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Transfer of Star Gate Program from DIA to CIA
Status and Terms of Reference
I. Status of Program Transfer
The Central Intelligence Agency officially has been
tasked by Congress to transfer the Defense Intelligence
Agency's Star Gate program to CIA by July 1, 1995. Congress
also has directed a retrospective review of Star Gate program
activities. CIA has taken a number of steps in accordance
with this direction:
. We have opened dialog with the appropriate point of contact
at the National Research Council and exchanged draft tasking
statements to set up a Blue Ribbon Panel, so that an
unbiased, technical retrospective review can occur.
· Cooperative meetings between DIA program personnel and CIA
already have resulted in a limited data exchange for the
purposes of conducting the review and transfer. Some
officially declassified documents have been obtained from
DIA.
. Informal discussions with the CIA Center for Studies on
Intelligence (CSI) regarding strategies for declassification
have occurred and a memorandum is in preparation from CIA to
DIA specifying the need for further declassification
· Request has been made through the CIA Office of Military
Affairs focal point channel to enlist the cooperation of the
US Army Research Institute, which currently holds a study
contract with the NRC for program review in the behavioral
sciences.
. CIA has contacted the appropriate individuals at the US
Army Research Institute and a resource transfer to Army for
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the cost of administrating and supporting the National
Research Council in performance of the technical review is
now in preparation.
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. CIA has scheduled a meeting with the former SAIC principal
investigator for the research performed in the Star Gate
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. CIA has scheduled a review of the operations program at Ft.
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II. Terms of Reference
A. Objectives
CIA will undertake these primary activities in response
to Congressional direction:
1. Declassification
We will define the issues associated with
declassification of both the DIA's compartmented Star
Gate program and the previous noncompartmented CIA
program. Examine possible near-term actions, and
establish or utilize existing DCI Committee to address
broader declassification issues.
2. Blue Ribbon Panel Review
CIA will establish an external, unbiased, "Blue
Ribbon Panel" of world-class experts in
parapsychological phenomena and the experimental design
used to investigate such phenomena. These experts will
perform the twenty-year retrospective technical
analysis.
3. Management Strategy, Transfer to CIA
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After completion of initial Star Gate
declassification and Blue Ribbon Panel review, CIA will
develop a comprehensive management strategy. This
strategy will address the proper investment balance
between operations, research, and foreign assessment.
It will recommend the necessary resource levels as well
as the mix of personnel skills required for execution of
the program under the new strategy.
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B. Declassification
In response to Congressional direction, CIA will
declassify certain aspects of its program immediately.
These
aspects include CIA sponsorship of past program activities
relating to investigation of paranormal phenomena for
intelligence applications, and the technical results of these
investigations. Sponsorship and technical contractor reports
will be made unclassified. CIA is currently responding to
Freedom of Information ACT/Privacy Act appeal which was
received in the Office of the Information and Privacy
Coordinator September, 1994. The appeal relates to contractor
reports generated during CIA's program
during 1973-1975.
Following these actions, a Congressionally mandated DCI
classification review committee will be convened. This
committee will conduct a detailed review of all CIA and DIA
program documents and information. These documents and
information will include the actual targets against which
operations were conducted, the nature of those collection
operations, the customers for these operations, the resources
allocated during the history of the program, and other
aspects appropriate for review. The committee will consider
these aspects and further declassify where appropriate.
To facilitate declassification and the Blue Ribbon Panel
review, CIA will ask DIA to take certain actions.
CIA will
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request that DIA make unclassified DIA's sponsorship of Star
Gate and that DIA continue to downgrade and declassify the
technical reports associated with Star Gate. It will request
that DIA decompartment and remove all other classified Star
Gate documentation from "Limited Distribution" and consider
this documentation for further declassification. CIA will
request that all DIA documents associated with Star Gate be
transferred after declassification consideration to CIA for
archival purposes and further declassification review by the
DCI declassification committee. Finally, CIA will ask that
DIA program personnel assist CIA in executing the Blue Ribbon
Panel Review (described below) by providing unclassified
information relating to the program when requested by the
panelists.
C. Blue Ribbon Panel
Congress also has directed a twenty-year retrospective
review of this program including a technical analysis of all
program results. The CIA's Office of Research and
Development (ORD) believes that the National Research Council
(NRC) is the single best organization to perform the mandated
review. This is because of its Congressional charter to
address questions of Congressional interest, and its ready
access to a variety of world-class experts having expertise
in the area in question.
Therefore, CIA will ask the NRC
perform the following tasks:
to
· Assemble an objective, unbiased, "Blue Ribbon
Panel" of world-class experts in parapsychological
phenomena or the experiments designed to investigate
such phenomena
. Review sponsor-selected contract research and
development studies relating to the technical program in
question (less than 50 journal-article length studies)
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for which unclassified reports are available (most are
currently available)
. Interview and interact with the past principal
investigators
A more than five to the extent possible
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in order to develop a comprehensive understanding the
program's current approach including its successes and
failures
· Interview past principal expert evaluators of the
technical data to the extent possible (no more thanher
since external evaluation has been utilized in the past
to facilitate experimental design and validate results
· Attend unclassified presentations
in the Metro area by the existing government program
manager and his staff pending the anticipated approval
of these presentations
· Perform technical evaluation of all data and
information presented, including experimental designs,
results obtained, proposed future research, etc. This
evaluation should include recommendations about those
technical areas for which fruitful research potential
exists, identify areas not useful for further
consideration, and should consider the overall utility
of the technical program, i.e., whether it achieves its
stated or intended purpose.
· Draft final report incorporating Blue Ribbon
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Panel findings, and participate the extent appropriate
in briefing these findings to Congress
2. The NRC will be provided with a preliminary
bibliography of 45 short-term, contract studies. The
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following titles (not an exhaustive list) illustrate by
way of example the general areas of investigation:
- Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniques
- The Effects of Remote Viewing
- Remote Viewing Reliability Enhancement and
Evaluation
- Feasibility Study on the Use of RV Detection
Techniques to Determine Location of Targets
- Countermeasures: A Survey and Evaluation
- Review of the Research Conducted at SRI
International (1973-1988)
- Screening and Selection of Personnel: The
Personality Assessment System (PAS)
- The Effects of Hypnosis
of Remote Viewing Quality
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- Photon Production (Chinese Replication)
- Audiolinguistic Correlations with the Quality of
Remote Viewing Sessions
The review and analysis of NRC's Blue Ribbon Panel will
be unclassified, but will not be released until Congress and
the sponsoring Agencies have been briefed on the results.
During the review all work product shall be treated as "For
Official Use Only" anticipating eventual release of all
unclassified information reviewed or generated by this study.
Since this study will be performed in response to
Congressional direction, the anticipated period of
performance of this study is schedule driven at three months.
However, preliminary discussions with the NRC and the US Army
Research Institute (the current manager of NRC's contract to
consider similar issues) indicate that a minimum of six
months are required to effectively complete this review.
CIA will seek to extend the Congressional deadline (in order)
consistent with what we believe is a strong Congressional
interest in a credible, thorough review. CIA will provide
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the technical and administrative support necessary to carry
out this review.
D. Management Strategy, Transfer to CIA
CIA will develop a comprehensive management strategy
after program declassification and review. The Star Gate
program currently has 10 DIA billets and $500K in resources
allocated to it. Congressional language recommends an even
balance in investment between operations, research, and
foreign assessment. CIA will inquire further, however, as to
the flexibility of Congress in making these recommendations,
-since the panel findings may indicate a different mix of
program emphasis. We would like to recommend the resource
levels and a mix of personnel skills required for execution
of the program which are consistent with our findings during
the retrospective review. Presentation of the management
strategy to Congress is currently scheduled for 1 July, 1995.
Actual transfer is slated for 1 September, 1995
E. Schedule of Events
· Communication of status of CIA program transfer activities
to Congress (Mar 1, 1995)
. Preliminary declassification actions by CIA, request to DIA
for further action (Mar 95)
· Establish DCI declassification committee to review long-
term issues (Mar 95)
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. Form Blue Ribbon Panel to. conduct retrospective review and
technical data analysis
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· Conduct technical review, interview intelligence community
users,
draft preliminary report and recommendations. [March-
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June 95
· Brief Congress on Blue Ribbon Panel results and
recommendations
(July HA( 95) .
. Develop CIA program management strategy which addresses
proper scope, resources, and management (July A ( 1995)
. Report program design and status to Congress, complete
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