'd like to have EEG, GSR and plethysmograph monitoring of the subject during the trials (OTS felt that such instrumentation might obscure or interfere with the initial trials but agreed to work them in at a later stage should there be any positive results); the oTS personnel should prepare a memo detailing all their own factual knowledge of the Soviet site before they go to SRI for the tests; in view of the subject's relative incompetence with drawings, provision be made for him to construct models of what he 'sees' out of lagoa or similar materials; that all his models, drawings, transcripts, ete, be sent to NPIC for evaluation before the OTS personnel so to are exposed to the subject. On 18 July 7 and myself (and others) on the outcome of the e CLLUS « ince e detailed evaluation will be pre- pared by OTS, it is sufficient here to state that: for practical reasons, none of the above suggestions were implemented; though some of the details of the subject's perceptions of the target seem impressive, the overall results were mixed at best; [RBM and © strongly urged that the scoring of the results be related to the total stimulus field (based on NPIC photography) rather than focus merely on the subject's specific ‘hits’ and ‘misses'., Recognizing that scoring on that basis would provide more valid statistics on the subject's perf- formance, OTS felt that such exhaustive analysis could not reasonably be asked of NPIC. 2. SRI's Performance in re Basic Research. On 27 June 7 OTS was given an advanced copy of my 17-18 June SRI trip report. During the 18 July meeting, in response to the criticisms contained in the tri report and the allusion to the 1 possibility of terminating the project, ee ee for more details SG on our position. After reviewing SRI's spotty performance thus far, we stressed that we had explicitly told SRI that they had to make significant progress with respect to the five items listed in para 5 of the trip report by mid-August. SC1l ii SG1I stated that he would send SRI an official letter covering those points so that, should termination eventua be necessary, our case would be well-~docu- mented, It was agreed that ne would make a prolonged site visit soon after the mid-August meetings with the SRT representatives in D,C,--either to monitor the continuing research (if acceptable progress has been made by then) or to gather evidence for termination of, at least, the basic research portion of the project. Other alternatives, such as allowing SRI a no-additional-cost extension to complete the basic research tasks, were also discussed. SG1I Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110016-8