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9 July 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director for Office of Technical Service
SUBJECT
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Developments in Parapsychology
Several developments in parapsychology have occurred
which may come to the attention of the DCI and/or DDS&T.
Perhaps we should offer background briefings before they
are requested.
1. Our former principal investigators, Mr. Targ and
Dr. Puthoff from Stanford Research Institute (SRI), are
writing a book about their research. The book is written
in a popular style and could be a best seller. I have
reviewed the manuscript and suggested some modifications
which were accepted. Nevertheless, if the book is believed,
the intelligence utility of the claimed paranormal abilities
is so obvious that I predict inundation of freedom of infor-
mation requests concerning the intelligence communities
involvement in this area. Perhaps some thought for a re-
sponse should be given before the ten day FOI response
deadline is upon us.
2. The Navy has successfuly reproduced some of our
paranormal EEG work according to SRI. I cannot verify the
quality of the reproduction as yet but the Navy did attempt
to increase the funding at SRI. This increase caused re-
view with the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for R&D. My
name came up and I was questioned by Dr. Sam Kaslov, an R&D
staff member, concerning the integrity of the SRI investi-
gations. The Navy was worried about publicity.
I reviewed
our program and my experiences with Dr. Kuslov.
The Navy's
Secretary for R&D has subsequently canceled the follow-on.
3. The Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson
AFB, has contracted ($100K) with SRI to continue the remote
viewing work. They expect to apply the technique to viewing
Soviet missile silos. The initial analogue tests have gone
"spectacularly well" according to Dale Graff, the Air Force
project monitor.
These results have been reviewed in DIA
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and, I assume they will eventually be heard about some-
where in community meetings or shared with the community
staff. Perhaps someone on the IC staff should be made
aware of these programs. (Suggestion :
the
former DD/ORD is on the IC staff and knows some of the
CIA involvement already. He could be made aware of the
total spectrum of activities and handle any interactions
in the IC staff. )
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