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1. (U)
PURPOSE :
To provide an overview of CENTER LANE.
2.
(U)
RECOMMENDED POSITION:
That CENTER LANE operations, training, and development
continue within the U. S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
3. (U) POINTS SUPPORTING RECOMMENDED POSITION:
a. (S/CL-3/NOFORN) Since October 1978, when ACSI ( then MG Thompson) tasked INSCOM
to develop a parapsychology program (then GRILL FLAME), INSCOM has through strictly
controlled, thoroughly documented, and carefully monitored training, operations, and
development established the feasibility and soundness of the remote viewing phenomenon
as an intelligence collection tool.
Without continuation, this crucial momentum would
be lost.
b.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN) Since May 1981, when I assumed command of INSCOM, the project
(now CENTER LANE) has provided the U.S. Army and such agencies as DIA, CIA, NSA, FBI,
and the Secret Service critical intelligence unavailable from other sources. Without
continuation, the Intelligence Community would lose a valuable collection capability
which now allows penetration of intelligence targets inaccessible to any conventional
system.
c.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN)
Continuing work in the academic and R&D communities has refined
the methodology, demonstrating far greater accuracy, control, and reliability than ever
before.
Without continuation, CENTER LANE would be kept from realizing its true
potential.
d.
(S-CL-2/NOFORN)
A
current collection project
is
focused on
providing
information to the CIA in their efforts to locate William F. Buckley who was kidnapped
from Beirut on 16 March 1984. An SOI on that project is attached as Inclosure 1. At
Inclosure 2 is an MFR from the CIA commenting on the value of CENTER LANE.
4. (U) OTHER VIEWS:
a.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN)
"The phenomenon is not real."
This argument simply does not
stand up in the face of many valid scientific replications conducted by reputable
institutions such
as
Princeton University,
Maimonidies
Medical Center,
Bell
Laboratories, and McDonnell Douglas Corporation and SRI-International, among others. In
addition, a congressionally directed independent scientific review panel concluded in
October 1983,
"The evidence shown
t:o
us
is
too
impressive to dismiss
as
mere
coincidence."
b.
(S/CL-2/NOFORN) "The phenomenon is not well understood and therefore has no
practical value." The users of intelligence produced by CENTER LANE feel that it does
have value.
c. (S/CL-2./NOFORN) "The phenomenon is the work of the devil and should not be
exploited." This is an emotional statement that critics and skeptics of the CENTER LANE
Project occasionally use because they do not accept an explanation of the phenomenon.
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RESTRICI DISSEMINATION TO THOSE WITH VERIFIED ACCESS
TO CATEGORY THREE (3)
SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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