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27 November 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT:
Information Report on the
Use of Paranormals in Two
Police Cases
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1.
Two paranormal subjects being tested at Stanford Re-
search Institute (SRI) have produced impressive data on police
cases.
The first involves the Patricia Hearst kidnapping and
the second involves a Stanford University student homicide.
The data for these cases was generated spontaneously in an
uncontrolled field environment. The generation of the homicide
data was witnessed by
OTS/CRB. An evaluation
of the data is independently given in the attached memoranda
from a second party interview to the Alameda County District
attorney's office and the police officer in charge of the
homicide case.
2. During the past year of investigations at SRI, several
stories of aid being given by people with paranormal ability to
police in San Francisco area were related to myself by the SRI
investigators, Dr. Puthoff and Mr. Targ. My personal knowledge
of these activities has remained anecdotal for several reasons.
One compelling reason is these activities are totally indepen-
dent of our current project and that even the appearance of
CIA involvement with domestic police operations is a political
explosive association. This fact has kept me from even at-
tempting direct varification of the SRI claims. Also, with
respect to the Hearst kidnapping there are explicit threats on
the lives of those working on the case.
3. Two cases have now been documented which may be of
interest to the Clandestine Service. The first, involves Mr.
Pat Price and the Patricia Hearst kidnapping as described in
the first attachment. The night after the kidnapping and
before any publicity occurred, Mr. Price's help was solicited
by the Alameda police. Mr. Price provided a significant amount
of data, including identification of people later proven to be
involved. This interaction was taped by our principal inves-
tigators, Puthoff and Targ, and has been varified by the
Electronics and Bio-engineering group leader at SRI, Mr. E.
Jones.
All this documentation is available for our inspection.
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CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT:
Information Report on the
Use of Paranormals in Two
Police Cases
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4. The second case has occurred more recently. The re-
sults are described in the second attachment.
This case is of
interest because of the presence of an OTS officer,
who witnessed the sessions. A separate description
is being prepared by
It appears all the claimed
results and more are varified.
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5.
These cases are inserted into the record since they
involve two subjects we have under test. The subjects produced
operationally significant data for the police on two completely
independent cases and under different circumstances. There are
no explanations for these performances. Also, based on these
data, no projection of future performance can be made.
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