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Star Gate
9/11/95
Congressionally Directed Action: SAC
. DCI to conduct technical review going back
20 years at CIA, DIA
DCI to review program history and nature to
determine what parts can be declassified
DIA Director should establish cooperative activity
with Russians
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Congressionally Directed Action:
Additional Conferees Language
Directed DIA to transfer 10 civilian billets, $500K to CIAP
Asked DCI for status report to Committees by March 1st
- management strategy
~ transfer status
identification of CIA program manager
Transferred management of Star Gate to CIA July 1st
. Adopted Senate directions in previous SAC language
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Star Gate
9/11/85
Congressionally Directed Action
Senate Appropriations Committee
Additional Points in Congressionally Directed Action:
"The Committee ... believes that the time has come
for a re-evaluation of the classification of the
existence of this effort as well as the results ...
... does not accept the excuse that this
somehow compromises US Intelligence .“
" ... concerned that Congressional direction in the
past ... regarding joint programs with the Russians
and Chinese has only been sporadically pursued.“
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Subsequent Conferees Language
· DIA to transfer 10 billets, $500K to CIA
· DCI to give status report by March 1st
· Transfer management of Star Gate July 1st
· Adopt all previous SAC language
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Proposed Management Strategy
· Terminate remote viewing operations within
Intelligence Community (IC)
· Terminate research and development relating
to remote viewing within IC
· Complete declassification review of all CIA,
DOD files; 4-man yrs, $400K in FY96, 97
Apply no immediate resources to assessments
of foreign developments in parapsychology
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Basis of Key Recommendations
· Blue Ribbon Panel Review by American
Institutes of Research, Key Scientists
· Recent Foreign Assessment by National
Intelligence Council: NIO/S&T, OSWR
Specific Language of the Congressionally
Directed Action
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Blue-Ribbon Panel
· Dr. Jessica Utts, Professor of statistics, Univ. of
CA/Davis; Primary Proponent
. Dr. Ray Hyman, Professor of psychology, Univ.
of Oregon; Primary Skeptic
· Dr. Lincoln Moses, Professor Emeritus of
Statistics, Stanford Univ.
· Dr. David Goslin, former Exec. Dir., Commission
on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,
NRC
. Dr. Michael Mumford, Ph.D. Psychology
. Dr. Andrew Rose, Ph.D. Psychology
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AIR's Directed Objectives
· Comprehensive technical evaluation of
remote viewing R&D at CIA and DIA
· Evaluation of remote viewing's utility in
intelligence operations regardless of
scientific validity
· Recommend to CIA management strategies
for possible program execution at CIA
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AIR R&D Review Process
· SAIC principal investigator asked to
identify 10 most favorable documents
· Detailed bibliographies made of all relevant
CIA, DIA documents
· Key CIA, DIA documents declassified
· Over 80 documents ultimately declassified,
transferred to blue ribbon panel
· Panel given every document requested
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AIR R&D Review Process, Cont.
· Blue Ribbon Panel met formally, reviewed
CIA objectives, program documents, got
presentation from SAIC (R&D contractor)
· Professors Utts and Hyman commissioned
to write separate detailed reviews
· Commissioned reviews exchanged, rebuttals
permitted, AIR arbitrated final conclusions
for CIA key recommendations
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AIR Operational Utility Evaluation
· DIA program manager asked to identify
most favorable users of remote viewing
· AIR conducted standard interviews of these
users on location with CIA present
· AIR interviewed Star Gate remote viewers,
and program manager
· AIR re-examined CIA's independent utility
study based on documented user evaluations
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Dr. Utts' Conclusions
· Asserted that "Psychic functioning" is well-
established
· Observed that statistical results obtained
were far beyond chance expectations
· Refuted argument that methodological flaws
or fraud could account for results
· Claimed some SRI, SAIC results were
replicated in other labs
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Dr. Hyman's Conclusions
· Recent SAIC results are methodologically
superior to previously flawed SRI work
· New results are statistically significant
· Results hampered by secrecy, experimental
data base has had no community peer
review, no public scrutiny
· Better than chance results do not, by
themselves, establish that a paranormal
phenomenon is the cause
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Dr. Hyman's Review, Cont.
· Use of same "judge" during all SAIC
experiments is possible serious flaw
· "Remote viewing," as opposed to Ganzfeld,
has not been replicated in other labs
· Boundary conditions, i.e., when and where
remote viewing can reliably occur, have not
been defined
· Possibility of methodological flaw in results
has not been eliminated
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AIR's Judgments on
Commissioned R&D Reviews
· Reviewers agree more than they disagree:
- Statistically significant results
- Vast improvement in experimental protocols
· Reviewers disagree on key points:
- Establishment of paranormal causality
- Replication of "remote viewing" in other labs
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AIR's Judgments on
Commissioned R&D Reviews
· AIR independently concludes:
- the data do not establish that a paranormal
phenomenon is involved, nature of source not
identified
- the data have not been replicated independently
- the boundary constraints critical to obtaining
statistically significant experimental results are
not practical in real world of intelligence
collection
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Future Research and Development
· SAIC's exp. results must be replicated in an
independent lab, not SAIC (RH, AIR)
· Experimental protocols must be re-judged
by independent judge (RH, JU, AIR)
· Cloak of secrecy must be removed since it
precludes objective community review (RH)
· AIR concluded future R&D should not take
place within Intelligence Community since
20 years of IC investment failed to establish
a paranormal phenomenon.
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AIR's User Interviews
. Users say remote viewers typically give
descriptions too broad and vague to be
useful as intelligence
· Remote viewers provide much inaccurate,
irrelevant, information making it difficult to
interpret by analysts
· Different remote viewers often inconsistent
· In no case, analyzed by AIR, did the user
actually act on remote viewing information
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AIR's Conclusions on Utility
· Conditions under which remote viewing is
observed in the lab do not apply in the
operational environment
. The users found some accuracy on broad
background characteristics, but not the
concrete, specific information valued by
intelligence collectors
. Since remote viewing typically does not
produce actionable information, it should
not be used operationally
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Further Declassification
· Congressionally Directed Action:
- The Committee believes it's time for re-
evaluation of the classification of both the
program and its findings
- DCI should review history and nature of
program to see which parts can be declassified
· Dr. Hyman's findings:
- Secrecy has kept this program from benefiting
from the checks and balances that come from
doing research in a public forum.
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Future Foreign Assessments
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· Based on recent assessment, National
Intelligence Council concludes and
Directorate of Intelligence concurs that no
immediate resources should be applied to
assessments of foreign developments in
parapsychology.
· Assessment had oversight of NIO/S&T and
OSWR
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Congressionally Directed Action
(SAC)
· DCI to conduct review of technical files
going back 20 years at CIA, DIA
· DCI to review program history and nature
to determine what can be declassified
· Director of DIA to establish cooperative
activity with Russians
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