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28 February 1973
NOTE FOR: Carl
SUBJECT :
More Geller Business
I understand (nth
hand) that:
The science editor of TIME magazine, a Mr. Jareff,
told the public information man at SRI that the TIME
edition for Monday, 5 March, will carry an article
tending to discredit Geller and casting some aspersions
at SRI for being taken in.
Jareff says that the source of the article was
Dr. George Lawrence of ARPA, and apparently the article
identifies Lawrence as the source of the information.
Lawrence, on the other hand, denies having talked to
TIME -- Jareff says this is nonsense, Lawrence has talked
to TIME lots of times.
Lawrence is the guy with ARPA who felt Geller was
a charlatan based on the die-calling experiment.
Lawrence's rationale was that Geller was not looking
into the box as he claimed to be, but instead was
influencing the die so that it came up with the face
that he wished !!!! (This kind of logic I don't under-
stand) .
The article also, apparently, says that TIME
took Geller to a lab in New York, and that he was
found to be cheating. This judgment, I understand,
stems from the fact that a magician watched what Geller
did, and said that Geller surely looked and acted like
a magician.
TIME's noble purpose in publishing this is to
alert the community.
The article does not give any indication of
Agency interest.
If the article appears, this can only complicate the
already difficult situation involved in dealing with Geller,
. Swann -- in fact, this whole area.
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