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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Human Resources Committee
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE
HRC-R&D-M-012
23 September 1976
Minutes of the Twelfth Meeting, 20 September 1976
Members or Representatives Present
Chairman
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CIA
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DIA
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NSA
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Army
Air Force
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Mr. Jean R. Henson
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FBI
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Others Present
CIA/OTS
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CIA/OTS
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- Mr. John G. Kormann
HRD/HRC
1.
The Chairman opened the twelfth meeting announcing that
priorities had necessitated a change in the agenda and that the first
item would be a discussion of a CIA R&D program followed by a review of
the draft National Human Resource Plan (NHRP) and an R&D Subcommittee
briefing that is scheduled for presentation to the CFI Intelligence R&D
Council on 13 October 1976. The other listed agenda items would then be
addressed in a subsequent meeting. The minutes of the tenth and eleventh
meetings were approved.
2. The Chairman turned to
the CIA representative,
and asked him to proceed with the scheduled briefing. In his prefatory
remarks regarding the briefing on parapsychology,
noted that
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CIA was attempting to determine whether any aspect of this esoteric
discipline had an application in the intelligence field. He pointed out
that these CIA efforts were embodied by
of DDS&T/OTS whom he then introduced.
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began the briefing with a ten-minute videotape display of a TV
news item presented on NBC approximately two weeks ago. The news item
outlined research on remote viewing conducted by H. E. Puthoff and R. Targ
of the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at the Stanford Research
Institute in California. After the showing,
discussed in detail
the results of six sets of experiments conducted by these researchers and
passed out several sets of the research material. One of the items was
an article published in the IEEE Spectrum that evoked a flurry of letters
to the editor and rebuttals by the authors. The upshot of the exchange
was that two scientists working with the same data can come to diametri-
cally opposite conclusions.
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Next a review was made of CIA parapsychology/paranormal
research that began in 1972. The program was divided basically into two
parts: basic research and applied research. The CIA was primarily inter-
ested in the applied aspects of such experimentation and in this regard
obtained limited clearance for one such subject or sensitive. Both
described the experimentation conducted
with the subject. Insights sought from the subject was related to the
intelligence activity known to an extremely restricted circle of persons.
The results of the experimentation were promising and attested to by an
analyst as being helpful. Although unable to ascertain the cause of the
phenomena that produced seemingly positive results, the feeling was sub-
stantiated that enough empirical evidence existed to warrant further
research in this area!
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concluded the briefing noting that research had
also revealed that persons possessing paranormal abilities are generally
bright and good analysts; however, although adept in describing what they
saw, they could not interpret in most instances what they had seen.
5.
Time constraints did not permit discussion of other items.
The Chairman indicated it might be necessary to call a special meeting
to discuss the NHRP and the Intelligence R&D briefing. The next regular
meeting will be held at 1330 hours, Friday, the eighth of October, at
CIA Headquarters in room 6E0708.
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