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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
Director
of Research and
Development
S‘teScr
SearCh
' nStitUte ^psychology
Attached herewith are two reports summarizing the final
work by SRI
for OTS,
together with
a memorandum by^^H
discussing the status of the parapsychology
program.
As you
ate no doubt aware.
I directed
that OTS support of this
effort
be terminated.
I continue
to believe that
it would
be
inappro
pnate for
us
to continue
it;
however,
if ORD desires
to
pick
it up,
be my guest.
SG1I
David
S.
Brandwein
Director
Office of Technical
Service
Enclosures:
As
stated above
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OTS/CB Memo
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February 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
Stanford Research
Institute
(SRI)
Investigation
into
Parapsychology
1.
Attached
is the
final
report describing several
years
of CIA
(ORD
§
OTS)
sponsored research
in the area
popularly referred
to
as parapsychology.
I believe
the
SRI
report will
be
a major benchmark
in
the
field.
Even
with
its
flaws the investigation
is
the most complete,
serious
and
scientific
investigation
into parapsychology
in general
and
its national
security implications
in
particular.
The report
establishes
overwhelming
scientific
evidence
for
the existence
of human perceptual
capabilities
which are
as
yet unexplained.
The
investigation,
however,
resulted
in nothing which adds
to
the understanding of
the
mechanisms
involved and
little which
increases
the
effective-
ness
of national
security applications.
The
SRI
investi-
gation
and
internal
CIA-^
experiments
do,
nevertheless,
indicate potential applications of the phenomenon to
intel-
ligence problems.
For
example,
empirically useful
techniques
can probably be developed for those
intelligence problems
where noisy,
flawed
information can
be used
to
limit known
alternatives which subsequently can
be verified.
It
is my
opinion that
an internal
CIA program directed towards
the
above mentioned and similar
intelligence requirements
should
be
re-instated and continued within
OTS.
2.
Much
. interest has been generated by
SRI's publications
in technical journals
this
past year,
and
consequent progress
is
likely.
The unclassified portion
of the
SRI
investigation
is
to
be published
in the
IEEE Proceedings
in March
1976.
The acceptance by
this prestigious
journal,
is
a significant
indicator of interest
in this
field within the scientific
community
.
Furthermore,
a number
of
laboratories ,7-9
in-
cluing
that of
Dr.
R.
W.
Lucky,
Vice Chairman of
the
IEEE
Publications Board
and Division Director
at. Bell
Laboratories,
have
successfully replicated the
SRI
remote viewing
tasks.
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Other groups
such
as
the USIB's
STIC study on "Emerging
Areas
of
Science
and Technology
of
Importance
to
National
Security" have
independently identified parapsychology
as
an area worthy
of
support.
The Department of
the
Navy,
the Office
of Naval Research and Naval
Electronics
System Command have
also
independently- decided
to
support
SRI
in
. extensions
of the
CIA sponsored
investigat ions
Releasing
the
SRI
data
for publication has already stimu-
lated additional
investigations,
and encouraged
further
research
into understanding
and controlling
the phenomena
involved.
It
is not premature
for
us
to be now considering
the analysis
and application of intelligence desired
from
those
techniques.
Attachment
References
Final
Report
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