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Suggested message to field regarding
data fran psychic sources.
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Prin: DIA
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Data from Psychic Sources/S/
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1 (5) DIA continues to receive information from
psychic sources regarding B.G. Dosies. Some of
These reports are from people who have demonstrated
statistical significance in controlled paysycholqual laborator
experiments.
horatio other reports are from
Regle previously controver to the parapsychological.
research community .
It is difficult to interpret
such data, enn from tested psychics, since laborator
investigations usually do not simulate an quational
problem such as locating messup pogle. It is even
more difficult to access data from an unsolicited,
unevaluated, source who alone no laboraty
data or operational track record exists?()Nevertheless, the
potential of such data, especially when information from
conventional sparcer is not available, should
dozpassibly lead or chie.
beconsidered, this judgement is based on review of
with specific individualen
laboratory results that demonstrate
* consistant
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meaningful clues in police work.
Some of these
accounts are credible and are reasonably documented.
consequently, such data cannot be dismissed out-of-
hard, of the case of a search problem , such data
may have the potential of narrowing down
search possibilities and pascaly providing additional
I deve for the investigation.
3. (s) while an initial assessment of the
reliability or ardebility of the person providing
the data way he jarecal, based on previous
laboratory testing and/or quational track
record, there still remains the & major problem
of asserting or interpreting the to raw data,
Laboratory experiments in free responce type experiments
using pictorial targets (1.0., describing concealed
drawings, unbrown geographic location, etc)
indicate that the descriptive elements
such as shape or form,
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are generally of higher reliability than Judgements
on analysis (a labels) giver by the
psychic to what is being perceived. For
example, an aucraft fuselage may be identified as
", " submarine",
or a natural care as an
underground facility" of some sort.
IT'S also seems
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that scale judgements ( distances
height of mountain,
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contain Jak and not all the elements of the intended
Target area an perceived. For example, only one or
Two buildings may be described in a 3- kunden;
complex
, a only one "spice" may be perceived when
several are in the area.
there are also erroneous
additions, possibly from memory associations to a
Armilar place on from a tendency to fill-in
via imagination, for example, as aufort might be
added to a train station target, since rail lines may
Suggest long runwaye" or parking aprons".
4(5) another major source of error in this type of
data in with verbal renoncer. Laboratory results
to date suggest mey low reliability in direct
correlation between concealed words and psychic
impressions. dr some cases, paraby depending
the individuals background , Training , and
personal preference, some target words are more likely
To be perceived when their, a work care & with pour.
psychics) Then the only a partial coverperdence between
Target words and impressions. For example , the Red
few letten may correlate, or the percemed
word may be a " sound alike"
Sometimes the
similarity is only
symbolic or they indered. this
seems To be ever more of a grabber if the target
Words are in a language foreign to the psychic
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5. (3)
Therefore, a degree of
finess must be
exercised in attempting to apply data from a
psyches source, some aspects may ho literal
and direct, other may be incomplete, mis labeled
totally incorrect. only repeated work
with a proves psyches source car helf resolver?
data
reliability evaluate
the individuals various bianca and typen of
euros, and to identify the individual strengths and
weaknesses.
Usually, the psychic person is likely
To make nost errore in analytical Judgements regarding
his or her our perceptions; whereas pogle accustomed to
work in pattern recognition type take appear to be
better suited in interpret such data.
6. (5) In order to
help assen on
strengths and weaknesses of psychic data speaker
feedback is required an initial data inputs.
Therefor
IT is important to know what aspects of a perception
were correct, only partially correct, or totally incorrect.
reasonably
efforts of the
with this information
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tto source might be
re- dueched along more frutline lives of query, and
the data accumulated can be reevaluated,
autor, perhaps with additional (and jarally more
rehabil) interpretation,
the importance of
ho over enflasized.
de addition detaile such as the

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Thoroughnews of the search, the actual area covered, etc.
are also important.
It may be the
collect area was actually searched, perbath bet at
The MISLA Time (Kerser wowed), or set thoroughly brough
or it may be the search concentrated in one specific area
and was not expanded the caves other likely possibilities
in the general vicinity.
independent
7. (s) or addition, data from serveras psychia sources
may ultimately prace to have comma elements
That form into an overall pattern, wir some specific
search oft is. Should this boobieved
, new interpretation of previously clixained
data, regardless of thoroughnere of feedback, may
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he became paschale. This "data integration"
affrosch would examine new possibilities that fix
the majority of the data and narrow down ( or identify new
such optione, adderall, a data
avalgets might be able to list options in a most-To- lear
likely manner mulig
this
affrood is believed to be a fruitful one for search care.
where the target area has much terrain redundancy
is laygo, and when the target may be moved figurily
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8.(s)
Therefore, since a data base from may
pascher source in now accumulating in their
search care, an integrated assessment stef cany
Now be taken in the hope that as
altoonal
previous
confidence con la gener to the various parisabilities
this would not exclude previously identified areac,
These were
mint searched Thoroughly brough or if a move into
4hrs anna
pray how accured .
or addition to these assessments,
specific new raw data well also be supplied for
information to field users,
since some aspects of the
Data might wo of more significance to regle or the
A cone than wvalgets farremoved.
9(s) consequently, it in anticipated that at this
stage in the search, such an integrated
affroach to use and interpretation of data from
psychic sources will provide more reliable in puts
for a field use . Specific feedback and some search
details will continue & be required, however, for
continuing evaluation. Ground proces would also to weful
of previously identified search arean, also, an awareness
(by the data usere) of some of the of issues and prablanc
in attempting to interpret such data, as discussed in blue
interpretation in the fold field.
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a iterative process, ch field.
Petereen psychic
sources,
data analysts, and field users will lead to better
utility
of such data, especially in the owens
No data regarding when location of
G. Doyle, becomes available.
10 (5)
a follow- message With integrated
data from various fraser sources well follow
shortly. this is not to preclude data
from individuals. should this data , affeau is
the time-argent or ney speaker in Nature , od
ramal easy to check-out.
Ultimately, thus.
7 oder data will also hu
integrated in the total a- going assessment
of data from various psychic sources . also refrost na
all other data received outside of DIA channel
he sent to DIA for evaluation and post posible
integration in the origoing asserment.
11 (0) appreciate
your seoperation in this matter.
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