of 2Appraved.For Relse, 2000/08/07, : CIA-RDR9S,00Ke7 RO0040007003 1-9. sRI for one year (recently begun) of investigations of SWANN; while TSD is reputed to have bee impressed by the recent presentations, I have no idea what their short- or long-range hopes/purposes/intentions are or the nature of the precise exploitation they have in mind, (NOTE: lam having lunch with C/TSD on 26 JAN and may have more insights in these areas afterwards. ) SG1l b. DDS&T/OSI : although (was apparently instrumental in arranging the recent presentation and has apparently dealt with SRI extensively, I believe that OSI has not provided funds for the investigations and does not intend to do so; they see their only legitimate interest as being an analysis of the threat potential in the hands of other powers and do not believe that basic research in this area is consistent with their responsibilities, c. DDS&T/ORD: I believe that ORD has not provided any funds for the investig- ations and that its role has been limited to that of interested observers. d. OMS/Office of Security/Office of Commo all have obvious, though currently marginal, functional interests but have played only monitoring roles thus far and, apparently, have no intention of providing funds. e. Non-Agency : DOD (ARPA) and NSA are alleged to have considerable interest in the area and have had some limited dealings with SRI (including the recent present- ations) but, despite a number of false staats, have apparently put no funds into the project and do not intend to do so; at least one reason appears to be the difficulty and/or potential embarrassment associated with justifying the expenditures to Congress; ARPA representatives are said to have stated recently that they accept SRI's motivation but believe they are being 'taken' by GELLER. SG1I 9. It is my understanding (per I that SRI, far from resisting our substan- tive involvement in the investigations, has 'pled' for the USG to design and run the entire investigative procedure--certainly as regards SWANN and possibly GELLER as well. But they would, no doubt, want the investigations to be done under their SRaphaderh auspices--and, at least until we knc v more about the attitudes of GELLER 7SWANN and about the cover being employed, this would probably be preferable. One of SRI's problems appears to be the fact that their basic research program is in LASER; the parapsychological involvement seems to have come about largely by chance and any in-depth or prolonged program in this direction could be done only by sacrificing their momentum and commitments in the LASER field. The recent predentations were Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070031-9 calculated to determine whether USG interest in the field was great enough to warrant
SG1H Approved For Rel®%se 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-0097R000400070031-9 this adjustment-~and whether the necessary 50 to 75K would be forthcoming. The SRI representatives are apparently going to remain in the Washington area until 29° January in the hopes that further exploratory discussions are desired. Recommendations 10, It is recommended that, should further discussions with SRI bear out the above assumptions concerning their willingness to accept our design and controls and the permanent presence of our representative(s), ORD undertake to supply the balance of the funds for a one-year project and arrange with TSD for joint management of the project. (NOTE: There has apparently been some talk, by ARPA and NSA, about a community-wide consortium for such an undertaking but it is believed that this would be unnecessarily cumbersome--although community-wide in-put at appropriate stages, see below, would be essential.) In the event that there is general (ORD/TSD/SRI) agreement in principle, it is recommended that we negotiate for a one or two month delay in the beginning of the project year. This would be essential (even if at some extra cost) so that Agency and community representatives could structure a design for the project year which would satisfy all requirements and, in the event of positive conclusions, be above reproach. ll, Itis further recommended that, upon reaching such an agreement, a Parapsych Steering Panel be formed immediately--with one voting member each (plus optional non-voting observers) from the following elements: DDP/TSD; DDS&T/ORD; DDS&T/OSI OMS; Office of Security; Office of Communications; and each of the following ‘hard- target' operational compicne nts : ils In calling for the establishment of the panel, the chiefs of the various components should be encouraged to designate individuals of appropriate background/interests/temperament. The panel, chaired jointly (or on a rotating basis) by TSD and ORD, would naturally define its own working procedures but it would be useful to consider establishing immediately a series of Working Groups to prepare basic position papers for the Panel's consideration on a number of areas: a. laboratory controls to be implemented; b. the precise nature and sequence of investigations to be run; c. testing-controls of environment and the individual to be run during the phenomena; d. medical/bchavioral/psychiatric/psychological/biographical testing and rescaappreved ForReldases 2000/0 8/6% 161 AAR DP9C0078 FRO004008 7003-9 gations;
Approved For Rel®%se 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070031-9 e. procedures for collecting/storing/analyzing all statistical data related to the investigations; f. security procedures; g. management procedures--e.g., locale, choice and rotation of supervisers, as well as SOPs for their performance; h. utility forecasts--e.g., futmrology projections and operational pragmatics. As soon as the Panel has acceptable working drafts in each of these areas they (perhaps on a relatively selective basis) should be submitted to the appropriate non-agency elements with a legitimate interest and some potential for contribution--this should probably include (but not necessarily be limited to) NSA and ARPA, External responses to these papers would then be considered by the PM) Panel in the preparation of its detailed Project Proposal for the consideration of C/ORD and C/TSD (and, as deemed appropriate, higher authority), In the interim , basic and undisputed aspects of the design could be discussed with SRI so that appropriate adjustments could be made in their installation (or, variously, so that a new installation could be found), so that upon approval the investigations could proceed without undue delay, And, finally, the Panel should focus on all likely requirements for extraordinary experts/gear/ facilities that are apt to be encountered during the project and, in an appendix to its basic Proposal, should identify those available (already cleared) and should suggest appropriate action for locating and (in the approfipiate cover context) contacting the remainder--so that, at some critical juncture, the entire project won't i:e stalled for want of reasonable foresifiht. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070031-9