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Suggested PR Response in Event DCI is Queried about Paranormal Research!
has always
" Throughout the ages there have been curiousity, speculation and innumerable reported
instances of a wide variety of paranormal phenomena -- phenomena which would seem to relate
quite different
to either extraordinary acuity of the known physical senses or to other "senses"which
manage to perceive our ordinary reality in other dimensions of space, time and causality.
Although there seems always to have been some interest in such phenomena, there have been
waves or cycles of particularly heightened interest from time to time -- often associated
social change
with periods of unusual stress or/$$$$$$7% in man's history. It is no secret that we are
in the midst of such a cycle at the present time -- not only in this country but in most
parts of the world. Under the circumstances, it would be highly unusual if well-intentioned
occasionally
people did not/bring to the attention of their government whatever evidence they might
possess about such phenomena. Such evidence, father naturally, is sometimes referred to
this Agency. When such evidence is presented persuasively by people of undoubted probity,
we would, it seems to me, be negligent
if we did not at least view it objectivelyr- just as we try to be objective about all phen-
omena which might affect the national interests. We are not in the business of pursuing
per se
paranormal phenomena but we try not to be arrogant about it -- which is what a lack of
objectivity on any issue usually amounts to. "
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